Glad to see a higher up FGC member doing something for casuals. We should always be trying to build our player base, and every player starts somewhere. Thanks for giving the new folks a way in, can't wait to what they make of themselves in SF6.

I just started SF6’s Beta pretty much blind, and no idea why attacks weren’t connecting. I got a grasp on combos now with this video. Thanks amigo, I hope I can put it in practice.

I don't need these videos, I just watch them because is a pleasure to see how good brian is explaining fundamentals to new people

I've been waiting 30 years for someone to explain this, thank you

Brian once again showing how well he knows this game by actually being able to teach the basics. He introduces the building blocks, shows one way to put them together, and even leaves us with a starting point for more advanced experimentation on our own! A lot of top players forget just how simple beginners can need to keep it, props to Brian for breaking it down properly!

This is likely to help a lot of new players. Good on you.

I appreciate this explanation! It's very clear and concise. I would also like to see your explanation of juggles, as I feel like I'm slowly starting to get the hang of linking moves and special canceling, but most of the time when I try a juggle it doesn't work.

Hey smash player here who has recently started playing street fighter more recently. Just wanted to say how helpful this video is to me. Had no idea about links as they aren't the same in smash, with the game being a lot more lenient with hitstun, so it's really hard switching over to a game with near perfect inputs to perform links in order to combo. But practice makes perfect and the more I do them hopefully the more I'll improve.

After playing FGs for the past 8 years or so it's refreshing to see tutorials this well explained and entertaining for beginners. It took so long to figure out all this stuff on my own all these years ago on SF4, great stuff Brian 👍🏽

Hey man, I’ve struggled with putting combos together in Street Fighter specifically since I’ve fallen in love with the game two years ago after super getting into fighting games with Tekken. I stick to characters like Honda, where I can at least get by on the skin of my fundamentals - I miss out on so much damage, though. I’ve been too afraid to flat out ask someone of your skill “hey, how do I even begin to combo properly in this game?”. Thank you for such an in depth explanation, you have essentially covered exactly where I’m going wrong and where I’m too afraid to ask for some pointers. You’re the best SF content creator (and competitor!) bar none for things like this - thank you for helping me enjoy something I love just that much more.

Game is looking really fun, I haven't been this hyped in a while.

Thank you for this vid! I have some friends who don't quite grasp SF combos compared to anime games, and this will surely help them out!

This guide was the perfect beginner's primer before going into an actual frame data guide, and it helped me feel **soooo** much more prepared for SF6 launch. Thanks!

This explanation is like one of those aha moments, where now I finally know how combos work more intuitively, making it a lot easier not only to make combos yourself by understanding the mechanics behind it, but also making execution more intuitive to. Awesome video!🔥

Not gonna lie i actually understood this, and it was very helpful, i didnt know the red bar was the time of your move starting and ending. Thats so helpful lol

You explain things very well and I think this would be perfect to link to newcomers with SF6 due soon. Good work.

Best video I've watched so far on SF combos. Thanks!

I have been playing SF since the Snes and this is the 1st time an explanation of these mechanics have sunk in. You have a knack for teaching. Keep doing this type of video In the future

Thanks man, this was the explanation that finally got through. Excellent video

Brian I have been playing and watching you content for a long time, and to be honest I had no idea this is how it worked. I just did stuff until it felt all right, thank you for this!! Great for beginners and advanced!

This just made combos so clear. THANK YOU.

So that was my biggest knowledge gap in street fighter is how links tied together. Can anything link given there's enough hitstun? Or does it follow like a light to medium to heavy concept? Can you go in reverse? I know special cancels are move and character specific, but are links the same? I really appreciate this video for the building blocks it's established. Would definitely love more going over combo theory

Thanks for the information, very helpful.

Good stuff dude! You're doing a great service to the community. Vids like these are super helpful for people who wanna get into SF. Looking forward to the juggle explanation vid! Also, it'd be super sick if you also did a juggle/conversion guide of some sort for Oro specifically.

indeed i need to know all the zangief combos

Great video! I'm new to SF6 and I'm learning from the ground up. Thank you so much!

Thank you Brian! I've just started playing the Street Fighter 6 demo.

great concise explanation. definitely wanna hear your breakdown of juggles too

You have a very nice and thorough way of explaining things.

This is gold. Trying to learn this stuff feels like learning a foreign language, being taught in a different foreign language. Links, cancels, blockchains, buffers, confirms. More of this content please.

Thank you Bryan!!! This is very helpful!!!

This is what I was looking for! I’m a complete beginner but the beta has been really fun

Like others have said, a huge thank you for posting something like this. I have the bare minimal knowledge on playing fighting games and my friend has been getting me into it after I watched him play the SF6 Beta. Just seeing the back and forth of 2 equally skilled players fight is honestly really fun to watch. I know you have other plans when SF6 does release, but a good beginner overview similar to a video like this for it would be nice to see if you have the time for it Cheers mate 🍻

Finally, someone who explains what a cancel is. I struggle so hard with those and nothing has been clear on the subject. Now that I know what it is I can finally start practicing it.

This video is amazing... Very helpful stuff!

Nice man, great watch

I have been struggling with combos, thank you

That was pretty helpful, i recently started playing stv and couldn't understand what the timing was on link combos, i just pressed the buttons and it wouldn't come out, so i thought i was doing it to slow, then i started mashing the buttons as fast as i can and it still wasn't coming out, cause the game doesn't bother to tell what the timing on that is, and it actually took me some days to find someone talking about what I was struggling with, so thank you for that video, now I can stop relying on just using target combos

Brine over here being a hero to the community as per the usual. Thanks man!

Great Video. Clear explanations. A juggle video would be awesome

*1°:* A combo is a string of guaranteed hits to get more damage and stage than just regular attacks. Those consists generally of 4 elements, a starter, extenders, enders and attack cancelling in between. *2°:* The combo starter is the move who connects first, and has usually the properties of having enough stun on the enemy to connect into other moves or itself, as well as enough speed and range to be used to punish something the opponent did. *3°:* Extenders are moves fast enough to follow the previous move and are usually enablers of the enders or a different extender. A combo without an ender because the extender can extend into itself in certain loop is known as an infinite, and those are avoid like plague in a lot of fighting games for good reason, while 2-hit combos don't have extenders, just starter and ender. *4°:* The ender is an attack who cannot be followed up in any capacity. They're usually big damaging moves you want to land but cannot be reliably land if the opponent can defend himself, like most EX moves, altough any move can be a combo ender, either by dropping the combo (finish it before time in any capacity) or because it can no longer be followed by any circumstance. *5°:* Attack Cancelling means cancelling the endlag of an attack into another. Some are just cosmetic while in a lot of fighting games you can cancel the end of certain moves into a specific list of moves your character has; those are excellent combo extenders and you should try to research which moves your character has who can cancel and into what to discover what combos you have at your disposal.

oh my god i thought i was so bad, thanks for this. Im new to traditional fighters and came from smash sf6 looks amazing but ive had issues in training room. This video helped me with all my issues

Nice, I figured out that SF had a specific rhythm for its combos but had no idea why it was sometimes input-instant and sometimes not. This really helped clear that up, thanks!

Dude bless up right now. Practicing Juri in SF6 and could not understand how to link. Now I finally get some of her terrifying kit. Thanks mate

And this level of clarity based on the target audience is why this man is my fav. Good stuff sir.

Good stuff! Wish I had this when I first started!

This was great, thank you Brian sensei. Finally subscribing

Man I just fucking love it. I was struggling with the combo guides cuz they do not explain the cancelation or all in one sequence. thank you!!!

Oh shit I just realized you’re already in 90k. I saw your community post about it recently probably with my brain turned off but now I really got the impression. Let’s go dude!!🙌🙌

Oh, I like tutorial-man Brian. Very good video

you're doing great things, keep it up

Great video! For the first time I understand how to proceed with «special cancel », was really struggling with the implementation.

I have been playing SF6 since release and while I was able to complete combo trials for a few characters I couldn't get my brain around some combos that were weaving normals together. I would just mash until I saw the move come out then move on to the next input, this certainly cleared things up for me. Thank Brian!

As someone that plays other fighting games, but has never really gotten into SF, I appreciate this! Hyped for the beta tomorrow!

This video really made doing combos click for me. Thank you.

04:12 awesome video ! Thank you so much ! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Super helpful vid, common Brian W

You're amazing. I've always been a Tekken and MK guy. I tried getting into SF since like SSFIV, but always gave up cuz I never understood the combo system. This is the one video that really made me go ohhhh, and I feel dumb now. Thanks a lot man.

Bro.... That link explanation with the animation/bar LITERALLY fixed my mental gap on how to do conversions and what moves to prioritize in neutral. Thank you! Time to study Cammys frame data.

I'm a beginner in SF6 and i just couldn't figure out what i was doing wrong. Now i know.. Thank you so much

LET THE BEGINNER CONTENT BEGIN!!!!!! happy to see all you new guys :)

Ty for this video I am new to street fighter

I don't know if you made a script or wrote down the topics you wanted to talk about but you did an amazing job on this video! It's really easy to understand your explanation and I liked how you didn't use any fgc terms that could end up confusing new players Overall a great video for new people getting into street fighter

nice guide👍

I was trying to do this combo for an hour and didn't realize normal cancel into special was a thing 😂 ty

the better lighting in the sf6 training mode stage is something i never knew i needed

Legendary video

I'm new to SF, thanks for explaining this. I've always been put off of SF because I didn't understand how to combo correctly but always liked watching it.

I know I’m late but this video is a revelation of sorts you’ve awoken my formally casual mind

I play alot of games like dbz fighterz, mk 6-11, etc. I have been wanting to get into sf but there's not alot of stuff to help me get into the game. I really enjoy watching Brian because he helps casuals get into the game, I love everything he puts out because he includes us as part of the FGC Much love to you Brian 💜 keep up the baller content!

Thanks for the explanation. I'm planning to play SF6 but I had no prior Street Fighter experience (coming from Tekken). Tried the demo but I can't get the combo going. Your video helped me clear some things up!

appreciated this a ton ahead of SF6, definitely had no idea i didn't need to reset to neutral stick when doing special cancels. No wonder it felt so hard lmao

Brian!!!! You were getting to the juicy part! Plz do a juggling video!

great video sajam

thanks sajam!

Very didactic. Awesome.

I play NRS games and just now tried to hop on sf6 demo and do combos and was super confused lmao. Great vid.

Thanks for the chapters Brine. 👍

I figured out some of these concepts by banging my head against KoF 14 combo trials over and over.

This a f**king good guide. I just bought SF6 - never played SF before - and I am mainly a MK player and I was not able to put a combo together even after countless training, which was super frustrating. Now it goes better, since I know understand the concept. It is still very hard for me, but at least feel finally possible to do. Big thank you man, also I would appreciate some guide for charge characters, since I like (and wanted to play) Guile, but I just do not know how to work with the charge and to put the charge move into the combo - feels completely impossible to me.

I really hope that my favorite Guile combo from SF4 still works. Jump Heavy Kick > Guile High Kick > Flash Kick is a combo I learned myself since I got Super SF4 on my 3DS.

I’ve been waiting for someone to demonstrate frames like that

Chat freaking out at 4:55 is hilarious

I actually need this I’m a marvel/fighterz player and the combo system in street fighter never made sense to me but now I get it

I appreciate the Jamie theme in the background.

good vid

brian f answering the REAL questions here

ive been playing SF for a month and links are my biggest problem and Twitter guy really knows what his talking about thank you Mr.F

to elaborate on links further think of it like a rhythm game like guitar hero where you don't have the benefit of an input buffer you don't have to be frame perfect (though there can be situations and entire games where that's necessary) but you do need to time your next input to make it connect from the previous input

nie vid it help a lot

Holy Jesus, your explanation literally just opened the door to competent combos. Any tips for cleaning inputs?

In SF and KOF(and in some other) games this is not as common but in MK and Injustice games(my main games) this is not only common but a staple feature: every character has these strings(and I’ve never heard anybody call them “target combos”) and you can cancel them into specials, the ultimate, normals and even another string…I wish other games were like that too

So far I've been able to do crouch normals into specials (Example: 3rd Strike Ryu cr.MK into Hadouken), but for some reason I struggle with doing standing normals into specials and supers. Is there a better method for those?

Sf6 looks really fun

Zooming in on oro’s weird looking knee every time he explains something is killing me 😂

Hey I have a question! For Special cancels, does the normal move have to be the same input as the beginning input for the special move in order to do a special cancel? Hope you reply! Thank you!

I've been playing FGs casually for literally 30 years but never found the courage to "learn" one. I'm extremely hype for SF6, but even stuff like 2LP->5LK feels so unnatural to me that I really have to start from the beginning, so I really appreciate these videos.

How do you determine what can link? Do you just have to look at the frame data of different moves?

Please do a video on juggles! Been playing Street Fighter games for more than a year now and I still don’t understand some juggle properties and when they’re applicable until people show them to me in a match 😅.

I'll admit it, I am that dumbass who never quite figured out how this works. But I honestly feel like after watching this, it finally makes sense. Now I'm looking forward to giving these games another try instead of just admiring them from afar. Thanks, dude.