Best way to get started with SC?

[Jakajantiamu]

Hm, regarding Soul Calibur and my newbie experience.

First of all, to me you need to figure out which character you can connect to the best, if you can get behind the motives of the character and use that to push you forwards, it really does help! I mained Talim in SC4 and I am hoping I can find someone else who I can support like that in SC5, someone who can motivate me like she did. :P Whoever that is, I will play that style.

It may be Pyura, it may be Pat or Zwei. I shall have to see. Usually though it is someone female cause they are just cuter to look at. :P

Anyway to me the best way for me is to experiment and see who you can click and connect with. Cheesy as that sounds.

 

[IvyFanboy]

Thankfully you'll be starting on SC5 which seems to be a fresh start for the series so now is a great time. Movement is different and meter will change the game a bit so you'll be able to start new and grow with a new group of people.

 

[Ghengis_John]

IvyFanboy, you're immensely helpful. I read couple of your Scrub Lessons (will read the other one later). Good stuff, funny and informative. As far as Pocky Yoshi is concerned, I mean the cookie thing. What does he mean by give him a cookie? o_O

It's just his way of awarding kudos. As to your original query:

The easiest way to get accustomed is to do a ton of playing with an educated player who doesn't mind taking the time to teach. It just so happens, I'm that guy in the region (and the major regional TO) for SC, so you got lucky =)

All the other things you mentioned, Training Mode grinding and such, they do apply, absolutely, once you have a good foundation for the game down. It will be much faster to transmit that process in person, where you can ask questions and I can straight up show you directly, than any lengthy forum post.

This. After that it's up to you and the Nietzschean process that is trial and error. Being defeated, learning from that and then crushing your enemies, seeing dem driven before you andt hearing de lamentations of de vwomen. Like an anime character. Let's hope you're more like an Ichigo and less like a Gohan. No wait... Ichigo learns quick but he loses his powers too doesn't he? Okay let's hope you're more like Cell Monster in that you absorb all of your opponent's best tactics... only to be destroyed by a Kameamea Wave? ... Or maybe Xiba players?... Well there's a simile in there somewhere. And it's up to you to find it. Or else.

I hope that you do excel and become an exceptional player though Dagon. Simply so I can post under your match videos like a crazed cultist: "NOTHING CAN STOP DAGON!" Will those stars align? That is up to you.

 

[Dagon]

Thanks for all the encouragement, guys (& girl(s)!). I'm really looking forward to jumping in at the ground level for this game...I really enjoy learning, as lame as that may sound. I'm going to be at Winter Brawl for Street Fighter, but I'm still trying to decide whether or not I should enter for Soul Calibur. I suppose it would be more helpful to just watch lots of matches?

Ghengis_John, I'll upvote your comments if that happens, haha. Good stuff.

Pocky-Yoshi: check this link. I uploaded a cookie just for you from a database that I was hacking around in. Help yourself.

 

[Gamegenie222]

I'm beginning to think that this place is much unlike SRK. People seem more...relaxed?

I agree as well about the relaxed part. I have a similar situation with your story as well man but I came from the smash community and played brawl and melee competitively for 2 years so I know what you are going through in a way.