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Ah Tamanapants welcome. This site is the best resource I know of for SC games, though soulcalibur.fr has the highest expertise if you read French (or use Google translate).

As for learning, you're prob pretty good at SF so you'll know the FG technical stuff. Learning when to block is the first thing in SC, and then once you become familiar with the characters and their moves generally, use the wiki here to determine which attacks are unsafe. This will help you understand the risk vs. reward in this game.

Throw breaking is a 50 / 50 mind game in SC, different from SF because you don't bait for counter hits, but tend to stand guard and break A or B. So getting used to which throws each character has, and how to break them, is really important.

Finally, just like in SF, spacing is really important as the longer range characters can zone away at will. There is also the dreaded Ring Out, which is basically a 1-hit kill move and comeback mechanic, so you need to adjust your position always, not just for the spacing but also to put your opponent near the edge and get yourself away from it. Just like the corner in SF and other 2D fighters.
 
@ Age_of_Truth - cheers for the welcome and info to get me started. The throw system sounds like MK9 (which I'm sure took it from SCV/Tekken anyway). Makes throws strong, but by the sounds of it characters have go to throws? From what I see in IV, Raphael would go to his B grab over his other grab for a ring out for example?

I can see frame data is a big deal and knowing what to punish forms a big part of getting good at 3d fighters...sometimes it's not as obvious as say a dragon punch in street fighter. I'm going to approach it like I did MK9:

- Learn all the combos and strings for said character...know my characters full move set.
- then figure out which are safe, which are good, what works spacing wise, which are best for punishing.
- work out best damage combos.
- learn opponents unsafe stuff, ranges they want to fight at, match up specifics and best counters.
- watch plenty of youtube videos!
- attend available sessions!

This worked pretty well for MK9 and I think it will get me going to an intermediate level at least.

Given your Avatar picture, would it be a bad guess to think you go by King og Hyrule on Neoempire?
 
If this worked well for MK9, then it should help you with SC however MK9 is a 2D game so you may need to tweak the way you play. I couldn't switch from game to game without messing up my tactics in the other, so I suggest you stick to one game; MK (2D) or SC (3D).
 
@ Mage - I will definately stick to one game. I'm a bloke and can't multi task or multi learn! I have some spare time, but not enough to get decent on more than one game.

@ Synraii - strangely enough she kind of vanished from the SF scene when V was announced!

Just out of interest, any feedback on character options I mentioned above as a beginner? I know I should play who I like and I like the look of all the options I mentioned, but I have never ended up maining the character I started with in any game, but played the character I thought I could learn the mechanics best and I also like at the same time.
 
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