Expierenced BB players

[Hi-Tekk]

I’ve never played this game before and plan on getting this game. When you first started out, how did you decide to chose the character that you play with? I think my playing style is about 60% defensive and 40% offensive (even though I’m working on changin that). I’m coming from SF IV where I play with Akuma and Chun. What are some things that I should be lookin out for when I chose my character? I know in this game I don’t want to be too defensive because I saw in a video preview that I can be penalized for blocking too much. What helped you to decide? Thanks for your responses. Hope I don’t get negative rep, cuz I looked around and didn’t see anything similar to this (if I missed it my bad).

[koogy]

Guilty Gear style games say they punish “defensive” play, what it means is airdashing backwards, jumping backwards, walking backwards excessively. If you’re defensive in the sense of just blocking lots and punishing at the right moment, you’ll be fine.

And as far as characters go, just go into training mode and find a character you like.

[Kioshen]

I’m not an experienced player by any stretch of the imagination but picking a character in BB is pretty simple. Look at their design and their drive mechanic. Filter out which one you like, try them in training mode for some basic movement and you should be pretty much settled on it.

I like taokaka because she’s funny, straightforward, is pure offense mix up and has an interesting combo loop.

I think HeartNana summed it up pretty well : http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=6836026&postcount=7918

Whichever one you want to.

Here’s a protip - If you start the game learning the character you want to, it makes it a lot easier to make that character your main.

People have this notion that they can start with Ragna or Jin and then suddenly after playing for however long, they’ll be able to use Rachel. Wrongo. If you start off with Rachel, it becomes a lot easier to feel more comfortable with your character.

You can’t get better at a character by not playing the character. Except for Ragna and Jin, just about everyone’s combos in BB are different and not standard at all, so I don’t see how you’ll be able to make an easy switch, and you’ll definitely lose a lot more after you switch too, and then you’ll just think “screw learning that character, I’m losing too much”.

This is just a general idea for the question. So the answer is, start off with the character you want to use, and if you really want to use them, don’t give up at the beginning if they’re hard to use.

[BlueFlamingo]

A good idea would also have been to use the sticky at the top of the page to ask your question