In any fighting game and its your very first time playing.
I usually go by who I think is the coolest and if the game has some kind of background on the characters I go read it for everyone and learn about everyone before I pick the character I want to master and make my main.
In the street fighter series I thought Chun-Li was the coolest because she could fly around with her legs so my favorite and main is Chun-Li.
Pick someone that looks cool, play through arcade mode. If they’re unbearable to play, switch, if not, stick to it.
I didn’t quite follow that for SF4, I started with Viper, then switched to Cammy when I unlocked her, then switched to Akuma when I got him. But for GG, BB, MvC, Tekken, that was how I did it.
Games like SF4 where to unlock later characters you have to play through it with everyone are nice, you get a nice little sample of everyone to make your decision with.
I usually pick the character with the longest hardest combos.
^ What DJ said. ^
Choose someone, Try a few other characters, which ever suits you and lets you win more.
I tried maining viper, then cammy and Sakura, but since they aren’t in arcade I changed to Ryu, Then Rufus, Now I main both.
I always go for the stoic bishi.
SF: Vega.
Garou: Kain
3S: Remy
etc.
So I heard you’re a gigantic homo?
I just try most characters until I find one I like. With sf4 I just watched a lot of Japanese match videos and picked out playstyles I liked.
i pick naked people…
Urien, Juda, Seth, the less clothes the better. no homo.
There’s really no right or wrong way to pick a main character. You either pick a player you have fun with or you pick a player you win with. Usually you have fun winning so the choice isn’t as hard as we’d like to think.
I can’t even pick a game to main!
bad! deadfrog! dont give them thread ideas! :nunchuck:
I don’t think you can say No homo to that… 
Lol.
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I’ve never sticked to a main character.
In 3S I play Ken, Ryu, Akuma, Urien, Oro, Alex and Q. I’m looking forward to playing Yang and Necro. In SFIV I play with Chun Li, Akuma, Cammy and Balrog(boxer). Never limit your choices.
Try playing with all the cast and choose depending on what playstyles you like. Playing and mastering many characters keeps the game fresh and gives you further insight into the strategies and mindsets of people who main those specific characters so you’d be better able to counter them and emerge victorious.
Beats me.
I usually just play a bit of everyone and see what I like. Then I periodically switch things up, learn new characters, etc. I often like learning characters more than I actually like playing them.
What actually makes me decide that I like a particular character enough to really focus on them is beyond me. I’m all over the map.
Usually it is the character with the most unique and confusing fighting style.
I also try to stay away from whichever character everyone else uses. I hate being one of the pack.
It has to be a loli.
Thanks. :lovin:
If it’s your first time playing you shouldn’t be worried about picking a main.
Pick someone who looks cool, screw around with them for a while until I get the hang of their special moves, learn a few combos, realize I suck at the game, then go back to playing SF2. It happens every time.
its weird to explain but somehow im just drawn to my main automatically. im sure that there are other people who have this happen to them. sometimes it just feels as if a character just calls out to you. sounds dumb, i know, but thats how it works for me
I go by fighting games like this:
Rule #1: Seek a masked ninja
Rule #2: Seek some divine godly-looking character (or at least one that thinks he is such, i.e. narcissist char)
Rule #3: Seek cool and calm character