Hey guys I’m pretty new to SF (only been playing a month) and I’m looking for someone to train me in SF. I want to be tournament ready within 6 months, and I want to main Juri. I learn extremely quickly, I have a Qanba Q4 Fight Stick, and I have a ton of experience in high level play in games. Thanks.
Hi, welcome!
Juri is awesome, I hope you stick with her. I just wanted to mention that you’re tournament ready now. There is no minimum skill level required to join a tournament, and getting bodied is part of the learning process. You won’t find better experience to level up your game than going to live events and getting advice from better players who are watching you play.
What is your definition of “Tournament ready”? Because my definition of that is, being fully capable of breaking out of your pool. If your definition is anything higher than that in terms of goal, then no that isnt going to happen in 6 months with you just now picking up the game.
Also what games do you claim to have high level experience in?
inb4 Trouble Brewing links to the matchmaking section
Well I played Ryu for a month (got to around 700 PP online) and then tried a bunch of different characters until I found Juri.
I was 2.3k in 3’s in WoW, I’m Diamond League in LoL. I know they aren’t fighters but I’m just saying I have experience playing at a fairly competitive level – it’s nothing new to me.
Didn’t mean to double post, but thank you for the response! I live in Central NJ and I’m trying to find a FG scene here to go to tournaments.
I’m glad you found the character that suits you. It’s very important to play a character you like to play IMO. It makes you a lot more determined to get better and makes losing a lot more fun.
I’m also sure there is a scene in NJ, you can check the regional matchmaking section of the forums. If that fails you, I know that NYC has Next Level Arcade that a ton of top players go to weekly.
Yeah I’m probably going to go soon! PR_Balrog is my favorite player right now, but he’s West Coast. It’d be sick to see Chris G and Sanford though! They are sick players
Welcome to SRK.
Please let me know what console you play on so I can move this to the right matchmaking forum.
Newbie Dojo = asking questions
Online Outlets/Regional Matchmaking = finding players
For tournaments, 2 tactics to have at the ready is be very knowledgeable about Juri’s bad matchups and either study hard and learn the match up, or counterpick that characters hard match-up. Example Juri has a hard time vs Honda so either get good at the matchup or learn Sagat since Sagat gives Honda trouble
Those games really dont transfer any worthwhile skills to fighters. At the very best, you can bring a competitive playing to win mindset with you, but nothing else will follow. You could have hardened nerves if you played LoL in a tourney on a main stage on stream or something, where countless people are watching you. But that is IF that has happened. But nothing will allow you to hit the ground running. More like face planting off the helicopter into the ground.
Also I dont have the time to watch through this entire thing again, but I’ve played with this guy before and he knows his Spider Queen pretty well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKkREkVCo08
Yeah even if you were rank 1 across every season in WoW, the skills learned from that game won’t really transfer aside from stuff like basic stuff like baiting certain moves
*Baiting a interrupt via fake casting in WoW -> whiffing jabs in SF if your opponent is looking for something to react to like a fireball. But you still need prior knowledge of said game/a good read on a player to know what to bait or bait with.
In a way you could say that fighters can be as punishing as fucking up during the Wotlk days *out of LoS, no Defensive CDs, no peels from team mates etc… * You fuck up in fighting games you’re likely going to get punished hard and more importantly, you dont have team mates to cover for you.
Anyways expect to learn fighters from the ground up. You’re likely going to lose 20 times in a row or even 100-200 matches without one legitimate win and it’s common. You can pick top tiers in this game like you can pick flavor of the month comps in WoW, but it’s no where near as simple to pick up and learn since you have no prior knowledge of how fighters work.
Also dont expect to be tournament ready by 6 months. It’ll be like saying “I want to start on Starcraft and be able to go toe to toe with Korean progamers within 6 months” It’s possible but you better know it’ll take a shit load of work and endless practice. Even then, you probably won’t have enough matchup experience to know how your character deals with x character when played well.
Lastly, you’re going to be spending a fair amount of time working on your execution. Even if you can get those tough combos done in the training room, you best believe its no where near as easy when playing in a tournament setting.
^^^^^^
If you want to get better as quickly as possible, go find the strongest competition you can find, play them often, get tips.
Read through this when you have the chance; http://sonichurricane.com/?page_id=1702
All and all go to the tournament, get knocked out 0-2, then spend the rest of your time playing casuals, making friends in the community.
Dope. Thanks for the responses everyone, I really appreciate it. I think I’m going to drop Juri and go back to Ryu for now, she seems extremely complicated (better for someone with more experience). Yeah I’ve been working on execution in the training room and it’s really frustrating not hitting combos everytime. I just learned to FADC Ultra on Ryu but I can’t seem to find an opportunity in-game to do it. That video was sick btw XthAtGAm3RGuYX but it kind of turned me away from Juri, again too complicated.
don’t drop her, she can get braindead victories vs Geif, Hawk, and Makoto. And so many people play ryu they have plenty of match experience. Try some Cammy and Cody, their stuff is way safe and their links are easier. Also Balrog looks like he is going to be very good in Ultra, get some time in with him now 
I’m currently trying to find my main. I’m really interested in M.Bison and Guile, but I am terrible at charge characters. It’s not natural for me to charge. I cant really pick a main I want to bring into Ultra with me. Is there a character picking guide or something?
You can play Juri without fuhajin storing up till a certain point. But to break the intermediate barrier youll need to learn how. I also dont remember all of what Kail covers in that video. Been a minute since I watched it last, and i dont have the time to sit through the whole thing atm. Take it slow for awhile. Now go and serve the queen.
Also are you ever gonna reveal what system youre on? If you got that xbox i could bestow some knowledge upon you.
If you don’t have street fighter experience you have to accept that pretty much everything is going to be difficult at first. You gave to accept that your game experience outside of sf is pretty much irrelevant and that you will be bad at first. It is going to take you a lot of game time to consistently get your execution where it needs to be. But if you stick to it, you WILL get there.
I’m new to street fighter and i picked up Juri as a main. I think her combos are easy, and her ultra 1 gives her some good rushdown opportunities. I’ve tried to pick up other characters, but I’m just better with Juri. I like her footsies too. I’m also used to fighting with a low fireball store.
I’m not entirely sure if that’s true. I also have competitive experience in games other than FGs. The two most important things you bring with you are: knowing how to learn, and knowing how to win. Knowing how to learn is the most important one. Many people simply have no idea how to train themselves to adapt to a new game; they can spend months and years not really improving. If you know how to learn, you’ll dedicate your time in more efficient ways, and get better faster.
Knowing how to win is a little more difficult to describe, but there’s a certain psychological block that all players have which prevents them from playing at their full potential. Once you’ve actually competed professionally and won tournaments, this mental block is gone, and you go into every match expecting to play your best. I don’t know that the OP’s experience really qualifies for this, but whatever, it’s a thing.
Mechanically, there are some games that prepare you for fighting games better than others. Bullet hell games and FPS games are both excellent for improving your senses, rhythm games are fantastic for improving your combo timing. LoL/DotA have some elements of space control on a 2D plane, even though it’s less intense. In general, all of these games build some degree of hand/eye coordination which can’t be underestimated, since that’s the majority of what video games are about.
I play on Xbox / PC