Who is the best character to start with?

[petran79]

Here’s a video I saw posted elsewhere in the Newbie forums: it’s from Matt Sciar’s Beyond Technical series, and it shows him winning a match with Ryu using just cr. HP, cr. MK, cr. HK, throws, and Hadoukens. He does a Hurricane Kick and a Shoryuken occasionally, but the point of the match is that he relied on the most basic tools (not even using EX moves) and won while his opponent chucked out a ton of stuff and lost. Smart use of limited tools is stronger than clumsy use of every tool. The match starts at 10:29, but the whole video is worth a watch. A lot of basics in it that carry over to the whole of the character roster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xs1lkcMlI

Beyond Technical is a cool series, I haven’t watched all of it but the videos I have seen are pretty great.

I think it mattered too that his opponent was surprised and did not know he’d abstain from using ex, super and ultra moves. so he left him space he should have used to his advantage really. but in a second game things would be a little different.
at a beginner level though this could work.

I too play SF4 like SF2 mostly.