I love picking up new fighting games. The task of learning how to play fighting games at all can seem incredibly daunting, so learning another, or a dozen different games, can seem impossible. Once you’ve gotten your foot in the door, you’ll find that it’s a lot easier than you think it is; to the point where it’s even possible to load up a game with a friend that neither of you have any experience with and play fairly competently! There are even “Mystery Game” tournaments where this is the entire focus, playing a different obscure game each round of the tournament.

In this article, I’m going to assume you have a basic familiarity with fighting games already, and I’m going to drop some jargon. If you’re not ready for that, maybe start off with some Beginner Tutorials and ease your way into the genre. If this article doesn’t make a lot of sense to you, I wrote most of the glossary on the SuperCombo wiki, and Infil has written his own glossary as well.

So what’s my routine for picking up a new fighting game?

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