How long did it take -you- to get proficient with your main?

[germanturkey]

Nu was easy. 1 week to get down basically everything. /\ is a bit different. i can do most of her combos, but i still can't TK loop consistently.

[WolfCrimson]

It took me a long time to get good with Ragna, like around six months since CT release. BB is my first serious 2D fighting game, I used to play Tekken before that (now I can't stand playing it, 2D is where it's at), so I had to learn how movement works in this game, as well as gatlings (revolvers?), game mechanics, execution of inputs, and combos. I'm pretty good now, I think, just need some more match-up experience with some characters, and maybe improve my execution more for the more difficult stuff, like doing the 22C, dash 5b link consistently.

[ukyo_rulz]

It took me about two months to get "OK" with Nu. A lot longer than that just to become "not bad" with /\ (I've got my zoning to a point that I am satisfied with, but I still have trouble timing gravity to get out of pressure and using 6A to anti-air). It took me only one day to learn how play Tager passably, because he is super easy-mode. Actually my Tager is probably loads better than my /\ at this point, so my Sub is actually more of a threat than my Main.

[pulsr]

I learned v13 in I think to quote deci "3 hours" I practice Mu still, and probably have 70 something hours logged in training mode with her.

[Chozo003]

CT was my first competitive fighter, screwed around with Jin for a long time learning tiny combos (no BNBs or anything), mostly the game mechanics. After a while I picked up Hakumen, realized he was everything I wanted in a character and suited my playstyle perfectly, and continued learning the game mechanics while learning tiny combos with him for maybe like, 8 hours a week or something. That dropped off after a while though, until CS was released. I guess that's when I really started learning him competitively. To be honest I still wouldn't label myself as proficient with him though. So I guess 2 years (as of like, 4 days ago I think) on and off, ongoing.

[jak d ripr]

Well since i am still not proficient with my main its safe to say more than 2 years, though in my defense i spent bout 6 months of those 2 years in university. Oh btw my main is bang. Yes its taken me 2 years to become proficient with bang shishigami. Real talk though, his combos were a pain since all his normals have command versions of themselves(unlike sf4 which i was coming off) took me a long as time to get used to running up and just hitting the button with no other directional input.

[TD]

ct

rachel - 1 week

litchi - never mastered unfortunately

cs

rachel - few extra days to learn new shit

litchi - 1 hour (tsk, tsk litchi...)

tsubaki - 10 FUCKING MINUTES.

Mu - 1 month (essentially ct litchi with zoning)

hazama - played zidane and 'magically' learned all of him one day lol.

[Top_Cat]

ct

nu- a week

rachel- a week

litchi- a week

tao- a week

cs

litchi- a day

rachel- a day

lambda- a day

mu- an hour

jin-a couple hours

tao- a week

arakune- a day

[SolidPlay]

Took me about 8 months to place 5th at Final Round 2009 in blazblue with Carl. So there you go. (this is CS1)

I've been playing hazama for 4 months....we'll have to see what happens at final round.

[Raptor]

Because Blazblue was my first fighting game to be competetive at, I was basically learning my main, Noel, and the fighting game 101 at the same time. Granted, this caused my Blazblue training to drag on for AWHILE.

CT:

Noel- For the 8 months of going to the arcade to learn this character, I still never mastered her. I could only do the simple drive BnB and air combo ONLY WHEN MY CHARACTER WAS FACING LEFT.

Rachel- About 1 day for her basics. I was more experienced at this point and had my cousin train me on using his own character.

CS:

Noel- Still working on it tbh. I can definitly say I'm much better at CS Noel than CT, but her advance combos are still boggling me.

Rachel- Less than a day for her basics. Honestly I feel she's alot simpler than her CT counterpart, but that's just me. Also, watching and playing against Jason D. helps this.

Fighting Game 101: Still in training

[Runis]

uhhhh, does "since day one and still counting" work?

[Isorropia]

and still counting

Amen to that. :S

[Wokker]

CT and CS:

Ragna(CT + CS) - 4 months total and still counting. Learning all the matchups and other stuff.

Jin(CT) - 1 month to learn all his stuff and some combos.

Makoto - 2 weeks to learn her basic stuff and some combos.

[Edalborez]

CT Tager - About 6 months (starting from console release) to stop doing super stupid stuff all the time. Hovered at (below?) average skill up to the release of CS. First serious fighter.

CS Tager - Less than a day to learn not to drop new combos. A week to get decent. Still, always looking to improve.

CS Mu - A couple weeks for basics + zoning. Her combos just really clicked with me for some reason. Except 6A>6B juggle Still learning otherwise

Proficient but by no means good. Not yet anyways.

[icettx]

I'm ok as Ragna, but to master him... It may take a while at my rate, and this is on CT the first fighting game I actuely wanted to play, I'm not too fond of fighters that are not sprite based. XD

[DemiiPoet]

. . .I'm not too fond of fighters that are not sprite based. XD

Lol, I think I'm the same ^^ SFIV never really appealed to me and I simply don't care for Tekken.

[JarPL]

I'm playing Tager since CT came out and I'm certainly not free-I still lose to way better players but never without a fight.

[LeFartknocker]

I learned j.214B# with Hazama in a day (which was misleading, because he took much longer after that)

Tager was never easy but meh...

Valkenhayn ended up being far easier comparatively, hence my new main :D

[Mystic d]

Played for over a full year and I'm still learning so much about Tao. Watching Tsujikawa vids has really been helping me out.

[deadsnake]

I got the Idea of how to use my main in CT for about...a few months? err....wait...maybe 3 months...or 4..

and it's the same in CS

[crazycrackers]

CT:

Rachel- Quite some time. Probably like 3 months, though I was new to BB/GG

Litchi- A month. Once I got her combos down everything fell into place well.

Nu- A day. Lol nu.

CS:

Rachel- A couple days to learn new stuff/adapt. Took a week for lvl 3 j2c combos though.

Lambda- About two weeks I think. Playing the character felt natural to me, it just took a little time to get the tk loop/midscreen tks down. Also to learn matchups with hazama (now one of my favorites) bang and tao.

Arakune- New main.I've been playing him for a week and I'm pretty proficient. Got all his loops down, pretty good pre-curse. Got his technical stuff learned. I just need to learn the lambda matchup in greater depth.

[iw2ma]

I'm not even sure if im sufficient enough with Bang. He's the only one I play and the only one I like. I win MOST of the time in general but does that mean anything? Not really. I need to find a way to hit up CA for a tourney some time.

[ZONG_one]

Arakune- New main.I've been playing him for a week and I'm pretty proficient. Got all his loops down, pretty good pre-curse. Got his technical stuff learned. I just need to learn the lambda matchup in greater depth.

j.4 xN.

Or IAD > 4A+B xN.

[Andarel]

Arakune vs Lambda - Block like your life depended slightly more on it than it actually does. Don't get hit by random 6D swords.

Can't say if I ever got proficient with Lambda. Never gonna live up to my own standards.

[Edge Reaper]

I play netplay. I can never be proficient with my main.