SinnTek1

Meh, not sure if this is the right thread but I am going to assume and with all assumptions I may make an @$$ out of you and me. Anyways, what is a good beginner character to learn? I get that everyone has their mains which seems to be more what I am looking for. Recently, I have played (in this order) Ragna, Kokonoe, Hakumen, Azrael, Terumi, Jin, and back to Kokonoe. My problem is that eventually I will get to a roadblock where I either know most of the character shown aboves combos or bread n butters but I just cannot seem to get wins. Even after playing for hours on end as well as staying in training mode. Not sure what I am doing wrong (I'd be happy to play someone for criticism even or someone who has played me before, please feel free to critique my playstyle.) I want to get better. With Kokonoe, I can do most of her combos in training mode (in theory.) Then I go online or to my local group of friends and get rekt.... With Ragna, I can usually do pretty good online and keep the basic combos going but when it comes to the more advanced ones involving 22C, I drop them every single time even after practicing them in training mode for hours. With Azrael, I kind of feel predictable and it usually shows. I either dominate the match or get rekt. With Jin, I have no idea what I am doing outside of the basic bread n butter combos. With Terumi, I feel extremely predictable and usually either get demolished or control the match. Pro's rek me. With Hakumen, I feel predictable again and I am not really sure how else to approach him. I really liked Hakumen but he does feel really sluggish. TL;DR - Anyways, I guess what I am asking after all of the rambling : Who would be a good character to pick up out of those characters or another one similar to those characters who has relatively easy to learn bread n butters and can RTSD (Rush that shit down.) Thanks for yo time. ( I would also love to find a mentor / sparring partner even if they absolutely destroy me until I get better. I play on a wired 5.9mbps connection in the midwest. )

PSN ID - Sinntek1 Main - Testament / Anji Loc - Midwest.

Not really sure if anyone mentioned this in here or not but I recently bought the Qanba Q1 to get back into fighting games. It was 70$ + shipping costs so about 85$ then I got Sanwa 30mm pushbuttons and a seimitsu bat top for about 30$. So for around 115$ I made a 150-200$ stick. It's not much in the saving money department but I mean hey every bit counts and I'm really enjoying how sensitive the buttons are now.

I actually have a sparring partner who is about the same level as me, so got that one taken care of. I tried Sol and he just confused me and a lot of combos felt really blocky to me.... Didn't like it. lol. Would you recommend Baiken for learning rushdowns at all? Just curious. I tried her at first and didn't like how much they changed her overall fighting style from Reload to now.

Well, first off... Hi! I'm new. I started playing Guilty Gear again because I saw Plus R and really really wanted to get back into it. I have not played GG since #Reload. I pretty much went to Street Fighter Third Strike and stuck with Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom up until Blazblue came out and started playing it HEAVILY. To the point where I was missing classes <_< >_>... But anyways, I am trying to find some decent mechanic learning characters on Guilty Gear. Not so much "Who should I main?" Because like the posts on the front page, that is somewhat of a dumb question... What I am wondering is who would be a good character for someone who has literally never played Guilty Gear on a competitive level to get the fundamentals down and understand who they would like and where they want to go with the game. I love rushing people down with mixups and absolute despise Ky-Kiske and counter-based characters. (No offense to Ky players, I just don't like him because I'm pretty much forced to play him by the good players I know.) (Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, just looking for some advice and where to go from this point.) (I've tried HOS, Chipp, Baiken, and Sol.... They just don't seem to fit...)