Choosing a new main for perspective

[Speakeasy]

So I only ever learned one character in Arena. I had that month-or-so period where I just hit random and played with whoever I got until I settled on someone I liked, but after that Elizabeth was my girl. I love her extensive tools and different methods of approaching characters. I like that you kind of have to have a game plan for certain characters. Relying heavily on Thanatos and being crippled if you run out of cards but being able to control the flow of the match with a lot of skill and a bit of luck is mesmerizing to me. Elizabeth is just so much fun to play, I've never used anyone else. And that's where the problem comes in.

I only know the game through the lens of fighting with Elizabeth. I get the fundamentals, but I've only ever used them in the way Elizabeth requires you to in order to be good. Persona cards are Thanatos cards. I think there's a roster of 13 fighters, but there could only be 1 and I'd never know. I've plateaued in skill with Elizabeth, and while there are a lot of factors such as me just not having the skill to get any better, I think that a large part of it is that I lack perspective. I know the ins and outs of strategies for Elizabeth, but I have no other experience in Arena to compare them to. The same thing happened in Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend - I reached a point where I thought I couldn't get any better with my main, but I started to learn a different character and began climbing the ladder once more.

I suppose that in the end, this boils down to a "what should we learn next?" thread, but I feel like it could help more players than just me to think about switching to a new fighter for a bit. For example, I like to play characters that have tools for just about everything. I'm okay with being okay-to-bad in one area if they excel in another, such as Lambda. Lambda can hit you basically anywhere on the screen, but doesn't have a lot of options at close range or under pressure, at least not how I play her. Platinum's items let her do just about anything, but you have to have certain items to do certain things and the order's random so you have to be able to adapt your strategy to suit what you have. That's fun to me. Much more fun than grapplers or people that have certain do-everything moves to strongarm their way through careful strategy. Not naming any names here. *whistles* I think that someone like Misturu, Aigis, or Shadow Labrys would best fit my playstyle, but I'm coming to the reliquary of knowledge here at Dustloop to ask: Who's a good jack-of-all-trades and/or zoner to learn?

Also maybe list characters that fit other playstyles or would be easier to learn coming from other characters, I don't know. :L

[Delrian]

Try Teddie.

[Speakeasy]

Ooooh, there's an idea. How does he play? I've played against him, but I don't understand him well enough to know what to go for when using him.

[Delrian]

Admittedly I probably have about as much of an understanding about him as you do. :X

Big normals (lol 5B) combined with lots of different items for various oki setups (some of which inflict status ailments)...