Learn the fundimentals of fighting games like footsies, neutralgame, et cetera (this is info that'll be useful in ANY fighting game)

Play the tutorial, both the basic and the character specific one for Johnny if you're having trouble with learning the pacing of combos/ button presses.

Go on youtube, look up tutorials and tips for the character by pros. The newer the better.

Play lots of matches, learn how to adapt to different matchups, and learn from your mistakes but don't take losses too hard; no one gets "ok" at fighting games without getting their teeth punched in a whole lot, no one gets "good" without getting their ass beat a whole lot more after that.

If you playing versus or mk league learn your opponent I can’t stress that enough a lot of people play in a type of move pattern once you learn that you’ll be good and do not get discouraged if you lost like 2 games back to back the thing I will say tho is watch out for the sub zeros and the raidens their fucking annoying

Learn delay wake up use it to your advantage

Ignore specials while you learn your strings. Once you get those down, learn to fit specials in

Xombat does some REALLY good johnny cage tutorials, could also watch ninjakillas more recent johnny video. Both great ways to get down how johnny plays

These games are based on quarter crunchers - you don’t get better, you get cheaper…lol

Honestly the best strategy might be to just spam the running combos. Plenty characters have special attacks to freeze the opponent in place to set em up. Either that or just play with one of the op ass sub- bosses. 

once you understand the basic fundamentals, play against hard cpu, it will train your brain to get better at hit confirming into combos safely. Watch a basic bread and butter combo on yt for your desired main. Dont give up! This game is fun and everyone quits cuz they suck at cameos.

play the tutorial, pick any character and practice, go to towers play online. Just have fun amigo

1. Learn to block.
2. Try VERY BASIC COMBOS (build that muscle memory)
3. Don't do online matches, play the CPU on hard.
4. Watch pro's play and pay attention to their movement.
5. Have fun, play for a bit, take a break. The road to be decent at this game is long and hard.

It depends on what you're getting good for. If you just want to enjoy the game on single player, you need to practice against higher level AI, understand its behavior, and work on your best combos with the characters you wanna play as.

If you want to get good competitively, you need to go get your ass kicked repeatedly by people who are better than you and pay close attention to what they are doing right and what you are doing wrong. This is what will reinforce good habits and help you get rid of bad ones.

Remember that human opponents and AI opponents are two different beasts. Don't assume that just because you're good at beating one that it means you'll be good at beating the other.

Watch other people that are good at the game and always stay in practice so you can execute your combos better. Practice makes perfect.

I mean you're doing pretty good for someone who started today lmao but yeah you'll find good guides on youtube for each characters + combo ideas for all levels. and then practice !

Been playing MK since the first one came out on SNES. I didn't get serious with it until MKX.

What really helped me was finding a friend to lab with in online practice mode. Ge helped me a lot with combo timing, learning pokes, reversals, wakeup etc.

Online has a bit of a delay, but in my experience learning to do them in online practice made it 100x easier to nail them offline. Without the delay they'd come out butter smooth.

I'd also really recommend going to the tutorial hub and doing all of them. They really help teach you more mechanics than just pulling off a combo. A lot of the time matches are about footies, pokes, dash cancels and zoning.

Some controllers register button inputs better. For some reason my default Xbox controller works better especially when it comes to hitting combos compared to my fancy controller with mouse click buttons and paddles.

My personal tips for you would be

1:Go for whoever appeals to "You"". Don't play a character you don't want to look at.

2: standing 2 is an excellent punish with every character.

3: learn at least one %30 combo with whomever you choose. If you do that three times in a match you win. You also have to account for grabs ands pokes and whatnot you get here and there.

4:Mk1 just came out give yourself a chance to feel it out.

5:which is most important DO NOT GET FRUSTRATED. No matter how good you get someone is always better. Learn from mistakes.

I would turn release check off. It's on by default.

Whoever you think is cool. You’ll have more fun playing a character you like

Honestly it has to be whoever you think has the coolest design

The one you like the most.

Baraka

Play everyone a little and keep playing whoever you find most fun.

I think sparring with people and having them give input helps, as well as tutorial mode and learning the technical aspects of the game! I love getting input and giving it, as well.

I’m working on learning all of the characters and have mastered about 5 of the 25 * on the roster. It really helps to know as much as you can so you can be more efficient.

Do the tutorial and do not skip it is rge best wy to learn things

Any one. Just pick who you like or think looks cool, or whatever.

And depending on what kind of character you use in MK for instance, Johnny Cage would be a lot harder to use, because he has the taunting where you would have to use like another button to taunt, where scorpions a little more straightforward

Whether it’s a controller arcade stick and needs to feel right for you regardless of the game.

I play with stick and I’m kicking ass

Alot of sticks have R3/L3 buttons near the home button since some FGs use those as the reset button

I’m using my Quamba crystal on mk 1 with scorpion I’m doing ok. I would think whatever easier for u. Typically speaking, Mortal Kombat isn’t usually played on arcade sticks but for me, I’m having more of a problem using the PS five controller and pausing the fucking game then with an arcade stick lol