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

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

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.

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

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.

Be good at the game

Don't under any circumstances play combat league unless you are confident in your skills. You will get cooked traumatized and bullied. Talking from experience /s

Use invasions as a way to practice. Kasual matches are better than playing kombat league when you’re not sure what you’re doing.

Do the tutorials and then practice in lab after that just play kasual matches.

finding a friend to play with, maybe one who's more experienced, can help a lot!

Doing towers is an effective way to practice against different characters, and it's what really worked for me.

DO THE TUTORIALS! Not just the basic ones, but the more advanced things, and the combo trials. They can really help you discover characters that you would enjoy learning more about as well as get a better understanding of the game overall.

the tutorial is a great place to start. find a character you like and mess around a bit.

for a decent combo watch Daryus P on youtube, he’s got many good combo tutorials. watching high level gameplay can help as well

Tutorial and find a Main that matches your play style

D1, D1, D1, Throw

https://youtu.be/squz7gYGim0

As someone else has suggested, the tutorial is great. It’s lengthy and a lot of information for a beginner, but it’s all very relevant to playing well. From there, I’d suggest trying out a few different characters in practice or a fight against AI to see what character feels good to play. Try out a couple zoners, a couple footsie characters, a couple brawlers, etc. Or maybe look up the current strongest fighters and start there. Then you can focus on learning combos and how to set up combos once you’ve figured out what character(s) you like to play.

Good luck in kicking your boyfriends ass! :D

The best way to get good at any game imo is doing the basic tutorials to get the feel of the game, watch guides (try and find the most updated ones the games old so even if it may not seem like it 4 years ago probably still holds up) for general gameplay tips and how to play your character or just quick combo videos to get some basic bnbs. If you actually want to get good watch some pro gameplay of people playing whatever character you want to play

Learn your combos is the best advice I could give

First do the tutorials, in Single Player in the Learn mode and find an character with a play style which suits you

Enjoy :)

Definitely do the tutorial, but make sure to play story mode for an easier experience in the future ofc. After that, find a character with a move set that feels comfortable for you, max them out, and kick ass!!!!

Pick the character you think looks "cool/badas5", start there maybe? even if they're not the most noob friendly (hopefully they are), practice makes perfect, and you'll enjoy the fact you're playing the character you like most.

Sub Zero in this game is what I perceive as the beginner character, give him a try and move on

Pick someone you like the look of. Lab them. If you don't click with them, move on. Once you feel comfy with someone and enjoy their gameplay and kombos, take them out into Invasions and the Towers to get some practice in with some Ai.

Once you're super comfy, jump online. You'll get stomped on, it's inevitable, but just keep at it.

I’ve been using smoke, he’s pretty sick

i used liu kang and raiden when i first started, easy kombos, and for kameos i used sub-zero and frost when i first started

Yeah you're mostly gonna wanna bait people into clone or just a whiff punish in general and then start your offense. I don't think he's a character where you just come out the gate swinging on offense, especially since his strings and frame data aren't good

Take advantage of the fact most experienced players will not rush and attack Sub like a madman due to his excellent defense moves. His ice clone alone is enough to deter people from rushing you in a ready or getup position. With Sonya as kameo you can combo off all his moves. He has rather good mixups imo. His back 3,4 into kameo is a nasty combo starter which takes a lot of people by surprise.

Welcome!

1. Go to settings, controls, turn OFF release check.

2. Do the entire tutorial. Doesn't matter if you have no idea how to apply any of it.

3. Pick a character. Go to kustomize and make sure the variations you're playing are kompetitive legal variations.

4. Learn a combo in practice mode. Keep it simple. What's important is that you can do the combo consistently.

5. Learn how to poke, throw and duck. This is basic shit that will fk you up if you don't know how to deal with it.

6. Still with me? Congrats youre ready to play against people. Towers and AI are nice for cosmetics and getting used to your combos but terrible for practice against human opponents.

7. Increase your matchup knowledge. This is where the shit learning curve for fighting games kick in. You can know YOUR character pretty good. Hell you might know a few gimmicks, and setups even. But to have effective defense you need to know your OPPONENTS character as well. And yeah you'll get the basics just from playing, but guess what, BASICS won't help you defend against your opponents carefully practiced gimmicks and setups. So what do you do? Learn every character in the game? Pretty much.

So when you get this far and realize you need to learn more about every character check out these resources.

Every Characters Low Overhead and Plus Moves

Every Move You Can Punish Everytime

Every Gap You Can Punish Or Flawless Block

If you're on console and want to do practice sets let me know. I'm on east coast and will be happy to find 30 minutes to run you through the basics.

play online. Except ur worried about win loss or ur trying to go pro. Most players know the combos to most characters so usually it’s about how each person plays . Some are aggressive m, defensive and play range . Just practise combos for ur fave character and also practise how to do the rolls wake up attacks and delays and air drop thing(they’re very useful ) .

People have ways to counter all those things aswell so at the end of the day so the practise mode and practise ur characters combos and just play online .

Abuse gaps, learn to flawless block strings with gaps. Played online and lost? Watch the replay and see what got you there. After that go to the pratice mode and try other options to that situation.

Play SETS. Find people to play with and improve

Alot youtubing and practice.mode I wouldnt even touch online until you learn to utilize training mode to work on stuff

If kombat league is too difficult, play casual games until you get the feel for your character

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