Other than smash is prolly the most beginner friendly fighting game. You should download the demo and play some rounds on classic and modern controls and see if it's for you.

With modern controls & actual tutorials on combos and mechanics, I'd say yes. You can practice in single player too if you feel kinda scared at the start.

Playing the World Tour mode will slowly teach you all the in/outs of playing the game. The only downside is that later tutorials come waaaay too late in the game to be reasonable. The mission to learn how to counter throws is like 15 hours into the World Tour but you'll have been doing it since the beginning... especially the computer AI.

I still loved the World Tour and I recommend it. Especially if you're a Capcom fan. Hard to say that mode alone is worth the price of admission but I plan to play online as well.

Yes definitely, the game gives the player so many tools to get better and learn their own mistakes. Videos, tutorials, even thr single player guide you somehow. They also made a style of control to make it easier, I personally wil recommend to learn with the classic way mostly to not get in vices. but some people say it gives them time to understand the strategic mechanics. Have fun!

I haven't played a SF game since SSF4 on 360 & never was a competitive player and I'm having a blast.

There is tons of single player content, and you can have fun in multi-player at any skill level.

Honestly this is one of the best Fighting Games to get in.

The Single player teachers how to play and the game has robust tutorials, etc.

This is my first SF too and i am having a blast

Pretty much the opposite for me. Gameplay's worth it. But content... the roster is just so small imo. But world tour is welcome, although pretty bland

Now's the best time to get into it. Because of the influx of new players. You'll get matched up against people around your skill. The longer you wait. The more likely it is you'll have to learn against stronger people if you do decide to take an interest.

You have to start with Street Fighter 1, or you won't be able to understand the story.

I kinda feel that way too. It seems like some Bronze players are still much better than you'd expect for Bronze, maybe some of it is just new placements on that character since the game is still pretty new.

I also think there's some bias as in, the players most likely to drop $60 on the new SF are most likely veterans. So idk if that actually beats out the influx of new players.

I'm a new player. I got placed in Iron and the same day I rose to Silver III. I can probably make gold if I keep trying. Just learning the fundamentals of the game like... what should I poke with? What should I anti-air with? Making sure you block whenever you're doing nothing else. Then learning about footsies will probably get you higher than where I am. I only played about 30 hours of SFV and only about 8 in SFIV. Fundamentals will get you pretty far.

Yeah this is a great game for beginners, all my friends never played fighting games before and fell in love with this title. Its also better now than its ever been

I thought the same thing. Then my buddy bought. Me the CE and gave me his old hori mini. I had never played a fighting game. I was so angry that I couldn't get the right inputs and I would lose to literally everyone. I turned that anger into a drive to improve now after 80 hrs played I'm addicted a d when I lose its a learning opportunity. It's so fun now because I have no one to blame but me when I lose and when I don't get caught by that random option, or I land that perfect punish the serotonin kicks in and win loss doesn't matter. I just hit 1000lp the other day without noticing. I recommend the game for sure!

Street Fighter is one of the easiest fighting game series to learn.

Great game for beginners. A little bit different than other games because of the 6 attack buttons but its very fun and will teach you all fighting game fundamentals.

I started playing 6 weeks ago, plenty of people playing low ranks, never had to wait much for a ranked game. I recommend you trying a few characters and go for the one you like the most, then join its discord, there is a lot of helpful people willing to teach you basic stuff

To me it's so much better than a game like tekken with an overwhelming number of command normals.

Sf4 has 1 frame links and FADC. It’s not beginner friendly whatsoever, also it’s fucking dead lol. Idk why you forced that opinion in

Just Google SFV "name of the character" discord and you will get a link to that discord server, it's always best to join a character specific server

Its the most aggressive street fighter ever made. If you like aggressive fighting games you will love it.

Try the demo. The game is harder than DBFZ and Strive IMO but modern controls is very good for new players.

Might as well. This game has pretty good tutorials. I’m a total noob, probably moreso than you, and I’m having fun with it despite getting my ass beat

try demo. i loved playing demo with modern controls. it’s a game changer for me

It's the most welcoming/noob-friendly Street Fighter ever. If you're interested, it might as well be this one.

There are still al lot of beginner level players playing the game online. That means a beginner can learn the game with other beginners, which makes it a beginner friendly game at this time.

Absolutely. SFV's my first fighting game and IMO its been an amazing ride for the 2 years Ive been playing it

I think it is a pretty good place to start, but it isn't as new player friendly as some other games.

Pros:

• The game is very popular, so there are a lot of resources for new players, and lots of other new players to play against.

• Street Fighter V inputs are particularly lenient, both for motion inputs and the timing of moves

• The system-level mechanics are relatively simple

Cons:

• There are a lot of characters in the game, which means there are a lot of match-ups to learn.

• While there are a lot of resources for learning the game, I think SFV tends to have them less centralized than many other games. Lots of things are on discord or youtube, where they can be a little hard to find and might not be totally up to date with the latest patch.

• SFV doesn't have a ton of new player friendly mechanics. There is no autocombo, six buttons can be a lot for a new player, and the game is not always as clear as some newer games about communicating what happened when you get hit.

• The game doesn't really have a helpful tutorial or practically any interesting single player content.

Ultimately, if you think the game looks cool I think it is worth a try. Liking the look, characters, etc of a game makes a big difference in having fun when you are losing, and that is really what is going to make the difference of you sticking with it and learning more about how it works.

Smash would be the easiest mainstream fighting game to learn, if you consider that a fighting game. Out of any Street Fighter, either 5 or 2 would be the easiest to learn, but 5 definitely has the most active playerbase.

However, it’s still Street Fighter at the end of the day. It’s far from easy.

Guilty gear strive is the best intro to fighters I think

Less buttons. Simplified inputs. Less meter stuff.

yeah, sf6 is probably the most beginner/novice - focused streetfighter in its history.

Yes it is but don’t expect to pick it up and be good right away. Unless you’re a prodigy. Part of the fun of fighting games is the learning and improvement

Sf6’s world tour mode is like a gigantic, awesome tutorial for the arcade mode of the game, it can teach you real well how to play it 

This is how my roommate learned fighting games with Guilty Gear Strive. He’d have like a half hour a day for a few months and would just go lab a combo for 20 minutes, maybe play a few games then do the same thing the next day until he’d learned the game/character

If you enjoy the gym, you'll enjoy a game like this. Instead of like in RPG's where your character and gear is what levels up, fighting games are about YOU leveling up as a person.

It's like the video game equiv of learning a martial art.

You will sink a lot of time into it if you love it, but it doesn't have to be long sessions all at once. It's fun at low and high levels and everything in between. Great jumping on point.

Street Fighter is more execution heavy than your average fighting game, but of the SF games this is the easiest and includes more tools and modes to learn. It's ranked mode is quite good at getting people at your skill level. Keyboard should be no problem. Honestly I find the game to be fast paced and intense, so not really the kind of "chill" I would look for after when dealing with the stressors of parenthood. But I still really like the game and it might work out for you, and it's a great deal right now.

I'm a complete newbie at fighting games. The only experience I had before was playing Soul Calibur on Dreamcast offline. So far I've got around 100 hours and playing with keyboard(I tried gamepad but couldn't consistently execute a single special move on classic even after a couple days of practice and learned them in a couple of hours with keyboard). So far I like it. Still not sure if I'm into this genre but I don't regret buying it

It's beginner friendly with good tools to learn the mechanics. It also has a bunch of offline content if that's your preference. I got my Ryu into master rank using my keyboard before I bought my snackbox micro 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼💪🏼

Chilling and fighting games is.. not a good comparison. Lot of learning. Lot of sweat in matches. Lot of sweat in terms of input / timing (sf6 especially, little bit on the loose side on t8) and tons of shit to memorize through practice and muscle memory.

So there's that.

I personally came to SF6 having played MMORPGs like WoW strictly for about 17 years and I personally love it.

The fomo here mostly arises in terms of the battle pass, if you care for the avatar outfits and titles that is. But the battle pass is so easy to complete in the given time, that there is no rush to do it. You can easily get the whole battle pass in about, I'd say 10 hours of gaming if you focus on the things that generate a lot of points for it.

The offline mode, or the "World Tour" is a great introduction to all the system mechanics. I can safely say that labbing itself, until you are ready to hop online, is satisfying and honestly quite fun. Imo you don't even have to fight others to have fun if you like labbing.

The game has the Modern control scheme to provide you an easier control scheme if you'd like, so that gives it some extra points for being beginner friendly. There's plenty of in game tutorials to complete and the resources online are vast compared to the early days of gaming.

Keyboards are perfectly fine to get the feel for the game, but do look up what leverless controllers are if you haven't already. If you keep the controls as they are and bind your jump to space instead of W, you will generally be learning the game the same as you would if you owned a leverless. Then, when the time comes, you can easily switch to a leverless controller.

Yes it is.

BUT the best entry is the game you are going to keep playing.

While there are loads of similarities between them, Street Fighter has a very different feel to say Guilty Gear or King of Fighters, and then you’ve got Tekken which is 3D so has a whole different element but again feels very different.

In terms of stuff for beginners than SF6 is your bet but just bear that in mind, street fighter may not be for you, Tekken is harder to get in to I think but you may love it. Or you may love the faster pace of Guilty Gear.

I say this because you have to love the game. Thats what’s going to keep you playing, the reality as a new player is you’re probably going to lose a lot, even lower ranked players who’ve been playing for 6 months will feel like they know stuff you don’t. You’ll improve, maybe quick but we all had to take our licks. Some people struggle with that, there’s no team to carry you like in an FPS, there’s just a big fat you lose sign on your screen.

Fighting games are amazing, they’re the only games (apart from the odd single player) games i play but it’s a long term investment

Yes.

Just like you I came from Smash and at first I was intimidated by holding back to block, 6 buttons and motion inputs. But after 150 hours I can reliably say this is very easily the best time to get into traditional fighting games.

SF6 has a great tutorial, also called "World Tour", it teaches you both how to play fighting games, while also letting you create your own fighter through combining multiple characters specials. Example: Imagine if Mii Fighters could have Kazuyas Wind God fist and Steves Minecart? Sounds fun to mix and match, right? World Tour also tricks you into learning fighting games as well, such as fundamentals.

And if you dont like motion inputs, there is a control scheme with little to no motion inputs called modern. But Putting it very simply, motion inputs arent hard and eventually youll learn to automatically input them through muscle memory. Its very intimidating at first, but trust me, youll get used to it (and in my opinion learning a traditional fgc is easier than some smash characters)

SF6 also has actual ranked matchmaking and amazing netcode.

I still play Smash, but putting it very simply, this is an amazing time to get into fighting games like sf6

If you think it looks cool, for sure, yes. In-game character guides are very workable as starting points for how characters play.

It also has one of the best, if not the best, training mode of all the modern FGs.

yep, you got world tour, modern controls, good netcode and crossplay

Save for extremely casual Smash Bros, SF6 is my first fighting game. I placed into Rookie at launch. Five months later, I just hit Master on my main and I’m holding my own at locals. Do it. It’s worth the grind.

I actually think if you engage with a discord where high level players are willing to help put newbies I think a new player can improve very rapidly just by virtue of having someone giving them direction. If you go in knowing your poke on the ground, your anti air, a simple combo and a big combo if you block a super or something like that, and which button is your fastest normal, I think that knowledge combined with a little practice in training mode while you're queuing can make leveling up surprisingly smooth. Whenever you have issues ask a high level player and it solves a lot of the plateaus.

Also if you're interested in it, modern is very effective for new players so that can also give you a boost starting out. That being said, it definitely isn't necessary for new players but the option is there especially if you prefer the smash style inputs

As for the price point question you should be fine getting the base roster which I assume is the lowest price point. If you like the look of any of the DLC characters you can buy them separately if you wanted. The only unfortunate side of that is you won't be able to use training mode against them

First of all, if this is your first time playing street fighter and if you don’t have much time to invest in, I highly recommend just playing on Modern.

We are expecting some further improvements to modern control on 6/5 so now is probably the best time to jump into that control scheme as well.

There’s very little English resources on YouTube so you might have to pull out Japanese translator but it’s all there.

The biggest hurdle to enjoyment is the mindset of always needing to win. Modern game design has conditioned us to look for easy dopamine hits from minimal, often ultra-guided effort, so it’s something that’s not easy to shake.

In fighting games, you have to find your own wins, and it’s not always defined by a match victory.

You’ve been using Practice Mode to dial in the range of Ryu’s hard punch so you can feel exactly where it hits vs misses, then you applied it to a match? Even if you lost, that’s a huge win. Practiced an optimal punish combo to a blocked wake-up OD Shoryuken and landed it in a tightly-contested match? That’s something you earned rather than the game giving you.

Find satisfaction in earned skill development, even in losing matches, and you’ll exceed your expectations when the wins start coming through solid fundamentals that steadily build on each other.

You don't have to move up the ranks. If you stay in Silver/Gold and are having fun, who cares?

The game worth $60 even if you don't use the online multiplayer. There is a world tour mode that is very newbie friendly and literally acts as a very long tutorial for the game's systems.

Also if you have kids, you can always play fun matches against them.

There is a slow but steady road for fighting games, just depends on if your on the mood to "learn". Learning street fighter is like learning chess and the skill transfers over to other games.

Play ranked match and you'll be put with people your skill level. your going to lose anyway.