Street Fighter 6 – Beginners Guide | Tips & Tricks

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Learning a new fighting game – or picking up the genre for the first time – can be a daunting task. Fighting games are notorious for being among the most difficult games to learn, and this can knock players off their stride when it comes to improving. Street Fighter 6, for all of its innovations, still falls well within this category and comes with all of its trials and tribulations. 

That being said, there are many ways to expedite the process of “getting good” in fighting games. This guide is going to walk you through some of the traps new players commonly fall into, and how you can up your game and climb out of Rookie. Fighting games are hard, but they are also supremely satisfying.

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One of the most daunting aspects of Street Fighter is learning combos. You go online and watch combo videos and you will see experts pulling off some truly mind-boggling stuff. Not only that, they seem to have an infinite well of combos that they pull out at the perfect time – every time. 

Here’s the thing though, you don’t need to learn any of it. In fact, as a new player, all you need to know is how to do a single combo. Something very basic. This could be two punches into a special, and that’s all you need to begin with. As you play more, you will not only improve your combo over time but also figure out new simple combos. The trick is to master them one at a time so your execution becomes near-flawless. This all starts with the first step – learning that first combo.

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