I love this game so much, I bought it on release and it’s my first ever real fighting game. I have over 250 hours on the game, but I still cannot do basic tech and don’t really understand how the game works. I have never learned how to do drive rush, I have never learned how to reliably drive parry, and I barely know any combos. Everytime I try to learn these things it seems daunting, and I get really frustrated just doing the inputs over and over and never actually getting it right. The highest I’ve ever gotten in ranked was platinum 1, before quickly dropping back to gold. I genuinely want to learn this game but I don’t know how to without becoming really frustrated and depressed. Any advice would be appreciated.

I play AKI and have no way of defending myself from directly above me. When Bison does a Devil's Reverse from a distance, I can use heavy whip to anti-air, but when he's directly above me, it feels like there's nothing I can do. If I try to DI, it sideswitches and my DI whiffs. The follow-up is often too far away to get hit by DI and Bison doesn't have to do it, so that's also not a reliable way to deal with it. I know perfect parry would be an option, but that's way too rare to land. I also can't do jump back medium kick because Bison's mostly do this when I'm in the corner.

I've seen reference to people using it without issues, but when I tried it it crashed when I chose a stage other than the training stage. Is there any way to fix this?

I've been playing Street Fighter since 4, but didn't really knuckle down and start getting good until 6 here. I've managed to crawl myself to Diamond and it doesn't feel like anything has changed.

All my opponents are still doing the same cheese and gimmicks they were doing in Bronze just with more consistency. Random mid screen DIs, loops of the same 3 moves that usually aren't safe, jabs into DR into Throw, jumping frantically, random buttons in neutral.

I was hoping by now I'd get to the fun part where me and my opponent are trying to out think each other and relying on strong footsies and mix-ups or we're kind of respecting each other's options in different scenarios. Do I have to climb to Master before the game becomes fun?

Although there are a lot of very skilled commentators working in Street Fighter 6 tournaments, I think there are two that are my favorite - Marine and Saint Cola. I could not imagine the scene without Saint Cola and Marine just feels like the most relatable and laid back commentator, but she still knows what she is talking about.

!And in case anyone is curious, I find the "one of our own" UK commentary guy to be the most annoying.!<

I have my L1 set to three punches so i can EX Lariat as Gief, but when I enter a match, it becomes a DI. I made sure I'm picked the correct custom, and I went into practice mode and it's working properly. It's just whenever I queue up and play, it's goes back to the default settings for some reason.

Hi, I'm new to sf6 and I'm figuring out the ropes. I've played fighting games before (Specifically guilty gear) and I wanted to know if anyone can recommend a fighter to grasp the basics (If it helps, I have an aggressive playstyle and I play Baiken in gg). Any tips on the game in general helps as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqzHgmTtQo

How long do people generally find it takes to adapt (get to the same level as before using it) to leverless? I used PS5 controller until a few days ago, got a Haute M16 Plus and have been using it for about 10 hours. Is it normal to go totally backwards and feel like I'm a 4 year old trying to learn to play video games again? I see on YouTube only a lot of videos about leverless shortcuts but I feel am not even ready for that yet. I am finding basic movement, jumping etc quite difficult / unnatural. My DI reactions are gone, probably because I'm using thumb instead of left index finger on L1, it's like having to program it into myself all over again. BnB combos are also majorly unreliable - can do in training fine but in matches my fingers just freeze up or mix up buttons. Do I just need to practice more?

I WANT TO HIDE MY PROFILE FROM THE LEADERBOARDS, MY FRIENDS AND CLUB MEMBERS. IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO THAT?

I mean when right now we see Oh, Akuma/Bison/Rashid/etc. are just so OP and that all we see nowadays online and in tournaments. But we know howuch of the community

But really let's look at amount and variety characters we see commonly and making it at top level play.

Ken,Rashid,Akuma,Ed,Bison,Cammy,Gief.

Then you can say Guile,Juri and A.K.I are also nearly as successful and common.

That is over a third of the current 24 characters right now. And for fighting game standards that is actullay not bad at all.

Plus the difference between tiers is not THAT big anymore. I mean I don't think any current characters is as Bad as S1 Luke or JP, and they are perfectly beatable.

I mean S1 was all Luke,Ken,JP, DJ and then Chun I guess.

I mean we have a Ryu qualified for Capcom Cup and we almost had a freaking Manon too. Dark Horse characters to have a shot at making it.

Yes I understand that overall pick rates are just that: overall monthly pickrates. But I feel like some days all I see is this or that character in ranked.

For instance, today I played 9 ranked sets. In which I got 4 distinct Manon players. This gives a p-value of 0,00000003699244111. Other days it's another character, say JP or Kimberly.

Of course I don't expect (and I don't want to) only see Bison, Akuma, Ryu and Ken over and over. But after months of having this feeling, I start to suspect that there's some kind of algorithm to cycle over the characters so we can experiment all the match-ups, instead of having it totally random.

So my (probably paranoid conspiracy) theory is that every day, each player gets assinged one to three characters which get a boosted matchmaking affinity.

Say me and my friend Foobar. Today we're playing ranked and we queue looking for games. Internally and hiddenly, the game assigns me an increased matchmaking affinity for Dhalsim and Guile players while Foobar gets it for Chun-Li and Deejay. That doesn't mean we will ONLY get those matches, but it'll be MUCH more likely to find those compared to their real usage rate.

I know similar things exist for some Poker apps, where you can get increased changes of getting a good hand and a good flop every now ant then, so you feel some "luck" is on your side, and don't get always destroyed by complete random events and good opponents.

Did any of you get this feeling as well?

Context: this is the first fighting game I’m genuinely spending time to get better at

I’ve been playing just under a hundred hours on PS5, been a Kimberly player since day two of owning the game and recently I hit platinum! However, for the past straight month, I’ve been teetering back and forth between Plat and gold, constantly getting demoted and promoted. I use the practice room to lab out combos, figure out reach of attacks but I don’t feel that I am getting much better (at least based on rank).

2 things:

Do y’all have any other tips for self improvement or ways to critique myself?

And

Is there any weight to the idea that I’m holding myself back with my character? I sometimes feel that Kimberly is very weak in comparison to other characters on the roster

Sorry y’all I know it was a long read but I appreciate that you’ve read this much and I thank you for any feedback!

We always hear who the most annoying is, so which one do you guys think is the least annoying. I'd probably say luke after his nerfs, I don't really hear much complaining about him (but I'm biased since hes a secondary character of mine).

Man, I am so Happy! What a ride hahahaha