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To me before you get around to playing people online I would get familiar with the spacing of the game.

If you really want to get good at spacing the advice I usually give players is to play without jumping whatsoever. You'll understand how spacing works really fast if you give yourself that handicap.

Wow, that is actually the exact same tactic that I used in Turbo. Because I couldn't recognise situations where it wasn't safe to jump I got DESTROYED. After I eliminated jumping from my game completely, I had to focus on footsies to get into my opponent's face. That eventually ended up making my groundgame really strong, forcing my opponent to start jumping at me for a change. I guess KoF is no different.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to playing some KoF. I always enjoy learning new things, esspecially in the beginning when it's still easy, haha.

Thank you both for your quick replies. Alright, combo's. Makes enough sense. I remember that trying to do combo's in Marvel not only helped me understand the combo system, but also the game mechanics as a whole.

Regarding practicing combo's, I've already contacted some people from my fighting community and there's actually a couple of people who play KoF. They also host small tournies, so that'll definitely help with upping my game. More surprising is that one of them actually helped contribute a shit ton to the shoryuken wiki apparently.

Those youtube videos were entertaining as well as informative, thanks!

I'll most definitely will be spending most of my time learning the game mechanics (jumps, rolls, etc.). Movement seems to be VERY important.

Are there any useful things that you guys know now, that you would have liked to know when you were starting off?

Alright. I have just this second ordered the game and it should be coming through my mailbox by tomorrow.

Before I go into my set of questions I would just like to give a short introduction. The first real fighter that I ever played was SFIV. It was also this game that sparked my interest for fighting games in general. It wasn't long before I also started dabbling in other games of the capcom franchise like 3rd Strike, Alpha and Turbo (my personal favorite). I never really wanted to become competitive, but I took it quite seriously and would sometimes spend most of my day playing (if work or school didn't intervene). I would never consider myself 'good' at any of them, but I definitely grasped most of the fundamentals. Lately however I don't have as much time as I would like for playing games, uni, work, social life and what have you.

Because of my lack of time, I am really wanting to know how I can most efficiently spend my time learning the game. This doesn't mean that I'm asking for help regarding what character to play. I have already found out that there generally isn't a 'best' character to play when starting out with a new fighter. All I want to know is, when I have decided which characters I want to play, which skills are regarded the most important to have so I can finally start playing against other opponents. Obviously it'll consist out of a hitconfirming, BNB's, meter usage and anti-airing. But because KoF is so radically different from anything I have ever played before (heavy emphasis on being on the offensive), I'm not quite sure how to approach it. What would be the best way of going about to learn the game? It's not that I'm looking for some sort of miracle solution (it'll require hours of gametime regardless), but it's just that I don't want to go learning anything that isn't really required at a starting level. And seeing as there is so much to learn, the chance of me doing just that is very big.

I hope I'm not being too vague.. Anyway, any input is greatly appreciated!