Transferring from Smash to GGXRD

[Nrg]

This is actually my first post.

I am from a different community, the Smash community, and hope to main Jack-O. I have talked to NC|Pain, the Ramlethal player, over twitter, and he says that I should be good at execution since I come from Smash (I have beaten ranked players in tournaments).

So I can be fast enough and precise enough, but what else is needed to play Guilty Gear? I don't understand this game, as I just got into it.

I have watched a good bit of Evo 2015 matches and NorCal regionals, and this game seems wild.

What kind of tactics do I apply to Guilty Gear? I have no knowledge on how to play it, or terms for moves (although "air-grab" is pretty self-explanatory haha). Where do I start?

[cowtron]

Boot up Xrd and play the tutorial.
It'll introduce you to alot fo the mechanics, and you'll learn to familiarize yourself with them.
play some Challenges to get a feel for different characters. If you plan on playing jack-o, you should pick up someone in the mean time like sol or ky.

Play lots and lots of games and get bodied. Learn from your mistakes, fix them, get good.

[Airk]

This is a mild revision of a post I did for BB a while ago, genericized to cover Arc Sys games in general.

Behold, my super beginner guide to getting started with Arc Sys Fighting games:

#0: Choose a character.  It doesn't matter who, just pick one you like.  All characters are good choices at this point.

#1: Pay a visit to the game's tutorial mode; Play through all the 'general' stuff - it'll teach you how the 'game mechanics' work.  Then play through the character specific tutorial for the character you've chosen.  That'll give you some basics about how to approach your character.

#2: Drop into training mode and practice your character's moves - just stuff like 236A+Button, 214+button, etc. (If you don't read numeric notation, here is a guide).  You really need to be able to do all of your character's specials at least 75% of the time or you're just going to frustrate yourself.

#3: Play against the CPU for a while.  Learn how your normal moves and special moves WORK.  Don't worry about what combos into what, just worry about stuff like "If the opponent is a ways away from me, use move X. If they are jumping in, use move Y, I can do mixup with move A and move B."

#4: NOW learn one combo.  This should be a short (no more than maybe 4-5 moves) combo off a move you'll be using a lot.  Do it in training mode until you can hit it at LEAST 50% of the time.

#5: Play against the CPU some more. Practice actually doing your combo when you hit the appropriate move.  You will fail a lot. Get used to it.

#6: Get in there and play some real people. You'll lose a lot, but you'll learn.

#7: Watch your replays and try to figure out what you're doing wrong.  Also, try to identify a situation in which you don't "have a combo" (i.e. "I hit with an anti air, but didn't know what to do next").  Go back to step 4 and learn a combo for that situation.  Repeat steps 4-7 until infinity, pretty much.

 At any time in this process, you should feel free to play against real people, but you probably want to get to at least step 3 first.

 

[Synyster17]

This is actually my first post.

I am from a different community, the Smash community, and hope to main Jack-O. I have talked to NC|Pain, the Ramlethal player, over twitter, and he says that I should be good at execution since I come from Smash (I have beaten ranked players in tournaments).

So I can be fast enough and precise enough, but what else is needed to play Guilty Gear? I don't understand this game, as I just got into it.

I have watched a good bit of Evo 2015 matches and NorCal regionals, and this game seems wild.

What kind of tactics do I apply to Guilty Gear? I have no knowledge on how to play it, or terms for moves (although "air-grab" is pretty self-explanatory haha). Where do I start?

alot of it is just practice and practice, just like smash. i would stay instead of waiting for xrd-r with Jack'o i would start playing the game now. it helps u get a feel for it and such. most of what the other 2 said above covers the basics really well i feel like

[Nrg]

Thank you everyone!

Also, I'm curious, can you benefit from watching other players use characters that arent your main? Is it beneficial to even watch top players play in a game such as Guilty Gear?

Edited October 21, 2015 by Nrg

[Airk]

It's beneficial to watch them if you know how to watch and what to watch for.

If you just kinda kick back and let the video wash over you, then you might be entertained, but it contains no learning value. If you give the video your full attention, watching and trying to understand why the player did each thing (which will probably involve lots of pausing and rewinding) - which, I should point out, is probably a lot less 'entertaining' - then you can learn a lot.