Keep learning high skillcap characters... or not?

[SakuyaSama7]

tl;dr I'm salty and want to legit get better

Before I say anything else, I'm going to say to treat me as someone who has never touched any other FGs other than maybe a week of Persona 4 Ultimax, and 2 hours of UNIEL, and another week of DBFC. I play Labrys and know how to do a meterless and a single red axe combo (both with and without super), but I have a terrible neutral game (no orb pressure, no frame traps, etc). In UNIEL, I picked up Eltnum because I may have sat in MBAACC training mode for an hour with H-Sion. I shuffled around Shana, Taiga, and Selvaria in DBFC. I know one combo for each character that can be ended with a super, both using no assists.

Anyways, I just picked up GGXrd on Steam, but before that, I've played... let's say, 12 hours of Xrd across 5 months (I only got to play when our locals had them every 2 weeks since I didn't have a PS3/PS4), and picked up uhhh 3 hours of May and the rest of Elphelt. I want to stick with Elphelt, but watching a lot of videos pretty much told me "Hey she's just like Flame Iori. Way too many tools for a new player to shuffle around with." Granted, I stuck with EX Kyo (and know no other character), but I play FG characters firstly because of how they look, and secondly because of how they play.

As a new player, do you think someone should actually pick up an easier character that teaches strong fundamentals over what they like? What's your reasoning?

P.S. I am looking to play Dizzy (for sure), Jam, and Jack-O (not so sure on both) when Revelator comes out. Unsure if any of them would be any easier than Elphelt

[CommieCanuck]

Elphelt is no more difficult than anyone else and her tools are far from overwhelming especially when compared to other cast members like Venom or Zato, just stick with her if shes who you really wanna play. She has some stuff that arguably gets trickier the further you go down the rabbit hole but again its not exclusive to her and it's nothing that you can't learn with some time in training mode. More of the difficulty comes from actually learning how offense,defense and neutral work in gg but El steamrolls in two of those aspects so it wont be so bad, just be sure to do the usual watch your matches,watch top players, do your research, play the game, note your bad habits etc etc

If you're still not comfortable with her then yeah picking up someone like sol or ky is always a solid choice to get you into the swing of things.