Zeldias

So better footsies? I feel like all my normals get blown up and it leaves me befuddled. Was probably approaching the wrong way. I've been playing a lot of SF lately so I might have gotten used to those sweet Guile normals. I was beginning to get the feeling that Venom was a lot more technical than I'd bargained for, but the only other character that tickled my fancy was Axl. Been working on learning his normals (which manage to simultaneously feel better and worse than Venom's for me) but he hasn't been clicking as well with me. I'd been doing Stinger on block, will switch to Carcass. Is there ever gonna be a reason I want to teleport? Seems too slow and predictable to be super handy. And so basically, finnicky normals, Carcass to finish block strings, find a knockdown/YRC, then balls for increased pressure? Guess I should be on the look out for throws then since I could set up balls after I hit my opponent away?

So I like charge characters generally speaking (not always, but often), and while I haven't played GG since something like 2003, I have fond memories of the game. I played Chipp back then (before I came to like charge characters) and was generally pretty terrible, lol. So fast forward to today, where I've mostly gotten accustomed to Skullgirls and Street Fighter, and GG now feels like some hellish landscape. Half the time I can't even tell wtf Faust is doing. And I really like Venom, but holy shit, I suck. I can see that I suck, but I have no goddamn idea what to do about it. I usually like to zone with some options for aggression, which I felt like Venom had, but it seems like all my buttons get me punched in the mouth. I'm guessing that I'm either failing at spacing, challenging the wrong shit up close, or it's just netplay stuff because I swear sometimes I connect before I get smacked down. Anyways, what's Venom's game plan? Set up balls, pressure into balls, then more balls, right? I feel like I'm failing to understand something fundamental either with him or with GG generally. I read through the threads but there's nothing really like a primer to give me an idea of where I want to be or how I want to approach things. I kinda just run up, K > S > Sweep into...Something. QV or Ball Summon or Stinger Aim. If they block, should I still be doing that? I basically feel like I don't know how I want to start pressure and I don't know how to fight someone off when the pressure gets started on me. Thanks.

Just wanted to say that I always found it weird that Noel doesn't play more like Face from Battle Fantasia, since she wields a pair of big guns. I also didn't know about the white circles. I think I noticed them in Calamity Trigger, but not in this. I should be more observant.