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How do/did you learn to play? (jlai.lu)
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Just a general question for people who are playing more than just occasionally. I'm trying to learn the game enough to at least take part in local events/tournaments as a way to develop a hobbie and meet people, but I'm not sure how to go from just dabbling to actually becoming decent.
I went through the "Art of Smash" video series on Youtube, and now I just play online in public arenas with random characters to get familiar with them, but it doesn't feel like it's really helping get better, mainly because of the online being so bad (even on a 2Gbps fibre connection it feels like I'm playing in slomo).
What do you guys do to become better?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am nowhere near playing on tournaments so take my advice with a grain of salt.

Pick a main character (for now), does not matter if it is the best in the game but it should be at least B+ in the Tier list . It's more important that you feel comfortable with the character and have fun playing it than if its S Tier. Then go on YouTube and find out the basic and advanced combos for this character and practice them in practice mode until you can execute the almost without thinking

Disclaimer, some characters do not really have a combo game while others just go bonkers in combos. For example Lucina is a good character without a crazy combo game. If you have a character like this the next step is even more important.

Learn the spacing of you character, how to approach and how to keep control of center stage. Those are usually rather vague concept, but if you go into matches just thinking about one of them you will progress there.

Lastly, watching more YouTube. Thereby you learn a lot of match ups, characters and their usual habits without playing yourself on hours in crappy wifi. I can recommend poppt1 as one of my favorite, who also has a series where he picks up different characters to learn them for tournaments.

Good luck, have fun