how do you pick your main in fighting games /v/ what traits usually

>>382054628
Whoever looks coolest/cutest

>>382054628
Whichever character manages to catch my eye the most, followed by the playstyle that I can adapt to the best.

most of the times, i just pick the stylish character, like Johnny in xrd rev

>>382054628
>Fun
>Cute
>Sounds cool
>Can punch

The girl with the biggest boobs

>>382054746
this, if it looks cool insta main

I blow at fighting games, so I pick whichever character is really, really gimmicky in the hopes that people don't know how to play against it.

>>382054628
one that I can button mash to win

>>382054746
>>382055094

Rushdown character who is either cool or cute and somewhat easy to play. It's why I like Noel in Blazblue.

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Whoever plays like my waifu the most.

>>382054628
Try out all characters in the roster
Pick the one i get the best results with as my main

>>382054628

The more complex/deep character. I just enjoy not seeing the bottom of the character.

I also enjoy learning new things with each character.

The one with the flashiest moves

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I pick on visuals mainly, and then stubbornly ignore tier lists while I try my god damn hardest to make my character relevant.

>>382054628
I like characters with stupid gimmicks

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>>382054628
Play all of them and play one I enjoy playing the most. Then learn how to actually play them.
Pic related

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Guys with a hard life.

>>382054628
Usually I start with whoever sticks, and then graduate into a more stylish character once I mastered the first one.

>>382054628
I look at the roster and pick the character that I was always destined to play.

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>most appeaing looks
>interesting moveset
>fun and comfortable to play with
>????
>Found my main

>if joke character is avaible then he/she must be mained too!


>>382055552
>and then stubbornly ignore tier lists
good boy, same goes with me
>Dan is a hidden god tier

I tend to gravitate towards the character who shuts down the most popular picks but is not in his own right particularly good. Counter heavy characters typically. Specifically those with ranged counters.

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For every fighting game, I always have two characters ready to play. One character has various tools, utilities, and gimmicks that I can use to teach a new player how to play the game. The other character is generally my main that has is usually highly offensive or can handle themselves at close and large distances.
An example is Under Night in Birth. My new player character is Eltnum and my main is Gordeau. For Skullgirls, my new player character is Peacock and my main is Beowulf and Painwheel. So on and so forth for other fighting games.

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>>382054628
When did they put Cronos in guilty gear?

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>>382054628
rushdown
ninjas
shenanigans

whoever i think looks the best, has the best personality or i identify with the most. sometimes a combination of the three
though this often leads me to playing grapplers strangely

>>382055094
I go with the girl that has the best butt. If that doesn't work out, I go with the edgiest looking mother fucker in the roster

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>>382054628
I usually like a character that can play strong footsies butt sometimes it just comes down to who has the most fun gimmick or playstyle.
Also legs. But I never play Chun though.

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the brown one.

Dunno.
I kinda play them all until one playstyle appears to be more natural to me.

Currently playing Kolin.

>>382054628
I like fast paced characters gameplay wise, I always search for the most loli like character with those traits, and if there is not, I go with a man that plays like that.

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T I E R L I S T
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Its the only logical way.

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Favortism

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>>382056929
>a man who plays like a loli

Truly the most dangerous weapon.

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>>382055997
Haven't played UNIB yet. Does Eltnum still have her rad ass air grab?

>>382054628
Whoever has the mo- GUN FLAME

>>382057442
yep

>>382054628
I''m guessing you got that image from dustlook or something, but if you did take this screenshot with the hitbox viewer? How did you remove the hitboxes

>>382057098
I want to kiss Peach!

Waifumancy and interesting gameplay

By interesting I mean something that is off the META, maybe not straightforward or advanced in the gameplay techniques

Usually, those picks end me up in the low tier picks because fighting games are unbalanced bullshits with nickel and dime DLC jew practices.

>Pick the guy who looks most like Zangief
>Mash buttons
>Win

The underused character because you know what's boring? Seeing Rags vs Sol vs Ryu vs Gordeau vs Minako everyday. That gets old pretty quick and if I"m playing that character it's 2x.

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I like being able to put stuff up to use. Examples include Mu-12, Vatista, and Scharlachrot. Only one I haven't liked is Venom, because he's ugly.

>>382056570
Stupid Ramlethal

Saw her as a fapbait or weeb waifu bait at first

Then the design is the most reminiscent of the old GG games aesthethically and mechanically than any other newcomer. Then her fucking voice (in english not in jap squeaks) is sexier, but the fucking most boner inducing is the actual gameplay style of hers and may be the hardest to master of Xrd and Revelator by far.

I fucking love Ramlethal.

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>>382057442
NANI?!

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highest tier female character that is also the easiest to play

unless its morrigan

Looks, unless I really don't like how they play like Juri in SFV

>>382057941
Vatista is too complicated.

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I scout the edgiest mother fuckers around. If that doesn't work then I try random characters and see what sticks.

>>382058128
>Morrigan
>Vampire

Triggered
I don't even play Darkstalkers

>>382054628
I usually go for charactersd with pokes, grapplers or characters with gimmicks.

>>382054628
I tend to go with slow characters since I know that, more often than not, they will hit very hard.

>>382058224
She's hard to use at first since she doesn't really play like a normal character, but is immensly satisfying when you get it down. I had a harder time getting use to Scharlachrot anyway.

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>>382054628
just on cool looks and cool feeling gameplay. bonus points if its a really cute girl.

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>>382058258
Vampire is the name of the game you stupid fuck

>>382058258
vampire the night warriors is the title of the game

>>382058301
Opposite for me. Too bad online for AH3LM was dead on release for ps3. I wanted to play Scharl a lot.

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>>382058395
ah fuk
Ok then, carry on, my bad

>>382054628
Range. I main Hwoarang in Tekken and Kilik in Soul Calibur. Kilik's son is complete shit though, I forgot his name

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>>382054628
I always pick cute girls, but try to avoid charge characters and grapples.

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>>382058653
Same here, except I just avoid charge characters.

You're missing a lot of cute grapplers, man

Before I was only choosing cool characters and couldn't care less how effective he was.

Now it's always if I have a feeling with him and it turns out sometimes that he's a character I was not interested in at first.

SF4 : Blanka
Smash 4 : Little mac (always found this character lame and a wasted slot, and he's the funniest to play, fuck me for doubting you Mac)
SF5 : Dictator (always hated him before)
Tekken7 : Lucky Chloe (I mean come on, I HATE weaboo shit and It's the character I like the most)

>>382054628
My criteria.

>Cute and/or sexy female
>Fast combos
>Annoying for the opponent to fight against.

If it meets two of the three I'm good.

Unique/Gimmick Characters

>>382054628
Cool niggas

Skulls and skeletons

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The edgiest character, the power hungry character, the gimmicky ninja character, the little girl
They are usually fun and annoy my opponent just by looking at them

>>382054628
Coolest character as long as they aren't actively unfun to play.

>>382054628
I like to play heavy hitters who are high risk high reward. My reflexes are pretty bad and my fingers are not very nimble so quick close range characters just don't work well with me. Besides, it's super satisfying to fight against someone chipping away at you only for you to land that one devastating set of blows that invalidate all your opponent's hard work.

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>>382058079
Even after all the nerfs, I can't give her up.

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>>382054628
Low IQ scrub characters that can fight at any range and have high mobility. Try it on my Raven or my Rolento.

>>382054628
My dick.

That means big huge muscular dudes.

Characters that are good at downing someone then keeping them usually.
After that, just cool characters I guess.

should i play ram or dizzy

>>382054628

Whatever I play the best with.

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I like the bigguns.

I tend to pick characters with long normals/stretchy limbs like raven, ghost rider, duo lon, nightmare, hakumen and so on. I do like mix up heavy characters too but you cant really play them offline considering you cant mix up the computer

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>>382059804
Dizzy. Ram's neutral is pitiful now, and Dizzy has the best idle animations

>>382059425
I hate you
>>382059656
I hate you more

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>>382055094
It has yet to steer me wrong.

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>>382054628
>Initially looks/thematics
>Get a feeling for other characters by fighting them
>try new characters occasionally
>sometimes the gameplay of a new character catches me off-guard and becomes my favorite thing.
That's how I went from Zangief to Juri in SF4, and Nu-13 to motherfuckin' Arakune in Blaz. Ram still best Guilty though.

Character with the best kicks,mostly main hwoarang in tekken but josie seems more adaptable and still has great kicks

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Genki girls like Sakura, Yuri, Son Son, Asuka, etc. Love go-getter's with energy to spare.

>>382054628
I pick the biggest guy
Bane, Ferra/Torr, Hulk, those kind of characters

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I'm a small girl so I always end up playing the big guys and monsters. Think Zangief, Ferra/Torr, King, Gigas, Astaroth, Lizardman, etc

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>>382054628
good pokes/conversions/projectiles.
means i usually end up playing shotos, which can be kind of annoying especially if i wanna spice things up for myself.

Whoever has the tightest cunny/anus

The most viable neutral heavy characters, no gimmicks.

>>382060714
L O N D O N

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If they have something that is both busted and fun to use. Like of all the projectile spammers in injustice, Darkseid is the most fun because Omega Beams are cool.

I've never really been able to put it into words because I'm shit at fightan, but I go for the character who feels the most "responsive" to me. It's not always the fastest character or the one with the easiest inputs. It's just the one that feels like they do what I expect them to whenever I press a direction or a button.

That probably doesn't make a lick of sense. I like Laura in SFV, Jam in Guilty Gear, and Labrys in P4.

Whoever look like the unpopular one

Whichever one I can make others easily upset with

Then I hit em with one o' these
https://youtu.be/-Ns14hRqwY8?t=3s

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>>382054628
Style, moves, and then looks

>practice a simple V-trigger combo
>Can do it 100 times out of 100
>Go online
>Can't land it a single time in 5 hours
>Can't even land a fucking st.hp or c.hp to even start the fucking thing

Fuck fighting games.

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Boxers. I always play the game's boxer. I played Steve Fox, Balrog, Nelson, and Makoto When I wasn't playing Bullet. Other than that whoever looks and plays cool. I like Linne and Akatsuki and Uniel. I actually decided to give Linne a shot because of her outfit. I couldn't pass up the spats man.

>>382062882
That's why you don't just go and practice combos, you need to learn the basics like spacing and footsies first.

I always pick the character whose design I like the most, I only switch if there is something I don't like about their playstyle e.g. too slow, too glass cannon etc.

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In terms of look, I really like characters in official martial arts clothing, such as Heihachi in T7 and Yuri, Kasumi and Kim in KoF
In terms of personality, I really like ruthless characters driven by ambition or by a higher cause than just fighting for the sake of getting stronger. Siegfried in SC is a character I really like

Ultimately, it all ends up being about how fun a character is, and to me those are Juri from SF4, Ryuji Yamakazi from KoF and Talim

and Snake

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>>382063584
Forgot to add I also really like May and Balrog

>>382054628
I play grappler is pretty much everything, only exception is Paul in Tekken because I like how he plays and I can't get into King

>>382063038
And how exactly do you practice that?

>>382064041
Jump into something basic like ST or SFV online to learn fundamentals, once you have them they apply to pretty much every fighter and never go away, then you get into lab time

>>382064041
There's a lot of useful stuff in the /fgg/ pastebin.
>>180961418

>>382064041

Experience, go through the pain of losing.

>>382054628
i tend to pick smug characters like falco in smash, alex in sf, gordie in uniel, etc

i also like paul and bob in tekken

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I didnt expect this boy to become the coolest Xrd newcomer. Both in character and gameplay.

>Not bottom tier
>Looks like they play cool

>>382054628
I normally graduate towards hard hitting/s t r o n g characters, I dont really do nimble combo characters (but combo chars are literally always the best in any given game so I'm always a fucking buster)

i main random select

i do best with... what's shermie?
"rushing grapplers" or whatever that would be

>>382054628
I'm not a huge fighter player, but I am a martial arts fan. I didn't have a main in 3rd Strike, but anyway, I gravitated toward Motoko, Elena and Oro.

Motoko because she is a rock hard karate nerd with few embellishments and an idle animation where only her hair and dogi move in the wind. I thought that was great indirect character building.

Elena because she's delightful and capoeira looks like a lot of fun, never mind how effective it is. I wish I could be social (and acrobatic) enough to get into capoeira.

And Oro because the trope of a sage-like person devoting their life to martial arts training and unlocking some hidden power in the human mind that allows them supernatural abilities and longevity is really cool. He is a jaundiced, ancient troglodyte who has to tie one arm down just to enjoy a fair fight. That shit is cool.

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>>382063017
Spatlovers unite

>>382064928
>ZR
>drills Ojou-sama
My new main right there.

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>so many unibfriends itt

july 23rd hype!

generally a squishy fast-paced character that can brute force enemies that excessively shield because I'm a brainlet

High flying ninjas.

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THE CUTEST

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>>382065059
What's on the 23rd?

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>>382054628
I go for the sexiest character.

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>>382065470
[st] for consoles.

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>>382065470
UNI[ST] releases on PS4, PS3, and Vita. Has crossplay between consoles.

https://youtu.be/xVAEOZlVGro

I always go for the medium tiers. Good enough that I'll at least have a fighting chance, but not so good that I look like a tier whore.

>>382065470
Console version of Uniel st, but I thought it was on July 20th.

>>382056570
> english voice
> ram's "gameplay" of 1 min long jab combo carry into corner, set sword and dust into oki.

Shit anon what's wrong with your taste

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>>382065686
>>382065767
>>382065790

Oh, rad. I feel a bit foolish since I just bought the steam version of the previous installment. Guess I need to get a PS4 stick now.

>>382065871
Opps meant to quote
>>382058079

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>>382064928
She looks pretty fun to play with the amount of moves that carry her forward
>>382065470
It's the 20th he's mixing up for I think

They have to be big.

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>>382065787
>not picking your favorite character, tiers be damned

Going from GGXXAC+ to GGXRD was still pretty nice though.

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>>382054628
The random character

>>382054628
if it's 2d
>gotta go fast
>preferrably teleport
>lots of 2-5 hit combos that are easily strung together
>fuck managing extra bars/abilities/etc

if it's 3d
>basically whoever's closest to Heihachi Mishima

>>382062882
> can't land a single crush counter

Crush counter is the most unga button in SFV due to the priority system and the fact that you can always go for them when you have V trigger.

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>>382054628
Spacing and projectile spam like a cunt.

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Initially played Tsubaki and Kagura then my friend started spamming Nines and I couldn't deal with her insane normals so I looked up how to beat her and the consensus was range.

Tried Amane and Mu but Mu is way too fucking hard, then I picked up Nu and learned 4k Juggle Combos. Never went back.

>>382066580
Cool reddit collage.

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>high damage
>a few mobile options like dashing attacks
>likable personality or design
>good command throw/s

Too bad I'm garbage at fightan games anyway and can't do my mains justice

>>382066463
Crush counter with R.Mika sends them airborne or in crumple where I don't do this particular combo

I have no preference just the guy that "feels right"

>>382063824
I want to commit a crume.

>>382066874
I bet if you were to list out some of your mains, we could figure out exactly what you like in your fighters.

>>382066892
Unless you want to be a pirate there's no crimes to commit here.

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I like it when the down to earth guy is also a grappler. It's usuallg him or the local tomboy.

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I go for mix-up characters, and high risk high reward characters.
But honestly when I look at a roster I normally just main whoever I think looks the coolest.

My mains:
>Tekken and Soul Cal
Yoshimitsu

>Mortal Kombat
Reptile

>Street Fighter
Dalsim I guess, or Akuma

>MvC3
Zero, Vergil

>Smash (I know, not a fighting game)
Bowser

>>382066998
GG - Jack O
BB - Bullet (don't really play it anymore after GG came back.)
Tekken - Jack
SFV - Guile
KOF - i still haven't decided a team yet but Yamazaki is definitely in it.
For various dead games
Jedah
Sion
Stun
Kilik

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BIG
MEATY
DAMAGE

GG - Jam
BB - Makoto
DoA - Honkers

I guess rushdown?

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Big with gimmicks

whoever the biggest baddest bastard is on the roster, i want to tank hits like a champ

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>Pick up GG Xrd Rev2
>Try all the characters
>Still not sure if i want to pick ram, dizzy, may or raven

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>>382067486
Wow, you weren't kidding. Those are some definitely varying tastes. You must be very sensitive to how a game feels to be able to have that list.

>Stun

You don't happen to mean my main man Stun The Insect, do you?

>>382054628
'I will surpass God'
This character trait does it for me.
I love the idea of the utmost perseverance for human capability, enough so that you seek to surpass immortal beings.
It means you won't crumble under the weight of the world.
Mix this with a lot of techniques.
A big and difficult-to-execute command list.
berfect.

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>>382067486
>Bullet

Poor Guy. A friend of mine tried so hard to make her work but she started of bad in in CP and got even worse with every new game.
Arcsys refuses to fix her buttons, it doesn't matter if you give her as much health as tagger if she gets beat out on all her attacks by literally everyone she's still gonna die, no matter if it takes 10 seconds longer.

It's a shame because Amane got such a nice overhaul.

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>>382068380
The GOAT

>>382068295
Dizzy is high IQ
May is mid IQ
Raven is low IQ

>>382054628
I prioritize females over males, but cool males like Dante/Vergil from UMvC3, Hakumen from Blazblue, Cell/Vegeta in DBFighterZ, etc. ALWAYS get the highest priority over all characters I'm interested in. UNLESS! there exist a female that is just as cool or attractive with a fun playstyle.

I main grapplers because that increases the odds that I get hate mail

>>382068380
bloody roar reboot when?
>>382054628
Generally it is find a good neutral button character with a lot of combo branches

>>382054628
Generally either the grappler, or the guy who hits big, but slow. Whoever I find the most appealing, whether visual or gameplay wise.

>>382054628
I just try all the characters and see which ones "click" with me.