New to fighting games

[oak rampart]

Hello, will try to keep this simple. I would like to get to the point where I can pick up any fighting game and play it to certain level (Obviously with time and effort) . The level I am talking about about is use of deliberate actions/decisions as to opposed to what is called mashing etc. This seems to be a problem because the "mashing" is not very fun nor do I feel like I am making any progress.

I understand some of the resources out there but I'm still kind of lost on what to do and how to approach things. Fighting games to me aren't as intuitive and straightforward to learn and improve compared to other games for me. Any help/coaching would be welcome. I currently own all BB games, UNI (Latest) , Xrd Rev 2, Strive, SFV and will be getting more in the future.

[cinder wren]

well, the first layer of fighting games is frametraps

on top of meaties in 2D games

and whiff punishment

all of that is for stopping the opponent from mashing

make them accept they have to deadass just block against you

once you have made them respect your frametrap and are actually just blocking

the next layer, layer 2, is your mix

you take their willingness to block as an opportunity to mix them up

and crack open their defense

and thats about it early, no need to complicate stuff

oh and obviously learn the combos from your frametraps

preferably try to get a good knockdown from em to keep the offense going

[oak rampart]

Could you please break them down as much as possible. For example for meaties, frametraps and punishes how would I go learning and incorporating them in to my gameplay? For example should go to training, set it up a certain way and then practice.

[cinder wren]

the learning process varies per person, the easiest is to just to either ask other people or watch footage

and you take it baby steps

focus on getting one thing down at a time

frametraps generally go first, then meaties, then whiff punishment

[oak rampart]

And that's my sort of issue. Sorta it's kinda weird for me to learn this genre but I have some ideas. Like you said one thing at time but I'm not sure how far i'll get.

[cinder wren]

i mean with competitive games, you get better by playing the game thats the bottom line and usually what determines how far you get

has nothing to do with talent or anything, mostly just time invested