How do you decide your main in fighting games, Sup Forums?

How do you decide your main in fighting games, Sup Forums?

if they can beat me in a fight. so i dont play fighting games anymore

Character design and playstyle.

Always random because I'm not a shitto.

>pick the cutest girl
>realize I'm shit with her
>migrate to the most braindead character avaliable
Rinse and repeat

Whoever feels comfortable, but I guess I have stupidly specific degrees for comfortable. I can play ragna just fine, but jin and ES are a step above that for me despite everyone insisting they're slightly easier in ways.

For Baiken it was her theme that got me

Do they believe in Justice?
If yes, main

>before the challenge mode faggotry
Play arcade first with a basic character, try using the characters that seemed powerful to me, the one I can win arcade mode without any difficulty, that's me main
>after challenge mode
read online which char has the best combos and which one is faster with their combos. Try challenge mode with characters I took interest in
>after stylish mode
just don't get a main cuz I'll just play with local friends (y'know, stylish = no dignity)

Play them all, keep playing the ones that were fun until one clicks.

Which order to try them all is chosen by how cool/hot they look.

I tend like characters that I can identify with, usually average to short height characters with an honest but flashy playstyle.

I also spunky tomboy girls like Makoto.

Main: play style
Side perks: female, nice legs, cute design
Side side: if none of those are there then bara dude or deliquent

Not a charge character, cute or cool. That's really it, I can play a lot of styles but I avoid characters like the plague.

I tend to pick cute characters. I got into fighting games with BBCT back in 2010 because I saw some clips of someone playing Rachel in a review with the description "a little vampire girl" and I was hooked. I'm happy to say 7 years later that I'm half way decent with her now. At least good enough to be the defacto best Rachel player in my country since no one else can be bothered to learn her anymore.

By which girl has the smelliest feet

Idle animation has to be good. Has to be a girl. High damage is a plus.

Yandere girls

The one with the biggest rack, bigger tits = more power.

if they have good skins

play style

Design, personality, and play-style.
Side mains are usually girls I think are hot or other less based male characters.

I like the most boring balanced versatile characters with a short and long range game.

Who is the facesit queen in GG?

>run it through arcade mode to see if it clicks with me
>then run it through pvp and see if I get wins
>move on to next character if I don't and/or I notice some obnoxious style with it

jam

characters who punch
kicks are for girls

if they are Bruce Lee. so
>Feng
>Jann Lee
>Law
>Jam
>Chie
>Makoto Nanaya (best I could do)

>subtle penis bulge

character with most satisfying movement and play style. But usually I pick the weird character. Or the character with wings.

each character in a game follow certain stereotypes. I usually play the arcade mode a few times to check how they work. the rushdown, the head hitter, the grappler... sometimes the cpu ends up showing me a character that has interesting moves... that's basicly it.

True patrician answer. If you can't win with a random character, you need to git gud.

Mein nigger

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I usually just take them into training mode and, if I don't like how they play, then I don't play them. I tend to more like simple rushdown characters than high-strategy, super-technical characters.

Also, if they use an electric/energy sword, I will most likely main them, because electric/energy swords are the tits. Pic related, my main from MvC2 even though he's not very good.

It takes a long time and there really isn't any set criteria. I try out every character when I get into a game but sometimes after tons of hours I'll come back to one and suddenly everything they can do clicks. It's always a nice surprise.

Girl that makes me cum the most.

whichever character lets me win by pure button mashing

I go for the most agile character with short range attacks (punching) and nice legs for good kicking, not interested in missiles of any kind, unless it is an unblockable charged attack


Very sugoi indeed

Kilik and Eddy Gordo main?

It's a 3 step program:
1: Figure out what character designs and personalities I like, usually through the story or arcade mode
2: Look at each characters move list in practice mode and do some basic combo's to see what kind of playstyle each character has
3: I look at the tier list to see if my character is mid_ tier.

I won't play a character I don't like visually or personally, I don't have to blame my character for my wins or losses, and doing this not only gives me a feel for what character I'm going to play but also every other character so I'll already know each characters strengths and weaknesses when I fight against them. It works out.

Whoever is the most stylish. I like matches that are more dynamic, and I'd rather just do cool stuff than take flat, straightforward wins.

i switched from maining Lucky Chloe to Hwaorang because Hwaorang has a similar fighting style to my main in DOA5. Rig

Usually whoever fits my playstyle best and a surprising amount of the time it's also the cutest girl

Big body grappler

I go into training mode and try everyone out to see which character's combos/playstyle I can consistently pull off. I like to have a balance of rushdown and defensive options so I usually end up with the shoto unless I feel really inspired.

I just run through arcade mode one at a time on all of them til I find one whose playstyle I like, then I stick with it. I've noticed I like to stick with more aggressive rushdown characters like Sol or Nightmare, although I don't think rushdown is the right word for Nightmare.

One that's voiced by Jouji Nakata

>That MVC2 team
Based

Biggest importance is which ones feel fun to use. Alternatively, if a character has a unique mechanic, I like to Main them to see if I can get gud at making use of said mechanic.

>fun
Faggot.

Speed and ease of combos / supers. Love Sakura SFA3 because it's basically a faster Ryu.

>Pick character that looks the coolest
>if too hard move on to the next coolest
rinse and repeat until I find someone who I can play alright. I picked Baiken in rev2 first and haven't moved off of her since. I tried out Raven, May, and Jack-O a bit but I couldn't really get into them.

Sometimes I just pick the weird characters because I can win by being confusing sometimes

If a character sometimes wears prison getup, has blonde hair and can summon tornadoes then I main it.

I wouldn't have a main, the only way I'd have fun playing these kinds of games at my age(30) would be setting up some machine learning and tweaking the error rate until it was good
My reactions are just too far gone

Who here has gone to EVO? How much did it cost you? I'm trying to get rough estimates on budgets so I can start getting cash together. (I'm planning on travelling from Montana, either riding with a friend or renting a car.)

Here's a tip old man
No one can respond in time for a 2-6 frame attack.
Good players don't react, they predict.

Is his name Potemkin?

Same way I choose a gun, which weapon feels like me. Oddjob hat best gun when combined with proxies.

I'm still not sure if AE is going to get a lot of time from me but I'll admit seeing Cody cleaned up put a smile on my face. I'm sure they'll have his old getup as paid dlc or some shit.

The scheme for recent DLC characters seems to be new design for main, Battle, and Story costumes, then the old design for Nostalgia costumes so you have to buy it with cash instead of getting it with the Season Pass or Fight Money.

This.
Manly Justice or Bust

Always the big robot

I'm 29 and I still play. If I'm bored or have nothing better to do I'll swing by some local places that do fight nights.

I usually pick waifu then play all the characters to see who I'm actually good with.

the character that can do cool stuff

combination of playstyle + muh dick

By whichever one is the sexiest

pic related

Learning is hard

Biggest punch or counter.
So Slayer in GG, counter hit pilebunker makes my dick rock hard

I pick what to try first based off of design, but I eventually put at least 2 or 3 hours on every character.

The twinkest / edgiest looking boy (raven) or the girl with the least retarded design (millia) also has to be good I hate playing mid tiers or lower

my dude

>play terumi in bb
>raven in gg
>always have kukri on my team in kof

Always edgy hooded boys.

Character who's closest to ABA from GG, if the character doesn't have flaws that outright kill me in 3 knockdowns I can't play them, too cheap.

I generally go for the fastest and most mobile of heavy characters.

who's the manliest, beefiest guy who does the big punch? I main big band / beowulf in skullgirls, captain falcon in melee (rarely play it)
yes i'm gay

This is unarguably the best male body type

>this supreme taste

I don't know since I am not good/experienced enough at fighting games, but I do like rushdown characters like Dudley and Makoto in SFIV, I think they are considered rushdown, if I am mistaken please correct me.

Millia Rage

I think this is literally the first picture I've seen of baiken with different clothes.

low recovery frames, fast walkspeed, good forward jump, cute
pic unrelated

Your Dole Dippers, Madam

makoto is the answer

Usually grappler but it has to be a specific grappler. Someone who's a brawler grappler like t.hawk or Abigail. 80% percent of the time a big body with command grabs.

Play each character a couple of rounds usually one will click with me style wise and I'll keep at it after that.

Play as the robot.
If no robot, play as the tits.
If robot tits, goty.

Always the grappler

I try to play all of them, put some extra effort into the ones I like based on design/playstyle, and eventually settle on a handful I feel are the best, especially if they're more unconventional picks.

Character knowledge is definitely my biggest strength in any fighting game, and using someone people don't see much just means people usually know less about fighting me than I do about fighting their character.

75% how they look
15% if they are a rarely used character
5% their back story
5% how they play

I usually just pic a main I am lured too and adapt their fighting style

Whoever's least played. I hate mirror matches.

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i think it's time to oil up

I like cute girls
I also like weird and gimmicky characters

Odd and amusing characters are my perosnal favorite
Blanka, Faust, Voldo. I just realized that I identify with these weirdos.

unga bunga
no unga = no bunga

pic not related i hope

I see it

Gameplay mostly, although character design helps more than I'm willing to admit sometimes. That said characters can and will grow on me if I enjoy playing them.

I pick based on the following descending in importance
>psycho chick
>unorthodox style
>rush down potential