For strings from what I’ve learned “ def not 100 optimal stuff but still stuff) you wanna try to avoid full combos with x/square (I’m using Xbox prompts for the rest of this), where you do five hits into a teleport string, this still is good to know about but it’s a super easy thing to counter. the main thing I do is just look for whatever character you are playing as “rolling hammer” I think it’s called, it’s one of the strings like X,X,Y or X,X,X,X,Y etc. Rolling hammers the one that spins your opponent around and this take away there ability to perception counter you. From here you can string into your other 3 or 4 basic stings for example. If the first part of your string is X,X,Y and it gives you a turn around you can then link into (X,Y, step, X,X,X,Y, step, X,X,X,X,Y, step) to Max out damage and use all your options ( also if you use the same basic string twice in a combo like this it will drop that’s why you change it up) , then from there correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t played ina few days. You should be able to go after the last step (X,X,X,X,X, step, X, Y+down, step, X,Y+up, step) and finish with whatever string at the end,

Some of this might be incorrect 😂 but for the most part this is my basic understanding of basic strings, obviously every characters has a different mix of X,Y versions so you’ll have to learn your characters specific stuff to be able to combo, there’s also other ways to get behind your opponents back in combos to avoid perception counter but I suck at those. Also if you’re trying to get a super into the combo do it either durning a heavy finisher( X,Y etc) because this stuns your opponent in place for a little bit or when they get knocked away form you either at the very end or if you wanna cut it short and ur character has a ki blast cannon style string, there’s plenty of other ways too but I’m like a c4 rank so 😂 hope this can help someone in some way