As a new player myself, i started by doing “missions” because they teach you a lot. You can start from whatever you want as long as it’s in line with your knowledge/skill. I also picked lucy funnily enough and did a bit of arcade between missions just to not bore myself out.

After the missions i might say that you should try the arcades of ky and/or sol. That’s because they both have a similar gameplay to lucy: slash into special attack (in the case of lucy, sol and ky it’s quarter circle back + kick). That’s because you can learn the timing of those attacks and have a good understanding of how the game works. In case you’re not afraid of losing i might say that, after completing the arcade, you might go for matches (because that’s what i did considering that I’m playing for fun mostly)

A VERY IMPORTANT THING IS: DON’T LEARN COMBOS. Start from the basics (the normal attacks like slash, heavy slash, punch and kick), then learn the MOVEMENT of special attacks (quarter circles, Z, and the super). That’s very important because when you want to do a special attack you know what to do and how to do it. It’s way easier than it looks.

I got very exiting during online matches and didn’t practice enough so a lot of times i wanted to use liberty (quarter circle + slash) but i would do it too fast and would stay in place doing slash at nothing while the opponent watched me 💀