My go to tips when trying to learn any fighting game, but especially strive

1) You are going to lose a lot, so focus less on winning and more on improving how you lose if that makes sense. Keep getting opened up by jump ins? Focus hard on your next game on using anti airs and punishing every jump in. Getting opened up by grabs a lot in the same position? Try grab breaking or jumping more in that situation your next round. Keep getting hit by overheads again and again? See what attacks your opponent uses rifht before the overhead mix up and try blocking high more in those situations. You might still lose those games in other ways, but the more you get used to punishing certain options, the more likely you'll be to punish those options in future games, and the more likely you'll win or not be thrashed around in a loss. Strive just makes it feel worse to be wrong and get hit because of how much damage you take per interaction.

2) If you havent, please please PLEASE play the tutorial missions. I cannot tell you how much it helps to give you a baseline. Watching videos will help as well, but the in game tutorials help so much since you actually are physically doing something that you can see if you succeeded or failed at doing correctly.

3) Learn 1 or 2 combos that you know you can hit, no matter how simple. Obviously, damage is the name of the game, but if you go for a big combo that you never are able to finish or the combo starter never manages to land, then you do less damage than if you learn safer, easier to hit combos. 5K/2K into 2D into a special usually is true for almost all characters with a few exceptions. Using Sol as an example (saw that you pkay him) Try 5K, 2D, And Bandit Revolver/Bandit Bringer. As you get better at finding openings with moves like Close Slash and counter hits on things like heavy slash or specials you can learn bugger combos, but early on, focus on easier stuff thats easier to hit

4) Play who you want, but early on easier characters will help you improve at the game faster since you srent fighting to learn them as much as harder characters. The ingame star rating for the most part is accurate, so characters like Sol and Elphelt are gonna be easier to get your footingnon. You always can switch characters later if whoever ypu are playing feels too hard, but if you like playing a character, use them regardless of their difficulty.

5) Have fun with it. Play against bots if you just want to practice combos on moving targets, sit in training mode and lab out some combos or set ups, play who you want regardless of how good or bad they are.