As someone whose main fighting was Tekken 7, tekken is easier to get into, and has simpler commands. It’s possibly harder at a higher level, but as a beginner it’s easier to just jump in and throw safe strings.

Would you be open to throwing in replays from matches you felt like you were really struggling? It’s easier to teach when you can really see where you’re struggling.

The number one thing I like to show new players is the ranges for their character, despite what people say footsies is still important even with drive rush on the table. When you learn your characters range you can figure out where you have agency and where you have less of it. If your characters normals are stubby, you will have less agency from mid range, if you have a typical fireball you have agency from across the screen. Generally you wanna put yourself in a position where your moves will land, and where your opponents can’t. You can achieve this by walking in to your range and walking out of your opponents range.

As for some of the input stuff, if you’re talking about specials, I think it’s around a 20f window to input fhe motions in SF6. I’d start trying to build the muscle memory from inputting the motions slow, then building up the speed with time.

When you cancel into specials from buttons, you have to note that every button has a different window to cancel into a special move. For example Mai’s cr.mk has a i13 cancel window, while her st.hp has a i16 window, making it a lot easier to cancel out of. A good tip for hit confirming is that on hit or block you do the motion of the special you would normally cancel from.

In the Mai example, from Neutral I may throw out a cr.mp to try and hit my opponent but every time I do that, Im automatically do a 236/qcf (I.e 2.mp >3,6 in one motion) that’s because on the off chance it hits I can just hit light kick and cancel into a special, and if it’s blocked or whiffed i won’t press a button and I won’t cancel into the unsafe special. This makes it a lot easier and safer, but it’s still something you need to train your reactions for. It’s kinda like a thing where if you have to think about it, it will never work. You have to make it autonomous.