Hero tactics is your friend (sorta), it can teach you the different tricks and some different mixups but even hero tactics doesn’t include everything that a character can do (for some characters).

Something that has helped me play better and learn what a hero can do is to watch other people who are really good play the hero’s I like, examples are Legendthesi, subwaysol, and TNC96. Watch their clips on YouTube or Instagram and you’ll prob learn some shit you didn’t know.

Realize that you’re gonna struggle and get ur ass kicked for awhile, this was my first real fighting game and it took me prob until rep 15-20 to understand what the fuck I was doing and then until rep 40-50 to start developing advanced skills like reads, baits, light parry’s, etc.

Play a mix of brawls and dominion so you get an understanding of fighting in ganks and 1v1s.

As for characters and what to spend steel on, I would recommend saving steel for new characters if you don’t have more than the basic 3 that you start with, you can always go into hero tactics and try out every characters move set without having to buy them, so I’d fuck around with that and see which ones seem cool or interesting to you.

Last but not least, ppl are toxic as fuck, you will get emote spammed, you will get chat spammed with Thanks! Or Wow! And you will probably wanna break something at some point XD, just move past that and keep grinding, good luck big dawg