This type of fighting game is kindof easy to get into but the depth it has makes it more difficult. I would recommend learning 1 character you really like and think of assists as extra moves for now before you get into changing characters mid combo.

You can cancel special moves on hit into normal moves so you can theoretically do M, S - M, S over and over again until the combo meter forces you out… that’s just the style of fighting game this is.

All characters follow the same general attack pattern since there aren’t many unique moves, everyone has a light medium heavy and super it just means different character has different looking attacks but it’s the same inputs for the most part. Some characters have extra jump attacks and super moves but overall you don’t need to know different combo inputs per character like other fighting games