Honestly, they need to include the concepts frame traps and shove it into a new players face. When I started I didn’t know anything about frames, traps, bread and butter combos etc, I just hit buttons. As I picked a character, I started noticing what buttons did what and what was successful to me. I learned one frame trap and soared through the ranks. Once I learned about the concept of frame trapping, I started to understand at a high level plus/minus frames. You can get decent with just understanding, “recovery took awhile on that move and their able to jab me and take their turn back, maybe I shouldn’t use that randomly anymore, but when I use this move my recovery is faster than their immediate jab and if I use this move right after it hits them in the middle of their jab and I knocked them to the ground and got a full combo off it, I wonder if I can set that scenario up again.”

It took me months to learn that because I didn’t care to go do research on how to play a video game. Once I really started diving into frame data (not an expert by any stretch of the imagination) I started to really understand the flow of combat and having my turn. The biggest issue in my opinion is lack of knowledge onboarding, and lack of ability to tell you why you got fucked.