Can't even beat CPU on Medium.

[Cookies]

Hello citizens!

I seem to (obviously) suck at this game really...really bad. I can't even beat Abel on Medium, he just grabs me and destroys me with his overhead attacks even when I just try to turtle.
Winning against the CPU on Medium I feel should be pretty easy...but I guess not.

I'm pretty new to the Street Fighter games in General, this is my second Game of the Franchise (First was SF2 on the SNES) and I love to play Fei Long. Game feels really hard and ends up being frustrating for me, even if I have the motivation to get good.

Anyone got any tips?

[Reizo Ryuu]

It's not smart to turtle against a grappler, the CPU also just constantly cheats to use the most effective attack they can (viper will use utlra the second you aren't blocking), so if you guard against abel get ready to get smashed.

Cpu is predictable, just bait them into their behavior and if that doesn't work just cheap them out with heavy kick spam or something.

[satsun]

Join the club. I suck at these newer SF games because I haven't yet learned all of the new tricks. I tried to get some of the achievements that involve beating arcade mode with a certain character using no continues and sometimes I'd get to the last fight and get tore up there, cussing all the way.

Only tip I have is to just be as cheap as possible against the computer. Other than that, maybe find some videos that explain the game to noobs, that's what I need.

[slackJaw]

Spam focus attack against cpu!
Another trick is to put it on one rounders, 30 seconds and spam and jump away!
Or if you really want practice, practice, practice and get legit!

[Heroxoot]

I can't even beat scrubs on ranked today. It's just too laggy. I can't keep pressure.

[Wezilla]

Originally posted by Batman:

Hello citizens!

I seem to (obviously) suck at this game really...really bad. I can't even beat Abel on Medium, he just grabs me and destroys me with his overhead attacks even when I just try to turtle.

Abel is worst strong grabbler, I swear he is cheat anyway kept him distance, fly kick and some be aggressive...you know, you will see his weakness...

[Mars]

Don't worry too much about it,AI opponents are known cheaters anyway.

[Tim]

AI in this game works really stupid. They're (as far as I can tell) programmed to react depending on what you do. Generally if you're fighting them on the highest diff, just wiff jabs if they have ultra. They generally don't follow up on combos. They only punish depending on what you do. And no matter the difficulty, every AI has no idea how to react to focus attacks.

[Bacon_Taco]

focus attack, setp back, grab on wake up, rinse repeat. Oh and be aware of the CPU's metter as it will always wake up super/ultra if your too close.

[Random Reference #98]

Fighting the AI is helpful for practicing basics but as stated above, it'll do cheap stuff that only AI will do.
There are a ton of tutorial videos on Youtube for beginners, I would suggest starting there as fundamentals are extremely important in fighting games but maybe even more so in this one.

I will say though that being a beginner that knows blocking is important is much better than being one that wants to press buttons constantly, even if you happened to pick the wrong type of character to turtle against.
Also you may want to switch to a different character if you plan on playing a more defensive style as Fei is pure offense.

[Astori Heichalot]

CPUs are RE-active and 100% accurate.
reactive means, it only behaving once you do something, and whatever a CPU does, it does it accurately.

since they are re-active, we can use cheap spammable moves to beat them, like focus attack or anything spammable.

I wouldnt worry about losing against CPUs, whats more important that you are familiar against human opponents. also, practising against CPUs wont get you any value (or learning) to a human opponents.

you only want to practise against CPU to hone your accuracy.
accuracy = the rate of moves/combos that you want to do is 100% sure

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Batman:

Hello citizens!

I seem to (obviously) suck at this game really...really bad. I can't even beat Abel on Medium, he just grabs me and destroys me with his overhead attacks even when I just try to turtle.
Winning against the CPU on Medium I feel should be pretty easy...but I guess not.

I'm pretty new to the Street Fighter games in General, this is my second Game of the Franchise (First was SF2 on the SNES) and I love to play Fei Long. Game feels really hard and ends up being frustrating for me, even if I have the motivation to get good.

Anyone got any tips?

I started on easy. It takes time to get a hang of the timing, it's more critical than the older games. Just put it on easy and practice countering.

[aperama]

If you want to kill the CPU reliably? Honda. You can headbutt the day away, and it usually won't block. El Fuerte gives more issue than Seth.. at least, against PC (real Honda players are just very used to getting lucky or losing.)

As Fei Long, get used to leading crouching low kick into rekka (QCF+p). Uppercut is way too powerful on him, too. Also remember that you have your own command throw (but it's only really good as an EX.)

[Gosen]

My biggest problem is that arcade AI is cheap and cheating. I can even set hardest and easily beat cpu in first two, three fights, but then suddenly the difficulty grows up, so even if I take medium I can't easily beat cpu in later fights. And then comes Seth...

[Deathstar]

I found out that using Gief will make short work out of every CPU-opponent. Get them with a piledriver somehow, then do the greenhand-towards thingy when they're knocked down and follow up with another lp piledriver as they're getting up. No difficulty (not even Seth) knows how to handle that.

[n00bdragon]

If you want to beat the comps with Zangief just spam Lariat.