Thread:ItsWeavie/@comment-29123231-20160718030040/@comment-6684591-20160718140158

Of course! Welcome to the Wiki by the way.

If you're just starting out, I'd suggest taking some time to try out all of the characters and deciding which one you want to main. Once you have picked a main, take time to learn each of their moves and combos and the use for each of the moves. I'd suggest going on YouTube and looking up guides for that character; there is a guide for every character and they are all helpful, though most contain some advanced techs that you may not be ready for just yet; just take some of the techniques you learned in those videos and practice them until you feel that you have a good grasp on them. Then you should find a sparring partner for you to play against and try these techs on, which is definitely important since fighting a CPU and an actual player are very different. This process won't happen overnight; it will take months of training and practicing and testing in order to improve, and even then there is always something for you to improve on; for example, I main Samus and I feel that I have a good grasp on the character, but I recognize that I still need to practice ledge trump punishes, grabbing and rolling less, etc. It is important that you know where the weak points of your play-style are so that you can always be able to isolate and focus your efforts on patching these up. There are some elements of Smash 4 that apply to all or some characters though such as teching, recovery, wall jumping, fast-falling, pivoting, ledge options, shields, etc. Now that all may sound overwhelming now, and it definitely is for a newer player. Right now I would say that you should focus on picking a main (if you haven't already), learning their moves and combos and how to use them, watching some guides, conducting training and testing on CPUs, and then finding a sparring partner to play with.