Super Street Fighter 4 Beginner's Guide Part 01: Moves & Combos

[C0mput3r]

Great video only problem is the "uh" every 5 seconds.

[rollexx]

thanks for the help, didnt know how intricate combos were. thought linking and chaining were the same lols

[sightlesssamurai]

This game is so hard when coming from Mortal Kombat. I hate not being able to block attacks.

[benblue3]

@sightlesssamurai You can block attacks, it's just really tough to execute a block.

[MatorLP]

Think youre German

[RocMegamanX]

@MatorLP He is.

[JamesakaVicious]

His accent...I cant take it. No serious offence but..

[SkywardMine]

Cake > Pie

[benblue3]

@SkywardMine (Cake + Pie) > Cake

[rotarydialz]

You didn't show how to do the moves.

[emu83123456]

dude sounds like kip from napoleon dynamite

[videomaker74]

nice job i just started playing street fighter 4 thanks

[bigpileofpuke]

Im not really a fighting game fan but your accent is sooo relaxing

[TheNAJoH]

The difference between SSFIV and MK/MvC3 is that it is a little challenging to play with a controller instead of a arcade/fight stick. But, this video made it so I can play and not have a hard time. Thanks so much TBirdsSF4!

[h3llmag3]

Hi TBird, your tutorial is great. However, i am still having trouble with linking. As u said either i am too fast or i am too slow. Most of the time i end up button mashing. Anyway great job on the videos

[Yazkaron]

Danke! Das Video hat mir einiges klarer gemacht :)

[NemisisGanda]

Are you german?

[Cl0taire]

Great tutorial. Thank you. And what a lovely accent!

[Kryptonianweapon]

This video its great! Thanks, was so helpful, another good thig about it its that Ken is a character that anyone will understand!

[VollTiiight]

^^ du sprichst genauso englisch, wie ich, mit so einem deutschen Akzent, aber trotzdem gutes tut :D

[chunkymonkey1334]

i cant do ultras

[666devilsadvocate]

cant get super moves to work at all.someone should put up a vid of what their hands are doing when theyre inputting the moves

[HaydnM35]

Took me half an hour to finish the final fight. Fuck.

[xSoShi]

you talk like Microsoft Sam .

[paul00uk]

Thanks for the video - fantastic explanation of the basics, this has helped me a lot. Cheers!

[janreal84]

Hi, just wanted to swing by to say that I find your tutorials very insightful, but unfortunately I can't stomach your accent for more then a couple of minutes.I hope this does not offend you, as I am german myself, and I know that most germans don't get the english pronunciations right. This is too bad, because apart from that, I really like your presentation.

[Sweetchinmusic666]

I really wanna get into fighting games, but i suck at them i really wanna get better not the best but at least give people a run for there money

[darqs]

thankyou for these videos :)

[Darkbeatdk]

I'll check out this series. Thanks for the upload.

I know a bunch of theoretical Street Fighter, but I am absolutely terrible at actual playing... I have NEVER won a match in any fighting game ever except for a single game of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix with Chun-Li, but even after having played Street 4, Super Street 4 and AE online for several hours I still have 0 BP.

[02241994]

i need help with ultra attack i cant do it it makes norma/super attack but not ultra what am i doint wrong i do the buttons it tells me to do pls help

[MSZSNeoBahamut19]

Why can't I ever find a decent tutorial... Every tutorial I have seen thus far is pretentious and expects you to understand all of the basics of the game already... Why can't someone list what the icons mean in the combo menu? What the fuck is the circle thing with the Z? Wtf does it mean when it shows 3 kick icons? what's the difference between that and when they're stacked? I don't get it... Such a pretentious community...

[zombiekidcrazy]

i suck alot of dick in street fightert 4 i played 10 matches and never ever won, i got this game yesterday. I am sad and very confused

[mattone]

@zombiekidcrazy The online is entirely different than what you expect. They give great tips on the SRK forums, but they're useless, for the most part. Mostly because at lower levels (Hah, by that I mean 800-900, since I've yet to see another player below 100 PP) everyone just spams hadoukens, or guards and retaliates when you get near, and just negate fireballs and chip at you to attempt a time-out.

[MeAndMyFamily1992]

@nahhchill Wow that's fucked up

[ForstaSvenskenIRymdn]

this is just a rule of thump

[dragonwar524]

@ForstaSvenskenIRymdn This is now the expression for linking hard punches

[BeatySword]

This sounds a bit Polish XD

[vhak47u2]

@nahhchill aww thats mean :(

[MrWaffleBeast]

@RoadFoxProductions you can play with a regular controller but if you have the money I would recommend getting an arcade stick, it gives you more control. Or you could buy a fightpad but I'm not really a fan of those.

[99Dusk]

Gutes video hat mir sehr geholfen

[RoadFoxProductions]

Hey thanks! I am gonna watch your video series because I never touched a fighting game since the Arcade days. I moved from a town with a amazing arcade with Street Fighter 2 so when I moved I picked up this game and I dont understand the game. Is there a certain controller recommended for this game?

[TBirdSF4]

@RoadFoxProductions

If you have the money go for a Madcatz Fightstick

[adv1k]

when i first got the game a month ago and watched this i totally did not get it but now i rewatched it, amd voila!!!!! ty so much tbird!

[akaFobb]

Thanks a lot for this video. It helps people like me who are really interested in the scene to begin to somewhat understand the game.

I just want to make sure I understand something about links though. I get that cancels can basically be button mashed, but for links, what kind of timing am I looking for? Do I hit the next move as soon as the animation for the first one is over?

[DarkesstNight]

I'm having a hard time canceling special into an ultra :|

[catta11]

@DarkesstNight you cant cancel anything into ultras, only supers. you can combo into them, but unless you play Ibuki you cant cancel into them.

[SorrowAndRemorse]

You rock for helping out people getting started. Just what I needed. Thanks :)

[MoDSoUnds93]

this guy sounds like doctor Richthofen from nazi zombies.

[salfratuka]

A guide without Ryu as the example character? Thank you!

[djdevil0000]

your accent is annoying and you talk for way to long..... FAIL

[DazedSpartan]

ive never even played a fighting game, played this for 10 minutes, hated it, a month later i watched this, got back on it, and i am starting to enjoy it. thanks.

[Exandeth]

Hehe, rule of thum"p". :D

Great tutorial, I sent someone who's just picking up fighting games here and they got some great tips from the vid.

[DanTheWarder]

Thanks for all your help!

[RareKong]

cool video, i hate myself for sucking at this game :/

[TheAzure4]

@RareKong lol same i wish i was good at this

[ashugtiwari]

totally worthless...! there is no video of showing how to press buttons on dualshock controller, not everyones lucky like u to own fight stick, i did not get here in India & not able to purchase it online due to some bank issues. show the button press video for PS3 dualshock which i can work on and actual button press video not fight video. im sorry for being angry, but noone able to play it fluently on dualshock nor there are any videos for that, thats rediculous...

[ReasonForNo]

one thing about ssf4 that I dont get is the timing from light to med and so on, for example, one of the trials for most characters is light punch to med punch, even though i do the combo, the second attack is always blocked, even though I hit the buttons at the fastest I can without going too fast, is there a visual cue that I can use? it just seems random to when my combos land

[TBirdSF4]

@ReasonForNo

If the hits don't connect, your timing is wrong. If you have problems with a certain link, look for a trial mode video for the character you are trying to learn here on youtube. This way, you can get a feeling for the timing.

[sakuzenshi]

thanks you so much Much much praise!!!!

[MegapiemanPHD]

Thats all great but what am I suposed to do when I cant get the charactors to do any of the special moves.

[Minipolce]

I like your voice, and you're very helpful ^_^

[Fermondego]

Thank you so much for those very useful guides.

[MrTetram]

Thanks i just got the game and i get owned really fast :(

[MrKurtisdtb01]

add me if u want 2 endless battle on psn sometime still new

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[RontheHybrid]

If you're watching this video, chances are you suck just as bad as I do. I'm a very decent Tekken and I can defeat higher ranks, but in SF I just suck! Thanks for making these videos to help!

[PrehistoricLoathing]

Thanks so much! Very helpful.

[WillyTung]

TOTAL noob question but how do I do ultras? I'm trying to do Hakan's ultra but can't figure it out. I see how in the book (2 fullround circles + LMH punch) but not sure how... Sorry for the noob question but I really don't know.

[FEMA360]

@WillyTung Set your buttons, put one of the Bumpers as "LPxMPxHP" Then just do two fullround sways and press your LMH Punch button and it should work.

[WillyTung]

@FEMA360 Thank you for replying. How do I do two "full-round sways"?

[FEMA360]

@WillyTung Or "full-round circles"

[WillyTung]

@FEMA360 Yeah, I know what you meant. I want to know how do I do TWO of them back-to-back.

[FEMA360]

@WillyTung Do it on the analog stick or buy a Fightstick. They make fighting games a lot easier in ways you can't imagine!

[WillyTung]

@FEMA360 Yes, I have one. So HOW?

[FEMA360]

@WillyTung You just have to be quick.

[WillyTung]

@FEMA360 Okay. How do you transition into the second circle? Do you do the first then let it get back to the middle then do another?

[FEMA360]

@WillyTung After the first circle do the second just like you did the first circle. If that makes sense....

[WillyTung]

@FEMA360 No that didn't really make sense within the context of my last question :O

[thirsbecho]

@WillyTung 2 full round circles must be started in the air if im not wrong.

[AnimeAjay755]

Can someone tell me how i can use moves which require you to move the control stick twice in the same direction. For example, if im ken, i can do a hadoken by swiping the analogue stick from the bottom to the right and any punch but on the command list it says you need to move the stick twice and i do that but in the end it comes out as a normal hadoken. Any help is appreciated...

[ystein3000]

I have SF2 turbo! does this apply there also? tried sf4 once, and felt pretty similar :p but I suck, so what do I know?

[ytp6867]

Extremely helpful! there's no way I would of learned all of this through trial and error, and the game itself along with the manual barely scrape the surface.

[mmmtea13]

thank you! this videos were extremely helpful, but purely out of curiosity, where are you from? you sound like some of my swedish relatives, but sometimes there's an unrecognizable accent that i cant place.

[lynnandpete]

But you didn't tell us what the symbols or what buttons to press. :(

[vodka224]

very good guide you solved my problem while trying to link i was chaining cr lp cr lp instead of linking them thank you so much...now just gota get them timing down or linking

[Salokin92]

Does this also apply to Street Fighter Alpha 3?

If yes, to what extent, or not at all?

[boogityboy]

On a more serious note, EVERY new player should watch this tutorial series. I've been playing SF since it first came to arcades. Stopped around SF: 2nd impact being released in arcades and havent touched it since. These videos are amazingly helpful for completely new players as well as people like me who are returning to the series after literally years :D.

Excellent job and the work put into these is MUCH appreciated!

TY TBird!

[boogityboy]

"Rule of thump" is now my fav expression ever.

[gamerx112]

Am I to understand that some of the trials require you to link moves?

[TBirdSF4]

@gamerx112

Yes

[trenken]

@gamerx112 Yep, and some of them are VERY difficult, and unrealistic to try and use in an actual match. You do not need to master all of those trials to be good at SF4. In fact many of the greats dont use any of those uber complex combos.

[BerDinosaur]

This is a great guide for anybody relatively new to street fighter. Your guidance is simple, straightforward, and comprehensible. Good job!

[Rajibu]

it really helped me!!! GONNA CHECK EVERY VIDEO!!! THANK YOUUUU =D

[yhghgyu]

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[StFrancisFolly]

1 thing...if u use a 360 or PS3 controller it might be hard to do a cr. kick or punch cancel into shoryuken....I do this like this...Jump, hard kick as I do the hard kick my controller joystick stands between down and right (or down, keft) then I kick...do the punch,kick and then I turn the joystick to the right, then down (or down,right), and right again...then he do the shoryuken^^

[Kiregan1]

Awesome guide for beginners. =)

[ikaruga2023]

Very helpful video tutorial thank you. I never really understood chaining, and cancelling very well. I really appreciate the work put into explaining this.

[beastb83]

Wow. That's what I have been doing wrong. I have noticed that in the beginning when I used Dudley, I was able to (what i thought was comboing) cr. lp, cr. lp, jet uppercut, quite easily....these days i can't do it anymore...all that will come out is a mgb after the first two cr.lp. They were coming out like that because I was chaining instead of linking. Thank you TBird.

[Otacon237]

Great vid, very useful.

[Byorin]

Like most of the posters here, I'm very new to SF so these videos are so useful. Thanks for that and I hope you continue.

[sknnyjns1]

a rule of thump!

[Freddo9867]

Great video, you explained the game's combo mechanics very well. As a new player, I'd definitely agree with your assessment that linking is the most difficult type of combo in regards to execution, but thanks to your video I'm definitely learning.

[Iceman4181]

@truthequalslife HAHA It is!

[Ekitchii]

nice work, thanks ;)

[ExionSlade]

Thank you for helping me. :)

[Yarlification]

You have a cool accent. Where are you from? Oh, and nice video.

[Erginmetal2]

Great video, been playing for a month or so and this video is very detailed and I understand stuff I didn't understand before! Thanks!

[MegaPrinnyDood]

YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!

i've improved sooooooo much from just one vid

kepp up the amazing work

[yonray2]

If I wasn't so smart I'd know how to block ._. Well concetring I don't own the game myself I don't have much time to learn it through failed attempts at it ._.

[72u7H]

Wow, you are like a super instructor.

[peetswee]

uhhh uhh uhh uhh uhh UUHHHHH

[PlayerVid]

Really Nice guide for us who are new but looking to get better at the game.

[crossfire340]

Love the video and did anyone else LOL at the end where he goes:

Uuuh- THank you for wat- END OF VIDEO

[NoobOwnedYou]

Thanks! I'm a total noob at this game cause I just got it today and this has helped me

[garder14]

@NoobOwnedYou Wich controller do you have ???

I have the standard xbox 360 controller !!!

[2bewd2]

Thanks alot for these videos i just got the game today and slwoly learning. thank you again. gamertag BEWD2monkey if someone wants to play

[TheChuckNorriz]

I dont understand when it says charge directional pad back or forth some one help

[Gustave154]

i sucked before i watched these tutorials

i'm not better but i still suck hehehe

[TheJessYIsBest]

are you german? =)

[Jasondanam]

i luv u

[MINItheFox]

I think your toturials will help me improve a lot.. once again.. thanks for posting these vids :)

[meatwad341]

Thanks for the videos! ive never played a SF game ever so im glad you can take time out of your life to make these! thank you

[pughua]

Awesome vids. Thanks. On a side note, with your accent, the closed caption stuff types out some hilarious lines.

[teh0tak1n9]

great vid series! not a beginner myself anymore, but some pointers were still quite helpful. how about some advanced or character-specific tutorials? that would surely help.

mach auf jeden fall weiter ;)

[supermoc123]

thank

[vargtegel]

Good video :)

[time1355]

Thanks alot this makes things much clearer for me !

[fkylw]

This is awesome. Thanks so much!

[SuperUltimateLoser]

Great stuff!

[Mol10]

I just picked up SSF4 on a whim a few weeks ago and it hasn't left my xbox since! I've never been into fighting games before so this video is a great help. Thanks a lot. :)

[Nemesiz755]

Great Video man keep it up

[OpenCasketMaterial]

Great vid Tbird.

[MrSilentPunches]

Thank you TBirdSF4 for your great efford and job well done for this video!You cleared some of the doubts/questions that've been bothering me since i started SF4.Thanks again!(:

[hbsux]

awesome, very helpful thanks!

[huntertwothousand]

Thanks for the videos! I've always enjoyed fighting games but I'm horrible at them so I usually get owned (repeatedly). These videos are really helping me grasp the fundamentals!

[ChuckThePug]

Thanks for these videos. Much appreciated.

[Ch0coDK]

I saw your post on the SRK forums. Even though I knew some of this stuff it has been very helpful

[xAFROxSAMURAIx]

wär echt cool wenn du das ganze auch auf deutsch machen könntest ^^

sonst , thumbs up ^^

[vedasisme]

Well-done tutorial. A small suggestion for future vids, you might have been able to shave some time off the video if you just put text on the screen instead of speaking.

Even though I've played a lot of fighting games before, I watched it all the way through, you did a good job!

[Ruisu107]

Just saw this in the Forums. Great Job. I was actually planing on doing something similar but I still do not have proper recording equipment.

[TidySammy]

Nice video man.

[GunSlingerAUS1]

Fantastic work, thank you very much!

[tehcatakai]

Really awesome video! Thanks man!

[JoeySweatsocks]

excellent video man. very helpful.

[iPhown]

Good Tutorial - I hope you can continue this series soon!

[MrRaikur]

Thanks for this, I only picked SSFIV a few days ago and it is really overwhelming.

[Cormora]

German accent for the win!! xD - Seen your post on SRK

[mehul8]

Great beginner guide.