Ranking the characters difficulty

[chrisisnice]

There are often threads asking about who people should pick up so I was wondering what people's thoughts were on the difficulty of using certain characters which may help people decide. Who do you think is good for a beginner / intermediate / advanced?

A couple of things to think about:

A) This is not a tier list
B) This is about the ease of certain characters - ie Easy to understand moves / normals and simple combos vs high execution characters. Think of who you would tell a person who has not picked up a fighting game vs a veteran
C) It has nothing to do with how powerful or the amount of damage they do
D) Just because a character is a good beginner character does not mean that they lack depth and can be used at a higher level.

That is about it

Thoughts?

 

[learis1]

Of all the characters I've used, I find venemous devorah to be by far the easiest to play well at a beginner level.

Her far reaching overhead and lows are good for both offense and defense. She's a very straightforward basic mixup character with simple strings. And extra damage is always building thanks to poison. She also has a great njp and uppercut. Her basic normals are very good and lend themselves well to beginners.

 

[RYX]

Goro has the most arms

therefore the highest execution

 

[shad0ki11er 27]

I think to me kung jin is pretty easy to learn and also might be why he is played a lot or even ermac I don't know just my opinion.

 

[chrisisnice]

I think
Beginner
Kano, Erron, Jacqui, Goro, Liu Kang

Advanced
Kotal, Cassie, Ferra / Torr

 

[A New Angel Is Advent]

Kung jin is the easiest pick up and play character of any game ever. Without trying him in the training room, I was doing 30-37% damage on my third match thinking what's the catch? He doesn't require practice to play semi-competently. No execution barrier. His run cancel combos take about 10 minutes. I'm still shocked.

 

[Rickyraws]

Baby's first fighting game: Scorpion.


Fetus' first fighting game:
Inferno Scorpion.