Devin, my OC which you can download and play as right here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/658854

Plus a small look at Ozai, Nightmare Korra and Avatar Aang

Happens to me so many times, I boot up a fighting game looking to play this one cool character who has all these sick combos and I end up being dog water at them.

Personally, I mainly experienced it when playing Meg in GBVSR. I really liked her character design and she was a waifu so I decided to pick her up but I ended up struggling quite a bit. I still play her now but just not nearly as much as my other mains. Not saying I don't absolutely love her, she's probably one of my favourite characters in the whole of GBVSR and I'm still working on improving my skills with her

Does this kind of thing happen to you guys and how do you guys like motivate yourselves to keep on playing that character

I got into fighting games at the worst time possible, the steam summer sale. I bought EVERYTHING. SF6, Tekken 8, DBFZ, the Arc sys humble bundle including 16 games, I'm "only" interested in Blazblue Centralfiction, GG Strive and GG Accent core +r from those tho, and I also bought MvC3 and Fatal Fury Cotw. On top of all that there's also Fightcade with all the cool old games too like SF third strike and CvS2 and also 2xko which is free. And a million mugen games like OS-Farram's Ikemen fighting collection or Hyper Dragon Ball Z.

And than there's Avatar and Tokon coming out now which both seems fun. But I'll probably skip them until a sale, it feels like throwing money out of the window if I buy them on top of all this.

I'm equally interested in all this, well maybe if I have to say one, than MvC 3 wins by a tiny bit, the community edition mod characters are way too much fun. But that game is kinda dead, especially with mods and cpu is pretty limited.

In the last month I tried learning them at the same time, but it's so taxing to try to hunt down combos online for all of them, especially the not so popular ones like 2xko or modded MvC characters (of course it's no problem for SF and Tekken), figuring out which ones work or not than having to practice all of them. It's fun for a bit, but I never get to the point of actually playing matches or even against the cpu, as soon as I kinda learn 1 harder combo most of my day is gone and it's time to switch to the next game.

I know the common sense answer is just to focus on 1-2 games, but I'm so interested in all of them and can't really choose...

Is there anyone who figured out a solution to this?

A pretty common piece of advice I see given to newer players when talking about how to find fun in the genre is to focus on what you personally find cool/makes you keep playing. Want to learn that cool combo and be able to land it consistently in a match? Go for it, who cares if you're "too low rank" so long as it's fun for you.
Of course you should absolutely work on learning the fundamentals if you want to improve. I was never too interested in combos though, but combos are almost always used as the main example.

So what do people find cool to do in fighting games?

For me it's performing mixups and setups, blocking my opponent's entire offense and taking my turn back (yes I actually paid $60 to block), and successfully controlling space and restricting my opponents options. (slow moving projectiles my beloved)
Favorite thing on that list has got to be the setups that force my opponent to guess though. I find them so cool.

yes I am a setplay zoner main how could you tell?

Does anyone have resources to find locals discords/tournaments? Thanks in advance! :)

So I just switched to leverless (I got a hautepad r16) in sf6, and I noticed that my left pinky is lifting off of the button that I mapped to Di naturally. Is this a habit I should try and break? I don’t think it inhibits my reactions or gameplay, but I also don’t know if it will come back to bite me eventually. What do you guys think?

With Avatar Legends and Marvel Tokon coming up, I really want to invest time into both instead of focusing on just one.

My only concern is that I might build habits that work in one game but hurt me in the other, especially since they have pretty different mechanics.

I would love to hear your experiences…