Learning These Characters Will Help You Improve! 

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Kirby is designed to be baby's first character and that's why he'll never get buffed. He is basically the tutorial because he has all the jumps to recover with and even lets you try out other character's neutral B

All-Around Fighter: Mario Rushdown Fighter: Fox Zoner Fighter: Samus Heavy Fighter: Bowser Sword Fighter: Lucina

It’s interesting, since Smash 4 I pick random with the CPU at 9 as random. I can say after years of these matches I am confident with majority of the cast, and there are always things to learn. Yes playing humans often is something I may lack, but I still find this practice and dedication to the game to be beneficial...offline to online is the biggest obstacle however.

I think everyone should at least pocket Wolf, he's easily one of the most fun and well designed characters in this game. Plus he's a top tier so you can use him in bracket

Little Mac is an especially good character to start with if you haven't figured out how to recover xD

I personally recommend all 3 Mii fighters. They are all really fundamental and are brilliant at teaching new players how to get up close, (Brawler) how to space, (Swordfighter) and how to zone. (Gunner)

Definitely Mario, he's so basic and is great for beginners

Cloud should not even be compared to diddy, mega man, or rob. He should be with the first group with mario and wolf.

Marth has been super rewarding to learn how to play. You have to properly space with him to take full advantage of his tip mechanic and in general, you want to keep people at that range, which helps with avoiding damage.

I recommend every Swordie, because they 1. are Fun 2. Have range 3. Are good

I just started playing smash a little under a year ago and have improved very quickly my recommendation is to learn inkling because her kit requires you to learn a lot of skills such as spacing and patience “when to use roller” yes she has a different mechanic than all other characters “ink tank” but she is a relatively fundamental character also playing her forces you to learn ultimates strange buffering system with up throw up air

When I first started smash, I mained Jigglypuff, it helped me practice doing reverse aerial rushes and spacing moves. Although down-b timing is something I still can't do, spacing and RARs are important in and of themselves.

Kirby for sure, all of his moves are simple, and line up with button inputs, his up b goes up, his down b goes down, his side b goes to the side and his neutral b is awesome for learning the game.

I would always recommend Pokémon Trainer to a new player. Yes, you do have to learn 3 characters instead of focusing on one, but I think that's the best thing for new players. With Squirtle, they learn how to play rushdown and combo. Ivysaur teaches how to play zoners or sword fighters (to an extent). Charizard teaches how to play slow heavy hitters. None of these characters on their own are very difficult to pick up, yet there is a TON of room for learning cool new things. B-reversing razor leaf and flame breath, switching Pokémon to recover or avoid moves, vine whip kill confirms, and much more can be applied to gameplay as the player grows in skill. Plus, like was said in the video, new players often switch off of their first characters. If they ever switch off of PT, they will likely be able to transfer a lot of gameplay from one of the Pokémon to whatever they move to in the future.

Wolf is a super good beginner character. He has everything you need to learn all the basics

I recommend Mario such a solid toolset for in most aspects of the game while still teaching you how important percents, punishes and kill confirms are since the character doesn’t just do it for you

Learning any character will help you improve...

I would say Mario, Lucina, Roy, and joker are characters that can be played decently well while learning and each character has different things that teach great things for learning any caracter

When I first played Melee, the first character I wanted to play as when I saw the lineup was this blobby marshmallow named Kirby. But back then I had no idea who he or most of these other Nintendo characters were outside of the Mario series. If you ask me today who the best player in the smash community is, it’s the one who can play their favorite character & still dominate the competitive scene while also having some fun as well.

for each archetype these would be my picks rushdown: wolf and mario zoner: belmonts and palutena heavyweight: dedede and bowser swordie: lucina and ike

I gotta say dabbling with all characters is a good thing to do. Meta Knight (one of my two loyalty mains) keeps improving because of stuff I learn from playing other characters. Meta Knight was my worst character for the longest time until I picked up Sheik and everything clicked and I started kicking butt. After a while I noticed I stayed in the air too long and never used my grounded attacks except for dash grab/attack, so what better character to force you to stay on the ground than Little Mac? Then my Meta Knight was more well rounded since he didn't ignore grounded options. Then there's a lot of other small things that other characters helped me get better with Meta Knight because Meta Knight can just kinda get away with certain things, but those characters may focus on a certain aspect more than other characters in the roster, giving me a new perspective on how I can control Meta Knight. Currently I'm focusing on more general movements that all characters in the roster can use, and my mentality, also wanted an excuse to use my other loyalty main Lucario. Lucario is incredibly sluggish compared to Meta Knight and a bunch of characters I like to use when I play more casually, and short range compared to the slower characters I use. So I have to take advantage of improving with general mechanics that help Lucario out a bunch, which will help other characters once I mastered them with Lucario. Lucario is the most stressful character to play out of the roster because of his aura mechanic requiring you to hit the opponent enough times to KO the opponent later on, and at high aura you can die at any moment. If I can stay calm with Lucario, I can stay calm with any other character. Playing with a heart rate monitor lately, and most characters in the roster it sticks to 90-100 when I try, meta knight is 110, but Lucario consistently gets me to 120 and last stock scenarios often get me to 140 heart rate. That's like my heart rate when I go for a jog! lol. Another problem is that unless it's Lucario, Sheik, or Ridley, I often get overconfident in my abilities, or panic from losing. So playing those 3 characters keep my focus, since those 3 need to always focus since they can lose at any moment. Lucario getting KO'd early before aura gets good, Sheik being light and having to outplay the opponent more often, and Ridley being 0 to deathed because he's combo food before he can do the same to the opponent (Nice thing about Ridley is that I stay calm playing him unlike the other two since I expect the 0 to deaths to happen to me. Ridley teaches no mercy because you will not be given any). If I play them enough, I'll probably be in that mode by default when playing smash.

Megaman is very hard to learn. Is easily one of the most complex characters. I’ve been maining him for almost a year now and I’m still learning new things about him.

Ganondorf is a great character for a new player because they will learn baiting as well as how to play offstage

this entire talk about motivation hit hard. I really appreciate the applicable psychology info y'all have been throwing into your videos.

The reason I am doing better with little mac then with many other characters is that I have in mind that I am playing a bad character, so I play way more careful which let's me play automatically better.

I recommend people to play as Ike as he has a great vertical and horizontal recovery. His nair also has a lot of reach and his up and down airs have similar effects to many other characters. I also believe that as a mid-heavy makes him good too because it allows them to live longer.

What does it mean when you made all your characters available in elite smash?

Of all the videos of the top 5 best characters for beginners, this is the most well-researched of them all and doesn't just limit it to 5!

Learning Ken actually helped me improve at the game. Helped improved by combo game with other characters by learning the buffer system

I always recomend Mario as a great character for Begginers

Ganondorf! He's fast enough to punish others but slow enough to learn that actions have consequences. Also command grab to learn that reading an opponent is really important.

Cloud, Mario, Mr game and watch, palutana, Ike and PT. Also gimme more Meta Knight guide please. Love the video by the way, thought out and expertly made, well done

I Recommend Kirby because He can Recover Easy and has A “Good” Down Special

Wolf, he teaches you to zone, dove, combo, melee, sword he does it all and is easy. He teaches you the game very well

If you have the dlc I would actually recommend joker with his aerials and arsene

I feel that Link(any of them) is a good example of a make-your-own playstyle character. He has all the tools to be a zone or a swordsman and if you feel like you have a certain playstyle that suits you, find a character that fits. Ultimate beginning character is by far Kirby and, by extension, Mario both of them offer very basic controls that can be further enhanced as you become better. All IMO.

I believe game and watch would let a beginner achieve the most, good recovery, simple out of shield, simple combo, generally an easy character to win certain amount of games, at the same time, it can achieve a lot with top example like maister

When I’m looking for a character someone can play as a beginner, I think of what characters best define competitive Smash. Any character with good hitboxes that rely on spacing come to mind. Buffed Cloud is now a good character to begin with, along with Wolf and Ike

To start playing the game from scratch, I recomend Lucina because it is the best training wheels to learn spacing. To start attending to tournaments I recomend my main Yoshi.

Saw Nairo play Zero Suit Samus in Smash 4 and never looked back... even after he betrayed her for Palutena. Basically, play what you want, it will keep you motivated to keep playing knowing that you're learning how to do cool shit with your favorite character

My pick would be Mario, Kirby, or Little Mac. Mario teaches you complex kill options, Kirby teaches you damage differences and special attacks (King K. Rool also does this), Little Mac teaches you patience and shielding.

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For the basics of smash: Kirby For basic competitive: Mario

I dont actually own Smash ultimate and neither a Swich, but from going (before covid-19 obv) to my friend's house to play i started pretty well with swordies in general (cloud lucina/marth above all) inkling, the belmonts and ganon/falcon, but i dont actually know if they are just good for starters or i am just pretty able to letting the match bringing me in action

I usually recommend K.rool or bowser because they can take hits take stocks fairly early and are forgiving for mistakes

Sonic is a decent beginner character. He doesn't require much commitment to anything, has easy to learn and master combo's and not the worst recovery in the game

My characters that I recommend to learn for beginners is, Mario, Lucina, Bowser, Fox, Yoshi, Pit/Dark Pit. They are all very simple characters that help learn the fundamentals of Smash.

Greninja is a great and simple character to learn, with a high skill cap

Yay good to hear i’m trying to get good at the game now and i’m an inkling main so i’m glad to hear that

For new people I think booser I mean Bowser is a good pick he’s thick he’s fast and he has powerful moves on top of that an amazing oos option and he can run at people Leon said it in Little Z’s video agaist Leon. Also side b. Frame six command grab that can cheese your opponent sure you can DI that but some people don’t know this and either way it does like 25% and kills at 120. Neutral B... it literally does 35+% it’s ridiculous Nair back air, kills at like 90. Down b breaks shields and f smash kills at 20% not to mention the tip of flame breath ( neutral b ) doesn’t make the opponent fall out of theshiekd break animation so it is extra damage. F tilt and down tilt both kill early at like 100% and are easy two frames. The point is booser is pretty good for a beginner and even top level play though he is combo food.

if it goes to swordsman/swordswoman i’d definitely would go for lucina if u mastered basic movement and spacing mechanics u can go for marth cuz he’ doesn’t require u to learn a new skillset but makes u master the tipper mechanic which is very prevalent in smash. though lucina is generally considered more consistent than marth, as far as results go, bcuz of the toned down tipper mechanic. but after “mastering” lucina if u are able to get urself in a favorable position as marth u will pretty much be able to learn other sword characters or characters that rely on supreme spacing a comparatively important skill which i think is beneficial for pretty much any main character choice u r going for whether its close or mid/long range. if u have all of the basic mechanics like movement (fast falling neutral airs on lucina/marth 100% of the time) and spacing tools like on marth figured out u can go on to any other character with ur basic knowledge and pick them up very quickly. from there its mastery over ur favorite character. also the edge guarding is super efficient and at least for me it was sooooo much fun *.*

I find different characters teach you different things. Ken and Ryu will teach you how it's important to have clean input sequences instead of mashing buttons. Fox, being one of the lightest characters in the game, will teach you how important a good mix up is. Sonic will teach you the value in going off stage to edge guard. Wolf's a good pick to teach about mixing up recovery options. Most of my picks are more for learning how to play around weaknesses and picking up on things that are good across the whole game. I don't like looking at Bowser or Rob as good starter characters because of their side B's. At low levels, they're a crutch that will carry a player without teaching them anything, but when they run into a player that knows how to deal with them spamming, they're an Achilles heel.

Yoshi has easy combos and he teaches you about mix ups while playing an easy character with great frame data and hit boxes

Just take ness Side b, side b, side b, side b, jojo smash Or Side b, side b, side b, side b, side b, side b to grab and backthrow. (Depending on the opponent just and one more step of side b).

And this is why I main Jigglypuff I have fun with Jigglypuff and had since 64 Yeah as a Puff main I lose to disjoints and Yoshi, but as soon as I get the hit fthrow to nair gimping

ganon for the fun, ridley cloud and wolf for the simplicity, and ganon and bowser jr if u want something a bit different

Pit, Lucina, Mario, or Inkling

I would say any character with multiple jumps, all of the newcomers I knew didn't know how to recover so a character with multiple jumps would be good

As a Ganon main 8:25 hurts. I love my dark wizard, but as my friends have learned how to zone me to death it's no longer fun :(

Diddy kong might be easy to pick up at low mid level but he's definitely very complex when you want to play him at high level.

I’m going to Say Palu, and Ike. They are both fundamental characters that teach essential stills like spacing, timing, shield pressure, and Kill confirms.

I’ve always been a Diddy Kong main since I started really getting into SSB in Smash 4. Even though I’m pretty good with Diddy Kong, it’s getting kinda tiring playing the same character for years. I’ve been looking for another character to try to get good at and after looking through the roster and trying everyone out, I’ve decided to dedicate the next few weeks or months to playing Lucina because I know she’s an overall pretty good character, and to me, is just such a fun character to play. I kinda made the final decision after watching this video. And after 5 days my Lucina honestly might be better than Diddy Kong at this point. Lucina is such a fun, simple, and overall great character to play. I would highly recommend her if anyone’s looking for a new character to main or secondary

i like how they use the same guy for all their advertisements, one video he's coaching fortnite, then overwatch, then ssbu, etc.

I recommend Kirby or Link if you are beginning in Smash Bros Ultimate.

I’m a new player to smash and I started with terry; this was obviously a bad choice because of all the complex inputs. But I think I’ve gotten better since my start in December of last year to now.

For the first tier of intro characters, WHY DID HE CALL OUT ALL MY MAINS IN ONE FELL SWOOP!? LOL LETS GOOOOOO!!!!?

Lucina is a very good beginning character. She's really good at teaching you the basics in a clean way. Definitely check out Izaw's "Art of Lucina/Marth" video, he has a lot of good information.

I honestly think zss is a good character for learning the game because she is a good high tier very fast in every way good moveset and good range. Also (very biased) greninja is a good character if you want someone slightly harder and sheil is a good one if you want to learn neutral and winning that and disadvantage and advantage state as well as combos and thinking on the fly Edit: ice climbers are also good because even without se-syncs it forces you to watch more than one character and know when to approach and back off and how to play with slow characters

i think that kirby and pikashuis very good for new players

Jigglypuff is a good character if you want to learn the importance of defense and learn that poor decisions can lead to losing a stock although not that good of a character is perfect for learning the basics of the defensive side of the game

I recommend Pit for new players due to his good frame date and versatile neutral special.

Donkey Kong is great start as he is good with combos, and has good kill confirms around 60%

I'd recommend fox for new players seeing as he is a top tier with n high skill ceiling but still basic enough, with a good recovery a reflector and projectile

Great videos i just wish they weren't written like high school english essays, i keep zoning out :'(

I feel i all ready saw this video quite a while

I think Mr. Game and Watch is easily the best pick for a beginner character. Kirby feels like a sluggish character with a bunch of slow moves, so I would often feel overwhelmed when I couldn't even get hits in. Mario seems well-rounded, but his recovery can be a bit trickier for beginners than top players might make you believe. Every now and then I would use up b and accidentally be facing away from the ledge, so I would fall to my death without being in serious danger. That is definitely not a problem with Mr. Game and Watch.

If you wanna improve at the game just play fundamental based characters. Cloud, Lucina, Chrom, Mario and Wolf are recommended, mainly the swordies

I just started playing ssbu like 2 months ago :) its my first smash game and I played inkling the first few days but got really annoyed by not beeing able to kill so I switched to pikachu, because I really love being able to recover from literally anywhere ~ currently floating around 4 million gsp

I actually think a great character you guys missed would be Charizard, he teaches the importance of spacing your attacks and playing slowly and methodically to secure kills.

Kirby and Meta were my first two way back in brawl, they were easy to learn and pretty fun to play. Not great for competitive in ultimate but still rlly fun :p

I play Bayonetta as my main, and Hero as me secondary. Any tips for either character? I’m nearly undefeated in my school, and can’t find a really satisfying battle anymore.

I would recommend Palu great all around and teaches new players spacing very well

So if you want to learn the basic things for smash try Mario or Kirby but everyone says that and good reason. I started smash a bit ago but try Mario, Cloud, or if you like dealing damage and losing some speed and so or thing try Gabon or Bowser.

5:18 character time stamp for me 👍

Pit or dark pit is awsome to learn basic movements and recovery then id say move on to palo or if you wanna learn the hard way learn how to play smash with pichu your spacing gets really good really fast

For me if a new player who wants to get into Ultimate I’d present these characters to them All rounder fighters: Mario, Wolf, and Palutena These characters can teach you the fundamentals of the game. They’re really simple to learn and are versatile enough to be played in any playstyle you wish. Personally I find Wolf to be the most fun of the 3 even if his recovery is exploitable in high level play, but it is possible to learn on how to work around that aspect of him. Zoners: Megaman, Samus, and ROB These guys can teach you on how to properly utilize projectiles in neutral. Do know that yes all of these 3 are WiFi warriors since they can camp hard but reaching high to mid level play will quickly remind you on how ineffective camping will be as these characters can easily be overwhelmed. I’d personally pick Megaman out of these 3 since I believe he’s good at teaching on how to zone out characters and even approach with projectiles. Sword fighters: Ike and Lucina Ike’s extremely easy to learn, has good recovery and 2 of his moves (his nair and forward air) are god tier neutral tools. He may be slow but I see that as a caveat of him showing the player of proper spacing and movement as a swordfighter. Lucina is just overall easy to pick up and she’s very adaptable. I feel once players get a good grasp of her they can move on to characters like Roy or Marth who share her moveset but with vastly different properties for different styles of play (Roy for rushdown and Marth for precise spacing and movement). Rushdown: Pikachu, Fox, and Inkling There’s a fair bit of rush down characters in Ultimate but these 3 are probably the simplest to pick up and all 3 are extremely fun in my opinion. Proper movement and approach is key to playing as rushdown and knowing how to string together combos is also important. These guys all have the tools for their purpose and they all do an excellent job on showing you opportunities on when to capitalize your opponents mistakes and habits. Heavies: Bowser Bowser is one of the simplest characters period. He’s the easiest heavy to play but do be aware that just because he’s easy and a heavy does not mean you’ll be getting wins right off the bat. Heavies are all about bait and punish game when playing the neutral and Bowser has brutal punish options but said punish options can leave him wide open if misused or whiffed. Except Up-B out of shield because that’s godlike and works against practically everybody.

I would say Young Link is one of the best Chars for beginner because he has so many ways to play him.

Pac-man is fun cause you can always do something with fruit and hydrant will you feel good, also he is technical enough that you learn things but he is not the hardest there is

Legit got into Elite Smash after learning Cloud properly for 2 months, before that I just continently averaged 1-2mill gsp

i like wolf because when i use wolf i can do things that i can do with basically every character but much easier

I’d say pikachu cause you can edgeguard ledgetrap play rush down or defensive learn ladder combos drag down combos and all other combos

Probably Ness because you can spam pk fire and if you know how to draw circles you can use his recovery

Link or kirby for me they were what got me into smash because of how simple and easy they were

Pit and dark pit I think those two characters are pretty easy for new players to pick up

My first character to main was duck hunt in smash 4. Idk why I did that to myself. I was horrible in smash 4 making my duck hunt suck. Whyyyyy

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I think its mario, or mr game and watch because mario has good edge guarding and combs and mr game and watch has a broken up b out of shield

Mario, cloud, wolf, new link possibly

For the first 6 months of the game I Switched mains between most of the cast and had a lot of trouble learning the game. Then I picked up wario and inkling and it became so much easier. Then I dropped wario because he’s too hard to play. I only learned how to play other characters through the fundamentals I got from playing inkling and wario. So I think it might be best to just learn the game with a character you like. Or if you are really desperate than play Mario.