Top 5 Best Characters for Beginners - Street Fighter 5 Season 5 

Ironically, as a beginner, I find way harder to do charge moves than motion moves.

Its crazy I hear this a lot that charge motions are easier to execute than quarter circles and dp motions but I hold the opposite opinion. Especially performing charge motions in combos.

Yep. As a keybaord player Ed and Ken have been super welcoming and fun and I've only been playing for 2 days. Great video.

Every time I see daigo plays guile, I wanna play it. But I just feel like I’m only sitting here and throwing sonic boom. I feel that I’m always defending🤦🏻‍♂️

That tip on the z motion helps so much. I could not do it consistently and while it still isn't perfect it is a lot better than it has been. Earned a sub for it. Thank you!

I started with Cammy and still play her and think she's a pretty amazing character for beginners except the being in the air part and knowing when to jump

3:38 that makes a lot of sense now. Me and my dad recently bought sf5 champions edition and play it a lot. I play ryu and he plays ken. This part of the video explains why he is able to attack me and get more hits then ryu can. Thanks man this helped( ps i subscribed, great work)

To this day i cant get over how ken looks like he has play-doh on his head O_o

Interesting Huh I've always believed charges were a bit more advance than pulling off diagonals & quarter circles, I actually play both and also feel charges have the best defense if utilizing them well...to note my legally blind older brother doesn't play charges because it is easier for him to mash diagonals in any direction if he does not know were his opponent is, as long his character has a forward or reverse directional command, he plays cpu only but at times has beaten me hah the new type characters you mentioned in SFV like Ed, has definitely helped my bro up his game

I'm brand spanking new to SFV and I'm coming from Tekken. I instantly fell in love with G. He's so unique and flashy and his moves feel nice to pull off along with his combos. I know he's more advanced but I learned in Tekken that stick with a character you enjoy looking at over ease of use or tier position. If you hate the character then why would you care to get better with them.

I think this is a great idea for a video. And I understand and agree with your reasoning behind your 5 picks. And the discord servers is a very nice touch. Keep it up buddy!

I love using Ed, Gil, Urien, Cammy and Seth! They’re all really fun! Just started SFV recently after a year or so of playing Ultra SF4, and I’m enjoying learning them.

As someone who has played FG on and off. Getting back into them, specially SFV, this is a great starter video well done!

I watched this video to choose my first character way back when I started playing and I still play that character today.

I’m about to start playing Street fighter (I play Tekken and main Bryan). I really like how Guile looks, reminds me of Bryan too. Luckily you recommend him as good for beginners and also has somewhat same game-plan as Bryan (keep out). So hype for street fighter 6!

Cammy is super good to teach player fundamentals, confirms, not have bad habits... Except of the air things at the beggining.

Rashid was the first character I picked up in SFV he is a fun and great character in the CE🤙🔥💯

I started using Ibuki. She seemed cool

Sheez best character to play is dan , yall know that

I immediately jumped to playing Ryu, he’s easily a great starter character. Can’t go wrong with a shoto.

Dawg, I just discovered your channel, it's a shame you don't have more subs :)

Great list and to all the Sfv beginners discord is a great way to learn from veteran players.

I haven't played a street fighter in years but I see Guile's turtling technique is still alive and well lol

Picked up Mika as my first character two days ago, and I’m already doing pretty big combos... I’m just struggling against zoning. Had a guile keep me out the entire game my first game online...

I would throw in Cody as an option as well, his command normals are useful and easy to use, he has a 3-4 frame target combo (LPx4) to get you out of some pressure games and an easy punish. Plus his most useful move, the Zonk knuckle, is simply holding punch for 2 seconds (recent updates add a new charge level that adds combo opportunities and somewhat safe on block). Shoutout to iZonk's video on Cody which goes into more detail on this which helped me greatly in really getting into Ranked mode in SFV.

Nice vid! When are we gonna see some Twitch streams?

I started on Ken but seriously wanna play Honda or another grappler. Maybe Zeif? I play grapplers in all my fighting games but some of the inputs are crazy hard in SF and I can pretty much only do ken combos consistently so far.

i cannot wait to get my qanba drone tomorrow to finally try out these games and invest into a character. i have tekken 7 as well but all i have it a really old 360 controller for my PC and i find keyboard really hard to understand for a fighting game, ive used arcade sticks at friends places before and always found myself playing 100x better in every way, i cannot move correctly on tekken or SV on a controller my hands cramp the controller in such a weird way to be able to combo and wave dash.

This is correct. Back then in sf2 new challengers, I 1st used guile then ryu and ken. From there to street fighter all of the alphas I used Dan and akuma then Chun li and Cammy. In SF V I'm yet to discover other of the characters because there are so many of them to choose from and it's great!

Laura, Cody, Rashid, Dhalsim, Poison, Birdie, and Karin are the easiest charcters to play. If you can zig zag play luke.. If you can charge easy play BISON. Chun li is the easiest charge character. Luke's easiest ZIG ZAG.

Blanka is best boy, so I chose him to start with...wasn't my best idea tbh I have since tried to pick up Laura, Juri, Ryu, Kage, Falke and Poison. Yes, I'm aware I'm likely stretching myself thin, but I do this in every fighting game tbh. I do...ok with Laura, my Juri is meh, haven't played Ryu, Kage, or Falke online yet, and I actually win consistently with Poison. Though tbf, that girl carries me on her shoulders like a damn champ

I’m watching this about 3 minutes before the game finishes downloading lol

Poggers, now do a video on best skins. I want to see megaman

If by "for beginners", you mean "character that will take you the farthest with the less effort from scratch", I'd say E. Honda and Abigail... at low level, they're just brainless, just spam hands and sumo smash with Honda, and armored moves with Abigail, you'll reach Gold just like that. Then, when it comes to the point where pretty much everybody starts to actually know and play the game (defense, neutral, mind games, starting knowing the match-ups etc), then you should probably pick Cammy, Ed, Guile or Luke (and maybe Balrog/Boxer), they have the best ratio easyness/efficiency... and at high level, all those characters are pretty much top tier, so they can take you as far as you want. If you don't want to learn the game but still want to steal everybody, go for Laura, she basically has like 1 mix-up, but it's so annoying that if you guess wrong like twice, you're dead, when she activates V-Trigger, you're dead.

Alex was my first character when I started getting back into it after just sticking with Alex I was like this right here is who I wanna main and although it took some time to get used his charge and command grabs I managed to get out of rookie and make it bronze I'm still on the newer side tho I decided to pick up urien and Cody can't wait to commit some robberies

I didn't know Falke can be so simple, I didn't try her yet, just bought the game about a week ago. This game has character for all kinds of players it seems. I have been playing with Ryu and Juri because I thought they were pretty easy and even for a beginner, I managed to climb to bronze in a few days. I was actually expecting to be completely destroyed, but I have a win rate of 37% which I guess it's pretty good for a total noob. But now I'm worried about losing that bronze title, lol, so I'll just play casual until I actually know what I'm doing, because so far I feel like I just got lucky with the button mashing. I'm not a beginner to fighting games but I never played them online before, this is the only one that I decided to try online.

im fighting against my dad in street fighter, and i love this

U deserve like at least 200k subs ngl

BRO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO REMIND ME ABOUT HOW SAGAT PLAYS! GOD MY HEART IS BROKEN.

To say that charge moves are easier than motion moves is to say that chun li is an easier to use character than Ken

I don't need to say which one is my character, but i play bison too.

I obly play sakura and G because i love their combos and playstyle

i would not recommend guile though for starters not everyone can charge speaking from own experience here

YO JOHNNY I GOT TO ULTRA SILVER TODAY I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW FAST I RANKES UP

My best advice is play who you like I don't think character difficulty should be a problem because you'll eventually get good with anyone I find Zangief easier compared to Ryu Ryu is hard for me

thanks man, this help me,

Please understand one thing, if a character has charge inputs, it's not beginner friendly, period. It's the most frustrating, punishing, and unintuitive shit in the entire VS fighting genre.

Hmm ken is probably more my style but I also like the 2+4 or the parry on ryu, and akuma is just straight up... Menacing... I like it

Sagar is like that guy from Baki I forgot his name

Falke and Ed are easy for beginners to button presses will always be easier than stick movement

Pretty sick video! True Draco Deck Profile when? Kappa

I naturally gravitated to Karin. It’s been a long haul but I’m FINALLY not loosing every match in ranked.

i consider charge to be an intermediate move. there is no charge in mortal kombat and stuff (which is the easiest game)

I'm a newbie SFV player coming from Tekken. Would you recommend playing pad if I aspire to be good at this game?

@NotJohnnyKim The Guile discord link is invalid

See almost 99 percent of players always put Cammy on this list but I'm glad you didn't as Cammy has a lot of single hit hit confirms, all her moves are unsafe that you confirm to so you have to make sure you don't make mistakes, she has 900 health so she dies quick and instant air drills can be tricky for a beginner to do. I think she's very easy at the top level of play not beginning

I just got the game from PS+, I really love fighting games, but Street fighter was always hard for me. I used to be really in the story, and Akuma was always called to me. Is he easy? If not Guile was always cool.

On keyboard, I have issues performing charge moves. Are there any great motion characters I can play in this game? (Besides Sagat, G, Cammy and shotos)

If I can do an ewgf in Tekken but have never given Street fighter a chance who do I choose

I play streetfighter 5 my character is necalli and my sister's is birdie. I like dhlasim but I don't use that character because dhalsim's legs are big and u can kill the other person easily and its fun fighting instead of just staying at one spot and just keep kicking.

I can't handle charge characters but have no problem with motions am I normal ?

Now falke looks worth trying out

Yeah charge moves are way harder to do than quarter circle

Blanka, I’m a silver-at-best Ryu and Ken. Made it into super gold with Blanka quickly, still a scrub, but that’s a big leap ...uwuuuu

i think ibuki is pretty good for beginners, especially me her l, m and h punches can form a 3 hit combo from how fast they are she has a dash special that can pull you behind your opponent, opening up lots of combo opportunities close range but very fast command grabs and projectiles (e.g. raida, kunai)

flow chart playstyle 101

Guile is a beginner friendly character? Yeah right... 💀💀💀💀

Am i the only one who thinks charge motions are way harder? Like, i can't get them properly executed as well as quarter circles and dp

I guess everybody is different I can do 100 fire balls in a row but can't do sonic booms for crap I just started playing

I started playing with Zangief but im scared to play anyone online that isnt my friends cause i know ill get rolled

The buttons commands are my biggest problem it’s the main reason why I always delete it

he says "cute" and zoom in on Sakura xD

So I started with Ibuki and I like her style a lot. Who is Similar to her? I’ve been looking at Lucia

"If you're new here, I'm not Johnny Kim" Then who are you? How can I trust you if you don't tell me who you are?

What is that keyboard thing called at 4:22???

The only true beginner character is Cammy with her completely doable combos. I reached gold with her, but I have no idea how you play other characters. Sakura's basic combos still give me nightmares. She plays like you're controlling an airplane, no joke. Her extremely slow poke makes her weak to jump-ins. Ryu basic combo doesn't give a knockdown (what), so you should use donkey kick wich is HARD. And Ken's combos are just trash where second kick may whiff if an opponent is crouching. Or you can choose a target nonsense which is heavily punishable. Like wtf, are these really beginner characters? I can't do basic stuff with them.

Ok but why does gyle have a mushroom on his head

I started with Karin iknow im special

:U when menat guide - i heard she's an easy character :^)

i wanted to subscribe and follow on social media but i cant even find this guy since he didnt even say what his name was. All i know is that he is not johnny kim.

Sagat mains- tiger punch tigerpunch tiger punch tiger punch tiger upper cut tige-

We'll prob be lucky to get all the characters without shelling out cash.

How did you got all the skins?

I might be a dumbass but charge moves are not easier than motion inputs for me

Tiger, tiger, tiger

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im about to be the notjonnykim of dbfz

Guile is hard lol 😆

Don't teach people boom spamming! 😋

I’m actually better with non- charge move characters

too bad we have to pay for some of these characters :(

Street fighter v is bs I’m getting punished for hitting light attacks my moves won’t link the combos in trials are not viable and half of them require moves not listed and on top of that the tutorial only teaches you how to move and defend I just started playing online and apparently all the bronze players are pros because the narrator keeps saying my win loss ratio is 3 and 50 someone explain how this game is beginner friendly because I’m not having fun playing this game which I love to watch but can’t play

Yo wanna do some sets I really wanna play against you and improve im in a lounge rn

Why isnt cody on this list

Then theres me who just picks vega to begin with and actually does well with him

Idk any new commer who can play charge characters right away... You want to start? Play a brain dead Shoto. Fundamentals? Who needs that when you can Dp Dp Dp Dp

I had no idea Ed and Falke are such mindless characters to use.. like capcom really wants to attract ANYBODY