Blogpost 6: The Fighting Styles

    So now we know about the basic fundamental skills to the more advanced chart tables.Now it's time to learn about certain playstyles that players employ or specific characters specialize with. We will be looking at the most obscene fighting styles to the reckless as this will greatly help in your decision of maining a certain character and effectively employing its fighting style to give your opponents a very hard time.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Labrys vs Yukari match

A player named "FluzWaveZ" came up with an article that explains these playstyles and and what might you want to look for within a certain character in the article entitled "Fighting Games 101: Lesson 3: Character Types". Here he explains the various playstyles that are widely known in any fighting game. Of course not all of them are in every games since some games doesn't allow you to zone effectively and such.


"The problem lies in the fact that I don't know what my "playstyle" is. Oftentimes, I'll try all of the character's game's roster and not really feel any character that I immediately fee good playing as, so I'll pick an antagonist I like and myself that I'll simply adapt to the primary playstyle of that character,which usually ends up being the case."


Knowing a character's fighting style will help you play the character more effectively. There's also that chance that you might like one character because you like how he plays out so knowing these things will be very beneficial to a player starting out on any fighting game.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Yukiko vs Shadow Yukiko

Another article put together by a player in the guise of the name "Agito" also explains further the information presented by the first article entitled "Fighting Game 101: Lesson 3: Character Types". Not only he explained the styles employed by certain characters but he also listed how they are played and played against more extensively.


"In addition to there being many different characters, there are also a few categories that these characters fall into depending on how they're meant to be played"


So there you have it.A very extensive information on character playstyles and how to employ them in a real match. Knowing how a specific character is meant to be played will make your journey of playing your character effectively will be much easier.So what kind of playstyle suits you? Do you like rushing down players like an angry tank? Or do you prefer staying defensive and punish players for their mistakes? Start discovering your own playstyle now.