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In the fighting games (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc), what kind of Fighter were you?

Button masher, or actually tried to figure out the movies and combos and such (Button learner)?

How well did you (generally) do in your preferred style (while you were still fairly fresh at the game, before you could beat it over and over on Hard)?

I was a button masher, and actually managed to beat it on Hard once. After many a Continue.

I'm a button masher when I'm new to the game, but after a while I find out what does what by random mashing and becomes a learner.

I am a purestrain button masher who flawlessly loses to the simpliest opponents at easiest difficulty level. Incidentally I dont like beat 'em up games.

The only fighting game I really like is Dead Or Alive 3, and I adore the complexity and broad range of moves.

I am a true button learner with this game.

I tended to eek out victories over people because of my tendency to block and move out of the way. Guess that makes me a learner....

My brother's friend was a true button master. He once beat Street Fighter 2 on the hardest setting with only one or two losses and continues. Frequently he'd take out an opponent in under 20 seconds.

I'm a masher for most old-school fighting games. I did fairly well against my friends, though I still lost quite a bit. For SNES versions of these I did tend to learn the combos. Mastering those Sonic Booms was useful.

Butten masher 100%

The scary thing is, occasionally I win.

Somewhat of a masher. I mash but I get the comos downs easy so I remember them.

Learn...did well enough for tourneys and what not.

Nowadays just simply playing...do well enough for SC2 to be at least decent.

Masher all the way. Anyone who knows a SINGLE move in Mortal Kombat can beat me easily.

Then along came Super Smash Bros., a button mashers paradise. I NEVER lose if I'm Kirby in the N64 version. Never. Not even once.

The first time I play a fighting game I'm a masher. Then I go on and learn the moves for a certain character. Then a friend comes over and we learn every damned move in the entire game only to become bored with it and stop playing for a month... then we do it again..

Now, I usualy learn quite well, but there's a few games that have a depressingly powerful ability to turn me into a button masher. Namely Tekken, and to a lesser extent Mortal Kombat.

But anything streetfighter-like takes me only a few rounds to get into the swing of.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Masher all the way. Anyone who knows a SINGLE move in Mortal Kombat can beat me easily.

Then along came Super Smash Bros., a button mashers paradise. I NEVER lose if I'm Kirby in the N64 version. Never. Not even once.

Anyone who knows a single move in MK knows all there is to know about that character.

But SSB isn't a paradise for either the masher or the learner. It's paradise for the tactical player, who can adapt to the arena, and the items dropped on them.

Masher. I suck at fighting games.

Mostly a learner.

I admit to go into the nearest arcade mode and randomly punching buttons like mad for the first few stages. Then I find a few moves by chance and start doing (abusing) them. When all characters have been through this treatment I usually pick 3-4 to try out in practice mode (usually the small and quick, the powerhitter, the obvious main character like Ryu, and that really weird one that seems out of place like Yoshimitsu in Tekken).

That's how I usually go about playing fighting games.

Learner. Nothing fancy, I figure out a few basic combos and then I just ground and pound the fucker till he's dead. No fancy flying triple dragon kick of death or anything, just basic K.I.S.S. moves that work.

Learner. Experiment for awhile, then learn combos from the Comp/Others. Then after you get the hang of it, you make your own

I remember the combo from Street Fighter 2 as Guile which I learned from the Comp... Jump Punch, Down Strong Punch, then Down, Up, Strong kick which results in the bicycle kick thing.

And those of you mashers who win in SSB, you're just either getting lucky, or your opponent sucks

A combo, a sort of Jeet Kune Do button masher I despise combos; I use regular attacks to make a freeform rhythm, and after about 20 minutes playing most fighting games I can get a 50-50 rate against somebody who's owned the game for months. I'm a rather devastating super smash brothers player because I adapt very quickly and play on idiosyncrasies.

The only problem with this style is that its only really effective with quick characters.

Button Learner. Mashing only ruins a controller. Control, creativity and tactics win the day.

The only fighting games I have any skill at are the Super Smash Bros and Dead Or Alive series'. I'm a learner, trying to use the right moves for the right situation. (And occasionally trying to pull off a favorite move or use a particular coup de grace.) Yeah, there's some mashing with characters I'm not familiar with, but I generally know what I'm doing and what to expect. (Unless I hit the combo wrong or something...)

On other fighting games, it's the same way, but I lose a lot more since I'm not as good at them. (Counters, man, I need counters... SSBM's Marth and Roy and any DoA character...)

I was pretty good at the original Street Fighter II. I would alternate between Ryu and Chun Li. A friend of mine and I would go to 7-11's around the area to play against other people. I noticed we would usually kick ass in the white neighborhoods. Especially if you used Chun Li. However, in the mixed neighboorhoods it was very challenging. Guile was unbalanced and could win all the time, especially once the air throw was discovered.

I learned the Buttons for all the SNES games. It was easy then. then the Advent of playstation and N64 and about fifty butons on each controller combined with about fifty thousand different combo moves plus power meters.....

now I am strict Button Masher and World Champion of Tekken Tag!

masher. I find one key I like (bitchslap or backflip in tekken 3) and use it ad nauseum.

I do pretty well, too.

I just mash the buttons randomly. Unfortunately, it often seems to work.