New Player!

To get started you should take a close look at the Tactics forum. This place is my most valued personally because you can never have enough insights about fighting. Anyway, try these pages first:

Terms and abbreviations:
http://www.8wayrun.com/f6/newbie-silencer-t76/

Advice on starting out:
http://www.8wayrun.com/f6/learning-how-to-learn-soul-calibur-t552/

Common techniques:
http://www.8wayrun.com/f6/advanced-techniques-t6403/

Understanding frame data:
http://www.8wayrun.com/f6/frame-data-and-you-a-laymans-guide-t3702/




P.S.
Once you have a firm grasp on frame data, check out the information on your character. Each one has frame data available in the Wiki section of this site. Lizard is here: http://www.8wayrun.com/wiki/Lizardman_-_Soulcalibur_IV_-_Frame_Data

Note: Look at the columns in the frame data. IMP stands for "Impact", which is how fast the move is... GRD stands for "Guard", which is how many frames you have when the move is blocked... "HIT" stands for hit, in the sense of how many frames of advantage you have when the move successfully hits the opponent. This all makes sense if you read the thread above about "Understanding frame data."

Note 2: Last but not least, check out the soul arena for your character. Other Lizzy players discuss move applications for him and other related things there. You can learn based on how other people play your same character. There will also be match videos.
 
Since Oof swears up and down that online helps, but also attaches a bunch of "this wouldn't work offline!" rules to it........

I dunno I refuse to play online but I've been playing this shit for years haha. There's benefits to be had, and bad habits to be learned. If you enjoy it, play it I guess.
 
Use online simply to become comfortable with combos and basic tactics. However take it with a HUGE grain of salt. Online distorts a lot of things. You'll notice peoples defenses online are a lot weaker, that's be cause of the delay and you'll start assuming an unsafe move is great or safe since it goes unpunished. At some point you have to play good people offline, online will never teach you the deeper aspects of the game needed to compete at tournament level. For example online I never step moves with a small window to do so, I block and miss an opportunity to get free hits and I don't do twitches.

So only do online to develop a base, then play offline and you'll see what you need to strip away from online induced habits. I don't even touch online when an offline match is near since I start reverting to tactics I would never use intentionally.

Another thing to look out for, generally people with high win ratios online are lag tactic abusers (whether aware or unaware). A lot of the "top" players online have very huge egos and will own you online, but are in fact god awful offline since the tactics they use are horrible in a lag free environment. Make sure they know what they're talking about before taking advice.
 
Hello Surione, itz your friendly neighbourhood Spider- uh... franman.

I would recommend what Psylocide and Salizburg said but the good thing is that you live with OOFMATIC; I'm pretty sure he'll give you a peer-to-peer training. Besides having visitors including your friendly neighbour is an extended bonus for you. Itz most effective in a given time because you already have the best interactive training from your fellow peers.

I also recommend what Vints recommends.

Finally you may wanna check out the Lizardman thread; there's frame data, match-ups, strategy guides and vids threads about Lizardman. Personally I prefer watching the vids as it gives you ideas.

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