After 8 years of working in fighting games, I’ve accepted the fact that no matter how “easy” you make your game, pros will absolutely demolish new players. During my time on rivals, I learned that you don’t need to ask how to make things easier for new player. Instead focus on making the most basic actions feel good and each new thing they learn feel even cooler.

I see people online getting frustrated at fighting games because of lame characters or passive players. The funny thing is that people have been getting mad about this stuff for decades in all types of competition. There's a dude named Tigran Petrosian who was famous for being a turtle in chess. Everyone hated playing against him because he would play passive and never expose himself. In 1963, he even won the World Championship playing his defensive style.