Yeah I cannot get how to really play those games. Even when I lookup moves, how the hell can i remember them, and how in the world do you do L R updown AB while getting bicycle kicked in the face? Never got it. A shame becuase I love how they look (street fighter 2 etc)

I didn’t pay to block

if i don’t shoot something at the enemy when i do a quarter circle forward and hit punch i refund the game immediately

Effectiveness for me follow a pattern.

If I have no clue what I’m doing random bullshit is fairly effective.

If I know moves but am not practiced, I do terribly whole trying to do specific stuff instead of random bullshit.

When I finally get gud 300 hours later I am slightly more effective than I was with random bullshit!

This is also why I lose fighting games to twelve year olds, and have since I was a twelve year old.