What's everyone's approach to picking what characters you'll play in the full game?
Obviously, just picking a character you like is the first thing we'll do. My thought though, is that over the life of SF:IV it seemed like it was in player's best interest to have a few characters they were good with. Matchups are huge.
So I want to play Mika and Chun-li, but if I stick with this game (and honestly it's a big "if") I'm not sure those two would necessarily cover each other's weaknesses and mitigate the other bad matchups. So does anyone go about picking characters by choosing chracyers with like opposite strenghts and weaknesses so you are equipped to counter zoners, and rushdown and stuff? Or do you just sink time into whoever you think is cool regardless on how thier weaknesses overlap.
Pro tips : Chun li is always a very good debt in sf. Stick with her and you'll end up being very hard to beat, chun's good by design.
Top tier in 2x, best character in third strike, most balanced character of sfiv.
Plus, as the time goes, great players who stick with their character for years are always at advantage. Look at the pro, daigo with ryu/eryu bonchan with sagat, kazunoko with yun, snake eyes with zangief, pr with balrog... Damn luffy with rose wrecks. Guys who mained chun li since the beginning are often very, very though to beat, look at valmaster, all he does is barely punish people or frame trap and he's tier 1 player.