Free Step Dodge

When did you start playing this?

Oct 20th and its my first DoA game ever

Guard! Hold if you know exactly what attack they're going to use next. If they do a move with a long recovery, throw punish. You can't guard too long though, since they'll probably try to throw you. If you can see that coming or predict it, attack or crouch it.

1: We've all been there. The tutorial is OK, but nothing beats one on one. My thing is simple, find those players who use "your" characters really well, ask them to teach U or play U. Worst they can do is say "no", but I've found that when they say "yes" they're usually genuine.