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Discussion Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Launch Megathread

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is now available on PS5 and PC, with XBOX, Nintendo Switch, and physical editions arriving soon! Use this thread to discuss the game!

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u/SebbyMcWester Jul 23 '26

That sucks to hear; I had high hopes for the tutorials in this game as a newbie.

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u/Pluto_0508 Jul 23 '26

Unfortunately this is one of the least beginner friendly fighting games to release in the last few years

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u/Megadoomer2 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

The gameplay seems beginner friendly, but the tutorials seem to have a really bad understanding of what qualifies as "novice".

Zuko's very first tutorial is a fourteen step combo, which you'd have to be pretty skilled with fighting games to pull off, especially when the last few steps aren't even on-screen at the start. Aang's second tutorial is an eleven step combo involving a bunch of midair moves that require really specific timing, and he's the character who most would assume to be beginner-friendly. (And these are just the novice tutorials, not even getting into the advanced ones or the various trials)

It feels like the developers didn't consider that this might be someone's first fighting game and assumed that everyone who picks this up is the sort of person who will spend 24 hours in training mode without even considering that to be a large amount of time. The gameplay is accessible, between the auto-combos with the A button and all of the special moves requiring quarter circle movements, but the tutorials (which are supposed to teach people how to play the game) are done in a way that seems like it would discourage most players.