- Primary Subject: Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game
- Key Update: Beginner's guide with essential tips for new players.
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- Last Verified: 2026-07-24
- Quick Answer: Check out essential beginner tips for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, focusing on movement, training mode, and combo simplification.
Want some guidance to help you get started in Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game? You’ve come to the right place.
After playing the game a bunch for my review, I’ve come up with some tips in case this is your first fighting game as an Avatar fan. Even if you’re a more seasoned fighting game veteran, you might find something useful in this guide.
I’ve done beginner guides in the past for games such as 2XKO, and I’ll be cooking up more for fighting games coming soon, like Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. That said, let’s begin.
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Beginner Guide
My key beginner tips to help you enjoy Avatar Legends are the following:
- Learn movement over combos first
- Use the training room, especially the Breakdown mechanic
- You don’t need anti-airs
- Don’t try to learn hard combos
- There are save states to make training mode smoother
Focus on Learning Your Character’s Movement Options Before Combos
One thing you’ll quickly realize about Avatar Legends is that it’s incredibly fast. Faster than possibly every other 1v1 fighter you’ve come across. Which is why my first recommendation is that you get familiar with movement before you start trying to pull off combos.
The ability to rapidly convert from a random stray is super important in Avatar, as footsies and other key elements of slower-paced fighters are simply not as prevalent here. The Flow system is tailored to each fighter, so a few might be extremely fast like Katara or Aang, while others are a bit on the slower side like Toph or Kyoshi, so figure out how to best move around the stage with your main.
Take Advantage of the Breakdown Functionality
You have character guides and combo trials to help you improve. The devs at Game Group took it one step further by adding a Breakdown functionality. It lets you piece together a combo at your own pace, making you pay more attention to button inputs and, most importantly, timing.
The idea is that you slowly start piecing together a sequence before executing it with flawless timing and clean inputs.
Anti-airs Are Not Needed
I get it. If you come from Street Fighter, you’ll likely miss DPs, or 6P if you’re a former Guilty Gear refugee. Avatar Legends doesn’t have a proper anti-air button, because you don’t actually need it.
The game is extremely fast, so chances are you’ll rarely be in a position to perfectly anti-air a Zuko divekicking you from almost full screen. That said, there are many tools around this. The most important, and the one the game recommends, are aerial grabs. If you’re wondering why, that’s because plenty, if not all, of the cast can get big, damaging combos off of an aerial grab.
Beyond that, as I said, keep yourself moving around (with purpose), the game rewards rushing down your opponents with barely any zoners or grapplers in the roster.
Don’t Break Your Head Learning Optimal Combos
Cash-out combos (combos where you spend all resources) are not something you should prioritize. Due to the game mechanics, the Energy system makes it so you spend EX moves consistently, so trying to spend two hours labbing a perfect punish that requires all your Energy pips and full Flow bar is not the way you want to spend your time in Avatar Legends.
Keep it simple, follow a basic structure (A + B + C + Special) and organically build from that. Sure, you can check Twitter for inspiration or to catch tech, but don’t get too hung up on the big damaging combos when you’re just starting.
Use Save States In Training Mode
A lot of people are getting annoyed at how slow the training mode resets. To that I say: use save states.
I play on pad, so if you’re in the same boat as me, you can use save states by simply pressing the big touchpad on the DualSense. My recommendation is that you add a few Energy pips and use the save state function.
Now, instead of resetting, you’ll simply need to press the touchpad to immediately go back to your preset.
Play, Play, Play
This one might be obvious, but hear me out. A lot of players get too hung up on improving only by training mode. They won’t touch casual or ranked until they have an optimal combo and punish for every situation. Don’t do this.
Press some buttons in training mode and then go to Casual and get some games. You’ll quickly realize this is the best way to get a feel for the game. Alternatively, if you don’t want to deal with playing online, the Story and Arcade Modes are quite a bit of fun, especially if you’re a fan of the show, and it’s a great learning arena to hone your skills in proper matches.
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