I really enjoy watching competitive fighting games, but never had the time to really get even mediocre at them. So I decided, with my recent unemployment, to spend some time every day to practice with a fighting game. The game I chose is Skullgirls. Why? Because it's pretty new, has a nifty art style, is a lot of fun, and I've found the tutorials quite helpful. Hopefully by putting this in video form will actually help me get dedicated.
 
I'll update this weblog each week with a video and put the most recent at the top of the blog post. Please fill free to provide tips, suggestions, death threats, whatever. 
 
2012 - 06 - 02: This week I learned that playing in a tournament is much different than playing just online, even when there is nothing on the line. (No pun intended).
  Also I decided to make a new one of this each month to lessen the clutter.  Thoughts in the comments below.
  

Peacock is primarily a zoning character. You want to keep distance between your opponent by throwing out her various specials. You can hold down the attack button for shadow of impending doom (Quarter circle back and punch) to have more damaging objects fall and to allow you to release the button when your opponent isn't blocking. High punch version tracks the opponent.
All three versions of the George special (Quarter circle forward and kick) can be on screen at the same time which makes it harder for the opponent to close space.
 
Try to find an assist that has good screen coverage and knocks your opponent away. You can combine that with a teleport behind to catch them blocking the wrong direction. If they get wise to this use Fire in the hole (Quarter circle back and two kicks, I think) along with your assist to keep them guessing.
 
Also you can pushblock by pressing 2 punch buttons when you block an opponent's move, creates a little bit of distance if you're having toruble punishing them. 
 
I've barely played due to some problems with the PS3 version, so I only know really basic stuff. Good luck with the rest of your videos.

I found the newest mortal kombat game to be really useful for learning how to play fighting games properly. mostly because i was so compelled to go through the story in that game that I forced myself to be better through brute force 
 
I mean ultimately fighting AI and fighting a person are different things, but it's good practice to help get the muscle memory down quick which has helped me in all sorts of games, not just fighting ones

I'm not certain Peacock is your style of character. Your Cerebella is much stronger, though you need to work on catching the larger hits (you could've had a mean Happy Birthday if you'd managed the timing in that second fight.) Have you tried Filia or Miss Valentine? They're much more straightforward.

So let me preface this by saying I am not good at fighting games and am particularly bad at tag games, but I have put in some time with Skullgirls.

So one of the things I've noticed is that Peacock is pretty terrible up close, which is why quite a lot of her moves knock the opponent so far away (her throw, argus agony and bang! to name a few), so I don't think teleporting to the other character is the greatest decision. As someone mentioned earlier it looks like Valentine might be a better fit for you (easily the character I found most fun to play btw). Great tip for her is that you can delay her second and third projectile shots, and you can go straight into her argus agony from it which makes for a pretty handy combo.

One of the tutorials gives you a pretty good combo for Cerebella, it's the one that explains what stagger is - it uses her mP into a command throw, into some other stuff, might be worth checking that out. Definitely also make sure you can do the hit confirm tutorial in your sleep, as it's an absolute fundamental when you start chaining stuff into supers etc.

Also if you haven't seen it yet, check out the creator, Mike Z, walking through Peacock's moves: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-skullgirls/714721? - it's a quite old (around the time of her reveal) so some stuff wasn't implemented at the time, such as her level 3 super.

Great video though, keep it up!

So a bit of a mini update. Today I was able to clear two of the three tutorial missions that I had left. The only now is the air dash canceling. Mainly I've been focusing on Cerebella and have learned/figured out a lot of cool stuff that hopefully I'll be able to apply it!

It takes a lot of time to get good at fighting games. Have you been able to find a local group that meets up or has monthly events in your area? Shoryuken.com has local forums for almost every major city in the country where people post info.

Online is nice but being able to compete against a real person and learn and talk strategy is not only 100% more fun but you'll learn more than just random one-off matches online.

Fighting games have two parts - understanding the game, and understanding the player you're playing against. Without both you will rarely win.

Neat. As a tip though, you should just make a new blog for each update you make, else this will get too cluttered and may go unnoticed.

Week 3 is up! I put my thoughts about it in the original post. I think I'm starting to get what competitive players like about fighting games and am starting to see a bit clearer into that world. It's been a lot fun!