The trial mode in most games seems like sort of a cop-out for actual training purposes and most new players probably don’t ever bother with them since it doesn’t actually TEACH anything (one of the things I’m most looking forward to in Skullgirls is seeing their tutorial mode in action.)
However one of the most common complaints I saw when AE came out was “why didn’t they bother putting in Oni/E.Ryu/Yun/Yang trials?” (as well as one of the more requested additions to AE v2012) I personally have recently gone back and started doing the trials since I originally barely touched on em (only did like 3 characters fully when I first got the game.)
How many of you have done the trials, and how did they help (if at all)? I think the only thing I gained out of doing the trials so far is a slight improvement in my execution, but you could get that just by beating up on the training dummy for a few hours a day.