I don’t play tekken as much these days but I think this video will help me hit masters in street fighter I’m currently d5 and super close to my rank goals

never cook again

Dat feeling when you go home early from math class to relax with some Tekken vids on YT 💀

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and feel this would improve anyone's fundamentals in any fighting game, not just Tekken. Thank you.

Idk about practicing in QM. Ranked feels easier tbh. Since QM just pairs you with much higher level opponents once you get past 200k prowess.

excellent vid, I'll test out this approach in quick matches, thanks!

You’re goated 🔥

Came to this conclusion in t7, its all the same eventually unless you play specialist characters.

Are you playing on pad?

This video is something that needs to be circulated a lot. This is great material and something that I am beginning to touch base on you see it and hear about it often but it never really gets explained the way you have thank you.

I don't care what my character wants to do, if my opp can't break grabs imma keep doing it.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the simplification greatly since this game has so many interactions and moves so fast. It’s just decision decision decision so I’m glad for a simplified way of thinking of what’s happening on screen ✌🏾

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One of the best Tekken improvement videos out there.

true video... i might expand on this. thank you very much.

As an Armor King now King main this is beyond sick to see. Good work!

Deeply appreciated this

This is PERFECT! ESSENCE of Tekken

Good video dude and a huge concept that people need to drill in. There is a lot of "oh my gosh that player is so carried by *insert anyone*" mindset in people. Instead that mindset is really "I'm held back by my lack of knowledge in this matchup". I have two Tekken Gods now and working on my third, and I have about 5 characters at Raijin/Kishin. I feel like I can take basically any character, learn a simple BnB combo/wall combo, and throw... heck the normal and 1+2 throwgame is universal anyways so you don't even HAVE to learn that to win usually, 1 armor move and 1 panic move, and boom... Can body pretty much anyone that isn't a Tekken king or higher main pretty easily. And yea they will be there on their end thinking "omg this guy barely knows how to play his character, he is just doing stuff" Yea... but no, haha. Simplify the game, people. Then build on top of it. Learning your character specific stuff will help you in those closeout situations and in helping make sure you don't give your opponents those additional chances, but more often than not, someone isn't losing a set bc of one interaction. It was the whole picture that wasn't clear yet.

In general, aside from getting good at fundamentals and switching up playstyle in sets, my main way of improving at my rank (Tekken King) has been simply picking up other characters and learning them extensively. It's tough, but once you play a character, beating them becomes infinitely easier if you're good at recognising move's weaknesses.

How can you learn tekken in a game where you can't play tekken ?

While general knowledge will carry you very far if your fundamentals are that good, its also about having enough game time to grind specific situations. I've taken multiple characters to purple ranks, and all of them had different ws launchers, different stances, gameplans, etc. It definitely takes a while to drill those in, or you have some legacy knowledge and intuition. Its also about having fun with the character you are playing. A pro player might beat anyone with just df1 and a low poke, but that doesn't mean they "played the character". Good video!

I'm main Yoshimitsu, I can't do that bro.

I managed to realise a lot of this myself over the last few months of play. The thing I'm struggling with now is the "learning". I apply the pokes, see my opponent respond, but I often fail to internalise the learning or know how to interpret the information I'm given. Feels like an experience barrier but I'm still learning so only upwards I guess

great content! this helps a lot to understand what tekken is

I like this vid.. I was def always rush down and it got me blasted 80% of the time.. I’ll even go as far as to say that the reason why most ppl get stuck and frustrated at blue ranks is because everyone is playing rushdown trying to steal their turn back.. not many players consider poking or keep out thus ignoring the plethora of opportunities the player actually has to win.. this would also explain why the game boosts other character’s rank when your main reaches a certain point: the game knows that you’ve accumulated enough fundamental knowledge that’ll just transfer to different characters so if you’re a GoD you might as well be sent to fujin with the other characters.. solid explanation bro 💯

More efficient way get an older Tekken with mokujin and play Ghost Battles ;)

learning the kbd and most input basics like circle moves upper cuts waive dash cancel instant running moves ws cancels ect is all you need to do in order to play all charcaters

Great message

Very rarely do I find a video that levels you up like this one. This is GOLD. Great video. I feel like this type of general/fundamental Tekken approach will carry you further than gimmicks ever will.

I apologize if the mic volume is a bit low. Still trying to figure that out. Also, I hope this concept makes sense. If ya'll would like a more in-depth video explaining how poking, keepout, and rushdown interact with each other, let me know in the comments!

I’ll just press one 1 and hope they are just mashing

Literally just posting a comment to boost you in the ole 'rithm. Good job, and thanks.

I needed this 24 years ago. Thank you for finally uploading

The funny part is, half of these throws, continued or not by the King player, leaves them in a very favorable okizeme situation. Get up and get launched, or stay and guess the ground throw.

I feel I just stumbled across pandora's box. Seriously tho, great video

Chain smokers

i dont agree that you should guess 1 or 2 on arm breaker and break 1+2 less. rarely will you see anyone use the 1, so guess 2 or 1+2. holding 2 the whole way is safest and theyll have to do 1+2 > 1, which can help you get a read on that path. only when they really really need to add more layers to mix you up will they use triple arm breaker. same with cobra clutch dont break the 1+2 options because no one uses them. even in the extremely rare case they do, i think its better to just guess 1 or 2 the whole way still. you have a few chances before those cash out points to break, so worry about breaking those instead. another thing that you should factor factor into this is that of you guess right on the standing heel hold options, you deal damage back to king and get pushed further away. because you only get one chance to guess here and the 1 and 2 are similar in damage, it is a harder guess. but its worse for king if you do guess right. the options off arm breaker are easier to escape but its safer for king to try. of course theyre both telegraphed by the crouch dash which means the best way to actually get a chain throw on people ducking those and guessing right is to use cobra clutch from jag step, which gives you many chances to break and is slower/even more telegraphed, but can be better mixed with jgs 2

this is actually goated asf, keep it up 🙏🙏🙏

This was insanely good, I've been playing since Tekken 7 launch and never really bothered labing the chain throws so Kings would destroy me lmao. Going to check these out in-game and practice visually identifying them. Also might be good to know that the lower rank King players might be lazy and default to the options where you can spam ki-charge for the chain. E.g. the majority of 1-breaks in Cobra clutch.

Mafs!!! 😂

Simplest Tekken 8 video 🙄

I thought throws track? (tracking move effect is there)

Bruh I just play the funny mexican wrestler with big titties. I don't wanna do math.

Just wanna add that you should never mash against King's chain throws as it runs the risk of you missing the break window, if you're holding the button it'll break the throw guaranteed as long as its the right input, no mashing or timing required. Don't fatigue yourself or risk missing timing

I miss the old voice of Heihachi which was also from Joseph Joestar

Get this to 50k views

Why yes I would like a similar video about t8 nina

After electrics, you can do F3D, FUJIN 1 before tornado, or something simpler like DF1

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