How a Tekken Scrub Proved Everyone Wrong

[@facksmasheen]

That high crushing CH mini-launch Leroy low is db4 isn't it? d4 is part of a string (d4,4- goes into stance iirc) Anyhoo, another good breakdown. 👍

[@PhiDX]

Whoops LOL

[@darknessmadaraa8474]

Bro you smart and play clean even knee notice that .. when I first saw you play.. i was like man he’s just random .. but bro now I’m a fan from saudi 🫡

[@faustianfgc]

Nah, you proved us right because we knew you had it in you. - Chapter

[@manmaw_prod]

man i feel bad i didnt get to see this live. watching you explain how this tournament win was super important to you makes this win feel all the more rewarding. i feel like we should get to see more of these important moments in fighting games. where not the struggle against a match up ends but the the sturggle to perform well ends. cant wait to see the shit you pull off in tekken 8 man.

[@paulolivo9618]

Watching the part of the end made me realize to not be nervous for my band competition this Saturday with only 5 days to learn with a new instrument. Just the fun and remembering thanks Phidx. Also your gameplay is so fast love the movement

[@Dextrous90]

Haven't seen match breakdowns this good anywhere. Incredibly helpful for learning the layers of Tekken for an actual scrub like me. When people have been talking about the "timing", I had no idea how deep it actually went before I found your channel. Can't wait for more Tekken 8 content. Been out of the Tekken scene for a year or two so haven't seen much in terms of tournament matches lately. You beat Arslan Ash right before beating Chikurin? Hot damn. That's an amazing feat. Well done!

[@Sadbringer]

Was watching it live on twitch and nearly jumped out of my pants when you've beaten not one but two world champs back to back! Whatever scrubby or unclean the gameplay was (so as you would call it), not many people can brag about such achievement. Sure you've then proceeded to lose 2 in a row, ending your run, and placed top 8. On the one hand, as a competitor one should consider an achievement winning the whole thing. On the other, hit me with a stick whoever wouldn't call defeating such strong players an achievement! That was an insane run my man and I couldn't be happier for your hard work paying off on the day!

[@magicaryeh]

Hey PhiDX you have been an inspiration to me, i'm honoured to follow your journey and I love how you make your content easily accessible to a noob like me and your explanations of concepts are wonderful and have helped me understand the game on a deeper level. You're probably the best Tekken creator I've watched! I recently went through a rough breakup I got cheated on. And watching you succeed in tournaments makes me feel alot better and motivates me ingame as well as in my life. Thank you

[@PhiDX]

Wishing you the best

[@muhammadmuddassir6847]

Hey this is not related to the video but I learned to korean backdash properly from your video almost three years ago. Now my movement is really crisp. I found your channel after i saw your win against Arslan and i recognised you. Thanks man. Also your content especially analysis videos are making me understand layers of tekken which were previously hidden to me. Great content keep it up my man 🤝

[@ganonman8]

You are an inspiration, my guy. Thank you so much for your wonderful analysis and ability to convey even the tiniest of decisions in such a concise way. I've felt horrible at my performance at CB and thought I might as well stop playing Tekken competitively and just keep it a friend-only thing, but you've given me new insight on how I can improve my gameplan and now I hope to hit up more tournaments and enjoy the game on a deeper level. Thank you SO so much, my friend.

[@SusanooMain]

I discovered you recently from watching this tournament on brawlpros channel, then yt recommended your stuff. You’re REALLY great man. There are a lot of Tekken content creators now, but only after watching your videos I got a thought like: “damn, if I were to introduce my friends to Tekken and how fun it is, besides Aris I’d recommend this channel 100%” Keep it up, really enjoying your stuff!

[@DamianIsReved]

I reeaaaallly love your match analysis video's man! Glad I found yout channel. Keep it up Brotha

[@CapNsTrider]

Lets goooo PhiDX! I love and respect your grind and breakdowns. Hella proud to know i got mollywhopped at GroundKontrol by you and PDX crew. Keep goin dood! A fan who is inspired to get good - Josie main but probably gonna jump on the Azucena or Reina train in T8. Lookin foward to more growth and learning-

[@holdysnausages]

Once again. Love the content. Pls keep it coming. Helps me get through slow nights at work.

[@Oathkeeperclash]

great analysis. you are my favorite tekken pro and now my favorite tekken content creator too. really like your study ass playstyle. scholarly, even i'm gonna need the other two games eventually.

[@PhiDX]

Thank you! Which other two games?

[@Oathkeeperclash]

@@PhiDX the other two CEO upsets where you throttled that -- that, what was his name? arnold ask? can't remember. musn't be that big of a player i guess.

[@ZefiYT]

Love to see the thought process behind great sets. Keep it up Phi. ❤

[@genesishandboards]

Im late to watch this but congratulations man! I watched the match live and didnt know who you were then 😂 😅 now im hooked on your content. Your blessed with natural talent as well as learning everything you need to succeed. I know you train hard not taking that away just had to say. Ive been grinding tekken for 20 years and never could have achieved what you had in the the short time you had with the game(at the time). Much respect. My dreams of competition are gone im old and still grinding all the same 😅 mishmias may have been my downfall lmao. I did win a few tournaments in the tag 1 days but nobody remembers that stuff. Keep going young blood!

[@Harmerock_YT]

You're killing it lately with your content Phi. Keep it up!

[@Shaunquirk89]

You scrub!! 😉 haha! Really enjoy the channel! Thanks for helping me learn a bit more about tekken! Any tips for improving my punishment skills?

[@plunemfg4509]

You didn't looks ridiculous at all, love that popoff

[@rennoujip3073]

"At tournaments, nobody is playing their best". That's the shit I needed to hear. I've fumbled so many top 8 runs at locals that I always doubted if I was really good enough or not, but hearing someone who has beaten some of Tekken's best say this really levels my head a bit.

[@Kizuke21]

0.48 I always believe in you :) OUTRO >:)))))

[@PositiveBlackSoul]

Dude I watched this live. Super hype match. And interesting breakdown.

[@djohnnn]

LOL, far from a scrub. Pro level shit!! You're inspirational for a lot of us here on the couch. Pressure must be insane. I crack under red ranks. Great breakdown, as always!

[@nabedesu7708]

Pro level but plays scrub strats on purpose but if it works it works. Its amazing what would happen if a pros can make use of scrub strats in tournament and making it works

[@rosa.gigantor]

fwiw i thought the pop off was dope lol fittingly anime style jumping and flying into that ground slam. great discussion regarding allowing tournaments to be sloppy and accepting that mistakes are gonna happen and basic tactics can still work. it's easy to tell yourself that the only way you'll ever win is to play the most immaculate gigabrain perfect games of your life

[@JaredMS0]

such a cool moment. excellent content phi, have really enjoyed following your journey. very inspirational

[@TwinT22]

That edit at the end with Noctis alone doing Bryan's victory is hilarious lol

[@knightdemonthe5th885]

Phidx was more hyped at the end than arslan winning his 4th evo 😂 love it

[@PanicDr]

That outro is sick! haha

[@ourdailymeat]

Man, I want to be good at Bryan. I started Tekken this February. There still a lot of room for improvement. I don't know KBD, Taunt, B3 cancel, Magic 4, QCF34 after the launcher, but at least happy that I can do launchers then combo, that's just it. I joined the Major Rev in my place for the first time, without the experience of online play, or learning other character movesets for reading. It was fun BTW 😅

[@PhiDX]

I'm glad you're having fun! Bryan has a lot of mechanics and getting clean on him often requires learning good defense. Good luck!

[@ourdailymeat]

​@@PhiDXthank you. Now I'm happy that in T8 you can click 1 button for the taunt 😂

[@ourdailymeat]

@@PhiDX Do you have a Bryan analysis video?

[@abdullahalrashdi2140]

Yo good stuff, Bryan is difficult but so satisfying to play , as Bryan mean i can tell u that keep at it don't rush it ,it will come time i promise

[@ourdailymeat]

@@abdullahalrashdi2140 thanks bro. Yeah, super hard, I need to takeaway this button CH moves mashing

[@the0manslayer]

A fight is about who's left standing. Nothing else.

[@victorcalalang997]

i just remember when kanetrench whooped knee's ass sometime ago., good thing about tournament is everyone has chance to beat a pro having some random tricks in their sleeves that surprises them, great play there phidx

[@Dane_ger]

I'm excited to see you play in T8 tournaments!

[@1MTW]

I remember watching someone else cover this. Nice match and pop-off dude

[@sage8148]

This was fun! You earned that popoff

[@Dyleniz]

I dont remember where saw you but I remenber someone on youtube (probbly tbs) recommending up coming talent during the online era in the US granted I was busy studying to follow tekken I only now connected the dots after I remembered your name lmao Edit : I found it lmao it showed up in my himepage from alexnostalgic 2 years ago

[@ObsidianOsama]

Y'all if he is calling himself scrub then who are we?💀💀

[@Strangz_ODT]

Congrats man! Super inpiring

[@ballistic2527]

at the risk of making myself sound toxic, i'm glad you floored a meta slave like chikurin lmao

[@elhombre2996]

What is this game "made of?" Tekken = Timing + Spacing + Punishment? Perhaps there is some overlap there. When we are playing, should we be going back and forth between situation analysis and these three components? We can be conscious of only so much, so I think defining what to focus on is helpful.

[@PhiDX]

The top two priorities for the highest level of play: - watch for whiffs to punish - watch your opponent's movement These are the two hardest things and require a lot of active attention. With proper training, the string punishment, block punishment, and timing reads will come more automatically.

[@dkflbckfd34htu]

Very happy for you, bro.

[@TehShooterx]

Wow man and you beat Arslan. Good fucking shit.

[@syedahsanmahmood4693]

Looking forward for ur victories champ

[@Aabil11]

"prestigious state of Florida" bruh 💀 💀 💀

[@PhiDX]

😂

[@abdullahalrashdi2140]

Sick video as always 🔥

[@thmistrapillay1811]

You: "I'm terrible at competing" Also you: *hits Top 8 in basically every single ICFC tournament* Come dude we all know you're up there in skill👌

[@Gboythunda]

Everytime I see that stupid noctis backdash my blood pressure rises. Like here we go again. I'm glad to leave him in 7. Sorry phi.

[@divyaprakashdixit]

A well deserved win🎉

[@defmos630]

Good stuff man

[@jonathanshihadeh]

Your breath seems like it would taste good

[@Aurongroove]

You’re an academic. You analyse Tekken like an academic; You’ll basically just keep getting better the longer you play. (Minus fatigue, interest in the game, and age-related performance fall off, etc)

[@TSkillzX]

Maybe bc its the only big one i thought mastercup was the only bo1 tournament in japan. Iirc the gaming sphere at redbull does ft2s

[@PhiDX]

Definitely both formats exist, but the bo1 environment's influence is very visible

[@holdysnausages]

I’d like to see some more tekken 7 Susan’s analysts. Like maybe his set against saint in the twt years ago

[@holdysnausages]

Or maybe a little bit of all his opponents that whole thing. His run was pretty wild. Saint matches were really crazy. Especially that ewgf punish on df2

[@trogolin0076]

Rly wish u dodnt main noctis but dragunov 😁 ur commetaries are insanely good

[@YungJedi100]

Great tech

[@swojguy]

Good job man.

[@PhiDX]

I still want my rematch lol! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@Cake-6]

Phi your BrianF is showing

[@booleann___]

love your content

[@strikemist]

I always got my money on Phi

[@GeminiDTX]

@HideTone is my goat 🐐

[@Yokoso-kj7ij]

❤

[@3nderalon380]

i hope tekken 8 releases someone similar to noctis

[@xRhychux]

Mayhap Victor

[@vq9834uq3]

we got Victor, noctis / kunimitsu / raven esque

[@witchblade8595]

@@vq9834uq3 / Negan

[@Ambience31]

Victor

[@harryf9885]

People were laughing at you? For your celebration after beating Arslan Ash and Chikirin in the same day and making it into top 8? If that isn’t cause for a dramatic popoff I don’t know what is. Your girlfriend I understand, but anyone else not so much.

[@dariuszkopec2567]

Ok but Noctis is not tekken rather soul calibur.

[@nakulkumar9363]

Kya bhai khudka chusna band karo