How to Counter Hwoarang | TEKKEN 8 Full Anti-Guide

[@nickkilen5273]

I want you to know you're literally improving the entire Tekken 8 online experience at-large by reducing the friction separating intermediate level players from higher level play. I am BEGGING you to keep making videos like these.

[@MishimaComplex]

Appreciate your kind words, will keep at it! 👊

[@Irrit8-]

Now we need Azucena, feng, king, dragonuv and Devil jin 😂😂

[@sugoi9680]

What is considered intermediate and higher level?

[@xviinaichi3793]

@@sugoi9680 intermediate blue and above and high lvl tekken king and above id say

[@dillonbridge]

Yh i would say intermediate is red, ruler and blue ranks while advanced is tekken king and higher

[@fartogenic409]

I've lost to hwoarang so many times with the "blender" shit he did and I had no idea why. Now, I still lose to such Hwoarang players, but I know why. Excellent video.

[@tabkg5802]

The best anti Hoerang vid I've seen so far. Thank you so much for this

[@KarlKognitiv]

His name is in the video title. How did you misspell it?

[@Lieutenant_john_]

@@KarlKognitivhe’s calling hwo a hoe

[@Irrit8-]

I think he purposely spelt it like that cause hwoarang is a hoe

[@purpletea3807]

@@KarlKognitiv because it was intentional, the reason being: hoerang is a hoe 😂

[@Hwoarrang]

it's a joke, hwoarang, but a hoe, hoerang. ​@@KarlKognitiv

[@Umyu_Ch.]

Great video i'm tired of dealing hwoarang BS

[@Aspiret620]

Old Tekken player here and I gotta say I'm blown away by this guide. Really wish we had this kinda stuff back in Tekken Tag 2 days. You're honestly top 5 best Tekken creators right now with phidx.

[@MishimaComplex]

Ayy appreciate it man, doin my best hahaha 🙏

[@brandon_yl_is_busted_af9316]

YO THE SECTION WHERE YOU CONTROL YOUR OWN REPLAY TO SHOWCASE COUNTERPLAY IS SICK THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE VID ❤

[@MishimaComplex]

YOURE WELCOME THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS SIR ❤️

[@Anime_Dave]

The edit @3:48 is gold, my exact thoughts every time I face a Hwo in ranked 🤣🤣. Great video, will try to practice and slowly implement some of this in my matches. Tekken 8 is the first fighting game I'm really trying to get better at and your videos have been a great help. Love you attitude of always looking for things you can improve on.

[@anymoose]

My friend is almost red ranks and all he does is pick hwoarang and press 3 and 4 randomly and occasionally toggles on special style to spam power crushes 😂 everyone who plays him must feel like this

[@MiShenron]

The fact that you help us all (The Reina Community) while demoting a Hwoarang is so satisfying. Thanks for the video, it will improve my game, hopefully

[@marb2428]

Even if I wasn’t a Reina main, I would still watch these videos. Analysis and adjustment is what I’m trying to do right now. The character specific guides from you are just bonuses.

[@coltenfortune3252]

Seeing some actual application in gameplay after the demonstration is really nice. Thanks!

[@Straaaayyyy]

Hwo having +8 on block strings is absolutely crazy. And his flamingo stance kicks being safe too. Namco be smoking crack with this one. Thank you for this guide, I suck at sidestep but at least I know when not to press buttons

[@mcuziman]

Hwoarang is plus frame heaven I swear

[@rurounizomnus]

As a Hwoarang main. This video teached me how to master some of his moves and style even better than other guides. Unironically, thank you. xD Also, great anti-guide! Learning your opponent is part of the strategy~

[@BellamyJay]

Delete your account.

[@tristanmarquise7733]

Just faced a keepout heavy Hwoarang and this is exactly what I needed 😂 absolutely loving your content bro, especially as someone just picking up Reina. Keep it up and thank you so much! One potential suggestion: I think it would be extra helpful in an analysis video like this to have the Show Frame Advantage setting on during the replay. That way it helps (1) highlight the areas where the enemy is doing the particular unsafe/punishable moves that are the subject of the analysis, but also to (2) show off the frames and decisions that make up your strong offense. That ability to stay in frame while being offensive is something I’m working on myself and having that frame display would be really helpful in that regard 😅 just an idea though! Thanks for all your work!

[@TheFlyingChungus]

As a Hwoarang main, this is very well done. Made me laugh a couple of times as well. Good job!

[@danielepedrali7681]

this match-up guide is perfect. You are doing a great job teaching us every single aspect of Reina's game plan and now with this character specific counter guide you are going beyond. Thank you very much. I can't wait to see the next video.

[@ELFUICHE]

I gotta say, as a Hwo main, this man did a hell of a job.

[@KulaGGin]

Not really. It's some basics for beginners and then he didn't cover nearly all of them. Didn't cover that it's better to SWL hwoarang in neutral and not SWR, because if you SWR, you will get hit by JFSR. Didn't cover main transitions into flamingo spam: 1,2,3~f and 1,2,4~f and the options from LFS and RFS in those situations and how to beat them. From 1,2,3~f 1,2,4~f you can interrupt pretty much everything except for RFS f+4,4 and you trade with a jab from 1,2,3~f,LFS1. But then they're taking a risk of getting launched if they do RFS f+4,4 and jabs if you decide to do SSR,d/f+2 and only 1 out of 1000 hwoarang players will know this and it will be a tournament player. Everyone else just stops pressing after 1,2. Now you simply don't deal with that situation because they won't use this move against you any more because they don't even know they can win it. Then from f+3~f+3~f when he's +4 on block he can only do jabs to interrupt you. In this case mashing works again against pretty much all attack moves except jabs, and then you can also do SSR~i10 punish to basically beat all options from LFS from this move. d+3,4 situation isn't covered at all. Like, for example, that if they do d+3,4, 3+4, LFS d+3,4 you can kinda twitch-react to that and mash your i10 and interrupt Hwo from doing that to you. And those are situations from the top of my head. There are many more that aren't covered. Kinda full Anti-hwo guide with explanations that make sense would be around 3-4 hours long.

[@ELFUICHE]

@@KulaGGin Damn, my man. It’s all good. He obviously did not cover the whole moves set because that’d be ridiculous, but he covered some well used Hwo’s moves across most players.

[@watchmesquatch]

​@@KulaGGinloser. 😂

[@Asdfgdwfbjy]

@@KulaGGin im not sure if you can ssr df2 against 1,2,4 rfs f4,4

[@KulaGGin]

@@Asdfgdwfbjy _" im not sure if you can ssr df2 against 1,2,4 rfs f4,4"_ You can't. The _"and jabs if you decide to do SSR,d/f+2 "_ is only about jabs, not RFS f+4,4.

[@caelan5301]

Absolutely love that you're telling people to sidestep block. So many people don't realize that you can keep your sidesteps (mostly) safe if you hold back right after the evasion.

[@ShenasRI]

Excellent video, the replay parts were awesomely stitched together and super helpful.

[@spinky2234]

Great vid, thank you AI Chris Redfield

[@alongmarch91]

The Tekken community needs guys like you. This really helps players. Especially the online rank community

[@arsonne]

Love Anti-matchup guides. This channel is a gem

[@samuraiswift]

Thanks man. I really like your attitude in this video. Hwoarang drives me nuts!

[@MegaMarioRed]

Bro just got my reina to fujin and you are a big part of the process your guides are godsend. God bless you. Keep up the great job man.

[@yuuyu666]

The entire match I was thinking what the Hwoarang player could've done better lmao. But good job with the video. He's a complex character to explain generally like that.

[@LandoftheWeed]

I know I'm bias but you have the best guides on YT and I love PhiDX. Looking forward to the anti-Feng guide.

[@AissamElkirafi]

This is a really good video, particularly because of the gameplay analysis. It is good to know what you can do against something in theory, but it helps so much to actually see it highlighted in practice.

[@thomas.deliot]

As a Hwoarang main this was a very useful video for me as well :)

[@CristianGuerreschi]

You are the first KZbinr that I ever tipped. thanks for your guides bro!

[@MishimaComplex]

Yoo thanks so much! Super appreciated, glad I could help out ❤️👊

[@NoZeni]

This was really really helpful. Thank you🙏🏾

[@jonnymars7164]

very thorough and also the ending keep learning from your mistakes and notice them. Beautiful vid.Tekken Beauty...tears came down my eyes lol

[@steveFox302]

Really appreciate this detailed breakdown on countering Hworang. Please keep this up with the other characters as well

[@abdulabdanahib9617]

best anti hworang guide i've ever seen

[@squidgirls]

A buddy of mine and I just started getting into tekken, I'm maining Reina and he's maining Hwoarang, so this video is perfect. He's slowly getting more and more aggressive with him so seeing this came at the perfect time.

[@Remirured]

A big tipp. Some chars like steve, king and reina have a full crouch high crush launcher. Usually you have to wait for the highs in the strings to finish before punishing, but with those high crushing punishers, you can just immediately punish. It makes the matchup almost a guaranteed win until like fujin

[@MishimaComplex]

Good point! Makes WS punishing way easier 👊

[@madzteksuo6145]

Loving the Blender part as i am a Main Hwo and Reina XD

[@silentzach17]

Wait a minute. o.o this might be the best channel on KZbin! Great video 😊

[@NumberMXV]

Liking the format of the instruction here, and waiting to try it out. Excellent content.

[@Ghvst__]

As a Hwo main since early Tekken days, this video was perfection 😂 phenomenal detail. My biggest issue with USING him is many of his moves are so easily punishable.

[@Hau5test]

It’s the little things you can pick up from these guides that always surprise me still.

[@mochiimochii4797]

Dude I love you thank you for making this video

[@leonflorence118]

The commentary was intense. Thumbs up

[@osxar7188]

ty coach. Congrats on 10! well deserved

[@MishimaComplex]

Ayy thanks man, appreciate it 🙏

[@mnanwarmz]

Deym, neat vid, really insightful even as a hwo main.

[@vitalijandrijanov8536]

Absolutely love the videos. Straight to the point(no time wasting) technical analysis with good annotations. Please continue releasing more guides especially on characters. Subscribed.

[@amodestpileofgarbage1146]

You always post the best guides. So underrated.

[@MrPastige]

Watched a ton of Counter guides and not a single one comes to close to this one in terms of quality and clarity. Would be amazing if you could do guides like this for every character!

[@GunShocka]

As a Hworang main i am happy to see this breakdown. Remember folks even videos against your own main will help you improve and inovate. Cant wait to get slapped :3

[@MahbubAreeb]

thanks man. this is what I needed

[@mr_read]

Great Job man, this should be on some list of top useful videos of tekken ever 👍🏻 keep it up

[@nekusama6225]

great guide, so many guides don’t cover neutral as well as this!! looking forward to the next vid 🙏🙏

[@thisninja11]

ur videos are the reason im moving into higher ranks

[@Gotensan718]

Excellent guide, thanks. Will still plug every Hwoarang though.

[@amon22347]

Great video dude. Love the gameplay analyze challenge felt good calling out your mistakes and you confirming it felt like a real student😂

[@violetmistplays]

I always watch this after losing to a hwoarang player. Thanks for making this video 💯

[@violetmistplays]

Update: I definitely won a 3-0 just by sidewalking the moves you mentioned, thank you! Will practice more because i died to the blender on rematch x(

[@hasanali5300]

The best anti character guide to date, please don't stop coach 🙏, Kazuya mains needs you , we are getting destroyed by other characters even when played by new players, Tk8 is so crazy

[@Phantom73949]

FINALLLYYYY.... You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this 😢😢😭😭

[@soknheith3259]

Nice vid, bro. Noted A LOT of stuff.

[@ryangalloway3107]

You might be the only one making guides for actual humans. Very well paced and concise script, dude.

[@Irrit8-]

We need a guide like this for everyone!🔥🔥

[@breakr16]

I love that you speak just like I would imagine a teacher at Mishima Academy would speak. Sick videos keep it up

[@sylehu7056]

Sir, this was one piece of excellent work. Thank you for the insights. I am not a Mishima player but discovered you as I am playing around with Reina, and remains to your channel for how well done is the rythm and the information of your videos.

[@ExplictCont3nt]

I've been refreshing your page for 5 days waiting on this one.... Thank you :)

[@pogituna]

this video is good both for knowing how to counter hwoarang and how to play as him effectively 😂 can you do one for law and leo if possible? thanks 😊

[@MishimaComplex]

Eventually 😂

[@HeartPliz]

Glad to see the char i picked is giving everyone trouble. And good to see the counterplay to the char weaknesses.

[@darkmadnessyeayuuh6932]

This guy is on it !! Bro is coming out with the best guides I swear! Great job man!! 🎉

[@shaji6481]

More of these please for King, Reina, Dragunov, Bryan, Jun, Victor and Azucena. This helps immensely.

[@ShredGaming]

Perfect video, I needed this. But I have to say, when you put that yelling Marmot in there, I had to pause because I was laughing so hard. Not only because that video is funny AF, but because the blender sucks to be in.

[@jd0281]

What a good video keep doing this

[@akoola14]

Only got to watch this for a minute before getting matched with a hwoarang, all i can say is that the first minute of when to launch hiss asss was all i needed lol

[@Adanamon]

You are a hero man. This video was amazing at showing what to do and how it improve. Because of you I've gotten to Tenryu which is higher than i ever thought I'd get. Would love to see tips against Bryan even if its less in depth.

[@GunZaa1150]

I start competitive at tekken 8 (Only play Chloe at Tekken 7 for fun) and your channel help me a lot , really big thanks! so I'm really proud that i'm only 4-5 dan and I predicted most you and hwoarang's move like 90% correct QwQ but I didn't know what you can make better cause I'm just no good TT but thank for teaching me how to deal with these flamingo thing

[@GunZaa1150]

only thing I confusing is, Is HW -> Heat Engage is bad?

[@dodopamina]

Thank you! I won with purpose and strategy for the first time against Hwoarang

[@xJIN86x]

Bro is out here doing gods work

[@KojiroSasaki21]

Me watching this as hwo main💀.btw keep making this type of video for other characters this is so good for intermediate player🔥👏

[@RosaVinicius]

Nice video, you’re actually teaching something instead of just going through his move list saying block this low and punish this mid

[@bretzubieta8094]

Such a great video, hope to see more of this videos in the future

[@TheShockHaven]

3:49 is exactly my reaction 😂😂😂😂 although I’ve gotten much better dealing with this stupid character. Vids are great, time to rise Reina mains 😈.

[@FC-mz2lk]

hwoarang isnt even top 10 worst chars in this game his defense is garbage and easy to sidestep

[@TheShockHaven]

@@FC-mz2lk Lol I feel you, still though you can’t lie when you come up against some hwoarang players it’s mad annoying 😂. Alisa might have the number 1 spot for me though lol.

[@Linoangelo00]

Holy shit this is what i needed. Now i only need to practice steve, draganov, king and nina

[@shinoryukamui]

what a best guide ever! Thank you!

[@eddythomany8689]

Great vid man Great explanation now i can add that to my gameplay well done for real 👊🏿

[@50195876]

I'm almost surprised to see you with Reina. Some view her as a Heihachi replacement but I found that her stance-based pressure was so different, and her aesthetic so much less impressive, that I had no interest in touching her and have moved from Kaz/Hei to Kaz [who's suffering from his own problems]/Jin/DVJ. Great guide; I think you put together the best and pithiest guides of any channel.

[@SpoonOfHawaii]

This really helped. Both for how to deal and how to play him lol

[@thoraero]

Very good guide. Thank you. I met my first T8 Hwo yesterday and it appeared he got a new homing move from his bird stance. Also it's harder to keep calm with the accumulating chip damage. I really hate this guy since T5 because my defensive options up close always very limited. In T7, I relied on SS punish after blocking a specific move. Now I need to relearn.

[@TheEliteblaze]

Hwoarang has a really good approach tool with RFF DF3. Not many use it and I don't know why but this move is strong.

[@teegermaster]

HWO 4ever! :D Nice counter guide BTW. If you wanna counter us, mostly duck or stay in mid distance, and attack with dash moves.

[@clarencelim135]

I think as a general rule of thumb for defense against hworang you can fuzzy low -> standing, most of his strings go low - > mid/high and if he chooses to cancel and do a launcher there's usually a noticable wait/delay, which is reactable by standing up. In short, it's kind of the opposite of defense versus most characters where you want to fuzzy stand->low.

[@iBeFrozenSolid]

gonna need one of these for every character.. get to work boss

[@FortniteEvieFan]

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU DONT KNOW HOW BAD I NEEDED THIS

[@nesnalica]

thank you so much! i really needed this and here it is now!

[@LOTM_71]

Top tier channel. If you do a hwoarang drill guide I'll send you money directly

[@spectraphantom777]

We asked and he delivered. Let's go!

[@Icycrackedpanda]

Knowledge checked him with the guard break 😂😂

[@RayZL90]

This is such a good video, you could make this into a series ngl 🔥

[@Leodanram15]

This is a really well made video! Do you plan to make one for Law?

[@MishimaComplex]

Yes eventually! And thanks 🙏

[@alongmarch91]

Great video been look for an anti guide for this character. His pressure is broken in this game

[@satoshiwiles]

lol this guy is hilarious. Subscribed 😂

[@keno4379]

for someone who cant spend too much time playing tekken, it feels too much to learn just to counter 1 character.. great tutorial tho appreciate it man

[@W_smith1990]

Another well done anti guide

[@aldofer8832]

Can't wait for your reina counter guide :))))

[@taguro1006]

That Hwo blender gets me craaazy 😂