I Tried Learning Yoshimitsu in Tekken as a Beginner

[@makytondr8607]

As a Yoshi main since Tekken 3, my advice is: don’t force the cool moves to happen. Instead, wait for an opportunity and then quickly react. If you go around using the copter/flea/bad breath etc. all the time, your opponents will always call you out. It’s hard not to use those moves a lot, since that’s Yoshi’s unique thing, but you just need to focus and rely on fundamentals and treat the special moves as an ace up your sleeve, not your bread and butter.

[@raylnz]

Thanks for this I definitely go overboard with the cool moves 😂

[@AngeloGene]

​@@raylnzI will give you an ever so slightly better advice? Not to be rude to the first commenter of course! They said an extremely good tip. As for my tip (from a Fujin ranked Yoshi) , you can do all the cool moves you want. But you have to set it up. I'll give you a good one! Yoshi's suicide (ff 1+4). Make your opponent block Yoshi's Fubuki knee (ff 4). Then when they least expect it, use it as a round ender. It's very satisfying. This setup has never failed me, even when they know it's coming. Just don't abuse it though. Your opponents will eventually learn. xD

[@Bumbleoka]

also yoshi got strong "basics" mooves, so even if he got a lot of gimmick, u can play him pretty "basically"@@raylnz (hope u understood what i meant, my english is bad sry)

[@Havik880]

@@AngeloGene Yeah because your played experience is going to be his played experience so the same round ender makes sense ofc. /s stfu Also, when was he rude to anyone? Genuine question

[@AngeloGene]

@@Havik880 Um... I was saying that I was not trying to be rude. Not anyone else. Please don't misunderstand. Also, it's called conditioning. When you condition someone in Tekken to block a certain move, your opponent will block it consistently. Yoshimitsu's Fubuki Knee (ff4)is a safe launcher that leaves Yoshimitsu back turned. Now Yoshi's suicide has a very similar animation that also leaves him in Back Turned stance and the suicide is unblockable. I have enough experience to know what I'm talking about, dude. I'm sorry if I offended you? But I will not "stfu". I see a new Yoshimitsu player, I will always offer help and give all the Yoshi Discord Tech I know of.

[@whatamidoingwithmylife3068]

you became a true yoshi main when you said im not trying to win but trying to use as many moves as possible.

[@raylnz]

😂

[@whatamidoingwithmylife3068]

good vid really good gameplay for your first 7 days

[@Siemka4xSpeed]

100%

[@Zachebi]

Victory is empty unless you’ve given your opponent an aneurysm from trying to figure you out

[@Karachsingstrue]

This is the only prereq to become a Yoshi main.

[@qili5491]

As 800 hr yoshi player. For beginer to learn flash is flashing when you get hit by lows. Many low on hit put you in minus 4 - 5 frame, especially those low with standing animation. If your opponent try to pressure you after the low, they will get flashed. And slowly, you will get the feeling and experience to flash. For more advance use, use it to punish. Its perfect punishment for spring kick, king's power crush, etc.

[@raylnz]

Spring kick is definitely one I have to start flashing thats for sure 😂

[@Kenlac92]

@@raylnz please do bro. another is characters that can do a hop knee like Lee or King.

[@electron415]

I spend a lot of time on youtube and I miss seeing everyone making similar content but damn, seeing someone learning Yoshimitsu is what i call true gaming content, thx man

[@HaTTStud]

As a new yoshi player on controller. The most helpful thing I did was rebind my shoulder and trigger buttons to multiple buttons presses, this helped me access yoshi’s moves a lot easier.

[@remon.d8341]

I played tekken without knowing that, game js way more fun being able to do multiple buttons in one

[@subparticle8995]

​@@remon.d8341as a King main this helped me immensely too. I think it's almost necessary to a point to not get carpal tunnel. Stick players have a much easier time with directional inputs and pressing in general so this is a very valid tactic IMO

[@ryanhansen1296]

​@@subparticle8995fellow king main here, shoulder button binds allowed me to do his entire Mexican magma drive throw combo. His throws are so much more doable

[@sisisisi1111]

Alisa main here - it is pretty much vital to have 1+2 and 3+4 bound together. I use R1 for 1+2 and R2 for 3+4 (In Tekken 7 and 8). Now in Tekken 8 i have also bound the rage art to L2 (as in Tekken 7) and Heat Burst/Heat to L1 - this is the optimal layout for every char in my opinion.

[@Rhekon]

You seem much better than me as far as potential goes. You will go far at your current rate. Never stop learning.

[@kurigohanandkamehameha]

2:24 Seeing this just after going through what felt like an endless horde of Lucky Chloe players with Yoshi in ranked right before T8 releases felt so relatable LOL

[@FredM8Beats]

as a dedicated yoshi main i can say you are better than most bluerank yoshis i have met in ranked. welcome to the manji clan :D

[@volktol4432]

Any tips, I’m newer to tekken, played some tekken 7 and I plan to play Yoshi, Lars and Victor in T8

[@makytondr8607]

Welcome to the manii clan goes so hard lol, I’m gonna start using that. (Yoshi main since Tekken 3)

[@AngeloGene]

​@@volktol4432I'm willing to share some tips! I'm just a Fujin Rank though... What kind of tips are you looking for? Yoshi game plan? Or general Tekken beginner tips like... "Do not press a button when hit. Keep blocking and backlash cancel away from the opponent." ... Type of thing?

[@FredM8Beats]

@@volktol4432 there is a really good 2+ hours long yoshimitsu breakdown on KZbin. Just type in "blasted salami yoshimitsu". It's a really high quality almost looks official.

[@volktol4432]

@@AngeloGene like general yoshi stuff and yea I guess game plan as well, I have some good fighting game experience and some decent experience with 3d (Tekken 7, Soul Caliber 6 and Dead or Alive 6) mainly rn I play SF6, GGST, and DBFZ. But yea I basically a beginner, highest I got was the last blue rank (I think Grandmaster it was)

[@anonymous-sf3ul]

how do u only have 85 subscribers ?!!! ur editing content and creativity is on point ! ur soo underrated

[@raylnz]

🙏

[@Johnhamsta]

6:36 I love this transition: "I knew there was only one thing left to do:" (announcer) "FIGHT!" Great video!

[@AngeloGene]

More Yoshi ranked, please! Love your content. I'll be tuning in for more. I'm just a Fujin rank Yoshi and I am extremely impressed by your use of his uppercut (df 2) in your gameplay. It's a great keep out tool to make your opponents regret running into you. xD My biggest tip for you is 3 of Yoshi's defensive tools: 1) Flash 2) Kincho parry 3) Spinning evade Option 2 is a little advanced and has little application so don't worry about that yet. But do NOT sleep on spinning evade. Back 3 3 (or b4 4) is your Get out of jail free card for most of your opponent's retaliation. Yes, it costs a bit of life but it is worth it. Whiff punish with b2, 2 or df2 launch them for a combo. And even if you forgot to punish, you can still threaten them with Fubuki Knee (ff4) or dash into them for a low or throw. 👍

[@raylnz]

Ill practice these for sure I was afraid to use spinning evade too much because I didn’t want to give away health 😂

[@AngeloGene]

@@raylnz Don't worry! I had the same mentality. But once you learned how to use these... You might never wanna sidestep with Yoshi again. xD Spinning evade honestly got me to Fujin. Everybody just likes to press. Two consecutive spins is good enough to evade most attacks, except from homing moves of course. You give yourself what amounts to chip damage and in return, you get a whiff punish or a free mix up. 👍

[@robertstryjak1973]

Yoshimitsu might be roughly 90% cheese but that's what makes him memorable and awesome. Great video, keep up the good work and I hope we'll see your Tekken 8 videos soon!

[@isaacatkinson1882]

Loved Yoshi every since mailing him during Soulcaliber 1 through 3. Seeing you learn him has made me want to get back playing MK OR Tekken. I miss the salt. Great vid BTW loved your format was fun.

[@bobbytilkov3574]

I'm impressed with your thought process I've seen many people give up as soon as the difficulty jumps you just don't get better at anything. Practice makes perfect as the old saying goes

[@LendinSwiftbolt]

Great vid, especially with the Omega Strikers OSTs. Honestly, it finally clicked with me what kind of FGC vids I wanna make myself - documenting the journey of improvement and learning. Good stuff, keep it up!

[@K9arcade]

A fun video that motivates me to keep at it with my character main. I got a friend who's a yoshi main tho and i have so much respect for the character's movent and creativity. Time to jump on ranked before T8

Congrats for this video man! Great editing and you are funny af 😂

[@EYR-qw7hg]

Very nice! In such a quick timeframe too for learning a new character

[@Pokeysanic]

It is so heartwarming seeing new people picking up Yoshimitsu, I wish you luck with using Yoshi himself 🗡️👹

[@Zachebi]

Just started playing him today in tekken 8 and he’s so much fun

[@Zachebi]

Its actually really funny because people will wreck me because im new, but then i just start doing his dumb moves and they actually start getting less aggressive. Its like they think im just letting them get me low so i can switch up and start trying out of nowhere, then i end up winning just because they’re being too defensive.

[@raphaelapolinario8111]

This video has taught me things. I started playing Tekken and maining Yoshi today. I did pretty good. My strat is usually low attacks and when there is enough distance use his special attack. And if I'm dying, I heal and if they try to get closer, teleport. I'm still a noob tho, so I only won most of the time because my friends were going slightly easy on me and I abuse the healing ability where i win the match by having more health.

[@Yshaikush]

Hope to see some more yoshi content from you when tekken 8 is out 👹👍

[@KyeCreates]

Woah I just saw this video bump up in views in under 5 minutes 😳 Congrats bro! I play Lei and I can confidently say It was exactly like this with him! But now i'm tgp and I can have way more fun playing him than I imagined at the beginning.

[@raylnz]

I watched your guide on how to rank up quickly! Thank you for your service my friend 🤝

[@KyeCreates]

@@raylnz You're welcome! I'm smiling super hard realizing my guide is actually helping people 😮😁

[@TheGreatAustino]

I played yoshi almost exclusively for a couple years straight once and then I got bored and man when I finally picked up a new character (Lars) I forgot how easy Tekken can really be.

[@yaznot]

good shit, my guy. yoshi is super fun once you get the hang of him, always great to see new players get into tekken. keep it up!

[@Yshaikush]

This video is just sooo good my dude, I felt excactly just like you when i started going on rank with yoshi on tekken 7

[@raylnz]

Its a struggle thats for sure 😂

[@thaddeussmithiii8065]

Nah green ranks in your first week of Tekken is good af. Half of Tekken is mental adjustment and you’ve shown that you have that already, you’ll hit red rank way before you know it

[@micshaz]

Except the point system for the last season allows people below reds to be on a consistent losing streak and still be herded towards those ranks, this is due to an extreme lack of players occupying the lower ranks and they even completely got rid of wood ranks; tekken god mains have their alts in high reds/rulers so the hand holding stops there. I've been consistently running into very very low "rank" players in fujin since my pc died and switching to ps4 for a while. Setting a ranked goal right now is very very pointless

[@micshaz]

I should probably elaborate that this is no shade at the video, just that the ranked goal is kinda redundant

[@raylnz]

Definitely a mental battle thats for sure 😂

[@Ocean5ix]

I did that too, first character I learned in Tekken and it was a blast.

[@OzymandiasFGC]

Hey nice, always good to see people giving the Space Squid Ninja™ a go. He is genuinely one of the most fun and creative characters in all of fighting games from my experience. Well done and keep at it sir!

[@thevendetta9726]

I‘m a mishima main since Tekken6 and picked up yoshi for the first time. I got him to Tenryu now with lots of sweating, lots of choking but also really good matches, being unpredictable as hell. However I also often am really lucky since I rely on opponents often not knowing the matchup that well. When the opponents has some knowledge, like ducking some highs etc. I notice that I dont have super strong mix up options to really put pressure on the opponent like mishimas. With mishimas, no matter if someone knows all of your moves, its difficult for them to read you and if they guess wrong, they die. With yoshi its a bit harder. You have to really stay flexible, using much of his moveset because otherwise the opponent wont respect anything. Your fundamentals have to be really strong and your defense on point. A bit unga bunga is sometimes helpful but not always. I would say he is definately one of the hardest characters

[@usmansubhani7482]

5:55 For me, as a Jack player, I rarely move and switch around different combo strings depending on what I did before. F11 for Jack is always breaking the bull when against too aggressive opponents.

[@manutdfan231]

Thank you for learning this character, we need more Yoshi's terrorizing cyber space (I dont play him but i enjoy watching him 😂)

[@LeanDopez]

Great video, the redemption arc was real!

[@TheDoomsdayzoner]

Welcome to our ranks, young one. I been there since Tekken 3, and your journey is quite similar to mine. With one exception - I still get salty after losing too much. And I do have trouble adjusting to the "new" moveset that came back in T6. But hey, you did great. Keep up the good work.

[@snugsins]

Fusion frenzy music was unexpected, didn’t think anyone remembered that game

[@anthenyiscool2758]

Loved him since Tekken Tag Tournament. I got really good with him when I was 6, learning all his combos. I wonder how good I’d be with him if I stuck to the game.

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

My best advice for Yoshi is just to embrace the sheer chaos of his move list. You have so many moves, few good ones. But there's no way someone is going to know what to do against every single one.

[@AnjinSR]

Awesome video man, welcome to the manji clan 👺❤️

[@skitteh2021]

Investing at 225 subscribers keep up the great work this years gonna be big for you sir.

[@clarencepearson392]

As a person who likes yoshimitsu but is abd with him this was cool to see keep it up

[@elite_level1598]

Keep making these types of vids and edits 💪🏼💪🏼

[@rosesnevercry]

7:04 i knew,it was coming haha,welcome to the manji clan boy))

[@CrossfitWarrior]

Love the commentary and memes in this video

[@zlatkio]

YOOO thats me in the video HAHAHAH I punched the screen...

[@MackCasual]

As a yoshi main myself i can give this advice. Yoshis gimmicks and stance game is like a call out card. If your opponent doesnt know. Abuse it. If they are wise to it. Then utilize his oki setups to try and start mixups with those stances. His fundamental tools are weak by design. Imo they are meant to annoy opponents into falling into yoshis many traps. With solid fundies and movement youll be clowning on people in no time. Good luck! Hope to see you in T8.

[@danzimaru]

This was great! I did the same when i first got Tekken 7 but I struggled so much in ranked. I ended up swapping to Bryan but I still do love abit of Yoshi for fun even though I get stomped.

[@thehatecrusade9652]

Witnessing the birth of something great right here right now

[@theformation3781]

If you want to have good neutral id honestly reccomend using no sword stance, it simplifies your gameplay down, gives you good lows, a dickjab, an excellent 10frame punish, sightly better wall carry and most importantly a useable flash. And once your opponent starts respecting your neutral, that's where you pull out the oki loops, unblockables, dragonfly, flea, sword sweep, etc.

[@poulio0236]

A lot of the music used in the video comes from a game called Omega Strikers, its a free to play game on console, pc and even mobile, its a game i hold dear in my heart hence why i am writing this comment. Unfortunatly, its dying, on the verge of being abandonned due to low player counts, and so, i urge anybody reading this to check it out. Btw not sponsored lol and great vid, love yoshi ❤

[@SrKimori]

If someone uses to much rage art, pressure them with jabs, you can recover fast enough to hit them and block the rage art most of the time

[@Gengar1994]

Keep going bro this is extremely well made content

[@Zachebi]

Keep it up man, soon you’ll be damaging yourself to even the odds for your opponent

[@junkapopo]

Dude, when you got knocked down you got back up and that's hella beautiful to see! That makes me want to play Tekken but I can't, it's too fast for me, can't do anything 😅

[@raylnz]

You can do it I believe!

[@Timberfake678]

I think he doesn’t know what „cheesing“ is! 🤣 Every time someone kicks his ass, it’s „cheese“!

[@skyyt5716]

I mean you said it kinda almost yourself but it got called out so often I thought i just might say it again: You didnt get "cheesed" once you just decided not to block because you wanted to let your moves do their work in wrong situations. What is perfectly fine for a beginner and nothing to be ashamed of. Dont force yourself to feel like you have to know these moves or recognize them the second someone uses it against you. Thats not part of an efficient and also mentally healthy training progress. Personally for me it worked wonders when I saw new moves that I just didnt know how to defend myself and got my ass kicked to see as a new challenge. The game stays fresh this way, almost every match you learn something new instead of getting pissed at the enemy or in the end yourself and it makes the learing process much more enjoyable. You will adapt over time, see you in T8

[@QuelquunQuiTeVois]

Never played Tekken, don’t know any character except from Kazuya because he is in Smash, don’t have any idea of what green ranks equals to in terms of level in game but great video I pretty much understood everything ig.

[@Sir_Robin_of_Camelot]

"Yoshi players don't want to win, they want to paint" - Aris

[@The.Godfather.00]

man the Omega Strikers music is so nostalgic, I’m still sad for its death…

[@ralleks]

Welcome to the Manji Clan dear brother! :D

[@axellyann5085]

01:38 that's the spirit. If you're not having stupid laughs when playing Yoshi, then you're doing it wrong.

[@meme_lord_martin2518]

W yoshi plays bro, i hope to see u go ham in tekken 8

[@henrik2766]

Good vid man!

[@Ttangko_]

how did you exactly incooperate flash. you said "time to learn flash" but what does this mean? To me its always a minus-frame move when trying to forsee an incoming attack since the timing needs to be exact. and my further understanding is that you use it in some sort of frame trap setup, but thats too intermediate id think for the beginning so I focus on punishing, poke, throw breakubg - that stuff

[@Shabo0117]

Giving me flashbacks to my newbie days with the dreaded blue rank lucky chloes. People who only want to make others suffer.

[@Future_Anime_Maker]

I am a main yoshimitsu since soulcalibur 2 so this is nice

[@nathancawley8759]

In my experience, in Tekken you can either have fun or you can win. The two are mutually exclusive. It might just be a skill issue though.

[@Arnuld15Governator]

I'm picking up Yoshimitsu in Tekken 8 since he's my main in T3, T5DR and SC6. Never really bothered with him in T7 since I could not get over his default costume and I am not a fan of T7's gameplay. Since they are incorporating some of Yoshi's moves from SC6 into T8, and they killed it with his design, I am ready to pick him back up after all of these years. Definitely going to be key binding his no sword stance and a few of his other stances on my hitbox. I already have notes written down next to my monitor after watching a few demonstration videos.

[@raylnz]

NSS is going to be very STRONG in T8

[@lucianomarrai7095]

I got the game a couple weeks ago. I am stuck in that salt section you talked about. So hard to progress in this game

[@dav1ll3]

He always been having cool mixups in Tekken and Soul Caliber

[@M4TR7X-W4RR7R]

How did you get your UI to look like that? Are you on PC? It looks sick!🔥

[@damien1062]

thats a cool video man! subed

[@raylnz]

Happy to have you here my friend 🥂

[@usmansubhani7482]

1:47 You are definitely a natural Yoshi main if switching around moves is natural to you.

[@someguy1ification]

but most importantly: you put a shark on your head

[@manogami7670]

bro got the redeption arc in middle of video :cry :pray

[@Desire4Sound]

Yoshi is some kind of a squid now? I guess i should play Tekken more often lol

[@davidbarbosa8350]

Nice video man

[@hellomoney333]

as a yoshi main in soul calibre. Not bad homie.

[@EyeoftheShadow]

There are many who don't make a move and that is this one when you stand on the left ➡️➡️🔼 he makes a "blunder" through the character

[@FreeVSR]

entertaining video mate

[@boahnates]

Great vid bro

[@wesley_that_dude3437]

Hey man thats a respectable rank as a beginner, its hard to get out of green nowadays with most people knowing what they're doing

[@wesley_that_dude3437]

Not to mention you used a party character, as a bear main you got my respect 🐻

[@raylnz]

I definitely want to give the bears a try😎

[@deamigo9286]

i learned him on the psp. all day and night, all moves memorized. omg was he fun to play

[@Dumah36]

I stopped playing him way back when cause i can't stop myself from trying to do goofy stuff. Like i just wanted to go for really dumb things too much. Now i play Asuka/Jun. So i can try and get sick counters off but it helps me play more like a sane person.

[@gamingjustfornaught6765]

Try to learn some counter hit setups with yoshi. I personally end my combos with b+2,2 KIN U+1+2 DGF. This is to bait greedy opponents trying to wake up kick me off of my Dragon fly stance and clipping them with DGF 4 counter hitting them. Another tip is if you have an opponent next to a wall, try baiting their wake up with u/b 1+2 1. This is the move that spins yoshimitsu's sword infront of him.. another option is FC f/d 1. Of course all these are hard to pull off if you havent gotten a feel for yoshi yet but its a good place to start

[@raylnz]

I definitely need to improve my damage output so I will lab these for sure 😎

[@quantum_tk]

Damn, you're actually really good for only a week in. I've seen new players play for the same time and not know which way is up, good stuff bro. Do you play other fighting games or is this your first one? no way, right?

[@raylnz]

Pretty much any fighting game in recent memory I’ve played. I just wish I could get better at dbfz 😂

[@sttestride8961]

now this is character development

[@Sekleff]

yo this was sick.

[@solanumtuberosa]

They hate yoshi mains because they aint yoshi mains.

[@TheGreyShaman]

I suck at fighting games, but put yoshimitsu in my hands and i can do some damage. Its weird, i cant put the hands to the buttons for everyone but yoshimitsu, that sword is just linked to his hands so i just hit the two punch buttons and kick buttons together always. For everyone else i cant figure out their hands in tandem with the buttons. But with yoshimitsu i can actually pull off combos.

[@DragonBreathjrMC]

You don't play yoshimitsu, he plays himself.

[@hemorrhoidman1691]

good shit my dude

[@Jehuty989]

Good progress

[@LoftOfTheUniverse]

Yoshimitsu has a lot of moves and connecting the right ones can be tricky. Has to become 2nd nature because besides a couple of strings he's very 50/50 mix upy

[@sonicuzumaki]

Most relaxed tekken player ever 😂

[@nyfroggie]

best part of learning yoshimitsu: you also learn him for soul calibur (i think)

[@_Jay_Maker_]

"What am I doing?" Ah, yes. The siren song of just doing weird bullshit with Yoshi (or Voldo, or Zafina) and then eating shit for it. 😆

[@ByTheGrace0fGod]

I don't know you, that's the first video I see of you. But given what I saw, you can reach much higher ranks. Against green / yellow ranks, all you have to do is to turtle. Defend as much as you can, punish with 1,1, b2,2 or df2. That's all you need. If you try to trade blow for blow you'll end up losing as your opponent will most likely not even be aware of how frames work. Thus, his action won't make much sense. It's just button mashing at this stage. Tank it and punish. This requires a fair bit of knowledge about the cheesiest characters but everyone can do it. Once you reach red ranks, things start to become different. Some really good players who start picking up new characters begin in those ranks, while some others are stuck there for more than 2000 matches. This helps get an idea of who you are facing.

[@darlingimscared]

Good video 👍

[@DakotaDakota-cx9gi]

Do more crouching 4 low sweep gives full combo on counter hit great to throw out as keep out

[@AngeloGene]

I can vouch for this. I have gotten so many people run into a CH fc df4. xD

[@Miraisaur]

Nice Omega Strikers ost

[@MrShahrozzz]

The advantage with Yoshi is, his moves are soo obscure the opponent doesn't know wtf to do lol Unless you're playing a seasoned vet, most players will be confused af 😂