Ultimate Beginner Guide ~ Tekken 7

[@MassiveZug]

My tiny brain labelled X as 4 and Circle as 3; it's the other way around.

[@ezzywizzy1049]

idk if it's the only one but Josie's uf3 (butterfly edge) can crush low and mids. Nice guide btw

[@takeastepback3333]

@@ezzywizzy1049 Brian's Snake edge (and some other characters too) crushes a bunch of mids too

[@MassiveZug]

@@kaeru2585 I almost feel bad for pointing out that in British English, i.e. the rest of the world, we use Defence.

[@TriforceStudiosVideo]

@@MassiveZug he's a massive asshole.

[@ed4096]

@@MassiveZug Except when some Americans here defer to the British spelling when making signs consisting of the letter "D" and cardboard cutouts shaped like a fence, whereupon they'd hold 'em up while chanting "De-fence, de-fence, de-fence!!!"... Just a borderline, mostly uninteresting tidbit that probably wasn't even worth typing out and taking your attention. Apologies.

[@ChristopherFreeman0032]

This video should be in the game.

[@MassiveZug]

Thanks for the kind words mate.

[@baumber1919]

Honestly it seems legit

[@ViperDivinity]

Yeah! Good for beginners like me

[@magnus00125]

zug zug loktar swormu

[@Milgamix77]

THATS WHAT I FUCKING SAID TOO WHY THE HELL DONT THEY HAVE THIS IN THE GAME?!?! IT MAKES NO GODDANG SENSE LIKE HOLY FUCK DO THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!?

[@rockstar-made]

Now that Tekken 8 is coming out this guide is needed more than ever for newcomers like me

[@Aflay1]

For sure. I wish you good luck mastering whatever the hell new mechanics that game has in store. Lord knows rage art mechanics threw most veterans for a loop.

[@luisapaza317]

I got Tekken 7 recently, this Will be pretty useful. The campaign was awesome 😂

[@xfxrxmxt1981]

It gotta feel incredible rewarding and satisfying once you get good at this game. I’ve been a noob on tekken since 1996.

[@tunahan1105]

whats with your progress?

[@PatternLand]

So do you suck at all fighting games?

[@kyotow7388]

never played a fighting game(well i did play brawl and mk armagedon when i was like 6 years old and i played vs my mom and friends once a month so i didnt know shit). planning on getting tekken 7. honestly i like smash ultimate more but it costs too much especially with the dlc. i know tekken is one of the hardest but it looks cool and i just wanna try myself at fighting games

[@gavinliddle2388]

@@tunahan1105 probably the same issue most people have me included. While been playing fighting games casually for me personally since the early 90s, I still suck. This is due to me playing fighting games as something to do for half an hour between doing other stuff rather than actually doing what's required to get kinda middling ok by spending a few hundred hours learning the mechanics, your moves, your combos, yadda yadda yadda. I think it's what the term casual means. Non try hard lol. For every individual fighting game. Most people don't just play one game for years, that's why most games online are barren wastelands. People get something else then play that casually for a couple months till next thing comes along. You watch these KZbin channels that make vids like learning to play kof 98 or something for a week. And in that week they play it for 60 fucking hours lol more time than I have in that game I've had for years 😅. Look at someone's steam profile who's really good at tekken, 1500 hours in game, look at mine 16 hours in game 🤔

[@MrNinjafreak]

Yea, to be good at it you have to ply 24-7 while labn' everything. If opponent catch you lacking they will troll or direspect.

[@Kaithe7]

This might be the best begginer tutorial I've seen

[@TheErlend87]

Exactly! All other guides just focus on backdash or advance strats

[@ikavolo]

i'm 4 years late but you're incredibly real for putting the PSO soundtrack into this video

[@wajinshu]

The four button info about limbs didn't know that. Gonna watch this later. Thanks in advance

[@activegodzilla]

Senpai

[@ar1kal91]

I noticed that myself when I was like, why do I feel like a puppet master?

[@JAMEXXORZ]

Hey man, I just wanted to thank you for this guide. I have a friend who is getting into the game, and I had been looking for hours, trying to find the right beginner's guide to show him, and this is absolutely the best one out there. It's succinct, straight-forward, has easy to understand diagrams, the whole nine yards. You really knocked it out of the park, great job.

[@MassiveZug]

That is really kind of you to say, thank you very much :-)

[@Scantronacon]

Facts!!

[@zaimox8586]

as a Street fighter and Kof player, I'm so confused about tekken, it is so technical but this guide is really useful, thank you

[@Pottzy]

This is a godsend for someone like me, who's just getting into Tekken now, so the depth of this guide is super helpful

[@noodleknight7924]

THIS is what ALL fighting games should have ingame if they want more people to get into them seriously. A clear, straight to the point video explaining the game's mechanics and the game's important core concepts like what frame advantage is. It's interesting all the way through, easy to understand and easy to remember, doesn't waste any of your time, really want to make you watch all the way through. It's much better than the tedious, interactive "Simon Says" tutorial modes you usually see in fighters, wasting your time with forcing you to slowly do the very basic button imputs as if these were things people couldn't figure out literally the first match they play, yet not even touching the bread and butter concepts of the fighting game, like frames or punishing.

[@merilynne1548]

Exaclty why I hated the new Killer Instinct. Terrible tutorial that bored me to death

[@parkanyipongrac3230]

this has to be the best beginner guide to any game I have ever seen. extremely well put together, great job and thanks!

[@zachluke8945]

Me *who doesn’t even have tekken* : hmm yes very interesting. I shall remember this

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Same, i play a ton of other fighting games but i have never played a tekken game. I was curious because people always talk about how hard tekken is haha

[@spencer9036]

I only play Tekken 6 but this video help too and im getting Tekken 7 next year maybe

[@Ahmad75_]

@@spencer9036 tekken 8 will probably release next year

[@sarcazum1512]

@@jestfullgremblim8002 Tekken is hard, (not As hard as people exaggerate). The more you play it the more you’ll be acquainted with it and learn!

[@David-gj9qr]

I’m glad the internet exists because I watched a video called “why you should play fighting games and how” which made me want to learn how to play fighting games, I already played and liked fighting games before the video but I never actually knew how. So because of the video I started playing one of the fighting games I got recently but realized that the one I chose(Tekken 7) didn’t have a tutorial so I was at a loss. I found an article that said the story mode was supposed to be the tutorial and it kind of helped but you have to progress to learn more and I don’t really want to do that. So this video will help me when I attempt to learn Tekken 7 again( I also recently got the uncharted games so I’m playing those right now)

[@Casedilla73]

Same, Cosmonaut Variety Hour’s video.

[@electricant55]

"I found an article that said the story mode was supposed to be the tutorial" yeah, that's such bullshit. Story mode doesn't teach you shit and Namco are just lazy assholes

[@Ali-dj5yb]

yo, did you learn the game yet?

[@Spockability]

This is so good. I tried other beginner guides that started with frame data and whiff punishment. Thanks for staying at the actual beginning

[@CrimsonMonarch]

This is the guide I needed, trying to understand Tekken before this was impossible. You have blown my mind and helped me start learning how to actually play this game instead of button mashing!

[@pamoon_]

Even though I’ve been playing Tekken for 15 years, this was the most helpful video I’ve ever seen to really learn the game.

[@bigpapapage7165]

Really really good guide. I just got the ultimate edition of 7 last night and I needed this lol

[@jeremiahbennett3004]

Same

[@Freemen514]

Pretty late to the party here but love the video! Being totally new, only ever played Tekken 3 on playstation when it came out, this video is a huge help and gives me the encouragement to get better. Thanks again!

[@kanoball3391]

Same lol I saw the tekken 8 trailer and thought i better get good before that comes out

[@iamkrishn]

The best guide video to Tekken. Although it has a lot of terms to digest for a beginner, but you can always practice, learn and keep coming back to this video for more insights.

[@usurpererenyeager649]

I've had this game for a hell of a long time and gave up because fighting games were usually too hard for me. Getting back into it now, thanks for the help

[@the-pax-1387]

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Not guide videos, videos overall

[@DanteMav]

Thank you for these amazing guide man. Now i can truly play the game with more understanding !!

[@LorenzoRodrigoAJamer]

How can a 20 minute video feel like a 5 minute one? You'd be a great professor tbh Keep up the great work!

[@Azarilh]

I genuinely didn't notice it was 20m. Damn. :v

[@LiquidChamploo]

Haven’t played since TT2 and really excited for T8. Thanks for the video bruv, covered the basics for me very well.

[@business9854]

This is probably the best game guide ver made, not only for tekken but any game. Props to you sir.

[@Heazytoohot]

I could cry this makes fighting game number five I play. And it's like opposite of fighter Z because the lows are reactable as opposed to the overheads. Amazing video for someone like me!

[@shimizutarkata5604]

I know we're all here for revenge

[@Dxy0818]

Yeah, my buddy really got on my nerves.

[@EricSamaNYC]

You have no idea how long I’ve been trying to find an auto guard option in this game, and it was right under my nose with the cpu action 2. THANK YOU

[@kingconan4crom]

Amazing how you can still learn a thing or two even after you've played the series since the beginning. Great Vid. Amazing what we have now as appose to back then when Tekken 1 and 2 where out. We had to rely on Game Pro books or the official game guide book. Now you can have somebody walk you through everything and show you how things are done. This was helpful even for a so called Vet. Keep up the great vids man.

[@eftorq]

A friend introduced me to Tekken for the first time in my life yesterday and after 3 hours I had the feeling I was kind of getting the idea. Now I watched this video and feel like I have no clue what is even happening

[@qo3398]

This is one of the few games that even if I dedicated my whole life to master it I will still be a noob

[@maurice5726]

The Best Tekken Tutorial in the Entire Existence

[@valyunironbane8996]

here to learn how to play kazuya in smash

[@TrueTrickster2016]

Would be great.. but this is Tekken.

[@shizamza]

Kazuya has tekken inputs in smash more than likely so what he said stands.

[@russlemiller6574]

@@shizamza lol having quarter circle inputs doesn't make him play like it's tekken

[@hit9819]

Just hold A and spam B bruh But funny enough Kazuya’s laser is awful in Tekken lol

[@Manuel32_]

Thats not an actual fighting game

[@aaron.biketrials]

Send this to Harada! Get it in the game asap! Casual vet here and I even learned something about kings multi grabs.

[@jacobpeden2273]

Wow, this was amazing. Just picked up the game yesterday and this is exactly what I needed. I will be watching again because there is a ton of info here. Thank you!

[@humrau5505]

Omg, I've been playing Tekken for years, thinking I know how these games work, and yet here I am learning total basics that I've never known about 😵‍💫 I know it's been 3 years, but thank you for that video anyway 💚

[@duru_mii]

well organized and straightforward guide. thanks!!

[@hasanali5300]

This is still the best guide in 2023 Thank you bro i just started tekken 7 a month ago, and you saved my life with this guide

[@Kottery]

"You can break throws by pressing 1 or 2" Well that's news to me. This whole time I've been trying to break throws by pressing 1+3 similar to Street Fighter.

[@boye6883]

Haha same

[@HokiHumby]

Doesn't it also have to do with which arm comes forward first from the grabber? At least with Tekken 6 that was the case

[@6ixlxrd]

@@HokiHumby Think it doesn't matter which arm grabs you first; just press 1 or 2 the moment you're grabbed and you're free.

[@HokiHumby]

@@6ixlxrd I think you're right!

[@gilet102]

Hiroki Lory for generic grabs either 1 or 2 will break the throw. But for command grabs you have to hit the correct input. Most characters have both generic and command grab and the animation is honestly the same. So yea learning the T6 way is still a valid way to break grabs

[@LUNARISXVA]

I just bought tekken 7 and this was the first begginer video I found and I cannot explain how easy you put this game. I didnt even know that "juggles" where a thing LMAO Great vid, helped me a lot lot. You should have more subs, fr.

[@stephenhancock7171]

As someone who has played Tekken since 4, I can tell you due to this video, I didn't fucking know how to play Tekken this entire time.

[@jhovanielperez4763]

I've just started this game today with my friends which wanted me to download it (to kick my ass duh) This game is very weird, and I kinda like how fresh it sort of feels as a fighting game. I just wish these games had useful and clear tutorials/guide like this. Thanks man, gotta get ready for Tekken 8!

[@EmRei22]

This is a well thought-out beginner's guide compressed into one video. Been a tekken player for some time now and I can tell this video clarifies some terms and techniques most new players couldn't understand at first.

[@Aflay1]

I love that one of the better Tekken Tutorials is explained by what appears to be a Warcraft 3 character.

[@martindemczak7981]

This is the best beginner tutorial I have seen by far. Clearly explained moves and sequences, I have learnt a lot from this. Many thanks

[@ruebensfilms]

I'm a 3rd way in watching your tutorial and am compelled to stop and comment how grateful I am for this thorough, articulate treasure. Thank you!!

[@jesseeastman8867]

Alright zug you're now officially my tekken guy. Teach me sensei.

[@caitsiph1]

As someone whongenerslly plays the 2d style this should help even if I'm a bit late to the game as in started this week.

[@Slashthehedgehog1443]

This is a big help because I've been trying to get into 7 myself but there's a lot I didn't know about the game, so thanks a bunch for this!

[@mag9341]

played tekken out of a whim in an an internet cafe with my boyfriend. watching this behind his back bc i wanna win again because beginner's luck isnt enough! thanks for this!

[@yuisko]

Tekken 7's grab system changed where you can break regular grabs with either 1 or 2, but command grabs (king armor king) require you to break with a specific 1 or 2 based on the grab. The video states the old Tekken style of using 1 or 2 depending on the arm that comes out. Just an FYI.

[@gilet102]

It’s probably better to follow the old style since there’s a lot of other characters besides armor king and king that have command grabs. Dragunov for example, his 1+3 grab has the same animation as his f 1+4. While 1+3 can be broken with either punch button but his f 1+4 requires the 1 input. Follow the old is a lot beneficial since at that point you’re reacting to the animation and not the throw itself

[@janefkrbtt]

holy shit i had an idea what + on block was but i never had it so nicely explained with a concise visual example. this is perfectly made bro.

[@Slayer_of_Demons]

weird how tekken 7 has no tutorial feature, great video!

[@aduloy1]

Been playing Tekken since around 2005, so I guess now is a good time to learn how to play

[@mrbrainlag889]

I just got my ass kicked in a tournament because i just started playing, i have learned so much from this video already, thanks!

[@mainbeach]

Will be the first Tekken I play (played 4 a bit previously) forreal. The demo gameplay has me so hyped for the release :D

[@dirty_harry7822]

This needs more views! Absolutely amazing guide, well done man

[@MBFCTV]

Coming to this to learn the basics in preparation for tekken 8

[@1InVader1]

Coming from PC, never having played a Tekken game in my life before, this was massively helpful (especially the grounded tech and the throw tech). 70+ GB on the game, which is all cutscene videos from old games which I could just look up on KZbin, but not a single one of them is a tutorial on the basics. It's not explained anywhere in the game. The campaign makes you outright even worse at the game, because the assist moves have got nothing to do with real Tekken.

[@princekanbatsu2301]

Highly agree with you, unfortunally they ain’t good at that but hopefully they will learn

[@carrotpotato0]

This whole guide was amazing, specially the standing from ground part.

[@oluwahefner4194]

Me jumping right in the deep end learn just from combo vids, text documents on notations and somehow succeeding with lucky chloe and now eliza, for months without knowing the game. Time to actually learn the game, thank you

[@NN-sp9tu]

Oluwa Hefner It seems like a lot of this info doesn’t matter at lower levels because nobody else knows it either, or at least don’t have the experience to use it consistently - which is a good thing. It would suck to have to rigorously study/practice for days just to have some casual fun when starting out

[@Sam-kj9ui]

21:00 theres also different moves that comes out when you tap u or uf instead of holding. This is how you do delayed hop kick which is uf+neutral+4, holding uf will perform a hop kick that doesnt launch.

[@theoneandonly4079]

Not gonna cap this should be like a video that plays when somebody turns on Tekken for the first time

[@cmdcheezit1598]

Trash default

[@theoneandonly4079]

@@cmdcheezit1598 What are you even doing on this vid you don't play Tekken?

[@cmdcheezit1598]

@@theoneandonly4079 Well I wanted to try it out and I'm watching this to get started

[@theoneandonly4079]

@@cmdcheezit1598 Ok well good luck

[@GatochanBolivia]

I PLYED TEKKEN FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS AND DIDNT KNOW THE BUTTONS WERE ATTACHED TO A PART OF THE BODY XD WOW, PART OF BEING AN AMATEUR

[@SuperVada]

I'm gonna have to learn this if I'm gonna use Kazuya in Smash.

[@onyourleft9273]

i don’t think they’ll include all of this as this is way too much effort for one characters

[@SuperVada]

@@onyourleft9273 No. But nothing wrong relearning Tekken again. :)

[@RiskierGoose340]

Screw that, ima stay as steve with my beloved mbcdtilt and nil finishers

[@artmaroof90]

man this is the most comprehensive guide yet

[@BlazblueFan]

Great guide! Just bought tekken a few days ago after getting my first arcade stick. I'm complete scrub when it comes to fighting games (or any competitive games honestly), but it's just so fun learning and practicing different moves and combos.

[@metasodium2170]

I would imagine this vid would have more views since it is the absolute best beginner guide I have ever seen!

[@ShaggyRacc]

Pro tip from a not pro TEKKEN7 player! Button mashing doesn't work the same way as in other fighting games. Take your time to learn combos for the character(s) you play as. I'm playing as Law and I decided to learn one new combo everyday.

[@xenotronia6681]

button mashing doesn't work well in other fighting games either

[@notcyfhr]

@Dragon it may work against bots and lower level players but let's say in street fighter if your higher than silver I'd say it's better to not button mash even if that means combo mashing instead.

[@carloscr5139]

Unless you played as Eddie

[@mateusmachadomartinsjunior4309]

I would argue the opposite, bcs of how many characters have one-buton strings compered to something like street fighter or Skullgirls

[@vengefulbrainiac1395]

I disagree knowing the correct buttons to mash is definitely a good strategy. Overwhelming your enemy in an unpredictable manner is always the meta.

[@T.A.S.L]

Great guide, i learnt a lot of things and was kinda suprised how much ive missed like how you can walk while evading into the environment and how you can extend grabs

[@invertbrid]

Here from leffen video, good content.

[@soversetile]

im surprised how small this channel is with such a nice video. subbed

[@kenjoda]

yoo i had no idea videos had those timestamp things thats sick

[@cryal89]

Regardless that I know all of these! I keep coming back to this to review! Such class and love your videos Zug!

[@KumoGoesFast]

hey, you killed this video. thanks for helping us noobs.

[@GuiKT88]

i play tekken a year now, and this tutorial helps ALOT

[@JamieKayable]

This is so professionally made, great video!

[@plagegaist47]

My dad played the tekken games when he was a kid. I bought it today and want to play it with him! I hope he likes the new ones

[@redthalos]

Do you played it with your dad?

[@SeriphanKnight]

Great tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to do this. Btw I love the Phantasy Star Online tracks you were playing in the background throughout the video!!

[@lukemoses7827]

I’m about to get tekken 7, and have never played a tekken game before. Great Video!! This is awesome!

[@AXELweirdTigger]

5:08 not sure what's so confusing about "while rising" it seems a lot more distinctive to me than "while standing" when you want to verbally contrast it with "standing" if the problem is initials contrastr with "while running" they should've just renamed that "while trotting" or "while jogging" so WT or WJ could be used and leave WR for the crouch>stand transition

[@no_nameyouknow]

I agree, while standing sounds like it means while you are currently standing. Not while in the act of standing up. But these things get developed over years without much forethought. Shit just kinda becomes standard parlance even if it seems confusing to and outsider.

[@gru9480]

“while trotting” man’s living in the victorian times

[@vahnayasaki6989]

It's because WR is now understood as while running for moves like king's shining wizard and such.

[@UltimateTS64]

Alright sick, I just picked up the game because I played with the people in my Esports Club at college and I was having so much fun, I whole went and got a PS4, the game, and an F300 to learn. I come from Smash and maybe not the best move to hop straight into Tekken since I never really fully learned any other fighting game, but Tekken has always interested me the most so here goes ig

[@ArosNacht]

Thank’s to this video i’m getting into Tekken competitively

[@sidneytep4363]

hi here in 2022 and just started today! currently learning xiayou lol... alot of people say shes not for beginners but i like her so much!

[@stephanexplosion]

Thanks so much for this. I hadn't played Tekken since 3 on PS1 and totally forgot the basics after playing mostly Street Fighter-inspired fighting games over the years. I didn't realize Rage Arts triggered on low health, and picked Kazuya as my first character in Practice Mode. It wasn't at all apparent how vast everyone's movesets were, cuz it looked like all of his required a Devil Transformation. It was just a daunting start for a game with no tutorial mode.

[@kleon1417]

16:27 - the save of the century

[@Bubby55556]

Zug, idk how I just found this video but it’s opened my eyes to so many things

[@gep2225]

Holy shit...and I thought Mortal Kombat had a lot of buttons.....

[@vaspix008]

Same here, I started playing Tekken recently (King has like 140 throws only xD)

[@DemonicRobots]

I was getting extremely upset, trying to learn this game. I've been trying to have friends explain and they gave horrible explanations, tried looking at guides and found nothing until this vid. I have no idea what fighting games are so gatekept to explain stuff to friends but I'm glad I have something as a reference now to explan little things like the grounded states. Thank you!

[@excelsiusprime]

I've tried and loved this game, but it's so hard to play. I really like KIng's moves they are so awesome and amazing.

[@gilet102]

Just keep at it man. It’ll take a while to get good but it’s so satisfying

[@NyanNyan96]

I’ve been casually playing tekken since T2 as a kid and just button smashing the entire time so this video is very useful xD

[@jatvy.4747]

Same with me but I dont understand that does circle colour symbols mean in ps4 button

[@bystander5278]

07:28 Lee regretting his life choices

[@natenamaxisbored]

I just started my fun time playing Tekken 7 and I wanna learn how to play more efficiently, thanks man

[@Gothstana]

7:02 "as expected, being on the ground whilst your opponent is standing over you and free to act is never a position you want to be in." *shows Lee laying on the ground as King gives him head* I dunnooooo...

[@Eeeenrriqueeee]

Thanks man, just got this game yesterday and was pretty confused as to what I should do and this helped clear up everything

[@TangyLimes]

15:59 whats the name of that song/track?

[@KamiDisturbed]

as a king player, when in doubt mash 2 no matter what situation :D you break most of the worst ones like CDS 2+3 (star for kings bridge mixup), the unbreakable throw at CDS 1+4 and also the RDC from same path. Also you break df2+4 before it goes for the unbreakable and tombstone which leads to good oki. Mash 1 if opponent has ki charge binded and is doing the mexican magma drive. that one is guess game with no real tactical way to guess correct button.

[@eldinmemic9420]

the dislikes are from the characters that had to stand there and get hit everytime

[@Maxler5795]

Im happy i watched this after watching josejus guide. It helped with connotations