MAX IS COOKING ALREADY!!

[@devilsneverkry7170]

These videos have helped me immensely. I play lars and i was in purple ranks. Watching these videos and applying what Phi had been teaching Max has catapulted me up in ranks. I was feeling super stuck so thank you a ton for this series.

[@eyes_of_mako]

Phi should incorporate himself in everyone’s intro now 😂 Love seeing Max adapt. Phi is a great teacher

[@El-Burrito]

I would love to hear Phi intro a video in his deepest voice "What's up guys, MainManPhi here"

[@alondjeckto]

​@@El-Burrito genius idea

[@Cogbyrn]

I think Max's second video is called something like "Stuck in Hell", and Phi's is "HE IS COOKING", and I love that juxtaposition so much.

[@HalftimeOranges328]

Im a Hwoarang main who’s been stuck in RR between Garyu and Shinryu for the longest time. Even though this series is focused on Lars some of the techniques and strats you’re describing I’ve been able to implement and I’m finally starting to make genuine progress towards purple ranks and putting streaks of wins together. You’re by far the easiest to understand and learn from for relative Tekken newbies. THANK YOU ❤.

[@jacobtridef48]

LMAO the intro

[@phamtasticbaby6124]

DAAAAA!

[@bbnchris]

I work a normal 9-5 job, so its hard to find time to really sit down and lab out tekken but all your vids make it a much easier process that's easy to understand. You Tekken GOAT fr

[@shush9860]

The fucking Max Intro remix with the Eagle Screech in the beginning is top tier 🤣🤣🤣

[@ScarletGensokyo11961]

I always love how hype Phi gets, keep up the great content my guy!

[@SuperSilver7591]

I've been really enjoying going back and forth between both channels and watching some good ass Tekken

[@nervoussuffermaker]

As a beginner Lars main this series is a godsend! Made me understand my character and the game in general better and I saw immediate improvement in my gameplay.

[@simonclifford2143]

It’s so much fun watching you coach someone in matches. You and Max have such a great dynamic here!

[@sergp286]

11:25 dat counter into a combo conversion was HYPE!!!!

[@junkyryan138]

That is a real feat. He's a legit seasoned player now

[@Ziiiy4D]

Almost thought that there’s no intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cloudneostormful]

Max became my fav "big time streamer" back in 2020 due to ff7 remake. He alone blossomed my love for fighting games. Tekken my fav. Max showed me my love for the FGC. Phin. Showed me how to get better at my favorite FG❤

[@nooneyouknow6231]

3:21 I love how bro was like “i understand it now”😂

[@DraycosTFM]

Love seeing Phi and Max do a video. I'd love to see you and JWong do a collab someday.

[@Rainaldo991]

14:52 phi impersonating santa and delivering us the big laughs we need to carry on with this game.

[@dragonfist91]

This intro is now absolutely needed every time there's a Max+Phi video out

[@ItsJesseeee]

Max throwing gimmicks and skill checks at the perfect time is great. Nobody can teach heart ❤😂

[@cloudneostormful]

I love this comment. Max has incredible intuitive

[@windexcleaner7549]

4:02 the flash duck into combo was juicy

[@bradscomfycorner9561]

YES another vid in one of my fav series

[@DaddyDorya]

Loving the coaching content!

[@Tuuubesh0w]

You two are a great duo - I wish this could be a permanent thing

[@makaizaku]

That first stage is amazing! One of the best I've seen in a fighting game. Wow.

[@ikahrii]

Got Law to Tekken King today but listening to your videos and understanding the game more on my birthday. Keep it up.

[@Inso_yuugen]

21:59 that throw is violent as hell

[@brandonm9024]

Dropping a like for Phi and for Max trying to make that rank climb! We're all fighting our way up there!

[@Allomoite3232]

I love this series

[@nerocross]

hypest vid I've seen for Lars! You guys are cooking!!

[@calving1170]

I’m literally learning how to play better by his advice and I don’t even play Lars this advice is top tier ngl

[@Oathkeeperclash]

yeah i'd be proud of that intro too phi

[@SomaMitsurugi]

I'm legit learning a lot watching these recent Lars coaching

[@Doctor_Tumnus]

Let's go Phi! Love the coaching content.

[@brownhomosaipien7950]

Phidx made a monster

[@AnthonyYang002]

Get someone as invested in your come up as Phi is in every person he coaches fr

[@samrodriguez8580]

Shits helping me too broski lol I just started the drills I never knew you posted them. Me and a bunch of friends been hard stuck kishen and bushin your contents good man keep it up

[@wyawil]

Yay new vid thanks Phi !

[@alanb1449]

Im loving this series, I play raven and have such a hard 5ime enforcing my mix a lot of useful tips

[@swisher8990]

I cant get enough of the intro remix

[@LemonRage75]

That intro i can't 😂😂😂

[@Wannabe-EdgeLord]

max is growing

[@HavokFGC]

the title changed from when i saw this in my feed earlier

[@onteanqui]

Thank you Sensei 先生

[@krossai7801]

On 9:59 to do a while running into den stance instead of doing while running then stopping then doing f3 you can do fff 3+4 or while running 3+4 so you don't have to stop at all also you should not use while running 3 as an approach tool too much because it's very linear on the other hand while running 3+4 is a good mix because you can either threaten a den 3 into sen mixup or if they mash you back up then do den 1+2 or den 2 for a combo

[@kato093]

"people spam like crazy" as he literally doesnt stop pressing buttons for a single second, havin 3 rounds where he doesn't block ONCE.

[@jonnynotokay2003]

I've been hard stuck at tenryu and mighty ruler with yoshi. Been watching these videos, more pro yoshi videos, and learning my frame traps a little more. I'M FINALLY AT FLAME RULER AND STILL CLIMBING!

[@xizor1d]

😂 I love that intro!

[@Blitz0506]

been learning Lars as a fun side character and this has been immensely helpful! also Max is pretty fun to watch the dude definitely has solid fundies and combos and is just getting knowledge checked by most of his opponents he's unfamiliar with reaching Tekken King is very achievable for him if he sticks with it

[@micarthroadonis]

@21:57 is the best part!!!

[@gr.8mcwynebalela225]

After uf 1+2 grab, and when it hits the wall, you can actually follow up with f 1+4. Another one is after 1+2 power crush, d1+2 is guaranteed!

[@iklocasey02]

Phi saying good luck when his pupil get chain grabbed 😂

[@leadius5915]

Can someone pls tell me the OST name at 16:49 (vs King)? Desperately looking for that banger 😢😅

[@Psycho1343]

moment of impact - Tekken 7

[@leadius5915]

@Psycho1343 yay thank you! Appreciate it!

[@mdgeisto8953]

Came back after a 6 month break, and now made it to Kishin for the first time \(°o°)/

[@SwiftShotCrtcl]

That's great dude, keep it up

[@fruityloops]

started watching these videos yesterday. im a lars player myself and im currently sitting at Fujin and ive gotten kinda stuck there. im thinking maybe my playstyle is a bit too predictable but hopefully taking some tips from these vids will help me push forward.

[@ItzVinChi]

Ngl this was sick too watch as a lars main!!❤😊

[@rahulmcintyre2553]

Intro was banger

[@xoheartss662]

max was going for str8 clips this session

[@ibyzzo]

whats the input for the throw he kept doing where he kicks them in the chest and wall splats?

[@aqueelkadri8371]

14:47 Phi gets Ark Blasted irl

[@pineapplesuds8349]

phi at 19:39 who said there’s a lot of higher ranked players that have bad defense but great offense is there any pro players that resemble that?

[@kato093]

No 😂. at Tekken emperor/Tekken god you ain't going anywhere with no defense. You might win like a complete potato like max if you use xiaoyu or Kuma/panda once in a while but you would get demoted very quickly. Tekken offense works only with defense. After all the latest patches, most braindead characters like Lars were nerfed so it's not just a one sided spam fest where 1 player has to constantly defend and the other just goes at it with forced 50/50s. That playstyle will work only up to blue ranks, where people don't know match ups, frames and punishes well (as you can see from the video. A good player would have utterly destroyed max 5 times over with that spam. That's why Lars isn't considered strong. He only gets away with having no defense and just being bad at tekken by just spamming like crazy because the opponents don't know the match up and punishes. it's not even defense per se, just lack of knowledge against a very rare character that is very gimmicky).

[@SaraGothen]

Dose law have a low launcher?

[@xRhychux]

These ranks that Max is at are seriously nonstop mashing. It's insane lol

[@kurin9711]

I love how game 4 is just Strider Hiryu vs Mori Calliope

[@Nicx2094]

kind unrelated but how do they get their tekken to look that good and clean? jive got max graphis and stuff but my game doesnt look as sharp and clean as it does here. they also seem to have more particle effects and stuff

[@Johnlove_tk]

Damn I lost to max two days ago and didn’t realize it phi’s a good coach

[@franciscobruno3606]

Max a beast

[@lilbeastnb7698]

14:41 this throw has a weird animation

[@ShiningSparkL1n6]

help me how to improve dragunov game play, n frame trap like lars did

[@JustBRocB]

I need his notes in PDF format..😂

[@AuralFixation_]

Woo

[@Mad77max77]

When he's on the ground, he should use Down+4 more often. It always hits when people are trying to do a meaty on your wake up. Max barely uses it and stays on the ground too long.

[@B1gLupu]

Weird that the King player was so adamant about stand blocking instead trying to catch some of the lows with a hopkick.

[@sstanford1331]

GAHHHHH

[@곰바지]

I was ALMOST disappointed from the lack of intro!

[@tedyou8156]

14:47 🎉🎉

[@stephanjuvik6266]

I am the same TP and rank as max, but I feel like he's meeting a lot stronger opponents. Is Europe where I am just that much worse, or is it because I am playing Ling?

[@androidpaw]

I love playing ranked and learning at the same time. No lie hitting Kishin recently has me stumped. Like man how do people get so GOOD at this game.

[@MangoSmoothy]

I'm stuck hitting bushin getting close to ranking up and then going on losing streak back down to kishin 😭

[@TheSoufiane]

I am a god of destruction rank Paul player, it takes years to get to a certain level

[@SholoMayhem888]

@@TheSoufiane And people always give us s#*** “This player sucks this player is trash!” And mockery and all this nonsense Ok let me just go to sleep and wake up next morning having made years of improvement to get good overnight… people will shun and go off on players for being trash like they expect us to be high level with a flip of a switch

[@androidpaw]

@@MangoSmoothy Hopefully you reach Tekken King soon. Good luck with the climb !

[@androidpaw]

@@TheSoufiane Yo thats wild. No lie my friends who've been playing for years are currently just at Tekken God Supreme (I started playing like 2 months ago) and I totally see how it takes years to get THAT GOOD.

[@mc_zittrer8793]

Haven't played Lars since launch, but now it's looking like I should take him out to war.

[@aaroncruz2456]

Man, how do I book a session?

[@Babyzaku]

Just hit kishin myself heihachi way good vid

[@MostWoap]

More MaxiPhilian content pls

[@manman22576]

Learning frame traps is a cheat code. If it applies correctly, most of your opponents will lose the ability to analyze. Let them learn what went wrong after the matches, now is time for them to doubt themselves

[@Zel-Veraan]

I want Max on team PhiDX next Sajam Slam.

[@Spawnamvs]

Peeped a random Lotus appearance ik chat

[@10FN0N3]

19:30 there are so many. And I do mean so many players. That only know offense. And rush down in order to win. They use exploitive type of attacks to win. Only plus on block of pushback attacks to keep advantage. Constantly power crush, and rage art heat smash. Over and over. Not fun to play against at all.

[@honerofgod]

Max is paying for Phi to coach him. But here’s the thing; I would pay Phi just to have him watch and hype up other content creators while they play. Hahahaha

[@dantemeriere5890]

No disrespect to anyone, but isn't it questionable that you can get to high blues today barely understanding your own frames? Knowing your own frame traps is the kind of thing I used to associate with orange and red players back in Tekken 7. By the time you got to blue people would know their frames, your frames, your gimmicks, your main frame traps, and would rarely fall for obvious flowcharts. Am I misremembering things and blues weren't that different back in Tekken 7, or this true?

[@zeywop]

tekken 7 had more ranks between each color so like, it literally was harder to get blue in that game along with the climbing changes between ganes. but also baseline fighting game knowledge has gone up significantly in the last 5ish years. the community is much bigger, there’s way more and better content focused on improvement/tutorials, and the netcode improvements let ppl play wayyyyy more quality matches.

[@Ock_mantis]

Yes. Yes you are.

[@citrusblast4372]

I cant really say bcuz i started with t7 when all the dlc and everything had released, so i was barely graduating from noob status when t8 released. But it does feel like the ranks were more intense in t7. I barely made it to the first red rank in 7 after 1 year and in 8 i made it to the ruler ranks by the first week

[@WeMissDimebag]

Well you have to consider that green ranks were one of if not the largest bracket of players in T7. And now those ranks basically no longer exist, because you don’t lose points in there any more. It’s impossible to get stuck in them. The rank system now starts in yellow, which means blue is tier 5, where in the past it was more like tier 7. Then add on that you gain way more points on a win in yellow and orange, the promo boost, ft2 making flowcharting more viable, etc., and it kinda makes sense. The most populated tiers now ARE purple and blue, because the T8 system is the most forgiving system in Tekken history *until you hit blue*, at which point it starts behaving like a system that actually expects you to win consistently. But before that point, it’s very, very, VERY generous to you.

[@sstanford1331]

Many other factors to the game tht can bring u there outside of frames

[@Connector7th]

b+2, 3 is an easier tailspin. Regardless, Max makes my lars seem one to one to his. I'm mindblown. Too entertaining.

[@jamesrowell9306]

Lars is so underrated because everyone plays him like shit. Max is playing good fundamentals here.

[@jjjjjjaylon]

Going into a 50/50 stance all game is trash. Lars players suck.

[@jamesrowell9306]

@jjjjjjaylon Tekken is about 50/50s, Lars is more difficult to play than Jin, Nina, Dragunov, Yoshi. They're all annoying too and cheap. He isn't cheap.

[@jjjjjjaylon]

@@jamesrowell9306 Lars is one of the easier characters in the game. Idk if I can take what you saying serious cause Yoshi not a 50/50 character nor is Nina or Drag really. Lars literally is brain dead. Rush down pressure into 50/50 stance mix-up.

[@sanicboi9187]

@@jjjjjjaylon He might be the least oppressive stance character in the game lmfao

[@jjjjjjaylon]

@@sanicboi9187 bro what rank are you? You do not know what you’re talking about. Just watch the video. He’s literally doing exactly what I said.

[@depressionyachts]

The intro was godlike.

[@DaveDecasper]

I hope one day you can coach me greets from switzerland

[@irohofthewest6294]

Max is doing really well but bro realllly needs to optimize his combos. he gives up so much damage on that, and on no punishes.

[@Shoto_Mist]

Lars annoys me.. and I'm his bro -Lee

[@romzen]

Lars is a gimmicky character and a rare encounter. These two facts alone will carry anyone to blue rank with the most rudimentary and basic flowchart. It is not like Max is stupid but characters like Lars encourage laziness. And giving him just a little bit input in terms of fundamentals may result in significant rank improvements. I did not have a pro in my ear and made it to blue rank with Reina. She cannot rely on garbage all day.

[@MaryushXXVIII]

And second too

[@ChubbyBoomer]

2

[@MaryushXXVIII]

First

[@lt_johnmcclane]

Kind of funny that a legitimate game plan is to overwhelm your opponent with your kit before they can overwhelm you with theirs

[@PhiDX]

Have you played anime games?

[@lt_johnmcclane]

@@PhiDXI didn’t realize Tekken had become a full fledged anime game. Makes sense

[@potay-toez3923]

8 views in 1 minute, are people quitting tekken 8 already

[@KKFWB]

smh my head game dead

[@Adderflail]

The unholy spawn of the two shittiest genre of comment

[@DSKBR556]

yep its time to unsub I guess. I've taken many measures to ensure max the neckbeard doesn't appear on my timeline, I won't stop here.

[@sanicboi9187]

what do you not like about max? I haven't heard anybody vocally dislike him. (genuine question)

[@DSKBR556]

@@sanicboi9187 He is the embodiment of a casual fan (derogatory) and at the same time he has an enormous platform and is able to sway public opinion massively with half a sentence. He causes damage to the people that actually play the games because he doesn't understand how much power his bad takes hold while he himself who "has been playing fgs all his life" unironically struggles against story mode. It doesn't matter what the knees and the arslan ashes of the world have to say if the basement guy with 30 trillion minions says for example oh cool new X in the microtransaction shop, imma try it out (not saying he actually said that, it's just an example.).

[@folderrr]

​@@DSKBR556 genuinely curious too, but do you have any specific examples of this exact situation you seem to fear

[@sanicboi9187]

@@DSKBR556 That makes sense. It's just how the internet works you know?