Advice for Intermediate Tekken Players (From an Intermediate Tekken Player)

so I've been playing Tekken I've been having a fun time it's a cool game it's an easy game to get lost playing at a low level cuz you're just seeing silly new stuff over and over and over like every game I'm like oh that string is duck and the only reason I know it's duck is like I saw some guy duck the string when I was watching a Tekken tournament before it's like otherwise I have no idea I don't remember to duck it for like three more times and then the fourth time I duck it I'm like oh and I don't even punish cuz I'm just freaking out you know I'm just happy to be here right it's very kind of like relieving to see other people try out Tekken particularly other fighting game players right so you watch like Brian F right someone who's been in CPT Premiere top AIDS he's qualified for ccom cup before and he's like in the same rank as you in Tekken and he's like I don't know what's happening lean is an EVO Champion a two-time Evo Champion fighting a bear fighting Kuma and he's like I'm dead I don't know what to do in yellow ranks or red ranks or orange ranks or whatever against the bear I don't know if any of you have been watching box box P master and Street Fighter he's a TFT and League streamer he's learning Tekken and every day when he doesn't rank up he's like I suck I don't even think the rank clicks to him I think he's just sad that the rank's not going up even if he learns like nine new things like he learns like a cool new punish he learns some new frame trap he learns some new combo he learns like all this cool stuff right like if his rank doesn't go up his brain is just not happy he's already put over 100 hours in Tekken by the way he's at like 11 10 hours everybody's struggling the way I always describe it is that being brand new and mashing is really sick being being an expert level player where you know everything in the game and you're like in tune with everything and you can play lots of characters and like do lots of cool things that's really sick being an intermediate player where you're not a new player anymore but you're not an expert yet sucks and the intermediate stage is the longest part usually once you decide to take the game a little bit more serious not knowing things is no longer fun to you you want to know things and you also can't get to the point where you're like over here and like everything is just like you know it you you internalize it and you know everything about the game you have to stop focusing on how much you don't know about the game and how much there is left to learn about the game and just be excited about the game and your own improvements like you can't be upset at like how far the journey is ahead you have to reground yourself and be like okay I'm doing great today I decided I was going to try to land this combo and I landed it a bunch today I decided I was going to try to do this new thing in pressure and I did it a whole bunch of times and it's working and if you're ever stuck you don't know what to do I've done lots of videos about plateaus but whenever you're stuck on stuff like that focus on new goals find your weaknesses or things like it doesn't have to be all your weaknesses but find a weakness and work on it and fix it you're bad at doing running attacks and your character has a really good running attack and you need to use it more practice doing running attacks more in your pressure if you're bad at side side stepping if you're bad at back dashing if your combos are really bad you know just practice things like that take breaks and watch your own games and if you don't like watching your own game playay first of all sometimes you have to do it but if you don't like watching your own gaml then you should get better at recognizing what your problems are are while you play you can watch a VOD of someone play for like 3 minutes and you'll probably figure out some things that you're like ooh that's really good I should do that I can give you an unscripted example like I started playing Raina so if I just look up Raina Tekken 8 replays and watch for like a minute I guarantee you I'll find something new that i' be like oo that's a good idea I should probably do that let's see becoming America's first Tekken God rank with Raina okay cool this Anakin's YouTube I haven't seen this video I bet you within the first 2 minutes like I do you have to watch long within 2 minutes there'll probably be something he does and I'm like oh that's a good idea I should do that and it will improve my play just by absorbing 2 minutes of odod matches what college did I go to before oh you must also want the name of my first childhood pet my mother's amaz name do you also want to know what street I grew up on as a kid oh I didn't know you could do that okay we're 18 seconds in there's two things he just did that I think are really smart first thing is I like that he just did down one forward one two on block this is unsafe on block but when you have heat uh you can just do it and then on hit you get a combo and then on block you get pressure and it pushes them all the way over to the wall that's probably pretty good I should probably do that more that's a good idea it gave him a lot of corner carry and if it hits he gets a Stomp the other thing he just did that I didn't know about is on this wall combo I normally always do down forward 1 one and then I do 1 plus two but he did back four one Jab Stomp and that did a [ __ ] ton of damage I already learned like two new things maybe that I didn't even know about right like I'm like oh okay like maybe that's better I'm not sure or not but that's like two new things that I can try we'll see how much we can learn in 2 minutes how how about that F against yeah that's that makes sense this is something that I've been trying to do more I thought her W sending punishes were kind of whatever until I realized that she has she does have a 15 frame launcher and then also that this is really good because it gives you heat activation if you lose I'm line what's going to happen you going to get jumped no just play online fool oh just play oh my I didn't know you could do that either this guy Anakin is so funny I didn't know that this is a thing I didn't know that after back four on the wall she can do axe kick which is a heat engag or like a heat Dash right you can heat dash off of this and then do electric 1 plus two you could probably also do down forward one one 1 plus 2 to I didn't know you could do this okay this is good to know I in fact this is something that's so good that I bet you you can do this with like every character and I didn't even think about this but like basically when you have heat activated already just do your tornado on the wall and then do whatever your heat Dash move is and then you get your guaranteed damage move after I didn't even think about spending it this way did you hear his advice someone said I'm scared to play online I have anxiety what did I do and he said just play online fool what's the worst things that's going to happen you get jumped we watched uh 1 minute and I've already learned two new things and also he made me laugh twice that's this is pretty good V review so far oh he used back too I don't use that move much okay this guy duck yeah oh he tried to go low that's interesting oh what's the oh I don't know if that low par combo is better than mine or not but that's a good idea and we'll see what we've learned so far he already made a good adjustment which is he did 442 into a mid instead of a high cuz this person ducked so oh I like it okay I didn't really get it but now I just I understood something about this this mixup that I didn't know before after her she does forward forward two she has a high you can duck the high and punish right she has a mid but the mid is kind of slow so you can interrupt the mid and she has a low and I didn't really understand the point of the low because it doesn't combo naturally wait is this one a natural combo maybe I'm thinking Heaven R low but if the person you're fighting thinks you're going to do the mid they'll Mash you can do the low and it combos on counter hit now I understand why I would want to use the low too because the low you can use when you think they're going to mash on your mid nice that was a good hit confirm oh I didn't know about that either I never really do this but this is pretty smart he went into the STS up and then did this is an unbreakable throw right I've never done this off of like a hea engager cuz you have the plus frames right this is pretty cheap cuz you get to throw them on the wall and then you get pressure after right nice this is something that I've been trying to do him doing this affirms me that this is a good idea so I learned that this is something that's good in my play after you do this this uh hell sweep it puts you in Heaven's wrath stance the mid followup is two it looks like this you see how far the push back is it's even further normally actually but he does Heaven's r two this is safe on block has a lots of push back he does one back dash and then he waits and it's like cool should I whiff punish or not nice whiff punish right so now we've watched two minutes of gameplay and I've learned like five new things that I'm like o cool I should do this in my game and these five new things all look really useful and even if they're not that useful uh going and seeing if they are useful is good because while I'm trying them I'll find out if they're good or not now I know right that that's like the way it works the replays are really good inch though yeah they do give you a lot of advice I would highly recommend looking at them if you're scared Tekken is that kind of a game for sure where you really have to put your whole ass head in the [ __ ] uh sand and just be like okay how does this game work I also have I don't know how many of you are leverless players a new forbidden technique to Korean backdash so SD Korean back dash on lever lless the way you do it is you hold back and then you hit down back let go you see that that is the Korean back dash input holding back down back down back down back down back down back down back it's very consistent this is a very consistent way to kbd but you may notice that it's not the fastest right and you can try to pick up speed but sometimes you'll make mistakes however someone in fx's chat described a a way to do this called use the fingernail to like swipe the button and I said are you telling me to do Gins down two have you guys seen jins Down to you do this move this is what the move you need to do on your controller is to kbd faster and suddenly you have a much faster kbd you like rake your hand like that and you do that while holding back so you hold back and then you rake like this it does work on player two with the swipe like this this is how you do it it's the same kind of idea it just takes more effort the big drill to get improve your back dash that PDX posted which I thought was an interesting idea was this right and then you see if you can back dash away from this it's much harder for me to do this up here than it is to do it in my lap though like compare like compare the speed tocd right this is SD backpack you see how much slower it is versus The Rake method which is like way faster oh my God I almost made it away yeah on player two side to me I think it's easier to use this finger to help first back dash like this like that that's also a way to do it

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Length: 10min 49sec (649 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2024