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Sorry if you did not find the guide helpful! Fortunately there have been several others who have said otherwise and have helped them. I'd at least hoped you'd retain maybe one or two things that could be useful, but maybe my info was lost on you. Maybe you can find another guide elsewhere to find the answers you're looking for 🤷‍♂️ Best of luck!

B3 is jab punishable, duckable, and can be stepped to the right! 🫡

What rank are you in and what is making it difficult

Next level hatred! 😭😂

@@Jesandy Not even hatred. Pure toxicity. This game promotes pure toxicity. The gameplay is TOXIC. You guys, you "pros" have it "fine", but you don't quite grasp what casuals and players wanting to improve have to face day to day. We're learning Tekken in Tekken 8. We're learning all of the bs, all the knowledge checks, all of it in this version of a pachinko master 50/50. Not only that, but we have to face King. King, who can spit at you from any distance, sneeze and you're already down and next thing you have to guess, into another guess, into another another another... Absolutely obnoxious. Tekken is obnoxious and King is the most obnoxious he's ever been and represents everything that is wrong with this iteration of Tekken. So yeah, I'm sorry, but this is how I feel.

@@Cazarace your feelings are valid and warranted! I found your comment humorous just because of the way it was worded, but i empathize. I had to learn Tekken in a game that didn't allow for consistent sidestepping, backdashing, and was reliant strictly on counter-hit moves and low parries that dealt upwards of 50-70% HP in one interaction (not including 2D characters that had 100% HP combos). This game is much more forgiving compared to T7 and pretty much any other Tekken because you can step, armor *safely*, backdash, and use heat to retake your turn. That being said, the learning curve for Tekken in general is fairly steep. I had to learn every knowledge check in T7 as well. It wasn't like this knowledge just fell on my lap and I completely understood what to do from the get go. I understand the sentiment of what new players are going through, and learning to play against King is frustrating, even as a King main. Learning throw breaks, looking at hands, always mashing, etc. That's why I made a video on common things that King players do at low level usually, and how to go about beating it. If newcomers are willing to practice the things I mentioned, there's a high chance they'll be able to understand the matchup fundamentally and hone their strategies using matchup knowledge. Same goes for the King player. If they want to get better, they'd do their best to break their habits to stop doing the things I mentioned in the video. It takes effort from both sides though. It isn't impossible to beat King. He's not some God-tier character. No character is. Most strong characters are definitely annoying to learn to play against, but if you're willing to put in the effort, it's very do-able.

1 = square 2 = triangle 3 = X 4 = O ^ most tekken notations are referred to universally in this 1-4 manner to avoid having to reformat notations to specific consoles with diff symbols for their controllers. It also keeps things consistent where 1 is left punch, 2 is right punch, 3 is left kick, and 4 is right kick. For ex: Ps4 controllers have X in the 3 position, but for xbox, X is in the 1 position

Correct- anything more than -10, like -9, -8, are safe! You can still block at -6 and -8, but that's pretty much your only option. Constantly being at -6 or -8 leaves you with little room to continue your offense, so, it leaves you at a disadvantage *because* your only option is to block. Mashing will more than likely get you counter-hit, and you're too minus to step and move around effectively

@@Jesandy thank you. So minus 5 or lower is safe on block and will let you sidestep?

@@CasualKingMain generally speaking, yes, though it depends on the character! The frames are much more contestable against your opponent than at -8 or -9

It's a high move, which means you can duck under it and punish your opponent if you predict it correctly! If you block it, you can punish it with jabs, but if you block it from afar, your jabs might whiff so be cautious!

@@Jesandy but it unblockable. No matter if im attacking my attack just bounces off and his kick powers thru and lays me out

@@pizzaprince you can also grab to interrupt or go low! Lows beat armor moves, so the move will not be absorbed, and instead will act as a counter-hit Or you can counter with your own armor move!

If armor moves get you all the time you're probably just mashing. Mix up your strings with lows and grabs. Don’t mindlessly run into him with unsafe moves. Duck/sidestep punish when you get a read. And if you block one, NEVER let it go unpunished. Every armor move is a counter-throw window on block.

Qanba Dragon with Korean Lever!

@@Jesandy Thank you chief 🙏🙏

You must be new to Tekken…

Context matters! Mash against them when they *cannot* mash back If they do, they'll get counter-hit all day, which is a big mistake that king players make often.

@@Jesandy Oh yeah sorry I do know what you meant and the video was great (I am a king main for the record). I just thought it was funny because I imagine those words could very easily lead to people getting bodied by king players more than they already are if the nuance is lost on them. I think offence without overextension is the key vs king but thats something that is hard to pull off for a lot of players

@@jacobdouglas4896 ah, this makes sense LOL Well if the nuance is lost on them then we will be thriving 😎

I think introducing new mechanics in the game helps keep it fresh! I just wish they increase the frame window for throws that counter-hit to make things fair

@@Jesandy no, the grab is buggy right now even the normal one hard to tech hit.

@@erjohn5404 oh you mean when you get locked out of your grab input? I agree, they definitely need to get that fixed

Nobody complains because it's weak, now everyone complains about throw tracking and count hit throw, means King can land way more throws

@@srseki the main issue is even if you press the right buttons, the grab will still continue it doesn't make sense

Exactly 😎

Yeah bro, don't throw anymore, that'll show us

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​@@JerryLeeHowell2 Hmmm..... Nah

This "anti-King" tech getting spread around rules. Chain throws are now guaranteed unbreakable if you don't take one of the 2 paths people actually tech. No more guessing, just pick the other route and it's not getting broken.

Oh your characters one of those fairies huh

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