One thing i liked about Shaheen was he was a new generation Tekken character that plays pure Tekken like he was around since Tekken 1. Hes got your usual pokes, df 1 and hop kick and even the slide. He may seem boring to most but hes very fundamental and teaches you how to play the game well.
I think that's the funniest part everyone complains about new tekken characters that "aren't tekken" and then when they see a genuine TEKKEN character with nothing but df1 jabs and low pokes they say they're boring and should be removed from the game. Just like same thing happened with kazumi
@Sammysapphira I was about to comment something like that. "This game is full anime" but Shaheen is boring lol Probably why Namco has kept him though.
@@HelterSeltzer_the_one they definitely went more practical than aesthetic with him. His redesign is cooler though in my opinion but yeah he ain't the flashiest guy on the roster
@@exiledhebrew1994 I used to main Kazumi, she was really fun. Well you could play Shaheen just because you can't be arsed to install "no Law voice/mute Law" mods or can't handle Lee just frames or execution.
I've come to appreciate Shaheen so much more now, even having mained him for a while in T7. He's fun to style on people with, but I can also see how players might not want to put in so much work to get the same level of damage another character could just shit out for almost nothing. But when you get in someone's head with Shaheen, it's a beautiful feeling to watch them crumble.😊
Wierd. Thats just what i wrote on reddit a day ago. Its always a nice thing to find someone with your own opinion in the internet. Make him slide on oil
i dont play T8 yet, but i felt from the footage ive seen that shaheen finally got what he deserved in this game. im happy for the character, even frame thinks hes cool now. ill definitely pick him up when i start my T8 journey.
I don't understand why more realistic move, not over the top exagerated ones are considered boring. Moves don't have to be flashy as hell to be fun or feel like they have a real impact (i mean the thing when you can "feel" the punch by watching it). I liked Shaheen in Tekken 7, wasn't boring at all for me. Tekken 8 its basically the first time i'm seeing how he is in this game so can't judge. But doesn't look boring at all to me.
Shaheen is the most Tekken character in Tekken 8 imo. He's a combination of every fundamental tool and one of every unique mechanic e.g mix up stance, slide, guard break. He is the perfect gateway into learning Tekken holistically, learning every character. If you learn how to use Shaheen slide or guard break that WILL translate to others.
I just learned that, if you cancel his u+1, you can use fc df+4 df to go into stealth step. Do fc df+4 df db to go into crouch instead. Do it fast enough, you can do a slide somewhere in there. He has has fc df+2 as a safe (iirc) mid. Pretty neat!
@@mm-yq5dt Tbf I'm also in that discord because I tried him in Tekken 7. Doubt all of them are mains and probably 1/15 are actually active. I do like Shaheen however and was just joking.
@@Therealtrilldillup until the highest of high ranks, mishimas are pretty braindead. In low-mid ranks (where 95% of players play) mishimas are very easy and effective.
so go on and play them lol, I play mishimas and non mishimas and I can easily say they are harder to play at all ranks. And also every character has cheese if you dont know them
@@SzyszuPL i main Reina but I also play Jack, Kazuya, and Shaheen In low rank playing poke characters is hard but playing mixup characters very very easy
Then that's a disadvantage for you. If you don't know a characters moves or their gimmicks and you face a good player of that unused character, then you're in trouble 😂.
Yh but he's the first character to have 2D style charge attacks, where you can cancel it after certain attacks. Paul's incomplete somersault takes forever to charge up.
your t8 videos have been so good. Keep it up! Never thought i'd try this char, but he genuinely looks so much deeper and more interesting than I thought
Shaheen main since T7 overall. And I just like the honest fundamentals. He was a bit boring overall and I agree with the points listed. But all I wanted was a glow up for our boii. And we got it!
With the exception of Reina, we seem to have the exact same taste in characters. I'm so glad you're much more eloquent and displaying why I love these characters like Lars and Shaheen and Alisa.
great video. i wanted to learn a character that's more about fundamnetals but never been fan of playing characters like kazuya or paul. so its reassuring to know that shaheen is a good option
I’ve put about 30 hrs into Shaheen in T8 at first I thought he was bad but then I realized that I wasn’t using all of his moves he’s really dope and the costume is fire 🔥🔥🔥
Waow characters can have mid-high mixups in tekken 8 in a sane and a reasonable fashion and not just have them from neutral where they also get extremely strong lows for no reason? Didnt think that was possible i thought a counterhit 40+ damage low that's not launch punishable that you can access in neutral was actually required in characters like these yes I'm talking about king what the hell is up with ff n 2
That HAS to be the best low in the game. They took the best properties of AK and Kings and combined them and now we have this abomination of a move. Honestly wtf were they smoking when designing T8 King LOL.
@@Farhan-ny8wt 55 damage on counterhit range 3+ low that's only -13 for a character that was specifically designed around not having strong lows (db3+4 is also only -14 btw)
@Farhan-ny8wt oh yeah but you know throws were nerfed in this game he needs it -is what I would say if throws were nerfed this game and not buffed he clearly doesn't need it
I'm playing Lee in this game since they didn't give us Armor King for base game, but I did also get the impression that Shaheen was more interesting in this game. I like his 2nd outfit with the green colors. I may try him out for a while.
Shaheen is my main so far. I know why he didn’t catch but I thought he was solid in T6. I thought jack8 would replace my favorite character in gigas, but he is no gigas.
Just the addition of uf1 and the cancel makes his mixup way more fun in my opinion. Slide and follow up into uf1 cancel into whatever mix up or ws1 ch check is a super fun loop
Many of his strings (df4,1 or 2,3 or f2,3 for example) are exactly long enough to charge Al Ghul master. Meaning you can chip in heat an just throw it out when they are blocking high already. Also at wall Charge d,u2 wall staggers when not in heat meaning and its minus 13 so 2,3 charge d,u2 is a frame trap loop at wall. Wall splatting df4,3 into charge d,u2 for resplat hits real hard. His ws3,snkc loops require a low juggle. Common route is launch, 3,snkc,fc4,1 db2,snkc,ws3,snkc,ws3,snkc,ws3,3 fc2,(buffer)ff3 or RA 78-125 dmg
One more really cool thing on Shaheen, pretty much the ability to catch any wall in a combo if you're skilled enough with the ff3 tornado to change direction
Thanks for this frame! ♥ Shaheen revolved in T7 around the heart of tekken - fundamentals, so always found it a bit weird when people said his gameplay was boring. I guess pretty sparks and stuff just don't matter that much to me personally lol. I do agree he didn't really have his own identity, and that that was a problem. I also agree he is boring as a character, lore wise*.. Boring standard noble one-dimensional character.
I like this character a lot, his outfits are cool without trying too hard, his moves are cool without trying too hard, hes...generically cool. The problem with Shaheen is that he's so far down on the list for a lot of people, I'd play Bryan if Kings didnt exist, and Steve if Bryan didnt exist, And Drag if Steve Didnt exist, and then finally Shaheen if none of them did. I wish they would've made him a boxer, or a thai fighter, or a wrestler, combatant ideas that already have a strong following, instead hes just...Shaheen
Nah I don’t want him to be a boxer. Awful idea He wouldn’t as cool and would lose his identity Love shaheen exactly as we have him now. He was pretty cool in t7 but now he’s got so much more sauce and looks and fights smoother He’s awesome and belong on the tekken roster
Shaheen feels like a pseudo steve in t8. Not in the CH department but he has so many cancels and so much flexibility with his fc game. Lots of different pokes and plus frames. Big guard breaks and on demand evasion. 41 is a solid ch. While lacking safety, there and mind games that come after that have been working for me. This is the best upgrade from 7 imo. Uf1, d to close the gap feels amazing too.
I main him. Fun character to me. Feels like a weak hitting character, but my gawd does it feels great to take down big damage characters. I feel like I know how to play tekken because of him.
I just picked him up 2 days ago. Finally got his stealth cancel down lol I’m a Leo main and I enjoy using unpopular characters and he’s really cool to me. I don’t see why everyone says he’s boring.
I like Shaheen, but i feel like you have to put in extra work for a decent payout. The same goes for Leo. As a bear main, I don't have to break my neck for big damage. Same goes for Jack. Maybe I'm just looking for the path of least resistance. Anyway, nice video and glad to see you playing Tekken again. ✌🏿
Yeah that's the curse of T8, characters with big damage erase most poke characters. I was a Feng main and would chip someone down only for them to hit me with a string that does equal damage. It was hard to make comebacks with him too. Switched to Paul and literally unga bunged myself to garyu without labbing him.
The situation where both you and your opponent have a lot of recoverable health, you connect with a heat engager, regaining all that recoverable health and then immediately get them to block the charge move and get the unblockable grab removing their recoverable health is FUCKED UP. I love it Going to try shaheen out
I’m new to Tekken (played a bit of 7 but only with friends) and I’m playing a different character every 2-3 days so I know what they do. I was expecting Shaheen to be straightforward and simple, that’s what everybody’s been saying but oh lord he isn’t. Canceling SNK into FC is absolutely needed for combos, duck under highs and access low parry after a stance entry, and get the better pressure game (if you enter stance at +10 you can WS1 for a mid while SNK 1 is a high). Also there’s not much bullshit going around with the stance like Victor/Azucena, and detering/punishing opponents from mashing (especially d1) is HARD with Shaheen.
uhh thats some cool stuff^^ i used to play him in t7 as a pocket char, but he always bored me after half an hour. I like what they did to his combos^^ you can probably still do 3df into ws1 as a dmg filler combined with the ws3 loops it could be super satisfying
Played a little bit of Raven, but Shaheen is way more satisfying. His moves now look very cool to see, some people can find his look not so appealing, but there's customization for that. I dare to say, outside the less appealing looks, he's visually way more cool while fighting than most of the cast
Its his overall personality and look thats boring, but gameplay wise, i love him. He's the epitome of how I play Tekken. If i get my feng to blue ranks, I'd start playing shaheen too, to put him in blue ranks too. He's rarely used so i think the knowledge check alone would give me easy wins.
Do a video explaining all the characters’ different heat gimicks. No one has done a vid like that yet & personally I have no idea what everyone’s heat lets them do. I just know it makes some moves a little better🤷🏻♂️
He is super mega underplayed. If I didn’t main Yoshi for T8 I would absolutely use him. At the very least he has: Top 5 movement Top 5 gap closers Top 10 well rounded Yea he is basic compared to most of the cast, but he is more versatile than people give him credit for.
The FC mixup is better with fc df4 as low and fc df 2 as mid I think. the low option can go into snk for snk 1+2 for example, essentially looping itself into more pressure. fc df2 is strong knockdown mid that wallsplats and is safe. I like it more than slide / ws2
For me Shaheen in t7 wasn`t boring. He was exhausting to play. He had every tool that you needed for a win, but your fundamental knowledge should`ve been very good. Every win was deserved imo. Hope in t8 he will receive more attention, despite TMM`s judgement for Shaheen being boring even now, that have the most influence for newbies.
Much easier staples i found and alot more damage is, *launcher* into 3 snk cancel ws1 4,1 micro dash into f23, db2 snk 3 or another option after bound run up FC2 into heat activation then ff3
Agreed, Shaheen is super fun in this game, his moves just feel and look awesome, and he has a lot of identity now. People who still think he's boring definitely haven't been paying attention.
I actually picked up Shaheen in Tekken 8 as a new character to learn and it was a STRUGGLE. He is a halal character in a game full of haram opponents. Like literally he is too fair and honest in his gameplay. I was getting absolutely WRECKED by people with low combo starters and moves scooping you off the floor multiple times per combo and I watched this hoping you would reveal one to me with this video. People can just stand in neutral and block your whole movelist. You even mentioned how this Tekken took its focus away from counter attacks and the only low starter that I've seen he has is only effective on counter. I actually just loaded it up to check and of course its minus 6 on block. 20 start up frames. I dont even understand the frame stuff like that but for all the scenarios I set up he gets cooked if its blocked. I guess that's kind of standard but this is amongst pretty much all of his strings being blockable by putting the controller down and rolling a spliff. Tekken monsters please tell me I'm just misunderstanding our honourable Akhi Shaheen so I can pick him back up but as of now at my current skill level it's just easier to hellsweep and shoot a laser at a guy.
Low normal hit combo starters are all seeable. Good players duck and launch them on reaction. Only works in low ranks. The only exception is Devil Jin’s hellsweep. Which is unseeable (still launch punishable of course). Counter hit low launchers do exist, but they are much slower than counter hit highs and mids, so it’s not as easy to land a counter hit low.
@@sebbbi2 I think I understand this but playing reactive in T8 at my skill level (not rank) is suicide. Especially with someone like Shaheen who is honest in his fighting style. Clumsy wave dashes and hell sweeps are gonna have to carry me because I can't be spending 2 hours in replay mode doing maths wondering why my moves didnt work to find out I was too slow by 4 frames. Every time it happens. Which is a lot. It's not that serious.
btw found out shaheen has far easier and faster KBD, just do multiple back then forward inputs and the distance you get is insane. its prob a bug since its only shaheen but pls let my boy have this
nah i dunno...I played him for about 150 matches for the last couple days...he gets boring pretty quickly...he is pretty good for practicing fundamentals
One thing i liked about Shaheen was he was a new generation Tekken character that plays pure Tekken like he was around since Tekken 1. Hes got your usual pokes, df 1 and hop kick and even the slide. He may seem boring to most but hes very fundamental and teaches you how to play the game well.
I think that's the funniest part everyone complains about new tekken characters that "aren't tekken" and then when they see a genuine TEKKEN character with nothing but df1 jabs and low pokes they say they're boring and should be removed from the game. Just like same thing happened with kazumi
@Sammysapphira I was about to comment something like that. "This game is full anime" but Shaheen is boring lol Probably why Namco has kept him though.
@@HelterSeltzer_the_one they definitely went more practical than aesthetic with him. His redesign is cooler though in my opinion but yeah he ain't the flashiest guy on the roster
@@Sammysapphira i miss kazumi. but the main problem with shaheen is that he doesnt do anything lee and law dont do
@@exiledhebrew1994 I used to main Kazumi, she was really fun. Well you could play Shaheen just because you can't be arsed to install "no Law voice/mute Law" mods or can't handle Lee just frames or execution.
Shaheen bros, rejoice!
My group of friends are all playing high teir characters. I picked shaheen as my main because they said he was a low teir. More like low teir god.
Sha Heen
amazing profile pic
AK doing 6-7 slides with shaheen will never get old 😂😂😂
I've come to appreciate Shaheen so much more now, even having mained him for a while in T7. He's fun to style on people with, but I can also see how players might not want to put in so much work to get the same level of damage another character could just shit out for almost nothing. But when you get in someone's head with Shaheen, it's a beautiful feeling to watch them crumble.😊
They could just simply add glowing sand effects on some of his moves to make the character more visually appealing.
Yeah I agree it looked sick on the sf6 Rashid I think it'd fit here.
Yeah give him the Lars treatment
Wierd. Thats just what i wrote on reddit a day ago. Its always a nice thing to find someone with your own opinion in the internet. Make him slide on oil
Nah how about you do something that doesn't make him a stereotype XD
@@OccuredJakub12 leave him boring?
I saw a Shaheen Reddit post a few days ago, and now this. I'm convinced. I'll give this guy a shot too!
not a Shaheen main but I love bringing out this lil neck snappa when playing with friends
"Lil neck snappa" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i dont play T8 yet, but i felt from the footage ive seen that shaheen finally got what he deserved in this game. im happy for the character, even frame thinks hes cool now. ill definitely pick him up when i start my T8 journey.
I don't understand why more realistic move, not over the top exagerated ones are considered boring. Moves don't have to be flashy as hell to be fun or feel like they have a real impact (i mean the thing when you can "feel" the punch by watching it). I liked Shaheen in Tekken 7, wasn't boring at all for me. Tekken 8 its basically the first time i'm seeing how he is in this game so can't judge. But doesn't look boring at all to me.
This dude is my favorite character. Having recently bought T8 I'm still playing him like T7, this video was helpful to get to know his new tricks
Shaheen is the most Tekken character in Tekken 8 imo. He's a combination of every fundamental tool and one of every unique mechanic e.g mix up stance, slide, guard break. He is the perfect gateway into learning Tekken holistically, learning every character. If you learn how to use Shaheen slide or guard break that WILL translate to others.
I've been playing Shaheen since launch of T8. This video really help fill the blanks in my offense thanks dude.
I'm learning the ws3 loops now
I just learned that, if you cancel his u+1, you can use fc df+4 df to go into stealth step. Do fc df+4 df db to go into crouch instead. Do it fast enough, you can do a slide somewhere in there. He has has fc df+2 as a safe (iirc) mid. Pretty neat!
I was a shaheen main in t7 and I really enjoyed the nonflashy stuff, but hes so awesome in t8 imo
Same. My main in both 7 and 8
I'm glad that the 4 shaheen mains are happy with him
Excuse me, we're 6 now.
7 😎
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800 of them were in the character discord on Reddit, almost 100 more than the entire capo discord which is shocking tbh
@@mm-yq5dt Tbf I'm also in that discord because I tried him in Tekken 7. Doubt all of them are mains and probably 1/15 are actually active. I do like Shaheen however and was just joking.
It wasn't mentioned, but his ss2 is also really good
Yup! And it leaves you in crouch with + frames on hit and +13 on ch, perfect for immediately doing a slide mix afterwards
@@SkarjOS you're 0 on hit after ss2
Mishima boys always calling other characters cheap while having unseeable low launches and 50/50 mixups
100% and when they buff any other character they cry broken until they nerf an already low tier oblivion. lol
which require skill
@@Therealtrilldillup until the highest of high ranks, mishimas are pretty braindead. In low-mid ranks (where 95% of players play) mishimas are very easy and effective.
so go on and play them lol, I play mishimas and non mishimas and I can easily say they are harder to play at all ranks. And also every character has cheese if you dont know them
@@SzyszuPL i main Reina but I also play Jack, Kazuya, and Shaheen
In low rank playing poke characters is hard but playing mixup characters very very easy
Yes, Shaheen is one of the names a falcon has in Arabic
This is the only character i haven't fought online
Same lol.
From 1% userate in T7 to a whopping 2% userate in T8
Then that's a disadvantage for you. If you don't know a characters moves or their gimmicks and you face a good player of that unused character, then you're in trouble 😂.
A little correction: Shaheen is not the first character with a charge move in Tekken. Paul has his "Incomplete Somersault" since Tekken 3.
Shaheen's move can be charged while doing other stuff, he's the first Tekken character to have that mechanic.
Yh but he's the first character to have 2D style charge attacks, where you can cancel it after certain attacks. Paul's incomplete somersault takes forever to charge up.
I mean, I think Frame was talking about an archetype, not just a presence of a move.
@@HoDoBoDo that and it's basically just for trolling, there's practically no utility for it.
@@MaskedGuyChSo Gigas wasn't a charge character 🤔
Frame reminds me of super man mustache cgi for some reason lol
I can't wait for the Snyder cut of this video!
your t8 videos have been so good. Keep it up! Never thought i'd try this char, but he genuinely looks so much deeper and more interesting than I thought
Another day, another frame video where he tries in vain to convince me to play a character that isn’t a mishima
I appreciate these guides but could you turn on input history in the future?
He is a good character.
This guy might be fun! thank you for the recomendation! played around with him a little while watching this and this might be up my alley.
Shaheen main since T7 overall. And I just like the honest fundamentals. He was a bit boring overall and I agree with the points listed.
But all I wanted was a glow up for our boii. And we got it!
I felt like he was cool in t7 but needed some fleshing out and more flavor
Couldn’t be more glad that we got in tekken 8!
Youve successfully influenced me. Legit influencer
Been labbing and learning this character recently. Great info on how his new stuff works
With the exception of Reina, we seem to have the exact same taste in characters. I'm so glad you're much more eloquent and displaying why I love these characters like Lars and Shaheen and Alisa.
great video. i wanted to learn a character that's more about fundamnetals but never been fan of playing characters like kazuya or paul. so its reassuring to know that shaheen is a good option
Shaheen is my highest ranked main rn. He's so much more rewarding to play now. Uf1 cancel into crouch 50/50 is my favorite thing to do
I’ve put about 30 hrs into Shaheen in T8 at first I thought he was bad but then I realized that I wasn’t using all of his moves he’s really dope and the costume is fire 🔥🔥🔥
Waow characters can have mid-high mixups in tekken 8 in a sane and a reasonable fashion and not just have them from neutral where they also get extremely strong lows for no reason? Didnt think that was possible i thought a counterhit 40+ damage low that's not launch punishable that you can access in neutral was actually required in characters like these yes I'm talking about king what the hell is up with ff n 2
That HAS to be the best low in the game. They took the best properties of AK and Kings and combined them and now we have this abomination of a move. Honestly wtf were they smoking when designing T8 King LOL.
@@Farhan-ny8wt The good stuff, clearly lmao
The universal and King-specific throw buffs and Heat weren't enough for them apparently lmao
@@Farhan-ny8wt 55 damage on counterhit range 3+ low that's only -13 for a character that was specifically designed around not having strong lows (db3+4 is also only -14 btw)
@@theformation3781 Don’t forget it crushes highs too because why the fuck not. Totally fine 👍
@Farhan-ny8wt oh yeah but you know throws were nerfed in this game he needs it
-is what I would say if throws were nerfed this game and not buffed he clearly doesn't need it
I'm playing Lee in this game since they didn't give us Armor King for base game, but I did also get the impression that Shaheen was more interesting in this game. I like his 2nd outfit with the green colors. I may try him out for a while.
Shaheen is my main so far. I know why he didn’t catch but I thought he was solid in T6.
I thought jack8 would replace my favorite character in gigas, but he is no gigas.
… Shaheen wasn’t in T6, and he ended T7 being complete garbage due to nerfs, useless new moves, and getting little benefit from system updates.
@@fuman7057
You’re right t7.
He was an solid character t7 in his bag, you could knowledge check or play fundamental Tekken.
Just the addition of uf1 and the cancel makes his mixup way more fun in my opinion. Slide and follow up into uf1 cancel into whatever mix up or ws1 ch check is a super fun loop
Yup i see it the same way. Shaheen got huge Upgrades compared to T7 and he is fun now to play even with a little bit execution like sneak cancel
finally someone is talking about shaheen! he's criminally underrated in this game
King jae also talked about him as well
Key thing that's incredibly impactful is that you can charge partition al ghul so you actually never have to crouch
Many of his strings (df4,1 or 2,3 or f2,3 for example) are exactly long enough to charge Al Ghul master. Meaning you can chip in heat an just throw it out when they are blocking high already. Also at wall Charge d,u2 wall staggers when not in heat meaning and its minus 13 so 2,3 charge d,u2 is a frame trap loop at wall. Wall splatting df4,3 into charge d,u2 for resplat hits real hard.
His ws3,snkc loops require a low juggle. Common route is launch, 3,snkc,fc4,1 db2,snkc,ws3,snkc,ws3,snkc,ws3,3 fc2,(buffer)ff3 or RA 78-125 dmg
Hey, thank you for the information sir!
I still feel he shoulda had 1-2 moves with his brother sword. But I’ve definitely grown to really like Playing him.
One more really cool thing on Shaheen, pretty much the ability to catch any wall in a combo if you're skilled enough with the ff3 tornado to change direction
wow im so hyped to learn him now thx for the vid was looking for a new main
Thanks for this frame! ♥
Shaheen revolved in T7 around the heart of tekken - fundamentals, so always found it a bit weird when people said his gameplay was boring. I guess pretty sparks and stuff just don't matter that much to me personally lol.
I do agree he didn't really have his own identity, and that that was a problem.
I also agree he is boring as a character, lore wise*.. Boring standard noble one-dimensional character.
So far his combo is the hardest and most satisfying to do with stealth step to while rising kick
Men, gotta try saheen. Thanks foe tge review
With that chip grey health removal move and his customize outfit fitting Altair I swear they thought: Hes now an air blade assassin. Nothing is true"
I like this character a lot, his outfits are cool without trying too hard, his moves are cool without trying too hard, hes...generically cool. The problem with Shaheen is that he's so far down on the list for a lot of people, I'd play Bryan if Kings didnt exist, and Steve if Bryan didnt exist, And Drag if Steve Didnt exist, and then finally Shaheen if none of them did. I wish they would've made him a boxer, or a thai fighter, or a wrestler, combatant ideas that already have a strong following, instead hes just...Shaheen
Nah I don’t want him to be a boxer. Awful idea
He wouldn’t as cool and would lose his identity
Love shaheen exactly as we have him now. He was pretty cool in t7 but now he’s got so much more sauce and looks and fights smoother
He’s awesome and belong on the tekken roster
I hope they'll add more charge stuff in the future to make him even more unique
Now that he is less played character means a lot of people don't know about his stuff.
Thank you for showing people the light i like shaheen
his ws3 loop combos are also really nice to do
Bro those loops are hella hard I can only do 1 before I have to spin but they're cool to pull off for sure
Shaheen feels like a pseudo steve in t8. Not in the CH department but he has so many cancels and so much flexibility with his fc game. Lots of different pokes and plus frames. Big guard breaks and on demand evasion.
41 is a solid ch. While lacking safety, there and mind games that come after that have been working for me.
This is the best upgrade from 7 imo. Uf1, d to close the gap feels amazing too.
I main him. Fun character to me. Feels like a weak hitting character, but my gawd does it feels great to take down big damage characters. I feel like I know how to play tekken because of him.
As a b2 loop enjoyer I can't wait to get sweaty.
Shaheen gang rise up
This is the only character I've used in ranked and I've never had a mirror match 😭
I just picked him up 2 days ago. Finally got his stealth cancel down lol I’m a Leo main and I enjoy using unpopular characters and he’s really cool to me. I don’t see why everyone says he’s boring.
I like Shaheen, but i feel like you have to put in extra work for a decent payout. The same goes for Leo. As a bear main, I don't have to break my neck for big damage. Same goes for Jack. Maybe I'm just looking for the path of least resistance. Anyway, nice video and glad to see you playing Tekken again. ✌🏿
I wouldn't call the bears or Jack "the least resistance". If they get a pressure character all up in their face, life becomes very difficult.
Yeah that's the curse of T8, characters with big damage erase most poke characters. I was a Feng main and would chip someone down only for them to hit me with a string that does equal damage. It was hard to make comebacks with him too.
Switched to Paul and literally unga bunged myself to garyu without labbing him.
He's super fun and has a lot of potential but really has no low pressure.
The situation where both you and your opponent have a lot of recoverable health, you connect with a heat engager, regaining all that recoverable health and then immediately get them to block the charge move and get the unblockable grab removing their recoverable health is FUCKED UP. I love it
Going to try shaheen out
I was wondering about these new moves... now it is coming together. I am understanding.
And he’a the most handsome male character
People called me crazy for dropping Raven and Leroy for Shaheen because I found him more fun
Waiting for leo and Alisa and lars guides from you frame....cuz I love the way your teaching method 🙌🏻✌️
Seems really fun. I will try him out. Thanks frame.
I’m new to Tekken (played a bit of 7 but only with friends) and I’m playing a different character every 2-3 days so I know what they do. I was expecting Shaheen to be straightforward and simple, that’s what everybody’s been saying but oh lord he isn’t. Canceling SNK into FC is absolutely needed for combos, duck under highs and access low parry after a stance entry, and get the better pressure game (if you enter stance at +10 you can WS1 for a mid while SNK 1 is a high). Also there’s not much bullshit going around with the stance like Victor/Azucena, and detering/punishing opponents from mashing (especially d1) is HARD with Shaheen.
goddamn now i wanna sweatlord this character that ws3 loop looks sick
uhh thats some cool stuff^^ i used to play him in t7 as a pocket char, but he always bored me after half an hour. I like what they did to his combos^^ you can probably still do 3df into ws1 as a dmg filler combined with the ws3 loops it could be super satisfying
I picked him up just to find out myself and I actually really like him as well I think people should give him a try really imho
Played a little bit of Raven, but Shaheen is way more satisfying. His moves now look very cool to see, some people can find his look not so appealing, but there's customization for that.
I dare to say, outside the less appealing looks, he's visually way more cool while fighting than most of the cast
Its his overall personality and look thats boring, but gameplay wise, i love him. He's the epitome of how I play Tekken. If i get my feng to blue ranks, I'd start playing shaheen too, to put him in blue ranks too. He's rarely used so i think the knowledge check alone would give me easy wins.
*sees title* *sees uploader* for you i will listen
Do a video explaining all the characters’ different heat gimicks. No one has done a vid like that yet & personally I have no idea what everyone’s heat lets them do. I just know it makes some moves a little better🤷🏻♂️
He is super mega underplayed. If I didn’t main Yoshi for T8 I would absolutely use him.
At the very least he has:
Top 5 movement
Top 5 gap closers
Top 10 well rounded
Yea he is basic compared to most of the cast, but he is more versatile than people give him credit for.
Sigma male character
Eh, he's still mostly just a flavourless Lee in this game, even up to his heat replenishing gimmick.
I’ve only played 2 Shaheen players since this game’s inception.
The FC mixup is better with fc df4 as low and fc df 2 as mid I think. the low option can go into snk for snk 1+2 for example, essentially looping itself into more pressure. fc df2 is strong knockdown mid that wallsplats and is safe. I like it more than slide / ws2
Thats True but the slide adds those mental frames and dmg
For me Shaheen in t7 wasn`t boring. He was exhausting to play. He had every tool that you needed for a win, but your fundamental knowledge should`ve been very good. Every win was deserved imo. Hope in t8 he will receive more attention, despite TMM`s judgement for Shaheen being boring even now, that have the most influence for newbies.
I liked Shaheen in 7 so him in 8 is so much fun in comparison.
I have actively become less happy as a person every time I've run into Shaheen.
Feels bad man
AK the real shaheen main. He in my opinion put shaheen on
It's great that they had the entirety of the Arabic language at their disposal and they decided to go with "knife hand"
Nice.
Honestly I love Shaheen. He's my main
Much easier staples i found and alot more damage is, *launcher* into 3 snk cancel ws1 4,1 micro dash into f23, db2 snk 3 or another option after bound run up FC2 into heat activation then ff3
Thank God someone finally said this. I have been labbing him since the CBT. Very interesting and powerful character in T8.
Guard break, good counter hits, good wall game, orbital. So basically Bryan? I knew you loved him.
Agreed, Shaheen is super fun in this game, his moves just feel and look awesome, and he has a lot of identity now.
People who still think he's boring definitely haven't been paying attention.
I actually picked up Shaheen in Tekken 8 as a new character to learn and it was a STRUGGLE. He is a halal character in a game full of haram opponents. Like literally he is too fair and honest in his gameplay. I was getting absolutely WRECKED by people with low combo starters and moves scooping you off the floor multiple times per combo and I watched this hoping you would reveal one to me with this video. People can just stand in neutral and block your whole movelist. You even mentioned how this Tekken took its focus away from counter attacks and the only low starter that I've seen he has is only effective on counter.
I actually just loaded it up to check and of course its minus 6 on block. 20 start up frames. I dont even understand the frame stuff like that but for all the scenarios I set up he gets cooked if its blocked. I guess that's kind of standard but this is amongst pretty much all of his strings being blockable by putting the controller down and rolling a spliff.
Tekken monsters please tell me I'm just misunderstanding our honourable Akhi Shaheen so I can pick him back up but as of now at my current skill level it's just easier to hellsweep and shoot a laser at a guy.
Low normal hit combo starters are all seeable. Good players duck and launch them on reaction. Only works in low ranks. The only exception is Devil Jin’s hellsweep. Which is unseeable (still launch punishable of course). Counter hit low launchers do exist, but they are much slower than counter hit highs and mids, so it’s not as easy to land a counter hit low.
@@sebbbi2 I think I understand this but playing reactive in T8 at my skill level (not rank) is suicide. Especially with someone like Shaheen who is honest in his fighting style. Clumsy wave dashes and hell sweeps are gonna have to carry me because I can't be spending 2 hours in replay mode doing maths wondering why my moves didnt work to find out I was too slow by 4 frames. Every time it happens. Which is a lot. It's not that serious.
Honestly they should just have made this character evil or some shit and people would start playing him a lot more lol
Even in T8, he’s about as interesting as Greek yogurt
Garbage take
I feel like I mishear Viktor saying SHAHEEN sometimes too.
I've been told he's saying "J'ARRIVE!" which is like "I'm arriving"
btw found out shaheen has far easier and faster KBD, just do multiple back then forward inputs and the distance you get is insane. its prob a bug since its only shaheen but pls let my boy have this
nah i dunno...I played him for about 150 matches for the last couple days...he gets boring pretty quickly...he is pretty good for practicing fundamentals
Why do you say he's boring?
Hey Frame, quick note, db4 for tornado at the wall doesn't hit small bodies, so I'd recommend fb2 for them!
I still dont know the trick on how like from 2,3 into FC U+2 in an instant like the holding down input isnt seen
Technically Paul would be tekken’s first charge character since he has that stupid backflip lol
Hes my first purple rank character