Congrats on the promotion. I have a couple of things: 1) the Law player in the beginning was using the electric side step at 0:43 and beyond. He must be an old-school player. Not too many people in general know about that technique, so it was cool to see him using it. It's really meant to be used up close, though, for maximum effectiveness. 2) A lot of Mishima players are actually not that good at Tekken, but they repeat after their savior, TMM, and say whatever he says. They blame their losses on the characters being SO DIFFICULT. I'm not saying that this player did that, but a lot of "hard character" users do that in general. It's not that their characters are so difficult; it's that the players themselves are just not that fundamentally great at the game, like they don't really know what makes their characters good. I can see that in their gameplay, like with the Heihachi player. He's really soft to be in the blue ranks, lol. It was like the same thing in Tekken 7 where my week 2 Lee destroyed another Lee player who had over 10,000 wins, and I only had 200+ matches under my belt with the character. The characters themselves wouldn't be nearly as difficult to win with if people learned good fundamental Tekken, instead of getting caught up on doing THE HARDEST techniques and combos that their characters have. Those things aren't absolutely NEEDED to win, especially not against most players online. The only time those techniques would be needed is if people were playing at THE HIGHEST LEVEL in professional tournaments or something. Other than that, those techniques aren't really needed. Yes, it would make players better if they could perform the difficult techniques consistently, but good fundamental Tekken wins over DIFFICULT techniques any day. Good fundamental Tekken should be the basis upon which all other techniques are built.
Congrats on the promotion. I have a couple of things: 1) the Law player in the beginning was using the electric side step at 0:43 and beyond. He must be an old-school player. Not too many people in general know about that technique, so it was cool to see him using it. It's really meant to be used up close, though, for maximum effectiveness. 2) A lot of Mishima players are actually not that good at Tekken, but they repeat after their savior, TMM, and say whatever he says. They blame their losses on the characters being SO DIFFICULT. I'm not saying that this player did that, but a lot of "hard character" users do that in general. It's not that their characters are so difficult; it's that the players themselves are just not that fundamentally great at the game, like they don't really know what makes their characters good. I can see that in their gameplay, like with the Heihachi player. He's really soft to be in the blue ranks, lol. It was like the same thing in Tekken 7 where my week 2 Lee destroyed another Lee player who had over 10,000 wins, and I only had 200+ matches under my belt with the character. The characters themselves wouldn't be nearly as difficult to win with if people learned good fundamental Tekken, instead of getting caught up on doing THE HARDEST techniques and combos that their characters have. Those things aren't absolutely NEEDED to win, especially not against most players online. The only time those techniques would be needed is if people were playing at THE HIGHEST LEVEL in professional tournaments or something. Other than that, those techniques aren't really needed. Yes, it would make players better if they could perform the difficult techniques consistently, but good fundamental Tekken wins over DIFFICULT techniques any day. Good fundamental Tekken should be the basis upon which all other techniques are built.