Tekken 8 - Steve Fox Albatross Stance GUIDE

Hello guvgang! I made this video to try and explain how I personally use one of Steve's less talked about stances. In my opinion, this stance absolutely has its place in his arsenal and does its job well. That job being a gap closer, mixup tool, and a mental stack machine. I have included one of his most famous Tekken 8 specific space traps here as well, so please enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:10 Albatross Stance Overview
02:15 Double Cyclone
03:56 Utilization of Multiple Spins
04:42 While Running 2 Oki Situation
05:25 Bonus Tip for ALB Setup
06:16 ALB + Double Cyclone as Mental Stack
07:36 Albatross Trap

[@lofas3852]

bro really says I'm gonna make an i depth guide for every button on steve

[@soulxcv]

💀

[@tristanherb49]

because he is a real one 🥊

[@xviinaichi3793]

As Lars main I always liked using his evasion to make whiff punish scenarios and making un traditional openings. Decided that I wanted to main Steve on a whim because my brother used to play him in Tekken and seeing he actually seems way more fun than I intially expected makes me so happy to invest hours into this character.

[@soulxcv]

Have fun bro! Steve is awesome!

[@xZifeeR]

Something I usually do with ALB is mix the PAB throw. A lot of people (even in blue ranks) can't break throws or have a hard time reacting to them, once you do that a couple of times they start flash ducking or fully ducking, then you can mix with mids, ALB 2 is a good option, or something that works but it is a bit risky is doing ALB into Sonic Fang, it comes a little bit slower and catches people trying to fuzzy ALB (I don't know if it is really fuzzy guardable, but some people still try tho), or it catches them trying to duck/flash duck the PAB throw as it comes a bit slower than ALB 2.

[@soulxcv]

PAB throw is great!

[@Noobody-]

I do the same with ALB into PAB throw to set up ALB > PKB DF2

[@najmi3892]

this is why you're the best🤩 thanks for sharing this guides😁😆

[@soulxcv]

Happy to help! 😄

[@roro2053]

For the algorithm , cheers!

[@booleann___]

So good. Looks like the Albatross -> outfox trap leaves the opponent close enough to get the LH 1+2 full launcher a lot of the time. I will have to experiment.

[@nobiisok9572]

thanks a lot for these guides bro, they've helped me out a lot

[@Kibzzzzz]

Steve is such a unique character. Thanks for adding a new option to my arsenal.

[@soulxcv]

My pleasure!

[@shazmah]

Another heckin banger thank u 🎉

[@TheLongFrenchman]

Your guides are the best dude 🫡

[@Chezeman12]

3:50 I laughed so hard, I feel your pain as do all steven mains

[@soulxcv]

Mids might as well just not exist for Xiaoyu 🤣

[@Jinx_TG]

learnin steve rn 🤘🏼

[@Fidelb33r]

🙏

[@marcohindrawan]

Beginner at tekken here and learning steve so gotta sub so I won't lose ur channel

[@nabedesu7708]

Thx for the guide bro im struggling to get steve to purple rank but i have multiple character in blue ranks, i just dont know how to play steve yet but ur guide always been helpful for new steve mains

[@soulxcv]

Glad you found my stuff useful!

[@ABizzareJoe]

Ayo short guides on every steve's stances???

[@idsh00]

hi kiryu

[@praisemidir]

What is the point of that low mixup if it is reactable ? Is there a way to cancel it into an unseable low ?

[@soulxcv]

It's a knowledge check for lower level players and mental stacking tool against the higher level. The great thing is that both spins can be cancelled into neutral or into PKB and it opens up the moves from those stances and all the different timings it can cover. It's very exhausting to defend against and it's not gonna be blocked late into a set if you tire their mental enough