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Just because your ss+3 haven’t been blocked by nobody never ever doesn’t mean it’s unblockable, I can list you a million lows that keep the character standing while being a low attack, there’s nothing ambigious about it at all. It’s still slow and is telegraphed by you doing a side step, but it’s still an ok move to do once in a while.
And yes, b+2 is barely safe, what can you do from -9? Generally the fastest moves are jabs at 10f, atlhough Yoshi flash is still 6f i belive, but it only works on CH. Anyway, you can do nothing else but block, your opponent is free to do whatever they want. What’s the reward? Potentially CH launch, normal hit just knockdown. But now that he has qcb+4, what’s the point? It does exactly the same thing, only it’s high, but it’s well worth it. I’ve seen koreans struggling to launch that move after ducked, it recovers so fast. So b+2 is more useless now than it was in 6.
D+1,2 without CH is nothing but a gimmick, belive me, it’s just side step bait if your opponent reads you right. And d+1,4,2? I laughed that time too when Rip said it was good as a mixup, and I’m laughing now too, that fucking string doesn’t do shit ever since they ruined it from DR to 6. Supposedly the mixup is d+1,2 or d+1,4, it’s a totally useless mixup since d+1,2 isn’t NC, and nobody is going to duck after d+1, d+1,4 isn’t NC either and it’s like -5 on hit so again, they are not going to duck after d+1 no matter what, what would be the point? D+1,4 is NCC, but d+1,4,2 isn’t, and the 2 part at the end is -16 on block, oh and d+1,4 is about the same as demoman on block eg. -30. Shit mixup, shit string, no use for it outside of wall comboes. Ridiculous.
3,2 the only thing that can punish Mishima tsunami kick? What are you talking about, first off tsunami is -15 on block, 3,2 is 16f, so it doesn’t punish shit, and second you can launch it every time with either df+2 or b+3 unless they spaced it very well, and even then you can get d+1+2 which does more damage + knockdown.
Only a fool may try to duck if they see Paul coming at with duck, but only a fool would do qcf+3 from an advancing duck anyway because as said it’s -20 on block for literally no reward. What you do with this move is that you space it so that only the tip of Paul’s foot hits or is blocked so that most of the time it can’t be punished. Sure, you lose your precious +1 of advantage at long range, but I’ll say again that +1 isn’t much in the first place, your opponent is pretty much free to take whatever defensive action they see fit at this situation, usually it being doing a side step since Paul is linear as hell. BTW, ws+3,2 cannot be done out of duck, only if you’re in FC like normal. B+4 is a much safer alternative for qcf+3 while still being +1 on hit, use that if you must do a low which gives you advantage.
Qcf+1+2 was never mentioned at being a top move, it’s pretty shit due to said slowness. Low parry bait.
And yes, thanks for repeating what I said earlier; Demoman only works if your opponent’s back is against the wall. But qcf+3 won’t stop them from backdashing nor make them block low, why the hell would they as Paul has more damaging mid options and qcf+3 is nothing to be scared about, like mentioned above. And yes, I did say over and over again that qcf+3 is not a good move, but viable against backdasher because that’s honestly all he can do against backdashers, his lows are so shit that he has nothing better, unless you want to put yourself at risk and charge recklessly head on toward your opponent to land some other crap low move he has.
Seriously, how long have you played Paul? Or how long have you’ve played Tekken generally? Have you ever played against someone really good offline, maybe at a tournament? Your attitude coming off from that post is so full of yourself yet your advice is pretty pathetic. Your milage may vary yes, and some of the junk you do can work against unaware or less skilled opponents, but it’s still the general high level consensus that Paul is still a lacking and low tier character because as I’ve said, while he does get better at each new game, the problem is that so does everyone else so he’s always lagging behind and stays the way he is; not that good.