Tekken 5DR stick or pad?

[n8archer_XI]

I’ve never played Tekken on a stick. The PSP’s DR port had stellar handling…

[VR-Fist]

Pad is good for every character except mishimas. You can still be good with mishimas on pad but it’s hella lame. Pad is especially good for jack 5 and paul imo.

Korean stick is the only to go for devil jin and kazuya, but it’s a high learning curve and mishimas aren’t as good as they were in tag.

Mishimas are very high Tiers. I would say TOP, especially Devil Jin.

Stick is better for fighting games in general. You can do Just Frames and Throws Escapes easier or faster. But on the other side, the game is very pad-friendly. I personally preffer Arcade Stick.

[Sabin]

I agree. Stick also allows you to be more precise, and how frustrating is it when you miss an input because your thumb slipped a little? Besides, have you seen any Jap/Korean top teams playing pad? There’s a reason why they’re all over the place and unbelievable precise; they play on the sticks, which are more precise, faster, and more streamlined for fighting games in general. Have you ever completed the full King throw combos on a pad? Didn’t think so.

Still, the pad definitely works well enough for competition. Lateral movement is undeniably better on a stick, though.

ive seen pad players pull off kings stuff on the pad without a problem in NY. most players there play on pad even in the arcade.
and i’ts not uncommon for jap/korean players to play on stick - they dont have ps2 ports on their machines - so no choice anyway and their environment is more friendly torwards arcade based players - everything is so concenrated, and you dont have to travel as much for comp. imo their movements and skills in he game have nothing to do with playing on stick or pad - they just have more compeition in general, nothing to do with controller preference.

i say this because the best player in NY (Spero Gin) has no problem pulling off all the technical stuff on pad, yet when I witnessed him playing in Japan on stick, he was’nt ale to play at 100%, since that’s not what he’s comfortable with.

What’s more hilarious to me is that the 2d players that play tekken in NY (Justin and Sanford) are obviously stick players, yet they play Tekken on pad.

[Storming_Flower]

Mishimas are very high Tiers. I would say TOP, especially Devil Jin.

Stick is better for fighting games in general. You can do Just Frames and Throws Escapes easier or faster. But on the other side, the game is very pad-friendly. I personally preffer Arcade Stick.

Yes, they are, but only one player can use them in a top tier way. A good pad overall is better for tekken, easier movements. Like arturo says, justin and sanford use pad in ny, I know Chet, Arario use pad in the WC. This even goes back to the tekken tag days, the best ogre player in US used pad. Overall stick is better at the highest of levels because you can do the advanced movements faster, but this is usually only able to be done on korean stick, not japanese stick, although it can be, plus backstepping, wavedashing, and other advanced movements aren’t as good as they once were. To the ordinary player, pad is better because it’s more precise.

[dbostick]

I only use pad for Tekken and 2D MK games and use stick for everything else (SFs and KOFs.)

[BIGWORM]

Stick. I think the only game I used pad on was Project Justice.

[Lvl.3]

…Another reason they might have been using pad, the arcade sticks were screwed up. It’s gettin hard now a days to find a arcade with good working sticks. For like every one arcade that has good sticks, theres 25 that have bad ones. :bluu:

[System_1]

I usually just use the pad for the movement and use buttons on the machines for attacks.
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[System_1]

I usually just use the pad for the movement and use buttons on the machines for attacks.
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wow thats quite interesting.