I went to a Tekken 3 anniversary tournament today. Got to top 8, then died to an Eddy on a laggy screen. Talked to the bartender / tournament organizer afterwards, they seemed interested in actually hosting T7 tournaments for us. We might get something going.
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Feedback pls. Preferrably criticism. This is the game I felt was the most representative for my play overall, and while I think I played fairly well, I lost the set, so there’s clearly stuff to pick up on. A second opinion on this might be useful.
Been playing a bunch of Heihachi lately. He’s such a beast now. Top notch low/mid level punishment, his oki is a lot better, ss2,1 is a great QOL-change, and his new rage drive (10f CH launcher) is easily one of the best in the game along with Xiaoyu, Asuka and Steve. I also have to approach offense very differently with him compared to my other characters, which is a nice learning experience.
The guy who’s usually hosting casuals here got a new apartment, and decided to fill it with the rest of us sweaty, Tekken-playing nerds. Some dudes had a high-stakes ft10 (a soda :V). I got to play a long set vs a Ling-player that’s been wrecking shop left and right recently (second best Norwegian placement at Headstomper, second place in the tourney last month). I expected to get crushed; it was pretty even. Knowing I can beat this guy in tourney is quite the confidence-boost.
Speaking of tourneys: I’m also organizing a tournament at one of the local gaming bars next week. Shit’s looking good. Lots of people showing up, and the overall level of the top 8 contenders seem very high. Some friendly trashtalk on discord has also gotten me rolled up into two more ft10s (now with even higher stakes; a round in the bar for one set, and a pizza for the other). Dis gon b fun
apparently peru has sick tekken players, and they also still play tekken tag tournament 1. this would explain why one of their kazuya players was so sick at TXT. I found some old ttt1 matches and he was in it. This was one of the sickest kazuya sets i’ve seen. watching the stream chat on ATP was great too.
Oh yeah, and I got 3rd at the tournament I organized last weekend. Got wrecked by my personal demon in winners finals and then by a veteran Eddy in losers. Gonna lab up both of those characters.
I’m almost considering getting a secondary for Eddy though, Leo not having ANY good punish against RLX from standing sucks.
yeah i know she has stomp but depending on the pushback of whatever move he did to transistion into rlx and the frames stomps arent reliable. leo needs a faster ground hitting move i dont understand why they made her down 1+2, 2 the flip over move.
Saturday was good cause i went straight through the bracket and won
sunday was agonizing because i went for uf4 and missed the b4 so the person stood up and killed me i needed to warm up as well
Because you can now do ff3~d BOK2. And I can’t overstate how huge that buff is, because a lot of her moves give ff3 as a follow-up on counterhit (cd2, cd2,1, 2+3, uf2,1, SS1+2, and I’m probably forgetting some). A lot of her already decent mini-combos suddenly give close to launcher-levels of damage. It’s ridiculous. It’s also her optimal ender on a far wall splat, and it’s a lot easier to land than the old u3+4 > df2+3-ender.
I’d love for something better than u3+4 or d1 against Eddy though. I’ve been messing around with Kazumi lately (df1 pickups on RLX are stupid AF) but I’m just not having fun with her, and I’m not confident enough in my Mishima play to pick one of them. I don’t really like the other obvious candidate (Jack) either. Anyone else I should be thinking about here?
S2 Leo is so much fun though. You have so many ways to approach the match now.
Also, we get another tournament next weekend, and another one in three weeks. Usually we’re lucky to have three tournaments per year over here, now we get four in two months. Happy times.
