TEKKEN 7 | Lounge

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I’m happy about getting there myself, with one exception; backturned moveset. That stuff still feels so unfamiliar to me, coming from SF. Not nearly as alien as some weeks ago, but I’m still always nervous about using that stuff actively in matches, or tend to get very repetitive with it.

At least both Lili and Feng force me to use it. A bit of a furtunate coincidence, really.

Still bothers me we haven’t gotten to play proper yet. Don’t think I forgot about you. :slight_smile: Got a big vacation coming, so I’ll be on the lookout for you! As well as anyone else up for games. Really hope I’ll be able to catch you online, guys.

Good luck over there! And be careful with that carpal; stuff’s not to be underestimated.

I still remember how the release of Diablo 3 strained my mouse hand. I was legit worried it became permanent, since I had it for weeks after, doing practically nothing with the hand and just watching streams and youtube at the PC.

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When things are clicking in this game, it’s a beautiful thing, and it feels great .

Played a Leo where I lost game 1 3-1 rounds with my kazumi.

Told myself “you’re losing at medium range”.
Next game, I didn’t push any buttons at medium range , spaced it out until I got up close and that’s when I started pressuring and it worked. When I was in medium range , I spaced out farther and just looked for whiff punishing opportunities, ended up taking the next two games . If you’re good at footsies in 2D games, I feel like it carries over to tekken when you’re mainly trying to play a spacing game…all about standing at optimal ranges of your character and protecting that space .

Currently feeling that When Playing a straight forward character, there are less variables, I think it’s easier to isolate a problem .

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i am fine with them but i should incoorporate them more in my gameplay. its more of a very situational thing for me.
but that goes for a bunch of stuff…at least i know what he can do so i can focus on my opponent.

what i notice is that my movement is way to linear. to sidestepping or walking to avoid moves is something i have to remember myself
alot during longer sessions…but i guess it comes with time. i am not in a rush to learn the game, i have time.
the same goes for matchup knowledge. i dont know why people pressure themself so much after only 2 month, thinking they should know all of em already.
i am not a tournament player, i of course want to get better at the game but i have no time pressure to do so, and the game is only out for 2 month with many
years to come before t8 or a tag game might replace it.

feel free to hit me up when you wanna play and see me online.
with so “many” pc players in europe i thought about making some little tourney series in the future but lets see first how many people will really stick to the game first.

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just made destroyer rank with heihachi
now the arduous process must be gone through with devil jin once i have both of them at destroyer then I can make a push for savior

shit was rough cause earlier I got demoted a few down to juggernaut ( I hate forgotten temple lmfao you get stupid ass damage and some messed oki
my opponent capitalized on this and got promoed
asuka is a rough matchup for me
but I ran into a raven promoed back to usuper with him got vanquisher from another asuka and then ran into a vanquisher lee and got the destroyer from him
im gonna play my friend tonight in a session and see if I can prepare for offline comp
when you get people to stop pressing buttons and they are weary of db2 qcf2 with hei at tip range is free
you just have to move well enough to project your other options including EWGF and jabs to stuff speeded up approaches

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not tekken7 related but i dont want to make a own thread for it.

it seems there will be a tekken mobile game coming out soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNm1h7mdE5g
when you prereg on the website it seems to unlock some things, the more people reg.

Canadians can test it out already

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I saw that. Kind of hoping they turn it into an expansion like Tekken 7 to Fr. It’d be great to have some veterans return with those stages. Which actually look pretty cool.

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it will have over 100 chars.
i doubt it will have anything shared with t7 and is its unique thing.
casuals might like it…

gameplay video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=537&v=IBg3QfWnJc4

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This game is so fucking sick.
Yesterday I got my ass whopped out of vindicator on both PC and PS4, I didn’t know what to do at all. That Jack and Dragunov kicked me back to Vanguard in a deathmatch.

Today I come online and was finally able to piece some shit together. Opponent was a Josie that was using like 10-12 moves regularly (throws, strings, single pokes etc.) and after losing the first match I was finally able to fucking play the game.
I play Paul and when I noticed that the dude jabs every fucking time I use df+1,b (quick poke into backsway which is +2 or 3 on block), I just let the sway rock instead of hitting my roundhouse kick and punished that jab with my launcher.
So then the dude started hitting random buttons and I lost a couple of rounds because of that and because I noticed this and asked myself what I can do against it, I just used f,f+2;1 to punish that shit, or use my magic 4 preemptively to get counter hits into combos (when I didn’t drop it because that’s hella hard with Paul especially online).
Next move he loved to use was a 2-string which started mid and seemingly ended high. Let me see if I can duck this and hell yeah shit worked.
Blocked 1,2 or magic 4? My turn, prepare your anus!

So after I took away all these tools from him and noticed how desperate and confused he was I just started going ham with low pokes from crouch dash and mixing it up with deathfists, dash up demo mans, all that shit.

Series ended something like 20-5 (not sure) with him getting demoted twice and I’m back at vindicator.

This game is so fucking sick and such an nice ride. This series just cemented in my mind that knowledge is everything in this game, if you’re just starting out. You can suck donkey balls like me and not be able to do a combo that does more than 50 damage, but if you know the situations and practiced how to deal with them, you’ll fucking beat everyone into a pulp. The reward for the easiest combos is so fucking high, that if you make people pay for 3 mistakes in a match, you’re the man.

It’s so much fun kicking somebodies ass though that checking out frame data and creating favorable scenarios in practice mode, can be a lot more fun than a chore. Biggest problem is the variety of characters you fight in ranked matches and that your practice, because of that, doesn’t immediately pay off.
Sadly Namco doesn’t see shit this way but luckily I got Tekken Bot, lol.

Sorry for that blogpost but when I’m high on adrenaline, I start to get really chatty.

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Got to winners final of my pool in national without breaking a sweat.
Faced the best player in Norway there, got bopped for free as predicted. Got perfected twice on stream.
Some Law mashed his way to losers final. I can’t block dragon tail on PS4 and narrowly lost because of it.

Saaaalt.

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Long sets are great because eventually someone adapts and it becomes layers of mind games.

So I saved some matches versus Jin on my PS4 because I have no idea what he does. Now that I’ve gone into practice mode…damn Jin is really fun to play.

And he’s somewhat high up the tier list.

I hated “Regular Jin” and have never touched him in any game after tekken 4…mainly because he was so broken in Tekken 4, and I consider Devil Jin, aka pre Tekken 4 Jin moveset, I consider the “real jin”. Regular Jin was the fake Jin with a fake electric that is a hook instead of a uppercut.

But back to this game, Jin is really solid imo. Lots of utility, lots of counter moves, and options off plus frames. easy punishment with 2,4 and 1+2. Ws+2 also launches.
If I didn’t already set my mind on Kazumi, I’d probably pick Jin. He feels like Kazumi with more options and an electric.

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Whats the stream man?

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went online with Jin for the very first time today and I got rekt, even after spending quite some lab time ( 6+ hours ) with Jin
I couldn’t get my Jin going, I guess it will take a while longer until I figure out his game plan
He is fun though.

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There were some really nice matches there. Me getting SLAUGHTERED by IWaR2 was not one of those. :stuck_out_tongue:

Still, nearly making top 16 in a 112 player tourney isn’t terrible. I’m mostly salty about the manner I lost in. :v

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At a tournament again casuals ,

Took a game off this feng player I’ve never beaten before with kazumi, and he barely won the second game. I had good reads.

Switched to Hwoarang and got destroyed .

This says a lot to me. I feel so much more in control with her. I think kazumi will be my main with hwoarang as secondary in tournament settings.

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Another terrible performance or result in tournament .

First match against a young looking king player. I won the first match after a close game. He didn’t seem to know the matchup imo but he was incredible patient and defensive. Never fell for any of my frame traps , hardly whiffed. I eventually resorted to throws . He won the second match and it was then I realized I should be doing a low more lows to open him up, but then he started doing low jabs. 3rd match , I went to stage select and was able to get a wall stage but was already defeated in my head. he beat me 3-1 or 3-0 rounds. I shook his hand but was incredibly salty.

Second game against another king player . Beat with him kazumi, 2-0. Lost some rounds but not bad .

3rd game , beat a Bryan player with kazumi. He switched to law , beat my kazumi in a close match . Smart decision would have been to stick with kazumi but no, I had to pick hwoarang and gamble that he didn’t know the matchup .

He rushed my ass down and beat me pretty easily. I shook his hand said good game. then I turned to the monitor and flipped off hwoarang and said “fuck that guy”. The guy next to me just laughed. Apparently he was from out of state, must have been decent .

Edit: meh, at least the 3rd guy I lost to beat two guys who have won WNF before. Maybe he’s better than I thought.

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Your hate/frustration with Hwoarang is really odd considering this is the best the character has ever been.

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Ling drives me fucking nuts.
Just went through her first 50 moves, and there’s so much cheap shit in there it’s incredible.

You check moves and think to yourself:
Oh that’s unsafe, that’s easy to launch. Oh wait she has the same move transitioning into AoP. Nvm I get 15 damage as a punish… -.-

A fucking low that is +2 both on block on hit? Seriously?

I fucking hate this character already…

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I’m back on playing Asuka, a lot of her moves are what I like. Stuff like ff1, big beefy dashing normal that gives her stupidly big rewards on CH but is probably the worst move on whiff in the game

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I definitely agree this is the best he’s ever been…and it’s for that reason that this is the first tekken game I have mained him in.

frustrated with results…the game I played against LOC’s Feng (tekken 5 nationals placer ) with kazumi was an eye opener to me. I could actually feel comfortable implementing staggered/delayed offensive pokes .

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why do you think it’s the worst move on whiff in the game?
She literaly staggers for 3 seconds around, only the giant shield with “PUNISH ME GOD DAMN IT!” is missing.