**Tekken World Tour Finals
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https://www.eventhubs.com/events/2017/nov/12/tekken-world-tour-finals/
When I lose in this game, it pisses me off like no other. But victory? The sweetest taste.
T7 isnāt that bad for me, even when I feel I lose to something stupid. In those cases I know I just need to lab that situation up or work on what movement options to use.
SFV was the worst game for me to lose in. And, in retrospect, the least satisfying one to win in as well. ._.
I canāt believe it.
Yesterday some guy adds me on Steam and I see heās a Tekken player so Iām like āAlright, maybe hatemail or looking for a practice partner.ā so I go on and accept.
Today the the dude messages me and this is what went down:
01:32 - The Grim Reefer: whatās up? do we know each other?
20:00 - Trouble Maker: hey
20:00 - The Grim Reefer: oi
20:00 - Trouble Maker: i was looking for high rank players
20:00 - Trouble Maker: u one of them right?
20:00 - The Grim Reefer: oh. then you picked the wrong address. Iām a yellow rank paul xD
20:00 - Trouble Maker: ohhh
20:00 - Trouble Maker: what rank?
20:01 - The Grim Reefer: vindicator-usurper depending on what i had for breakfast
20:01 - Trouble Maker: oh
20:01 - Trouble Maker: well
20:01 - Trouble Maker: actualy
20:01 - Trouble Maker: i was looking for boost
20:01 - Trouble Maker: and i need axacly vindicator
20:01 - Trouble Maker: ofc not for free
20:02 - Trouble Maker: i can get 1 any game u need on steam
20:03 - The Grim Reefer: thing is. i donāt really do that kind of shit. and i dont need any games either. tekken and yakuza are all i need. i also hella despise cheaters, so i guess this discussion is over
What the fuck is wrong with those people?
If you have no aspirations to get better at the game, what the fuck is getting a higher rank good for?
Just go and play another game instead of wasting peopleās time when you decide to play ranked match and obviously get matched with somebody who bodies you free.
you should have asked him for his account infos and that you will boost it up for himā¦ 
he will most likely not touch ranked anymore and rubs himself with oil while looking at his rank in the main menu when he got it 
**Who do you think will win the Tekken World Tour Finals?
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I guess the safe bet is JDCR and itās also safe to say that none of the Europeans will make it anywhere past the first round winners/losers.
But damn thereās so many high caliber Asian players in there as well as Jimmy Tran and Anakin, that itās impossible to predict. Too many games in that dumb bo3 format until winner/loser finals, so that anything could happen except for the Europeans getting shit done.
is that D.Jin player who kicked his ass qualified to participate?
Qudans is also qualified. Qudans beat him in Singapore. But JDCR also beat him in Taiwan.
Iād have my money on JDCR if youāre sane, but I REALLY hope we see big upsets early on into the tourament to show that the Tekken scene isnāt a two-man show.
I rooting for Mr Naps, but yeah probably JDCR. Saint, Knee and Qudans as runner ups.
If I had to bet on someone other than JDCR ā which Iād never do, heās on another level right now ā itād be Noroma or Qudans. Theyāre pretty much the only ones that have been able to topple JDCR since EVO, though even they seem to struggle with keeping up consistently.
Knee and Saint are also in contention as they are definitely capable of beating anyone in the world, but both of them seem inconsistent as of late (Knee in particular has dropped a lot of sets to random players). Then thereās Chanel, Take and Nobi, who end up 7th-2nd on anything they enter but never go quite the entire way. Mr Naps, Jeondding, Yuu (if heās going?), AK and Doujin are also names very much worth mentioning as theyāre really damn good, but not quite up there with the names above.
Still cheering for Qudans though. I want the Mishima rep to show them whatās what.
edit: just realized half of the people listed here arenāt even qualified lol D:
Safe bet is JDCR and Noroma in grand finals imo.
I think Iām going to attend in person, but the event is from 12-10pm, long ass time.
Definitely cheering for Qudans, and Naps or Speedkicks as the under dogs.
Also are there fewer competitors in the TWT Finals this year compared to KOIFT 2016? I thought there were more.
Long post incoming cause I love this game and am always thinking.
I played a few casual matches with Tekken Tim yesterday at a Long Beach tournament/gathering. He is top 2 or 3 in SoCal imo and I remember his name from the Tekken 5 days. Real cool guy IRL.
Granted I only played against his Heihachi , not Steve his best character .
Played one game with Devil Jin , and though my execution is the best itās ever been since Iām using a Korean stick , I got demolished and switched immediately to hwoarang for 2-3 games. Didnāt fare much better as his spacing was top notch. With hwoarang , Iām typically trying to set up mixups and whiff punish but the times I played against Tim and Waygamble, I realize how important spacing and distance is, it honestly feels like Iām playing street fighter.
I switched again as I felt like I wasnāt putting any pressure on him with Hwoarang. Funny thing is, I do this exact same thing to other hwoarang players, but canāt fight it myself.
Stay out of his range of peacekeeper, and engage him on your own terms, thatās footsies
So then I switched to Shaheen and could feel myself playing much more tight and solid. Itās amazing the difference when you play a lower execution character, you can focus on more important shit. My strategy was to focus on spacing, and when I got up close I used a lot of tracking moves.
I was having what I felt were better matches and he knew I was Trying my best to beat him, itās pretty great when youāre trying your damn hardest in casuals . I eventually took one game off him after another 3-4 matches. Damn near everything I whiffed was punished, even if it was a quick move, never been ewgf and regular wgf so much in my life.
Some things he was doing with heihachi I never thought of or faced when playing Heihachi:
F+2, 3 = -3 to -1 on block , I was blocking and reacting with jabs a lot afterward and he was ducking. This is something I notice a Claudio guy who typically plays against Tim in Grand Finals does here, after a safe mid (Claudio f+3) , they sometimes duck in hopes of punishing the next move with a quick WS move. Sometimes I would gamble and retaliate with df+1 or a df+2 launcher after blocking this move, but I think if he suspected this, he coulda beaten me with jabs. Rock paper scissor gameā¦
Blocked F+4 from a dash or wavedash:
I know this is a move that leaves Heihachi at plus, his typical follow up would be df+1 which checks me, he seemed to be able to hit confirm df+1,2 if I push buttons or did anything stupid. Heihachi can also sidestep and see if there were any whiffs and do df+1,2.
Eventually I played kazumi, and if I felt a df +1 was coming after a Blocked F+4, I did a quick mini backdash into a df1+,2 to punish the slight whiff of the df+1. Heād occasionally go low as a riskier option after a blocked F+4. Thereās kind of a rock paper scissor mind game after a block df+1 as well.
Long range crouch dash WGF-yes regular god fist, not electric god fist. This is something I saw in old tekken tag videos, and I recently saw Qudans doing a lot of this as well against wakeups. He would bait a rising 3 from far away, and come in with a long crouch dash into regular WGF.
Tim was doing this to me in the neutral. I actually asked him āCan I ask you, are you crouch dashing and waiting to see if you see me hit button before you push yours, or were you just going for it?ā He told me āyeah Iām waitingā.
Basically heās doing a long crouch dash which goes under highs, and if I stuck out anything, he was nailing me.
FF+2 on block: This move is -16 or -15 and itās a launcher, but it has a lot of pushback. For some reason, I instinctually want to push buttons after blocking this move because I know itās unsafe, but I was retaliating with dumb shit like Standing 4 with kazumi or other non sense that wouldnāt reach. I immediately got whiff punished by Heihachiās 1+2 (fireball animation) move several times. So this is definitely a setup that I will be using if I play Heihachi in the future.
I seemed to be doing slightly better with Kazumi than Shaheen in terms of pressure, but I donāt think itās character specific, it was more of me getting used to his playstyle after having a bunch of matches using Shaheen.
yeah kasumi has alot of trouble punishing ff2 from heihachi
with him as a sub that i use i was laughing at your post cause alot of those strats are scrubby as shit but they work. that 1+2 after ff2 is laughs i thought i was the only one that did that dumbass shit
the best thing to do is when you have a character that cant punish it is to dash block. if you have the character that will punish it but its inconsistent then you have to show him that you can punish it that will stop the 1+2 also.
personally what dissuades me the most from using that move is when the opponent steps it and thats only when you are predictable with it
its tough because you have to discern between wavedash and regular dash is he gonna do it or is gonna electric to catch something and/or continue pressure or f4 to catch you also.
regular god fist is underrated as a move its actually useful as the crush frames are longer that was a cool tactic.
sure wavedashing into a EWGF is cool but the point is to catch them regardless lmfao we have one guy here that complains when he gets hit by a wgf but not the EWGF
heihachi has strings that cant be punished he loses his turn after but they are all safe like 1,2, 1+2
that used to be jab interrupt-able in tag2 but now unless you use armor its safe
the only one that can be jab interrupted is d1,2 and even that is super risky because d1 has good push-back and he can transition into crouch so if you try to hard read the followup and jab interrupt he will get a ws punisher on you.
as for the world tour I want to see qudans win the most or mr naps i seen qudans adapt soundly and calm to every style on the circuit even jdcrs hes won a tournament and i think he could take it hes super sharp and it would be great to see him take it. plus i been watching alot of qudans streams and hes helping me with my devil jin play alot
I would hope that jdcr uses heihachi and I hope knee can get top 8
Fantasy matchup would be JDCR Heihachi vs Qudans Devil Jin in the grand finals.
jdcrās heihachi vs qudanās dvj will be epic. but in his last two tournaments i think jdcr has not used heihachi, so maybe jdcr is rusty with his heihachi. i think jdcr will pick dragunov. i am also not sure if you can switch characters at twt finals. in last yearās world championship, you can only use one character in the whole tournament. personally i want jdcr to win. but if he wonāt win i want that euro yoshi or raven player to win.
JDCR pretty clearly stated that the reason why he doesnāt play Heihachi in tournament is because tournaments are played on PS4. Dragunov is much more effective with input lag from his point of view.
but jdcr did play heihachi a lot at tournaments. it is only in his last 2 tournaments that he is no longer using heihachi. but jdcr still uses heihachi on certain match ups. against a ling player or nobiās dragunov, he always uses heihachi.