Does Kazuya have any bad matchups?
How viable is it to use Kazuya adequately if I can’t do EWGF? I’ve been trying for two days and I have yet to get one out.
You can spend meter in place of the meterless perfect EWGF combos but, you’re really better off putting in the practice. Tekken players have spent months and years perfecting that move. It’s not going to come in a day.
Alright fair enough, I had seen posts about people getting it out occasionally after a minimal amount of practice, but I’ll just keep working at it.
TheMainMan has a great tutorial for practicing the EWGF. The video was taken in Tekken 6, but in my experience, the basic EWGF methods still apply in SFxT.
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I’m not sure if anything past the first EWGF is necessary for SFxT however.
I main Kazuya in both Tekken and SFxT and still can’t use the EWGF consistently, but after grinding it out in training, the input is almost identical between the 2 games so it’s great practice for me for both games 
Want to see the implementation of Pandora for Kazuya after a wallbounce? Check this out (and think about some other option):
iv decided to play Kazuya, and messing with him in the lab yesterday, is it normal that i find cross up mp MUCH better than mk, seems like its active much longer, and has a better chance of hitting small crouching characters. (was struggling timing cross up mk against crouching cammy in training mode, yet mp was super effective)
Wow, I didn’t know that. I might try it sometimes online.
I definitely feel like rolento gives Kaz lots of trouble. I also struggle against hugo, but that could be because i’m not used to him? Not too sure yet 
Hugo is tricky for pretty much every tekken character imo. His body splash is extremely hard to stop…it’s active for pretty much the entirety of the jump so where other jumping normals are either pressed in the beginning of the jump (if you think they’ll air to air you) or towards the end (if you want it to make contact or crossup), the hugo player can just press it when he leaves the ground at it will still make contact on the way down. You pretty much can’t air to air it and the tekken cast has poor aa overall.
^ I agree. I think grapplers in general have a good match up against Tekken characters, except maybe Raven for obvious reasons.
Speaking of Bad matches… I haven’t seen any Serious Kazuya vs Ryu matches and the ones i’ve seen from the beta versions almost always has Ryu pwing Kaz and that was when links were still bufferable to special moves. and since they say Ryu is SSS Tier and Kaz lost his chains into slaughter hook (except for a couple) plus ryu has excellent fireball game and footsies i’d imagine this is a near-curbstomp favoring Ryu but i’m just basing it on vids i’ve seen others may feel differently.
I feel like Dhalsim is a bad match up. Real tough to get in. Can’t mist step his low pokes like hp. Forced to jump or slowly walk him to the corner. Once you get in, you have to abuse your high low mix up game before he gets away.
That match up is pretty even imo.
this and sagat is kind of hard too
agree, just played a sagat, and low tigers are really good against kaz, especially since I’m used to wave dashing though every fireball lol
oh and juri is a pain in the ass too lol
what gems are you guys arming Kazuya with?
gems are banned.
OMG =( I can NOT get the EWGF down… if there are ANY hitbox players out there that can do it please help… I can mistep wavedash all day fast as hell but I CAN’T do the Electric… what am I doing wrong? T_T