Yes, that’s the thing I hate the most in 3D fighting games, and Tekken has a million characters which makes it worse. This is why I just block high and choose to eat the lows while I learn my opponent.
…Merging into the Questions thread. You guys have got to learn to read.
What makes a good offense? Generally I try to use quick pokes and strings to catch buttons or use some lows if they just block. I try to whiff punish with a move with good range. I still feel like I could be doing more. From what I’ve seen and read I get that you shouldn’t rely on moves that are jab punishable (or greater) so I try to keep them to a minimum.
Mix ups! You can keep throwing stuff out but in the end if its all mid they will have no problem getting around it. Find out your characters really good lows and mix them in with your playstyle so your opponent will be playing a guessing game when you get offensive. I’m no master myself but I play Paul and completely forgot about his great lows so everyone would just punish my easy attacks. I started putting demoman and sway back low in my game and people started falling for it. Then once they think they know what im gunna do I started using mids again and catch them off guard.
There’s a Questions thread! Use it!
Sorry, didn’t realise. Sticky?
Eh, I suppose I can. I’ll take your Infraction back while I’m at it.
So, I was wondering, do you guys get the arcade code too with your TTT2 copy?
If yes, and if you dont play at the arcades, maybe can pm me that code? lol
Although I’m not sure if I can get the bonus more than once… but worth a try.
So I recently go the game, last time I played Tekken I was like 12 years old.
I’m wondering, what are some of the easier characters? I play on pad and am actually pretty good at 2D fighters like UMVC3, but this 3rd axis and multiple button presses is throwing me off. Who can I use to just get used to the mechanics of the game, as well as learn some easy combos?
My current team is Hworang and Tiger.
Level Up Your Game, the site, has some nice tutorials for beginners.
As for an easy character Paul is very straight forward.
If you’re beginning, don’t use Hwoarang… Unless you actually practice TKD. 
Paul, Jin, Wang and Miguel are good beginner chars. All have short movesets and rely more on being fundamentally sound. Easy combos too. So you can train your fundamentals while actually having fun. If you want to, you could pick other characters later…
How do you guys rate Jinpachi, Roger/Alex, and Christie/Eddy? I pretty much just use Christie/Eddy when I want to mix things up but my primary team is Jinpachi point and Alex secondary.
Try maybe King?
easier to play usually means harder to win with. Characters like Paul or Jin might be easy generic characters to pick up but they are also a predictable, high risk characters. Just go with any character that looks cool to you and mix it up.
Jinpachi is the easiest one of them. Avoid Chreddy in the beginning, since they require a lot of stuff you need to work on before (and separately, to make things easier). Roger and Alex are pretty easy (and fun) - the only thing hard on them is wavedashing/AGF.
Roger and Alex also have subtile differences between each other - so if you try both on the same team, bear with that in mind. ie; Alex’s tail is longer than Roger’s, but Alex’s pokes on it is way unsafer than Roger’s, due to having long range - and other stuff.
Overall easy/good beginner characters:
Paul, Asuka, Alisa, Lars, Forest Law, Anna, Ganryu, Lili, Jinpachi, Jack-6, P.Jack.
Jacks,Lars,Jinpachi,Paul
So I haven’t payed the Tekken series “seriously” since Tekken 2, and stopped playing it altogether in Tekken 3.
Just got back into the series with Tekken tag 2. Always been a Paul player in previous iterations of the game and need a good I guess “entry-level” character to learn along with him in this one. Always liked Wang (*cues immature comments) as a secondary in 2. How is he in this game and would he be a good pair with Mr. Phoenix or can someone suggest a good character to learn otherwise? (that’s not one of the Laws)
Thanks in advance.
What did Steve lost and what did he gain in TTT2 ?
55 views and not one person could take the time to make a recommendation. Less than 20 views of the same thread on eventhubs and at least 4 good suggestions.
Stay elitist SRK. Way to help the noobs in your community.
I was enjoying TTT2 quite a bit. Until… I bought VF 5 FS. While TTT2 is good, and the amount of content is great. VF 5 FS feels deeper, quicker, and smoother than TTT2. TTT2 just feels shallow by comparison. Thoughts?