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You should be proud to be mid. If you made Garyu, you are better than a majority of players. Don't worry too much about rank and focus on improving and have fun.

"i can't even do an electric" *does an electric* 😭😭

I made it to purple ranks. Honestly I’m super happy where I’m at, this is the first Tekken I’ve taken time to learn and be “competitive”at since the first Tekken Tag which was 20+ years ago. My original goal was red and once I got there it was definitely tough. I demoted to orange a few times but once I got to Shinryu I made it to Tenryu right away which surprised me. Then I said F it and went for purple and got there. If I want to get to blue I know I need to learn a lot more matchups/situations, work on my neutral and spacing, and especially work on my defense.

One tip is also to present a situation and see how the opponent reacts to it. Do a low. Opponent hopkicks immediately after. Thats valuable information.

Dude, no way! I just found your Lili guide literally last night and loved how you went over stuff like timing and movement being applicable to higher level tekken. No one is really talking about the small things like dashing in and beating timing. Keep up the guides! Thank you for taking the time to make these, too.

Im so glad he mentions side stepping being a great option to avoid flow charts. So many people don't realize how many strings you can side step on block. Also please everyone play how you enjoy, the high ranks really will take a lot of focus and sweating for non veterans. Just enjoy the climb while it's enjoyable for you

I love the information that you gave isnt just about mechanics or learning the buttons (which is still important, such as grab breaks and being able to use heat engagers), and puts emphasis on the underlying knowledge that sets apart the ranks. I'm still orange and trying to fight my way in to red but this information being at the forefront of my mind will probably be what i need to get up there

watched for 1 second now i am tekken king kuma

What Ive found that is helping me learn is playing quick match . Gives me oppurtunity to learn match ups , and better strategies

Nice video brotha. The little things in fighting games will help you grow exponentially more then the system mechanics that you’ll learn anyway. I like that you point this out! Wato Out!

Great video! Needed this. Your explanations is perfect. Definitely subscribing

I was kind of hitting a wall in Shinryu-Tenryu range and then I watched this video. Purple rank baby! And already getting closer to blue, let's go! Thank you!!!!!!

1:57 This just gave me a mini breakthrough, I think I get what you mean. Without watching the rest of the video, I think of how my character's low leads into a frame trap, but people beat it by using a move that, while technically not as fast, evades the next hit and wins. Essentially, while frames are important, they are not the only thing relevant at any given time. Edit: This was a really good video, I was partially off but learned a lot. I'm looking forward to seeing your other stuff

great video! love the part about not living in the lab. do want to say that red/purple feels way more low rank now (blue as well) where you can still beat people by just playing frames

Thank you so much for this. I recently hit gatyu with Bryan and have been red rank with Yoshi for a while, of which I am proud of being a Tekken newbie. I still have been having fun with the game but I've been so confused as to why I feel so hardstuck in red. Thank you for saving me a month or two of predictable neutral play

Great video thanks a lot, i look forward to your next one. ❤

We have a similar thought process when fighting!! I agreed with everything you said. Especially your one comment to someone about how it's great sometimes to use plus frames to do nothing and using minus frames to do something. My play style is more about constantly taking risks with my Bryan giving the impression to them that I am good but they are "better" than me. Soon as they feel like they got the win in the bag I switch my play style up back and forth between being super risky to being super safe.

This turned into a motivational speech for me and I love it 😁 I'm also a Yoshi main that just reached Vanquisher and at 8:28 I reacted with "I would do DF 2" right when you alao said it, I felt great haha

I have this weird habit where I look for a opponents High habits for duck counters, blocking is my second form of defense. This video told me block first use that way of defense second with more sidesteps thank you good sir 🖖

I love this video, man. Thanks for breaking it down

This is a good video, I dont know whether I missed it or you didnt mention it, but I wanted to mention that using mixups to condition your opponent to contest you without having to take huge risks afterwards is a thing I commonly dont see a lot of players in fighting games use in general, or things like using pressure resets in more traditional fgs as a way to encourage the opponent to fall for frametraps.

It’s not that frames don’t matter , it’s that you are reading and conditioning your opponent in a match. If you are playing against someone and you hit them with an attack that gives you negative frames , and attack afterwards , you are attacking because you are making a prediction that the opponent is going to do a move that you can crush or stop with a faster frame move , even though you are at negative frames. Or if you have conditioned the opponent to be afraid to attack even after you’ve hit them with a negative frame attack , then you can bully them with more unsafe moves or negative moves until they respond to them. Frames always matter but it is a gauge.

Very good video, bro. I agree with most of what you said here. I def have had a problem of relying on frames too much. So much so that I wouldn't even attack if I was negative. I have now just been experimenting with different stuff in matches. Limit pushing and seeing what I can get away with. Or seeing if a certain thing works in a situation. It has made me not climb as much, but I believe it is helping me in the long run.

+1 follower. Thank you for your tips man.

Great Guide! Really agree with all the points and need to improve myself using the same mentality. Just one thing, Red/Purple ranks are above 50%-70% of the players already, they are experienced players, can learn also from a matchup, but as you said, they use way too much frames, flowcharts or risk themselves being too offensive.

practicing combos and learning my characters moves does help me not misinput since I'm a newer player on a K lever but I see what you're saying the neutral game is much more important it is the true essence of improving, the only issue i have now is sticking to a main I got my reina to ganryu a while ago and now I am all over the place labing a bunch of characters

woah, extremely insightful!

Great video man. This is my first tekken and I am currently mighty with yoshi (my favorite one until now). I think my approach is similar to what you explained (at least it's what I try to do XD). I'm tryng to transfer these infos to my friends to improve together but they're deaf 😂 i will use you to wake them up and let them see the matrix 😂😊 Waiting for some yoshi in depth analysis; would love that.

Lovely vid! Not a lilli player, but I do enjoy improving. Subbed!

"There's a lot of things in Tekken that are just not learned in the lab. They're only learned by playing games against opponents, creating a theory on how to beat them, executing that theory, and seeing if it works or not." Good vid, @nobacktalk 💪

Great video. I'm tenyru at the moment. Will try to be more patient instead of being aggro 100% and leaving myself vulnerable

Earned my sub. Nice informative video

I subbed and I’m applying this fully Wtaf u just cracked the code on why I’m so ass THSNK YOU

Might be the vid I needed, cruised through the ranks until I hit Eliminator and struggled to get to Garyu. Only got close to Shinryu once and then it's been a seesaw from Eliminator to mid Garyu rank. Been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Hey keep making content I will keep watching . I like your chill voice and good advice. I hate loud lol

Thanks for advice. I will try 🎉

I’m a flame/battle ruler Purple Kazuya player and I’ve found that I lose to a characters that I’m not familiar with then they don’t rematch win or lose lol. I think it basically comes down to knowing all of the matchups in order to move up. Thanks for the tips! I’m hoping to make blue ranks some day. (My real main is Heihachi, hope he makes a comeback). 😢😅

great video. instant sub (yoshi player too) i really hope you get to 1k subs, man!

thank you so much for this info!

Ive been stuck in Garyu for a month now and I really liked this tips. I was always playing on my frame data which make me so predictable. My problem with my gameplay is I always hold back to learn my opponents but some moves are non learnable inside the match. Especially the +frames.

Playing by the frames is what I do, great point. Im always like “oh -3, I can side step. Oh +Anything, frame trap. Oh, dont use anything -10 or above” Definitely makes me predictable and locks out moves. Thanks for the help!

Dude this video was a god send I’m a couple matches away from purple because of the tip to juss relax and hold block…. Using that and juss side stepping is having me kill the red ranks now !!

Very helpful tips, even though I'm still a beginner running away from rank. Thanks a lot. And sailor moon yoshi had me dying!! 🤣🤣

it's incredible effective to do flashy stuff with reina from garyu to above, most people expects my frame attacks like u say, at some point unless u start practicing a lot with a character, there's a clear meta currently in game, for example LARS, that bro is naturally stronger, with his constant low movement u cant really tell if he's doing lows and mids, same happens with JIN, the mixes up a lot of low attacks, with his most basic string he can break ur heat engager over and over. being unpredictable and keeping good spacing and all those fudamentals is great, but in my opinion, knowing the mach up is much more important, I think most of the people can defeat a kazuya player because everyone practices against kazuya in lab while we wait for the matchmaking, sometimes just fudamentals cant win a knowledge check, it's important to slowly learn the other fighters, it's like when u fight a mirror match, u dont get hit by the basic stuff, but more because of the fundamental of tekken. lots of tekken gods / god of destruction are people who been playing for YEARS tekken and knows the enemies. Also, I kinda like being red rank because of the lobby, I do enjoy a more casual experience, people plugs too much on purple ranks.

I wanna get Hwoarang and King to Mighty Ruler. I really appreciate vids like this.

You can still beat good players by hell sweeping all of the time. You gotta keep in mind that they probably aren't going to expect you to do something so risky every chance you get and you can really catch people off guard with the "no mix up mix up." It really just depends on who you're up against. Any tendency and patterns in your play can be advantageous or harmful depending on how your opponent responds. That's the dance.

Followed this advice and just beat a shinryu. Cant recommend enough. This is how you beat somebody that is mashing or just attacking every opportunity they can. Game changer

mix ups are nice to press the advantage as well

Best thing to do is play the characters that give you a hard match up I learned how to counter characters by playing them and getting launched lmao now I know when to launch you and all I gotta do is launch you 2 times and I get a dub That’s high level tekken because now all I need with any character is to know my 10 13 and 15 frame punish and a combo that does at least 70 damage

Start frames are actually important once you know the moves that are plus or punishable you get better especially your own start up frames, mid level is to know what’s punishable or not movement is for higher rank, you can wave dash and kbd all you want and still lose by being punished, being unpredictable is only when you find out they don’t know the character, your play style makes you unpredictable

I actually never really use practice mode because I don't know how to start. Is there a good lab routine or something? I am stuck between Ganryu and Tenryu. Got a few characters there, but I don't have a main, probably because I never invested time in the lab with a single character to really get better.

There are problems that you forgot in tip 3, if the opponent sees you block too much he will mix you up with throws which already is threatning. But there are also moves that are low, but have guaranteed extension if low hits like Steve's stomp, Lili also have something like this I'm certain. And then hellsweeps, some throws and many other moves are scary just because they set up okizeme which is a whole more to talk about. Blocking in T8 is just too risky and you won't have time to download your opponent when you're busy standing up from the ground. It's not that simple as you portray it

Since this is my first Tekken game and getting the game a month after release, I spent a while hard stuck in garyu falling out and going back up. But after just playing a ton I just learned more about my character and how to punish properly I was able to reach blue ranks not too long hitting purple. I’ve only ever played smash before this so the transition was kinda weird tho. 😂

Thank you bro this helped reflect on my gameplay a lot as a kaz main stuck in purple… does the aggressive gameplay bother you much if at all??

This helped a lot thanks

I play yoshi. I never pay attention to frames 😂 great video man

when I practice I usually practice with the CPU attacking in ultra hard mode so I can have an idea on the opposing characters' common combos and see if the techniques or combos i practiced could be done in an actual game when theres pressure from the opponent. is that a good way to practice? I am already kinda stuck in Eliminator and grinding to at least get to Garyu with King

I've gotten to Vanquisher last week and I can't move anywhere from it. I know where's the problem in my gameplay I just don't know how to correct it, so I can't be too stressed about the rank. I recently picked up some characters I don't mind losing with just so I can learn matchups for my mains. I like the game.

What would you advice someone who still needs to get a good grasp of how all the characters of the game work? T8 is my first Tekken / Fighting game in general. I've started playing T8 2 months ago and grinded like crazy reaching Battle Ruler with Asuka. Spent a shit ton of time labbing and writing down character's moves and how to counter them with my main (wrote down literally every move of a few characters, my hope was that with those notes I could at some point play a dozen of games with that character to better recognize their moves next time I'm up against them). Additionally I use the replay function to find out how to counter the moves that I struggled with the most every game. I pretty much win every time against the characters that I have looked into the most but there are still 25 characters of which I barely recognize a single move. It's like fighting against a huge question mark. Is there a better / faster approach to learning all the character's moves? I'd really like to be as efficient as possible.

Nice tipps, thanksalot

Fire content Ty

To all my Lee players out there: don't flowchart once you hit mighty ruler, start being unpredictable and throw out wild stuff like acid storm and rocket heel.

After playing higher level players (tekken gods etc) i realised i actually have more fun in lower ranks, to beat higher level players i have to do certain things consistently and it gets boring, in purples and blues i can just do stuff i want more 😅

Kinda disagree with tip 2. Combos are definitely worth learning as it straight up increases your dmg output and punish game. Plus, learning combos will actually let you understand your characters gameplan better. Going for b1 as bryan for example might seem trash to a player with no combos, but once you learn that b1 gives you like 80 dmg off of ch the you start to see the value in not just b1 but bryans ch in general. Also, combos are easy af to practice anyways, much more han fundamentals. Its a very straightforward process and you have no excuse on not learning your combos.

When im playing Jun in lower ranks I get a lot of value out of just waiting for the opponent to throw out some big move in neutral and punishing it with f+2. some players figure it out and start respecting it, but others dont and get blown up. Sometimes i forget that opponents are almost never respecting my offense which probably comes from guilty gear where my opponents usually adapt to frame traps.

As a Leroy Flame Ruler my struggle is real, sometimes i feel like I need to use 100% of all I know just to win, all the parry and stuff

Love your Videos ❤Do you also Stream?

Is your controller alright? Lmao Nice video btw, thanks for the tips (I've made it to mighty ruler)

Just made it to raijin with nothing but sidestep and mixips/pressure with devil jin. I think it's mostly just a mental battle

I love the Sailor Moon Yoshi.

It's not that you have to forget about the frames ... You have to use the frames to make your opponent respect you first. Anyway most good players will respect the frames. Once he knows you are gonna do a frame trap for exemple, he will sidestep, use a powercrush, whathever. So you have to adapt to what your opponent will do to counter your trap. For example you do a blockstun attack and then a homing move, if he step he gets hot if he jab you gets hit. It's a mind game.

Just made Garyu with my leo. Mix ups, basics always help. I also watch better players who used my character and copy and learn from them

I disagree with frame traps. I Hit fujin yesterday with asuka and I'm understanding frame data now, knowing what moves I can use to continue my block strings gets you very far bc you can mix up the opponent more, but the difference is you're mashing frame traps, if you use them less your opponent doesn't know your attack pattern so you've rectified the predictability. Jabs hit quicker that most frame traps so even the mashers themselves can't just escape with jabs

Cari Hiroyuki once said “I.. am..TEKKIN!” And what he meant was that he is the EWGF and the frame data

I think knowing the frames IS important. I think the problem is that most people domt know how tonuse them properly. Knowing frames does not mean you're a predictable player. I'm a Yoshi main as well and I normally use my frames to be unpredictable. Quick and easy example: Yoshimitsu's flash is 6 frames fast. That means that leaves yoshi at -4 and above will get flashed. Worst case scenario, it will trade with the opponent's jab but it's still in my favor. So... Azucena uses her annoying 'While Running' move. I block it, leaving me in minus frames. She got hit by flash before so my opponent is actually smart enough to actually bait it out. They always stand still though. So it's my turn. If I'm sure that they will hold still, I would just use Poison Breath to launch them. xD

PLEASE tell me you have some sort of disc server or something like that, you deserve more subs 😢

Good video. I need to practice "downloading" the opponent. I still lose to monkey gameplay which is annoying!

I'm guilty of spamming df+3 into f+1+2 regardless of opponent. Thank you for giving me a wakeup call

My best advice is to rematch everyone and turn on level tolerance to Highest so your playing hier level players. Also I play Lars I throw out 2 hellsweeps and then a circle kick it gets most people. Work on the mind game.

This vid helped me so much like I’m cracked

I really feel that I need to learn to break throws consistently in this game... I'm super slow in recognizing the animation, I suffer too much playing against king and drag. That is all free damage. 😂

Need help learning the matchups, after a ton of playing that seems to be the main issue in mid ranks

That fucking devil jin low swipe claw punch anyways great information thanks for your work

If you are struggling at any rank, thats where you're supposed to be. Spend the time in mid or low ranks wisely, thats your opportunity to learn and improve. Don't get ahead of yourself due to ego and end up in blues with 0 neutral, punishment or match up knowledge

A pro tip is if worrying about your rank is making the game even less enjoyable. Go to quick match so your points aren't affected, grind there instead and when you know you have improved go back to ranked and you'll reach the next rank plateau.

fun facts: I'm tenryu with Yoshimitsu and a friend of mine is kishin with Jun, offline I beat him without too much difficulty just because I understood how he spams his attacks (but now I would like to reach that rank too eheh)

My Tekken King friend said the same tips (Currently Flame Ruler) but instead of me just implementing it in ranked, he just beats the lesson into me since we play online and offline a lot. (I cant play rank I dont have internet access, I can only play it if I go to net cafes)

I'm a Tekken King Player and I still watched this video. I be feeling like a low rank all the time. There are players that sometimes make me feel free. But the idea that you can block is also scarry for the opposite side.

Was not expecting Sailor Moon Yoshi

I'm a mighty ruler, I probably could go higher, but ranked got too stressful so I stopped basically the second I hit this rank

The rank killers are these spam characters like hwoarang, lars, eddy, etc. The S tiers of course as well. If you choose to play a semi respectable player its going to be significantly harder

Subbed, jin main, just got to Garyu.

I m stucked battle ruler and i feel so much gap with fujin players (it s my first ranked sesson in tekken).

I know the in game stat charts don’t mean a lot to people (especially high ranks) but I’ve noticed in most of my games and with most people, I’m usually the only one with an “S+” in the “Block-up” stat. Even when I take a further look at their chart. I’ll block forever. I’ll take countless lows. I might lose the first two rounds or even the first game. Idc. I want to get better at this game. I want to be good.

“Of course I’m gonna harakiri” Amen

Hmm, I think knowing frames are important before pattern recognition. Personally I am good at predicting what moves come next. But sometimes suffer from reacting to it and punishing moves.

You have a GREAT voice omg. Face reveal when???

In my case, I know I need to devote more time maximize the labs potential... some people lab labbier than most... when I lab sometimes I get distracted... soon...

Nothing Mid , about purple ranks - especially if you use a character that requires Actual tekken skills, Bryan- Steve- Kazuya - Lili- Jin(ish) - Zafina - Clauido, Paul.