Guy writing in chat "ITS NO HOPE, JUST PLUG" during rdc section had me cackling.

"look at his hands, which one goes further..." Man, i can't even see his hands

"If you hate King watch this video" So basically the entire playerbase of Tekken besides King mains? TMM sure knows how to attract an audience. 😂

28:55, 29:25 didn't expect Asuka and Alisa guide, thank you TMM

As a new tekken player the thing that kills me the most about learning his throw breaks is that you can scroll through 10 different throws that have the same 4 seconds of unbreakable startup animation and then find out they a handful of them have this oddly specific break. Alot of the chain grabs just have super ambiguous animations that makes dealing with them when you’ve already been caught quite challenging to get out of.

Once you figure out the schtick of the King player, they either plug or they don't rematch

"Not even JDCR, Arslan, or Knee are gonna break all of those throws" Yea, ure right.. Just saw Arslan Xiaoyu playing against Atif's King, and Arslan can do nothing about the throws in so many times

Throws should not track. Change my mind. If throws track and your Character has a true throw mixup, they are basically 10-12f homing high unblockables with a 50/50 chance of success/resetting neutral.

Thank you, this was helpful. Never knew muscle buster and giant swing looked so similar, nor did I know about the specific window to break rolling death cradle. King is tricky, however this video simplifies him some!

For anyone still confused about how to beat ali kicks: A VERY important thing: You can't low parry or even hold down to block the ali kicks, if you have to input an actual crouching guard, so hold down-back. Hold crouch block when you see the first kick then react to the mid punch as it is 28 frames and very telegraphed. It's possible for the King player to do a single kick into the mid which will require you to very quickly be ready to react, which I find is the most tricky thing for me to block, but most King players won't do this. It's the classic Tekken cheese where the attacker just mashes the 4 button and the defender needs a phd to beat it. Also, make sure you are not neutral guarding, as the single ali kick into mid will connect, and eating all 3 will leave you open to a launcher afterwards like fcdf2 if you are not holding back. Another thing to mention that Mainman didn't is that i've noticed that most yellow/orange king players just mash it out which means they almost consistently do all 3 kicks into the mid so if you are struggling to react that could be something to fall back on.

"Sidestep him", Jack mains: "Looks like Im dead now" XD

In T8 to break chain throws you don't need to mash the button to fit into break window anymore, you can just hold the button. makes breaking RDC way easier.

Your my reason for learning kazuya im already grinding the ranks. Thank you SWE

I really needed this guide, so thank you!!!

Need the anti hwoarang vid. Big appreciation for the tips!

Don't forget, King can mix you up with running GS and running SW. And if you're crounching, prepare for a mid launcher, crounch throws, and running 3 or running exploder

The Asuka section had me rolling on the floor. Man this guy is funny.

Thank you for the tips!

The way you describe king it sounds like the true anti king guide is to go hold up picket signs in front of Bandai Namcos office buildings until they fix him lol

Omg how much I needed this Video

Something I didn't see mentioned is that if you mash any button while landing from Giant Swing your character will do a quick roll and you won't take the second part of the throw's damage, which makes a considerable difference. It's not possible if King throws you to a wall though, which is why Giant Swing becomes stronger when the King's back is to the wall.

Crouch dash grab is a 3-way guess if you can Crouch Dash Muscle Buster.

You can duck at any time during muscle armor, simply do df and you counter any throw or low attempt to beat your powercrush (db 1+2)

I wouldn’t “time your breaks” for the crouch dash throw strings. It is a guessing game but you can identify the routes and try to adapt. I usually mash depending on what the first crouch dash throw was. Unfortunately that means if even the guy doesn’t go for a rolling death cradle or a kings bridge they can do other routes for less damage still. So… but hey you CAN mash the throw breaks idk

Real King mains using this video to devise new mixups. You thought you knew what I was doing

Youre such a film buff tmm i love it

king mains in shambles right now

I’ve always understood the leading arms dictate what to break, but with the costumes and proximity to the person covering the limbs, I find it hard to see it in that split second

Very informative, also really funny! My win rate against King is probably 10-20% but I keep getting better. There's probably worse cheese out there but I will have to test that now.

Good video, Mainman. It needed to be made.

9:30 remember if you get clipped by the first alley kick, hold DB, not just D or the rest will still hit.

Honestly, the shining wizard 1+2 break and ss his wr3 were the only 2 changes I needed to start beating king at destroyer 🙏

Usually the only mixup I have to eat is the forced one after I block heatsmash. Don't think you can do anything about that one with throws though.

Main man sounds like dr rockso from metalocalypse near the end of this video haha.

Kings the best. He folds your clothes with his opponent inside of it

probably worth mentioning, if no one did before: If you get hit by the pedigree throw (the heat engager crouch throw), don't press anything for like a second on the ground. If you try to do a wakeup attack, king can just use heat smash and with that you lost like 75% of your lifebar in 2 moves

The hardest thing about Kazuya in this game aside from 3,1 CD df1,df2 is trying to EWGF punish Rage Arts and other moves that are -15 on block.

14:35 the shade is looking shady 💀😂

Love how every creator is guiding us on how to deal with King’s bs 😂

Im a King main and I cant even throw opponents as they keep spamming safe wr frames fuck all yall for hating King when we have Jun that can easily take half of your life.

Now we need a anti-Dragunov, Azucena, Victor, and Xiaoyu guide from you.

When he does giant swing, he has a more pronounced roar. If you train yourself to listen for the roar rather than the hands, it can be a bit more consistent. Kind of like when you hear Steve's over here or Azucenas buzzin.

I hate King, but its really just throws in general that I hate in Tekken 8. You can't step them anymore, that counterplay is gone. If you get hit by a counterhit throw, you can't break it on reaction, but it's trivial to land them because grabs land in 10-12f. So they are jab speed, but they deal 40-60 damage on counterhit + oki, and you can't step them in either direction.

No hate but this must be the 20th Anti King video I've seen. Somebody please tell me how to beat Hworang or any other character damn. (the video was still interesting tho, thanks)

Moreee of thisss pleaseeeee

I made a red rank King plug on me as Yoshimitsu. I out-bullshitted the bullshit grappler.

you absolutely can mash to escape rdc, but if you want to make sure it never misses you can't leave more than a 3f gap between each press. Alternatively just hold down the button lol

Watching the whole video, and then realizing there’s another jab at asuka. Well played sir 😂

King is a cool character. It's the spammer players grabbing

Main man acknowledges your Tribal Chief ☝️

Lil Majin would hate this video 😂.. Thank you For this tutorial and knowledge

Thanks

Some other delinquency is that King will do U/F 3+4 into 1, and if it connects, he is guaranteed a U/F 2 flying elbow into you. The other U/F 3+4 mix is the RKO that almost every King goes for that is duckable.

TMM never disappoints

Thanks for the guide.

Most all the moves in this video I try to just use just as reads. You can react to the Ali kicks, it's very obvious and a bad habit I picked up only playing against CPU in T3 At the same time any CH w/ Ali kicks is fully guaranteed as well I believe.

Asuka part was funny af 😂😂😂

TMM is going crazy at the end xD

Main Man, can you make a video of best Kazuya punishments Vs King?

i mean a good king can frustrate you with his spacing with shove ff1 f2 great ch game ch throws fundamental tools df1 long ranged jabs he can occasionaly sneak in long range evasive lows d1 he has great punishers i am not aware of new throw mechanics yet he struggles against evasion spacing and breaking turtles

Hi TMM, can you make a video on how to beat LEE please? Thanks

As a Shinryu King player I came to check what things I don't use. Btw now you may help King players to beat Asuka, Alisa etc. Victor is impossible to beat anyway rn but I'm always mashed to death by Asuka even tho I know what to expect.

which bottons have to press, to break the engage??

As a Raven main, i just parry his armor run mixup

I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on a video faster than this one

i can see throws from distance but close i cant

He is a noob killer. Get in his face and mash all the time with a mix of highs and lows. If he is far, wait for him to attack and dodge punish. There are way more annoying/better characters to deal with than him.

figure 4 leg lock is now a 1+2 break

I noticed that every king wresting move like shining wizar or other trows... the audience go nuts

I’m new to tekken and my dad mains king to I have been watching videos to help me beat him whenever I can and this is really helpful but I’m watching this in a quiet classroom with headphones but when he said “I get you ass” I started laughing thankfully i didn’t get in trouble

NICE BRO

Not gonna lie king is a cheap pos in T8 his comeback potential is greater than every1 cant begin to count how many times iv been robbed by his heat smash or his ff n 2, combine all that with his amazing poking and best throws in the game

I just reached red ranks as King doing nothing but shining wizard / hopkick mixups. And if someone could break shining wizard, I would mix it with running giant swing. The funny thing is, this was the most amount of people who declined to rematch that I've seen.

remember most newbie king cant giant swing so you can narrow down what moves he uses so you can just plug with less stress XD

Can you do an hwoarang anti guide pls

Now we need an anti azucena guide

As a King main, who just got off a match with a zafina who was literally crawling on the ground 90% of the match, I appreciate the last part lol

As a king player watched this video to learn of how people fight my boi but the end touched my big wrestler heart main man gets it the real cheese is worse than king

If you can, plz make a vid of how to beat a good Leroy also

Mainman you have abandoned the way the of the Masku, how dare you

YOURE IN MEMPHIS NOW BOAH

If someone sidestep i simply do f+4 or f+1+2 while running, and from that moment they stop sidesteping ^^ f+4 is very good move, tracking mid with good range, and from f+1+2 you have free low followup. Most people ducking chainthrows and ws 1+2 and db+2 are too slow and can be punished, high rank kings trying to do f+3 to throw after canceled crouch dash. For b 1,2 you can change to mid ender b 1,4 when someone ducking. For f2,1 you can change to f+2,d+2,1 to launch but second hit must commit, Lilmajin mashing this all the time. King has cure for everything : ]

Played Tekken for years and i was always too lazy to check the hands when throws are coming. Im always just guessing it by experience. When it comes to King players, very rarely i see a King that uses most of his throws and playing the actual mind game. So most of the time after one round i usually know which are the ones he will likely do. But in my history shinning wizard is the throw i got hit by the most from all of them😂

I’m glad I just button mashing with azucena lmao this dude was crouching at me put me in the infinite grab I just mashed 2 no way to guess it properly

Here lies Sidestep, May it always be remembered as a good anti-king defense.

I wish he mentioned King's ff1 somewhere in the vid tbh, was waiting to see the "counter play" to that move, shit hits from like halfscreen

Why does his heat smash munt my hp bar its actually stupid its gotta be % dmg

hey bro.. can you do a guide against kuma ?... they are broken... iykyk

Taking notes. . . . . . . . ~A King main.

Plz do this for Eddie I need to be prepared for the Eddie mains

We will use this information against them fellow king mains!!! 🐆🐆🐆

To be fair learning all the chain throws is actually difficult so there is some skill.

It's funny to see how a different character gets hated every week. It started with Xiaoyou, then Dragunov, then Deviljin and now King... it's only a matter of time before people focus on the next character. Instead of learning the character's weaknesses, they prefer to cry. Great video by the way.

Question: From which rank you consider players good like they know what they are doing, fundamentals and some combo?

Thanks for this. King is an SOB

You can hear Master Roshi watching his daily workout routine at 29:24

28:55 is how I currently feel about reinas

1:26 I think he made a mistake here, Jaguar Step 1+3 and Jaguar Step 2+4 are both the same throw and can be broken with either 1 or 2 just like regular throws.

i actually think you can break RDC by spamming 2 tho, I do it every time without waiting for the neck crack and I get the break

This video will make Kings stronger, thank you main man