Redefining Aikido for Tekken 9 with Gradient Fluidity and Rigid Hard Strikes Concept Overview: Aikido in Tekken 9 will be reimagined as a martial art that focuses on redirecting attacks to target areas below the spine to maintain clarity in the head. This form emphasizes fluidity and adaptability, allowing the practitioner to conform and react like liquid to the type of martial arts used against them. The key mechanics will involve counterattacks and redirection, making it a strategic and reactive fighting style. To balance the fluidity, rigid hard strikes will be integrated, with a unique mechanic where the hardness of a strike determines the softness of the following one. Martial Art Mechanics: Redirection and Countering: Core Principle: Aikido in Tekken 9 is built around the concept of using an opponent's energy against them. Instead of direct blocks, the character will use smooth, circular motions to redirect attacks. Target Areas: Attacks are specifically redirected to areas below the spine, including the legs, hips, and lower torso. This strategic targeting disrupts the opponent's balance and mobility while preserving the practitioner's mental clarity. Clarity Mechanic: Maintaining clarity in the head enhances reaction times and precision, allowing for more effective counters and evasions. Fluid Adaptability: Liquid Movement: The Aikido practitioner moves fluidly, adapting to each attack as if they were liquid. This visual effect shows the character's body smoothly shifting and flowing around incoming strikes. Reactive Stance: The stance dynamically changes based on the opponent's actions, with the character seamlessly transitioning between offensive and defensive positions. Strike Gradient Mechanic: Rigid Hard Strikes: The character can deliver powerful, rigid strikes that deal significant damage and disrupt the opponent's balance. These strikes require precision and timing. Soft Follow-Up Strikes: After a rigid hard strike, the next strike must be softer, emphasizing fluidity and maintaining the character's balance. Gradient Fluidity: The transition between strikes is smooth, with visual gradients showing the change in strike intensity from hard to soft. Strike and Counter-Strike: Reactive Striking: When an opponent targets the Aikido practitioner, the character uses specific counter-strikes that exploit the opponent's vulnerabilities created by their own attack. Spot Targeting: Certain spots on the opponent’s body are identified for precise counter-attacks. These spots are the joints, pressure points, and other areas that can be exploited to maximize the effectiveness of the redirection. Move Set Examples: Flowing Counter: Description: When an opponent throws a punch, the Aikido practitioner redirects the punch downward, then flows around the opponent to deliver a precise strike to the lower back or hips. Input: (← ↘ ↓ ↙ + Punch) Spinal Sweep: Description: A low sweep kick that targets the opponent's legs, designed to unbalance them and create an opening for a follow-up attack. Input: (↓ ↙ ← + Kick) Liquid Reversal: Description: A counter move where the Aikido practitioner catches the opponent's kick or punch, uses their momentum to spin them around, and delivers a strike to the lower torso. Input: (→ ↘ ↓ + Punch/Kick) Adaptive Evasion: Description: The character evades an incoming attack by flowing to the side, then retaliates with a quick, targeted strike to the opponent’s knee or lower ribs. Input: (↗ or ↘ + Punch/Kick) Clear Mind Focus: Description: A special ability that temporarily enhances the practitioner's reaction speed and precision, making their counterattacks more effective for a short duration. Activation: (↓ ↓ + All Buttons) Rigid Hard Strike: Description: A powerful, rigid strike aimed at the opponent’s weak spot, dealing significant damage and creating an opening for a softer follow-up. Input: (↓ ↘ → + Heavy Punch) Soft Follow-Up Strike: Description: A softer, fluid strike following a rigid hard strike, designed to maintain balance and keep the opponent off guard. Input: (↘ ↓ ↙ + Light Punch/Kick) Advanced Techniques: Convert: Description: Converts an opponent's direct attack into a defensive posture, seamlessly transitioning from defense to offense. Input: (↘ + Punch/Kick during an attack) Project: Description: Uses the opponent's momentum to project them away, creating distance and setting up for a counter. Input: (↗ + Punch/Kick during a grab) Negate: Description: Negates an incoming combo, breaking the chain and leaving the opponent open for a counter. Input: (← ← + Punch/Kick during a combo) Parry: Description: Parries an attack, deflecting it and allowing for an immediate counterstrike. Input: (→ → + Punch/Kick during an attack) Counter: Description: A powerful counterattack that uses the opponent's strength against them, targeting the lower spine for maximum disruption. Input: (↓ ↘ → + Punch/Kick during a heavy attack) Strike: Description: A focused strike aimed at the opponent’s weak spots, delivering a critical hit that can turn the tide of battle. Input: (↓ ↙ ← + Punch/Kick) Visual and Audio Elements: Fluid Animations: Character animations emphasize smooth, flowing movements that reflect the liquid-like adaptability of this Aikido style. Gradient Effects: Visual gradients indicate the transition from rigid hard strikes to softer follow-up strikes, showing the intensity change. Impact Effects: When attacks are redirected or countered, visual effects show the energy transfer and redirection, such as a brief shimmer or ripple effect. Sound Design: The sound of strikes and counters should include fluid, whooshing noises mixed with impactful sounds when hitting the targeted areas. By integrating these mechanics, visual elements, and sound design, Aikido in Tekken 9 will offer a unique and strategic fighting style that highlights the elegance and effectiveness of redirection and fluid adaptability in combat, balanced by the power of rigid hard strikes and the necessary fluidity of follow-up attacks. Don't take it too seriously though!

不意に入るから毎回笑ってしまう😅

腹側からの腰投げはまだ分かるけど、背中からだと初っ端に『両腕を取って肩関節ロック（可動域限界）』が入るので、そこから腰投げすると、もし取り（=攻め手）が手を離さなかった場合、受け身が取れず後頭部から逆さまに床に落ちる可能性大…（※この実演では手を離してあげてる）

Doesn’t work in MMA

@@Iheartohtani oh yah?

The unrealistic details are because of the limitations of the game, both because of game engines and gameplay. In the aspect of game engines, it is impossible to recreate perfect physical simulation in real time. The visual shapes may look very realistic. But the physical objects, which are used to calculate collision, usually consist of simpler shapes (such as sphere, rounded cuboid, etc.). Those physical objects are invisible. The visual shapes and physical objects roughly go together but they cannot perfectly overlap. The level of detail is varied amongst the games, but I don't know if there is any game calculates the physical simulation down to the fingers (which are important in Aikido). In the aspect of gameplay, you have to understand the gameplay of popular fighting games. Certain combination of inputs would trigger a certain move if the conditions are satisfied. The conditions usually include whether the opponent is standing or crouching, face to face or from the back, whether the opponent is attacking with an attack of a certain category (high punch, high kick, mid punch, etc.). If the conditions are satisfied, the move will be played, even if it consists of the opponent awkwardly moves to the exact place to be throw in that way. Even if the conditions are detailed, they are from the mindset of the gamers, not the mindset of martial arts practitioners. Those conditions may treat things like jab and back-hand hook to be the same, and then the move has to be played in either of those cases, leading to awkward movements. And Aikido is much more complex than that if we consider the level of an Aikido master who would smoothly change between techniques according to the situation instead of trying too hard on a fixed technique. Side note: you may see "changing techniques" in games, such as attempting throwing in a certain direction then the opponent resists and then the opponent gets thrown in the other direction (matching how the opponent resists), but the whole combination of movements are usually predetermined.

鉄拳参戦不可避

白川先生「まずドロップキックから入ってですねｗ」 スタッフ (キングの技かな？)