They need to buff the new string though. Make it 82 damage and plus on block.

More broken than my family

Look at MainMan DESPERATELY trying to save that Kazuya string’s damage from getting nerfed knowing full well it’s days are numbered

Kazuya is SOOOOO COOL in this game :)

Kazuya finally bringing that menacing energy he brought to T2 back. My man has been on the back burner way too long, I really hope Jin doesn't pull protag bs and kill him. Kazuya is and always will be the embodiment of Tekken for me.

DVJ main since TTT1, I was depressed without Heihachi and Devil Jin. These new additions to Kazuya, who cares! He's a beast now! I'm so excited they buffed sidestepping! I am so excited for this game now, compared to a few months ago.

Hey @TheMainManSWE Just some info on the Devil parry: Kazuya says hikkome (引っ込め), which could be loosely translated as "sit the F*** down".

I think 4 ways of using the New Hellsweep. 1. At the wall. (Still get oki + bonus dmg) + Balcony/Wallbreak 2. To kill. (Oki doesn't matter if it kills) 3. Wall Carry. (It knockes them away further then the regular HS) 4. Combo Ender. (Kazuya often used HS as a combo ender in previous games.)

Kazuya has a new punch parry with f1+2, wish you mentioned that.

Kazuya feels like a true protagonist with this moveset and feel. Tekken 8 is the most anticipated game for me in the last 10 years

That string reminds me a lot of Pre-Launch Lidia's Political Storm

holy shit I had to double take at 0:57 because I didn't realize it was a jump-cut and thought the electric was fuckin INSTANT lmao

I don't understand anything but i still like your vids

I‘m sad he forgot about his Ws moves, some of his back moves, pretty sure even his other crouch dash moves and so on. Maybe he hasn’t even tried them himself or he forgot about them. I would’ve loved to see an in-depth analysis but hey, still very very grateful for this content. ❤️

Heihachi has the child tosser Kazuya has the child support stopper, the broken string. Don’t have to pay child support if you delete your child with this string.

I enjoy Kazuya being strong.

SWE you got me into tekken 7, and now I am incredibly hype for tekken 8. Thank you for the content and keep it up bro!

Im glad that they up Kazuya's game. He's been long overdue for one. I hate it when I pick Kazuya and people knows how to fight him even if we never played eachother before.

Kazuya having a mid i13 punish is crazy...he's never had it before, but now with db1,2...he has it. Long range too lol. Not to mention a heat engager... Edit: TMM forgot to talk about Kazuya's 3,1 change. He basically has Zen Cancels now.

enough of Kazuya being so strong in story and get kicked in the ass by all those wifus in tournament's T8 should be his game and he should be 1 of the top 10 in the T8 tier list and we should see him played at T8 Tournament's

Kazuya deserve buffs❤

If you want to avoid matchmaking to mess around with stuff, you can tether your PlayStation to you phone internet, then do anything you need to reduce that speed. Put compatibility mode on, put a KZfaq video mode on, whatever. Just make sure you don’t have enough internet speed to meet the criteria for your own match making setting hahaha

The best version of Kazuya to date. Really hope they don't nerf him too bad, he needs to be THAT strong to keep the intimidation factor.

I love that petricide fist

why the kazuya hell lancer kick isn't connecting during combo breakdown

This is why TMM is the GOAT tekken content creator. He called out a broken character even though that character was his main. He suggested the nerfs. He called out the bullshit and agreed that this seems overpowered and needs to go. But then there are other content creators who would just never accept that their character is broken and instead justify repeatedly that nah he/she is not an SSS tier everyone's wrong bla bla... And comment on TMM being biased! Huge respect for MAIN MAN!

happy that side steps are even stronger, they are important in tekken

Finally, Kazuya is balanced :)

Just stopping by to drop a comment and a view, even though I'm not watching any of his Tekken 8 videos to avoid, still wanna give a tiny algorithm buff to the great MMains channel

I wanna see customization ! When it's realising?

Main man’s take on the string more sense after watching this video. His suggestions are a must, and if it needs more nerfs after then damage can be removed too

the string needs some range and it should be all mid... it needs buff to be 90 damage and bounce on hit

15:24 - Loool, the father slayer

Here and forevermore, we shall call that move "Father Slayer"

Im glad for kazuya you never seem him in major tournaments

Cool! Kaz will have some stuff in this game 👊🏼 his design is also pristine!

This game feels so good to play, I loved the system. Though, it does not give space to error, I could make massive damage with air combos.

Funny how that string on its own does pretty much as much dmg as a proper combo.

5 months later and he got nerfed, i wanted to play this kazuya so much

Idk I keep getting wrecked while playing Kazuya, some random King player shows up, does 4 throws that are unbreakable and I die. His new string is basically no use since there are spammers everywhere who wont let you open your block at all.

if it was any other character he would say that string needs to be gone or damage nerfed, but since it's his main he says the damage should remain the same because Kazuya always been "high risk high reward" 🙄😒

I honestly have no qualms with Kazuya being stronger (being a mishima player and all), however where I draw the line is the fact that the new string is hit comfirmable and that df 3,2,1 is now -13. Should have (IMO) stayed launch punishable or they need to reduce the damage. Otherwise we will see TOD way more often with Kazuya. And TOD is something I've always disliked. But hey, T8 looks f*cking dope and I can't wait to try my characters.

I feel like EWGF needs a better sound effect, the current one is too mild. Over-all, the sound design seems to have lost most of its oomph compared to previous version, which is sad given it replaced the 20 year old reused sound assets.

1: You got a -13 df3 ch string that basically kills your opponent on CH, that can be charged into never ending + frames if they dont commit to an interrupt, making them more likely to get a ch. 2: Launching cd4, which definitely was one of his top moves 3: An MUCH easier launcher/poke with ff2 4: New safe ch launcher 5: New sweep which is definietly not useless close to the wall/for combos/finishing a round 6: His f3 i feel is not talked about in your video enough, its basically a jin F4 that doesnt launch on ch. Insanely good keepout, especially for people ducking ewgf (now it can be mixed up with f3/cd4) 7: The most broken and, at the same time easiest whiffpunisher in the game which does almost 50% dmg. 8: A new i13 and i10 Punisher?! 9: A new punch parry 10: Insanely strong mixups out of heat After all this, hearing you say "This makes kazuya a little bit more viable I THINK" has to be the most dishonest feedback lol, you might not be a professional player, but i think youre smarter than this. Luckily, not even namco will be that stupid to leave Claudio / Kazuya like they are atm, its still super early and there are a lot of changes awaiting us. I just hope in the future, we as a community can give more honest feedback. Instead of trying to somehow sweettalk the broken state a lot of character are in.

holy shit god bless the editing. this is awesome. thanks mainman keep it up

Maybe new hell sweep can be used for wall carry to give you that extra inch to put them there

TMMSWE trying to keep the Nerf on his dearest to minimum 😂

If they get rid of chip damage I can see myself enjoying this game. You shouldn't be punished for defending against characters with a 100+ move. Save that for 2d fighters. Decrease the damage lol. Looked like season 3 of T7.

Use combo challenge mode to record your videos without matching interruption

New string should remove pushback and make it -18, not even -15

I liked that Kazuya by this time doesnt care that normal people can see him being in his devil right there in the open.

Let's enjoy a finally decent Kazuya while we can boys. Harada will nerf him for final release in favor of the waifu chars, deep down we all know it.

I just setted my matchmaking so that I wouldn't find alot of matches. Gave me all the time to practice without getting interrupted all the time.

Thanks for the vid main man kazuya is my little brother main i shared this videos to him befire even watching it hopefuly he will find this useful info 👌🤟💪🔥💯‼️

Hope a breakdown for every character is coming, cuz I really like this video

Kazuya in this games feels like a boss fr

Cool vid! You forgot the crouchdash extension after 3,1 (and after devil's db 3+4, but meh) for combos with cd1 and enders with cd3, and also the powered up version of cd3 when in devil, as well as the built-in parry in his ki charge. But, other than that, I think you summed up beautifully all the main mechanics of Kaz, which is great, considering you had so little time and knowledge to work on it and you basically improvised the whole video. Cheers!

Something I noticed you didnt go over that was new was... 3, 1 into a lancer or wavedash, etc....I saw you use it to end one of your combos

Tmm didn't mentioned it but didn't they also buff his CD 1? I think it was in the trailer as a bound or screw

I played my first couple games with kazuya and was so bad. Then took some time to grasp the mechanics and I couldn’t get enough. There’s finally a big change to gameplay since tekken 5.

Harada has confirmed on Twitter this version of the game is bare bones. This is purely a network test, the game is playable but balance is yet to be configured. This is far from the finished game, gameplay wise.

Let's not forget what he did to Leeroy the should out right Nerf this to the ground.

Harada making notes to nerf the character

Mainman does long range laser "I dont know why you can block that"

nice to see smash bros characters making into other games!

Naaaahhh I mean I absolutely love Kazuya and always appreciate a buff for him if it's done right but this is fucking ludicrous. They definitely need to do something about that insane string.

the new ki charge animation looks great

"it's a lazer I don't know why you can block that"

Aaaaaaaaannnnnd it's gone....

Graphics good and moves look cool but the big running move just breaks up the combos in an awkward way

A couple of quick questions: 1) can you do heat engager moves without activating heat? 2) was it announced that spring kick wouldn’t knock down anymore or did people just find out when playing the beta? 3) is heat mode essentially just sf5 v trigger that you have access to at the start of the game? With all that said, t8 kazuya seems formidable af. Hopefully they fix the legacy issue of his crouch dash moves not high crushing.

Everyone that gone in are blessed in general. I wish I could've played.

The new hellsweep sends far away for w splat

DO NOT NERF KAZUYA !! he needs this busted shit. if he's the boss in Tekken 8 and I'm guessing he will be, he should have overpowered moves and a million damage!

Finally we get a descent kazuya, can't wait

I don't like the broken string, but I'm not gonna become a better Tekken player if every challenge is nerfed into the ground before I can adapt to it. Give Kazuya players their time in the sun, something more broken will appear eventually.

Waiting for Akuma 🤫🤫

Bryan and kazuya and all characters are BROKEN

The new string, they forgot to turn off the boss damage 😂

I saw someone complained abouth long combos in T8 Harada responded with confirmation, I hope they don't nerf long combos .

This so good to hear

What about uf+4, 4, 4, 4? Beat move in the game

kaz having strong mids?? woww!!!!

The string shouldn't be natural in the first place. Let it keep the damage but change it so that it doesn't combo unless the first 2 hts counterhit and the pushback needs to be reduced. Should make it less brain dead and only work as a wall combo. As it should imo. Nuking the damage on top of all this would make it useless

Is that a skull I see on Bryan's upper right pant leg? If so that's cool and I hadn't noticed before

Let’s go guys Kazuya is finally viable

I noticed that if you idle for a long time in lobby and keep declining. It’s like the match queue now places you in a priority and then requests finally started coming in. Also the change to hell sweep and no ultimate tackle:/

D1+2 also looks like the range has been buffed

Thank you adrian for always talking so loudly. That means you are always right!

Ok so that does nearly 50% on its own...You either keep it as is, Nerf the pushback and make it something he can use in neutral its its a mid high and nerf the damage because that is not ok, or make it a high commitment high damage string...I would rather the hit confirmable string with less pushback and damage atleast 30% less to where the sparks reach at in bryans health bar.

crazy looking back at this and we were all happy with kaz changes, just that string needed the nerf, and now they have butchered the character and is basically unplayable LOL

Man, I spent my whole free time on Tekken 8 beta, 6h every single day, 5 of which were on discovering the new moves, and mechanics and doing combos. If only there was practice mode to discover the changes of the characters and to not waste time on setting up the combo it would have been perfect, but Ik it's a CNT, still it wasn't such hard work adding p mode, or I guess they didn't want people like me. There is a lot of work left on the balancing, from what I saw, apart for I am very happy, can't wait to play it again!

No mention again of b1+2 changes and implications

I’m just happy that beat isn’t as brutal as I thought cause of all the footage we had before we just saw heat launcher heat launcher and so on I’m just happy it isn’t like that

Laser string maybe useless but damn they look so good

Am I right in thinking the Korean backdash has been nerfed? It doesn’t seem as fluid anymore no matter how good you are at it.

More nerfs means more identity

Just thinking of the day when mainman will make a tekken revisited on this game😭

bros gonna get nerfed badly ngl

I disagree, the new string does need a nerf. A third of your health gone on a hit confirmable string (and two thirds if it hits at the wall) is insane. I'd expect that kinda damage on Paul, but not Kazuya lol. It can still be powerful, it just shouldn't be killing people in two strings and a mixup imo!