"I really like Migu-*laughs*. Sorry, I meant Marduk these days." They had us in the first half ngl.

"I wanna play Leroy!" "Plissu chenji character" - Knee

I picked eddy as my main so I can dress him up as Ricardo milos

Literally just pick the character you can just enjoy losing with... Learn every aspect... Slap those Leroy nerds

"Kazuya and I have a relationship." - Adrian

3:01 "Hate mail wont stop me because i cant read" plz help im on the floor

I deadass picked Paul Phoenix as my main character because of his hair. Back then I always knew Paul was from Tekken, even though I didn't know what Tekken was, if that makes any sense. I suck at Tekken, but I love playing as Paul.👊

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who actually feel like they have a bond with their character Kazuya and Kazumi are like family to me And dragunov is a pretty cool uncle ig

Just pick the coolest one and stick with it Leroy doesnt count

I literally picked up Kazumi day 1 cuz “she’s cute and fights with a freakin’ tiger” and now I absolutely love her

Something that motivates me right now, as I am searching for another character to pick up, is the constant talk about what characters ppl think are trash or just downright unpopular. All the negativity around Gigas, Ganryu, Lars, Lili, Lei, and Xiaoyu that I see has ironically made them that much more interesting to me, and have took all them to practice mode just this week. One of my fav things about Tekken is the characters. One of my fav things about competitive Tekken is the representation all across the roster. If someday I can compete at high level and increase the amount of Gigas or Lili on stream then I think that would be lovely. I don’t quite yet have a defined “playstyle” so for now, I am just trying out several characters anyway so ... why not yknow? Also T7 is my first Tekken and I have a hard time adjusting to the reputation Ganryu has as unpopular or uncool etc. I love his design in this game and I think he deserves more respect... the outfit and facial hair is an insane upgrade from his old designs

For my fellow yoshi players out here : I love y'all, stick with oonga boonga tentacle head

nobody gonna talk about how Knee's paul has hit every just frame demo-man

5:17 get you girl/man that treats you like Mainman treats Kazuya

“I’m very old, and I have a cold” TMM, September 2020

someone in chat said "Hate mail can't stop me because I can't read" LMFAO

Yoshimitsu has the best laugh in the game. Enough reason for me to main that character.

Great vid, the character roster is kind of overwhelming and its great to have a video like this.

Absolutely perfect

u can pick a character whos design appeas to you or whos lore u find interesting or u just care about tiers.. u can do good with all the charaters

For me personally, as long it's a character I have fun with, that's what matters to me. I chose Law cuz of how smooth his playstyle felt, and Kazuya for a secondary because of playing him in previous installments.

You can put Leo in the "Good for Learning Fundamentals" category too. Very well rounded character, teaches you crouch dash cancels, wall splat game, introduction to counter hit launch, frame traps, poking, parrying, a bit of everything, really

I would like to also mention Eliza. She is arguably harder than the couple of characters TMM listed in difficulty for difficulty's sake.

Really good video. I still haven't settled on a main myself. For the longest time, I've been super self conscious about who I should be playing, more than any other fighting game, because of community perception and how we judge each other by our character choices.

Well said. Pick who you like to play. Don’t let anybody affect you.

As someone who played older Tekken games, but never took them seriously enough to learn matchups and frame data, I can 100% recommend Claudio for 1 simple reason: having the smallest movepool in the game, but with some really good key moves allows you to move away from learning your character to actually learning the game a lot sooner. Since you become familiar with the whole moveset much quicker than with other characters, you can start to learn how to apply those moves in actual "real" situations, which in turn speeds up the process of learning new characters. When it comes to actual matches, with a character like Claudio, even if you have good moves, you still rely a lot more on fundamentals, and since you can't mix up your opponent to hell and back like a Yoshi would, you will spend less time thinking about what to do with your character; instead you will spend your time on seeing and analyzing your opponent's behavior, and how to react in turn, which will then help you recognize patterns in your opponent's gameplan, making you improve a lot faster.

I picked King because I like Professional Wrestling. It was like being one of the wrestlers that I would watch on TV

Main man I love ur vids bro 🙏🏿

I'm really happy at the general consensus of the community saying to just pick who you like

I always been a KOF player, so i pick geese, easy as that.

Alright time to start playing with Leroy

One of the best videos I've ever watched from you.

Many people have said this but not so many have ever worded it so well. Relationships are definitely built with your characters over time, they feel like avatars in a way.

Does someone know what background theme is playing in the beginning? I recognize it but sadly dont know where its from and what its called.

I picked Kazuya because he looks cool and I am passionate about the character 😊

Fahk is my guy,I just love his animations and how his body glows

Playing with Bryan since 10 years old playing at grandma house TTT, I will never drop the character ❤️

I main King even though I can't memorise his throw chains cause he's my favourite character design and lore wise

Good points so far, only through a section but so far so good.

The beginning of the video's fricking hilarious! LMFAOOOOO

Great video. I started playing tekken a month ago with king because it call my attention and it looked cool to me and also a friend who is teaching me the game said that is a really good character to keep with, but i really like characters with gimmicks in general (i play Faust in gg and Lowain in gbvs) so i want to play yoshi here and your video helps me a lot in my decision ^^

"You've refrained... AYAYA AYAYA..." Get well soon MM.

Honestly, for me, if I’m not using a Mishima, it doesn’t feel like Tekken. The appeal of Tekken for me, is the movement, wave and backdash and electrics. If a character doesn’t have those things, It just doesn’t feel like Tekken.

I started learning Tekken back in the Tag 1 days and only properly with Tag 2 and always played Kazuya. Introduced the game to friends recently who started playing as Law, Fahk and Leroy and I quickly realised I had still little to no idea how to punish properly, condition people, learn the frame data etc and so I picked up Leo and I absolutely love playing as her, so much more fun and way more powerful toolset than Kaz. I think if you're getting really frustrated with your main, just swap it up with someone you think looks cool and enjoy the learning process

I've never had a character crisis as severe as when I picked up Tekken. Between Jack, Marduk, and Gigas, I always feel like I'm missing something when playing any one of them

Videos like these are why MainMan is one of my favorites. I wish I knew how to not care what other people think. That probably ruined Tekken for me more than anything. Fantastic video my dude.

Yoshimitsu Will always be the coolest character and the most fun

Us jin mains don’t take it willingly... we fight to the end

I watch all your videos I will subscribe one day. Keep up the good work and I hope you are keeping your workout progress going.

Very helpful for beginner like myself, thanks!

As a Kazuya/Bruce/Josie main, I also like playing nearly everyone in the roster online. It keeps me well rounded. Getting those rare wins with the bears and Gigas is so satisfying.

Paul is my go to char. I relate to the guy so much.

I've only played Bryan since release. Just hit 10k wins. Looking for a 2nd. Any suggestions?

I play King because he animations are badass and I love his design with the Jaguar mask. I was a big WWE fan when I was a little boy and I also loved how King could kill opponents without doing strikes or juggles.

Yo i been running Lei for like a week. He’s different to use but I love how creative you can get with his strings. All his style variations keep the matches interesting and my opponents unsure of what to do

As a beginner I fell in love with Steve fox when I first saw him in Tekken 7 then I got more into tekken and learned about maining a character and of course chose Steve fox

Thing bout Tekken is there's a lot of characters that I find interesting xD, I like how xiaoyu feels, I like Lili because I'm French, I like fahkumram because I love and practice muay Thai and the moves are beautiful, and I like the ninja girl because she looks awesome.. and I mean... I can play a panda!!!

So true and excelent explanation of how many of us can have an special bond with certain character, for me my special bond will always be jin, i played him since tekken 3 and i always loved his karate style and the design of the character, in tekken 7 i had some struggles learning more stuff like punish or predicting moves to parry but know i can say i improved a lot, thank you tmm to share this with the community

Tbh, it's more on what you think is about the character or whatever you feel comftable with playing. In my case, I chose Kazuya bcuz he is cool, and I got comftable playing with him.

The first character I ever picked was Steve, he didn't click with me though. But when I first picked Bryan I instantly fell in love. Maybe it's the orbital, his shouts during some of his moves, his little evil cackle, and the way he shouts YES after his bluespark strings. I won't change him. Ever.

Would you add negan to the characters to learn the game at a fundamental lvl? he got the very decent punishment, the launching df2 and classic df1.

I remember when I played Tekken for the first time (which was Tekken 6, btw the oldest title I've properly played was 5DR) and the first character I played as was Alisa. This was because I really liked how she looked. As I got older, I started to main Asuka and eventually picked up Xiaoyu too, and became very well accustomed to them. I used to only play female characters (kinda still do that), but I've been thinking about picking up Lars, Kazuya and Hwoarang (to give myself a bit of a challenge). I've picked Lars due to those BUFFLARS memes, Kazuya because he's considered the defensive Mishima and my playstyle is mostly defensive and Hwoarang simply because I think he's hot.

Ive been playing jin since i was a kid playing tekken 4, just because he uses karate. And his hoodie outfit in that game was so cool to me.

That intro alone deserves a thumbs up

I play Bob and I get comments like “stupid Bob”

Good vid. Something I didn't hear tho were characters that have stances. Maybe that falls into the design part of the video. But I started playing Leo, Lei, Feng, Hworoang for their stance play. Steve main btw

I like Eliza's design and attacks playing her feels nice even tho I lose all the time, but when I win I feel proud of that win because it's not easy.. I'm a new player, so she is super hard for me.. Not super new but like not experienced enough to be good. I love 2d

A really helpful guide is Blasted Salami's season 1 roster overview.

I picked Jin because I want to improve myself and I find this character relatable to me

I want to play Lee but i cant do the mist step cancel b2 or do the acid rain constantly it lets me think that i should play someone else because i cant do what the character has even tho i really lee

I've never had trouble picking my mains in any fighting game because I tend to really latch on because I know that the sooner I pick a main the more efficient my time management will be for my skill growth. But the reason I picked Steve is more of an abstract reason rather than picking him because I like his move list or personality. I am biased towards counter punchers and counter hitters. Most knockouts in combat sports are usually the result of counterhits where the attacker catches their opponent moving forward or intercepts their attack with a better timed one. That shit is cool to me and I love that counterhits matter in Tekken as they actually do nothing in other games. That's why I play Steve because I think timing an opponent out is cerebral and Infinitesimally more complicated and satisfying than executing a mixup.

I ended up maining Leo because i liked how powerful his moves look and feel, and because he she is kinda easy but also has some stupidly advanced techniques (rolldash cancel combos anyone?) so after 200 hours on the character i still feel like i have stuff to learn, which gives me motivation. I think paul is similar in a way (only more busted) easy to use on low levels but also has some technical high lvl stuff that you can learn as you get better over time. the characters tekken 7 introduced lack this kind of progression. They are painfully simplistic.

2:59 what a legendary get up by knee 😂

I don't know why, but I always felt like Paul is the perfect starter character to learn, he's like the bread and butter character of Tekken, which I guess is part of what appealed to me so much about him to main him, but interestingly enough, my other favorites are some of the hardest characters to master, such as Devil Jin, Jin, Kazuya, Lee and Bryan.

All I can say is,pick the charracter you like (how he/she looks or fights whatever you like about him/her)and just go and have fun :D,when it gets hard you have to get better,with training mode,watching your replays,labing charracters etc,the most thing is that you have fun,just try not to ruining it for other people

Just pick whoever you feel drawn to the most. For me, it's Alisa (obviously) but lately Kazumi has started to grow on me. But Alisa is, was, and will forever be my main in this game.

Can you do a kazuya micro dash tutorial on pad for PS4 plz ?

I started playing tekken about 6 months ago. And I typically go for offensive or all around characters so I learned the game with dragunov. Then after getting him down I wanted to learn an offensive character so I'm playing Steve. He's hype af but hard to play 😂 I still have fun learning tho😎👌

I think Lee and Kazya are the 2 most fundamental characters, I would even throw kazumi in there

I am a hwo main... I often see that people don't wanna remach me in online, many people call me scrub, and whoreang main, I often hear negative things from tekken content creators. It's really hard to stay calm when your character considered dumb, easy and zero iq. Really trying to ignore that kind of stuff. So, sorry for that long text, but I feel that I have to speak out. Thanks for reading this, hope you have a nice day!

I love Katarina, Anna and Panda

Nobody gives a damn, but I'll tell my story anyway. Since Tekken 6 I was in love with Miguel. Everything about him just worked for me: the fighting style, the appearance, the laugh, EVERYTHING. But since I'm easily bored and I was a filthy casul, I never tried to learn him and just played a little bit of who I preferred at the time. Then Tekken7 arrived and I decided to learn how to play Tekken in a proper way, so I decided to main my spanish boi and man... It was hard and frustrating: I was making always the same mistakes, I never learned movement, I never really learned how to use his SAV stance. I reached yellow ranks and dropped him, thinking he was too weak. Then Lei arrived and OMG HE WAS FUN. I had the funniest time EVER in my Tekken experience with him. But everyone was mean to him, I was an Idiot, I thought I had to change character. I was thinking about maining Katarina, but that of course would have been even worse!! So I had my first main crisis and tried MANY other characters, following pros' tips about the best characters to learn the game with/crush anyone online. After 1 year I decided to pick Shaheen: I liked him a bit and I did get better, I reached middle orange ranks. But I wasn't having real fun. I was doing my homework. In facts, I dropped the game. 2 years have passed now, and I can see things in a clearer way. Tekken is a game. A hard, frustrating, competitive game. The only way to enjoy it, is having fun. And to have fun in this game, you have to enjoy the ride, not to reach a destination: pick the character you like from the start and if you don't like him/her, change him/her with the one you have more fun with. Because it doesn't matter the difficulty, you're going to learn everything (at a slower pace maybe, but you'll eventually make it) anyway. It doesn't matter the strenght, if you learn how to play you're going to win against anyone anyway. It doesn't matter what other people think: they're going to cry about their loss anyway.

Yeah I‘m very Interested in the 1,2,3 fighting style

Also, Kazuyas damage in season 3 is crazzzyyyyy, esp with rage and or his rage drive. He's the OG round robber before Geese got here.

TMM should do a tier list on who he thinks looks the coolest

Hey, quick question: What do i do if a character i have a connection with is not likely to appear in the next tekken?

Hey Mainman, I love playing Leo but I want to know your opinion on Leo as of Season 3.

I always wanted to learn Ling because she's fast and evasive, I pick her in tag 2 and 7 and recently I learn Nina because of her movement (slides, sidestep 1 cancel mixups). They're the 2 characters that TMM hates but like he said I don't care lol

Nice KZfaq Video as always, i Main Kazuya i only can play him on 2P i learning him right now on 1P its pretty hard but i really like kazuya.

Someone in the chat: OMG HI KZfaq I'M FAMOUS Me: *don't even see nickname*

Hey MainMan! Been struggling with Royal Blue ranks and it would help greatly if you made a high level Tekken guide and what can help improve skills in high ranks :)

If most of players aim to be a pro player, watch ur pro idol how they play, if u want just to play for fun just play whatever u want easy peazy

Great video. I always play as Julia just because I find her fun to use. I never win anything because I suck with her but I'm happy lol.

Marduk because he has the mount and grabs from every fucking position, as well as parries. Shit is so cash

Thanks for not restarting bro 🖤🤘

Picked gigas and still loving him feels so rewarding to get wins with him compared to other characters that I use

i started learning tekken with alisa and lili in and then i started playing kazuya and feng in tekken 6, i finally play tekken 7,i started like 3 days ago and im kinda nervous to say my mains are josie ,lucky chloe and feng,and i cant play kazuya anymore because i just switched to an arcade stick and its too hard to play with it. edit: i played tekken 4 and 5 but i didnt tryed to learn the game at all,i just spamed christie and nina.

hey mainman swe I just started tekken 7 last year got really comfortable with negan loves his play style but the thing that keeps bothering me is that I need to get a second character my reason is 1. I wanna try too learn a new character and 2. negan is not going to be in tekken 8 so like what im trying to say is i wanna be like the players who continue from tekken 6 migrate to tekken 7 but they have mains already and have no issue with the game I cant have that when I main negan only. anythoughts mainmanswe or any friendly tekken players?

Leo got left in the closet feelsbad, Leo is a good pick too for learning the basics of tekken helped me so much after picking steve as my first main.

If i have to pick based on personality and visuals i would pick Bryan but I know that's a very hard character for beginners but it would be perfect for pro play