Hahaha, gotta fix the mistake xD

That is a bad habit i have lol

I do this all the time, but not by mistake. If I miss input a move, I wanna remind my brain how it should be done. If it leads me to lose the round, so be it, I can live with that. My goal is to improve, not win.

I used to do that in Melee and I still do it in Tekken lol. You have to adopt the "zen" mindset. You must not make a plan to act, you must instead REACT. Empty your mind of all intentions and just play the game as it happens. If you stop to plan then you will get left behind.

My favorite is when i do Armor King's/King's 1️⃣+4️⃣ sommersault and they panic and just crouch because they have to do something that makes them feel like they are trying to evade it :)

LULULULULULU. Not going to lie, that made me laugh real hard.

Stay away from lil Timmy... He's a whiffer

For now whiffed electrics are basically free so whiff those to your heart's content. Just don't get predictable.

This post was made by the mishima gang

Thanks PAK!!!!!

And im watching this video because I don't want to be demoted to greens :)

Same story 😅

@@coinalmanac but u have a solid point 👍🏻 learning is always good even if u already know something... In such case, memory becomes an instinct

Same idk why I am watching this playing since tekken 5

Yup! Gotta keep the opponent honest.

LOL. Don't be hard on yourself Droppy. It's okay :)

PeterYMao Hahah don’t worry At least I know what kind of mistake I make and improve myself with your video (and zephhyr) And at least if I can go to mighty rulers with some green rank mistake imagine what rank I can reach if I correct those ^^

Haha, these silly green rank mistakes *sweats nervously in Revered Ruler*

To be fair, current ruler ranks are pretty much old green ranks.

totalymew this one hurt... but true I left rancked after season 2 begins... just do some quick match but after discover peter’s video and discord I’ve start learn tekken took a new car and climb form grand master to mighty rulers But I know I’m still full of weaknesses

I did not include steve's cause his starts up in 23 frames and not a standard 15fr hopkick. But you are correct. He does have a hopkick.

@VALMER RUGALKING I don't think you need a neutral input, but I could be wrong.

What's different about Asuka's uf4 that made u exclude it

This is true. I think getting into the habit of using key moves sometimes is very underrated. But using the moves correctly can be tricky.

I love just standing still against those player. Kbd to mid screen then just stand and watch them whiff moves for 10 seconds before they realize they should maybe stop mashing for no reason

Throwing out moves works if you know they will too. Hitting a whiffed launcher with another launcher in neutral has won me a lot of rounds. It's not safe though, you should just give them space and bait it out. If you have the life lead then dont go in, just watch them struggle to throw out big moves.

" *If I dont stop pressing buttons, I will DIE* "

Thanks for the tips enlightened one!

I just repeated ur points with some of mine experiences 😇

You can win a lot of green matches by just poking. Greens get a lot of damage from launchers, and if you can overwhelm them with pokes then they'll start doing punishable stuff.

sidestep is very difficult and advanced in this game, sidesteps are nerfed in this game, for the sake of akuma

I can't wait to highlight the yellow / orange ranks. Thanks for watching MT.

@@PeterYMao thank you for creating good content for beginners the tekken community appreciates your help

Not just Yellow/Orange ranks. I see ppl making these mistakes in the purple ranks everyday. Not me tho.... no.

@@jokersblood7301 I'm in orange ranks again and everyone red plus are quite good but they cant really deal with pressure or they just cheese with very evasive moves the only player I've played higher than purple was a tekken God prime akuma I got a round on him but then he just destroyed me with the combo

Can confirm as a mid level orange player. Lot of people who've climbed ranks relying on gimmicks that lowers don't have the knowledge to deal with, or people like me who are improving but still occasionally fall back on bad habits (personally I'd call myself an inconsistent player). Vids like these advising the lower ranks can still be useful for better but still incomplete players. Concepts to keep in mind, and new perspectives on the game that you might not have considered. Or simply basic things that might have slipped your mind.

Sure thing!

Sure thing!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm digging the support L Shade

Awww, sorry to hear that man. It's alright, you will have chances later on bro :)

LULULULULUU

@King of Iron Fist Yo homie, you want some whiff whiff. I gotchu. Come here and and I gotcha whiffs right here for ya.

COME BACK TO TEKKEN! I miss you bro! xD And thank you Lavulian :)

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching!

You're the best! Appreciate you checking out the vid bro bro

Most things will land on drunk people ;)

xD glad to have you in the video gunzero!!! Ya made it into the mix!

Fellow King player. Orange ranked now but not so long ago I was a complete beginner. Nice work on improving yourself!

Thanks so much GreenFlame!

@@PeterYMao yeah, subbed right after watching, praise is well deserved ;)

Thanks Sebastian!!!!

Thanks for submitting your footage man! :)

For sure. Definitely something to watch out for launchers and seeable lows. Though seeable lows can be tricky because at 4 bars even 25-27 frame seeables can be difficult to react to.

@Si0NE somewhat good would be generous. Started 2018 and it took me about 2 years to get somewhat decent. Everybody's style and improvement curve is different, but personally I thought I started understanding the game when I could start making adjustments against opponents rather than just impose my playstyle on to them. Guides like this video and discussions by Swe, BlastedSalami and such helped out with building context on how to approach the game in general and with a specific character.

Best of luck on keeping the progress going! You can do it!

Thanks for sharing! I will continue this series for up to Royal Blue ranks. I think that's about it for me up to then.

Hope it helps Faze :)

Awww thanks so much Tommy!

Thanks!

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law has a kinda fast low poke that I like to almost spam, so my opponents ducks more (also to evade my high pokes) and eats my mids. and I found that dragon tail (law's snake edge) works as a low parry counter (?). that's because they get used to trying to parry the low poke and immediatly standing up to block a mid, and a slow low messes up their timing completely. it's rare to pull it off but it is absolutely hilarious (and kinda cruel lol)

Appreciate it

Yeah man, the struggle can be difficult, but the view at the top of the mountain is wonderful. Definitely a lot of players I think mash too much and just need to slow down and think.

In chess we call that "hope chess" or "I hope my opponent will do this". Do not play hope chess.

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@@PeterYMao i only whiff orbital to bait i swear!

Next video! Top 5 Engineering Mistakes. LOLOL just kidding.

@@PeterYMao Would love to watch that vid. Though in my case it should be "DONT OPT FOR ENGINEERING DOOFUS".

You’re very welcome Solomon Lazard

@@PeterYMao rewatching 7 months later, still getting out of green xD

Jabs and d/f+1 for the most part are "nearly" unlaunchable on whiff except when you got a hard read on your opponent. The recovery is so fast that when you see them, it's hard to confirm that they whiffed. None the less capitalizing where you can is very important.

@@PeterYMao Absolutely. It's mostly in higher ranks when opponents use jabs or d/f+1s to play keep out or to test their opponent's spacing. If you have good reads, you can sniff them out and whiff punish accordingly.

I am newish to tekken 7 and only play steve. I just hit brawler for the first time today after about 275 wins. Getting stomped on by people who I knew were worse than me but relied on cheese moves infuriated me. How many wins did it take for you to get out of blue ranks? I will never forgive lucky chloe or king.

@@mrman-yj3bn I don't remember how many wins it took me to get out of the blue ranks, but I had a win rate of no more than 30%. Surely there were many defeats that I had. The thing about learning the basics of Tekken with Steve is really hard, because you don't have all the options that an average character has. So in order to move forward with Steve or with a difficult character, you have to learn 3 fundamental things: 1.- Learn the fundamentals of Tekken. 2.- Learn to use your character and its gameplan. 3.- Learn the matchup of the entire roster of the game. There is no other shorter way to do it. The third point can be somewhat overwhelming. At first it is not necessary to learn all the matchups in the game. Just focus on the things your opponents throw at you the most and annoy you. Then, go to the lab to find out how to punish or avoid them. Experience will give you the answer to get around the different matchups as you learn them. Now that I've reached Genbu, I can say that I "understand the game", but I still can't get good at it, nor with Steve. As long as the character gives you satisfaction, no matter how difficult it is, it is worth the effort to continue playing it.

@Fco2k7 Thanks for the tips man really appreciate it.I am mainly struggling with 2 things at the moment. 1 is doing efficient damage when I punish. Every time I look up how to do steve combos and juggles, it's like learning how to solve the davinchi code. And 2 is low attack spam and mix up, choloe Katarina law and King and even heachi have been rolling me. With that being said, I have gotten a lot better at noticing laws lows and pressuring chloe so much that she can't set up low combos. How many matches do you have before finding a new player? I usually go for best of 3 or 5 but sometimes I feel like I'm just wasting time, other times I look for a new player and the new player ends up being sombody with 500 kazuya wins and I get demolished.

@@mrman-yj3bn 1.- More than learning how to do good damage with combos after punishing, learn Steve's gameplan. This consists of 2 things: a.-Make a good poke game, for later: b.-Perform Counter Hits (or Frametrap for the most Tekken characters). After you master that, all you need to know is any basic Steve combo on Counter Hit, nothing fancy one. The important thing is that you manage to make a combo that is easy and consistent. With more practice and confidence, you will be able to implement more difficult and damaging combos. Believe me, the hardest thing to learn with Steve is his game plan: have a good poke game to cause irritation on your opponent, to see his reaction and analyze what he throws at you. When you have studied your opponent and know when he is going to respond to you, launch a Counter Hit Launcher at him. 2.- One of Steve's weak points is being attacked with lows, because Steve attacks most of the time with highs and mids, leaving his lower zone unprotected because he has slow lows to poke. The only thing that remains there is to learn to block low, when you have the "read" that a low is coming. You do that when you have analyzed your opponent and know their game patterns or flowcharts. You can choose to make a low parry to have more options, but it is better to know when you are going to be thrown one and evaluate if that low is punishable or not. The best option is to worry about blocking visible lows, which go beyond 22 or 23 frames and up. Any low below 23 frames, it's better to take the hit and keep blocking back normally. When you know you're getting the same fast low after a string or every so often, you can guess and make a low block. The best advice to get out of low ranks is: If you don't know your opponent's matchup, just backdash and wait for their reaction. Check out ThatBlastedSalami's video of the almost 2 hour overview he did about Steve Fox lol. There I learned a lot about the character and how to use it.

@@mrman-yj3bn Before I only played to win 2 matches and then I left to play with another one. The problem with that is you don't learn your opponent's matchup, no matter how good he/she is. If you want to scale fast on ranks, you can cherry-pick an opponent to choose the matchups that favor you, but sooner or later you will get strong opponents and you won't know how to deal with them if you don't know their matchup. Now I don't fight for ranks, I fight to learn how to surpass my opponent. If I don't understand how to beat him, I go to the lab to find out how to punish his most used moves.

I think you spelled "highlight reel" incorrectly.

You're not a newbie :) you're a beginner. I don't use that term ^_^

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You're very welcome DrHighPinger!

Good stuff Roxzura ^_^

Noice! Thanks!

There are mistakes from the green ranks that carry over to all ranks of play :) I suspect that whiffing is going to be one of them.

@@PeterYMao to be honest i have troubles with db3,when im playing armor king soo i just need to find better lowes

Congrats Darrell! Which Tekken Community?

@@PeterYMao taking high-level League I believe

Tekken i meant

I Also main bryan. Guilty of all those bad Bryan habits lol

Just don't worry about your rank. Your rank is a reflection of how much skill / knowledge you have progressed. When your knowledge and skill have reached a certain level the rank will reflect it.

Green rank since release. Thats not normal.

@@best_dad_ever5716 still green to this day

@@best_dad_ever5716 ...though i dont play almost as much as i used to

@@prosketch95 i picked the game in 2018 start....picked heihachi...played one hour each day...stayed in green rank in the entire season 1 ...in season 3 reached fujin...

Most likely not for that. But we will see.

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Glad you enjoyed! Thank you so much!

Great job Jose :) this will help you out a lot the higher you climb. Less whiffs = less risks.

😁congrats!

@@PeterYMao thanks sensei

Nice Shaggy! I'm happy I could help ya out ╰(*°▽°*)╯

ggs

I didn't include Alisa in there cause her hopkick puts you into full crouch and requires a WS punish. I didn't include Katarina's cause hers has an extension / mind game to it. Asuka... I just had a brain fart there. I fucked up on that one lololo.

@@PeterYMao Lol, but seriously dude great advice, i only wish i found this video earlier in my playing career, don't get me wrong Im still in green ranks and still make these mistakes from time to time, but whenever I do, I'm aware that I am making them and usually get punished. This might sound weird but i actually find more success playing against higher ranked opponents, than lower ranked ones, has this ever occurred to you?

Couldn't agree more!!!

You're welcome SuuperKing :)

:D good to know you recognize where you need to work :)

Katarina's doesn't force crouch. And you are correct it is launch punishable with i14. For a beginner I would say it's not that important right now if there's no punish at all.

@@PeterYMao I'll correct myself ♥ Anyway we could also say that many punishes in general go missing, I suggest a thing some players way better than me said. If you're not sure, after blocking, go with a jab and see how it goes, you might discover a punish you didn't know was there before.

Better option for Lei, Eddy, and Lucky Chloe is d/b+2.

@@PeterYMao hmmm 🤔 good idea! Thank you for advice - I'll try it 😃

If your opponent is doing an evasive move after 3+4, then you can do some thing like dash up hatchet, dash up 3+4, dash up jab, etc... This is where the mind games, and reading the opponent comes in. You need to take notice of what the opponent is doing after your 3+4, and make a mental note. I did 3+4, what did my opponent do? Did they sidestep after? Did they dash in towards me? Did they back off? Did they press a button? Map this out in your head and play accordingly. Sometimes it's not about "locking" down your opponent, but rather getting a read on their tendencies and habits.

That's awesome! I hope you keep getting better and better, hope your tekken journey goes well.

Tekken is truly a struggle, but a rewarding climb at the same time.

If I were to do a character guide I would not be doing a low rank character guide but rather a detailed character guide.

Lol, lol, lol. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday my man. kzfaq.info/love/terYMao you can find the link there are in the video descriptions.

Spacing will become more important later on. The further up in the ranks you go, the harder it will be to space as the opponent's movement will get better and better.

PeterYMao you aren’t kidding. The moment you hit Vanquisher and up you Will See Korean Backdashing . I remember a jack and a dragunov with really strong movement on ranked. They were Vanquishers then and they very well could be yaksas now based on what I saw. So true statement

Thanks Bagel Music ^_^. Love your KZfaq name.

Wow... don't whiff anymore. Nice.

@@PeterYMao yeah ur videos really helped 👍🏻 thanks a lot bro Practice makes man perfect

@@PeterYMao I can really sense that when u stop whiff attacks, the opponent gets really scared and confused... then starts the real war 😎

Is he dead?

@@galaxypurple4357 He must be busy with personal business. :/

Damn! Thank you so much for the extensive comment. I'm happy to see you recognize your mistakes / what you need to work on. This was very awesome to read. ^_^

Try Hatchet Kicks. When it counters. It knocks the opponent down

Beating those players with snake edge doesn't mean much since let's face it if you were to play in a real tournament, most of those players would be able to block it. So if that's the case, then the question I ask you is this. How would you deal with a player who can block snake edge? The only answer you have here left to deal with players who just guard against highs and mids would be to use hatchet kick, d/b+3 and d+4. It's not possible for your opponent to completely ignore them. How many low kicks would it take for them to press a button? That's for you to find out and then capitalize on. Also, don't forget about throws. No one is 100% perfect on throw breaks.

@@PeterYMao alright, i'll try working on getting rid of my bad habits and getting some good ones in. Thanks again Peter!

Yeah that's fine, as long as you don't forget about your throws :) The other thing is King's giant swing and executioner's drop is a 50/50 throw mix online. It's incredibly hard to tell the difference between the hands.

To beat hop kicks, your best option is to be patient and punish it. If you want to float an opponent out of a hopkick jabs are good or generic d/f+1 or even magic 4 are good. Buttons basically that are fast.

I've never whiffed anything in life 🤣. Hahaha thanks Big Nobody! Glad you enjoy this series.

Zed, I myself struggle with Julia. Character is seriously good... and scary. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Yeeeet!

Thanks Ross :)

Oh you! Lolololo

Check the community post page. I've already asked last week. I post stuff in the community post. Also I have a discord for people who are interested.

@@PeterYMao Oh damn, I totally missed that, thanks for the repost, do they have to be ranked games or can they be quick match?

@@StupidSexyCyborg I prefer ranked games.

@@PeterYMao Sounds good, I'll send some your way. Thanks again!

Neutral block is garbage, never rely on neutral block. If you hold down it's the same as neutral blocking but in ducking state. I go into detail about this here in this video. I've already addressed it in a video. See this link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7BilbaTp53Wc4U.html

PeterYMao sure ill check it out. Thanks.

Don't worry. Just buffering 1+4 after a whiff. I'm sure that'll grant you a launch. Trust me!

It really depends on when you play but I would say characters like Paul, Kazuya, Bryan, King are pretty popular characters.

You are very welcome Haider Hussain :) I'm happy to see you have climbed up in ranks from green to purples!

@@PeterYMao not only that but from not capitalizing max damge combos to straigh taunt jet uppers side stepping ducking strings. You know it's not a joke when you're an external ruler with Bryan in Pakistan! 😂. Keep up the good work.

I will make one for all the ranks. Up to royal blue.

Katarina's has extensions, and Alisa's is a WS punish. That's the reason I didn't include them.

For sure. That can definitely be a weakness. I myself fall into that category.

Cause I don't post that much anymore due to life getting busy.

@@PeterYMao same bro same. I wish i have more time for tekken, but with school, life and work gets prioritized. I just want to say thank you dude for the solid tips. got me out of the orange ranks, lol. Hope to see you content on TK8.

Yeah dude. For sure :) definitely hit the lab and find all the cool stuff and punish people.

xD lots of Tekken players are not right in the head.

@@PeterYMao Tekken certainly doesn't help a person's sanity either. :D

Yeah, when you start playing against better players they will definitely capitalize on whiffs more.

@@PeterYMao I remember being in teal ranks for a long time, then I saw this video and I realized I was whiffing too much. Now I got to vindicator atleast. I know it may not be a very high achievement, but I didn’t know I could go this far. This goes to show how you can make a man’s day.

@@polishjerry8662 :) happy to see the improvements are coming.

@@PeterYMao Hehe thanks

Kazuya Moves Move 1 - 1 -- 1,1 Move 2 - 1,2 Move 3 - d/f+1 -- d/f+1,2 -- d/f+1,4 Move 4 - Magic 4 Move 5 - f+4 Move 6 - f+1+2 Move 7 - d/f+2 Move 8 - d/f+4 Move 9 - d/b+2 Move 10 - d/b+3 Move 11 - d/b+4 Move 12 - b+4 Move 13 - b+1+4 Move 14 - WS+3 Move 15 - WS+1+2 Move 16 - electric Move 17 - hellsweep Move 18 - rage drive There's 18 moves you can try out.

@@PeterYMao what about f+3? It's a strong tool against whiffs that aren't in electric's range imo.

@@-xlntc91x- f+3 sure that's a good tool too.

Lul. Against a good enough opponent every move can miss. :P

The more you make a conscious decision to not whiff the more likely you are to not whiff. Spacing is something that no one ever masters 100%. Even the best players whiff xD