#tiny tekken tutorial

Tiny Tekken Tutorial, stupid Law tricks that you should know about!

Here’s another TINY TEKKEN TUTORIAL for you: how to use Armor King’s SECRET MOVES that come out of his ki charge.

He’s got two! The blue spark version of DARK UPPAH and also a secret fire breath.

I just got bopped super hard by one of my training buddies. He picked up Negan recently. I got so tilted. He’s a super nice guy, but maaaaan that was stressful.

OK OK OK so here are some not-quite-real Negan mixups, and how to practice against them.

JAB STRINGS

1,2,4 , which is his 10-frame punisher. It’s three highs. You can duck the third high, but that’s discouraged by...

1,2,2 -- last hit is mid, so you can’t duck under it. The last hit is an overhand bat swing, plus on block. AND IT LAUNCHES ON NORMAL HIT. Gross.

What do you do? The last hit of 1,2,2 is significantly slower. There’s a gap, and you can interrupt that final hit.

PRACTICE: Go to practice mode, set Negan to do 1,2,4 and 1,2,2. See if you can see the 1,2,2 animation -- he raises his hands and his bat way above his head! If you see that, try to interrupt. If you’re *really* ready, you can stick a 14 frame move in there, like Kazuya’s df+2. I think magic 4 is a better option, if you’ve got a fast one.

The option select out of this, which beats both options, is a duck jab or generic d+4 or similar.

FRONT KICK STRINGS

df+4,2 (hold) -- a right advancing kick into a bat swing. +5 on block, leaves him in Intimidation stance. Second hit is high.

df+4,3 -- right advancing kick into a safe mid knee.

PRACTICE: You can see the difference in the animation and duck the bat swing. He reaches way over to his left before swinging. Look for that and try to duck on reaction.  Again, go to practice mode, set the dummy to do those two strings, try to react correctly ON REACTION. No guessing!!

ALL TOGETHER NOW, PRACTICE: Once you can tell apart 1,2,4 versus 1,2,2 and df+4,2 versus df+4,3 -- set the dummy to do all four of those things and see if you can respond correctly!

In summary! Learn to see the differences between:

df+4,3 --> block

df+4,2* --> duck second hit

1,2,2 --> interrupt last hit (ideally with CH launcher)

1,2,4 --> just block (it’s -9 on block) or duck and launch if you’re super on the ball

I set out to learn some Lucky Chloe! Lemme condense what I learned for you!

“No thank you I don’t want cancer.” -- a helpful Tumblr user when I asked if I should do a Chloe tutorial

Oh come off it. Chloe is adorable and really good game design :3 LOOK AT HER LITTLE WITCH OUTFIT, COME ON.

Two things I forgot to mention in the video:

WHEN IN FULL CROUCH! The scary low you want to use in your mixup is full-crouch df+1. You can mix it with ws4 (for a safe mid) or FC df+4, which is a launcher if you’re feeling yourself.

Chloe has two hopkicks!! uf+4 is a normal hopkick. uf+3 has more range and high-crushes. So you’ll just slip right under jabs with it. In return, it’s -15 on block so a knowledgeable opponent will recognize this and launch you.

Otherwise, I think this came out pretty well!

More resources:

DoomedDanny’s Lucky Chloe Guide (youtube video)

Let’s talk for a minute about Kazuya’s rage drive! Crouchdash 1+4 when you’ve got rage -- it’s like an EX version of thunder god fist that’s advantageous on block.

It’s really good. Probably one of the better rage drives in the game. Versatile. What can you do with it?

1) Just do it from the neutral, or out of your wavedash mixup. This is kind of the obvious thing to do. If it’s blocked, you’re at +5-+6, which is great. Fish for a CH or do a low. If it hits, big damage, and you can transform into Devil, even better! (also it spikes for good okizeme position or a floorbreak)

2) Conversely: DON’T USE IT, USE THE THREAT OF IT. While you’ve got the rage drive handy, players are incentivized to not duck for fear of eating your rage drive from the neutral. Time for throws and hellsweeps?? Hellsweeps are really risky at this point, of course -- if they block one, you’re losing this round. Of course, we’re Kazuya players so we believe in our reads and fuckin’ hellsweep when we feel like it. In any case, you’ve got rage, so everything does more damage until you burn your rage. Maybe just hang on to it.

3) As a combo ender, it works pretty alright. It’s a fairly high damage, reliable thing you can do after a screw. In the end, you’ve turned into Devil, done some pretty good damage, and they’re standing up right next to you, and your 50-50 is now stronger than before. This is kind of an “intermediate player” thing to do; it does turn you into Devil, but it doesn’t do nearly as much damage as...

4) SECOND HIT OF YOUR NEXT COMBO. This is the “TMM” option. Why do you do this? Well, the damage scaling system in T7 really encourages you to put the biggest hits towards the front of your combo, and the rage drive does 45 danni, which is quite a lot. So if you’re going to put the rage drive in your combo, the optimal place from a damage perspective is the second hit -- it can’t be the first hit since it’s not a launcher. This assumes that you’re confident you’re going to get another launch, of course. But if you were going to do EWGF, EWGF into stuff and end with rage drive, it would be a lot more damage to do EWGF, rage drive, stuff, normal ender.

I need to take this advice more often; I very rarely do option 4.

OK so Fahkumrams are out on ranked now. Maybe you’re a Fahkumram yourself! That’s cool. He seems really interesting.

But we have work to do.

Go into practice mode with your character and Fahkumram. Set Fahkumram to “Repeat Action”, and pick all of his df+1 strings. There are actually 5 different ones.

There are two that you want to learn to recognize especially, and they are:

df+1, 4~3, 2  -- the big sweep!  You can hella see this; it has a very distinct animation.

df+1,4  -- mid punch into mid kick. THIS IS -13.

Just let him repeat that for a while until you can block and punish both the sweep and the mid kick, reliably.

The most important thing for you to take away from this is that you can (and should) learn to see the startup of the sweep and block it on reaction. It is launch punishable. Don’t let Fahkumram players treat this like a real mixup.

The second most important thing is that you can punish the standing kick. If you’ve got a good punish for 13f, do it!

All the other ones are safe on block. The df+1,4~1 (punch into elbow), you can sidestep or interrupt with a fast CH tool, but you’ve got to recognize or read that it’s happening.

This is for @californiawells and anybody else who wants to pick up Leroy and start bodying people. It assumes he hasn’t been nerfed (yet ?), and that you know Tekken notation and a little bit about frame data.

I realize, having written it, that it’s kind of long. Don’t be intimidated! Leroy is really easy to pick up, as Tekken characters go.

Why is Leroy good?

He’s got nearly every tool that you could hope for in a Tekken character, and then a few things that nobody else has!

Good df+1 ? It’s great! Low pokes! Absolutely. A hellsweep? You betcha. An orbital heel. Great approach tools. Great punishment. Super absurd combo damage for easy combos. Super good safety. And he’s got one of the best parries in the game. And the unique cane mechanic. And a theme song. And a dog.

The only Tekken things I can think of that he doesn’t have are: a complete throw mixup (his grapple game is not great), a snake edge-type low launcher, a generic d+4, and a hopkick. But lots of good characters don’t have those things.

He’s super good.

What moves to use?

As with most Tekken characters, df+1 is your go-to poke. His is 13f (fast) and only -1 on block, which is *great*. AND IT HAS EXTENSIONS. You can do df+1,1 which is also only -1 on block, but second hit is high. Or df+1,4, which is mid,mid and leaves you in stance. Both are safe on block and guaranteed on hit.

b+4 is a safe, homing mid kick with good range. Kinda like Heihachi’s, but faster and more damage??

d+1+2 -- neutral on block (but forces crouch), long range fast mid. CH launcher. Amazing. d+1+2 into d+1+2 is a good pressure sequence.

Throw out your orbital heel (u+4 or u/f+4) randomly, to catch low moves, or if you think they’re going to duck, or to evade counter-attacks, or if you feel like it. Worst case, you get whiff-punished, but it recovers pretty quickly.

He’s got great approach tools. ff+3 is a long-range tracking kick that will get you in with +1 on block! That’s disgusting! (it is high, so if you’re too predictable you could get ducked and launched). You get a mini-combo on hit. On block, try a b+1 to fish for a counter-hit? They’ll probably swing, not knowing that it’s your turn.

b+3 is similar, though shorter range and merely safe on block, not plus. You can get a bigger combo on hit.

u/f+2 is another good approach tool. A quick jumping mid punch that is + on block and wall-bounces. What the fuck is this. Why does he have so many great moves.

Punishment

1,2,4 into stance for your 10f punish. Or just 1,2 if you don’t want to go into stance.

If you block something that’s -14 or worse from standing, you can easy-mode punish with 1+2,1+2,1.   PRACTICE HIT-CONFIRMING THIS. The last hit is very punishable, but you should almost never do it unless the first few hits are hitting. You can just throw the 1+2 or 1+2,1+2 out in neutral, in hopes that it will hit and you can hit-confirm into the last hit -- it’s really good.

As something between a whiff punisher and an approach tool, you can use ff+2,2. It launches on normal hit, into your default combo. Only -13 on block. If they don’t know they can punish this, party with it.

u/f+3+4,1+2  is something like Law’s 3+4,4 , but doesn’t give a full combo. 14f big long-range whiff punish. Also useful in combos.

At 15 frames from crouching and standing, you get a launch. df+2,1+2 for the standing launcher, while-standing 2 if you block a big low.

For lows...

d+3,2 is in your default combo, but you can (and should) also use it as a low poke. If it hits, you’ll be at +8, right in their face, in stance. Party time. This move is like Hwoarang’s d+3,4 but better.

d+2 is a really good low-poke too. High-crush, something like Feng’s d+2. Consider following it up with the extension, d+2,4. Both are quite safe -- nobody can launch you for doing them. And you can delay the second hit.

d/b+4 is also quite good. It high crushes. Kinda like Kazuya’s d/b+3, but better because on CH you get a small combo.

HELLSWEEP BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN OUR READS. If they look complacent and you’re feeling gutsy and want a knockdown, just run up and db+3,1+2. It’s launch punishable on block, so be careful.

What combos to do?

The basic combo that you can do off basically every launcher is:

(launch) db+1,3 d+3,2 (hermit stance) 2,1 S!  dash uf+3+4,1+2

Drill this into your fingers. You’re going to get like over 70 damage for any launcher here. It’s super consistent and not hard.

This works for (at least) these launchers:  orbital (u+4 or u/f+4),  f,f+2,2 , while-standing 2, df+2,1+2.

When ff+3 hits, you get a guaranteed u/f+3+4, 1+2.

When b+3 hits, you get a guaranteed (dash) b+3 df+1 df+1 u/f+3+4,1+2.

At the wall, I like to end with df+1, u/f+3+4,1+2. There are better wall enders, but this is really consistent.

Just Leroy Things: stance, parry, cane, dog

His parry is b+2. It’s more like Jin’s parry than a reversal. Too much to talk about here.

His stance, Hermit Stance (HMT) automatically parries lows.

When you’re in stance, there are a bunch of good options. The most basic ones are:

mid poke: HMT 4 , leaves you in stance. 11f mid poke.

mid with commitment: HMT 4,1+2  mid-mid knockdown string. Punishable.

orbital heel: HMT f+4

low: HMT 3,4  or HMT b+4  (second option is homing and high crushes)

Also you can parry with the b+2 parry from stance.

CANE: you can only do this once per game. But d/f+2+3 is like an extra rage drive. Launch on normal hit, big frame advantage on block.

DOG: Call Sugar to do an assist with 2+3! This is a terrible idea. Sugar is a good doggo, but she’s not a very reliable combatant. And she takes forever to come out. And she might not actually do the attack; there’s RNG here.

THEME SONG

Super good. Plays when you’re on the Dragon’s Nest stage, during potential final round. Try to be on Dragon’s Nest stage, for an extra power-up.

“YOUR EGO’S ABOUT TO GET MORE THAN YOUR FEELINGS HURT!!”

What did I not cover?

Anti-bear strats for Kazuya -- why did Knee keep using that weird move against Rangchu at Combo Breaker?