How to learn combo;

You go to youtube; look for <character name> tekken 8 combo

Pick one that you think you can do and is about ~70 damage. Go to Practice Mode. Keep practicing until you can do it with your eyes closed. Set the AI to AI (Or something, make them fight you), try fighting normally but try and do the combo.

Once you are familiar, do it online.

Hey there and welcome back to the Tekken fam! Combos are interesting in this game. Personally, I look them up on YouTube for my character. I do learn various bound moves (the moves that flip your opponent in the air, extending the combo further), and then a few enders.

Combos can also be situational. Sometimes you can be near a wall and need to cut it short so that you can get a wall combo. Situational awareness comes with experience, so don’t worry too much about it now I would say.

Enjoy the game and your journey! There’s so much negativity surrounding this game, especially with season 2, and I suggest you block all that noise and focus on improving.

I recommend not using special style. You’re not actually gonna learn how to play the game using that. It might work in the lower ranks because no one there knows what they’re doing. I recommend learning your characters actual moveset through the move list in the practice menu. Also for combos, I recommend watching TheFURY on YouTube. Just look for the video with your character and he shows multiple combos from every launcher your character has ranging from easy beginner combos to more advanced combos that might give you more damage but won’t be very consistent in actually matches until you practice it enough. It’s better to do combos you can for sure do in a match than a combo that might give you more damage but you drop often.

Go into training without special style, and go through your characters move list. You cab have a demo of each move play for you, and quickly go through each one to recognize each move and know what button does what.

Go on YT and search "(your characrer) combos" and learn how to do a few basic bread and butter combos. If you don't know input notations I recommend learning for the sake of brevity.

Special style helps with trying out new characters and see what moves they have and how they feel by oversimplifying the controls.

but that's the word: oversimplifying.

Tekken characters have at least 100 moves and you're gonna miss out on the majority of what your character can do. i say, use special style to get a feel on what characters that you think looks cool. once you find your character, go to practice mode, check out their extensive moves, do their combo challenges-- this will get you to feel what it's like to actually playing them.

dont even start learning combos just yet. find a simple combo you can successfully pull off and stick to it.

next, play ranked with your character and just enjoy playing. the more you enjoy playing the game, the more interested you at at discovering how to improve piloting your character.

all in all the key is finding the fun. more will come the more fun you get.

Buy it if it looks fun. Well, I'll try my best.

• In Tekken, defense is king. Spamming WILL get you destroyed once you hone your skills.

• Learn to break throws. It'll be very hard and frustrating, but just know that it'll save you so much time in the future, and win more games.

• the control scheme is very different. It's a 3D fighter, with 4 buttons each corresponding to a different limb. In order, it's 1 (left arm), 2(right arm), 3 (left leg) and 4(right leg). Because of this, there are usually at least 80 unique moves for each character. But don't be overwhelmed, you really only need to know about 25 essential ones. The remaining ones are more there for niche situations or to confuse the opponent.

Have fun and good luck!

Jumped into the wider FGC off MK myself, these are some basic pointers that could be useful:

-Movement will be weird, due to the 3D nature of it and until it's muscle memory can feel unintuitive.

-Don't try to memorise the entire move list of the character you want to play. There are plenty of guides that highlight key moves and give a blueprint for gameplan.

-You will get knowledge checked, hard. There are things you just have to learn eventually. Due to this it's much harder to bruteforce matchup knowledge compared to MK.

-Try to learn throw breaking, it's probably the single largest boost to your play in Tekken

I'll suggest you to watch mainman and tekken players in general. The play and try to recognize whatever these players were saying or doing in the video. That's how I learned tekken.

PhiDX has good guides

As a new Tekken player myself I would recommend learning your on the ground moves. Waking up properly will keep you from being combod once you hit the ground and players in the lower ranks get caught by these moves often.

Absolutely check out this beginner's thread, plenty of reading and watching material there!

And this playlist is pretty good too.

Also check the sidebar, there are few more goodies there as well.

Just pick a character you think seems cool and jump in online man. You have plenty of fighting game background, so even though 3d games are considerably different I'm sure you'll get your barings soon enough.

Welcome to Tekken brew.

Play 7. 8 will teach you bad habits, its straight up trash. You will get worse in literally any other fighting game while playing 8.

This game is flipping complicated. There's a lot to learn, so it's really important to know how experienced you already are before offering advice. How much have you played Tekken 8? Do you understand the notations we use to talk about what buttons we're pressing?

Specifically for Devil Jin/Mishimas, if you want something easy to drill, go to practice and set up the bot to random block and punish with a jab. Then hit the bot with 1,1. If the bot blocks the hits, sidestep to avoid it's jab and punish with a quick button. If the bot doesn't block the hits, then finish the string with 2.

This trains a few different things. It trains your small tekken/sidesteps, your ability to punish, and your ability to 'hit-confirm' your 1,1,2 string. As a mishima, your 1,1,2 string is pretty important. It opens up a lot for you, but it's launch punishable on block (or at least DVJ's is), so you don't want to hit that "2" button if they didn't get hit with the first two jabs.

play more tekken

Don't over rely on Back 3 it is a bad habit

Rematch

Oof trying to pull from memory without launching T7 lol

Honestly I'd love to pick just 15 out of his 180+ moves but I think every single one of his moves are important even if some are very situational. Lei has the most options for routes in stance transitions out of any character...in any game I think. Decision paralysis will happen until you get used to his large move list.

That being said the first thing I would do is set up your shortcuts on your shoulder buttons if you play on pad. Be prepared to do lots of backdashing, haha stepping, blocking.

If you need a visual guide look at TK_bilal kaka who's one of the best Leis in the world. He'll go over the frame data of his key moves.

It's been fun playing him lately.

Pick and choose fun moves from here

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1aGN96Ie1r-_5hWCQZLMOYiEuVZx0jLVwGxlFLg8yJfY/mobilebasic

just mash random shit and sidestep stance

be silly-man.

The main thing about Lei is that he's all about whiff baiting, mind games, and 50-50s. You'll need to learn his stance-dance game, which means running different routes through those stances and the different moves within them and how they transition between each other. Every stance is a mixup situation for your opponent so you'll have to learn each of those options and how they work. You'll also want to learn basic ha-stepping for his whiff-bait game. His bread-and-butter rushdown combo is Razor Rush which also contains mixups and stance transitions depending on where you stop in the combo. Rave Sweep is one of his most reliable buttons. It's a mostly unseeable hell-sweep with a guaranteed followup on clean-hit. You should check out the Blasted Salami video about him if you haven't already.

Learn the cheesey easy to win moves ...

memorize them. use them constantly to the point of muscle memory.

Then learn moves 1 by 1 as a set up to the cheese. Make sure that you focus your play style around the cheese and slowly extend your moveset knowledge

Then learn combo paths

Then focus on defence.

You have to lab a lot with this game. It’s a franchise that really relies on legacy knowledge and knowledge checks.

Watch your replays

Learn how to counter and punish

Main Lars silent entry and then press a random button no one knows what will happen not even you.

you have to change characters. It's not the same game since S2. Asuka and Lars are top 2 imo. Change to them or people who are like them.

Gonna have to use the replay system to lab scenarios.

A large part of tekken is just general knowledge of the opponents character. It’s a very hard game to be a newcomer in. Especially in its current state.

I don’t think ranks are inflated. I think there’s tons of people playing ranked that depending on luck of the matchup and opponent you might have an easier path to certain ranks vs others and those in tougher regions. TMM even said it’s not inflated at all.

Yeah I'm new to Tekken and while I agree that it's a bit too agreesive, I enjoy watching T8 tournaments. The opponents are always close to each other, while T7 looked more like a KBD competition to me.

It is balanced in the sense every single character is honestly overtuned and you can abuse people if you get a counterhit/launch/heat engager/wall.

And it's not even just heat or range or throws or any universal stuff. 

It's just the characters. It is a miracle if one of them has more than one or two weaknesses (not very big ones).

It's not that ranks are inflated, it's that the ranks are literally meaningless as a result of prowess. They are no longer an accurate measure of skill. In fact, skill levels by rank are all over the damn place. God forbid you take a break or try a different character. I didn't think a game could have a worse ranking system than Strive's floor rank setup, but here we are.

When I really think about it this is true. Most of my issues with characters can be just summed up with “learn the matchup”. But all the annoying stuff we deal with is essentially nothing new.

Hworang still has crazy pressure, Xiaoyu phoenix stance has always been low af, Kuma has always been a goofy knowledge check character along with Yoshimitsu,

I could go on but the idea is that it’s all beatable

Yes. They have been filling the moveset gaps ever since s2 of Tekken 7.

Like imagine that there used to be only 5 chars with semidecent wall carry and 10 chars with semidecent wall damage. And none had both and now look at Dragunov or Law.

Some characters had no 10f punish other than a jab. Some had really trash lows. Some had no good mids. Some had no while running moves. They usually had like 5 really good moves, 50 mid ones and 30 mediocre to bad ones.

Now you can play almost every character in almost every way because they have everything.

I basically played T8 Asuka and T8 like I played T7 Gigas and it worked well enough to go to mid blue ranks not learning the characters much, I think that says enough.

There is a spectrum to it obviously, one where every move does 1-5 dmg and is punishable, the other one where jab/df1/d4 take half of your hp and everything else kill. And it's the most fun in the middle.

Right now arent in the middle, we are half between the middle and the jabs taking half of hp basically.

I think the real sentiment tends to be that they are balanced around the wrong things. The game is aggression heavy, it is reflected in the new mechanic and how they balance a lot of stuff as well. The result can be a very snowbally and gorilla rushdown game and fans of older entries feel that was a step in the wrong direction even if we are seeing some signs of them slightly walking that back lately.

That being said relative to each other I do concur it's an interesting game balance wise. Low tiers feel more viable than ever and we've seen a few times that even seemingly minor tweaks can really shift the tier postion of characters. To me it speaks to a game where there aren't too many characters significantly lagging behind... though the ones that are strong are arguably standing out too much to call it truly balanced.

Not OP, but yes. Characters having defined weaknesses and having to play around them both on offense and on defense, is what made Tekken interesting.

Good stuff, will definetly be helpful for a lot of us! I wanna add df1,2 1+2 as a simple wall combo (18dmg I think) that doesn‘t damage jun. Also you can press b1+2dbb1+2 to heal a bit quicker with miare and to admire the jiggle physics

thanks! i've never had the chance to learn her, so i look forward to it at last!

That fundamentals guide is the exact thing I need.

Sweet I'll check them out

Damn, the amount of work here is insane. Definitely saving this, thanks dude 🙏

The full practice mode while finding a match.

Practice against DLC characters without paying.

Clans? Idk I think that would be dope

1. Rollback

2. Not having to transition so many long menus between EVERYTHING in the game.

3. An actual tutorial of the mechanics.

1. Fast loading times
2. Good functioning netcode
3. Online ranks are stored online
4. Cross-play
5. Good customisation options

First 3 are priority.

6. instant rematches

Instant rematch : |