When someone side stepped my electric in T7 I felt so helpless.

TMM has been pondering about this since he fought the special style Jin player.

One thing that FrameWhisperer said in a video that really stuck with me was, "If you're working on improving your punishment, and in a match you duck/block and properly punish an attack, as far as you're concerned, you won that match."

Really helped improve my patience, not just in Tekken, but in other fighting games, too.

I’m green and was winning all the time until last night.  I was fighting a hwang that kept high kicking until I ducked.  Once I ducked he mixed up his strings.  Kudos to that guy because he taught me more then I have learned since the launch

I felt like I truly ascended after having played against 10000 dragunovs and reinas and slowly learning the matchup and feeling confident afterwards, just to be put against a shaheen for the first time in my life and I got sat down real quick

Meaningful long term progress > cheap short term victories

07:19 I confirm the 1000hrs vs 100 hrs argument. For sure.

Tekken can be difficult to learn but it's so rewarding at the same time.

My 30% wr green rank kazuya main ass needed to hear this.

i love tekken because i don't even need to win to have fun. as long as i do something small that i set myself to do like duck a string that i was looking for, i'm immediately happy

Senpai noticed me 😲.  Keep up the great content !

I have like 100 hours in tekken 7 and this is my first tekken game I’ve played since launch. When I started learning the game with my friend he was messing around with steve and hit me with a snake charmer and I screamed so loud cause I thought it was so cool, I didn’t feel confident to learn him in 7 but with 8 coming out I just decided to put in the effort to learn him. I’ve never gotten so crapped on so much in this game and I won’t lie I’ve gotten so freaking angry. But I can see that a lot of these people are just like Mainman says, they’re literally just spammers and it’s a matter of learning the characters. ILL MAKE YOU PROUD MAINMAN. DONT MISS ME WINNIN.

I'm glad Diaphone gets more exposure. A gem in the FGC for sure

I'm not going to learn Tekken straight away. But I know that this game will be a thing 5+ years from now and I'm here for it. There will never be nothing to learn and it will always be fun (so long as I make it out of these fucking bs yellow ranks!).

Tekken 8 is still a defensive game. If you know how to answer to their offense, thats where the climbing starts. Mashers will plateau easily at a certain point but once you slow it down and block more, duck highs, sidestep, and adapt, thats where Tekken strives. You could literally have a subpar combo but as long as you have a staple combo, a certain wall carry combo, wall combo, and defense, you can easily get to Mighty Ruler. After that is just polishing your skill and more labbing to exceed further beyond. Combos are important too for maximizing damage but poking can mitigate that so easily that you wont have to rely on those big launches that are both unreliable and unsafe in order to win rounds. If you truly want to win more games and climb, play defense. Dont focus too much on offense or else you'll get blown up whenever you are minus frames.

I think my favorite is when they think youre gonna be an easy match up, had a yoshi kick my ass and was thinkin to myself like "fuck idk if i should rematch, this guy's good" cuz i do believe its better to fight a BUNCH of different people in a sitting then to sit there running your face into a wall over and over when they're simply better, but i thought ok, what the hell, I'll give it a go, they had holes it wasn't a complete stomp, our matches were close, and second match i adapted and just ran through them like it was nothing, it felt amazing and of course they decline the rematch and that was that lmao

I used to get DUSTED by mashers and all of a sudden in T7 I  got used to the cheese and then when you encounter a masher you know how to adjust and yer GOOD!

Been in Ranked almost in purple with Lee and it’s HILARIOUS to run into one and watch them hard backstep waiting to hit a rage art, not blocking low, etc.

This video might be what makes me super commit to Tekken.

Maining Leo, it's my first Tekken game and first fighting game, made it to Combatant rank. It's brutal dealing with mashers, and it's definitely a struggle to learn execution, matchups, throw breaks AND learning to deal with mashers. My loss rate is honestly 70% or higher... but I'm not giving up :) Learning is a mega challenge, but seeing yourself improve over time is an adrenaline rush like nothing else. And when you don't find a masher, matches are incredible XD It's those moments that make T8 unbelievably addictive, it's a rush worth chasing. But yeah, make no mistake - it's damn hard.

King players when they get to a level where people are breaking their throws.