A lot of you all have been saying you're having problems when playing Lidia. Have you still been enjoying her, or has those problems ruined your fun with the character? Have you tried changing your playstyle since you picked her up? Does she still feel as weird as day 1? I'm curious what your thoughts are.
If you want to see more Lidia gameplay, feel free to check out my stream at https://twitch.tv/sesujin

Genuinely invaluable info presented here, it's rare to find high level explanations behind broad play style choices like this. Thanks for the vid, earned my sub

People on the lidia discord are really pushing the "she's designed to be played as a rushdown character" narrative.  This kind of confirms a lot of suspicions I've been having.   It just doesn't make sense to me that you'd make a rushdown character with such fundamentally lackluster rushdown tools

Straightup one of the best channels to learn Lidia, it is a crime how underrated this dude is.
Imo she should get a small buff to her  d2 and horse1+2, make them not as minus on hit by 1or 2 frames, keep them bad but not horrendous.

Side note, this playstyle fits the karate theme so good, calculated and technical

9:44 mf has taught me how to reach Fujin in 30 seconds. Thank you very much man, amazing advice. This one is the knowledge check pinnacle

Bro your videos are godlike . I'm really struggling with Lidia right now

My third eye has been opened.

Lidia's been my main and favourite character since the moment she came out in T7. Your explanation on how to approach her playstyle here is spot on and you do amazing job breaking it down. Her rush-down can only be used effectively at higher level when you've conditioned your opponent that you're actually playing defensively in scenarios where others would've continued the pressure. And she has all the tools to play defensively too. Great punishment for both normal and while-standing, nice parries and she can reach far away with some of her strings.

I enjoyed your guide and even though I incorporated the defensive playstyle already, you reasurred me to stick with that style even more. Your guide was super good. Just subscribed and looking forward to more videos from you in the future.

Cheers from Poland, homie! 💪🇵🇱

Dudeeee you’re awesome for this! You’ve really changed my perspective on how to be more defensively conscious on this character.

Came home after attending EVO 2025 and I ended up buying TEKKEN 8 because it was on sale. Gravitated towards using Lidia and looked up a bunch of videos on YT about her during the past couple days. This is by far the most effective guide I've watched so far. Thank you for making this. The emphasis on approaching her as a neutral-based character as opposed to rush-down has made a huge difference in making her more comfortable to use for me.

Definitely an interesting take on Lidia. looking forward to trying to implement some of this in my own gameplay. I think if nothing else just doing FF2 and NOT DOING ANYTHING afterwards is going to help a ton of people that are struggling with Lidia at lower levels. always trying to play the stances is as you said, just to risky.

honestly i watched this, tried a few more 'block after stance and adjust on what they do' and i instantly saw succes. Great concepts, well articulated

t8 is my first real tekken, and phi has kind of been my go to for fundamentals and how to approach learning a char. one thing i remember him saying early on is to play the char's plus frames. i took that approach to my first two characters, but all the guides on lidia are on stances and mixup options and talking about how bad her pokes are. props for bringing what the ppl need: that fucking plus frame info and how to run lidia's traps. thanks for the video.

999 like, hell yea

Really happy that Youtube algo has been showing me smaller channels like yours (with regards to sub count, I mean no offense by this). Thank you so much. I feel like something hasn't clicked yet between Tekken and I, and I'm not sure what it is

I really love Lidia because I'm a Shotokan Karateka myself and I they really did a great job on her to translate our Karate style in Tekken ! Her stances are real one we use a lot by practicing katas and other stuffs, her moves are very accurate as well except maybe some spectacular jumped kick she does ! I think about the 3+4 move with the 2 jumped kicks. I can identify the second one that is a jumped ura yoko geri but not the first...😅
To be honnest, it's one of the best video on Lidia game's plan on her recent release on T8. :) Your explainations are clear and make sense.
I was more confident with her in T7 and I struggle with the T8 version. I know that I have a lot of work to do on the character but your point of view and explanations will change the way was I was considering her game plan. 😉To be more patient and take time to analyse the opponent actions/reactions. Many thanks for sharing ! 👍👍👍 I just followed you on Twitch as well.

Thank you one year later! Super cool for someone new to fighting games! I have all of them loaded up but Tekken 8 Lidia jumped out to me as an interesting character to play. I like the idea of playing a character who “doesn’t want to get hit, and then waits for their moments!,” which is my interpretation of the description in the video. It looks like you are making current videos, so it will be interesting to tune into your season 3 takes on Lidia herself, or just about the game in general.

Just got lidia, probably one of the best tekken guides ive watched so far. The gameplay examples really helped, im subbed for more👍

I dont main lidia but heres an algorythm comment because you changed my view on her. Can prolly still apply the same principles on my Jun👍

Your
videos have actually really helped me and I appreciate you hugely! At the same time I knew exactly what your custom would be by looking at you xD