Playing the Hardest Character in Tekken as a Noob

Kazuya is generally a painful experience when i little to no skill in Tekken 7. But it was really fun learning!

I want to get more people into playing competitive ranked queue because its really fun, don't let your performance stop you from playing ranked and improving yourself.

[TheMainManSWE]

Very patient and calculated gameplay considering the ranks. Well done!

[flackos]

Yo wtf this is insane yesterday I just watched your 100 tekken games video and was like "damn I wish this guy did more tekken stuff" ty for this keep it up

[TheOnlyPersona]

This series reinforces the more community “arcade” aspect of tekken being an integral part of the experience. A lot of tekken is “if you know, you know” but you need people to tell you!

[the_other_hiro]

That Chloe at 30:52 is ChaoticPerfection, Tekken God Prime Chloe who recently lost his rank data due to data corruption 😂

[alphawolver]

I'm enjoying the Tekken content! You definitely improved noticeably by the end of the video; your movement was much better after you switched to the dpad, you were converting a lot more combos, applying the hellsweep mixup effectively, hit confirming 1, 1, 2 and just punishing things in general a lot more often.

If I could give one general piece of advice, I'd say you're too eager to respond to things with attacks, and it gets you killed a lot, either because you get counter hit or you whiffed (extremely common among new players). Especially on wakeup, I think I lost count of the number of times you got counter hit doing a wakeup kick. It's even more dangerous when you're face down. Picking more defensive wakeup options like techrolling, holding back to get up backwards, staying down and/or siderolling, or just standing by pressing up (or d/b if you think they'll do a low) if you missed the techroll or can't techroll for whatever reason. Also maybe don't accept matches with wifi players, you saw how well that usually goes lol.

Oh, and don't beat yourself up about not being able to react to Dragunov's low. Pretty much no one can, it's only 18 frames. General consensus is that moves become reactable when they're around 23 frames or slower (it can vary a little from person to person and depending on the move).

That Lucky Chloe was definitely a smurf, btw.

[MrNigel]

lmao that yoshi was hella funny. yoshi is probably one of the hardest characters to learn, he's got tons of stances, and so much weird stuff it's hard to retain everything you can do with him. he's really cool though

[Elijah]

that guy from game 11 and on for a bit, thats how you know someones playing to learn, they keep remaching and you keep learning from eachother i love it in fighting games.

[LordDarkDan]

Full props to you dood for trying to learn Tekken while also using Kazuya, Kaz is honestly Tekken in its purest form requiring heavy execution and knowledge. If you flop on either end its pain. At least if you intend to learn properly rather than just relying on vortex mixup which is deadly effective yet only carries so far if you go against someone able to move around as you discovered. Most of Kaz's moveset can be stepped/sidewalked to the left, making nearly all his key attacks useless if they do so at the right time.

However! While its true Noctis and other characters are 'easier' to use. Honestly please don't feel pressured by people whining 'Oh its not true Tekken cause its too easy' Use who you want too and who feels the most fun to you. Tekken is arguably one of the hardest games to play in general and it sure helps with motivation if you enjoy using a character for whatever reason. So if in it for the long haul might as well do it with the character you like.

Oh wait, I'm a Mishima player myself one I meant, goddammit man, you suck, you gotta spend hours learning to spam EWGF to git gud. All other characters are trash! :P

[partlyblue]

Bro that troll was so fucking funny. I felt your pain, man 😭

[kySoLuni]

it’s nice to watch someone genuinely enjoy the improvement process in tekken even going far enough to play one of the hardest characters.

That being said I just want mention you played against a few smurfs. i haven’t seen it commented much at all, but it seemed like more smurfs than actual low levels lol. Not saying they were all pro players, but that Jin, Lars, Claudio, and Lucky Chloe were far above bottom 4 ranks .. You did really well at the end because you played against players way better than you for days(something most are unwilling to do) and finally played against some people as new as you. Just wanted to share. Genuine great video earned a like and a sub from me

[luvsic]

That yoshi was partying his heart out, love to see it

[takarin]

Really enjoyed seeing your Kazuya game plan slowly getting more optimal. The way you naturally started mixing Hellsweeps and FF3's on oki is actually very satisfying and interesting to watch!

[kadeemeiland]

interesting fact about the scrubkiller (uf 4 4 4 4), if they get hit by the second kick (the first low), don't finish the string so you can pick them up with df3, df1 4 for a combo. this is also guaranteed if the first kick is a counter hit.
couple other tips for Kazuya: hell sweep is a key move for kaz but you need to use homing moves to keep them from sidestepping, b4. db4. Another great move for this is ws4. it's also great to keep your opponent in check and to stop them from mashing or set up df1 counterhit. It's deceptively plus on (counter)hit and alot of players will try to attack after getting hit by it, even on counterhit. if you do a wavedash into it (f * d, df) it auto aligns with the opponent to keep them from sidestepping.

[anthonyirons]

I really enjoy this series! I hope you continue to do more videos on Tekken. I'm learning the game right now, and I've learned some things from the last two videos you've done.

[kirbyx]

I think it should not matter what character you play. As long as you enjoy playing the game I think its completly valid! Either way, gonna enjoy the new ludvix Video now! And merry christmas! Have a great one you all!

[DullahanKai]

More of this, I'd love to see a whole series of you trying to get to the high ranks, or even go through every character and see if you end up having better winrates purely through knowing characters from facing them.

[Jamal]

One thing to remember. Do not let people decide your main. It doesn't matter if your character is hard or easy as long as you having fun.


Also yes i dont recommend using hard characters to learn tekken. Characters that are easy may teach you more stuff because you can execute their moves, combos, punishes. But if you're okay with it its fine.

[Vivek-Goel_Superfan]

I picked up this game and kazuya 1 month ago and can confirm that being trapped in first dan for the first 50 - 75 games is real lmao! Your sense of progression was very similar to mine. After rebounding from falling into 1st Dan for the nth time, Kazuya starts to click, especially after you become more patient. Initiate to Mentor was significally faster!

Hitting inputs after a launcher was hard for me for a very very long time! I found myself falling back on b2, 1 or 3, 1, 4 into hellsweep or f, f4 after a launcher. Throwing out B2, 4, 1 also helped in my case as many opponents only blocked the first two hits, leaving the last hit to launch the opponent back, giving me some more time to collect my thoughts back at neutral! In no way am I confident in my Kazuya, but after watching your video, I find myself reassured that this noobie frustration is normal:)

Also, I think you have a very unique video. Too many Kazuya players on youtube have decades of experience lol, so seeing you learn from point 0 was very refreshing! Are you interested in making any tekken 8 videos? I can say after playing the demo that Kazuya feels quite different!

[AfricanViking_desu]

Please make more of these! As an upper intermediate player (fujin/yaksa) this is fun as hell to watch. I feel your pain and frustration my friend.

I picked up kazuya about 2 months ago, and he is disgustingly difficult. Especially for a new player. Well on you though! Looking forward to seeing you improve 🔥

[baines]

The fact that the lee knew b2 loops and the jin knew electric combos this early is crazy lmao