Roujin wrote:

block the low or hammer df to try and parry it.

If you block the first low, you can hold d/f after and the parry timing falls into place.

yeah i noticed you can hold df for a bit to get a parry (pez he tell me).

i think maybe some of my issue comes form online. if the connections not good i find it really hard to sidestep and block somethings. 

also what is the technicality of leaving the stick neutral to block? i swear sometimes i feel like i'm in neutral and i still get hit.

thanks dude, i must be in transition from a dash or something then.

Yah Aris told me so, d/f for 14 frames I think he said before it wears off. Maybe less but for a good amount of time, one of his AVP vids demonstrates it. Also a method of hitting d/f as he goes into blocking up close after a blocked low that will down parry any counter lows as he's going in to block. Next level stuff that blows my mind.

one day ill also have the time to watch all the vids you posted. real life...

played ranked a bit this weekend, think i'm slowly getting better. blocked more lows and finished more combos from launchers i connected. gone form 25% win ave to 35%... 

i've managed to get jaycee's 'pelvic thrust' into a tag combo now, its pretty useful for flinging people up into a king air grab.

i'm not worried as such, i just think if i can get my self to 50% i'll have learn alot by then. or not...

Thanks for the offer man, but I think I'm going to leave the stick as it is. I just use a stock JLF and I've totally got used to just throwing it round for 360's, 180's and flicking it about for QCFs. Stiffening up the switches for a more crisp db between dashes would be nice, but I fear for the effect on my overall execution. 

I was halfway through a hitbox build this time last year, have all the buttons, pcb and wiring bits, just needed to order the plexi and other acrylic panels I need to line the box frame. I think I'll look at finishing it off and see what happens. 

As if by magic yesterday some guy on TZ posted a bunch Jinpachi/Wang combos, so I hit the lab and was able to appropriate some of the combos into solo Wang combos, managed to get a 78 damage fairly simple juggle that you can run off all his launchers, which is a nice versatile tool I didn't have before. Need to practice my waning moon combos though, but the time on being able to dash in after the throw and continue the combo is finnicky. Considering I can just tag straight off the throw and have Jinpachi come in and start taking 60-70 red life.

I like the feeling of progress you get when you find new stuff for your characters, or squeeze out a bit more damage from your most used juggles.

Roujin wrote:

Need to practice my waning moon combos though, but the time on being able to dash in after the throw and continue the combo is finnicky.

You've watched this?

I know of two follow-ups: the one in that video and the one in T6's Sample Combo. The latter's tight, because although you can bash bare dash, the kick has to be at close to max range.

This FT5 between Aris and Meto features epic rage. That is all.



EDIT: Also LUYG Have a new morning bread and butter out, for Lars. Collective sighs all round.

Right, after a couple of weeks away due to Borderlands 2, Mincraft 360 update and work I am back on the sauce. 

After recent locals I thought about maybe switching out Wang or Jinpachi for either Jack or Drag, but after shaking off the rust this week I’ll be sticking with the old men, especially as I hit the lab and rediscovered what Wang’s mid poke options are so now have a viable standing game where I’m not constantly having to rely on his variety of lows to open people up. 

Starting to get Jinpachi’s moveset into muscle memory, I’m having much less thinking about what I should be doing in a given situation with him and instinctively hitting the move I need. Also thanks to some guy over on TZ we all discovered that Jinpachi can follow his cheese f+3 knee with F3+4, 1 (teleport to shoulder barge) as a guaranteed follow up unless the opponent backrolls, which is unlikely as most people are wary of being caught in tech traps or getting refloated and so don’t generally backroll on a knockdown. Opened up a whole new avenue of oki pressure for me to explore though, as Jinpachi has plenty of moves which cause knockbacks on normal hit, which could then potentially be followed up by a forward teleport into something or his charge stance into one of his teleport god fist options.

I managed to catch the Dallas MLG event Tekken replays as well, which were really entertaining, although it needed less RIP and Tom Brady and moar Eddy Pistons commentary imho. Congrats to Anakin who was seemingly the only player who managed to beat one of the Koreans in attendance. It’s definitely shaping up to be a more entertaining game to watch all around than T6 at this point. The tag mechanics really help to make things more interesting, both in terms of general overall hype through more variety of options and longer juggle options as well the added ‘meter management’ aspect of looking after the health bars of both characters.  

Here be links to the MLG Fighters archive for Dallas: I think all the action takes place in video 1 and 2 iirc.
 
http://www.own3d.tv/MLG/video/869712
http://www.own3d.tv/MLG/video/868772
http://www.own3d.tv/MLG/watch/868596
 
And here be a couple of LUYG B&B character guides that emerged over the past two weeks .

Leo:



 Bryan Fury



Eddie/Christie/TIGER MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON (So many buttons to mash they needed two videos to go through it all)



 

There were also a load of combo vids and other stuff that came out, however I’ll just post the highlight video, which shows a glitch during some dudes training mode session which caused the game to cycle through all the possible hit animations one after the other. It turns out that in Tekken there are 11 minutes of consecutive  hit animations, as Marduk demonstrates. There doesn’t seem to be much information around regarding this video or what the glitch even entailed though.

How goes the piddling so far? I can't remember where but people seem divided as to whether Angel is a sucky Mish or a totally rocking awesome-o Mish. I don't have access to her thanks to a total lack of promo codes on my pre-order, because GAME. She is a Mish right? DJ alt, yes? Or have I just completely lost the plot?

Anywho here be some actually properly useful videos. First up is a tutorial vid on maximizing your tag assault damage by using sidestep left and right on your incoming character before you input the tag filler to adjust the position of their hitboxes and get stuff like Hwo's backlash to hit. It also covers using stance cancelling to extend the filler as the game treats stance cancelled stuff as a single combo. Maybe some potential stuff in there for your tea drinking Korean, Esc?



Next up is another tutorial from ATP which covers all the basics regarding backturned states, what are the standard way s of entering a bt stance (if your character has one) what are the default options during bt stance, and also awesomely a litle bit of explanation on the safest way out of a bt stance and some really interesting stuff on frame data when you are hitting someone who is backturned, Pez you should check it out because there is basically a guaranteed full combo for Drag if UF1 (the eye gouge punch thing) hits someone when they are bt. 



Also hot off the presses this second is this awesome combo video full of retardedly stylish combos from Yagami at Fighters Generation



EDIT: You can also play spot the character. I quite like the R.Mika and K' team at the end.

Sounds a bit like Angel is to DJ as Jinpachi is to Heihachi.

Except that the pros and cons for size and damage are reversed as Jinpachi is bigger, totally shit on block for most of his moveset but OMG LOL DAMAGE.

Especially now that we have the new almost guaranteed followup damage technology for his f+3 and u+4 cheese knees (and uf+4 if it hits someone at short range), with the added bonus of being safe if the opponent does know the escape (backroll is the escape, but seriously, who actually gets up with a regular backroll given the general fear of being potentially refloated if your opponent catches you, Jinpachi can't refloat, although the follow ups do decent damage in their own right). I'm really enjoying getting into the post knockdown teleport mind games with Jinpachi, especially if you land something on someone after knocking them away and they thought they were safe. Often this will cause them to lie still on subsequent knockbacks and you can run in and start stamping on them instead. 

If Jinpachi doesn't make the cut for T7 and it's likely he won't since I have no idea where he stands in the canon, (technically dead I guess after T5) I will do a small crai. He is the only Mishima (outside of T3 Jin - BUT I WAS YOUNG AND FOOLISH) that I have ever felt the slightest inclination to pick up. 

Apparently all the remaining characters are going to be unlocked tomorrow, finally can get my Dr. B on and see if there's the possibility of swapping out Wang for him.

I'm getting this for WiiU. Costumes sold me.

Roujin wrote:

Playing it on a WiiU pad could be a bit of a pain

Not if you rumble 'n' tumble as Doc. You could be running him on a glockenspiel and mans wouldn't be none the wiser.

Haha! Sample Combo 5 is the greatest combo in the game.

(Is the online oppo really that bad?)

Tried Angel yet? I landed her Combo 7 the other night. MORE THAN ONCE!