Forging the PERFECT Reina Player (ft. Sydeon) 

the best thing about starting a fighting game early as a newcomer are all of these resources, thank you!

One of the things that really helped stances to click for me is realizing that EVERYTHING is a stance. Standing, crouching, airborne, let alone character-specific stances. We just spend a lot more time in the "standard" stances so we don't think of them as such, and conversely "special" stances seem intimidating. Even MOVES are stances, usually just transitioning back to standing, but in the case of Reina ff2, it's a short stance that can transfer to SEN instead if you're holding forward while leaving it.

arcade battle mode should also be a good no-pressure way to practice how to play a character on the "wrong" side of the screen - just choose to start on the uncomfortable side

As someone that is starting from 0 in tekken, and also wants to main Reina, I see this video as an absolute win. Thank you

As s baby Reina main im taking notes 😂

I’ll admit it. The thumbnail influenced this click.

Absolutely continue this series, this is absolutely great resource for new players like me to follow along with what mindset to have and the learning progress.

Bro you keep releasing videos like you read my mind, i was just searching for this. Keep up the great work

love how calm and collected you are phi ! excellent vibes my man !!

Phi one thing you could tell people who can do df, 1, 2 when you ask them but are overwhelmed by something like df 1, 2, hold forward after for sentai is to present it to them like this "you put the 'hold forward' inside the animation of the last button you pressed. You don't have to think about it during the whole string. There's loads of time while your character is doing the move to input the last forward'. It's from musical instrument learning methods. When we move our hand on a fretboard, if it seems overwhelming, we just focus on hitting the first note on time after the hand shift, and then we like to tell our brains 'I have LOADS of time to input the next thing'. I noticed it in the video, she was doing df1,2, she got it, but then you tell her to hold forward afterwards and I could SEE her mind kind of go 'I have to think of that last forward before I even start inputting the string'. Teaching that way will also help people when you tell them about hit confirms, and when they *shouldn't* hold forward after the short strings, the decision making is inside the animation buffer! It's an elegant way! I love your stuff, keep doing what you're doing!

That thumbnail goes CRAZY 😭😭😭😭😭

ty alot for the vid, realy helped me out learning reina as a new player. I realy like that u also explain different scenarios in which u should use those moves and the notes are also very helpful

Love the way this was broken down, I'd love to see more of this style of video breaking down what to focus on at different stages of learning a new character.

You're such a natural at teaching and breaking things down, keep it up champ!

Just in time, I was looking for Reina guides

this guide really helped me to climb to warrior rank, learning how to use ff2 on pressure and its options was so good. And that without knowing any complex combos. Thank you thank you!!

More Reina content? I'm here for it! 😁 Just got into Tekken and your videos are very helpful and easy to follow and you never come off condescending. Even better when there's someone asking the same questions I have and learning the same character as me. Hope to see more kinds like this cause there are so many cool looking characters I want to also try out.

I just started playing Tekken and your guides have been very helpful. Thank you.

This is really helpful and thanks for this training session. I’m a beginner and play Reina so it was super helpful.

This felt like a training session at work except it wasn't all over the place lol. great video

Hey Phi something I found to be really effective when teaching newbies is to play a vs battle with them Teacher vs Student. You get to control the pace of their practice matches and slowly increase your level of play to match theirs. Kinda like sparring with your student: -> if they fall back into bad habbits you can block all that and correct them during the round itself. -> You tell them to apply everything they've learnt and try to mix you up in an attempt to do damage to you and you genuinely try to block all of their mixups. -> If they are mashing even when its not their turn you can choose to punish them to give them that immediate negative reinforcement. -> If they are too passive you can show them that they are just giving the opponent a chance and you apply some pseudo soft pressure on them.

insanely helpful as unlike the hard bot, it feels like i have NO HANDS while learning both reina and tekken as a whole ty phi

Appreciate your style of guide where you give a gameplan with the essential moves, instead of just saying "this move is plus, very good". Makes it easier to visualise what to do in game! Maybe a guide about heavens wrath next? 👀

Tekken 8 is my first fighting game that i take pretty seriously, and as a newcomer Reyna main, this video help me a lot

Awesome I’ve been wanting to learn Queen Reina but as a beginner Tekken player all of her stances and options were quite intimidating to say the least so this should help me get started at least

I'm brand new to Tekken, more or less, and decided to pick up Reina so...this is SUPER helpful. I happened to have kind of randomly stumbled into the ff2-f Sentai stance but had just been doing 1,2 out of it, excited to build on my options from it a bit

Phi, I only just discovered your videos and even though I've been playing Tekken since I was a kid, it's been helping me learn a lot! Love the beginner friendly videos that cover things I've overlooked for years.

Sick video enjoyed this alot.

Just got the game and this vid was exactly what I needed to learn my now main

Excellent video!! Hoping to see one of these for Asuka. I've gathered she's a "boring" character, but I'm totally new so feel that's probably the best place for me to start.

amaing video, this is so useful!

this was a good guide. I written this all down verbatim and will adhere to this as a starting point. of course getting some pewgf practices in too. it sucks she went back to Alisa right away, from looking at her vods. I was wanting to see her progression with Reina.

I'm new to Tekken and trying to pick up Reina, and this was a great help.

This was soo helpful omg the best bigginers guide ever. Can you please do more characters I’m trying to learn Bryan

I didn't know about all these move list shortcuts

LETS GO. love this approach. want to learn Reina

This video is just what I needed; was getting cooked by Reinas on ranked. Now I can get to learn what makes her solid a bit. Didn't know her 1,1,2 was -17, so I was getting pressured to oblivion.

Tanks for tutorials very good🎉❤

damn been watching Phi and didn’t know I was not subbed. So I just subbed lmfao

Thanks!

Would definitely want to see more in game (ranked or vs) reina coaching since thats usually where the gameplan falls apart due to panic or stress

These are really just amazing videos even if you don't play the character. I'm watching these so that I know what options I have when certain characters are beating my sensitive side lol

hardest part for me was understanding the heavens wrath from a Sentai combo. opened up so many different things I didnt know was possible

This video is great cause I wanna learn Reina and feel hella lost lol

Really good video. Will there be a part two as well?

Thumbnail of the century

Hey thank you for this video it's just in time for picking up Reina. Really love her quick launcher. I'm interested in finding out more about your coaching but can't seem to find any info

Fighting games are still very niche. You’re doing a great job with your videos! I wish I had those videos when I started with tekken.

@PhiDX I’m totally with Sydeon on this, this is a lot of information to be the “Bare Essentials” as you call it but, I am jotting it all down so I have easy access to it when I am ready to learn it.

That Arcade mode stuff is why I kinda miss Treasure Battle a little bit, I'd jump into that when labbing a new character for a few rounds and it was way faster than most modes in 8 for just getting some games in to practice against a bot

Amazing teacher

Looks good! Can't wait for the Xiaoyu vid to come back 😭

Hello phi, do you have any electric or wave dash drills for aspiring mishima players?

i didnt even watch the video fully but i just had a breakthrough. ive been playing story mode and arcade quest up to ganryu rank with reina only. i started tekken 5 days ago. you can do ff2 ~f ~2 1 to buffer and not misclick the 1+2 from sentai. reina goes into heavens wrath then and what i really like to do is go from heavens wrath to god step d4 4, WS4 4 ~d and go right back but this time from god step i do d4 ~d for heavens wrath and then finish the combo with d4 3. this sounds like a mathematical formula but it makes sense and is hell of a mix up. while mainly knowing like 5 different moves during the arcade quest battles i noticed that sometimes reina looks like shit, clunky, moves all over the place but sometimes i had flow and went from one thing into the other finishing my opponent off in a perfect victory. now that i spent some time in the lab i realized what was really going on: before i couldnt tell what stance had what moves and especially not what moves can initiate stances and how to transition from one stance into the other. but now finally it clicked and i moved on to getting some muscle memory for some low combos (used to be my weakness - like what do i do when they are on the ground and stuff. yeah, there is db2 but thats boring since it doesnt combo). thank you for giving me a parasocial mentor that i couldnt make sense of but still gave me the feeling that im not alone with trying to figure out how i click buttons really on purpose and not just intuitive guessing. cant wait for mixing up real opponents since so far i have only played against AI 😅

Sending this to my friend who wants to pick up reina.

A man of patience. I could use a coach like him.

Imo Sentai 2 is also an important move because you can float her during Sentai 4 so technically Sentai 2 is a lot safer, and also after 1+2 you can continue your pressure if you want, it gives you a guaranteed followup on hit + it's a launcher in heat.

What do you do when you’re on the ground in Tekken and just can’t get up because you keep getting hit?

I don't ever see people do it Would it be easier to help them learn if you used parsec and went into training with then woth the dummy set to player 2? Or is thta just a bunch of extra steps?

i just started tekken today with 2hs of gameplay playing as reina. I studied some basics and some combos before playing and i feel so bad getting obliterated a lot lol. Tekken can really take a hit on my confidence 😵

I absolutely love watching fighting games, I’ve bought DBFZ,SF6, and T8 respectively but shortly after I start playing these games I just give up because I’ll do combos effortlessly in practice, but in game I resort to mashing and whiff combos(mainly cause I use Dualsense analog stick). However, I’ve told myself I’ll try to take T8 seriously and attempt to be proficient with Reina

New tekken player here and it's embarrassing the amount of fights I had without knowing the greatness of ff2

Yo did make the thumbnail? It goes hard

First for the greatness.

Damn, I need this man to train me too xD

Honestly I'm finding it hard to choose a main as well. I've played a lot of Reina, a decent amount of Law, and I'm considering picking up King, Kazuya, Lee, and Lili. It's so hard to choose 😅🤣

If Tekken is hard to pick up for those who have experience in fighting games, do you think it would be difficult for players who started with Tekken to pick up other games like Mortal Kombat? I bought MK11 earlier because I found it on sale. Been playing Tekken for 2 weeks at that point. Its hard to block properly especially if you're used to holding backwards for that.

Wait, the title was not different yesterday? I remember putting this in plan to watch under a different name lol

nice video

Is this from before the sajam tourney announcement?

i cant do ff2 sen stance point blank for some reason (probably panic) f3 also gives you sen stance and much easier in heated moments imo

Asuka or xiaoyu beginner guide would be tight

LETS GOOOOOO

I k ow you tell us to hold the second forward but then won’t you heat dash? What if you don’t want to

This is amazing but how would i transition it into my own character

Has anyone done this but with Dragunov? Complete beginner here who's maining him and I've got SOME (general game) fundamentals down and watched so many tutorials but I feel like a bunch of them are marked for beginners and veer off quickly into medium/intermediate stuff 😅

Please, please, PLEASE do one of these for Kazuya

how do setup SS blocking training in practice

"The hard bot has hands" Indeed they do, and for some reason, it feels like they are getting harder the more I improve 😢

as a new player who is learning Tekken with Reina and learning arcade stick i feel like I'm walking in mud on player one side

Why this goose scream? 😂

Phidirizz

She can teach me anything anyday, anytime

I really like how this dude milking offline tv to the last drop😂

❤

Really wanted to watch the full stream but I couldn't find it

where can i queue for coaching?

Harada need to add a feature where we can go into practice mode online with other players

7:59 WHAAAAT. Sussy baka hahaha

best of luck with sykkuno. Its going to be hard for you

I need a leo guide from ya pls 🙏🏾

Damn didnt know sen 4 is safe on block so never utilized it. Still finding new things about reina till now, usually just do sen 3 if the first hit is confirmed or 3+4 if its blocked never failed me yet lol

I really wish one of them picked Jun so I could learn D:

i empathise with sydeon on the picking a main problem! i have 93 hours in tekken 8 and still havent landed on a character because i want to try everyone!

Bare WHAT?

"quick, easy low" 20f 💀

6 wins 26 losses with reina, tbf it´s my first ever fighting game (except playing some street fighter and tekken 3 20 years ago where I just happily pressed buttons not knowing what I even do), but I also feel like most of the people I play are not low ranks at all (skill wise, maybe returning players from tekken 7 or just not their main char or so). Kinda frustrating, but it is what it is.

Please make a Lili Guide! I watched your coaching Sessions with Lily but they are so long 🤣

16:58 Excuse me what?? All this time I've been blaming my reaction time getting slower as I age and you tell me those throws are actually unbreakable??? Damn.

could you do a steve video please 🙏