My viewers can't see their Tekken mistakes. 

Hey I'm the Hwoarang in the video. The solutions to my issues may have been obvious to some, but Phi and some of the twitch comments (like do ff4 or ff3 to get in closer) really helped out. I have a bad habit of doing armor moves because people tend to mash at these ranks but clearly I need to break the habit. This did help me out, I know what to focus on, thank you Phi for watching my replay.

Lets go!! Upvote the shit out of this so that Phi opens the VOD Review/Coaching to us plebs!!😄

he needs the screen where he can draw on the screen and point things on out like they do in sports and Phi will be a coach for sure

Hey phidx, around 8:05 I noticed you went into a few hypothetical situations. It might be worthwhile to use the take control function to show examples for each and what you’d do differently!

this is why I subbed after 2-3 vids, and most people in the FGC I go check what they're up to every 2-3 months. Quality explanations

Thanks for the videos PHIDX, I just got demoted from garyu after grinding weeks to get there. There were so many times I got so frustrated, salty, HOWEVER I remember your lessons, and how I shouldn’t care about my rank, because I will eventually get it back. I’m trying to be better at tempering my salt when I grind the game, and I have you to thank for that! I’m just trying to be better player, while also having fun in the losses just as much as the wins. I’ve gotten better at not blaming the game when something doesn’t go as planned and instead try to figure out what were the mistakes I made that caused things to fall apart, that way I grow and get more out the game long term as opposed to empty calorie victories and short term happiness from scrub victories.

Recently got into tekken from the sajam tekken slam and you’ve been my go to for trying to learn this game. Keep up the quality work man!

I had the fortunate experience of having a handful of games with a guy at Purple Ranks who mained the same character. Spent a few hours the next day reviewing what happened and it was insightful. Must admit it's difficult to read the command history, to see what move was triggered and accepted by the game

Vod reviews are awesome! Great educational content.

I would LOVE to see more of these.

Thanks for the insight Phi, you're awesome! I just started watching your videos and I'm really learning a lot! Keep posting, can't wait to learn more.

Awesome, LOVE viewer replay reviews

I always forget the replay mode gives you tips on how to punish moves and that i can see their frame data so i dont have to go into training mode and pick through all the moves to find the one that killed me. Im loving these coaching sessions man, keep it up! ^^

Phi making the guides I wish existed 8 years ago! Good work and godspeed my man

just hit fujin today on jin! thank you for being an inspiration phi! your videos and you coaching other players helped me a lot! even your old jin guide for t7 helped me!

Thanks Phi! This was a great lesson and easy to understand as a beginner!

These types of coaching videos are very insightful.

I always make sure I upvote your videos before I start watching them, Phi. I just know it's gonna be quality stuff

Great content as always Phi!

Thank you PhiDX again!! Been stuck Flame Ruler and losing up to 9 in a row but not sure how to use replay. This is perfect timing! Thank you!

Great video I'd love to see more stuff like this.

Hell yes love this!! Thank you

Even though I'm a Reina main, I've really enjoyed this video. I was able to learn a few things from this. I really appreciate this kind of content from you @PhiDX. Thanks for the awesome and informative video!

I really like these I hope you do more

This is great to get a handle on how to look at your replays! Super helpful. One thing I would appreciate is if there was also a "what to do/coach notes" section, so if you identify what killed you, how do you go about fixing it and practicing that. But I can imagine that's quite difficult, and this is super helpful regardless.

Definitely get your philosophy man! Going to apply this logic for myself ^^

Great video, I'd like to see more reviews at Battle Ruler to Raijin range

that's a clever way to start looking at replays. just focusing on exactly what is killing you or hurting you. i usually feel a bit overwhelmed when trying to look at replays.

Damn, been here since 10k subs. Phi is growing so fast since T8 came out

I have been following you since Tekken 7. I wanted to say you are one of my inspirations to get better at this game, and make content for this game.

This could be a whole video series

Ma its a new PhiDx video

Yes please more videos. I learn every video

Bless this content!

Honestly I watched your videos to see your outro, bring it back!

Love this content!

Damn i see myself doing a lot of those mistakes at freshly orange ranks. I learned quite alot!

This is cool to see. Would be cool to make series with more characters too. I'm new to Tekken/fighting games and managed to hit and stay in Flame Ruler. Been there actually for 2 weeks now and i ain't dropping down nor am I climbing up for the past week despite playing only ranked. I really wanted to hit blue and take a break to watch more twitch or vids on the side to slowly get more accustomed to the chracters as a whole. But jeez I just can't make it to blue. The difference between Raijin+ and purples just feels like I'm legit missing 2-3k hours of experience. The bell curve just feels nuts or I am simply bad lol

We have replays in this game that give you hints and a great practice menu that can help you setup a certain situation. If I lose to something I'm not familiar with then I go to practice and find out if it's a high/low and the frame data as well. Yes, it is time consuming, especially with a character roster of 32, but you will gain knowledge that will only help you.

What got me promoted from yellow ranks into orange is realization that neutral range is actually one backdash away from starting position. Once I figured that distance out, the vacuum of that distance just sucks people right into power crushes, heat smashes, and launchers. People will whiff. Now, as a vanguard, my cheeks are being clapped by continuously evading Asukas (I'm a Paul). My defense is alright, but I whiff like mad on sidestepping opponents, so now I'm learning sidesteps. I can imagine that once I get to red ranks, the next challenge might be clean inputs and good block punish...

Great video Phi! I really love how you breakdown the process by which you come to conclusions, I am buying the game in a few days here and really excited to get beat up a ton! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on beginners trying to learn Zafina? I think even if she is a bad fit I just enjoy her aesthetic and the way her moves look so much that I will soldier on even if she is harder then most character, but I have heard some people in the scene talk about her like she isn't really playable. Thanks for all your work regardless, a new fan!

Hello! Thanks for introducing me to Tekken through the OTV guys. Is a sykkuno vid coming out? Been waiting for that :D

I would love a "Is it IMBA or do I suck" from PhiDX tekken style

How do we sub to be able to get replay reviews? Love your content, Phi!

You have been fantastic as my Tekken philosophy guy for my drives to work. It's amazing lol

Great great video man! How can I send you my Tekken ID and get reviewed? I'm learning my second character right now but I would love to get some advice on my main (Jin).

Nice video. Please more coaching videos around purple rank😢

Loveeee thissss ❤❤❤

Don’t have anything to say but I’m leaving a comment for the algorithm. Keep up the great work Phi! Your videos are like the end of an IGN review. “Theres a little something for everybody”

I came from smash bros from the vid coney put out liking your work. Even beyond the fact that you're a good coach who lays out information in a simple yet very effective way, that replay system is insane, as a smash player. Sure, ultimate is 6 years old at this point, but still. If I had to tech to get into modern fgcs, I'd at least try this game out just for polish alone.

I was playing on controller, and getting some moderate success mashing (with hworang) and then immediately realized I needed to switch to keyboard, just because I couldn’t actually tell what was happening in game. Learning keyboard has slowed me down and helped me really think about every move more

The hwo player just like other hwo players they don't block because they are used to do his flowchart strings. All they want is to learn the + frame strings and that's why they lack of any defense skills. His opponent in other hands has to learn how to block or duck his + frame flowchart strings, so he has better defense and ducking skills.

Great content

would love to see you go into how to dissect higher ranking gameplay VODs.

Good stuff 👍

More of these. Very helpful

That's great content. I would love to have my gameplay dissected like this. It could help a lot.

I definitely need to do this myself since it was such a big deal for me in Dbfz. My only problem is that I get so caught up in smaller details that I forget my main goal when watching replays

8:16 mmmmmmm daym man phi bro like insane philosophy wow daymm

Thanks for the lesson today Phi! Appreciate it! Praise be the algorithm.

While the tips and tricks guide are great, THIS is what I'm really hyped about! Telling real players in these types of ranks what they are doing wrong and how to improve! Really hope you will do the same types of vids for the higher-intermediate ranks (like Tekken King and above)

Does the Tekken prowess on alt chars of the same rank stacks with the general number or the prowess goes up when u rank higher?

I know you aren't trying to drag this player, but i would really try to convey that he is trying to cover for his lack of fundies by relying on the armor crush. This Jin wasn't aggro, he wasn't a candidate for 5~ armor moves, and he punished them all and then got a big reward after each. Combine that with the dropped combos, lack of whiff punishment, and not understanding of what char has the space advantage and imo he's right where he should be.

What's nuts is that I have no idea what Hwoarang and Jin do and this video still helped me. Keep doing these Phi. Very educational. Love all you do man. Gerald is King.

16:28 outro skipping is client side, you can't skip outros when viewing a replay :P

Would love if you kept doing vod reviews. Gives you the ability to make content geared towards different skill levels

4:00 1,1,3,3 Can be used as a conditioning tool to get the opponent to duck.

You talked about how strong hwo is close but how do you learn what ranges your character is supposed to be good at? I just hit shinryu but i dont know this and would love to know where i should be spacing myself

i'm a sorta new player to tekken. played tekken 7 since launch although my hours are noobish and my highest rank was destroyer i only played casually. this my 1st serious tekken so as a Jin player ty for the demon paw, back dash, electric tech. imma abuse that as much as people allow. 🙏

15:00 regarding retaliating with an unsafe armor move , I think this is a bad habit that you would pick up fighting at low ranks. Low rank players usually would rush to attack thus baiting them then setting up with an armor move usually works. But as you go up the ranks, you would encounter more patient opponents like what the Jin did here. He did not attack right away and waited a second or two before making his move. Just remember as you go up the ranks a lot of the moves or set ups that work on the lower inexperienced players will not usually work at upper ranks

Phi: red ranks is learning to pilot your character Me: still in orange after 100hrs ToT

Thank GOODNESS they made a replay system.

Phidx, do you stream on RU-vid as well or just twitch? How can i get in on vod review?

NGL the buff to armor moves and incredibly powerful heat burst to create mixup situation does make players rely on them extensively. To the point they would rather bet on the armor over blocking launch punishable moves. Fundamental will always win you games

Hell yeah!

amazing video, id love to see a xiaoyu video because she seems to have such a different play style than most and im struggling to get up the ranks with her

I noticed I started getting stuck at red & purple ranks... I'm a Yoshimitsu main and higher purple and blue ranks started shutting down my nonsense with simple fundamentals. And so I started incorporating a lot more basic pokes and carefully play and now I'm at Raijin and climbing (Used to be stuck at warrior in T7 so I'd like to assume I'm just improving)

Yes, if you can play your character even if you don't understand the enemies but know your fast frame punishes like when they do a string throw out your fastest punish after to start to gain knowledge you should quite easily get to purple ranks just by being "good" at your character. And block alot, even if you can't react to grabs that well (I can't and I'm still consistently purple ranks learning grabs and other characters is how I get to the higher ranks) you should be fine, patience and being calm and learn your character.

Did i miss the line take Mr. Phi?!

one day PhiDX is gonna be the most famous tekken content creator

get well soon phi ! remember, the training and fights are important, but the most important thing is the rest!

@phiDX how could i send a video to you i would love to have you review them.

Hey Phidx I recently got a victrix pro fs, i used to be a hitbox player, but I wanted to change things up, do you have any tips on how to get started with stick, I was a tekken god jin but starting new with stick i feel completely like a noob again, with the new comers to tekken 8, would it be possible for you to make a video on how to start of with a stick?

what makes me very frustrated with how mash friendly and easy it was made to rank up on this tekken is that 1. it makes players focus entirely on the short term and develop a style of gameplay that they will need to "unlearn" in the future if they want to really get better, so it wastes their time, and 2. it's a lot more painful to finally begin to realize how actually bad you are in the game after you plateau at what was once considered the first step towards high rank (fujin). on t7 without any fundamentals you would plateau really low in ranks (with most characters at least) and would have a terrible time dealing with actually skilled players. on t8 people are getting WAY further than they should without knowing sh*t about the game. just to be clear, I don't have a personal problem with that, everyone paid for their game and should play the way they like most. also, it's a matter of game design, not individual player behaviour. the game was MADE to be approached that way. what I really have a problem with is that, in my opinion, this disencourages these new players to learn the game. I had two years of prior experience with tekken and only now, near 3 months of release, I'm finally getting the hang of how to actually use fundamentals to counter mashing. I like to consider me a normal player, not good nor bad in skill. so just imagine someone that has been playing tekken starting with t8 launch. imagine how they will feel knowing that their rank doesn't mean sh*t and that it will probably take many months or even years to develop the fundamentals they need to reach "organically" the rank they achieved by relying on mashing and playing only ft2's. I hope I'm wrong, but this looks like a great way to have a lot of people playing for some months and then just quitting the game for good...

having the first vid in this format be a hwoarang is hillarious, lmao

Would you do one for blue ranks (Fujin upward). I’ve gotten here with multiple characters then it feels like I’ve hit a wall

Solid vid

I feel like the one thing that really gives me a fighting chance when someone's either as good or better than me is spacing. Baiting out rage arts, heatsmash etc. Conditioning hasn't really been that much of a factor around red ranks for me as people (from my experience) are pretty locked into their strat but it definitely works against people who are also trying to play mindgames.

2:25 missed a punish, yes. But normally, wind godfist isn't normally something we can see as punishable since we're so used to seeing electrics. In my experience, I'm a kazuya player. I've been getting coached by a TGS kaz, and there's been 2 times where I hit an on block wind god fist and even he doesn't 1,1,2 punish. Personally I think it's fair for a player to never punish a wind god fist when it's generally seen in electric from where it's +5. It's even harder to punish for Jin since his electric normally has very very little pushback. A kazuya wind god fist is easier to punish since you should be used to seeing pushback. And if you don't, 1,1,2 1,1 2,4 1,3,3,3 etc. Currently I main Lee, DVJ, and Kazuya. I've been learning all 3 separately although I've mostly stopped playing kazuya for now because I have the most experience with him. I'm a person who labs to the most extreme extent, I lab optimal combos and before people found the super optimal DVJ combos I was already hitting 132 DMG samsara combos. However I have zero fundamental knowledge. I'm only yellow rank with kaz lee and DVJ, and by no means am I good. All execution, no brain. I've been trying to force myself to neutral with lee to get better at fundi, and fish less for launches and more focusing on learning how to punish various characters, and being consistent yet different on the ways I approach different situations. So far I feel like I've been learning pretty fast.

Was waiting for you to tackle this type of content. Would love to see some ~fujin gamplay sometime in the future. Good job as always

I've run into Duck somewhere in blue rank, Raijin I think.

i would love to see a video of my self like this (also hwoarang main) i never know how to put pressure on ppl and they always get me def block for hours

what's the requirements / process to submit a demo for review?

What string of jin at around 10:36 is he +11?

would love to see more!

7:55 I think the reason he actually preemptively used Black Kite was because that’s only available in RFF. If you keep running with Hwo, he will eventually switch back to LFF and Black Kite will not be available anymore. In this case, I’d recommend the Hwo player to use Flying Nerichagi (f,f,f+3) to close the gap and have a more safer option even if blocked

I would like to see you try out Lee Chaolan so far I haven't seen many vids on him he is main to great content by the way keep it up 👍👍

A tip for every hwoarang player: You are allowed to hold back, as agressive heavy as this game is sometimes you just NEED to block man

his typing speed is hella impressive

Just want to add in some of my inputs on this. I don't blame the player, like that -8 frame move, like if you don't know the match up even I would have thought that wasn't safe to hit back, and I'm blue rank and I don't know some of my match up. But I would say be careful how aggressive you get, I see this a lot with low to mid ranks they wil keep pressing button cause they are doing well without looking at health and meter bars. Those are good indication like when you should play a bit safe, aside from rage art, if your opponent heat meter is about to run out be ready for them to try to spam their heat smash out. Overall I hope you don't get down from this match, like my tekken prowess (173k) isn't as high compare to your opponent So I feel like this guy main is probably high Blue or Tekken King.