The guy is a consistent top 10 tournament finalist. Of course he going to make most normal people look like a tutorial demonstration. The guy eat breathes and lives Tekken. Unless you can say the same there really isn't any shame in having this guy make you look bad online.
@@JustN0tMe Hard to say. ATL definitely holds it down, and it has the US's best player. But NY has always been strong and has many top level players like GM and Joey Fury (though he's located in Buffalo really). I'd argue that NorCal and SoCal may actually have the largest and best general pool of talent though. Like there are MANY high level players, but not so many top-top level players (except for Jimmy J).
I appreciate how clear you are about the intention behind every tip. You make it easy to understand that everything done needs to have a purpose. Keep it up champ!
Stupid bad mic. 😅 A lot of these confirm what I've been trying to do after playing for a while. Good that it can be confirmed by a great player. Keep these coming please. They are well appreciated and I'm definitely sticking with Tekken. 👍
Crazy how i've got nearly 1000 hours in tekken 7, yet it's never occurred to me to think about side stepping as being kinda like backdashing. I'm always trying to sidestep particular moves at specific times, whereas I should be using it as a general defensive strategy. Great video!
I really love these tutorials and quick high level tips that you’ve been putting out, I’m at a level where I understand the core fundamentals and can play well at a high level but against incredible legacy players I crumble. These vids are amazing Anakin keep up the great work man!
I wouldn't worry about not being able to beat legacy players. They've been playing Tekken for 20 - 25 years. Hopefully in 20 years you'll be a legacy player yourself!
Life was Given to us if I’m correct a legacy player is someone who’s been playing the game seriously for years upon years; possibly from the start and in this game that’s very valuable. I hope that helps buddy😀
17:17 is the reason why I keep watching videos targeting beginners You never know if you learn something new or if a forgotten fundamental/tech can help you create new ones
Much easier to use these parries as a way to block retaliation. It depends on the parry but it usually activates at the 3 frame and works for 3 frames. This all means that moves at -7 are great for parries cause they work to counter jabs, magic four, and i13 mids.
Proper parrying is more about getting a good read on your opponent, usually with frame traps (you do a safe attack, check out how the opp retaliates and counter correctly) or if you notice a pattern in the player. It can be very effective but it also comes with a risk of getting launched if they notice you do it every time after said move, its all mindgames and reads.
played some casuals with a local hwoarang and i tried the sidestep after tech roll...omg that advice was godlike! got behind him a handful of times when i did it. *mind blown*
It sucks man so many characters have tracking moves now. And with more crushing moves its turned into more than rock paper scissors. Im a fairly new player btw. Maybe its growing pain. Im in and out of orange ranks.
Love all of these guides you're pumping out. Don't burn out! This is probably going to be one of the greatest upload series for the community / new players!!
Watching Anakin play in tournaments is one thing and watching videos on his channel is totally another. I so happy and glad RU-vid suggested this to me, what an amazing teacher. “Hat’s off”
been really liking these videos man, you make it easy to understand while having a fun personality. keep it up dude. id love to see a tier list from your perspective
I believe I can help some that might not get the distance part I will use Bryan as an example His d3 leaves the opponent close on hit and his d4 pushes the opponent away on hit If you want to move and see if the opponent whiffs, its better for you to SS after d3 and backdash after d4 If you try to backdash after d3, you most likely will get hit because the backdash wont create enough space for a whiff and in the d4 situation you can get hit(sidestepping) because in Tekken, theres a bunch of attacks that get better tracking if their expanded hitbox is longer(e.g Noctis Ora) TL,DR Sidestep when youre closer Backdash when theres some space Hope it helped👍
How do you do the quick dash up, i see all the strong players do it where they dash up and crouch then stand but i don’t get what they’re pressing for me to practice it properly. I’m pretty new to the game
I love how Anakin manage to explain and show things, read the tchat and reply, joke a little while litteraly walking on his high rank opponent whereas I sweat in a regular match as a Seiryu during a regular match😂😂😂
thanks so much for making content like this, the western fgc needs help like this from top players, and everyone knows you have the best movement in the US
That Law mirror was so sick because Anakin fucking destroyed him with almost all defence. Most of it was him responding to the other dude's offence and then punishing. That was so satisfying to watch. That Law was actually exposed on stream. 👀
@@gilet102 I'm well aware of his pressure escaping tools. I was just stating that every tutorial about sidestepping does not apply to Eddy mains, jokingly of course.
I love how you know your opponents like how their playstyle you understood as old school. Goes to show experience and playing the game a lot plays a huge partof the Tekken experience
Tech rolling into a side walk is great but i believe it is more beneficial to knw each character weak side so that u roll in that direction followed by the side walk in that direction. It depends but either way its very good :) great video!
great stuff man. you articulate concepts very well - i dont think anyone else on youtube does as good of a job as you do when it comes to explanation and demonstration.
Please... Anakin stop... I can't take it any more with these outfits 😂 Awesome video though, I eat shit a lot when I step and I think it's cause I'm expecting way too many moves to be linear, so I did a big ass sidestep hoping for launches just to get punished for it.
Hey Anakin, my neighbors are getting mad when the next video auto plays from this one at full blast. Can you raise your voice volume pretty please and thank you? I put your videos on in the background while I do other tasks so I'm idly learning, I really appreciate what you do man. Thanks for helping me get out of 3rd Dan.
It drives me crazy when I know what direction to step something and I get hit by it anyway. That, and getting hit by the end of string after I've stepped the first two or three parts of it. It's so frustrating when people will step my jabs at near point blank range, but I can't seem to step a goddamn df+1 even when I actually know it's coming. I don't even bother trying to launch someone after a sidestep because it never works when I try it. I'm going to try that sidestep after a roll thing and I'm probably going to get murdered for it.
the important point is that you shouldn't step or sidewalk for too long that's why anakin says that you need to sidestep and guard, not just fully sidewalk expecting you will get a great whiff to punish. you can't predict what the opponent will do most of the time, so it is a case of moving sideways and guarding hoping for a whiff and if you don't get a whiff, you still block the attack (you can get clipped by an attack sometimes tho because no one is perfect) OR if you do get a whiff, you can try to punish it with safe moves, if you couldn't punish your opponent despite the whiff, it is okay, everyone is learning and eventually you get better at confirming a whiff quickly for a punish. While in neutral, start from sidesteps (or a mini side-walk) into guarding , see what the opponent does and go from there and mix stuff up in the process too to keep you opponent guessing as well and not just you.
"The people that end up being good take way more Ls than you think" Just facts. If you're an up and coming Kazuya player remember this applies to you on levels other characters can't even relate. You're gonna get fucking smashed. Use that to become a better player.
Lol what? "Don't be afraid to take Ls, if you're a Kaz main it's going to be your entire existence for a while" is gatekeeping? Mind elaborating brotha?
great tutorial... are you considering to do throw break tutorial... like how to train to throw break and kings and marduk breaks ... for me fo example i have troubles to recognize 1+2 ... i can kinda see if its 1 or 2 if there were only those two but 1+2 for me has such a similar animation to those two i cant rly recognize it etc.. you know like talk about it in depth a bit more.
Bet Anakin can do a better job than i do, but King main here. I've gotten good at breaking throws just by seeing them, but i feel you. The first tip, is trying to read the throws, if you know they are coming, you can react pretty nicely to them. Just like snake edge. The second tip is at least identify the 2 break and the 1+2. The 2 break is weird but obvious if remember it nicely. 1+2 is always the weird one, the "hard to see*" one from my perspective, so spam 1+2 when seeing it. The third tip is that you have more time to break than what you think, so don't spam instanly, try to check the throw and spam whatever you think it was. Normal throws are easy to break cause 1 and 2 break them. Also, Shining Wizard is 1+2, Giant Swing is 1, Crouch dash into grab is either 1 or 2, unless they do Crouch dash into other stuff, but that's prolevel. Remember to conmit to one button when spamming. Throws are like snake edges, easy to break when ready and punishable by crouching. Just don't crouch too often with King Grab Spammers. Marduk? Well, even JDCR had a difficult time breaking them, so i don't, tackle is hard stuff.
NikalusSuper tap up for a step double tap u and hold for a walk some characters like Kazuya and Lee has a mist step with them you just tap forward but don’t rely on the mist step it better to step or walk
Wouldn't it make sense that the jin at the end of the video to use an armored move as a round ender? He had plenty of life to spare, that's why I thought he did it.
If you do too many backdashes after the sidestep you'll probably be out of range for the whiff punish. Sidestep backdash and hold back keeps you safe from homing moves, and keeps you in range if they whiff a linear one hit move.
The idea is step block. You can also buffer backdash after step block and yes, you can backdash cancel after a backdash. Usually if you're close range, you won't have the option to sidestep backdash, so sidestep block is safer.
You should practice breaking throws in practice mode. You can do it for 10 - 15 minutes at the start of your session for example. If you keep doing that then you'll get better at it.
Rami Reini Yea but my problem with practice mode is i will always expect a throw coming even if its randomised. In an actual match i always freeze when im grabbed even though i knew the break
@@jvostudio my way around that was just focusing on reacting to the animation. You are doing this to build your subconscious reaction timing. Yes you might know what grab it is but you're reacting late that's the issue to grind out. After several grab tech drills I'm starting to break them without thinking about it. Now i have to deal with 1+2 grabs that look like 1 grabs -_-'
There's really no way to really practice throwing in a real match because the randomness isn't there in full effect. You can mix block strings and throws into the recordings in practice mode, but that's that is. I think that really paying attention to the limbs helps a lot in your overall reaction timing
