Tekken Foundations: Your 1st Sidestep 

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Phi you don't need to be God of destruction. You're the God of Instruction! 💪🤓

2d is all I need

Thank you PhiDX for a sidestep guide that does not end in "you develop a habit for it when you play long enough". Your videos helped me from stuck in warrior to finally grinding in purple rank. I'll try to include sidesteps into my gameplay that are not just random so hopefully there is a way to develop that habit.

I’ve been playing Tekken for 3.5 years and I still make a 🤩 face whenever my planned sidestep + launcher actually works lmaoo

Sidestepping is still tough for me, I find myself playing Tekken like it was 2d so this is great to find!

I stumbled upon this channel not long ago and the quality of the content and guides have been so helpful that I become conflicted when I consider pursuing a coaching session from individuals capable of doing so- as they truly value their time. It's made the learning process more approachable (I consider myself intermediate) when you make it so easy to digest and palatable. I have a hard time with the discipline of doing drills and just genuinely entering practice mode at all unless unironically I'm queued for matches and that's just where the game makes you sit before you find opponents. The replay feature also has sort of come in clutch for someone lazy like myself because I can just take control of the character's and squander the benefit I'd receive from learning how to set up the situations that get me cooked or if I want to optimize a conversion that propagated from an opportunistic response, it's a paradoxical godsend. That said, I'm very grateful for you and other content creators who drop gems like these and willfully distribute such valuable insight. It is truly appreciated as I navigate the amalgams of concepts and skills that embody tekken, my beloved hobby. TL;DR Thank you PhiDX, & Algorithm- do ya thang!

Been playing Tekken since 1996 and thanks to PhiDx. I finally understand offensive side stepping. Now execution is a whole other story.

this really cleared things up. ss evasion window ending when youre too plus wasnt something I even considered. I had also heard to increase your odds is to input your ss as close to their attack button input as possible since attacks apparently stop their assigned tracking once you press attack and not directional inputs. great video

another PhiDX lecture, im tuning in

Love the channel! This is my first tekken since 5 and you and mainman have been a massive help

All your educational content is great man. Been playing casual for years and T8 is my first playing online. Your videos have helped alot with understanding the game. Thank you and keep rocking it man.

You have a real gift for breaking things down! This was super insightful!

You're videos are a huge help to me as I dig into Tekken 8. You've earned my sub. Looking forward for more :)

Love the fact that you take out your time to help noobs like us and your videos really have impacted my game consistently. Thank you phi dx

Quality content, as always. Much appreciated!

Been playing Tekken for years, but it was all through feel, thank you for explaining and expanding my knowledge of one of my favorite franchises!

You are the most helpful content creator i have seen. Everytime i watch a new video it's a eye opener and makes me understand my flaws better. Thank you so much for this great content

That was awesome and i applied it today in ranked (a little labbing first) and saw some success with it. I didn’t overuse it, just used it as another tool to add a little more variety to my game and i had a good time. Really appreciate your teaching approach and labbing advice! Thank you!

These videos are amazing! Thanks for your work, man!

You're the real mvp bro!I've been stuck in Mighty Ruler for almost 2 weeks now and this is one of the things that's holding me back from progressing. I can get it off here and there but I'm really inconsistent.

Glad you're doing better and able to make guides again 😀

Amazing work as always

Can’t wait to finish this after work, lunch was way more informative today!

Really appreciate all the good informative content :)

always providing really good content from you phi

Sounding great this video Phi

Thanks Phi! The content is so helpful for the newer folks :)

Hey man thanks for starting this amazing community phi!

Very Instructive!! Thank you very much Mr PhiDx!!

Thank you for your time! Great vid as always, very helpful !

@PhiDX Thank you for all your guides. Because of this, I’ve managed to stumble Top 8-10 in our tournament here. Thanks for all your help.

This is what I've been looking forward to learning about. Most of my scraps are very linear back and forth exchanges and it would be nice to deviate from that more. I never really know when it's safe to step so the bit about what frame advantage/disadvantage works was nice to see.

Thanks for this, man. I was always wondering which moves to sidestep after.

Been needing this video for a good long while 👍

good video, cheers. its nice that the more i learn about tekken's depth the more i like the game

thanks for all the guides phi

Love this! Can't wait to see defensive sidestepping!

I’ve been playing tekken for a long time now, and sidestepping has for the majority of my life been fully left up to my intuition. It’s always good to go back and listen to the actual science behind it, and get a refresher course on the RPS game that you are forcing. I also never knew about the -5 rule either. Good shit

This helped a lot, really great video!

Glad take 3 was the one that made it in, coach! 🙌 Been needing a good guide for this - already started jotting down notes during the stream lol

Thank you Phi you are helping me a lot in this game

Learned a bunch from that video man thanks a lot dude.

Ok, after watching all your videos since Jan 27th, You have convinced me, i'll sub. Thanks for all the lessons!

This instructional is gold. Thank you.

Thanks for all of your great videos, keep it up 😉

Great content👍, we need more of it. Hope 302 defensive sidestep is on the road.

I remember watching peter and frame video that’s were similar when I first started t7; but yours is a different take. You properly explain why it works and those concepts i haven’t understood are now making sense after almost two years of grinding t7 thanks for all your hard work!!

Thank you so much for your content!

Great work!!

Yess right when I start training sidesteps. The GOAT PhiDX

Literally discussing this in a discord yesterday and lo and behold... Also he flipped me off again at the end! 🤣

Thanks for yet another top tier vid

Thanks for this- really great guide on how to sidestep offensively, this will help me think more three dimensional while I play!

Lets go! Thanks again!

Incredibly helpful

Love learning about Tekken. Keep posting your content. But I would like more gameplay / ranked videos every now and then.

Let's goo phidx sidestep guide

fire as always

You're a God of Construction, helping to build a new generation one fundamental concept at a time.

Thanks PH for these videos coming from a mortal kombat game base this is all new to me lol

i love your job with this tips ty a lot

Best tekken guides out there literally

THE VIDEO I NEEDED

Informative. Thanks!

Thanks and more power!🎉

Really good video including the TL;DW option.

I'm always looking forward to your indept tutorial how to play tekken, thank you very much phi

i recently watched a video on small tekken and it basically had this whole thing has the basis for an offensive game. small pokes into sidesteps, to try and open your opponent. i feel this is coming at a good time in my development. ive reached purple with victor, but am facing blues that know how to punish everything that got me to where i am 😆. i knew i needed to play safer, i just didnt know what that was. now i do. thanks as always phi.

That makes a lot of sense. Plus gives me something to do against opponents who are hip to my tick throws

Super helpful, thanks.

Hey phidx, love your videos and the way you teach

What a savage holy shit. Ive been looking and trying to learn this forever

This came at the perfect time for me, I spent a few hours last night testing sidestepping basic jabs and df1s at different frame situations and it took me at least 40 minutes just to get a feel for that against 2 characters. Hopefully the knowledge from this video will speed up that process in the future, what would we do without Phi.

You definitely changed the way I play Tekken. Thanks for your teachings coz they’re explained well even though I mainly play by feel - the principles make more sense. Jin main here by the way.

One thing to remember is that many pokes have different length recovery animations. Sidestep can be buffered, but for some moves, you need to input the step later as their stun animation is so long. Go to practice mode, set bot to block and set bot to punish with jab. Now you can test all your pokes and step after it was blocked to find optimal step timing. Same practice helps with your pushback moves and backdash. Backdash can’t be fully buffered so it needs even more timing practice to be perfect. In both cases block and confirm and then whiff punish. It’s a good way to learn whiff punish on reaction. And keep grinding to get better when waiting for games. T8 has full lab mode when waiting.

Hey phi thanks for reaching me so much; I haven’t been able to play for a long time and watching ur content is fun and engaging; you’re awesome man don’t forget it. I play reina and I hope to get really good one day!!!

I know an old tekken head that keeps telling me to sidestep more when he watches me play. I dont know when i am supposed to and why. This is the video i needed! Been loving the T8 tutorial content. Keep it coming!

Amazing content!!!

i wanna apologize because i been watching your videos for the last 3 weeks and i haven’t subscribed, but im am now. Thank you for these!

Solid video. I'm at Tekken King and I still struggle with this very critical aspect of the game. This tut should help. Thx!

Of my fav you tubers to watch right now man. U gonna get that rank soon cause u play like a god of destruction as well. Keep at it as we all going to do 🏋🏾🏋🏾

This is the best tekken creator by far. So informative.

you had me at "welcome back the first timestamp skippers"

Thanks, keep em comin 😊

You are such a hard worker keep pushing and keep doing these videos you are popularity is increasing and your reputation as a talented teacher in the game is absolutely growing i mean yesterday we were talking about you. You are the next themainmanswe show and its called PhiDX ERA for the new generation 🔥

Great vid, thanks!

Yo Great video PhiDX I've been trying to incorporate more sidestepping into my matches since I've been playing Tekken like its 2D. I applied it in some matches and it's going pretty good, hopefully, I can keep this up and get out of the blue ranks.

Thanks for the free knowledge man ❤🐉

Thank you! Subscribed

Excellent video

Super informative

Had to teach myself this concept back in the early tekken 7 days

Thank you for the time you invest in this game!

Thank you so much

Nice breakdown.

Thank you for the content good sir 🫡

Not really into watching streamers but when I do it's this guy that gets my attention

thank you phi

Great video. Kilimanjaro, your test subject, 1 and done me yesterday 😂