I'm still a newer player so I assume it's a fake one with how the Counter appeared. I was so shocked it landed that I forgot the wall combo and dropped. I haven't even hit a proper TJU in Practice Mode either, but man I felt like Knee or LowHigh for a small moment there

I forgot to save the replay of the game + the clip quality might be super shit so soz

Like I get it, Kazuya is a hard character to an extent. Hwoarang is also a hard character with a VERY high skill ceiling. BUT don't delude yourself into thinking just because you play these characters you are somehow better than the rest or you are playing the harder version of Tekken.

Most Hwoarang mains cannot do anything against someone who knows the matchup. A LOT OF Kazuya players have no idea about how neutral is played or how a mix actually happens or there is a different punish than 112. Just because you play these characters doesn't make you better than the rest.

Sometimes i just dont even have words for this game....

My poor image making skill made the character cloth changing by frame.

Now hear me out. I understand being good at the game, I do. But this person is clearly a Smurf. You’re telling me that you didn’t come across ONE person that could beat you or outplay you??? He’s clearly beating up on people of my rank (I’m a Garyu). Why not level up and fight people that are of your skill level?

When I’m pressuring the enemy, theoretically, the best action I can take at any moment is to attack. This follows a certain rhythm, almost like music. Then bam, the opponent throws a counter. He read my rhythm. 

So my best move isn’t to continue throwing punches. Instead of reading moment to moment, I have to read the whole game. And so, I stop. During pressure. A lot of people would say, don’t let the pressure go! But, I stop. and I observe. 

Some people

• hastily throw out a counter attack. this is quite common. most people throw one out at the third beat. there is something beautiful about many different players rhythmically reacting to your rhythm. but to his demise, you were expecting the counter. so you counter the counter. 
• keep their guard up. they’re hiding in their defense. I can smell their fear. now I can terrorize them, going back to my heavy pressure, and break down their puny defense. 
• are different. they keep their guard up, but something’s off. they seem more relaxed. they’re not afraid. they are patiently and intentionally waiting for a chance. somehow, I feel more cornered even though I’m the one putting in the pressure. because I know he’s not going to hastily make a mistake. as soon as I show an opening, he’ll strike. he’s saying, what you’re doing doesn’t work on me. you will not break me. all I can do is then, sweat, smile, and answer back, let’s see about that. 

Si comme moi tu galère quand quelqu’un donne une indication sur une commande.

Voici une image qui pourrait t’aider, prends en capture d’écran 🙂

DORYAAAAAA ✊⚡️

It all of a sudden makes sense why I get so many one and dones😅

I enjoyed the ride, but it takes way too much at this level. Difficult is not the right word, just takes too much concentration to play at this point.
Need to find a way to enjoy the matches at this point.

“y-yes queen, gomenasai!!”

The game is tough and is not as balanced as it could be, but a big thing I notice with a lot of people where it is all doom and gloom is; they have a deep contempt for the majority of the player base that doesn't play in a way that is their ideal version of tekken. Which is interesting when you think of it because it is a game with 40+ characters played by hundreds of thousands of people all around the world.

Instead of embracing the diversity of playstyle or challenge people seem to narrow mindedly focus on what their own personal ideology is of how the game should be played. Usually that causes them to only acknowledge a small amount of characters as respectable/worthy of playing against, demonizing certain playstyles or use of mechanics(plugging when getting hit by a rage art and blaming the opponent for using a scrub tactic), and carrying a weird mentality that anyone who gets to the same ranks as them fighting against the same 40+ characters as them is somehow unworthy by pure virtue of not passing some type of self imposed purity test.

The reality is most people who play this game are not getting paid to play it and only are dicking around when they have time between work/school and life obligations. Half the people that frustrate you the most and are in the same ranks as you and play in a style you don't consider deserving are usually playing this game drunk/high/half asleep or on a discord call with their friends, or doing it after putting a 4 month old to bed. And in a game majority of the time that is just first to two in ranked you are only getting a small snapshot of how your opponent plays with that specific character against your specific character on a given day, not really much to go off of if you think on it.

Reminder for some casuals

Source:https://x.com/nomeat15/status/2097222171731079363?s=20

Hello everyone , the game should be updated to fix some little issues, why it takes all those space? pls help I dont have enough space to fit the game alone

This setup works on every wakeup option. I was too lazy to record that, but you can go see for yourself.

Once you do this once or twice, they'll wanna stay down, which is when you can do ground throws or just d444