Go into the practice mode, open the move list of the character you choose, and learn. Tekken is a game where button-mashing won’t work for you. However, you can duck after the second move and use your move to break his attack.
For example, you can do nothing while standing and defending Dragunov’s 4,2,1 move (while pressing back on D-pad). Also, you should know when to duck and attack instead of being overdefensive. Wave dash is still an advanced movement which a beginner will only learn with practice but back dash - simply moving the character backward by rapidly pressing the back button twice - is something that can be adapted into one’s game easily. With timely movements, you can evade the opponent’s launcher or basic moves and find yourselves in a better position to attack. For example, King’s Jaguar Hook or Devil Jin’s laser attack while airborne. However, sidestepping won’t help you evade homing attacks that track the movements of players. For example, Akuma’s fireball can be easily avoided by sidestepping (pressing the up or down button twice on D-pad quickly).
Dodging the opponent’s move gives you a huge advantage. There are options of back dash, wave dash, sidestepping in the game. Movement in Tekken is what makes it stand out of the lot. You can also launch an attack after parrying a low move of your opponent by pressing df 2 (down forward 2/triangle/Y) in the direction of your opponent. Unlike the previous versions of the game where you had to identify and break a kind of throw with a particular demand, in Tekken 7 you can simply do it by pressing 1 or 2 (right punch and left punch) buttons. Your opponent can easily launch you in the air and inflict serious damage if you are in a crouching position more often.Īlso, breaking throw is something you need to learn. However, too much crouching will not help you as most of the attacks in Tekken are mid-attacks. You can block a high and mid-attack while standing and press the down button on D-pad to crouch and block low attacks. There are three types of attacks in the game - high, lows, and mids.
Blocking is essentialīefore you attack your opponent, blocking is what you learn first. We also call them 1,2,3,4 respectively while explaining different moves, combos.
#TEKKEN 5 PS4 UPDATE#
This for me is one of those rare occasions where the home version of the game is actually better than what its arcade big brother offered.7/10(65). Well, they certainly did that as this is one of, if not my favorite fighting game on the PlayStation 2. Tekken 4 was such a letdown that Namco really needed to nail it with Tekken 5.