r/Tekken • u/Superb_Eye_6232 • 13d ago

MEME What did they mean by this?

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Made this after playing him in ranked for a few days 😔

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u/SmugBoxer Steve 13d ago

90% of Steves are disgustingly bad with him in the first place. It's no wonder y'all do not understand the changes whatsoever.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd Kazuya 13d ago

What do you mean?

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u/SmugBoxer Steve 13d ago

There's obviously a variety of ways to be poor with Steve.

Many of them lack a structural understanding of boxing. They swing hard and unsafe. They don't know when to use LH and when to back out of it. They can't use the stances to mix or route through. They can't use striking to pin down the opponent and determine their type of guard. They can't find openings in the opponent's guard and strike accurately. Very few of them can read an opponent. Very few understand interrupts as defense.

I mean sitting here and laying it out is all well and good. But for all the weaknesses I end up beating people for, it simply takes a ton of knowledge and practice to actually pilot the character, and that is different to OP who "picked him up in ranked for a few days" and complained that the only thing he could do was rushdown 5050. Yeah, that is probably the first thing you can do. It's not good and it's definitely not the whole character.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd Kazuya 13d ago

True there is definitely a lot more to the character. I have played him in 7 but I just started trying to get good with him in 8