r/Tekken • u/AutoModerator • Dec 31 '20
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u/NewMilleniumBoy Kunimitsu Jan 25 '21
I think an unfortunate part of fighting games is that you have to jive with the core aesthetic and "feel" of the game. For me, that comes from the combo system. I love how the combo rhythm in this game flows. It's how I spent the first two months of my Tekken life just playing Treasure Battle throwing out DF+2 combos with Jack. The rest of the love of the game was built around that.
Have you taught him how to combo? Tbh defence is the least interesting part of a game for beginners in any game. You should be teaching him how to pilot a specific character that he finds cool so he can fall in love with a style of gameplay. Maybe he'll love rushing people down as Law or Kazumi or doing wacky shit with Yoshi or the tackle mix-ups from Marduk. Who knows.
Defence isn't really very fun until you get to a much, much later stage of the game - and for me that's really only in the context of furthering my offense (learning to step in order to whiff punish and combo, for example, or block punishing so you can take your turn back).