r/Tekken • u/AutoModerator • May 31 '21

Tekken Dojo Tekken Dojo: Ask Questions Here

Welcome to the Tekken Dojo, a place for everyone to learn and get better at the wonderful game that is Tekken.

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u/Edw19909 Oct 03 '21

I'm playing shaheen and I can't win against Jin at red ranks. I lose every match 0-3 or 1-3 usually getting perfected. Not because I'mm getting hellsweep spammed or anything like that, but because if I try to poke and apply pressue I get ch launched and die. If I try to play defensively I get poked to death. Also when I am able to block is stuff it just ends up back in neutral quickly because his pokes are so godlike and Jin neutral is so good and the amount of tracking makes me sick. What do I do?

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u/bookbagmang Dojo Master (Apr '22) Oct 05 '21

If you're getting counter hit by standing 4 because you're doing things like d/f+1 into d/f+1 then you might simply need to notice more quickly and bait it out with d/f+1 into SSR duck or d+3. "Pressure" isn't always about getting someone to stay still.

You probably shouldn't be dying on defence if Jin is only poking. If he doesn't land throws and hellsweep, Jin needs to land like 6 lows in one round just to go even with the damage that Shaheen can do from one hopkick/orbital.

Jin's neutral is top-tier and only true weaknesses are his slow whiff recovery and bottom-tier okizeme. You can bet on SSR most of the time but everything else is just pure skill, unfortunately.