Game Engine, Tips, and How to Play FAQ

This is a good guide for 'average' players.

just to be the devil's advocate, I used to play tekken professionally and let me tell you this:

While the guide you posted is GREAT for beginners and average players, it's useless from my standpoint.

Telling people not to worry about "playing the same as others"? Man, I LOL'D at this part. The thing about most people who try to play in tourneys and read message boards devoted to combos and fighting games is that once they figure out what moves are 'good' everybody just goes "THE OTHER ONES SUCK, NEVER EVER USE THEM" which is complete bull. What makes a PRO player different from an amateur player is adaptation and application. Go watch any Super Battle Opera or Tekken World Championship videos on youtube. You'll notice that the way most of the high level 'pros' play is different from the way 'american pros' play. The same goes for characters as well as moves. Often 'tier lists' are completel wrong and are corrected as time goes on because SKILLED and CREATIVE players come up with new ways to use moves that were originally thought to be useless.



The golden rule of fighting games are: Play the character YOU want to play the way YOU want to use him(or her!). Look to others for tips and tricks, but forge your own way. That's the only way to be TRULY good.

I know one of the best Bryan Fury (Tekken 5 characters) in the U.S. personally. The way he plays Bryan is unlike anything i've ever seen on any combo video or any explanation on the 'pro' way to use Bryan. When he dropped onto the Tekken scene it blew alot of people away. He INVENTED combos several years after tekken 5 was released. Combos that no one else was doing, or even knew existing. It's because he's a creative player, he mixes things up. That's what being good is all about.


Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. I don't want to seem like i'm bashing anything, I just disagree with the way most players view fighting games. This is a good guide for beginners.

Always remember to mix things up. Switch ups are essential Keep your oppenent guessing!

"Sorry, but you did seem like you were bashing the beginner guide for nothing but to say "HEY, THIS STUFF IS FOR NEWBIES, I'M TOO GOOD FOR THIS ****." Of course you're too good for this ****; everybody who already plays at a competitive level, esp from tekken, would know half this.... which is why there's TZ and caliburforum, VFDC, SRK and all those for them. -THIS- is for gamefaqs/gamespot. =) get the picture?"

All I read was "derp derp butthurt u dun liek mai guide?"

Also, most players who play pro don't know all that stuff. What I was TRYING TO SAY was don't get people into the mindset of ignoring moves because they 'aren't good'

Good job reading.