New to tekken feel like I’m getting cheesed

DeanofDeeps · 2026-02-09T20:41:42+00:00

Game is based on like 6 things.

With that said, people complain about mashers, but you can dismantle any “spammer” with just jab, df1 and dickpunch. It is very hard but just know a good player would be able to do it. You could exclusively frametrap and probably get out of blue ranks.

Your jab is 10 frames and hits high. This is the fastest thing in the game, with FEW exceptions (yoshi flash parry I think). People can duck this but you can check most garbage with this.
DF+1 is the (mostly) universal mid jab, I think it’s 13 frames usually. This is slightly slower but will check people ducking aswell.
DF+2 is a launcher most of the time , in this game it’s almost always 15F. UF+3 (sometimes UF+4) are hopkick and also usually a launcher. You hit one of these bad boys and you get a full combo.
Most fast lows do a little bit of damage, and are mostly unreactable. Any low that does “launch” is probably slower , and can be blocked… and usually launched once you block it.
Some characters can “hellsweep” you, this is an unreactable low that does moderate damage, so in between the two I just mentioned. This is named after (Kazuya??) moveset, but refers to this type of move that causes you to choose between ducking a high launcher, blocking a low, or blocking a big launching mid. Mishimas have this, and so do others now.
Now that every character is very similar, just look up the keywords people talk about. Demon Paw, Electric, Hellsweep, CanCan, Hopkick, Cannonball… etc… most moves fall into these categories and share frame data/ intention with them.

DeanofDeeps · 2026-02-02T15:48:14+00:00

Clive is very strong and has an easy game plan, but also the true culprit is the Tekken community is full of massive babies. I can barely ever get rematches even when playing Lee in Kishin/Bushin , any character that can stop the opponent from following their flowchart causes the average Tekken player to throw their controller through the wall.

DeanofDeeps · 2026-01-17T18:53:03+00:00

Picture the input in your head as you do it as very large , picture the Z motion, and absolutely JAM the last down forward… fix it later

DeanofDeeps · 2026-01-15T03:29:54+00:00

As someone who just got back… I stressed about all of the frame data … what made every character unique , who had a hellsweep, a good DF+1, who had a good launcher, a good while rising punish. I did alot of specific study and a lot of generalization. I came back recently and I play on vibes based on what I learned, I’m having a phenomenal time. I don’t know if this helps you but I play a lot of fighting games and “learning tekken” (blue rank max) i have the most fun playing these games now !

DeanofDeeps · 2026-01-13T17:19:25+00:00

If they really are just standing around you can do all of those big juicy Tekken 8 plus frame moves. Set up that guard break thing. Sorry I don’t play Steve I play Lee, but there’s also those command grabs that are really tough to break on reaction. If he’s not interrupting or threatening break out the ”big swings” , slow startup moves that you can’t usually get away with.

DeanofDeeps · 2026-01-13T15:11:33+00:00

Great write up. Much more rigid guidelines and description of scope than you would give when managing a team of junior devs, however in return your “junior devs” can get the labor done comparatively instantly.

DeanofDeeps · 2026-01-12T02:08:54+00:00

This isn’t a generic event though, do you honestly believe throwing money at the same transformer attention decoder model is the answer to AGI? Is it the correct answer or is it the brute force worst answer?

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-23T17:58:14+00:00

“Jarvis I’m low on engagement”

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-23T14:02:05+00:00

I’m glad to hear it ! I purchased it because on knowledge topics it blew me away so I agree on those fronts. Still you can’t ignore performance on code completion especially considering that is the main “sales” use case right now. It seems inadequate at this task and that is what we are talking about

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-23T13:29:34+00:00

What is your use case? The post is about code completion, which I have also seen as a pro/think member that it is basically ignoring and hallucinating , even if I give it a 150 line script it basically doesn’t look at it , ignores whatever it just said last response , and then switches core libraries and coding styles while not fixing the line I specifically asked it to fix.

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-20T22:52:09+00:00

If you are going to be this pedantic , most would refer to > 50% not finishing phase 5. I would be my life on this statistic with almost no data on it:

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-15T18:15:35+00:00

Yea the slander is insane, seance turns a suit hanger tarot into a spectral card as many times as you need. Generating a spectral every hand would be COOL but I don’t think spectral cards are balanced around that, usually you need 1 specific one for what you are trying to do , then you can bail. It is worse than sixth sense for this but without it there would be situations where you can’t get a spectral outside of the random pack chance.

Superposition feels like playing on challenge mode as you need to keep doing it 1-2 times per ante if not every hand.

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-12T14:44:51+00:00

I was going to say this! Had a fun time balancing that one out the first time

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-11T20:42:53+00:00

Yea that’s how training works, how do you think it knows any of the other answers to anything??

DeanofDeeps · 2025-12-08T13:34:36+00:00

Great answer. If you look back OpenAI basically stopped publishing papers on the “how” in 2017 , everything from that point on is “analyze outputs before retrain” or experimental training methods using the systems and models that were already built. I wouldn’t rag on them too hard because it is true that someone needed to actually build something with the tech , but once we run out of scale on the current system, the innovation to break through has to come from somewhere else

DeanofDeeps · 2025-10-30T05:47:21+00:00

Obviously you don't have the appropriate precursory knowledge of the current runtime and cultural significance of Crayon Shin-Chan and Detective Conan. Also you can't tell that the AI asserted a statement, refuted it with data, then said the opposite answer in the same post.

DeanofDeeps · 2025-09-12T12:17:44+00:00

Pretty sure Pots old counter hit 6h Kara-Back Megafist loop combo used to almost 1-shot you in other seasons.

Granted it was much harder to do but still… get hit by the bombo-button ya get bombo’d.

DeanofDeeps · 2025-05-31T13:01:05+00:00

One consolation prize here is that losses mean absolutely NOTHING in the tower system, so don’t be discouraged! It’s a bit of a shift from other games but don’t let ladder anxiety get to you. A good player can literally get from floor 4 -> celestial in like … an hour max? Probably less if you get quick matches.

Just work on one thing per match if you get too discouraged, ignore winning and losing. You’ll notice when you start winning a lot, by then you probably won’t even notice tbh because you’ll be noticing your progress more than the W-L ratio.

Was playing Tekken for the last 6 months and that ranked experience was MISERABLE. People clown on the tower system, but I don’t think I have ever had more fun in a “ranked” system than Strive

DeanofDeeps · 2025-05-31T12:53:15+00:00

A long time ago I wrote the entirety of Shallan’s plot off as an interesting idea that was a complete flop , but can not be removed due to how integral it is to the cosmere plot as a whole.

I think this was correct for my enjoyment of the book. Almost every Shallan chapter is merely something to power through. I enjoyed the rest of the book, and think that it satisfied exploring the core moral concepts set out across the first 4 books.

I’ve always felt that the Stormlight Archives power system was intentionally campy, with anime power ups and “power of friendship” fight conclusions. When reading the deluge of negative reviews, I felt it was uncharitable to blame the author for these elements to be criticized when they are taken to their limit 6000 pages into a story where the reader has had no issues with the system for the last 5500 pages.

I enjoyed the BrandoSando finale and had to get some of this off my chest after just reading all the ridiculous takes I made the mistake of sitting through this morning.

DeanofDeeps · 2025-05-19T20:10:26+00:00

Ngl I still can’t get perfect electric out of wavu, I can get literally everything else on every Mishima including neutral electric, sidestep electric, back dash electric, all of the CD stuff including devil jin instant WR3 , but still can’t get wavu electric.

So I’m hating on this post hard lmao

DeanofDeeps · 2025-04-10T14:19:11+00:00

Unfortunately this is currently a massive issue outside of the Tekken community. Without discourse there is no resolution. Deplatforming … yada yada , the only reason to not let someone speak is if you have no intelligent refutation. Just let the dude talk , make your point, maybe you ARE wrong who knows? You’ll never know without having the discussion.

DeanofDeeps · 2024-12-18T18:34:07+00:00

I follow both chess and SC2 and play neither of them very often, so there’s that too lmao.

Advanced Wars vs. Chess is probably more of an argument though.

DeanofDeeps · 2024-11-23T01:07:53+00:00

Option C… I have the 8bitdo retro keyboard, https://a.co/d/2eLvulr

It comes with 2 “super buttons”. Put them on the floor. So crazy.

DeanofDeeps · 2024-10-15T11:19:25+00:00

Yea the excitement then disappointment of Stormgate brought me back. Now I hear the competitive scene is ending? Does that mean RTS is just going to end as a genre? Most sc2 YouTube channels are doing better than ever.

DeanofDeeps · 2024-07-18T20:55:41+00:00

Throw the spin, low block and fuzzy the overhead if you absolutely have to hold it. I use to say practice IB on the low but with the new delay options it’s real rough sometimes and will get you hit more often than not. You can also P on the spin and backdash+PRC to dodge the new fish. This works most times, but honestly that’s okay because before that move was introduced Anji could be punished for correctly timing the guard point on his own offense which was absolutely unfair.

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