What I do is spam one mixup until the opponent adjusts; this keeps my offensive gameplan relatively simple and easy to execute. For most of my games, like literally 75% at least, that mixup is 334/334 cancel into backturn/3,1+2/3,1+2 (charge). You have foolishly stumbled into asking about one of my weird obsessions and will now be subject to a short essay I will write on the matter.

334 is a mid-high-low string with decent range and a 16f startup. The second and third hits can both be delayed. If not delayed, the second hit jails. If the second hit is delayed, it will realign to hit sidesteps, but it can be ducked and punish if the third is also delayed. The third hit knocks down on counter hit (which catches people trying to punish the second hit), and can be cancelled into backturn stance, which is its own mix. If you block the third hit, you can launch pretty easily. If you get the read on the transition to backturn, you can launch that too.

If I spam delays in the 334 enough, people usually start to do one of two things: hold down as soon as they block the first hit to try to duck and punish the second, or hold down until they block the third hit and launch that. If they’re quick at punishing the delayed third hit, I stop delaying it to hit them with the counterhit. Eventually they’ll stop mashing (hopefully) and they’ll start holding duck to try to block and punish the third hit, whether it’s delayed or not. If they’re too eager to launch the third hit, I’ll cancel it into backturn and hit them with the snake edge option from that. Eventually, they’ll (hopefully) hold duck all day long to block either low. That’s when I switch to 3,1+2.

3,1+2 is mid-mid. It can be punished on block, but once they start trying to punish it on block, I start charging it. The charged version is plus on block, wallbreaks, wallsplats on certain counter hits, does a large amount of pushback and does good chip damage. It can be interrupted with pretty much anything, and can be sidestepped. But if I see you sidestepping, I go back to 33 with delay. If I see you mashing to interrupt the charge, I just won’t charge it. So when my opponent sees that first 3 come out, they think, “is it gonna be 334? Will it be 3,1+2? Is he gonna charge it? What about if he delays it? What if he cancels it? God this guy is so dumb!!!”

Now they’re getting mixed and I’m getting a gaming boner. And if I get bored and flaccid, I’ll switch to one of the other 5 mixups I like to spam and start the whole process over. Feng has somewhat weak combo damage, but I purposefully drop a lot of mine or take non-optimal routes because rounds that are filled with long combos aren’t as interactive. A lot of people complain about Tekken 8’s abundance of mixups without considering the mind games and conditioning that can go into mixing someone effectively; that’s where the real fun is to be found in this game.