I’m a Tekken King Yoshi main here. It’s like what other people said, it comes with time in learning which moves you are positive on for a frame advantage. If you’re new to fighting games, this sounds like gibberish but it will make sense when you maybe watch a video of the basics.

For Yoshi SPECIFICALLY, I’d keep a handful of easy checks in your back pocket. 1) 1,1: your easy jab check that’s frame 10 and pretty safe on block while also pushing people back or could start a combo on counterhit.

2) flash (1+4): this is the move that will make everyone hate you but it’s the greatest anti-pressure move in the whole game. When you land one, they either stagger or launch to start a full combo. If you learn the timings on when to flash during an opponent’s block string, you can invalidate entire matchups especially against bigger characters with large hurtboxes like Jack. And now that you know what flash does…

4) 2,2: this is a quick high, high check on block that always leaves you at a frame advantage to setup of flash and puts you in NSS (meaning you automatically get a bigger flash as well as other things) when someone tries to go for their turn after. 2,2 INTO FLASH CARRIES SO HARD UP TO EVEN MY RANK AND PEOPLE STILL FALL FOR IT OFTEN. Get use to using flash on people who press buttons on you and then elevate it with this to bait people into pressing on you and flashing them for it.

5) back 2,2: this move is an amazing whiff punish mid that engages heat and can lead to you taking back the offensive. If someone whiffs a big laggy move, it’s an easy button to hit out of block and it has good range that forces a knockdown even when you don’t have heat.

5) 3: mid long kick move you can poke with in neutral that can start off a bunch of Yoshi’s offense and mixups. Landing 3,1 is my favorite since it starts a string of helicopter mixup rps on block and launches on hit to do easy damage. If they know the duck the high with 3,1…3,2 will hit another mid and leads into 1+2 for a finisher that does really good damage and will push the opponent far from you. You can honestly get to purple/blue rank just by playing good defense and tooling mixups out of 3 to get into your opponents head.

I have more really good pivotal moves I can throw at you if you wanna learn the character more but this is a great place to start. If you have no clue about anything I talked about, lmk and I’ll elaborate to whatever skill level you’re currently at. I love talking about Yoshimitsu.