Armor moves as opening standard?

[Lidso]

Too many matches being decided off the opening move resulting in a half health wall carry. Armor seems to be the only way to delay this or blocking from the start or die. save the hassle and just increase spawn distance.

[mraz]

Is blocking/backdashing on the start against your religion or what?

[Spirit]

sometimes you can get fast first hit and launch with a armored move. can be risky though if the enemy decides to block instead of attacking

[kryeed]

Originally posted by JetstreamKat:

Is blocking/backdashing on the start against your religion or what?

i bought the game to press buttons fast, not hold buttons slow.

[Chimeric]

you know i kinda noticed that too. kinda make sense for some of the smaller stages, u can get a wall easier maybe?

[Turkwise]

If you try it against a decent player you're just going to eat a punish and inform him of what a scrub you are. Though sometimes ill do it when im fighting someone who I know has zero thoughts in their head because they will mash at roundstart 100% of the time,
even when I punish them for it every single round.

[Chimeric]

I dont know all the match ups. If I dont know the match up my strat on start is gonna be to make you deal with my offense unless i see you're trying to sidestep and not just attack too.

[Turkwise]

Originally posted by Chimeric:

I dont know all the match ups. If I dont know the match up my strat on start is gonna be to make you deal with my offense unless i see you're trying to sidestep and not just attack too.

Scrub mentality. You wont learn how to play the game if youre too afraid to block.

[Chimeric]

i guess lol. i only block if i have no choice i.e. you a do a plus frame on block attack on me. Otherwise I try to mostly sidestep parry or stance dodge.

[JyoKun]

Jab is your friend, you can one hit and block after it the armored attack. you neek to mindgame people to push to make mistakes. if you just want to rush, it's a big risk you take. Counters and punishments are the way.

[Skiptro]

personally i'm not training for evo, i'm here to push buttons, i don't see the point in backdashing and having a spacing contest, let's get this over with.

They shouldn't change the start distance, we need to be in jab range, it is an important part of the round start meta game.

you can do an armor move sure, if you do it every time, there are counters to that. It is a rps interaction and changes every round.

[SéptimoCaudillo]

Tekken is not only about combos, but also about spacing, punishing, blocking...people are complaining they can't mash lol.

[Turkwise]

Originally posted by Skiptro:

personally i'm not training for evo, i'm here to push buttons, i don't see the point in backdashing and having a spacing contest, let's get this over with.

They shouldn't change the start distance, we need to be in jab range, it is an important part of the round start meta game.

you can do an armor move sure, if you do it every time, there are counters to that. It is a rps interaction and changes every round.

If all you want to do is mash buttons like an animal, you'd be better off dedicating your time to Cookie Clicker. Forget being a tournament player bro, you aren't even cut out to be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ intermediate.

[Zabelfrie]

Originally posted by Kryeed:

Originally posted by JetstreamKat:

Is blocking/backdashing on the start against your religion or what?

i bought the game to press buttons fast, not hold buttons slow.

You could start off with a power crush but ultimately if they start with a jab they could catch you before you get the momentum for it. If you're absolutely against blocking then I'd guess what they're gonna do by the character they're playing and what launches for them. If it's Hwoarang in low ranks for example, he's probably gonna mash 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, etc. so I'd power crush that for sure.

[天佑中共🐥the strongest]

safe powercrushes only

[Zabelfrie]

Originally posted by ASXxV:

Had a Law spamming powercrush every few seconds I was trying to attack him and I was playing so carefully, he was way too aggressive, then I started ungabunga lows and won since he had no clue how to block them, while punishing his with combos, good lord that was so annoying. How is this tekken?
Are some characters powercrush moves better? I don't remember this being so annoying in tekken7 or maybe players in T7 didn't bother using powercrush as much as here? Powercrush is one thing I have no clue about even with so many hours.

I'd probably load into practice mode just to see how quick your character's power crush is. I know with Hwoarang it's a 2-hit power crush mid which is crazy. Raven has a power crush mid but it takes about 24-25 frames to start up.

It was for sure the same in T7. Power crushes are generally just a great "get out of my face" option or a quick way to run into a player who's just throwing attacks all over the place.