Electrics timing help

[Odin]

Do you guys have any tips on how to make electrics more consistent and improve the timing and muscle memory?

[UncleRamen]

Unfortunately, there is only practice. Set training dummy to guard and keep doing it. It will not come fast but it will come. Even after long months of practice, I can't say everyone can get consistent.

For me right now, on good days, I can get enough electrics to power up a country. On bad days, I can at best power up a hand held fan. Helps to get some warm up before proper matches though.

Learning electric is one thing. Learning to do electric out of movement is where it gets real. Back dash electric, side step electric, wave dash electric is where the true difficulty lies.

[Toods]

The input tells you to do a wave dash, and press 2 simultaneously. But the reality is it's more like an extremely fast Wind god fist. You're just doing the wind god fist as fast as possible. The reason I say this is because i used to take the word "simultaneously" literally, and would do it too fast. Start with wind god fists, and speed it up faster and faster until an electric comes out.

And UncleRamen is right, even when you can do it 80% of the time, utilizing an electric with movement and punishment is a whole other beast. Keep practicing!

[RASTIL]

If you wanna be a mishima, then everyday you gotta spend 2 hours in practice mode training electrics.On your place i'd just pick someone that is not ridiculousy hard to play and spend those 2 hours actually playing the game

[Toods]

To aid Rastil's point, spending all your time in practice mode trying to "Master" electrics will make you good at electrics sure. But that's one move of thousands. Going into ranked and just playing other players will make you better at Tekken, not electrics alone.

I praise the fact that you want to learn a Mishima, it's where I started too. After a ridiculous amount of Kazuya practice I thought I was "Good at Tekken" when really I was just good at Kazuya's move-set. Try and learn the fundamentals first, even if you lose over and over.

[Xero_Daxter]

It takes a lot of practice. Electrics are “just frame” moves and the input is f,n,d/f2. So basically you gotta input that within a frame.

How I did it was practice, practice and practice. I play on controller and my thumb is scarred up from not just Electrics but also Wavedashing and Korean Backdash.

Press forward, then neutral, then downforward 2. And do those inputs fast.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Toods:

To aid Rastil's point, spending all your time in practice mode trying to "Master" electrics will make you good at electrics sure. But that's one move of thousands. Going into ranked and just playing other players will make you better at Tekken, not electrics alone.

I praise the fact that you want to learn a Mishima, it's where I started too. After a ridiculous amount of Kazuya practice I thought I was "Good at Tekken" when really I was just good at Kazuya's move-set. Try and learn the fundamentals first, even if you lose over and over.

i actually tried to learn the game with Armor King but Hehiachi got me hooked instantly after a friend of mine told me everything he knew about him, i think i'll stick with him for the moment, i don't like easy characters and Hehiachi gives me more fun than anybody else at the moment.

[UncleRamen]

Originally posted by Odin♛:

Originally posted by Toods:

To aid Rastil's point, spending all your time in practice mode trying to "Master" electrics will make you good at electrics sure. But that's one move of thousands. Going into ranked and just playing other players will make you better at Tekken, not electrics alone.

I praise the fact that you want to learn a Mishima, it's where I started too. After a ridiculous amount of Kazuya practice I thought I was "Good at Tekken" when really I was just good at Kazuya's move-set. Try and learn the fundamentals first, even if you lose over and over.

i actually tried to learn the game with Armor King but Hehiachi got me hooked instantly after a friend of mine told me everything he knew about him, i think i'll stick with him for the moment, i don't like easy characters and Hehiachi gives me more fun than anybody else at the moment.

The truth about Mishima is that they are really fun and satisfying. If you are able to get electrics 80% of the time, a 70+ damage combo without walls is just a staple. But the amount of work is not a trivial matter. While other characters could side step and throw out a generic df2 or hop kick to punish a whiff, you need to execute a f, n, d, df2 to get a whiff punish.

Even when I was able to consistently do electric, I can't say the same that I could consistently do it out of side step, back dash, and wave dash. Sometimes, I still get a wgf, sometimes a df2 which doesn't launch and at worst a d2. Imagine punishing a whiff with a duck jab when other characters do it with an easy df2 or hop kick resulting in full combo makes you wonder why you even picked up a Mishima. But satisfying and having fun is part of the reason why we play a video game I guess.

Back to electric, the key is really having the df and 2 at the same time. Take some time to practice. You can start slow, the entire d, n, d, df motion can be done really slowly and as long as the df and 2 are input at the same time, you'll get the electric. Turn on the input display to see where you got it wrong. You can even walk forward into an electric, that is how slow you are allowed to input an electric.

[The Man Who Erased His Name]

easy. just practice: forward*neutral* and press and hold down-forward and time the 2punch (same time) known as just frame... if youre realy want to practice timing i suggest you try heihachi do forward down-forward-1 (blue spark) without down input
forgot to mention. enable command history in practice mode so you can see your inputs.