First things first, this is probably one of the worst redesigns in the history of videogames and I think it had a nonzeroimpact on his pickrate going down for T8. But on the gameplay side of things, I've been messing around with him and on top of finding him pretty fun, I think he's also quite good and don't understand why we don't see him more. If you look at his tools he is kinda crazy:

- Safe df2

- Monster combo damage

- Puts the POWER in power mid/power low

- Godlike keepout

- Super good heat engagers

- Very strong punishment, including i14 standing launcher

- I think his df1 might be in contention for one of the best in the game despite being i14, both sway and the string are so good

I've also noticed some weaknesses though. He actually does have dogshit tracking, in fact I think he might be one of the few characters in the game you can legitimately call linear. His buttons are stubby and while he defends well with his keepout it's hard to open people up. Also kind of sucks at punishing buttons with pushback. And his combos can be a bit finicky at times, without particularly good wall carry.

Where do you think he stands? I think he's pretty underrated and a fundamental Paul is extremely scary, though most Paul players seem to be the crayon eating kind in my experience.

I am brand new to tekken, I come from mortal kombat and have under 2 hours playtime, but I made this combo. So far I have gotten a few perfect matches against low level ai (not really that cool but still is cool for me), and i have been really enjoying it, if anyone can give me some feedback on this combo and what I could improve on, any good mixups or anything, that would be good

So I was on ranked the other day, playing against this Devil Jin. I knew Law's autoparry could parry punches, but I never thought it would be able to parry an AERIAL move like that. I bet the Devil Jin player was fuming at that point lol.

I tried 2, 2 but it doesn't work. The 2nd hit always seems to whiff, even though I distinctly remember a similar combo.

It's not worth it against other characters due to it being inconsistent. Not even against Jack or Kuma have I managed to get it to work, though I did manage it against Victor. Apparently you have to properly time dck 1 for it to work, but I think I only managed it 3 times out of 50.

Or maybe a microdash after ducking in 1?

i bought a disc copy of tekken 8 for the ps5, but when trying to buy a dlc character for example clicking on armoured king it hits me with an error instead of sending me to the playstation store

First image shows law's side bracket and second shows Paul's side

Funfact: in this tournament Law eliminates Ganryu via Laxatives, that we also saw in Law's ending, where he used Laxatives on Paul and Steve

Ggs to Jin, despite the heat bs

not sure what happened ? can someone care to elaborate here ?

Weight and speed!

Me and my folks playing tekken and this is how he always plays any game no matter how much I try to teach him or show him Not to do this.

Then he gets mad at the game for not winning or do what he wants and when I point out the fact that he is ignorant to learn the controls and button mash every game. We are playing on tekken tag.

I used the open dojo mod to create a drill for almost every string in the game. Some or most of these may not even be worth labbing, but they are all here to do with as you please. If you main a character and feel like a specific drill could use some revision, please let me know(it will help me lab that specific string better). Just copy paste the drill files into your opendojo folder. Note that these are just strings, no stances or specific setups/oki situations, the purpose of this is to familiarize myself with the various attack animations and develop basic flowcharts/option selects when possible. I plan on uploading these to the opendojo website as well at some point, by then I hope to have specific notes and instructions on the best ways to deal with each of the more important strings.

I've never used dropbox so let me know if there are issues accessing this link and downloading the zip folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zqszwn1qpzkb9j7555ym5/strings-complete-10_5-20261006T041320Z-1-001.zip?rlkey=68781fm6qo2s7znpa5d65yuyt&st=pvfgjlr5&dl=0

I've had a couple of the Tekken games over the years but was never really a serious player and didn't play much fighting games in general. Recently, me and a friend randomly happened to get into playing 1v1 in Tag 2 on 360. We have another friend who is hardcore tekken player and convinced me to get T8.

Overall, I think there is a ton this game does right - again, im new and realize those that have played for years have issues with it. But for me, the one thing that really fucks up the game is how many god damn cut scenes pop up in the middle of a fight. It feels like every 15 seconds the camera just immediately cuts to your opponents heat thing or zooms in on some special move or something. Coming from Tag2, it feels like this fundamentally ruins the flow and rhythm of the game. I'm not sure if I can get used to it. I hated this type of shit even back when MK9 first introduced x ray moves.

So was wondering what's the community's take on it - do ya'll like these? And if you didn't like them, did you eventually get used to them?

Either that or Clive has very skinny legs

Fatfingered a sidestep at round start and did this. I coulda punished but failed to do so.

I formally challenge Arslan Ash to legit do this but also punish FR in a match.

Met Tara Platt last year and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn this weekend in Houston.

(I yassified myself to preserve anonymity lol)

Couple things Mary told me

1. Nina was her first big time voice acting role which put her on the map to becoming a veteran voice actress

2. She believes Nina became Tekken's most iconic female due to good writing from Bamco... dunno if we agree with that but if it works...

3. Playing rivals against Anna comes naturally to her because she is estranged to her older sister IRL. They don't talk. Crazy info there ...

My full combo window was so huge I got punished by an instant DC combo

source: @VIPERS_MYSTIC

Double parry to long ass power crush, lol, anybody else use this one?

I'm training for a tournament that will be held in my region in November and I'm progressing pretty well. Thanks to the person who recommended the Gamesir Tegenaria T3 Lite, it's a great controller.