How To Be Good At Tekken from PotatoBrain

Rami aka PotatoBrain is widely considered Canada's best offline Tekken player who also runs his own website called Gutsy Geek. He recently posted an article outlining 8 principles that helps him achieve his current stature in the game. There is an excerpt and link provided after the jump. Be sure to check out his website for so many other things pertaining to gaming, self improvement, and enjoying life in general or follow him @GutsyGeek .

2. What’s my mix up?

Whatever the game, you need to know how to put pressure on your opponent. If you’re playing Tekken, the easiest example of this is Mishimas. The basic mixup is sweep (low), a safe mid or launcher mid, and Electric Wind God Fist for pressure and frame traps. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

With other characters, it’s more complicated. Do you want to do frame traps, and get your opponent on counter? Is your mixup more about putting your opponent in a 50/50 situation where he has to guess where to block? This is up to you to find out.

If you don’t know your mixup, you can’t win at Tekken.

Here is the link for the rest of the article:

http://www.gutsygeek.com/how-to-be-good-at-tekken/

And for fun, this is where he demolished me in front of the internet: