Movement: Know your Stick!

The main objective to accomplish in Tekken, or any fighting game, (or even fighting in general) is to take control of your opponent by force, usually by beating the crap out of them. Knowing this, new players are more interested in learning attacks first, especially the flashy moves that seems to give their opponents a world of hurt. (Who can blame them?). They spend hours in Practice mode doing those moves, especially the ones that have complicated notations, and when they go to a actual fight, they still got beat. This can cause frustration, and that can be enough for a new guy to have a bad impression to Tekken (and see them evolve into trolls). What they don't realize is there are many factors that play to their defeat. The more usual causes was:

1. They can't execute the moves they learn when on pressure

2. They can't do the moves in the way they want them to be

3. They keep abusing the same move over and over again, being predictable until their opponent figured them out.

These are the challenges that new players meet and need to overcome (except for Reason #3 cause abusing the right move can be a valuable thing). Good thing is, these problems can be overcome when the players start to '''learn how to move. '''

Movement is a essential part of this game, and it will take you really far just knowing how to move. Movement is considered a fundamental that separates the noobs from leets. The main purpose of movement is to put you in a more advantageous position. That means escaping from your opponent's pressure and putting you in a place where you can freely attack.

So, let's go and know our left side of our controller shall we?

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