From CEO 2015 all the way until now, I've been enraptured with this community and the friends it gave me along the way.
It was a great time talking to Alex about the road so far, check it out and get some Foxy Ball Knowledge!
New article is up!
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with @Foxhoundfl to discuss his commentary journey, career ambitions, and everything in between.
Medium: ahbeav01.medium.com/the-voic…
RTs and article idea suggestions appreciated, as always.
Yo this is gonna change the game!
For online brackets, you can literally go and find the replay, find a sick moment, cap it, then put them in a Super Monkey Ball stage within 5 minutes
🤜#TEKKEN8 Season 2
v2.04 Update Details🆓
📷Added photo mode “Color Mask”
Set the background to any color, the possibilites are endless!
We've introduced new ways to make Photo Mode more user-friendly! 🛠️
Use it to post on social media📱 or create thumbnails for videos!
So incredibly wholesome💜
Arslan is so used to everybody rooting against him and celebrating by himself on these stages, getting the "good games" handshakes from disappointed challengers...
And then there's this beautiful friend right there ready to embrace him.
Cinema!
Landon, Glaciating, Speedkicks, and Akash are not real people.
"I hated t7, geese blah blah blah, game was bad competitively"
But yall prefer constant power crushes, more guessing, and insanely forced situations because there's more "interaction"
Yeah suck it from the back dog
I would like to announce that, 2 months later, I have finally completed my Tekken 8 String Theory Spreadsheet!
In this, you will find out how to beat any string with generic tools: Jab? Parry? Power Crush? Sidestep? Low/High Crush? It's all there!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Behold! An exhaustive spreadsheet detailing important properties of each Tekken character's heat smashes.
You can easily see from this spreadsheet which characters have strong/weak heat smashes, as well as their situations on block.
Hope this helps!
Okay so which is it?
Is Atif the best player or is the character easy?
Let's not forget he was a monster of execution on Akuma in T7 as well.
Atif can do this because he's that good. That's the bottom line.
Tekken 8 has a new okizeme situation now when certain moves hit grounded! Some of the attacks will flip the opponent's character over a complete 180 degrees.
Compiled here is a list of all moves in the current demo that I found have that cause this behavior. Very interesting!
I would like to announce that, 2 months later, I have finally completed my Tekken 8 String Theory Spreadsheet!
In this, you will find out how to beat any string with generic tools: Jab? Parry? Power Crush? Sidestep? Low/High Crush? It's all there!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
With throws being guaranteed after Bad Jaguar Parry, that may put him at the top of the Guaranteed Parry Damage Tier List!
Here's all of the GUARANTEED IN EVERY SITUATION parries and their damages to compare
Can you guess who has the highest damage right now?
Let's see you break out of this throw.
Check out Armor King's new stance, Bad Jaguar!
The Dark Supernova is ready to crush the competition in #TEKKEN8 on October 14th 1:00AM CEST | 13th 4:00PM PDT, 2025!
I noticed that a lot of people said they felt like Phoenix Gate came up A LOT during EWC.
So I did some data analysis and created some visuals so that people could draw informed conclusions!
Do you think there is a bias in the random stage pick?
Raw data below
I would like to chime in here and say I have never seen this mf in my life and if he wanna say he the best __ in MY state he gotta show up and prove it kthx
Best Claudio in Florida --- I would like to thank everyone who took the time to teach me. I originally tagged people but then realized it was too many. Appreciate you all.
Happy Situation Sunday!
Today we take a look at Law's Dragon Hammer (F1+2) on block!
We saw a lot of @JJBREEZE_'s F1+2 usage at #CFFO2025, so it seemed only fitting to break it down in tribute!
After all the time he put into your growth as a teacher, you have the nerve to treat him like this AND call him out for a mental disability?
This is not how we treat people in the community.
So sick of this shit.
Apparently, when a character is in rage, they take a lot less chip damage from blocking the same moves as they would than if they were not in rage!
I feel like this is something that I should have known already and maybe everyone already knows but it was news to me!
Clive Phoenix Stance Dance Master Sheet
There are only 5 different situations Clive can put you in on Phoenix transitions, so as soon as you figure out what's +6, what's +14, what's -1, you'll be ready to go!
Y'all can talk about @JoeCrush_ all you want but he gotta have the patience of a saint to deal with @tkgodpling.
You know what it is. Nerf this phoenix into the ashes.
By the way for those of you that are outraged at this...
Saying Feng is so priveleged and needs to be nerfed...
It really is as simple as just getting in the lab!
The Tekken 8 Stance Dance Spreadsheet for Heihachi is complete!
Inside, find out how to evade all immediate timing followup into Heihachi's Wind God and Thunder God Kamae stances.
Disclaimer: None of these transitions are forced. He never has to do any of them :)
Y'all who know me know how much this means.
TNS has been my home in so many ways over the years and now I can finally call myself a true member of the family.
Proud to be part of the premier Grassroots squad!
Longer post later 💜 🦊
The most important part of TNS is loving your game. Passion and community above all.
And that's why we welcome @Foxhoundfl as the newest addition to the TNS family.
Yoshi KIN 2 1+2 oki adds either 22 or 24 damage to a combo depending on if the opponent wakes up (22) or does not (24).
Notice there is no oki if you stay on the floor? How it pushes you away?
In short: Treat this like T7 Moonsault Slayer oki. Just don't get up.
For those of you that work better with spreadsheets:
Bad Jaguar does not have anything close to an OS.
Lots of reasons to duck, lots of reasons to not.
SWL if you think the power crush is coming, but beware.
The String Theory Database for Tekken 8 has been updated for Lidia!
Notice that most of her strings are NOT steppable, a few of them are delayable, but most are strictly as is.
Prediction: Everybody is going to be abusing f+3, d+3,1,2, and 1,2,4 delay.
Evil Razer (B+1+2) currently does more chip damage to the opponent than Zafina does to herself
This is without heat and without Anathema.
Zafina players will say she "has to kill herself to use her good buttons", but they do more damage to the opponent even on block???
ECT comms not the only thing sickness we down with this week! Ya boy is now a part of one of the hottest grassroots organiztions in the FGC!
Aooooouuu~!
Not to be THAT GUY but you did the version that is doable by pretty much everyone because it was a trade instead of a raw ch into unbufferable pewgf
I like you bro you're just wrong here
Heihachi's Tekken 8 String Avoidance!
To note: Every delayable string except one is a hit confirmable string, which I think is extremely strong. Many of those same strings are counter hit launchers!
P.S. Vid to come for you visual learners!
Lidia Cat Stance Transition Master Avoidance List
All Cat Stance Transitions and how to evade their followups! I'd like to make some video content based on this, but is very time consuming and I'm sure others will be able to benefit from this, so feel free to steal for content!
This is a huge personal blow to me.
In my six years of commentary, I've never gotten to work with these two.
Every time I apply for an event I cross my fingers they pick me and put me with the legends that made me love the game in the first place.
Hope I didn't miss my chance.
Ladies & Lads, it was a good run.
I will not be on commentary for the Tekken World Tour. I will still be around to work non-TWT events (hopefully) and support events where I can.
Regardless of everything, I'm proud of what I've done over the years 💪
We changed the game.
Last week @Joiiitk and @Shadow20z gave us a FIRE set in Loser's Semis!
The whole top 8 banged, but this match in particular I wanted to highlight!
Inspired by @HiFightTH
Real talk you guys want Tekken to be coded like Virtua Fighter so bad it's not even funny
Words like Linear and Tracking have concrete meanings, predictable outcomes, and you never say "Oh my god how did I get hit, that move's not supposed to track that way!"
#PlayMoreVF
It is... I didn't say "linear both ways," did I? I said Linear, and it's to her weakside as well. Why are you stepping left vs. her when she's weak to ssr?
Commentary Tip for Nerds:
Since #Tekken8 now has exactly 200 health and a visible combo damage counter, you can ALWAYS know exactly what percent the combo did!
Just cut the damage in half!
100 damage combo? 50%
90 damage combo? 45%
120 damage? 60%!
Congratulations to @Shadow20z for his win at #KIT2022 in Tekken 7! What a consistent champion!
A while ago, he and I sat down for a chat and he had some interesting things to say about his playstyle, mindset, and a few of the players in the Tekken community.
Fly Tek #16 goes off without a hitch! 3 Jack players in top 8 and @Speedkicks taking it with the Lee Chaolan showing off his execution and conditioning!
Only one more Fly Tek until TWT season is over with so if you didn't get in on this definitely get in on the next!
TEKKEN 8 NORTH AMERICA WEEKLY ROUNDUP
The goat @JoeCrush_ won every bracket he entered this week except for TNS! It is undeniable- he is the Jerry Rice of Tekken NA!
No TSE or LUYG still, but plenty of action in the TNS, Paragonline, and Ironmane staples!
One week from today at 1PM EST we're going to have another funtastic event
The Asuka v. Lili Lore Battle!
Commentated by none other than @tk_Sol_Naciente and @Fergus_TK!
I can't tell you how excited I am for this. All matches will be FT7 so strap in for the action next Sunday!
Jin seems to have lost the "I can parry literally everything" quality. Tried my best (while playing simultaneously with two controllers, for the culture) to parry these bullets, but no dice.
Kinda sad, but also the parry finally makes sense! Boy had no business parrying MISSILES
Yeah it's really interesting when I'm like "Man I hope Knee wins" and people are like "SO YOU THINK ARSLAN IS EVIL AND SHOULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR HIS CRIMES?"
Right while I'm in the middle of labbing him!
I've been training to become VF Mokujin, but I keep coming back to OOUAAAAAAAAA
Here's some fun tech for beginners getting into him!
🎉 Celebrate the Legend Lau Chan! 🎉
October 2 marks the birthday of Lau, the master of Koen-Ken martial arts! 🐅
Dive into his powerful techniques and signature moves with his character trailer below and see why he continues to dominate the arena! 💥
👉 Watch now: piped.video/watch?v=N2W1hzi6…
She also likes to talk smack about OTHER mfs from our locals when they play online too, hence the homies in the crowd for the popoff
There's definitely layers
My nephew is getting christened this month and I'm so excited to be with my family, explore Macedonia, and have real quality grass touching!
Unfortunately, that means that I will be missing CEO for the first time in 11 years.
I need y'all to bring that energy in my absence!
I have literally watched tournament sets with 140 damage combos with this character.
When people talk about characters needing nerfs, the damage on Lidia ALWAYS comes to mind for me.
When hit by the first two hits of handstand 3,3,3, from Eddy Gordo, you get hit for trying to duck the third hit, even though it's a high.
This is similar to the bug they patched out recently for Yoshimitsu's DGF F1+2.
#t8report
Been loving the direction of the recent announcements
Y'all complain the whole time a Tekken Talk happens anyway.
Nothing but content, none of the fluff, you love to see it.
Patch notes this, patch notes that, don't forget about what's goin' on out there in the streets!
@dreamconvention had 235 people in the bracket, culminating with the brothers @JoeCrush_ and @Riddum_Enjoyer in grand finals of a $10,000 pot battle!
Here's the lowdown!
What a bracket! What a night! We had so many close calls and astronomical odds comebacks! It's so fitting that this was our tenth flight together- thank you all for joining and enjoying our in flight entertainment @hamalakgames and @ThaKingzLane!