552: Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection PS3 \\ What chars CAN'T exploit down-forward kick? {Ghost Battle}

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Published on July 27, 2021 12:08:50 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPr7yg4LOo

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Tekken 5 (2004)

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In my last Ghost Battle session of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection on PS3, using Heihachi https://youtu.be/nyzfETmGvtA , I found that, given my meager skills, my best bet by far was to spam his down-forward-right-kick kick, a snap kick to waist height that can't be blocked crouching, and has a deadly mix of speed, range, and firing rate that tends to interrupt whatever the AI tries to do--and up until just a few ranks under the very tip-top AI rank, I could win just by using it over and over.

Unfortunately that kind of breaks the game for myself with Heihachi, because, being unable to resist the lure of such power, all I do is that move until I get to facing opponents where I definitely can't do anything else--so it's just really repetitive, I never learn his other moves, and I end up hating the game. : P

I began to recall that other characters had a similar dfRK move, and I started to worry that maybe I had broken the game entirely for myself! So I did an extra session here to try out the characters I was thinking of playing more, to see if any of them *can't* exploit that move (or down-forward-*left*-kick), so that I could still enjoy playing them; I was testing move spam against sorta high rank AIs in Ghost Battle, picked by the "Very Hard" difficulty setting (Ultra Hard at first was a bit *too* high rank for easy testing ; ):

0:00 - start
1:56 - Heihachi - can
8:36 - Devil Jin - can't
10:06 - Raven - can't
12:26 - Asuka - not really?
13:37 - Feng - can
14:44 - Asuka - kinda?
16:24 - Wong - short but kinda yeah
18:20 - Armor King - can
19:19 - Jinpachi - sure can
21:32 - Marduk - no but his bRK is kinda worse
25:42 - Law - can
27:07 - Hwoarang - can but has loads of other strong moves
30:57 - King - can w/ dfLK
32:51 - Lili - can't
34:07 - Dragunov - can
36:13 - Paul - can but has tons of OP stuff anyway
38:06 - Jack-5 - short but kinda but has loads of tough stuff
40:56 - Lei - can
46:11 - Nina - can
47:15 - Kazuya - can
52:05 - Jin - can't
53:22 - Lee - can
54:42 - Bryan - can't
58:52 - Anna - mayyybe w/ left kick?
1:02:10 - Christie - can't
1:03:00 - wrap-up!

So maybe overall this was an okay thing, because while I kinda had fun with the likes of Heihachi, Jinpachi, Marduk and King before I knew about this unbalanced-for-n00bs kick spam thing, now I've cut the playable roster down to a much more manageable size for myself; I've still got Devil Jin, Raven, Hwoarang, Lili, Paul, Jack-5, Jin, and Bryan.

Actually I'll probably have to find some way to whittle the list down further at some point because that's still eight characters, which is a lot to try to work on! Three of them--Hwoarang, Paul, and Jack-5--*can* spam dfRK pretty effectively, but they're also such strong characters that even a chump like me can mash out what seem to be--at least in this quick test--equally strong results with other moves.

If you're good at Tekken the whole single-move-spam thing probably isn't a problem for you since you can do way better stuff. For me though, it's definitely trouble!

7/25/21

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