Tekken Tag 2 tomorrow, who's getting it? Who wants to play?

[Burning Typhoon]

Now... for the subject at hand...

TTT2 has things TTT1 didn't have, and is played completely differently because of it. You have walls, bound, and a ton more characters, attacks, and tag specific combos. You have to learn Unknown's move-set, either by using Jun in training mode, or learn by what you see.

Press 3, or Down-Forward with timing of any low attack. You can go into training mode- or replay. Any attack that hits with the low icon, can be parried. You have to parry if you ever want to be good in Tekken. Any good player is going to give you a high-low guessing game, and if you can't parry low attacks, you're going to get stomped every time

You also have to learn every character's strings, at least by sight so you know what to expect. I don't know them all, but, if you do a string that I know contains a low, you're getting parried.

But, being defensive doesn't stop there. You need to also know how to use your character's parry attacks, which is 4+LP+LK, if the character has it. For example, my 3 main characters, Feng, Lili, and Leo all have punch parries. If you do a string that I know has a mid punch, you're not going to be safe on my block.

Lastly. You don't need combos. Don't go off on youtube trying to do the highest damaging combos.

1. You'll constantly try them, and become insanely predictable.
2. It's more effective to go for powerful single strikes, and save the combos for when your opponent wiffs, or makes a mistake. Don't go for a combo out of no where, it's not going to work.

With rage mode activated, you should be able to take out someone's character with 3-5 clean hits anyway. No damage scale. In other words, don't use a combo.

Then, learn to properly back and forward dash. Which are close to impossible to do on a directional pad and requires an arcade stick... Which is why I saved this tip for last.

One thing about fighters is that you're going to have to lose a whole lot before you get any good. But, no matter how much you play any Tekken game released before Tekken 6, it will not prepare you for TTT2.