I haven't been playing actively for a few months and have just been getting warmed back up. This Steve was very aggressive and I feel like I exhibited grace under pressure 🫠. The back-to-the-wall comeback in the last round felt great!
I was just looking at the lineup again and I'm assuming there will be Air and Earth additions before adding more Water or Fire characters, but Unaloq would just be an excellent member of the cast!
One of the best villains ever, deep ties to the story that make waves into the future of the Avatar universe. Plus he would be the only male water bender in the lineup.
But mainly he would be great because his character has a lot of justification for a highly interesting play style. Spiritually attuned water bending plus >!Dark Avatar !< stuff could be adapted in many interesting ways.
Hey all, I was just taking notes on the Kunimitsu trailer and thought I'd share since it was a lot of work lol. This is a list of every move shown in the trailer in the order they appear. I've been playing her in Tekken 7 a lot to prep for her release. I'm Tekken King with Yoshi and Raven and she scratches a sort of rushdown itch that her ninja brethren don't for me haha, very excited for her release.
I'm assuming the same inputs for moves that are the same as T7. For stances I'll just use the names of the stances: SET (f3), KAT (1+2), MUS(uf3+4/KAT3+4), BT(b3+4). On some I'll include speculative notes on properties, etc. One or two moves I wasn't 100% sure of what I'm seeing, but I did my best.
Many really important key moves were not shown though, namely: 11 and variants, 22222 and variants, FCdf3 sweep, uf34 double hop knee, ff1+2 i30 mid unblockable, KAT32, and no MUS stance moves were shown. KAT3 was shown but the second hit was an important launcher. And 22,1+2 into KAT was shown, but the string could also go to SET on the third hit, BT on the fourth, and could CH launch on the fifth, and this string was core to the character. Less important for balance but important for fun: none of her fun gimmicky raw movement options like u3 or ub3 were shown.
My overall takeaway is that Kuni may have been made into way more of a mix-up/rushdown character, and less of a poking character. She was both before, but her key pokes were just not shown so we can't know if they have been altered to be less rewarding. She received updates to her BT stance make her Tekken 8 appropriate. Homing and Power Crush moves from BT to make the stance usable in the modern aggressive context. We'll have to see the frame data to confirm but as you'll see below I believe SET2 was made unsafe but given a follow-up instead. Plus, SET3 was shown on normal hit but not counter hit so we don't know if it will work how it used to, meaning we don't know if the CH 50/50 from SET is still intact. No BT throws were shown, but hopefully they're still there, but SET1+4 was shown and I got a lot of use out of that in T7. KAT looks similar overall but with a lot more particle effects as expected lol.
The moves in trailer order:
(Against Yoshi)
SET3 (CH launch, launch punishable)
f1+2 (very different animation)
(Against Lidia)
42 (hh into BT)
BTf1+2 (used to be a normal hit launcher, now looks like a power crush with a hit throw animation. Good change, power crush needed to make BT Tekken 8 friendly)
(Against Eddy)
b4 (into BT)
BT12 then 1+2 to enter KAT then KAT3 (she had jab strings from BT in T7, but no transitions to KAT from them. This is giving me Raven BT mix vibes which I love)
(Against Xiaoyu)
FCdf2 was the input for this move in T7 but it looks like she does it from neutral as a punish here. Weapon so not low parriable. I think it was -11 in T7. It also seems to leave her in FC for a WS mix on hit, which is awesome. She used to have db2 as a mid that left her in FC, and d1 as a low that left her in FC, but d1 was very slow and I found it hard to pull off.
WS11
124
(Against Jim)
df23d (cancels the low hit to FC for a mix-up)
New move! FCdf12/FCdf21? Looks similar to the new move Xiaoyu got in S2. And to Lei FCdf21. Leaves her in BT, this is like a lower risk FC mix option to keep pressure going if you don't want to go for something riskier)
BT13f (SET transition)
SET...uf3? (new move, looks like SETuf4 but the hit throw animation is totally different. And it gives her a follow up)
ff42 (just noting this left Jim FDFA and VERY close to Kuni. Exciting for Oki setups!)
(Against Reina)
SET...21? (This looks like SET2 with a follow up. SET2 was an infamous i12 mid CH launcher. It was -9 on block so you gave your turn away but it wasn't punishable. If this is SET2 with a follow-up, my guess is it is now unsafe raw, but you can use the follow up to catch punishes. Also a space trap, which they use to set up df2 in the trailer)
df2
New move! 3~4? Looks like Hwo's 3~4 but leaves her in BT.
BT122 (tornado move now)
b3+4 (manual BT transition)
BTf3+4?? (This looks like her neutral f3+4 which she couldn't use from BT in T7. She didn't have a homing move from BT except one that followed a high, so this is a good T8 update. In T7, f3+4 was an advancing high homing CH launcher, very safe but slow. Can't see here though because it's used in a combo)
SETuf4 (floor break in T7)
HB!
df3+4b (great mid transition to BT in 7)
BT1+2 (weapon mid check)
WTF1+2??? That's a crazy new move! Power crush, probably uses a ton of heat.
Heat move into BT. Her Fire Scarf(TM) is still lit, so it wasn't her heat smash. Thought the scarf might be an install at first, but she uses her heat smash in short order and the scarf goes away.
BT13f
SET2 (confirmed tornado on CH, Reina was starting up an attack when it landed)
Heat Smash
(Against Raven)
WS24 (heat engager. Used to be able to use f to transition to set with it, and the 4 was a ch knd)
f*d,df2 (i14 mid knd) sounds like a just frame version from the sound effect
d341
22 then 1+2(KAT)
KAT_? New low start string from KAT. Spiritual successor to KAT42 which was a low high ch knd, but this move is a weapon and splats.
df13 (looks like a tornado, the 3 is a high ch launch in T7)
d212,1+2
f4f to SET
SET21 into heat dash, so I guess that's a head engager follow up, otherwise I was wrong about labeling this move SET21 before and it's just a new move
db24
f*d,df2
SETuf3? (same new move as against Jim)
KATf to SET1+4
BT3
KAT??? Maybe a taunt? Could be a parry or a new stace technically, but Raven doesn't attack and she doesn't do anything out of it so probably not.
qcf1 mwahahaha
u,ub
uf1+2? New move, maybe like Jun's uf2 that is like a slower but bigger hitbox df2
Rage art