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Which Side to Sidestep, Basic Overview

By Eita Carái!

This is a simplified (but not that simplified) guide to sidestep accordingly to each character.

The notes aren't perfect, since I just gathered information on the web and tried to fill with some personal experience, and everyone is welcome to help to improve the guide.

These are the references I've used to start my guide, big thanks to Paul and Mus
Paul Guide
Mus Guide

Award

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Category: Characters, Gameplay Basics, Secrets

Languages: English

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26 Dec, 2022 @ 7:45pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Discord Channel

Sidestep List

Last But Not Least

That's it Folks

Comments

Discord Channel

Well, you can also get into https://discord.gg/tekkenzaibatsu and learn much more about the game and get better at it. There are a lot more resources there, a LOT of character specific resources, and a lot of nice users that you can exchange experience learn new things and play with.

Sidestep List

Character

Side

Specific Character Match Up Tip

Akuma

SSL

Sidestep isn't a safe everytime, prefer to backdash him

Armor King

SSR

Step a Lot, most of buffered throws can be backdashed except GS, good kings can use iSW to mix, unline EWGF, DU is -10

Alisa

SSL

Sidestep is not a must

Anna

SSR

Overwall she has poor tracking, CJM on block isn't that good, duck her RA

Asuka

SSR

Caution when step. Patience, elbows and knees nulifies her counter

Bob

SSR

On midrange Sidestep Left

Brian

SSR

He has real good homing, caution to sidestep

Claudio

SSL

Caution with sidestep

Devil Jin

SSL

Advanced players can catch SS with WS2 and launch you

Dragunov

SSR

On midrange Sidestep Left

Eddy Gordo

SSR

Be careful when he lays down in front of you, he can launch using a mid or a low

Eliza

SSL

Fahkumram

SSL

Be careful steping BF4 can catch you, and all wall unblockables are very linear

Feng

SWR

Sidestep Left to evade a Df1 or Hopkick

Ganryu

SSR

SSL or SWL after blocking the first hit of b21. Caution, low RD

Gigas

SSL

Caution with midrange Sidestep

Geese

SSL

Step with caution, and remember B3, Df+1, QCB2, D2 tracks to the right

Heihachi

SSL

Caution on the wall, old man can destroy you there

Hwoarang

SWL

SWL is his weak side in all of his stances aside from RFS, duck can be viable. D3,4 can be avoided with SWL

Jack

SSL

Caution on Sidestep

Jin

SSR

his RA is a High, RD is a High Mid that can go to a slow mid, or HS

Josie

SSL

She has a LOT of duckable moves

Julia

SSR

Range 0 and 1 step to Right, Range 2 or 3 you should step to Left

Katarina

SSL

For B+1, D+1 and Df+2, Sidestep Left

Kazumi

SSL

Sidestep Right the WR 2, beware 1+2 grab at the wall

Kazuya

SSL

SWL to evade HS, ALWAYS punish TP (-12), D/F+2 (-12) and WS2 (-18)

King

SSR

Step a Lot, most of buffered throws can be backdashed except GS, good kings can use iSW to mix

Kuma

SSR

WS 3 has good tracking, take caution to sidestep

Kunimitsu

SSR

SSL when BT. Parry can be floated or sidesteped, but not blocked

Lars

SSR

Sidestep and Sidewalk a lot

Law

SSR

In general good homing moves, WS2 tracks a lot and pls punish it if you block

Lee

SSL

Lei

SSR

you can poke him out of animal stances after razor rush on block, be careful when he lays down

Leo

SSL

Leroy

SSL

Lidia

SSL

Her HS tracks only to right , many moves are very linear, but her hopkick tracks well

Lili

SSR

Backflip can still clip you, aside from 1+2, BT 2 that tracks left and hopkick has little track to R, in general she's very linear

LuckyChloe

SSL

Sidestep Right with taution for hopkick and backturned mix

Marduk

SSL

MasterRaven

SSL

Caution while Stepping

Miguel

SSL

Negan

SSL

Nina

SSR

Careful with Db+3

Noctis

SSR

On Midrange Sidestep Left

Panda

SSR

WS 3 has good tracking, take caution to sidestep

Paul

SSR

In general good homing moves

Shaheen

SSL

Duck/Block are better than Sidestep him

Steve

SSL

Df+2 on S4 is very linear and steppable, Backdash him is still very viable

Xiaoyu

SSR

when she's backturned SSL, for AoP use moves with a low hitbox to hit her out of AoP

Yoshimitsu

SSL

Sidestep Right for his ranged moves

Zafina

SSL

Caution while stepping

Last But Not Least

Here are some VALUABLE RESOURCES

For framedata you can check the AMAZING Good n Old RBNorway[rbnorway.org] or New and Even Better RBNorway[rbnorway-t7.web.app]

Dealing with King chainthrows with gifs and much more. But steam censors the F word on the link and doesn't let me use a shortener to avoid it, so it's your job to remove the space in the middle of the link to access it https://kenjatimebeginner.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/fu (REMOVE THIS SPACE) ck-king-chain-throws-lmaoo

But in general there's sorta of a rule, some chainthrows can be done mashing (and many King players do this way), these you can break by mashing 1 , the MAX damage routes are always broken with 2, and 1+2 is the medium reward but it's a little trickier to mash it because they doesn't appear everytime

Sometimes we suck at dealing with strings, so Somsana made a guide (its kinda old, but it works nicely on the most part) Don't let them String Cheese you![docs.google.com]

That's it Folks

Well I think that's it, hope these community knowledge that I've organized here could've helped you to get better and understand a little better the game and enjoy it way more

:)

22 Comments

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Eita Carái! [author] 14 May, 2023 @ 6:58am

@sidvicious :) é nóis

sidvicious 13 May, 2023 @ 12:56am

belo guia, uso bastante entre as partidas

Eita Carái! [author] 26 Dec, 2022 @ 7:46pm

After a long time with no updates, I tried to improve a little the guide, hope it can helps everyone

I am an alligator 30 May, 2022 @ 7:14pm

Alright cool, thanks!

Eita Carái! [author] 28 May, 2022 @ 8:21pm

You step to your side, for exemple King is kinda weak to his left side, a some of his important moves struggles to track to his left, so to make some of these key moves whiff you should step to your right (down if you're on P1 side, or up if you're on P2 side).

But these sidestep guides isn't necessary a rule, because the player can delay or realign (with a wavedash or just pressing foward) his character to make these moves that "doesn't track" kinda track. Some of the characters are marked to sidestep to the weak the side of its main toolkit, but it doesn't means they won't have alternative moves to compensate this.

The ideal is try to lab the move and the situation you're struggling and try to find a way out it, or at least how to prevent the situation

I am an alligator 28 May, 2022 @ 3:09pm

hey this is kinda stupid but when people talk about which direction to sidestep, do they mean relative to your opponent, or your orientation? EG, side step left means to side step to your opponent's left side, or your left side?

Eita Carái! [author] 27 May, 2022 @ 1:00pm

Alright, I fixed it HipHopSamurai, thanks for sharing the info :)

HipH0pSamurai 27 May, 2022 @ 8:02am

Kunimitsu should be SSR but is labelled SSL her BT moves are weak to left not her neutral tools

Brettosaurus 10 May, 2022 @ 10:08pm

Thanks for the guide, much appreciated :)

Eita Carái! [author] 22 Dec, 2021 @ 6:06am

Thanks for the shared knowledge STICC, I added those infos on the guide :)

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