VERY Advanced Guide to Playing Heihachi version 1 By Reverend C. (K.C. Ma) e-mail me at: kma@uci.edu ***************** * Legal Things: * ***************** Tekken and all the characters in Tekken are copyrighted by Namco. This guide is written by me, but if you want to distribute it or print it or whatever, feel free to do so as long as you don't alter the content. If you have to alter the content, to be included in your web site, or pub- lication, or whatever because my grammar sucks and I can't spell, just e-mail me. If you want to make a profit out of this FAQ... e-mail me for my written consent, but if you don't, I probably will not find out about it, but if I find out, I don't know, we'll find out when that hap- pens. But if I see a crappy version of my guide being passed around web (because you have some lame comments or technique, and you want to add it to my work) I will not be very happy about it. ********************* * Table of Content: * ********************* Why Heihachi? Introduction Movelist Movelist In-Depth Strategies -Kicking Ass -Crouch Dashing -Custom Strings -Countering -Okizeme -Juggle -Throw -Chicken -Defending -Interupting -Blocking or Sidestep -Reversal & Parry -Chicken Juggles/Combos -Garanteed Juggles -Stun Combos -Escapeable Juggles VS. Human Strategy -coming in the next revision Having Fun Conclusion Credits **************** * Why Heihachi * **************** Heihachi is the hardest non stance-changing regular sized character to master in Tekken. With that cleared up, you might ask, why play Heihachi? Well, once you understand the nature of Heihachi, you will be so hooked on Heihachi's style of play. Heihachi is pure power! No fancy foot work, no complicated stance changing, no turtling all day waiting for an opening to attack, Heihachi is about constant carefully thoughtout attack that lead to juggles that take off one third of the life bar (if not more). When you're playing Heihachi, you don't try to do a whole bunch of high, low level mix- ing attacks and tick your opponent to death. Your whole objective will be starting a juggle, and then keep them juggle as long as possible and watch your opponent's life bar drains while float helplessly in the air. The way Heihachi fights reflect his personality. Heihachi will intimidate and des- troy you! ********* * Intro * ********* Before I start, there's one thing I'd like to say here. I write FAQs in a span of about two weeks, and during this time, new ideas occur to me, and I learn new things sometimes. If that happens and I change my mind or want to add, I use *time lapse* to denote that. If I jump from topic to topic, or my view on one move completely changed, it's probably because I learn something new in that time. Anyway, ike my other FAQs, this FAQ is geared toward high level competition and not intro to Heihachi for begin- ners. I'm assuming that you know how to block, how to side-step, how to juggle, how to parry, etc. This FAQ is meant for people who are already good at other charactrs, but what to try Heihachi, because he has the best, and I do mean BEST juggle of all. If you're sick of Nina/Anna's poking, Lei and Ling's stance changing, Paul's deathfist, Hwoarang's tricks, or Julia/Michelle's tick damages, try Heihachi. Heihachi will not only win fights, he'll destroy! Heihachi is power and offense in its purest form in Tekken, he is the character designed to kick ass! Few things before you start though, if you haven't played characters that has crouch dashing moves (f,n,d,df), be prepared to spend a lot of time to learn to do this. To play Heihachi, you MUST be able to do this every single time! If you ever wanted a Wind God Fist, a something else come out instead, you're not ready to win serious competitions with Heihachi yet, crouch dashing is so important to Heihachi because without it, Heihachi will lose on consistant basis. Heihachi should stay outside of throw range (just a little bit). At this range, Heihachi can start his crouch dashing guessing game, and he doesn't have to worry too much about constant poking of faster character. I know I make Heihachi sound like the best character in Tekken once you master him, and he probably is one of the best character (right there with Nina, Anna, Kazuya, Jin), but playing Heihachi isn't easy. It'll take perfect timing, extremely quick reaction, exploit every chance to inflict damage to the fullest extent. The old man is getting old (73 or 74), he has slowed down and weakened a bit since Tekken 2. The recovery is very slow (don't ever wiff when you choose Heihachi), and his Hell Sweeps, Wind God Fist, and Twin Pistons aren't as powerful as they were in Tekken 2. Heihachi's strength lies in the damage he can inflict with juggles, and his weakness is the slow recovery time of many of his important moves. If you can learn to deal with the slow recovery time, you will kill your com- petition with the sheer power that Heihachi possess. ************ * Movelist * ************ Conventions: Refer to Tekken Zaibatsu http://www.tekken.net for convention. Throws: Command Place Name Escape 1+3 front Neck Breaker 1 2+4 front Power Bomb 2 f,f+1+2 [~5] front Stone Head 1+2 #1#2 f,f+1+4 front Head Butt Carnival 1+2 #3#4 2+5 anywhere Tag Throw 2 1+3_2+4 left Tile Splitter Gullotine 1 1+3_2+4 right Freefall 2 1+3_2+4 back Atomic Bomb N/A #1 You can quick recover after this throw #2 Special Tag only work with Jun #3 Only work on Jin, Heihachi, Kuma, and Lei. #4 Can be reversed with 1 or 2, and Heihachi can reverse again with 1+2 Special Technique Command Name Range Special Properties b+1 Alter Splitter m GB KS#1 1,2 Double Punch h,h =4 Roundhouse h 1,1<2 Shining Fist h,h,m #2 1,2<2 Demon Slayer h,h,h #2 =~1+2 [~U_~D] Demon Executioner [~side-step] m f+1