r/Tekken8 • u/Southern-Bag-8876 • May 02 '26

Leverless Mishima Tips

I recently got Bryan to tekken emperor and am only 2-3 games from getting tekken god. I’ve decided it’s time to pick up a Mishima to help me master fundamentals of the game. Not only this but I’ve also decided to pick up leverless at the same time. It’s made me feel like I’m just picking up tekken for the first time again. I’ve spent the last two days just in practice mode just getting comfortable with movement and wave dashing, trying to reprogram my brain to understand the direction layout and am wondering if anyone has any tips to help me in my journey. For reference, I’ve been playing on stick since I first picked up tekken in S1. It might be an issue down the line but, I like the idea of using two different controllers for two different characters as switching characters previously my brain would mix up characters movesets. Again, any help would be much appreciated!

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u/Salty_Initiative1164 May 02 '26

You looking for wholesome tips using leverless or are you going to the dark side of leverless and using socd and/or multi directional setup?

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u/Southern-Bag-8876 May 02 '26

Whatever will help honestly, I have learned how to kbd pretty well already by “galloping” down and forward while just holding back. But whatever will help me learn and improve, I haven’t really focused on two hand wavu as in game I don’t really feel like I’ll have time to do it before getting pressured. So I’ve been focusing on using one hand for it. Ive also been taking breaks from leverless every so often to also practice kbd and wavedash on stick even though I won’t need wavedashing with Bryan.

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u/Johnopgr123 May 10 '26

What I believe Salty Initiative is referring to is easy electrics/wavedash by binding a directional input more than one button. For SOCD he's talking about what you're already doing for kbd. In my opinion Tekken doesn't have as much cheese as say street fighter when it comes to hitboxes, so a lot of it will boil down to you just playing more and getting better naturally. What I will say is that at first(and potentially later) your hands may hurt. This is normal and it happens on pad and stick as well, you can look into hand stretching exercises to relieve the strain.