 When I started Tekken 8, I had never taken any Tekken game seriously before and I made my goal to get purple rank. Well, technically red, but once I got that, I had my eye set on Mighty Ruler. And now finally, after weeks of the game being out, I've actually done it. I got Mighty Ruler. Yeah, I wanted to get it on video, but I was streaming it over on Twitch. I just happened to be in that Tekken flow state. You know what I'm talking about and got it. So while we can't hit the rank up in a video, we can definitely play some ranked games in the video and try to get the next goal, Blue Rank. And it looks like we're starting things off by going up against the Flame Ruler Mishima player, Jane. I like the fit though. I like the fit. Do I start with an arm move? No, no, no. Let me space it out. Down two. All right. All right. It was bad. Oh, grab. All right. Nice. He takes it, but that's fine. Side step. Let's go. Punish step. Range. I'll range him there. Running two. No, that's fine. Look, I'm a purple player now. I gotta, I gotta play a little dangerous. Oh, I gotta play a little risky while rising launcher out of nowhere. I can't let a BB on my stage. Down two. Take the plus. Oh, go low. Oh, he actually blocks low. Okay. Now we know. Oh, I should have stayed crouch. Side step. No, not going to work there. Running two. No. Oh, we get the down two launcher. That's it. That's it for the round. It's over. My goodness. What a pickup. You know, I got to hit him after the fact. I'm an armor. Don't ever in your life try to hit me. Watch the feet. Watch the feet. Oh, don't watch the feet. You can't watch the feet. Was that a reset? I think that might have been a reset. Oh, he actually blocks low. Don't block low ever again in your life because you know I'm going to be there to mix you up. Oh, my God. I'm stupid. I'm actually stupid. Oh, my God. Why is the eye going? Side step. No, that wasn't the side step spot. Oh, that low was crazy. Down two. Block it. Oh, why did he run up? He ran up and got hit by that for no reason. I'll take it. I'll kick him in the head. I'm really going to try to be disrespectful when I do that. But just so happens that launcher. Oh, God, he went low. Oh, God, he went low. I'm just hoping he doesn't keep going low because I can't block that. I can't let him dox me. I can't let him know. Oh, no. Up grab. No tech. We're going to get some free damage, a little bit of heals. All right. I got checked. Keep checking them. OK. Nice block. No punish though. That's insane. We do have a little bit of rage though so we can make this work. Launcher. Yes. I should have just went into the heat. I could have easily won. Oh, what are you whiffing hop kicks for? I'm going to be there to take it. We'll take game one and 400 plus points. Oh, flame ruler never looks so close. Can we please just keep winning out in this video? That would be beautiful. That would be beautiful. Hold on. Let my Leo talk some shade. Armor attack. I'll take the knockdown. Don't ever crouch in your life. OK, nice. Armor attack. Get off me. Watch them legs. OK, you watch them legs. Nice range. All right, decent. Oh, God, block low. Block low. He went for the little electric. I smelled that low coming. To be fair, I was blocking a long time. I should have taken the heat for the combo, man. That's bad. But we fished out of forward, forward two. Look at me. I'm talking like a Tekken player. I know the lingo. When you know the lingo, all that's left is to know. I can't speak. All that's left is to know the game. One, two, come here. Why not? Why not let it fly? Get him down. Oh, and then the face to it to a grab. I'm all over him. He's getting run over now. Down two. Crouch. Bye-bye. Crouch. No, OK, look at him. Look at him scared though. Let me charge up. And that's it. Full power. Once you get that charge off the forward two, why not go full power? We get new strings. Oh, he actually clicked a button. Crouch. No, no crouch there. No crouch there. He punished me for that one. All right, good. Armor up. Why not? We are kind of cheesing right now. Oh, why am I hop kicking? That was bad. Crouch. Let's go. No, you can't do that there. There you go. That's the punish for that while standing forward, while standing forward. OK, OK, he knows I'm crouching now, but that's actually good. I want him to not go for low. So if he wants to crowd. No way. I'm going to win this. He's panicking. No, he's not. I just totally whiffed and easily punishable move and I cost myself the round. Side step. Why not? Go ahead. Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up. Damn. Crouch. I should have kept crouch. Really, bro, I thought I thought we had come to a decision that we weren't going to do lows anymore. Crouch this. Oh, that was a heavy read and a half and I did not take that throw. Is he is this just a gamer? Does he have to go low? Oh, that's what I've been trying to do. Damn my feet. OK, come on. Don't choke this. Don't choke this. Come on. Fight back. Fight back. Don't let him take the lead in a situation like this. What the fuck? No. If we can't even punish that, what hope is there of winning, dude? Hold on. Let's go. Have him in. Come on. Keep going. He's got a rage art. No. No heat. Oh, you actually went for the heat. I didn't think you were crazy. I did not think he was crazy like that. OK, come on. I know he reversed three out of me, but I feel like if we clutch up, we can still get this win and come out of this positive. We don't have to leave the first set of the purple rank video in a bad mood. We can survive. Side step. No. No, stop crouching, you idiot. Oh, why did I think that would work? Oh, my God, I'm getting bodied out here now. Oh, now you're going to... No, fight back. Fight back, Leo. Come on. I still don't lose these. Oh, my God. Oh, it's terrible. I keep getting hit by a wake up dive. Just block and punish that. Launch putters that. Oh, wow, we are in a bad way right now. I am in such a bad way. Mentally, I've boomed. I think the mental boom is too much. Oh, wait, we got a launcher. OK, hold on, hold on, hold on. We can make this come back. Let me just use my heat attack now. Let me just use my heat attack now. Let's get a little party time going. Why not? I got a little off the top too. I got a little off the top. Let's keep them under pressure. That would have left me plus anyway. So I felt pretty good. Don't ever swing on me in your life. Nice grab. Good distance there. He's not breaking that. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I didn't think he would block that low, obviously. If I had, I would have never gone for it. Jin, you know that. You know me. You know me. Don't go low. Don't go low. A little off the top. Why not? Down two. Nice. Tell me you clicked a button without telling me you clicked a button, Jin. Sit down. This round's all mine. Fish it out. Burn it up. He didn't block low. Oh, wow. You didn't block it all that time. That's plus. Come on. Crouch. Let's go. Full power. Just get in. Go for the heat. We're pl- Oh, yeah. I'm sad we lost game two, but I'll take the set. 450 points. I need to get up to middle of metal ruler at least. Come on. Come on. I want to at least see what flame ruler is all about. Let me, let me up there. The goal is to get the blue ranks. If I get the blue ranks as a Tekken scrub, I'm feeling great, dude. I need to learn how to play better defense, but after that, I mean, blue ranks would just feel so validating. You know, it's funny because on the top of the list of not knowing how to play defense is I don't know how to break rat. Oh, he's in a suit. We're cooked. We're cooked. It's the undertaker, bro. Oh, God. Oh, don't scare me like this, bro. Don't just random hop kick. And now I'm getting cooked. Oh, the color of the water change. Oh, wow. He actually just went for it. Oh, my God. I'm cooked. Oh, Leo. I don't know how I got overwhelmed. I got overwhelmed and scared. Overwhelmed this. Oh, you knew, you knew. Get off me. What? This step, he's cooking me. This step is cooking me after I get hit. Is there any way to break that? I don't think so. Oh, no. Oh, no, brother. Oh, my goodness. I don't know what to do. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got to get random. Let's go get random. Just play around. Play around his randomness a little bit. Okay. Oh, what are we backflipping for? Oh, God. Damn, my poor input execution. Please let that. Be it's not it. Oh, please let that be it. Bro. Bro, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, my God, I can't I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. It's this is a. This is a dead set, bro. I an actual smart player would just run away, an actual smart player that cares about rank points would run away, but sadly, I've sworn an oath and never do that. I'm literally just a free point pinata for this guy. But that's the negative way of thinking, the positive way of thinking is I'm going to cook this guy. Side step. All right. All right, it's looking a little bad for me. Prouch. Oh no, no more slow moves, bro. No more slow moves. You gotta earn it now. You gotta earn it. Heat attack, stand up. Up against the wall, buddy. Give me. Up against the wall there, buddy boy. Up against the wall. Why not? Why not go for it all? Down two. I'm plus. Get your legs. Get your legs out of here. If I can just overwhelm him before he can overwhelm me, we might have a chance. Watch this. Dive back. Yes. Oh, I got hit with the crouching forward too. That's not good. King, wait. Armor up. That's fine. 22. Oh, I'm getting blown up by that move. Drop it, drop it. There's nothing in the drop is there. Yeah, I thought so. Okay, so last time I did get my launcher but it didn't really work out. Got him. Come on. He jumped it. He jumped it. It's too obvious to him. He is a smart tech and player right here. He can learn. Hopkick that. That is such a slow low, bro. If we just hopkick, we are free. If we just hopkick, we are so free right there. Oh wait, I'm alive? I'm dead. I'm alive. Oh my God, we're plus here. Oh God. Come on. Come on, bro. You thought it was gonna be free, huh? You thought it was gonna be free. Well, guess what, buddy boy? It was. And you're welcome for it too. Come on. Come on, come on. Think. Oh my God. Brouch. No, okay, that's fine. What the? I don't even know what to do. I'm mashing. Yeah, you wanna grab some? Okay. All right, so you knew. Oh my God. Let's go, random hopkick. That's the only way to be good players, bro. It's the only way. Well, power. Oh no. Random hopkick. I told you, bro. It's the only way to be good player. Oh. No. Yes. No. Yes, just random jab. Thank God. Jab, jab, jab. Yeah. Yeah, I bet you're pissed now, huh? Oh, just hopkick right there. Oh, just hopkick if we don't have to feel this pain. Oh, he dropped it. He dropped it. When in doubt, hopkick it out. Oh my God. No. Brouch. Yeah. No, it didn't work. Well, we got two wins. So at least we improved, but I think it was mostly just running over and random hopkicks. And now we're on the verge of being demoted. So rough, rough life. All right, now we're up against Anita here and oh, that should have counted. Come on. That should have given me a counter. I don't know why Blocklow. It should have given me the counter hit, man. Damn, this down too. All right, come on. Hey, good defense. Get up against the wall. How about you get up against the wall? Let's see what happens. Nice. What the? Give me another grab. Give me another grab. We need to heal up. Go ahead and launch. Good enough. Do I do it? Oh, wait, wait, wait. Let's go. You just got randomly hit. I don't care if it was random. I just need wins. I don't care if they're random. Armor attack. Oh God, I hate when I do that. I hate when I do that because then I just look like an idiot, but I promise I was just hoping that they were an idiot. Damn, Crouchmore. Just Crouchmore, Crouchmore in this match. What's the break on that? I hate tech and grabs, bro. Just, is it so hard to just do one grab system, man? I know it's a less interesting game, okay? I get it, I get it, but sometimes things don't have to be interesting. They could just be breakable grabs. Side step, easy. Let's go. Keep the pressure. Oh, what are you clicking? What are you clicking right there? I gotta know. Oh, but we hit the launcher just a step to it. Why is it so laggy? Are you taking Steam screenshots over there? Are you? Probably not, but I still gotta let you know. I still gotta let you know. I'm up around. I'm up around. We have all of the pressure off of us. All of the pressure's on our opponent now. Now too. Oh God. Side step. No, no, no, no, no, my arm. Get off me, bitch. Okay. Oh, we know that that's all she does off that heat drive. Why do I ever let that happen to me? I always let that happen to me. I don't know why. Full power. God, it's lagging. Steam screenshots? Question mark? Steam screenshots. I gotta call it out like I see my arm. That's gotta be punishable with like two, two, and I'm just not doing it in the corner. No way. I don't know how to break grabs. I hate it here. I hate it. All right. Now it's an even pressure match. Side step that easy. Oh yeah. What? So you're just gonna crouch. Oh, let's go. And I got hit by that. Now you do this. And then I just, I just hop kick. What? Oh no. Oh, that's gonna give me a pop up. I love it here. Let's go free damage. Extra free damage. Oh, it's an extra free game I thought you were gonna, I thought you were gonna rage art. I'm not even gonna lie. I went quiet cause I thought it was all over for me. I'll take the round. I feel like this is a nice round for me. I can get two here. I can get two. Oh, fungal. Come on. Actually it was lagging. Nevermind. I completely understand. I just, I got hype. I forgot it was lagging. I got hype cause I won. No, don't do this to me, bro. Don't put me up against another higher rank Leo, bro. I'm not ready to be embarrassed. I'm not ready to be embarrassed. I'm the one in the red. I'm the one in the red. Just so you know, that's the case I pull off an upset here. Oh, okay. Watch that. Oh, no. Oh, you did the kick. Oh, I'm not, I'm not falling for any of that, bro. I'm not falling for any of that. I've seen the ancient texts. I was there when they were written. And that was the worst hop kick of maybe my whole career. No, wait, that's plus. You got to respect it. Oh God, what am I doing? Oh, why did I block low? You got to wait. You got to wait. I could have just dunked that too. Oh, wow, you did the sidestep move. Oh, that could have been a good launcher for me. Let's go. You're gonna get hit by that. Oh, no. No, armor. No, I thought it would work. Let's go, heat attack in the corner. We kind of wasted it there. All right, we sidestep. I just wanted to rage art. I just wanted to rage art. I was feeling extra scrubby this morning. No, let's go. That's a good move. That's a good move for the Leo matchup. Back down three. Keep your eyes on that one. Keep your eyes on that one. Oh, no. Oh, let's go. We got around. We got around, which means we could still win this thing, which means we're still in it. Nice, good grab. That's gonna start off with a chunk of damage already. No, why the, okay, don't do back down three there. Oh, God, the damage. Oh, God, the damage. Oh, God, the damage. Oh, no. It's too much, bro. It's too much. Could have been a great launcher. Get in the corner. Yes, get in the corner. This could be just what I needed. No, let's go. Easy punish. You must have thought I was some kind of scrub. Oh, I am a scrub. I crouch because I thought of, I thought he would want the free damage. I thought you would want the free damage, but you didn't. You went for the kill. You're crazy. You're crazy, bro. I can't afford to lose again. All right, we got valuable information out of that. I know the Leo matchup a little bit better. I mean, I know I'm looking for one of the, let's go. He's afraid of the low too. Now I don't know why he's using that high string so often. Is that good? I thought that move was bad. Like I never use that high string option. Okay, all right. Well, oh, you blocked that. Okay, crazy. Okay, crazy. All right, a little crazy. Yeah, a little crazy. I don't know why these hop, this hop kick urge has never, oh, what? How did that miss? I'm pissed. No, no, no. No, how does that get blocked? There's no way. Maybe I made it too obvious. I sidestep this. Let's go. Whoa, it didn't mean to do my armor there. That was a mistake. Nice. Random heat attack, but it's good. Let's go, free damage. Let's go, even more free damage. Okay, down forward one is the key here. Down forward, ah! Down forward one, just get up. I saw myself crouch too, which means I just messed up the input. I'll take that. I mean, that was just a lucky launcher, except I had already ruined it. Oh, the low parry was so obvious there. Okay, that's fine. We could use that against them. No, why am I? Oh, let's go. Why didn't mean to do that? I don't know if this kills. I'm just hoping. Come on, right? It's like a little bit of damage needed, right? Rage art, please kill, bro, please. I don't know if I could have done more after the cob I probably could have. I'm so pissed. That was so useless. He's gonna rage art right back. No, he's not. So you're an honorable player, bro. What? Am I supposed to care? No, no crouch? When you decide to crouch? I can't read him on this last match. Usually he crouches at nine times out of 10. The charge up was kind of disrespectful. Oh no, I got clipped. Let's go. Let's go off the top. Or one, yes! Let's get this comeback. I can't lose this rank. Do I armor up here? I'm crazy. I'm just crazy enough to do it. Oh, he finally did the stomp. Oh my God, he's attacking me low now because he knows his high pressure. Okay, we got free damage. Clutch up! I couldn't clutch up and now I'm on the verge of the motion. Oh, we gotta go into the next one just to see if it happens. One more set, one more. Please let me clutch up, bro, please. There's no way for my final match I gotta play against Devil Jin, bro. There really is just no way I should be here right now. I've never been known to play against Devil Jin's and win, but I will take my best efforts here. Oh, why am I jabbing? Why am I jabbing? That's not a good trade. Oh no, here I go again. Here I go again. Oh, I just thought, sorry. What the, what? Laser beam! I hate when there's projectiles, bro. I can't, my body don't react too well. Grab, thank you. Free damage. Let's just rely on the grab mix here. Oh my God, he just took off. Let's go! Oh, what? You, how about you get up against the wall? How about that then? How about that? Oh, why, that's the wrong kick. What? Armor up, hit this guy, watch out. Exactly, I knew you would try some crazy stuff, bro. And now I get around, because I knew you were gonna fly in. I knew something like that was gonna happen. Side step, for sure, right? No, I got, I got launcher. Oh no, laser beam! All right, then, full power. He just hit a button and got hit for it. Oh, justice, let's go. Little off the top, how about that? Oh, oh, thank you. Oh, thank you every day. All day, every day, I'll take every random hit I can get. You know I need those to win. You know I need those to win, armor up. Ah, I'll do it second. Oh my God, I got a clip, all right, crouch. Never, never in your life am I letting that sweep hit. I know you Devil Jin players love that one. Oh yes. Oh, I'm getting ready to cheese out of wind here. Oh, I'm getting ready, it's about to be extra cheesy. Oh no, I, oh, extra cheese. Did somebody order extra cheese? Did somebody order extra cheese? Oh yes, the motion is not my future, but I'm only getting two other points. So we're not exactly getting a huge safety in it here, but let me get one more win. Let me get one more win, I can feel it. I can feel it, bro, I'm a purple rank. And as your purple rank elder, let me show you a little bit of what I learned, bro. Let me show you a little bit. That's supposed to be plus. Oh wow, I can't, no, I can't attack. I can't attack, I can't show you. I didn't, I should have assumed that would be unblockable, but yeah, just start flying, hop kick. You thought you were gonna get a random sweep? You thought you were gonna get a random sweep? I must have done a bad job teaching you, because guess what? I don't let anybody random hell sweep me no more. I'm still plus, never forget, never, never forget that. And never forget that I'm gonna come after those ankles with everything I got. Armor up, oh, crouch. Oh, you got it then. I got swept. I actually got swept. I never wanted to have that happen. I never wanted to, all right, you can have your perfect, bro. Yep, you can have it. You earned it. No, armor again. No, so much free damage and for what? I literally just gave him the round. Jeez, and do I just crouch there? I think I just have to stay crouched. Oh God, please just let me clutch up one more time, bro. Oh, that's the same thing I had last time. Oh, don't ever hit my hands against me. No, okay, that's fine. Oh, don't try that. No, don't, you can't be serious. You can't be serious. I think you're dead. I think you're dead. Thank you, command grab. Thank you, thank you so much. No, I'm crouching. Let's go. Why did I do that? That is not the route, bro. That is not the route, but I'll take it. Come on, I'm still plus, you gotta respect me. No, no, no, no, no, no, get off me. No, keep crouched. No, no, no, no, no, crouched. No, the throws, oh, I'm just so bad at the game, bro, I'm just so bad at the game. Armor up through that. Oh my God, never again. You love to do that after that dash, I've seen it now. No, okay, I mean, it kind of worked. I wasn't supposed to work like that. Okay, yep, yep, yep. That's perfect right there and stomp. All right, just jab him back, jab him back, jab, jab, jab. What the, was that the 10 hit combo? What the hell was he doing? Oh, take that, yes. Side step, nice. Side step again. Oh, get the hell off of me. Come on, come on. Go ahead, do that. Kick him in the leg. What, lay up, lay out, lay out. It was his heat attack. All right, at least we already had a round. You can't just crouch and jab, now I'm through the window for that. God, please stop, please stop. Oh yes, up against the glass, buddy boy. No, stop jumping in the air. Yeah, every time, every time. How you love doing that? The wall, oh, I don't care, go ahead, take the side. Oh wow, dude, oh my God, the wall is saving this guy, bro, I gotta stop, I gotta stop. All right, we're out, back outside again. Oh, oh my God, the armor. How about this, what if I armor back? Armor back, hit him, thank you. He's plus. Oh no, no, get your hands off of me, Devil Jin. Oh, this could be, take a little bit off the top. Finally, holy, we ended this in a pretty bad spot, but at least we technically kept purple rank, so you know what, it's still a great celebration of getting purple rank. Thank you all for watching. Up next is blue, if that ever happens, let's be honest.