This Grand Final Is Physically Unhealthy to Watch

"He has to spend the heat to get that booty" no shit man,that goes hard😂

Bee vs No-Bee

I watched this last night cause I couldn’t wait and bro the emotions I went through in that grand final are not ok 😂

Bear in heat means something completely different irl than in tekken 😟

Bears when they are in heat their charge times are quicker for full charge.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear bee suits. Also the relentless pressure from Nobi is wild.

The very definition of "Good. Ass. Tekken."

29:47 i wanted to add (edit: a lot of) things since it isnt immediately obvious if you dont know much about bears but: 1. 2,1 (the high mid) jab string is being used for the same reason nobi feels fuzzy ducking there, which is bears don't have mid pokes. The only mid they gave which can be considered a poke is df4, but it has pretty much no range and is absurdly linear unlike other fishhooks or df1s which do track to one side usually, and all other mids are either slower than 14 frames, or unsafe. 2,1 thus becomes a a crucial mid poke. Btw if you're fighting against a bear and they do wr1+2 into df4 just backdash and you'll be fine. 2. The reason rangchu is ducking is to enfore the threat of fc d1. Apart from having no mid pokes, bears also have no low pokes in the neutral (you'll see rangchu do db3 on occasion (specifically oki) but that one doesn't high crush and has no range so is suited to oki, db2 is launch on block and does very low damage+is -1 on hit. So if you go back you'll see a sequence rangchu did early on which was dickjab to high crush and then fc d1, which is the only low that counts as a low poke in the bear kit. So by ducking he can enforce the threat of a fc d1, though less favourably a mid because the mids are either low range or unsafe. 3. The forced 50/50 panda has isn't really a 50/50 in complete favor of panda, nobi doesnt seem to know but you can hopkick/rage art the low and armor/heat burst the mid. It's pretty much a 50/50 on the bear's side too, and both options are -12 OB. 4. Rangchu is playing incredibly compact but dont let this fool you from the fact that 80%-90% of the bear kit is punishable or high, he's making it work because he's rangchu and not because he's playing a panda. 5. Charge moves are interruptible both in and out of heat, the latter even on hit, but not on counterhit and not by armored moves as bear charged moves are the only moves in the game that crush armor right now. They're also only +3, whether in or out of heat. Nobi not interrupting them is his fault, coz you can interrupt them even if they charge it just a bit/half charge. 6. Hatchet kicks etc. work just fine on bears but the only character in the game who has issues landing clean hits with their lows is paul, who's the only character rn who retains a meaningful difference between clean hits and normal hits. Feng used to have issues if he did heat 3+4 from range 4 and expected his bt sweep to launch (it shouldn't, but it did a lot of characters), otherwise he's consistent with it too. 7. Nobi didnt mash out of the heat engage, one of the onlu ways bears ensure a real hunting bear mixup is ff1+2, which is 37 frames long, so a common bear trick is to use it after a heat engager. He knew it was coming because that's tekken 8 bear 101. It's extremely confirmable too, like slower than a snake edge isnt it? 8. Also the uf3,4 isn't a hopkick per se, it's a low crush but they are a non launching (in most situations) moves that are only -11 and have a followup. 9. 37:59 that's hidden bear tech, so that isnt a launcher but in a very situational spacing it can do that. Also the booty is guaranteed but it's no range and -14, so is mostly just a grounded followup move 10. 42:36 so here we get an open stage, and contrary to popular belief, as we get into this match, bears are much more comfortable in open stages than in walls. Here they don't get hit by bear specific combos or die to pressure especially since bears cannot step, backdash, or have armor like gigas/king/jack, wall pressure usually means bears will 1,1,1 or b1, which are -15 and -13 respectively. But in the open bear twin piston range ges used best, and again as we see, bears have some nasty combos in the open as well. Everything rangchu did in the yakushima stage, combo wise, was guaranteed. The u3+4 (sit) combo ender is guaranteed and sit 1 is also guaranteed; the f4 into ff1+2 (hunting bear) is a guaranteed oki mixup; the heat roll into unscaled d1+2 (booty) is guaranteed. All this is only possible because of heat burst btw so once per match, and only if the bear main knows, and wastes 2 bars of heat, but that's all you need per round anyways.

I had already seen the vod before, but it was so hype even on the second watch, especially with Phi's additional commentary 🔥 those were some enjoyable matches

The "Legacy players can't play the game well, therefore T8 is not consistent" crowd would be eating up their own words if it wasn't because they have no critical thinking skills.

Man you are so fun to watch top 8s with. Keep up the great work Phi!

I wanted the bears to just take the whole thing, harada was quivering in his boots. "Panda? Weally?" 😂

Love the commentary, love how hype you get. Thanks for the rundown, phi ☘️

This Grand Final was AMAZING! One of the best sets I have ever seen!

istg if bears won we'd have a return of "are bears s tier??"

I know everyone wanted bear to win but as a Japanese tekken player, Nobi is our legend so I'm so happy.

I was laughing so hard between you and the commentators talking about the panda rage art hahaha, “hey guys” Lol

Hey Phidx, I’m loving the way u format ur videos, it allows me to zoom in with my iPhone and have it cover the whole screen without cutting any thing out

That was stressful to watch. Good fight by both in the finals

When NOBI did the back swing blow out of nowhere, I almost lost it. They were definitely playing Tekken.