EverlastingFGC

My two cents honestly? Well ok... Tekken is a battle of two minds. In a fast paced tournament setting I think there are three main types of battle. All subjective of course but my third most favourite one is the straight down the middle, complete seesaw matchup up until the very end. This is the actually the most popular for quick burst fights. The second best type of high level battle to watch/experience is where one mind totally breaks and crushes another, and the absolute best type of battle is watching/experiencing a broken mind adapt from hardship on death's door and come back to win. This is the absolute pinnacle of what high level Tekken is, no matter which Tekken game. Adding coaches just waters down that experience for both players and spectators, waters down individual player growth, waters down confidence growth from overcoming difficulty alone. This is partially because you don't know if the player is winning or the coach is winning. I've often seen this scenario take credit away from the winning player as people purely assume the coaching is the only reason he/she won. The other thing that isn't mentioned is sometimes coaches make you lose, the wrong advice can be absolutely detrimental and strips the player of an opportunity to adapt alone and learn from the situation. Now they've lost and didn't even get to play the game they'd planned. Who knows, maybe they could have figured something out on the fly, if they weren't influenced by an outside source. So coaching is not all win-win, there is a bad side to it as well. Lastly, just like nowadays with grok/chatgpt etc, having constant help on offer, mars your own ability to adapt and utilise lateral thinking under pressure. Eventually you will NEED coaching, rather than it being a convenient support tool and this will be very bad for competitive player growth. Just like in life, never lose sight of how to adapt to win and survive from your own mind, with the cognitive ability to overcome all opponent strategies, because that is the absolute best player you as an individual can be.

I feel like you could use this as decoration around the house. A treat for the eyes to say the least! 😍 @VictrixPro