Tekken 5DR stick or pad?

[b00mshakalaka]

ok I remember I went to Atlanta for a trip I went to the arcade at the underground and I found so many players that played pad on the DR machine,so I just have one question,do you think some characters are better suited for pad or stick? dont get me wrong I started on pad but now im a stick player.





-please dont bash me on this subject

[Rioting Soul]

ok I remember I went to Atlanta for a trip I went to the arcade at the underground and I found so many players that played pad on the DR machine,so I just have one question,do you think some characters are better suited for pad or stick? dont get me wrong I started on pad but now im a stick player.





-please dont bash me on this subject

It's all over the place IMO. Some ppl say they can do electrics easier on pad and for others it's easier on stick. I play pad BTW.

[Storming Flower]

Pad is good for every character except mishimas. You can still be good with mishimas on pad but it's hella lame. Pad is especially good for jack 5 and paul imo.

Korean stick is the only to go for devil jin and kazuya, but it's a high learning curve and mishimas aren't as good as they were in tag.

[goodm0urning]

I personally prefer a stick, because it feels much more natural to me and it spares my thumbs the excessive workout. But for the Tekken franchise in general, I think the PS pad is as close to optimal as a gamepad is ever going to get for a fighting game. Unlike most fighting games, I can at least see the reasoning behind using a pad in Tekken.

[b00mshakalaka]

I personally prefer a stick, because it feels much more natural to me and it spares my thumbs the excessive workout. But for the Tekken franchise in general, I think the PS pad is as close to optimal as a gamepad is ever going to get for a fighting game. Unlike most fighting games, I can at least see the reasoning behind using a pad in Tekken.

yes,even though I can play stick well,I find it easier to play pad on tekken,im a Xiaoyu player

[Shadowcuz]

all about the stick

[b00mshakalaka]

all about the stick

true I guess if I think about stick has its advantage in the long run,do the all of the top tekken players use stick?

[JubeiNinja69]

nothing is better than playing T5 DR on a stick with sanwa parts.

[KnuckIfYouBuckley]

true I guess if I think about stick has its advantage in the long run,do the all of the top tekken players use stick?

Alot of the top Tekken players (in America, at least) like playing on pad. Spero Gin, who placed second at Evo this year, is a pad player. So are Filthy, DJ KOR, Crow. Top 8 in 5.0 @ Showdown 6 was almost all pad players - with the exception of Alex Valle and AznHitler.

I prefer playing stick myself. I play Bryan & the Mishimas and I don't "trust" pad enough with those characters.

[Rioting Soul]

For the pad Tekken players, do you use your thumb or fingers for the attack buttons? I use thumb. I can't get used to using fingers which sucks if I want to use certain characters(Bryan's taunt). If Bruce gets a new move with 2+3+4 or something like that and he sucks if you don't use it then that's that for me.

[TornadoFlame]

Since I use Bryan's taunt often now I usually stay on stick. T5, VF5, and MVC2 are the only games I play on stick.

[epsilon_]

i perfer stick, easier for me to press multiple button combinations because i don't like put my hand "face on" the buttons, like most tekken players do (i hold the pad like i would playing any other game).

[deadfrog]

I think that Tekken is the only (popular) fighting game that plays even close to as well on a pad as on stick. More competitive Tekken players use pad than for any other game. Stick is still preferred by majority, though.

[Logos]

If you have a choice, you should always go stick.

[Kuenai]

If you have a choice, you should always go stick.

I agree. Stick also allows you to be more precise, and how frustrating is it when you miss an input because your thumb slipped a little? Besides, have you seen any Jap/Korean top teams playing pad? There's a reason why they're all over the place and unbelievable precise; they play on the sticks, which are more precise, faster, and more streamlined for fighting games in general. Have you ever completed the full King throw combos on a pad? Didn't think so.

Still, the pad definitely works well enough for competition. Lateral movement is undeniably better on a stick, though.

[Kajoq]

Have you ever completed the full King throw combos on a pad? Didn't think so.

Actually I can do almost all of them consistently with Pad but still haven't gotten the hang of them with my HRAP because I dont have the same muscle memory.

Might be because I've played Tekken on a pad since I got Tekken 1 the Xmas PS1 came out, and only recently started playing stick in the past year or two.

Nothing more satisfying than a Kings Bridge or Rolling Death Cradle though, thats for sure

[Tension]

Playing on pad is pretty acceptable in the tekken community (in NA at least) but for a very few characters, you can actually take your character further with stick.

[hanz0]

i say that the two are okay, i play tekken better on pad, but i love using stickst too, so its a matter of what your most confortable with.

lately since i just started using sanwa stick and buttons, so far i love how they feel in tekken, still having a hard time pulling off neutral dragon punches with the mishimas though :P:sweat: but everything else is awesome on the sanwa stick

[b00mshakalaka]

hmmm well im a Xiaoyu/Steve Fox player,what do you think those characters are more suited for?

[KnuckIfYouBuckley]

hmmm well im a Xiaoyu/Steve Fox player,what do you think those characters are more suited for?

Whatever you feel more comfortable using.

There's really no "right answer" we can give you - it's all up to you.

[b00mshakalaka]

Whatever you feel more comfortable using.

There's really no "right answer" we can give you - it's all up to you.

ok basically im equal with both I guess I can work with any situation :rofl:

[n8archer_XI]

I've never played Tekken on a stick. The PSP's DR port had stellar handling...

[VR-Fist]

Pad is good for every character except mishimas. You can still be good with mishimas on pad but it's hella lame. Pad is especially good for jack 5 and paul imo.

Korean stick is the only to go for devil jin and kazuya, but it's a high learning curve and mishimas aren't as good as they were in tag.

Mishimas are very high Tiers. I would say TOP, especially Devil Jin.

Stick is better for fighting games in general. You can do Just Frames and Throws Escapes easier or faster. But on the other side, the game is very pad-friendly. I personally preffer Arcade Stick.

[Sabin]

I agree. Stick also allows you to be more precise, and how frustrating is it when you miss an input because your thumb slipped a little? Besides, have you seen any Jap/Korean top teams playing pad? There's a reason why they're all over the place and unbelievable precise; they play on the sticks, which are more precise, faster, and more streamlined for fighting games in general. Have you ever completed the full King throw combos on a pad? Didn't think so.

Still, the pad definitely works well enough for competition. Lateral movement is undeniably better on a stick, though.

ive seen pad players pull off kings stuff on the pad without a problem in NY. most players there play on pad even in the arcade.
and i'ts not uncommon for jap/korean players to play on stick - they dont have ps2 ports on their machines - so no choice anyway and their environment is more friendly torwards arcade based players - everything is so concenrated, and you dont have to travel as much for comp. imo their movements and skills in he game have nothing to do with playing on stick or pad - they just have more compeition in general, nothing to do with controller preference.

i say this because the best player in NY (Spero Gin) has no problem pulling off all the technical stuff on pad, yet when I witnessed him playing in Japan on stick, he was'nt ale to play at 100%, since that's not what he's comfortable with.

What's more hilarious to me is that the 2d players that play tekken in NY (Justin and Sanford) are obviously stick players, yet they play Tekken on pad.:rofl:

[Storming Flower]

Mishimas are very high Tiers. I would say TOP, especially Devil Jin.

Stick is better for fighting games in general. You can do Just Frames and Throws Escapes easier or faster. But on the other side, the game is very pad-friendly. I personally preffer Arcade Stick.

Yes, they are, but only one player can use them in a top tier way. A good pad overall is better for tekken, easier movements. Like arturo says, justin and sanford use pad in ny, I know Chet, Arario use pad in the WC. This even goes back to the tekken tag days, the best ogre player in US used pad. Overall stick is better at the highest of levels because you can do the advanced movements faster, but this is usually only able to be done on korean stick, not japanese stick, although it can be, plus backstepping, wavedashing, and other advanced movements aren't as good as they once were. To the ordinary player, pad is better because it's more precise.

[dbostick]

I only use pad for Tekken and 2D MK games and use stick for everything else (SFs and KOFs.)

[BIGWORM]

Stick. I think the only game I used pad on was Project Justice.

[Lvl.3]

...Another reason they might have been using pad, the arcade sticks were screwed up. It's gettin hard now a days to find a arcade with good working sticks. For like every one arcade that has good sticks, theres 25 that have bad ones. :bluu:

[NykkoMT]

I usually just use the pad for the movement and use buttons on the machines for attacks.
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[b00mshakalaka]

I usually just use the pad for the movement and use buttons on the machines for attacks.
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wow thats quite interesting.