Everything You Need to Know about The Heat System in Tekken 8

The Heat System is at the core of what Tekken 8 is about, so lets go in depth on everything! What the mechanics are, what they are all capable of, and some character specifics just to show how strong it can get. Give the vid a watch, leave a like if ya liked it and let me know what you think!

Sorry the Choose a Main is not up yet, I was up all night and I just hit a point where I knew it just wasn't gonna be live today no matter how hard I tried, so I threw this together quick to make sure there's a video for today. I am gonna finally get some sleep, then come back at it with 100% energy whenever I wake up and make sure the Choose a Main is live tomorrow! Also there's good stuff here anyways so watch it lol, heat system kinda important.

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I don't think it's mentioned here but heat engagers can only be used to enter heat if the opponent is grounded. So you wont go into heat if you use them in an air combo. The r1 heat move will work against opponents in the air though. I may be missing a detail or two but that is what I gathered.

One more thing regarding Electrics in Heat. Doing that type of electric will drain the meter with each use. If you do a true electric it won't drain the meter, so its still worth trying to make the execution better.

This is my first tekken game and this video really helped thank you! This game is a freaking blast

Thank you for clarifying about needing a few frames for heat to kick in. I was getting so confused why it wasn't firing off for me sometimes lmao

I remember one of my friends said the easiest way to describe it is "what if we just gave geese Max mode to everyone?" Obviously that's a simplification but it kind tracks

When I say this is deff the best fighting game I’ve played in a longgggg time. Never been this interested and invested in learning the characters. They made it very easy by having combo challenges for everybody, and I’m a martial artist so I love that they’re using real martial arts techniques and styles. So far I just used Hworang, Law, LeRoy, Abs the characters in the main story. All are fun asf! The heat system, the combos, the smoothness, just everything

The unique traits and properties in heat for each character is so awesome.

Didn't see it listed but also pretty important: Heat engagers will restore any recoverable health you have while heat bursts will not. Just FYI

They looked at SC6 soul charge and said "what if we give this a name that's more awkward to talk about"

I just needed to know how to cancel the hit after heat! THANK YOU!!!! Great tutorial!!

Oh I would love to see Reina in heat

My only real problems with Heat are Heat Bursts having armor and Heat Smashes that leave you plus, in stance, and right in someone's face if they block it. Heat Bursts being safe, armored mids goes against what Tekken 7 established, in that armored mids are always unsafe, with two exceptions that are balanced out by being negative on hit. Heat Bursts being armored and plus on block means there's virtually no consequences for just throwing them out. Heat Smashes that leave in stance, plus, and in someone's face bothers me because while there were Rage Drives that were safe or plus, they all had pushback.

Characters like King II and Lee who can refill their heat gages during battle are crazy and scary. Heat will make Lee's just frame attacks automatically work but doing the Just Frame's with the right timing will refill the heat gage by quite a bit. King also has a unique just frame activation where he will hit the Pedigree

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Great informative video! Had no idea Ling could regain so much heat! Might pick her up and terrorize ranked when I'm done learning Bear combos.

So far, I still enjoy the heat system and discovering what unique properties characters get out of them. Kuma's Heat System is probably the one I've enjoyed the most so far, letting him do EWGF loops of his own! XD

I haven’t played tekken since tekken 4 and I have to say was really enjoying it and visually probably best fighting game yet. Very difficult I was getting destroyed by people who clearly played previous tekken but I still enjoyed it. I usually start getting tilted when I loose but you can see the skill level is high for this game and it’s fun at its core.