Marduk overview & gameplay guide

Overview

The Vale Tudo champion makes his return to Tekken and he’s stronger than ever. As always Marduk has an amazing selection of lows, from poke lows to power mixup lows to high crush lows etc he has it all. He has strong mids to complement these lows with as well, tons of safe CH launchers (albeit slow, so takes some conditioning) and good jab pressure and mindgames. The main thing Marduk has to offer is his tackle mixups, which can be enforced from raw tackle, throws, his reversal or rage drive. Once he’s on top of you, you have to guess between 3 options, 1, 2 or 1+2 which he can also fake out to make it hard to react to. His damage output is immensely high and on top of that, he can use rage drive at the end of combos to mount and add on even more damage through guesses. His oki is notoriously one of the best between his ground grabs and ways to blow people up by attempting to stand up off many knockdowns/grabs. His Vale Tudo Stance (VTS) has a power mixup in it through a trip low and many mids, he can access his VTS from many moves so there’s a lot of mindgames behind his cancels. His grab game is also one of the best to no surprise. His WS punishment is pretty poor though, only getting a launcher way later than average. His homing’s aren’t the best so it’s encouraged to know the tracking on his moves.