but the colorful button beckons a press

@tertiaritus

4 ай бұрын

It's so hard to resist

I'm having so much fun playing riichi mahjong in Ryu Ga Gotoku and all thanks to you, you are a great teacher.

@JouzuJuls

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that you're having fun in RGG!

When to call a kan: 1. You've already declared a riichi. Call an ankan to reveal 2 dora indicators for yourself and only 1 for your opponents. And it is an additional draw. Smart opponents don't push their hands against a riichi hand with a kan, therefore it's easier to get a tsumo. Nota bene: rules forbid declaring an ankan after riichi if it changes the hand structure. For exmple, you have a waiting form 1112p, it's either an ankou 111p and waiting for pair for 2p, or a pair 11p and a penchan 12p waiting for 3p. If you draw another 1p, you have no right to call a kan, because it would destoy your penchan. 2. You are defending from another player and have run out of safe tiles. Declare an ankan to get a potentially safe tile. But don't call a shouminkan with a dangerous tile. 3. Less than 4 tiles remain in the wall. Declare any kind of kan to devoid someone of their last draw. Nota bene: It's forbidden to call a kan on the last tile from the wall. 4. You desperately need an expensive win (for example you are on the 4th place in the last round) disregarding all the risk. Call any ankan. If your hand is already open, call all kinds of kans. This will probably backfire, but if you have nothing to lose, you may get a lot of dora. 5. (Works only in live games) For some reason you know the rinshan tile or the next dora indicator and you are totally sure they will benefit you. When NOT to call a kan: 1. In any other situation. Sometimes you should even skip a kan in situations described above.

Thanks man, ive been wondering about this stuff. You have the best riichi content in english!

@JouzuJuls

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad to put my Japanese skills to use by translating all the tips I learned in Japanese into English 🤣

Discovered your channel trying to learn riichi mahjong. Great content, thanks

I watched a couple of your videos recently and I'm genuinely suprised how little subscribers you have. The quality of your content is really damn good.

I'm happy Mahjong Soul is alive. I played Mahjong about 4 years ago, nd sadly stopped. But I'm getting an interest again and I love Mahjong soul - i just wish it allowed you to see what yakus actually are in the win screen. Since it would help me remember lol

Thank you so much I have just started to learn mahjong thanks to yakuza 0 and I have to say, your videos are amazing, every single question I had related to kan was answered, its like you read my mind. Its a really complicated game and very daunting to start playing but I am enjoying the learning process.

@JouzuJuls

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Glad my video was able to answer all your questions! Mahjong is hard to learn but instantly becomes pretty easy once you learn all the basic functions and Yaku! Also if you're a Yakuza fan, consider checking out this video too! kzread.info/dash/bejne/naCk2MNyqqydYqw.html

There is something I've been trying to do and don't know how it actually works. Sometimes you get a potential Kan and you can keep it in your hand, then every turn you are proposed to Kan after drawing. Because of this I tend to wait until tenpai before calling closed Kan to maximise surprise, after a kan chance and not reveal additional dora in case I have to fold. Also when folding, external Quads/triplet tend to be safe tiles.

What a fucking good video, really well explained and very good editing keep it up 👏🏻

@JouzuJuls

7 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

thanks to this video, i just won a round by tsumo after declaring a kan, truly something i'll never forget in my entire riichi mahjong history

I got a question how can I change the colors on my anki deck I want to have them all the same color because I think I am remembering the colors so I know the answer realy weird but I think it is happening so I want to change my colors and see if is there any difference.

I did not know that declaring a kan after drawing all 4 of the same time still makes your hand concealed and that you can still call riichi.

@JouzuJuls

7 ай бұрын

Yup! The important part of calling riichi is knowing whether you hand is open or closed. TAKING OTHER'S TILES is the only thing that makes you open, not making calls!

@GRBtutorials

2 ай бұрын

Fun fact: you can even do it *after* the riichi if you draw the remaining tile and calling kan doesn’t change the shape of your hand.

I slightly know how to read other hand but ignored it because im feeling lucky. It's been 5 years and im still on adept 🤔

I feel like it would be beneficial to call Kan if everyone has already opened their hand and you're in tenpai. You get an extra draw and a chance for rinshan after all.

@JouzuJuls

4 ай бұрын

Ohh! Very good point, absolutely yes. If everybody else is open already, you reap all the benefits! Didn't even think to put that in a video but very good catch!

how the heck does the 4 kan thing happen, i dont get how im supposed to get 17 tiles??

wait so after you call riichi you can still call a closed kan if you draw the 4th tile? Im so confused I thought calling riichi locks you out of doing anything to your hand.

@JouzuJuls

8 ай бұрын

You can call a closed kan as long as it as no effects on what tiles you are waiting for. For example if I have 222 567 789 999 1, then I am tenpai for the pair (1). If I get the 4th 2 in this situation, I can call Kan and nothing will change, so it's legal. However, if I had, 222 34 567 789 WW, then I am on tenpai for 2, 5, 8, and W. Calling a Kan here completely changes the waits (because you can no longer see it as "22 234 567 789 WW" or "222 345 67 789 WW").

There is a fourth type of kan, the 公民館 but I only ever see elderly people using that.

I found out about having closed kan robbed the hard way. Then I also found out the hard way that in 3-player ppl can win off your pei :D riichi mahjong is beutal

@JouzuJuls

3 ай бұрын

Hey better than me, I got chankanned on a 13 orphans hand when I first started playing...

@tertiaritus

3 ай бұрын

@@JouzuJuls like on your very first game?? Ouch

There's another way of calling the kan calls! For example: If the dora indecatior has a same tiles... That'll be worth 2 han! Another same tile is worth 3 han! And the 4th and final same tile is 4 han! And then... 5th and final dora indecatior call is a Suukaikan! is a ryyouku draw... Be sure to not call the kan too much!

What about the red 5p

Sometimes when I have 3 dora and a 4th gets discarded I call kan and push as fast as possible if the Hand allows it Or the "watch the world burn" strat (success varies) where you call open kans and play super defensively hoping someone else gets bonked

@JouzuJuls

2 ай бұрын

Relatable I once did all open kans for no reason and got up to 3 kans Except the last kan was added and I got chankanned into a 16 han flush 💀💀💀

Find this video after get chankan 2 times in one match T.T I have no idea how to defense and predict what people waiting for 😥

@JouzuJuls

4 ай бұрын

I'll make a video on basic defense soon!

@Rin-uc9qg

4 ай бұрын

@@JouzuJuls Thank you, that will be very helpfull...

Just another person who came to these videos cuz of playing Yakuza. Guess I didn't get to appreciate how lucky I got to win by robbing a kan :p

riichi mahjong sucks, winning should be about winning, not point building IMO

@JouzuJuls

3 ай бұрын

Wait till you find out that HK Mahjong usually requires more than 1 han for you to win while Riichi usually allows you to call 1 han hands.

@escapetherace1943

3 ай бұрын

@@JouzuJuls No need. I am a proficient Mahjong player. This game is simply too luck based to be enjoyable, it isn't as fun as something like poker where you can bluff your odds.

@treebush

2 ай бұрын

I don’t understand how do you know he has the east tiles?

Never, EVER call Kan. Way too dangerous. I cringe whenever I see it happen.

@evgenijdenisov

7 ай бұрын

When you have already called riichi, you should call a kan to reveal 2 dora indicators for yourself and to have an additional draw.

@JouzuJuls

7 ай бұрын

@@evgenijdenisov Kan, under no circumstance, reveals 2 doras for anybody in Mahjong Soul. Perhaps the client you're playing on or the parlor you're playing at has that as a local rule, but Mahjong Soul does not.

@evgenijdenisov

7 ай бұрын

@@JouzuJuls I mean 1 dora and 1 ura-dora.

@wungomungo6177

6 ай бұрын

Weak