/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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Saki and Akagi are best watched thrice. As a newcomer, as an intermediate and after 10 years to truly appreciate them for the masterpieces they are.

Also there's tons of ways to play the jong and literally all of them are situational, so most tips come from statistics.
Learning the Yaku extends to the point where you see your hand and inside your head know how long yaku X would take to assemble from here, most of them will take very long but there's basic forms of patterns you will begin to see very soon.

For starters, the best training is to
1. STOP calling, at all. This actually is for when you understand what you're doing and by the time you get there, you automatically do it less. This is why everyone pisses on the nyaggers in Bronze.
2. ANY hand with a 3-3-3-3-2 structure can be Riichi'd, which is a Yaku in itself.
3. The most common Yaku to remember are MenTanPin which stands for Menzen, Tanyao, Pinfu.
Menzen: Just have your hand closed
Tanyao: 2-8 tiles ONLY in any combination
EX: 2-3-4 | 4-5-6 | 5-5-5 | 6-7-8 | 88 any suit
Pinfu: any winning hand getting no Fu if we want to be technically correct, you can remember it by NO HONORS, NO WINDS (which are your wind), SEQUENCES ONLY (and a pair)
This includes Terminals 1 and 9 as well, so do NOT aggressively throw them if you get them.
EX: 123 | 234 | 456 | 789 | 55

Yaku I find easy to remember for newcomers are Hon-Itsu and Chin-Itsu:
Hon-Itsu: HONORS and one Suit
Ex: 123 | 789 | 345 | WWW | EE (one suit)
Chin-Itsu: ONLY one Suit
There's also only honors but that's a Yakuman, be that lucky.

Some other useful ones to remember first:
Chanta: The "opposite" of Tanyao, every triplet and sequence as well as the pair has to INCLUDE a terminal, so 1-2-3 is as fine as 1-1-1. The Ten manga makes a good case as to why Chanta is actually easier than Tanyao, many guides don't feature this shit and it enrages me beyond belief.
EX: NNN | 123 | 123 | 789 | 999 | 11 (any suits)

Junchan: Chanta but without Honors
EX: 123 | 789 | 111 | 999 | 99 (any suits)

Iipeikou: 11-22-33 of ONE suit (you still need the rest of the 3-3-3-3-2 setup)

Sanshoku-Doujun: 345-345-345 of ALL THREE suits
Sanshoku-Doukou: 333-333-333 ALL SUITS, this one is so fucking rare I never even saw one.

Chiitoitsu: One of only TWO yaku (the other being Kokushi-Musou) to remember which does NOT follow 3-3-3-3-2 but instead it's seven Pairs, so 2-2-2-2-2-2, hard to combine with other yaku and it's ALWAYS a single wait, but very hard to read

Next post will be basic tile efficiency which is quite important to pay attention to.