And if you played drums in a contest against someone who did learn how to play drums you would look like a fool.
Same with Tekken. 
no i wouldn't, i'd look like someone that didn't know how to play drums playing the drums. if i did well i'd look awesome for an amateur, or he'd look poor. all in all i don't think i'd have FUN
like i can understand playing the game and getting better and better, but a large element of tekken is studying 20 button combos. it's not nearly as bad as the old fighting games but in my free time i find it much more fun to actually play games than study long strings of shapes and directions?