Aris Bakhtanians is an American Fighting Games player and commentator. Aris is well-known for his involvement in the Tekken community, becoming especially popular as a personality and commentator with the console release of Tekken 7. He was also notable as a SoulCalibur II competitor, having won WCG 2004 and placing 4th at EVO 2003.

Aris Bakhtanians (born September 13, 1985), better known by his online alias AvoidingthePuddle, is an American video game streamer and a fighting game personality...

Aris "Aris" Bakhtanians or known as AvoidingThePuddle (ATP) is an online personality, fighting game player, commentator, and variety Twitch streamer. Aris began his Youtube channel on September 9th, 2010. Prior to online variety streaming, he was well known for playing fighting games, particularly Soul Calibur and Tekken.

Esports profile for fighting game player Aris "Aris" Bakhtanians: $1,654.91 USD in prize money won from 31 tournaments.

2024年6月6日 · Aris an FGC legend. Fun fact: "Avoiding The Puddle" is actually the name of a Yoshimitsu move.

2024年10月5日 · Aris has help...more. The MOST HILARIOUS Fighting Game Streamer Aris also known as Avoiding The Puddle is easily the funniest guy in the FGC. Aris has helped countless people get into Tekken and...

2023年3月12日 · Tekken shoutcaster and analyst Aris Bakhtanians has declared Akuma’s appearance in Tekken 7 as the greatest guest character so far in fighting game history. The topic came to light when he talked about his shoutcasting …

Aris WAS a good player but is now past his prime, and nowadays he's more of an enthusiast for Tekken than an actual competitor. I love Aris and I believe he does an absolutely irreplaceable role of making Tekken approachable to a wider audience, but to say he can fight on par with Knee and LilMajin right now is kinda naive lol

He thrashed Tag Tournament 2 because he thought it was a bad game, instead of being an apologetic fuckstick like so many "famous" members of the FGC. Reply reply Fleebjack

2023年6月11日 · Aris randomly showing up and commentating fights back in the WNF Super Arcade days was peak FGC. The way he frames it, yeah, it's kind of ridiculous and then you realize, wait - it's a job. Aris just doesn't want to have responsibilities pertaining to a job.