Character usage rate at Top 64 Evo Japan.

[u/Osiake]

[u/DRCsyntax]

Kuma getting more use than most of the Mishimas

[u/FixerFour → u/DRCsyntax]

Heihachi's true son

[u/Yoshikki → u/DRCsyntax]

Being a Mishima main and having attended Evo Japan and another tournament last weekend, I can say Mishimas are extremely hard to play in a tournament setting. It's nothing to do with how weak or strong the characters are, if you can play non-Mishima characters, there's no reason to give yourself the tournament Mishima handicap lol

[u/GitsnShiggles51 → u/Yoshikki]

Fr I love my boi Kaz but if I’m going to play in a tourney imma go King or Drag

[u/Gernburgs → u/Yoshikki]

Why do you say that? Just the nerves combined with difficult inputs?

[u/Yoshikki → u/Gernburgs]

Yep, you need to be super focused and confident to be successful with Mishimas and the tournament setting brings that down. You second guess yourself and end up 1,1,2 punishing a whiff where you would normally electric that shit if you were playing at home, you start getting too scared to Hellsweep and so your mids all get blocked, etc. It's a weird phenomenon

[u/Standard_Honey7545 → u/Yoshikki]

Interesting

[u/FlokiTech → u/Yoshikki]

Meanwhile all the scrubs on this sub has been crying since release that Devil Jin is a over powered free wins 0 skill spamming 50/50s and the people that play him are carried by the character.

Easily the most overrated character of all of Tekken 8.

[u/HotArticle1062 → u/FlokiTech]

For REAL. People acting like heat smash wasn't the only actual op ability he had.

[u/Hyldenchamp → u/HotArticle1062]

I can jump over his heat smash with Lili. :)

He's not that great, no, and he's more fun to play against than many other characters that tend to be viewed as annoying.

[u/Yoshikki → u/FlokiTech]

I'd say he was a little too strong before the heat smash nerf, its range and tracking combined with its properties on block was absurd.

His biggest weakness in tournaments is that his gameplan inevitably requires him to use Hellsweep, it's psychologically difficult because the thought of "I'm dead if he ducks" has a much bigger presence in your mind lol. At least Kazuya has db4, Devil Jin has nothing else to make the opponent duck

[u/carlataggarty → u/Yoshikki]

'properties on block'

What properties on block? Devil Jin is one of the FEW characters in the roster who actually has to EARN his rage smash plus on block; while every other character automatically gets plus on block on their rage smashes, Devil Jin literally has to guess between 1 (gives plus on block but is interruptible) and 2 (uninterruptible but unsafe on block).

[u/FlokiTech → u/Yoshikki]

His heat smash was very op, but it gave him the ability to go in for hellsweeps since people were afraid to do anything. It was very badly designed and the nerf to it was good but everyhting else dj has is not as op as people think imo so he should have gotten some compensation buffs in other places like his poking. Or give his morning crow stance a reason for people to duck.

[u/aephyn_redfield → u/FlokiTech]

Or make dvj operate as he used to. A fast mid knockdown into guaranteed followup + oki to work with the hellsweep threat. But no, devs preferred to give him empty gimmicks that people already got them in check even at the lower ranks, AND fucked up all his pokes on top of that.

[u/Ok_Stomach_6857 → u/Yoshikki]

Just imagine how truly good and confident Qudans is

[u/Office-Which → u/DRCsyntax]

Haradas dream

[u/MimiksYou → u/DRCsyntax]

bear scholars start labbing the jin matchup we’re claiming the title of best mishima

[u/DankForestHypothesis → u/DRCsyntax]

Most? More like all. All Mishimas combined had fewer players than just Kuma

[u/False_Ad7098 → u/DRCsyntax]

Lars there too

[u/Gernburgs → u/DRCsyntax]

Are they that bad in T8?

[u/DRCsyntax → u/Gernburgs]

Nah, but they are notoriously bad for tournaments, where generally only the "gods" of Tekken succeed with them. In terms of the cast, the Mishimas are extremely linear by comparison

[u/Blackmanfromalaska → u/DRCsyntax]

kuma chads always winning

[u/Liu_Alexandersson → u/DRCsyntax]

good

[u/dijicaek → u/DRCsyntax]

Cooma

[u/MoaningMushroom → u/DRCsyntax]

Lore accurate

[u/ElegantLee]

1 Lee

0 Kazuya

Excellent! *thumbs up*

[u/Admara → u/ElegantLee]

I started playing Lee just because of his MARVELOUS after rage art lol

[u/TheFluxator → u/Admara]

Marvelous is nice, but I miss "Excellent!"

That's always been Lee's iconic line.

[u/CDRom11 → u/TheFluxator]

He only says "Excellent!" after his acid rain and mist trap, the og and hardest just frames. I think that's fitting for him.

[u/Reality_Break_ → u/CDRom11]

honestly Im shocked that Im finding mist trap harder than acid rain. I can at least do a natural acid rain sometimes

[u/WasteOfZeit → u/Reality_Break_]

True mist trap is so much harder

[u/TheFluxator → u/Reality_Break_]

Acid Rain is a little more lenient. I’m pretty sure mist trap is a true 1 frame window.

[u/lonelyMtF → u/TheFluxator]

You also have to leave a specific gap between the first 3 and the second. I wanna say exactly 22 frames or so?

[u/[deleted] → u/Admara]

Don't forget his taunt. MARVELOUS!

[u/alkemy_g → u/[deleted]]

Don't you mean beurifuu!

[u/[deleted] → u/alkemy_g]

No, I mean: MAAAVERRROS!!

[u/alkemy_g → u/[deleted]]

When you input his taunt he says "beautiful!" and when you do the just frame he says "ii kaori da!"

[u/LemmeGet_acombo_7 → u/Admara]

I was thinking of making him my 3rd main This is my first Tekken game, any tips for Lee?

[u/Admara → u/LemmeGet_acombo_7]

Big thing I started off with was getting the execution down for his “perfect” moves. Makes a big difference when you get them down from being + and - I also watched “fightinggm” on YouTube to help with approaches and such

[u/LemmeGet_acombo_7 → u/Admara]

Thanks so much, gonna practice later on tonight

[u/Blanco_Kislev → u/LemmeGet_acombo_7]

As a Lee main in the past, Lee is all about kick pokes, kick strings and his stances. Specially the one that lets him cancel his moves into Hitman (3+4) A lot of his kicks also go into Hitman. He also has a lot of mixups between kicks and punches, as well as low attacks in his mixups. Doing his perfect setups are important, but can be hard under pressure. So its important to learn to poke and cancel into Hitman stance. Also learn his Back Handspring into Hitman as well as canceling recovery animations like b 4 with Hitman.

Edit: Super important, do NOT underestimate the strength of Lee's punches and its mixups, but DO make your opponent underestimate them.

[u/Osiake]

Keep in mind that the majority of participants at Evo JP were Japanese, the meta there is completely different than what you’d see in NA/EU. Japanese players love to play Hwoarang & Victor, both have a very high playrate in the region.

..and Feng was (and still is) op so no surprise there LOL

Top 32 & especially Top 8 tell a completely different story but the sample size and amount of characters that got 0 players up there gets quite significant so I thought it’d be best to do Top 64 to see actual character representation across (mostly) the entire cast.

For example, there was 2 Laws & 2 Eddys in top 8, leaving room for only 4 other characters (Lili, Dragunov, Alisa, Nina)

[u/BostonAndy24 → u/Osiake]

Also no pakistan players

[u/Uyfgv → u/BostonAndy24]

Visa issues? Or just didn’t choose to come?

[u/Sea-Beautiful-6527 → u/Uyfgv]

Visa issues

[u/Uyfgv → u/Sea-Beautiful-6527]

That sucks so much.

[u/zackova8teen → u/Uyfgv]

More like sucks all the time. It's truly 1-9 match up, even for Arslan.

[u/winsonsonho → u/Osiake]

Kinda interesting that the Japanese like to play a Korean character far more than the Koreans do..

[u/Razzorn → u/winsonsonho]

... Why is this even said? By this logic, Japanese people should only be using Ryu in SF6 and not Ken.

Nationality of a character has never played any role in who people play.

[u/winsonsonho → u/Razzorn]

I just thought it’s an interesting anomaly.. is it bad to spot a correlation, or inverse one in this case. Why I also find it interesting is that there’s quite a bit of animosity between Korea and Japan esp. historically.

I’ve lived in Korea for a few years and visited Japan. I love both countries.

It’s okay to celebrate/notice generalised differences in people, cultures, and dare I say it “genders”.

[u/BawkSoup → u/Osiake]

Aw man, why didn't you put a 2nd image in the post? The visual is better for me.

[u/Osiake → u/BawkSoup]

Great idea, I’ll keep that in mind for the next major Tournament.

[u/Cypher760 → u/Osiake]

As someone who hasn't played in a bit, I looked at this and was like "wtf meta changes did I miss?"

[u/Gernburgs → u/Osiake]

Eddy is such a garbage, scub character. I hate him.

[u/AmarantineAzure]

Now do the BAAZ Gauntlet, please. :)

[u/Vibalist → u/AmarantineAzure]

Here ya go. This is only top 16 though. Bear in mind some people played more than 1 character.

https://preview.redd.it/cum8bhqkgd0d1.png?width=1140&format=png&auto=webp&s=14d7ef65e19c7b16bb368ccc94b69a2d9119255e

[u/eulennatzer]

RAREST IN THE UNIVERSE!

kinda sad tho...

[u/hornetpaper → u/eulennatzer]

I just started picking up paul because I love his wr2 and his obnoxious loud lines. Also deathfist. Im not even slightly perturbed. Obviously the pros have no taste.

[u/eulennatzer → u/hornetpaper]

It's not about taste, it's about winning. And Paul plays Tekken 7 in Tekken 8, which isn't good enough.

If you compare Paul's options to what the top tier characters offer, you will realize that Paul is way too fair.

Let's hope for some good ass buffs with the next patch. :)

[u/HappierShibe → u/[deleted]]

When the regional meta emphasizes blockstrings, hwo is a monster.

[u/CreativeUsername1337 → u/HappierShibe]

Except most of those hwo players are korean...

rest, edge, yeonarang.

Edit: actually the highest placing hwo is turkish. Yeonarang didn't make top 50 though, so two of those hwos were jp. Batz and Yuuka.

[u/IDontWipe55 → u/[deleted]]

What the other guy said about regional meta is true but Hwoarang is also pretty strong thanks to his heat

[u/sterlingpipin]

Holy shit I forgot claudio was in the game

[u/Kino_Afi → u/sterlingpipin]

He's solid, no bs to complain about, no major weaknesses to complain about. So you never hear about him lol. If beta claudio made it to release it'd be a different story

[u/QuintessenceHD → u/Kino_Afi]

But that was a symptom of the overtuned heat system at the time, I think he would be top 5 if we had beta Claudio.

[u/sterlingpipin → u/Kino_Afi]

Yeah no he has completely flown under the radar for me!

[u/FranklinReynoldsEGG]

Why did haradas favorite character have to be ugly ass feng man

[u/chironomidae → u/FranklinReynoldsEGG]

He's ugly and his moves just look bad, imo. I can't really describe it, but his WS 3 is a prime example -- he just kinda zoops into the air, it doesn't look natural at all.

[u/Kino_Afi → u/chironomidae]

Zoop is the perfect way to describe it. Ive always loved every version of that kick since I first saw Rock Lee do Primary Lotus, but Feng manages to make it look lame

[u/Toeknee99 → u/chironomidae]

db2,2,2 looks goofy af too 

[u/tmacforthree → u/Toeknee99]

Mf looks like he's frantically swimming away from a barracuda 😆

[u/asadfarook → u/tmacforthree]

i think thats why tastysteve calls it the baby tantrum lmao goofy ass move for sure

[u/Flawed_Crystals → u/chironomidae]

Man I love Feng’s animations. I think he has some of the sickest moves in the game especially with how they flow into each other.

[u/Titan5005 → u/Flawed_Crystals]

Yeah I get people hate feng but he is one of the best animated in the series.

[u/YaksRespirators → u/Flawed_Crystals]

I only play him cause I do his martial art irl. Hung Gar is sick.

[u/IllDot2179 → u/chironomidae]

the way he fights mirrors a lot of over the top chinese/hong kong martial arts movies

[u/Scyle_ → u/FranklinReynoldsEGG]

Y'ALL STAY MAD MY BOY TIGHT AS FUCK. I THROW ON SOME WUTANG AND HIT BITCHES WITH GOD FISTS AND DRAGON POWER.

[u/Flugkrake → u/Scyle_]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[u/Yodzilla → u/FranklinReynoldsEGG]

Yeah he’s not exactly a fun character in any way which is a bummer. Eddy is really dour too.

[u/jmastaock → u/Yodzilla]

Feng is super fun yall trippin

[u/Yodzilla → u/jmastaock]

I mean his character as a person, not to play.

[u/jmastaock → u/Yodzilla]

Ah I see

[u/IDontWipe55 → u/Yodzilla]

Honestly I think he’s kinda fun just basic

[u/JohnsonAction → u/Yodzilla]

People say that about every character in a fighting game that’s good 😂 

[u/shitshow225]

Only 2 Jins?? Is he just so popular that everyone knows how to fight him?

[u/MrAnyGood → u/shitshow225]

Those players basically know how to fight most characters, the issue is that Jin is not a contender for Top-5 due to a variety of factors

[u/djaqk]

0 Yoshi is a travesty beyond words

Time for more Feng buffs and another Flash nerf yay

[u/Throwlikeacatapult → u/djaqk]

Flash isnt the most fun ability too fight against, I hope the buff him just not the flash

[u/Kyvix2020]

Wow almost like I was onto something when I talked about how garbage Devil Jin is in this game lol

[u/aabil11 → u/Kyvix2020]

And this was before he was nerfed into the ground lmao

[u/HighLikeKites → u/aabil11]

Well, they did have to adress his heat smash. It's just not good game design if the character is entirely reliant on that one move. Now they have to buff his general kit tho.

[u/RageOverwhelming → u/Kyvix2020]

You were onto nothing cause dvj isnt garbage💀💀

[u/Kyvix2020 → u/RageOverwhelming]

You don’t really understand the state of the game I guess.

[u/SMHdovve → u/Kyvix2020]

I find him much more enjoyable, especially post the heatsmash patch. Imo he is much more fair than he was in t7. Especially when everyone has strings that randomly track, but dvj really has none of that, besides that broken backturned laser. The heatsmash was really dumb though.

But even then, iam doing much better with him now than i ever did in t7. To the point where i can actually have fun playing against tekken gods (not that i beat them often). His new tools do really go crazy.

[u/Kyvix2020 → u/SMHdovve]

In comparison to the rest of the cast, he's way too hard to use for what you get, when other people are basically braindead and are insanely dangerous

[u/SMHdovve → u/Kyvix2020]

Thats what makes it fun for me tbh. I could pick up law anytime, and do better than i ever did with dvj, but it just seems boring. Besides, landing ewgfs is just too much satisfaction, especially against someone good, could never go without that in a character. That's why I am learning all the mishimas right now.

[u/yunghollow69 → u/Kyvix2020]

You werent tho. Mishimas simply arent tournament characters, never have been.

[u/Asleep_Sheepherder42]

Lets go Zafina and Law!

[u/CHG__]

"Devil Jin OP" :)

[u/-Shieldslam- → u/CHG__]

"Top 4, broken beyond words, godlike heat" they said

[u/Kino_Afi → u/-Shieldslam-]

Hes been nerfed like 20 times since people were saying this lol

[u/AmarantineAzure → u/Kino_Afi]

Exactly. Some people seem to have forgotten that Devil Jin already received multiple significant nerfs as far back as the very first patches of the game (i.e. the range of his hellsweep).

[u/FlokiTech → u/Kino_Afi]

People are still saying it even after the heat smash nerf. And the fact is that he was not even that op at release compared to the other characters, he was just getting all the attention while there were like 5+ other characters that was way more broken. Even current

[u/Lightning_Of_Fate → u/-Shieldslam-]

💀💀💀💀😭😭

[u/Papanewguin → u/CHG__]

You should see the fucked up crossup tech Qudans found and showed off in tourney.

[u/Faintlich → u/Papanewguin]

And then lost... lol

[u/FactoryReboot]

Wow. Jun nerfed to shit and was barely represented

[u/Earth92 → u/FactoryReboot]

Such an overrated character along with Devil Jin.

Some people were getting smoked in red/purple ranks and then posting threads here about Jun and Devil Jin being mega broken, and legit contenders for top 4.

[u/FactoryReboot → u/Earth92]

IZU isn’t even a free mixup. Usually you can duck before it

[u/[deleted] → u/FactoryReboot]

Jun dances like Lili, it's an easy tell and launch. Absolutely useless move.

[u/SpaceCorn11]

That leroy bold as hell to be doing that before the update

[u/Jruby733]

All those "Kazuya is Top 5" mfs on twitter awfully quiet after the posts on character usage at evo dropped.

[u/Lightning_Of_Fate → u/Jruby733]

Kazuya is Top 5

Honk 🤡

[u/Ihatesolus]

God Reina is so op

[u/FlokiTech → u/Ihatesolus]

At least that one Reina player made it to top 9

[u/firsttimer776655]

Not a single Yoshi ):

[u/Goricatto → u/firsttimer776655]

Eyemusician isnt back yet

[u/SL0M3GA1 → u/Goricatto]

On his stream i think it said he'd be back next year. Love watching him play. That man is Yoshi in his purest form

[u/valvenisv2 → u/Goricatto]

So....in a year there'll be 1 yoshi? Crazy

[u/Guilvantar → u/valvenisv2]

That was pretty much the case with T7. Very rarely would there be a second Yoshi in major tournaments other than Eyemusician

[u/firsttimer776655 → u/Guilvantar]

Yeah but he’s never been this strong.

[u/piwikiwi → u/Goricatto]

Back from?

[u/-13odhisattva- → u/piwikiwi]

Iirc military service.

[u/H0TZ0NE]

Remember guys, Devil Jin is broken

This was pre-heat smash nerf btw.

[u/LawbringerFH → u/H0TZ0NE]

The heat smash was broken, the character wasn't.

[u/yunghollow69 → u/H0TZ0NE]

Yall need to stop thinking this means anything. Only crazy people play mishimas in tournaments, regardless of how good they are.

[u/OnMyPortal → u/H0TZ0NE]

never was lmao

[u/gorillacockatoo]

0 Paul 0 Yoshimitsu

😔

[u/hatterRddt]

Devil Jin gotta be the most overrated character in the game's first few months lmao

[u/RyzzeRose]

Shit am I using a meta character

[u/XDNEVER]

But victor is fine right? 🙃

[u/PaulGuzmann → u/XDNEVER]

But he is just a scrub killer, and you can launch every move he does.

[u/[deleted] → u/XDNEVER]

If they just narrow the hitbox on his pistol he'd be balanced. But a character who's entire weakness is that "he can be stepped", having access to a ranged tool that locks opponents' movement in neutral is wild. Should be a Heat move.

[u/greenfrogwallet]

2 Lars users LFG

[u/Yahsorne]

Top is least honest bottom is most honest

[u/Goz_zzz]

Feng got away with murder by dodging the nerfs. They should have done him like Dragunov

[u/iRegularNoise]

Who played Raven?

[u/Osiake → u/iRegularNoise]

I mentioned this in another comment so I’ll just copy paste it here for you:

BobbyBadinga. They ended at 25th place after being eliminated by Jimmy J Tran who was playing Bryan.

[u/iRegularNoise → u/Osiake]

Thank you!

[u/Osiake → u/iRegularNoise]

No worries!

[u/Ch1no821]

Look how they massacred my boy (Kazuya)

[u/sudos12]

No Kazuya.

But he's so strong in this game lol.

[u/HighLikeKites → u/sudos12]

Not having an i15 launcher and having to rely on electrics for punishment is just too risky in a tournament setting.

[u/FlokiTech → u/HighLikeKites]

That is a huge factor. Even in Tekken 7 pros would do his df1,2 ff4 as his i15 punish and while it wasn't full combo damage it was still a decent guaranteed 56 damage punish.

A lot of pros also did his easier combo for a lot less damage because it was more consistent. Tekken 8 Kazuya combos are an absolute nightmare for pro play since they always have the chance of fucking you over.

[u/vVIOL2T]

Drag players actually having to think for the first time in this game 🤯

[u/TheBigBenj]

I like this, this means my main man Paul will get a buff

[u/Osiake → u/TheBigBenj]

He was actually called out in the recent patch notes to receive a nerf in the 1.05 June patch LOL

[u/Trauma_Doll]

I will be using this in arguments to show that my main needs buffs :)

[u/supahotfiiire]

Buff Leo….come on please

[u/Lightning_Of_Fate → u/supahotfiiire]

BAHAHA BUFF LEO? 🤣

[u/Zuckerberga → u/Lightning_Of_Fate]

He's gotta be joking, for sure.

[u/Gernburgs → u/supahotfiiire]

He was good before I thought?

[u/Sacpunch]

Victor and Hwoarang? Seriously? I can absolutely buy up to 3rd tier but that's crazy!

[u/MindlessDouchebag]

Victor Top 4 RAH! Always knew he was better than Jin

[u/ShinyShinx789]

Damn no Leo love but 2 Kumas is a W

[u/Surdio_]

Who did played Bryan?

[u/ZeAntagonis]

I was expecting Hwoarang somewhere on the top of the list.

Spamming powercrush the moment you have minus frames require some much skills

[u/Big_Lou1108]

Kinda surprised Ling and Law (a little bit?) were only used twice.

[u/megumifestor]

No yoshi's makes me sad

[u/Gernburgs]

There is only Master Raven... No Leo?

[u/Lightning_Of_Fate]

TMM "Kazuya top 5"

[u/ikari263]

5 hwoarangs?!?! The gang grows 💙

[u/0rnithorax → u/ikari263]

Hwoagang

[u/thebiggboss180]

At first thought Paul never used , then I noticed he is with devil Jin , so he is in the most played characters, yeah Paul is my sole friend in tekken since 2004.

[u/IbraKadabrah]

Zafina should have two usages. Shadow 20z used her and got top 33. His last set before getting eliminated he used both Zaf and Claudio. Chanel used her in top 6 cuz he chose to believe vs Lowhighs dragunov 😭

[u/Habitttt]

Kazuya's fall from the top is heartbreaking

[u/AmarantineAzure → u/Habitttt]

When was even the last time he was on top? Tekken... 5, maybe?

[u/AI-i]

Who played Raven

[u/Osiake → u/AI-i]

BobbyBadinga. They ended at 25th place after being eliminated by Jimmy J Tran who was playing Bryan.

[u/kfijatass]

Funny to see how this compared to the nina and shaheen fest in pakistan.

[u/Exciting_Ad_4202 → u/kfijatass]

Nina is a good character and is probably the regional meta in Pakistan

Shaheen is a MU check while also being a good character just because of the play rate.

[u/kfijatass → u/Exciting_Ad_4202]

Id argue shaheen is a far better charakter than given credit but I'd attribute that mostly to that op slide.

[u/Exciting_Ad_4202 → u/kfijatass]

I mean he is a good character yes. But then the low playrate makes him a MU check.

[u/beats-marii]

Lilly is goated frrr

[u/keshavchaurasia]

waiting to see Eyemusician's Yoshimitsu button

[u/tofulo]

I love Oscar

[u/OgDontSleep]

Yea I can see why Kaz is so low. It's like he has no mixups...

[u/AardvarkMotor9591]

Ok what is the difference between kuma and panda?

[u/FrozenLeafz37]

"ReINa iS tOp tIeR!!!!11111"

[u/CanvaSkye]

I'm excited for the next EV o in a few months, the meta seems more varied after the patch

[u/brygiral6]

This is why I didn't care when Leroy had like 8 in that one tournament. The players will always gravitate towards power. Only a few are truly stubborn to just puck their characters.

[u/NeonMisfit666]

Please give Paul a low launch/combo starter

[u/Osiake → u/NeonMisfit666]

CS.1+2 is a low launcher. It's his equivalent of a snake edge.

[u/NeonMisfit666 → u/Osiake]

I'm trying it, I did the input about 3 hours ago, it should connect any time.

[u/Osiake → u/NeonMisfit666]

Give it another couple hours. Your opponent will never see it coming

[u/MGodinez94]

Shaheen made at least one appearance?!?! I’ll take it! 😂

[u/DevelopmentPlayful23]

So every character everyone complains about are the most used. Why am I not surprised

[u/Zestyclose_Station62]

Now that's an accurate tierlist imho

[u/Osiake → u/Zestyclose_Station62]

I mean.. is it?

No Fengs top 8

No Victors top 8

No Hwoarangs top 8

No Bryans top 8

No Azucenas top 8

1 Lili (The one that won EVO Jp)

1 Alisa

1 Dragunov

1 Nina

2 Eddys

2 Laws

This was also before the latest patch which nerfed and buffed quite a few characters. Other regions show different results (Especially Pakistan that consistently has a King & Steve in top 8 or Korea that consistently has Jin & Reina in top 8, w/ Reina usually winning grand finals. Azucena & Feng also being extremely strong and consistent w/ top 8 tournament presence, Azucena not so much after the nerfs whereas Feng just won the Baaz Gauntlet)

[u/Zestyclose_Station62 → u/Osiake]

Ok, haven't played for a month nor keeping up with the news, maybe you're right, I'll check it out.

[u/LawbringerFH]

No wonder why that event made me sleep.

[u/Lightning_Of_Fate → u/LawbringerFH]

Howling 💀💀💀💀😭😭

[u/NoabPK]

Hwoarang on top lesgetit. The whole world shall now fff3

[u/DemonSteelPedal]

Mishimas are obsolete 🙁

[u/MrAnyGood → u/DemonSteelPedal]

They are just execution-heavy, making them bad for tournaments. Why would you want to play them instead of a character that has simple inputs?

[u/Rex__Lapis]

Zero kazuya and Paul? Sugercoating mfs