Tekken 8 Character Overviews: Easiest / Hardest Characters Tier List 

This is great! Probably edit the name though lol and timestamp for DJ. Nice work!

LARDON

Deal

love his insight - he's a dope guest

Tekken 8 reminded me why I love fighting games, the last time I had similar vibrations was during sf4 era, i have already 60 hours on steam, sf6 and gbvr are great games, I would give them both 9/10 but there's always something that bothers me about them, with tekken 8 it's different I can't find anything I don't like and that's quite surprising especially since I'm more of a street fighter player, Tekken 8 is as great as Tekken 3 was in year 1998

I would like to fight you online. Just to see what that looks like.

This comment rocks.

😂😂😂

Ah, fellow grandmaster player

Your the one that i would see doing wild stuff and back out 🤣😂🤣🙆 i like to keep my sanity.

Entire game feels like learning a fucking dictianory out of my head

@@BJORNtobeWILDliterally, the second I think I’m getting the hang of things I get mixed by something I didn’t even know existed. That or I do a move I didn’t even know as well

Lol feng is insanely easy

@@_zombiezonelol that’s Tekken. There’s a lot of tools both you and your opponent can employ.

I think the hardest aspect about Tekken is the defense

Almost as if tier lists are dumb... lmao

Ppl gonna read this comment then commit seppuku after missing their 100th electric

except azucena

Tier lists only matter when you are at the highest of level of play and even then rarely do high skill players have identical tier listings. It's just internet argument fodder for the rest of us plebs. For the majority, matchup knowledge is way more important.

this! so much this! please pick up the hardest character, completely fail at it and then drop the game entirely and never play it again

Bro is going crazy in strategist rank 😂

@@XamusTV LOL unprovoked

@@XamusTV game is full of scrubs right now. I don't mean just people who suck (like me), I mean people spamming the same 3 or 4 moves over and over again. Dragunovs are among the scummiest.

@@hakageryu-hz7jzskill issue get good and maybe you won’t get spammed by the same moves 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

⁠@@hakageryu-hz7jzyea it’s expected because it’s still new. You have a lot of new players that probably never even played tekken before so they are learning. If they find something that works then of course they are going to keep using it. Scummy or not, if you lose to it that means you failed to adapt.

basically giving the bread and butter for the characters

On G thats amaing.

Oooh, cool idea 👍👏

No way ur a hwo main and saying he’s button mashing hwo is a hard charecter to learn

@@Perofgloves i think you need reading glasses. I said i remembered button mashing in tekken 3.. i'm obviously putting time and effort into the character now

@@Perofgloves hes a hard character to play properly. hes not a difficult character to get to orange/red ranks with by just mashing shit

I play Tekken since i was a kid. But even for new players its very worth it ! If you rly buy it. You won't regret it. And even if you strugle first you will learn it with time or watch pros. But anyway the game teaching very good too with all the single player content what it has now. And just play who ever you want.

I didn't invest into a fighting game till Tekken 7. I'd recommend just learning a handful of moves at a time, and once you're confident with your knowledge of the character you're playing, look some stuff up on them like juggles and important moves. And get accustomed to losing, because you're going to get stomped. At least that was my experience when starting in T7.

i am dogshit at fighting games but i played 13 hours over the last two days

You can try but you will cry

Trust me u not gonna get good it takes years and years i been playing tekken since 5 and im still learning new stuff tbh😂😂

Do it dude! Just getting into fighting games myself this past year! Just got my pc fixed to try two fighting games out, but I’ve been playing street fighter 6(my favorite right now) mk1(dropped after the first week 😕), guilty gear, and now tekken 8! Tekken 8 feels so flipping good right now and very excited to explore my favorite characters , Steve, Kuma and Leo! This game reminds me of street fighter where every character feels unique that play. Sadly why I don’t like mk1 :/ loved mk11 tho

dont overthink it, sometimes u just need to hit your coolest move. Dont get fixated on wins alone and enjoy yourself, we are happy for every newcomer

In my opinion, it’s the easiest fighter there is. The layouts are super ergonomic (top 2 are L & R punch, bottom 2 are L & R kick). The moves are the easiest in all fighting games (again, just my opinion). Just rotate a half hour in practice and a half hour in arcade. Or rotate a half hour in practice, then turn on the cpu in practice.

SFV is easier, at least at a beginner level. Spend 5 minutes in practice, or just practice in between games and your set for bronze to silver.

Mishimas can be challenging but they're cool af

Mishimas are difficult but so rewarding once it clicks

Yeah keep lying to yourself A normal hit launcher df2 and hopkick makes the character a struggle to learn If you want true Mishima suffering, play Devil Jin or Kazuya

Im learning Yoshimitsu atm....so many stances. Fun as hell though

@@qweqweqwadcsc kaz and devil jin have tools that reina doenst have like actual lows lmao its a trade off

Yeah i didn’t even realize im 48 minutes in already

Im a Nina main as well and I just made it to Vanquisher. What is your go-to game plan with her?!

@@justinmour6928 I don't know if my other reply saved, sorry if this is repetitive, but I suppose I don't do anything too crazy different. I use her grabs probably more often than other people. She has so many it makes it easy to vary it up. Also, it's almost not fair she can cancel so many things and make them super safe. Started actually learning combos and this video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p37RwzQ0xtY.htmlsi=OOi_UZb_rUWtmkFC&t=1) is really good. Their new video is also good as well.

@@justinmour6928 I stopped playing Tekken 7 a few years ago, so I had to get used to her again. I think she is very good in general and I think my biggest tip would be to not always worry about going for optimal stuff or flashy stuff if it's too risky. Tournament combos! lol.

@@TwoyBwoy hahaha yeah you’re right about that!! I’ll stay focused on the fundamentals, her pressure game, frame traps, and using those moments to bait the big 80 damage combos I have lock and loaded!! Thank you!

Perfect opportunity to fight his ghost and find out for yourself. Might pick up some new tech​@@justinmour6928

ong no kap

Landon doesn't know what hes talking about at all

Only when you get it in No sword stance or heat. I think you can get a small follow up with Sword Flash, but nothing crazy. And most of his moves aren't useless. That's the fun of the character, you use everything to mix up your opponent.

the most useless move is 4,4,4, shits not even a CH anymore, but its a legacy move so i understand why they wont take it out

@@jimmyrustles1988 you get guarenteed b22 on sword and that engages heat so still insanely strong, most of his moves arent "useless" simply for the fact no one uses them, you can throw out lots of moves that act as a knowledge check on often times they will land. Its really nice as a yoshi main because of lot of what I know others dont, and fighting other yoshis lets me see moves that I never use optimized and its really nice to see.

@@felipev4077 Pretty decent on the wall if your are parallel to the wall.

Me a new player who started with Yoshi and Devil Jin. Honestly it wasn’t bad at all

Muscle memory implies you're not a beginner though so that doesn't apply for new people

i been a Lee main since T4(3 was my first but he wasnt in it) but tbh i always imagined he was near the middle on difficulty. but after playing him for years ig id be biased cuz i have the muscle memory nowadays.

@@BillyBlakeington this is exactly what he wrote

Lmao is it fuck. You need to get used to the feeling of dropping combos and pickups, regardless of how good you are you will constantly be messing up with Lee.

I been gorging on this game since I got it Tuesday night. Already clocked over 40 hrs in this game.

I also haven't played since tekken 2. I picked up Asuka, and she is really fun. I hopped online for the first time yesterday, and I went 3 outta 7. Definitely have a LOT to work on.

He's not that hard, if you learn him learning other characters will be easier.

I gotten everything down except pewgf and wavedashing. I can do regular electrics and make it work. Keep pushing

Really? The dude that said that dragunov is super easy and op? Just to say that characters with wave dash and crouch dashes are more difficult and more rewarding with stronger tools cuz they are harder to use? While raven is a baby mode crouch dash character? One of the easiest slightly complicated characters to use, while he clones, auto parries, built in crushing properties, easy mode evasion,infinite range for some moves? Dragunov doesn't have most tools like a good df2, good strings, good mids (awful hotboxes for mids and super slow. The only good one is CD4 and a sideways fart will let you sidestep it. A characters stance moving around gets them off axis enough to make him whiff most of his moves). Dragunov is strong now but only because of easy wr moves (still nowhere near like what azucena has, where she tracks with the second hit that's a high, so to avoid her we move you have to sidestep and duck super fast or whiff the first hit and dick the 2nd. Drags wr2 gets stepped super easily by a single step). And also his damage thanks to a new string coupled with the weird hit grab at the wall. Remove that and he is back to being Tekken 7 dragunov.. where he was bottom 5.

​@@kato093idk man bottom 5 in t7 is a stretch and besides that even if he was (and he clearly wasnt) hes still not hard to play at all. Sure there are characters that are easier to play than him but make no mistake drag is a scrub pick plain and simple. If you find it hard to win then thats on you G.

@@killerkrok55 dragunov is a trash tier character in Tekken 7 my dude. The only way he had to make you duck was D2 and dealt no damage. His best move was wr2 and it's one of the easiest moves to sidestep. He had the worst wall damage in the game. His mids were atrocious and had the worst hotboxes in the whole game (high crushing moves would consistently duck under almost every single mid he had). He had zero tracking and the only tracking move that was consistent was D2 and df3+4 (one of the worst moves in the game). You can ask any pro player, they will tell you that dragunov was a joke at the end of Tekken 7. In Tekken 8 he is a lot stronger thanks to a strong low, better mix ups, qcf4 (A GOOD MID! FINALLY) and the damage at the wall being massively buffed. And no, he is not easy compared to most of the case. Be was and still is intermediate, even if a lot easier to use in Tekken 8 (I'm so sad his F3 sway cancel into 1 are not as useful anymore). Most scrubs hate dragunov because they suck. It's usually the same people that hate kazuya for his vortex. Usually it's victor players (let's not name names). But yeah, it's a surefire way to see who is a noob and who is not just asking how good dragunov is, right after asking the same question about kazuya. That one is to see if you are a complete scrub. After that, it's an Eddy question, which says if you are intermediate or lower. At least for Tekken 7.

@@kato093 Bro, stay calm, I'm not talking about Dragunov but about Raven, and I don't care if he puts Raven in the easy, intermediate or difficult position, I'll continue to love the character and play with him, whatever I wanted to highlight, it's the explanation he gave about the character, because a lot of people don't understand the character, they don't give a convincing explanation and they just say "It's a character full of mixups, teleports and stuff" and puts him in the position intermediate, not because they exactly think the character is intermediate but because they don't understand the character, they don't understand the game plan behind the character.

Bro you think you know more than Landon lmao drag is easy as hell

Ur telling me

As a new player and fighting game novice she just felt the best for me out of the characters I tried. It's a fun challenge learning her combos and about her stances.

they need to nerf her brain dead running move, at least remove the tracking, that shit is too op I don't even play and jus spectate now but that's so infuriating to see whenever someone spams that.

@@metalsadmanyeah, leave the mid plus homing running moves to Dragunov mains! We need it :)))))

@@metalsadman >someone who doesn’t play wants nerfs

​@@metalsadman "I don't even play" but you want a nerf I'm crying that's Twitter discourse summarized in a nutshell

so you have to subject yourself continually to a shitty game to have an opinion? idiot@@rejectscorner9939

nah bro just play kuma, you'll have more fun playing the character you want to.

Kuma legitimately terrifying to fight rn, just don't be an idiot and spam 111

u can learn fundamentals with any characters tone down the gimmicks and see what strengths weakness they have play around that try to see what players do then adapt to that u can learn to catch whiffs by df1 2 , sneak jabs db1,2 u can frustrate turtles with b1 , chip damage moves what do you do against his bad moment play patients and when they least expect it go crazy stance mixups are great when players respect you and gimmicks are fun to do from time to time just don't be too involved into them overall but this is stuff to be acquired gradually , Have fun and learn with your pace , in the end this is a game you turn to after a tired day of work , to escape from everyday stress , have a good time , please don't let this feeling die down

Tbh most people rather care about the highest rank and high rank players fights and ranks in Tekken games is what is all about

Heyyy same, lets go🔥

Lol sure. kazuya is hurr durr 50/50 or ewgf

Me with Nina.

it's tierlist for how easy or hard they are to learn... not how strong they are

​@@polakuu I'm not talking about the list just speaking in general

Excellent description of the character.

hes been playing for 12 years

Where to go

@@LethalAscend Fergus's character introductions are pretty useful imo. Just google "tekken 8 fergus characters overview reddit" and it should be the first result that shows up

ahahah mad cause your main is easy eh?

@@riki4404 I actually play Bryan and Lee💀 but go off lil dude

​@@riki4404proud cause yours is "hard"? 😂😂😂

As a fellow Yoshi main, good luck and party hard.

Never forget to party! Your opponent will be expecting you to fight seriously

This almost reads as a salt post lmao, all characters take a ton of effort to play at higher levels

DF1 0 on block D4 0 on hit, imminent CH B1 trade go brrrr FR though Feng insanely simple to play since T7

nina's strings have been nerfed i belive, she no longer has plus on block strings but i do agree with you on Reina

I mean, wanna talk about Jin and Reina in the tier below Kazuya? When kazuya is hands down the easiest mishima, people still act like doing electrics is hard.

yea, putting king on easy, wtf... all the females are toxic super sonic speed, that B.A. lars too.

Almost every tekken character I've played has ewgf input in their kit somewhere, its not a crazy move like you said@@nofuccerino6025 I play king and ewgf before the RDC grabs. EWGF is just a shoryuken with a neutral in the middle practically

Yeah, i think she's like heihachi but more complicated, at least as hard as dvj with how ass her lows are

Mainman didn't do a tier list but he did something similar day 1

Under 30 min gang like this

I’ll have my wife vouch for me but I promise I’m an under one minute man.

Bro is king of the never touching grass squad

Why is this a flex? Being the first in a video is the stupidest and most no life thing ever

@@mhead1117 I just happened to refresh my youtube at the most opportune time.

Take 30 minute to an hour learning her matchup/mixup and you shut down 90% of her stuff and Lili is forced to play defensive. She does have an easier time in T8 because she no longer feels all in-ish with those additional safe moves now where before she's pretty all in.

I skipped past the other ones to see the Lili section... they sounded very subjective talking like they just hated the character. I can understand the points they did make but they didn't even touch on execution at all. Not a mention of dew glide cancels.

@@FrozenFacade 100% agree with u

No Sword Stance was buffed with high damage moves that heal yoshi and flash is one of those buffed moves that gets a combo out of NSS and in heat