The characters are unbalanced

[SubwayZ]

I have to say that I am really disappointed when it comes to the balancing. They had so many years to balance the game properly, I do not understand at all how it is possible that the characters are not more balanced. I mean what did they do to Alisa for example? She is way worse now and I don't understand why they even touched her, she was a perfectly fine upper mid tier and now she is just low tier. In general the gap between the best and the worst characters is wayyy to high!
A great example are Kuma and Panda - those two were always basically the worst characters in Tekken...the only improvement they needed to make would be a higher range or faster attack speed. Then those two could even mid tier. But no, they just made them bad as always. Why would you even add such useless characters to the game then???

SF6 has some OP characters too, but in general the majority of the characters are not too far from each other...

[Cassardis]

Kuma and Panda are actually alot better in this game than T7, and remember they did win the TWT twice (which is the 2nd biggest tournament after EVo for Tekken :))

[The Guy]

Don't Kuma and Panda have the highest range in the game? A lot of these attacks are pretty quick too (12-16 frames, lots of block advantage.) They are very good at punishing whiffs at range.

[WickedestLizard]

%100 agree,, serious unbalanced fighting especially with the Special style, make's the game into a one button wonder. the reason i like Tekken is for the Technical combo's, not AUTO PILOT.

[The Hungry Werewolf]

Week 1 fighting games in a nutshell.

[SubwayZ]

Originally posted by Cassardis:

Kuma and Panda are actually alot better in this game than T7, and remember they did win the TWT twice (which is the 2nd biggest tournament after EVo for Tekken :))

yes they are better, but still way too bad

[SubwayZ]

Originally posted by WickedestLizard:

%100 agree,, serious unbalanced fighting especially with the Special style, make's the game into a one button wonder. the reason i like Tekken is for the Technical combo's, not AUTO PILOT.

I don't see the special style as an issue...you have to time it right and both have it from the start...i feel like the rage art should have been removed and replaced with the special style. Both at once are just way too much. It literally can happen that your enemy is low HP, is able to use rage art and you can't since you have too much HP. But even though you have too much HP for the rage art, it can insta-kill you. That is completely unfair since you lose a match where you were clearly better, just because of a single button press from the enemy, that you couldnt even do yourself. Also the health regen is the biggest BS ever.

[ExplosiveBolts]

Welcome to the release week of any fighting game ever made, of course there are balancing issues.

[Infevo]

I could not think of many balanced games and Tekken was never balanced. So I don't get where the surprise and disappointment comes from. Especially, since Tekken is so much more complex than any other fighting game and therefore is much harder to balance to begin wiht.

[SubwayZ]

Originally posted by ExplosiveBolts:

Welcome to the release week of any fighting game ever made, of course there are balancing issues.

almost all characters existed before, some of them exist for almost 20 years and tekken 7 came out 7 years ago so they had enough time even for the newer ones...there is literally no excuse for making some characters wayyyy worse and some way better...they already knew how each character performs and could have perfectly balanced it...it is not like other games where a new character releases and is overpowered or underpowered at the start and gets buffed or nerfed later on...the tekken characters exist for a loooooooong time, but instead of being more balanced with every new game, they literally change completely

[Infevo]

Tekken 7 is still crazy unbalanced. Akuma, Feng Wei, Jin, Geese? Then look at the bottom tiers. Do not expect Tekken 8 with all the Heat shenanigans to ever become even remotely as balanced.
This has NOTHING to do with the "release week".

[kiteless 凧無し]

of course OP reached TGO with every character so he would know

[s0_RoNerY]

Originally posted by The Guy:

Don't Kuma and Panda have the highest range in the game? A lot of these attacks are pretty quick too (12-16 frames, lots of block advantage.) They are very good at punishing whiffs at range.

So does Jack.

[SubwayZ]

Originally posted by Infevo:

Tekken 7 is still crazy unbalanced. Akuma, Feng Wei, Jin, Geese? Then look at the bottom tiers. Do not expect Tekken 8 with all the Heat shenanigans to ever become even remotely as balanced.
This has NOTHING to do with the "release week".

very true and very sad...

[SubwayZ]

Originally posted by sO_яoNєrY:

Originally posted by The Guy:

Don't Kuma and Panda have the highest range in the game? A lot of these attacks are pretty quick too (12-16 frames, lots of block advantage.) They are very good at punishing whiffs at range.

So does Jack.

those characters dont really have a high range and the moves work long distance take way too long to launch

[C.C. 折オリ枝 の 夫]

How is Alisa "worse" when she's pretty much better than in Tekken 7?

Sure, d/b3 is now -2 on hit rather than -1, but we can still interrupt, and now you can actually side step after d4, as it went from -5 to -1. D/f1,4 is now punishable, but gives you a guaranteed 3,2 or 3,f2 if you don't want to use the heat engager on ch guaranteed.

M4 doesn't launch anymore, but that's a change across the board.

Her damage is also higher in combos. She can also backdash during DES now, which is huge. B3+4 is not a really good punisher and whiff punisher. U/f4,4 now doesn't force crouch, meaning you can actually use it against characters like Kazuya.

Like, how is she "worse"? Give some details, explain.