Hwoarang needs to be nerfed

[Shocker]

He is much more OP and dumbed down than he was in Tekken 7. In Tekken 8 you can just literally be in someones face and randomly mash the kick buttons combined with the movement buttons and you win without even trying.

[=\[P]/=]

he isn't that strong when you know his string, most of the time he has to do high that you can duck

or if your character has safe PC, you can spam it and see him rage quit

but yeah, i also want him to be nerfed too, bcos i personally hate fighting him, no matter win or lose

[Forza Piadina]

Posting these kind of posts make you just more incompetent.
I can just write that he is really bad than in T7 and compared to Dragunov, King,Jun,Jin, or Azucena for example but i am pretty sure i will waste my time...So make a favor to everyone and change game.

[KenzBuilds]

agreed same with Dragunov, Jun, Reina and Victor

[john2gr]

If you think Hwoarang is too OP, wait until you play against King, Dragunov, Law or Bryan. In fact, Hwoarang in T8 has been nerfed compared to T7.

[lady with an ermine]

literally just duck his kicks. all of his fast kicks are highs.

[Shocker]

Originally posted by john2gr:

If you think Hwoarang is too OP, wait until you play against King, Dragunov, Law or Bryan. In fact, Hwoarang in T8 has been nerfed compared to T7.

Hwoarang is more OP than he was in Tekken 7. He can get in your face more easier with an added range attack, and his easy combos are longer too. None of the other characters you mentioned are as OP.

[TiberiusGaben]

ill give you guys the secret counter to hwoarang . duck bois duck. lil korean lad has a lot of high kicks and and ... alot of his chains start with a high . it goes like this he kicks i duck and whiff punish with a while rising literally havent lost against a hwoarang while using this strat

[TiberiusGaben]

plus game just came out so chances are that hwoarang is using the same combo over and over

[TiberiusGaben]

also have you not fought a king yet . king is a lot stronger in tekken 8 than 7 . and really it just cuz grabs are harder to tech out of

[attishno1]

Hwo has highs that can be ducked easily. There are some PC moves that can easily negate his pressure. Actually, Hwo is a badly designed character, as most of his moves make him an oddball. There is a huge gap between some of his moves, that can make it quite easy to react.

Also, most Hwo players, including myself, are easy to read. We usually have to play a certain style, and can't play as unpredictable as other characters can, as we are all about maintaining the plus frames. Unfortunately, T8 has mechanics that make plus frames totally useless at some points.

Most Hwo mains will tell you that the character actually needs some moves that can make him less of an oddball character. Right now, he is vastly different from the rest of the cast. The good thing is that Hwo mains that you will meet online do not have good fundamentals. You can easily beat them with movement. Also, Hwo has no answer for characters that move out of his range from neutral. Peacekeeper being the only move from neutral that can catch people trying to get away, but it is super linear. His other long range moves all come out from a stance, and are very poor overall.

Also, I can tell you that winning with Hwo is far from easy. If the other player is unlucky and is guessing incorrectly all the time, then yes, it becomes easy. If the other player is reading correctly, Hwo is basically punished for pressing buttons after he puts the player in a mixup.

[mmm..mlurp]

Hwoarang is not OP he's just a very poorly designed concept.

He requires many hours of research and practice to know when to duck, when to back dash and when to recognise he's not plus on block any more (because there are hardly any visual clues).

It probably took me more than 100 hours of labbing him to be able to consistently beat high ranking Hwoarangs. It had to be done because playing against him through the years used to make my blood boil.

[JON.BKK]

Originally posted by Forza Piadina:

Posting these kind of posts make you just more incompetent.
I can just write that he is really bad than in T7 and compared to Dragunov, King,Jun,Jin, or Azucena for example but i am pretty sure i will waste my time...So make a favor to everyone and change game.

Your negativity and ignorance is out of place and does not contribute to this topic whatsoever. You need to get off this discussion board.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by =\P/=:

he isn't that strong when you know his string, most of the time he has to do high that you can duck

or if your character has safe PC, you can spam it and see him rage quit

but yeah, i also want him to be nerfed too, bcos i personally hate fighting him, no matter win or lose

Exactly. He's annoying af but ain't THAT strong. I ended a 9 Hwoarang win-streak, once, pretty much by just abusing lows.

[PremiumG98]

you guys know hwo has jab that launches on ch for 100 - 120 damage in heat? braindead wallcarry and very good combos in general, crazy pressure coupled with chip, the only weakness he had is gone because of rff df3 (insane move with no counter play, literally), has almost every tool in the game, good evasion, full throw game, etc. etc., in a game where almost everyone lost their magic 4's he still has it, despite it being -10 ob its still crazy that he has it.
He's probably near perfect in this game, but people say hes not that strong and doesnt need nerfs bc a bunch of carried Hwo scrubs have no brains and no defense, so you can duck their flowcharts? really cool, thanks.