Tekken 8 Winrate & Playrates at Ruler+

[C.C. 折オリ枝 の 夫]

So, we have some new stats, and there's something really interesting when we look at the character playrate and winrate.

So, here's the top 10 winrates (without numbers because I can't be assed to eyeball it, will post link at the end) and I'll post their popularity spot as well in a parenthesis next to them, let's see if you guys can notice something that's really interesting.

1. Panda (32)
2. Zafina (31)
3. Shaheen (29)
4. Kuma (28)
5. Alisa (20)
6. Claudio (27)
7. Dragunov (1)
8. Nina (24)
9. Devil Jin (15)
10. Leo (26)

Ok, if you haven't noticed anything, lemme point it out, out of the top 10 winrates, only 2 characters are in the top half of most played characters, and I say top half because Devil Jin is literally at the tail end of the "most played" half, spot the other one.

Here's the link, feel free to discuss:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/1b5rivl/an_second_look_at_the_tekken_8_metagame_based_on/

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Panda ??? Really ???

[AvidExpert]

Oh look, Panda/Kuma are high in win rates again.

It is always the case tbh.

Shaheen win rate is due to his new moves which break neutral.

[Insomniak]

Top 4 least popular characters, which means most people don't know the match up. Most of these are rarely seen characters, apart from the obvious 2.

[Necropants]

Pretty simple it's not a reflection of their power but the fact they are so uncommon that most people have no idea how to fight them.

Now, the very popular characters that also have a high win rate Devil Jin, Druganov are the clear problem.

[C1REX]

Good players like to challange themselves by picking rare and/or weak characters.
People in gold ranks abusing people in purple ranks with their meme panda character.

Win rates means nothing when judging the strength of characters.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Buff Xiaoyu and Jun, they’re not even top ten

[Zagryzaec]

Obviously.

It's been prettyuch the same in general and in Tekken 7.

With the exception that Tekken 7 winrate was polluted with broken dlc chars.

Panda zafina Shaheen and Kuma are mostly due to bieng rare character that match up is unknown and unobvious. Alisa is just very simple effective character that carry their players with freeing them from range difficulties, and capability to just take away half of opponent life bar through block in heat and keep going. She and Claudio keep their top winrate from previous parts, but surprisingly I don't see Feng there for some reason, that goes against his common winrate. On the other hand with all his evasion his moves are actually pretty hurtful on blick and straightforward to counter.

Glad to see Dragunov, even if he could make it to top five. But don't expect him to keep up with infinite range chars like Alisa and Claudio. At least he beats devil Jin.

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Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Oh look, Panda/Kuma are high in win rates again.

It is always the case tbh.

Shaheen win rate is due to his new moves which break neutral.

the guard break?

[AvidExpert]

Originally posted by =\P/=:

Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Oh look, Panda/Kuma are high in win rates again.

It is always the case tbh.

Shaheen win rate is due to his new moves which break neutral.

the guard break?

Guard break + jump move that is old YOshi NSS u/F 3+4

[willy bammy]

less played characters always have higher winrates. Same with Ganryu in T7, you could count on your fingers the number of people playing Ganryu online and they would always win

[Messsucher]

Looks awesome! Panda topping! Now just rise Kuma rise! This really made my day <3

[drinker]

Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Oh look, Panda/Kuma are high in win rates again.

It is always the case tbh.

Shaheen win rate is due to his new moves which break neutral.

Its because those characters have the least stances and see the least play meaning easier than some other characters to pick up and harder to counter cause no one plays them

[Zagryzaec]

Nah, amount of stances would increase your winrate. The more efficient ♥♥♥♥ you can throw upon your opponent the better. And in most cases you don't have to utilise entire list of moves to win. Just test it and see which one of your "lab only" setups wasn't labbed by this particular player

[Powercrank]

less popular = people dont know the matchup = people lose

in the case of someone like Nina, not only is the above true, but since Nina is generally harder to use than the majority of the cast, the people playing her are more likely to be dedicated fighting game nerds, and thus win more often.

Leroy is a pretty clear loser according to the stats. Even though he's super unpopular and people don't know the matchup, his win rates are still not that great.

[SEATEK The_LEFTY]

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