Okay were a couple of days behind but were back on track now, here is the top 10 best Tekken Characters.
Honourable Mentions
Jun Kazama: Was great to control but I hated to see her cut from the cast and brought back as a generic monstrous boss type.
Jack Series: They’ve always been interesting to watch and they do behave like robot characters should, but left off the list as there’s no one Jack character that’s better than the other.
Kazuya Mishima: Gone up well in my estimation since Tekken 8 released.
Anna Williams: She fits her persona a lot better than Nina and injects some much needed style in a series very reliant on a set style for its characters, but doesn’t control well enough to be included on the list.
Leo Kleisen: I applaud then for using a female character with a more ambiguous gender design and she plays well but she reminds me too much of Elliot from Dead or Alive to the point that they could be twins.
10. Alex and Roger
Only in Tekken can you have a boxing Kangaroo and Raptor as part of the selectable cast, their novelty has worn off a bit recently but you can’t deny that they are fun characters to play.
9. Kuma and Panda
More fun with animal fighters, Kuma and Panda are very colourful fighters in the Tekken series, adding some humour and decent fighting mechanics to wild animals. Not to mention Panda being very cuddly.
8. Eddy Gordo
When he was released in Tekken 3, he was a phenomenon as no one had ever seen his style of combat before, he was the one who put capoeira on the map, but since then he’s kind of faded away but his impact still shows today.
7. Lee Chaolan
At first I thought he was a spoiled brat not helped by the terrible animated movie but he actually plays really well and has hilarious dialogue, he truly is “Excellent”.
6. Sergei Dragunov
Another hilarious character this time under the comically serious type, his body language makes him look like a competent Mr Bean but is still rather goofy looking when his victory poses consist of crawling and politely humming to himself.
5. Miguel Caballero Rojo
Fighting games don’t always use the straight up brawler type, but that’s exactly what Miguel is and it’s refreshing to see, and his roaring rampage of revenge is very reminiscent of Inigo Montoya.
4. Heihachi Mishima
He’s the reason Tekken is so popular, a larger than life personality with the mannerisms to match, a worthy candidate for any list of best fighting game characters let alone Tekken, and he has a lighter personality which does wonders for his popularity.
3. Julia Chang
A surprisingly well rounded three dimensional character with more than one fighting style up her sleeve and an intriguing relationship with Ganryu gives some more insight into the lives of the lesser story characters which I tend to prefer over the quote on quote “Main Characters”
2. Hwoarang
The go to character for Tekken pros and I can see why, he’s a very good character to use and the best in his category among all fighting games beating out the likes of Juri and Kim from Street Fighter and Fatal Fury respectively.
1. King
But the character I control the best is King, for some reason I seem to swing more to the wrestler types but many of them are tanks with not much movement; King was a more diverse character with his move set including power hits and a good mixture of throws and grapples and the full head Jaguar mask just screams iconic value for Tekken. There’s no other character like him and even Armour King despite being an obvious clone plays very differently to the main man King; makes me wonder if he has an actual face under that Jaguar Mask.
