Tekken 7 went out with a bang today in a tournament that will hopefully be well remembered for years to come and one special winner to send the game out.
Now that the action has come to a close at the Tekken World Tour 2023 Finals, we’ve decided to go back and break down the character stats from the top 8, group stage and last chance qualifier tournament.
Starting with the end, we somehow managed to see a whopping 16 different characters across the entirety of top 8, which is pretty darn nuts.
TM|Arslan Ash used 5 by himself across his matches including busting out a Katarina just for grand finals that we didn’t see the rest of the weekend.
We saw 6 unique mains with Kunimitsu and Bryan being the only repeats though it means there were 10 others used as secondaries, counter picks, etc.
Akuma and Geese were not the crossover characters who made an impact here with only Noctis making it to the final stage and being used not only by Arslan but also the event’s runner up, KDF|CBM, exclusively — and impressively.
The group stage meanwhile saw Jin and Akuma as the most popular picks among the 20 prospective finalists while none of them made it to the Sunday stage.
Overall, we saw 23 different characters at the interim event with 13 of them being unique mains, which was nice to see at the end of Tekken 7’s competitive life.
With almost 330 players signed up just for the last chance qualifier, our breakdown of the top 32 represents around the top 10 percent of finishers to get a better sense of the best competitors who didn’t quite make the cut (except for PAR|JoeCrush).
There King reigned king, but it was Zafina we saw the most of in top 16 overall.
The LCQ ended up with 7 mains in the top 8 and 23 mains in the top 32 where only 8 of them repeated.
You can check out all of our character usage breakdowns for the Tekken World Tour Finals below.
• Kunimitsu – 2
• Bryan – 2
• Noctis – 1 (1)
• Julia – 1 (1)
• Kazumi – 1
• Eddy – 1
• Katarina – 0 (1)
• Zafina – 0 (1)
• Nina – 0 (1)
• Bob – 0 (1)
• Steve – 0 (1)
• Shaheen – 0 (1)
• Anna – 0 (1)
• Feng – 0 (1)
• Marduk – 0 (1)
• Paul – 0 (1)
• Jin – 3
• Akuma – 2 (2)
• Feng – 2 (2)
• JACK-7 – 2 (1)
• Kunimitsu – 2 (1)
• Marduk – 1 (2)
• Bryan – 1 (1)
• Julia – 1 (1)
• Noctis – 1 (1)
• Steve – 1 (1)
• Eddy – 1
• Kazumi – 1
• Lidia – 1
• Anna – 0 (1)
• Bob – 0 (1)
• Leo – 0 (1)
• Negan – 0 (1)
• Nina – 0 (1)
• Paul – 0 (1)
• Shaheen – 0 (1)
• Zafina – 0 (1)
• Geese – 0 (1)
• Ganryu – 0 (1)
• King – 3
• Zafina – 2 (1)
• Akuma – 2
• Katarina – 2
• Leo – 2
• Bryan – 2
• Alisa – 2
• Law – 2
• JACK-7 – 1
• Noctis – 1
• Hwoarang – 1
• Julia – 1
• Claudio – 1
• Eddy – 1
• Armor King – 1
• Dragunov – 1
• Xiaoyu – 1
• Master Raven – 1
• Lee – 1
• Geese – 1
• Miguel – 1
• Marduk – 1
• Steve – 1
• Shaheen – 0 (1)
• Negan – 0 (1)
• Bob – 0 (1)
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary or side character choices.