The Summer season is basically here now and so is the season for big fighting game tournaments taking place all over the globe on a near weekly basis again.
DreamHack Summer 2024 is another such big major going down this weekend as an Esports World Cup 2024 qualifying event along with a prize pool of $50,000 in Tekken 8 gathering a bunch of the top talent, so let’s see how and who is performing the best.
With the brackets whittled down to the final 8 competitors, we decided to take a look at the full character stats of the players who reached the top 64 for Tekken.
As the headline suggests, 8 characters made up over half of the total usage of said upper bracket though there’s a few who stood out a bit more among the rest.
Feng continues his competitive hot streak with 6 players maining him in the top 64 (plus one backup) along with JACK-8 having 5 with a couple reaching as far as the top 16.
Overall, there were 26 different mains in total picked throughout the finalist contenders with 15 of them being repeats.
That also leaves 6 fighters who don’t seem to have seen play at all here in the later stages including Asuka, Leo, Lili, Panda, Paul and Xiaoyu.
Despite the uneven character popularity at the top, we still saw a pretty diverse top 8 with Claudio, Yoshimitsu, Dragunov, Kazuya, Kuma, Nina and Jin being the only repeat while former Tekken World Tour champion VARREL|Rangchu is continuing his strong season with the bears so far.
We still have to crown a champion in Sweden, but you can check out a full breakdown of the character stats in Tekken below. And if you haven’t already, take a look at our usage stats for Street Fighter 6 at DreamHack Summmer too.
• Feng – 6 (1)
• JACK-8 – 5
• Azucena – 4
• Claudio – 4
• Dragunov – 4
• Hwoarang – 4
• Jin – 4
• Law – 4
• Lars – 3
• Reina – 3
• Shaheen – 3
• Nina – 2 (1)
• Bryan – 2
• Kazuya – 2
• Yoshimitsu – 2
• Victor – 1 (1)
• Zafina – 1 (1)
• Devil Jin – 1
• Eddy – 1
• Jun – 1
• King – 1
• Kuma – 1
• Lee – 1
• Leroy – 1
• Raven – 1
• Steve – 1
• Alisa – 0 1
• Asuka – 0
• Leo – 0
• Lili – 0
• Panda – 0
• Paul – 0
• Xiaoyu – 0
Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.