After months of grinding competitions around the globe and multiple days of setup, Tekken 8 is about to crown its first world champion for the new title.
The Tekken World Tour 2024 Finals has entered the last stage of the huge tournament, and we’ve gone back and gathered up the full character stats for the Last Chance Qualifier, Group Stage and top 16.
Starting out with the LCQ, we ended up seeing 31 of 35 characters in the top 64 receive main play from the competitors fighting it out for the last two spots in the main event.
Hwoarang and King were the most popular choices with Bryan, Dragunov, and Nina right behind them.
T1|Edge was the only Hwoarang to qualify for the final bracket, and the same could be said for ZETA|Keisuke and his Kazuya making some new believers out of fans.
The only characters we didn’t see at all were Devil Jin, Jin, Panda and Xiaoyu. Some of them would continue that trend, but one would definitely not as we continue through the stats.
• Hwoarang – 5
• King – 5
• Bryan – 4 (1)
• Dragunov – 4
• Nina – 4
• Shaheen – 3 (1)
• JACK-8 – 3
• Jun – 3
• Lee – 3
• Lidia – 3
• Eddy – 2
• Kazuya – 2
• Law – 2
• Raven – 2
• Victor – 2
• Alisa – 1 (1)
• Feng – 1 (1)
• Reina – 1 (1)
• Zafina – 1 (1)
• Asuka – 1
• Azucena – 1
• Claudio – 1
• Heihachi – 1
• Kuma – 1
• Lars – 1
• Leo – 1
• Leroy – 1
• Lili – 1
• Paul – 1
• Steve – 1
• Yoshimitsu – 1
• Devil Jin – 0
• Jin – 0
• Panda – 0
• Xiaoyu – 0
• Unknown – 1
Moving on to the top 35 players with the most world and regional points split up between 7 groups, 19 different mains were present with 23 fighters showing up throughout the Round Robin matches in total.
There were 8 repeats among them with Jin and Dragunov seeing the most play, which isn’t too surprising in the current meta, but 4 out of those 5 Jins would actually manage to make their way to the final bracket.
Other popular picks throughout this first competitive season like Nina, Shaheen and Claudio were up there too.
But of course only 14 of these 35 could stay in the money for the grand prize.
• Jin – 5
• Dragunov – 4 (1)
• Claudio – 3 (1)
• Nina – 3
• Shaheen – 3
• Steve – 2 (2)
• Feng – 2
• Jun – 2
• Alisa – 1 (1)
• Heihachi – 1 (1)
• Victor – 1 (1)
• Zafina – 1 (1)
• JACK-8 – 1
• King – 1
• Kuma – 1
• Lars – 1
• Law – 1
• Lili – 1
• Xiaoyu – 1
• Bryan – 0 (1)
• Lee – 0 (1)
• Reina – 0 (1)
• Yoshimitsu – 0 (1)
• Asuka – 0
• Azucena – 0
• Devil Jin – 0
• Eddy – 0
• Hwoarang – 0
• Kazuya – 0
• Leo – 0
• Leroy – 0
• Lidia – 0
• Panda – 0
• Paul – 0
• Raven – 0
Finally, we’ve got the top 16 where things are technically much more diverse besides on character we alluded to before.
The last bracket to determine the champion had 13 different fighters on display, and the only repeat was Jin, who made up 25% of the picks by himself.
So that means we get a pretty nice spread overall to showcase and highlight this first season for Tekken 8 with the players who’ve been putting in the most work.
There’s of course TM|Arslan Ash’s Nina, Navi|Kkokkoma’s Feng, Ashes|TheJon’s King and of course VARREL|Rangchu doing what he does with Kuma better than anyone else.
You can check out the breakdown for TWT top 16 below, but we’ve also got a bit more to look at under that you should find interesting.
• Jin – 4
• Claudio – 1 (1)
• Dragunov – 1
• Feng – 1
• Hwoarang – 1
• Kazuya – 1
• King – 1
• Kuma – 1
• Nina – 1
• Shaheen – 1
• Xiaoyu – 1
• Zafina – 1
• Steve – 1
We’ve combined all of the character usage throughout the entire Tekken World Tour Finals to get a broader view of the event minus any repeats from the players who managed to move on.
When put into a graph, it becomes clear that Dragunov was actually the most used character of the whole event with 8 different mains and then Nina right behind him.
Despite his big impact on top 16, Jin was still tied for 5th overall in popularity with Hwoarang and Jun.
And at the end, the only fighters we unfortunately didn’t seem to witness at all during this multi-day event were Devil Jin and Panda.
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.