Originally Posted by Sunther

forget about tiers and shit, tekken 7 is already pretty balanced, competitive tournament play is the only time when tier whoring matters, but then again, we saw rangchu win with panda against knee in twt.

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Well this is just not true. Tekken is certainly not balanced, we see the same few top picks every season from the top players. People like to throw out Rangchus TWT win as a reasoning as to why Tekken is actually balanced.
That just absolutely horrible use of argumentation for the fact that Tekken is or isnt balanced. We have ONE case where a "low tier" wins any kind of a major, literally just one. Arguing that the game is balanced because of a single real upset ever is insanity. The truth is that top tiers dominate tournament play every season. Rangchu didn't win because Tekken 7 is balanced, Rangchu won despite Tekken 7 not being balanced.

But yeah I do agree that if you are not aiming to become a competitive player, you shouldn't look at tier lists too much.

Originally Posted by Sunther

I'm talking relatively, compared to other fighting games Tekken 7 is pretty balanced, Look at Street Fighter or MK11, even if it's not tournament play you can barely win against top tier characters. Tiers only matter in tekken when you're starting to reach the skill ceiling, ofcourse there are gonna be top tiers that are just difficult to go up against because of the fact that they're already top tier + easy to use (Fuckerman, Leeroy) but it's still not skill ceiling, chances are people using fuckerman and leeroy are just spamming strings, just learn to punish them.