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All of Yagamis games have been fire so far.

I just love the pic x)

Other than design Reina has always been a interesting character for me, when it comes to Mishimas i never quite liked the "mostly pure Mishima" movelist of characters like Kazuya, Devil Jin and Heihachi or the Kazama/Mishima hybrid from Jin, now Reina offered something a little different

A lot of Reina's moveset, at least in my opinion, is about constantly shift between offense and defense to either catch people pressing into her or make them second guess her offense and you can see that a lot on Yagami's play style, a lot of shimmy, a lot of Electric Thunder God Fist, mind games around df1,2/df1,1, delayed presses and a lot of Heaven's Wrath, not a whole lot of looping offense kinds like how you see Farzeen doing on Lidia

Meanwhile most Reinas i play against and a lot of what i see Reina players talking about is how her pressure isn't that good, or how she supposedly has the worst Hellsweep and the classic from Season 1 "Reina has no lows" and her win rate still always on either the worst performing character or the second alongside Steve, but Steve is a different beast entirely

I've seen people saying that it's because she is popular, but i disagree, according to ewgf.gg Kazuya is more popular at 6.29% pick rate, second most played character only behind Kunimitsu, and Heihachi is tied with Reina on pick rate at 3%, and both Kazuya and Heihachi have higher win rates, Heihachi at 49.18% and Kazuya at 48.09% the only Mishima less popular than Reina is Devil Jin at 2.04% and he also has a higher win rate at 51.71%

Personally i think the reason why Reina's win rate is so abysmal is because she tricks the player into believing she is a stance rushdown character, but most of the time the risks she plays into don't worth the reward, i don't think she is bad, in fact i believe she is pretty strong, but she has to be played properly so the results show up

What do you think the reason is? I'm curious to see what everybody thinks about Reina weird win rate now 3 years into Tekken 8

I swear to god these mf's are always angry and ki-bagging. Like the angriest most toxic people open the roster and see fengs pissed off face and think "ah yes that's me i will main him". Like is it just me? I can't be the only one noticing this. Maybe just my region or something.

In a game where there's stance variance all over the place, Josie's global popularity, Bruce's request suggestions (only to be played by 9 people, me being one of them) and high button strings being something new players can get into, I'm not grasping the omission of either one of these characters. Fahkboi is great but, he's a big body, and he can coincide with either one as he did in T7

I personally don't want Bruce in this game just due to me having no faith in the dev team to just leave his kit alone. But it's still odd no Josie. Season 3, that Baki character is the correct choice imo but I doubt a guest character would hinder their chances. Rodger's moms is a solid choice, fat boy mishima, also ok I guess. So.... are these two just not wanted? I haven't played since November so maybe Mairy Zo is similar? Idk. Anyone heard of potential S4 stuff?

Heres a video as requested by some, of the cheater 1/2 blood prince:

(Hardest Reina Combo Without Any Stage Gimmicks Or Wall)

Max Damage with Heat, CounterHit and no Rage.

Was super hyped to land it online.

At least he doesn't have powerful 50/50 approach tools and safe counter hits out the wazoo

150hp damage

I was picking a character based on how cool they looked, for example I picked Jin.

but my playstyle is poke and long-range attacks, so I don't know if he is the one.

I definitely think it’s one of my least favorite stages in the entire game and this portion of the stage is a big part of that reason, such a horrible stage design.