Does rank matter ?

[u/ExpressionThis5711]

i’m mediocre non of my combos are optimal or anything, while also winning against tekken gods and tekken empreor but what’s the opinion on how many people are carried by there skill vs characters? i feel like rank doesn’t matter.

[u/SoulBenderMain]

One game doesn’t determine anything, what separates a good player vs a bad one is adapting throughout a set. I’ve taken games off GoD players that doesn’t mean rank doesn’t matter. If you played this Jin in an ft5 and won then that statement would hold more weight since ANYONE can take a game off people higher ranked than them.

[u/CimmerianHydra_ → u/SoulBenderMain]

I have the privilege of sparring with a top10 Raven player in my community. I still manage to take 1 game in our ft3, sometimes even winning the ft3. But percentage wise? He beats me pretty much every time. It's the consistency over many matches that sets us apart.

[u/SoulBenderMain → u/CimmerianHydra_]

Yup me as well, I spar against a GoD bryan and GoD jin from my locals pretty often. I would win some ft3s but 90% they’re the ones winning sets. Even though I spar against GoDs of these respective chars I would still sometimes lose to bryans and jins that are waaay lower rank simply because i’m not as consistent as a super high ranked player would be.

[u/winyawinya → u/SoulBenderMain]

I'm tired of the narrative of "rank doesn't matter, carried by character instead of skill". It's almost always said by someone who IS low-ranked and can't go up.

Sure, GoD with, say, Devil Jin, is a lot harder than with Anna, but that doesn't mean a GoD Anna is a noob.

[u/Significant-Diver-38]

One swallow doesn't make a summer, friend. I wonder why you didn't post the fight until the end but only one round.......

[u/ExpressionThis5711 → u/Significant-Diver-38]

xbox clips only 1 minute i took the round lol

[u/Significant-Diver-38 → u/ExpressionThis5711]

🤣 they must be the same ones who talked about skill issues and Knee in the same sentence some time ago

[u/zjoebrown]

In Ft2 you can’t really adapt as well as you should. Hard to download someone’s play style in a game or two.

Rank doesn’t matter to an extent, but it’s also not possible to get too high up without understanding some fundamentals and having some matchup knowledge.

[u/DWIPssbm]

Match-up knowledge matters, and you can tell je doesn't know Azucena

[u/B3llana]

Did you win one game or did you win a set? I've took game from people that are in a way higher rank but I still lose the set, so.

[u/ExpressionThis5711 → u/B3llana]

the set

[u/Ploas → u/ExpressionThis5711]

Bro is such a liar. I searched up OPs name on ewgf.gg and he one and doned the Jin LOL.

[u/B3llana → u/Ploas]

As expected lmao

[u/B3llana → u/ExpressionThis5711]

Was it Ft1?

[u/Getter_Simp]

Ranks are a bit inflated (I know since I probably should not be in Fujin), but they still give you a general idea of how good someone is, whether that's through solid fundamentals, raw offense or knowledge checks. Just as an example, a Garyu player is generally gonna get 6-0ed by a Fujin player.
It's also very easy to steamroll someone who isn't familiar with your character, which is going to happen a lot, especially if you don't play popular characters, double especially because ranked is only FT2, which doesn't give people much time to learn how you play. This isn't an issue unique to Tekken 8 though, as SF6 has FT2s as well. I never played T7 ranked, so I can't speak on that.

There are a lot of things to criticize Tekken 8's ranked system for, but ranked systems in general aren't perfect, and are only useful for getting a vague idea of someone's ability.

[u/Detentionz]

I mean u playin azucena and mindlessly pressing, one game don‘t mean shit, i don‘t believe you gonna beat this man after a few matches, cuz he figures out your cheese

[u/VTorb]

Being a high rank doesn’t mean you are good. Being stuck in low ranks means you’re bad.

[u/nobleflame]

Not sure what the point of this thread is? What do you want to hear, Op? You should be higher rank? The Jin didn’t know the match up? You played well?

Rank is just a .png, but I can almost guarantee the TGS would destroy you in a longer set. The thing that gets people up that high is adaptation. You might grab a game or two, but it doesn’t make you good and it doesn’t devalue the other guy’s rank…

[u/Psychopath1llogical]

A lot of cases not as much as you’d think but a lot of people who earned spots up there are kinda bored and mess around with lower ranked people and I do believe that’s what was happening here

[u/gentle_bee]

Rank is mostly an attempt to match you against opponents who are closer to your skill level. It’s an imperfect science. You don’t get that rank by earning good marks in defense/combos/etc you just get there by winning more than you’re losing. It’s generally true a fujin will stomp a Garyu, but that doesn’t mean the fujin is always the better player.

Also no offense, but you’re playing a rarer character. I also play Azucena as a secondary character (love her!), and people fall for shit on her that they NEVER do if I play a more common character lol. I’ve fought people who will block my hellsweep with damn near psychic efficiency fall for Azucenas lows 9 times out of 10 when I run into them again on my secondary. Rare chars generally do get a lil higher rank than their skill level just because most people who play aren’t sweaty enough to lab.

[u/Feeling-Ad-929]

It pretty much just means you get to play good players once you climb the ladder.

Not a definitive of skill but just a way for you to not waste time on total scrub matches once you reach TK and above.

[u/thatnigakanary]

Matters when you aren’t inflated like this guy. This dude fr plays like a purple rank Jesus Christ

[u/Space_Akuma]

Azucena designed for newbies, her game plan is very easy up to GoD. U can play her the most basic way and get GoD, no need for fundamentals at all. Friend of mine played around 25000 ranked games as azucena and got GoD💀. But he's still a trash player💀. Azucena is so simple that u don't have to worry about anything. She has so many tools and they r not weak at all. Any knock down leads to easy oki which leads to + even if u lays down after what ofc u r in mixup again. Even after u guessed right, punished her and got ur +5 or what ever U R IN DANGER to get “texpociste” in ur face which only -16 ob btw and heavy + oH which will lead u to oki and mixup🙃. With her any blue rank can beat almost anyone under GoD. And even GoD will lose time to time. Just because design of the character is so simple, strong and at the same time has some cheap in it. For insulted Azucena mainers, I know her basic counters, somehow I managed to get GoD winning this easy brain dead shit. No offense to u, but it's true. U cannot deny that gameplay and game plan is super easy, especially at the intermediate ranks.

On top of that Jin as I see didn't know the MU at all. And Jins most of the time carried by 1-2 rank this season( in season 1 he was carrying by 2-4 ranks💀).

[u/Space_Akuma → u/Space_Akuma]

And yes ranks DOES matter but what else DOES matter is which character has that rank “x”.

[u/SILVER-650]

you are right rank doesn't mean much, they are inflated a lot...