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.
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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.
Like Fahk is still a major problem. Like people don't even actively play him, but just bust him out in tournaments.
A character shouldn't be that strong as to just pocket him for tournaments and play someone you like on off time.
Zafina, fahk, akuma, steve, leroy, DVJ are all real problem characters atm.