Late to the party, but I reccomend Claudio. He has the smallest moveset, so theres not too much memorization involved

The ones you enjoy the most. There are very, very few characters that can't play standard tekken.

I recommend you play someone you find cool. Any other reason youll either drop the game soon or youll never be good.

Heihachi mishima is a good character to start with.

the one you think has the coolest costumes

For a rushdown stance character, try Miguel.

For a balanced all round option with good generic tools, try Shaheen.

For a poke heavy fundamentals based character, try Kazumi

Just find a character you like and start from there. You’ll improve on your own instead of playing someone you don’t enjoy just because he or she is easy.

What characters interest you the most? It’s better to pick a character you genuinely like as it encourages you to get better with them

Negan

When you start playing Tekken and instead of picking your favourite, you go with something easy you are about to make mistake.

You can learn an easy character in like 1-2s weaks. The generic movelist, basic combos and how to get a combo at all, some good moves and how to use these. Fine.

But it will take at least a year to get used to all the stuff which is going on. Movement, punishment, poking, specific MU details. YOu might get stuck with a character you dont like but considered rather good, instead of playing the one you liked and considered bad just to save a few weaks of learning basic stuff.

Go with the one you like the most, no matter what. Play a bear if you like these, go with a Mishima when this what you enjoy, pick a tricky poking character or even a waifu.

Dont go the easy way in this one, pick the one you like.

Pick who you find cool, an easy character isn't going to do you a lot of good if you get bored of them after a week and then stop playing entirely.

Take your time to find your main, I sure did.

Yoshimitsu is great for teaching very conventional fundamental Tekken and his gameplan is simple and easy to understand.

The easiest characters in the game are probably claudio, katarina and josie. Negan too if getting dlc isnt an issue

Best for learning basic fundamentals would be shaheen, law, kazumi, paul.

Though tbh, the best way to go is pick a character who you like the look of, play with them a bit to see if you like them, then go to another one you like if not.

Her and Lili have been the characters I've felt more comfortable with so far! Thank you!

Akuma for sure man 👍🏻

In my defense, I dont really play law at all so i was mostly basing that on what other people say about him

Shaheen, Katarina, Claudio, these 3 are the easiest to learn the game with IMO. But really you could start with anyone you like.

WHOEVER LOOKS COOLER Tekken is hard either way. Just please pick a guy you think looks dope or has cool animations. That's what will make you stick with the game and learn it.

Paul Noc Saheen Asuka Kat Gigas

Shaheen. But I got bored with him and checked out Master Raven down the road.

Claudio, Katarina, Shaheen

You’re so new I wouldn’t even worry about that kind of stuff. Pick a character that aesthetically pleases you or a character you’ve seen that looks fun. No character is impossible to learn by a beginner and you wouldn’t need to learn the difficult stuff until you get past the first couple hurdles of learning anyway so you might as well play with a character that interests you.

The best character is also the easiest one : Gigas. You should play Gigas he is the best. He was so good he was banned from tournaments that's why no one is using him

Katarina, Josie, Asuka, Claudio, shaheen

At this stage it seems like half the cast has already been suggested but I'm going to add Claudio.

I would go for Dragunov

I’d say Johnathan is your best bet for getting started. Pretty much the Ryu of this game, he has a fireball, DP, and a pretty basic gimmick which is just charging his meter/using EX moves.

Pt. 3 DIO might be good if you want to learn a stand user first, he has a lot of good moves that are easy to perform, but he does have a lot of moves in general.

That’s just my opinion though, I’m sure somebody else has a better reason for it being somebody else.

Jonathan, Josuke 8, Okuyasu, and jotaro 3. Jotaro 4 and Josuke 4 are intermediate in my eye and girono’s combos are pretty straightforward. Not all of the jojos are automatically beginner friendly or good at all. In fact, Johnny is one one the worst characters in the game, but don’t let that stop you from playing who you wanna play

The Jojos are the most straightforward characters, and they have staple moves like hazards (Jolyne), projectiles (part 4 Jotaro, Gappy), and barrage attacks (all of them)

any jojo really

Jotaro 3 and DIO are the quintessential beginner characters. Punch demons. Jonathan feels a lot like a classic fighter character, if you've played any MK or SF he's a good introduction.

There are quite a few beginner friendly characters. The ones I can recommend from the top of my head are: Law, Paul, Hwoarang and Catalina.

The answer you're looking for is Shaheen, Kazumi, and maybe Leo, Feng, Jin or Claudio. Asuka is pretty beginner friendly too but is nonstandard in a lot of ways, such as lacking a good i10 punish.

The real answer is pick who you like or who appeals to you. In Tekken it's really the game that's hard, regardless of character choice. If you're in love with Yoshimitsu, go ahead and play him, even if people tell you he's too complex for beginners. You'll quickly find that every character has a simple, effective gameplan you can use while learning.

The real important thing at the beginning is to find a character that's fun to play and just play a lot for fun. It will take months to feel comfortable in this game and that's fine, it's a 25 year old game basically.

I highly highly recommend this playlist to learn the game. The first video answers your exact question!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o26Ij7uStxo&list=PLVUxFFfCtDtkd3n0J8taq-MknCWaP6naW

I picked Alisa because I liked her in tekken 6, years ago, she's very beginner friendly, I'm nowhere near pro but I'm enjoying playing her

Pick whoever you like. Picking a beginner friendly character doesn't really matter. You're going to suck when you first start regardless. Might as well go through that with a character you like and not one you picked just bc they're easy.

He is DLC, it was a bit of a joke post because he is currently top tier and very easy.

The real beginner friendly character is Kazumi but you should play whoever you like because learning a character you identify with and like it's a lot easier and more fun than learning the strongest or recommended one.

I recommend Jotaro to learn best.  Vanilla Ice if you want free wins assuming your opponent is of equal skill level roughly.

Don't worry about playing easy characters until you get good enough to play the harder characters. Play who you vibe with the most. An easy character may be easier for you to pick up and win games with, but if you enjoy someone who may end up being harder, just play them

DIO and Jotaro are good for beginners who want to learn stand characters

Johnathan is also a very good pick, having a balanced moveset with a projectile, armored attack, and most enhanced specials pop the opponent into the air for easy combos

Jojo is always a good pick to start with, but if that’s not your cup of tea, there’s always Jojo

any jojo

No one is mentioning Katarina who is probably the easiest character to play in the entire game. She even has literal auto combos like ch 44444 and u/f44444 lmao.

And then she never stops being easy to play.

Every character is good for beginners. You will get clapped either way so better to pick one you just like then to pick one that is just easy

The best character to start with is the one you think is the coolest

pick any character my friend because you are going to to get mollywhopped by other people one way or another until you learn how to mollywhop them. god bless

Good advice all around. Here's something else I'd like to add. Play Tekken without fear. By that I mean, don't fall into the trap of thinking defensively (not the same as playing defensively). Even if you play ranked matches online, don't worry about losing. Try out different stuff in actual matches, not just in practice mode. If you manage to pair up against a tough opponent who kicks your ass in every round, if you have the time, keep re-matching. And then adding them to your replays to watch and learn later.

I started out Tekken with Gigas and even though I have decent fundamentals now and am mid-ranked online, I actually enjoy matches where the other person also plays sorta high risk high reward like I do. I have about 1400 wins with Gigas, but I'm pretty sure I have double the losses. But that's absolutely fine. I don't judge myself too harshly (I mean I'm not a pro player so no pressure) and that's one of the reasons why I play it for an hour or so almost every day.