Jade owns every zoner. Throw up he glow and beat them at their own game and then beat them to death with her staff when they try to come in on her.

Skarlet, her teleport works really good if you time it well and her low proyectile helps you avoid incoming enemy proyectiles while allowing you to attack at the same time, enhance it and it'll give you enough time to teleport behind them, when you can start doing kombos as she's also good for that.

Or you could use Jade with her dodging shadows move (the purple glow that makes you inmune to proyectiles).

Kollector has a move that absorbs projectiles And has a teleport, as well as having good kids and command grabs. He also has good anti-air.

Jade is the anti-zoner. But also, Kano can blanka-ball past projectiles to anti-zone and shao can jump over with his leaping overhead.

Which works really well with her zoning, because they're jumping in to avoid the air and ground glaives and so you can just wait for them to jump into range and bop them with it.

Jade scorpion raiden cetrion sub zero dead of winter

Noob’s a great zoner IMO, but the majority of his zoning attacks are cheap AF. You can just stand on one side and send Saibot to do all the work, shadow slam and shadow slide will keep your opportunity away from you. They are blockable so they’re not a perfect solution, but it works pretty well, you can also use Tele-Slam if you’re opponent has you caged in a corner and start using shadow slam/slide again to get some distance. Hope this helps some and good luck!

Wow youre trash. Just call it what it is and say "im a huge pussy and all i wanna do is spam a range attack like a bitch."

Skarlet and Cetrion would probably be your best bets, Noob Saibot a little bit because i dont think he's as much of a zoner as the devs advertised

Totemic Kotal, projectile immunity on the kitty is a zoners nightmare

Just play Johnny Cage, Cassie or Jacqui.

Just play someone who has a teleport

Arachnophobia D'vorah turns any attempt at zoning into a footsie game.

If you want rush down go for jax, he’s very strong but can get zoned out. Johnny Cage is more balanced.

Better question: who wins by zoning in this meta? Quan, maybe, since that's basically all he has? Sektor is the most complete zoner, for sure. But the game isn't really about zoning. It's about setplay and mix.

I'd say it's Sektor. She has three different abilities which defend her against projectiles.

1. Tactical Redeploy: very quickly teleports her right on top of the opponent.

2. Enchanced Unguided Rocket: a projectile attack which destroys every enemy projectile on its way.

3. Blast Shield: a defensive stance which gives her a complete immunity to any projectile attack. After deflecting a projectile you can quicky counter-attack with Unguided Rocket or Sidewinder. Enchanced Blast Shield allows you to counter-attack with ANY special move, not just these two.

Combine Sektor with kameo Sub-Zero, and it will be impossible to zone you.

Basically anyone with teleport, Raiden, Smoke, Scorpion, Omniman, Sektor, Cyrax, Ghostface, Mileena, etc.

You can just use Sub-Zero kameo, his armor will negate almost all zoning attempts.

But if you still want a character with good defensive abilities against zoning, then just like the others here said, you may like Omni-Man and Sektor. They have Viltrumite Stance and Blast Shield. These abilities can be active nearly forever and give them an invulnerability to any ranged attack.

Asuka, Clive, Anna, Lars, Nina, Alisa, Jin, Panda/Kuma, Leo, Hwaorang, Claudio.

To be fair all characters are rushdown characters in Tekken 8 but the above mentioned are the most prominent ones.

I haven't played mishima style before, she looks amazing.

Anna

literally all you do with her is press buttons until one launches 

Ah high tier it seems.

Nina, Law, Dragunov, Reina are conventional rushdown characters.

Mixup characters that also have strong rushdown: Anna, Hwoa

Jin is a poke character and a versatile all-rounder, so you can utilize a rushdown angle with him.

For a zoning style I recommend Cetrion, Skarlet, and Jade.

I'd recommend Cetrion for zoning and Liu Kang for rushdown. They are both very strong and quite easy to learn

Zoning would be Cetrion, Skarlett, jade, Sonya.

Rush down would be Jax, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Jacqui, Joker

That’s who I would go with but everyone is different. Try them all out and see who fits you the best

For zoning she might like Cetrion or Scarlet they are both very prominent zoning type characters.

I’d say start with these;

Rush down: Jax

Zoning: Skarlet

Kazuya has moves from -10 to -15 on block, not sure about -10 tough

Db1

Df1,4

Df2

B1,4,2

B1,2

SS2(devil mode)

All moves in order from -10 to -15

Edit: Df4,4/Ws4,4 is also -15, Df321(without charge) is also -14

Kazuya has moves from -10 to -15 on block, not sure about -10 tough

Db1

Df1,4

Df2

B1,4,2

B1,2

SS2(devil mode)

All moves in order from -10 to -15

Lili has everything from +1 to -15 on block, for lows she's only missing a -14 on block

PhiDX’s punishment training drill. He uses Law, i would check that video out.

why not go with the character you lose to the most? Check your matchup stats over at waivu

What the hell is a melee zoner?

Byakuya too yep

They can be for sure. Once you learn how they work though things become much simpler.

Heavily disagree on Sohei, Shaolin and Tiandi: I'd say they're easily an entire tier higher (Sohei and Tiandi's zones are some of their absolute best moves, and Shaolin's zone is also very good, both for waveclear and 1v1 usage).

Also, Gryphon's zone in bottom tier is...a take, for sure. It's a rather useful wide hitbox that you can use to semi-easily clip people in teamfights. Especially right after a parry, due to the added hyperarmor.

But, of course, personal experience varies a lot.

Gryphon and Jiang Jun's zones are the exact same move lol

Lawbringer's zone as a parry riposte is an unblockable and has a wild hitbox

Not quite sure why Orochi's zone is so high when it's nothing more than a basic 500ms attack, while Warmonger is a tier below and is the exact same thing, and Jorm is a tier above and is also the exact same thing

Aramusha and Tiandi being a tier below Orochi makes no sense when their zones are also 500ms but automatically chain directly into offense (unblockable/soft feints, kick mixup)

Black Prior should probably be higher since the amount of Stamina Drain+Pause on his zone is frankly absurd

Wait wait, Tiandi lower than WL? The same zone that soft feint into his kick and can be hard feint?, what?

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