Paul - Defense first character. Low ranks(like me) unga bunga with him with deathfist and demoman in neutral but thats not how to play him. He's not great at poking either but he has good defensive moves and good homing moves. Plus he has huge damage

Lee - very defensive, meant to play keepout and make reads. His execution is very heavy though with stuff like b2 loops to max out combo damage and then things like justframe strings.

Kazuya- the most defensive Mishima but he lacks all the extra stuff other mishimas like Jin or Heihachi get like stances. You have to rely a lot on playing defense with EWGF and such and then getting a knockdown and starting the 50/50 on wakeup. He also has some of the best punishes in the game(twin pistons).

Bryan- Defensive character, he does an assload of damage whenever you score a counterhit and his style in general is pretty brutal. With walls you get a ton of pressure too at them, especially when you learn his taunt setups. Beyond that he's mostly a Counter Hit machine with multiple moves that lead to full combos off a single counterhit.

Asuka- Simple character, defensive with good strings and also a parry. Plus, theres not really any execution needed to play her unlike other characters like Lee or Kazuya.

Asuka- power, range, counters, retreat attacks

Asuka Fo sho

Asuka Kazama for sure

Jin is very defensive.

i10 KND, i14 wall bounce, i15 big dmg launcher

Ewhf as very safe, quick and rewarding whiff punisher and eCD1 for baited whiffs

i14 ws launcher

Then he has great keep out and CHs with f4, ewhf and standing 4.

And the best parry in the game.

Pure defense characters: Asuka, Jack-7

For defensive-focused characters: Alisa, Claudio, Eddy

Balanced characters that lean towards being defensive: Armor King, Bryan, Shaheen

Depends who you ask (i.e. versatile characters that can play defensive or just played aggressive): Kazuya, Jin, Lee, Master Raven, Paul (high-level, low-level Paul is very offense-focused)

If you like keepout you might wanna give Master Raven a try. She has a bit of everything, so you can play her however you want. But she definitely excels at keepout. She got some really nice whiffpunishment too to complement the long range playstyle. (Blockpunishment is alright too but nothing amazing).

(She's not very straight forward to learn though so expect a lot of trial and error before making any real progress).

Lee, Kazuya, Bryan

Bears and jack

Asuka

I mean defence comes down to the player himself tbh. Bc every single character has whiff punishing moves and different CH effects. So it all comes down to u if u r an aggressive or defensive player.

Dunno if he is the best defensive character, but for sure Eddy works a lot in defence in HIS way.

PROS:
- One of the best low punisher (i13, launcher but high) in the game and a terrific backdash that, with d/f+3+4 makes him the best whiff punisher.

- Some good counterhits launcher (or mini launcher for a 50sh two step staple) but slow and very situational.
- He has no magic 4, but his 4 is an i12 middle +0 on hit that pushes a lot back. See it as a defensive d/f+1.
- He has decent space control, with good range moves, like ff3 or f+3+4 from HSP and RLX that crosses half the stage and it's safe. Not the sharpest knife in the stool, but since you will be quite often backdashing and keeping distance a lot, that moves will hit more than their frames let you expect. Most of his range moves are linear, and if opponent start to sidewalk you have homing ff2 that has decent range and a low and delayable extension.
- He has a lot of hi crush moves and weird hitboxes. d/f+3+4 tends to evade highs (more on approaching), as well 3 (homing slow hi) and b+4 (both counter launcher). d/b+4 is hi crush. All of his lows are hi crushing except d/f+4. His stances are evasive as fuck, crushing highs and evading mids, but you have not to be predicatble 'cos it's easy to float staple him during transitions.

CONS:
- On the other hand you have horrible standing punishing (now with b2 i14 the situation is slightly better). Long story short, from -10 to -13 you can just 1,2 (f into mixup).
- Inconsistent sidestep. Mind you, his side roll in RLX is awesome, but slow and vulnerable (not sharing the plain RLX hitbox)... very good when opponent is in mid/far range and tries something from that range.
- Not a good selection of low crushing and weird hitboxes. It's supereasy to go off axis with Eddy.

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When it's your turn, his poking is "meh", his frames are usually "bleah", his d/f+1 is average, but he has an awful lot of mixup set-ups, and two lows + on hit (both hi-crushing). He is a great grappler too, probably the best grapple of "not grappler" char. He has low grabs (damn useful when you read the crouch), rodeo (50 dmg) and HSP 3+4 cannot be escaped.

It is not a "normal" character and needs dedication.

Heihachi because HA HA HA HA

Kazuya.

Jack 7 / Asuka / Kazuya

id say most defensive character are Lee,Lili,jun,asuka,paul

other defensive character that come to mind are bryan,jin,hieihachi kazuya and steve

for very aggressive id say lidia reina dragunov anna

not sure how to rank it, but most aggressive would be Hwo and Anna, most defensive would be Lee

I’m curious how people would rank yoshimitsu in this sense.

if your character isnt Lee and you say its anything but aggressive you are straight coping

aggressive ------------------- defensive

King ------------------------------ King

Kazuya. Some of the best punishment at every frame? Heavily rewards defensive play and character knowledge.

Honorable Mentions:

Shaheen? Simple effective gameplan with good solid tools for poking and forcing your opponent to make a mistake. (Not sure on this as I’m not too familiar with Shaheen, but I think he’s been talked about before).

Paul. Yeah he has Deathfist and Demoman. Glhf having those carry you up without fundamentals. He rewards way more with tight defensive play and massively punishes the opponent for making a mistake.

Bryan? Yes he has Snake Edge and Orbital. But again solid punishment combined with strong pokes. My understanding is that he is mainly a defensive character with Taunt combinations carrying his offense.

I could be mixing poking and defense a bit too much. Apologies in advance if that’s the case.

You should try Asuka. Most of her moves have either built-in movement or are highly evasive. She also requires little execution making her very beginner friendly.

Regular Jin

jack-7

Kazuya he rewards you the most for having good defense

Jack 7. You want range? Got it, You want pokes? Oh baby. You want throws? Got hella throws. Execution? Never heard of it, easy as fuck. Fundamentals? Hella fundamentals text book af. Stupid annoying gimmicks? He’s got those too. Plus the most obnoxious customs in history to bewilder you’re opponents. Just look him, he looks like a fucking robo-Chad. Become a Jack player today! Oh and Fahkumram has amazing keep out and movement but I like Jack more

Heihachi Mishima.

Josie. She got good punishment, launches while standing in 13 frames and her "df1" is a simple 3 with good range for keepout. Cd 3 is the bane of every leg user and the sws mixup is so easy to use its criminal. Also STRINGS. Easy 2 use beside some microdash stuff but her bnb combos are easy af

Oh thats good then. Also you can try jack if you want a stronger offense.

Alisa if you're comfortable backdashing most of the time.

Bryan as long as you can do qcf and qcb

1. Yamato

2. Warco

3. Jozu

4. Kuma

5. Sentomaru

6. Bege

7. Barto

8. Chopper

Jozu top 1 and underrated asf.

Jozu is so slept on

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1. Bartolomeo
2. Jozu
3. Yamato
4. Marco
5. Kuma
6. Chopper
7. Bege
8. Sentomaru

That's just in terms of defense. In terms of where I place them on my tier list, it goes (characters in the same tier are not ordered by strength):

• A+: Yamato, Marco, Jozu, Chopper (in terms of defense)
• A: Kuma
• A-: Sentomaru, Big Father Bege
• B+:
• B:
• B-: Bartolomeo

Somehow Feng is still too high.

How is eddy so low???

Steve looks like an honest spot. “LOVES PLAYING AGAINST FREE ELO” but you never ran into me.

Usually I hate these but yours is accurate

Good list. I’d say it’s pretty accurate