Board 8 > Who in Canon or lore wise are considered the strongest fighters in the following

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Tekken, Soul Calibur, and other popular fighting games. I feel like Street Fighter gets discussed a lot about this topic but not other fighters.
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Soul Calibur I'd guess Algol or Nightmare (or Abyss or Night Terror if they're even canon)
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Devil Jin

Barring unplayable boss characters...
Tekken: Heihachi, Jin, Kazuya, Lars, Paul Phoenix
Soul Calibur: Harder to say, but probably Taki and Siegfried are up there.
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1) Goku
2) Superman

And then everyone else comes after that.
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Paul Phoenix? I must be out of the loop on my Tekken lore. How did that happen? And who tf is Lars?
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Tekken: Jin Kazama (Devil Jin). I would have said Kazuya but lore wise Jin took down Azazel and beat Kazuya in previous games if I recall right

Soul Calibur: Algol. I think he was said to be canonically the strongest (and him making both Soul Calibur and Soul Edge his bitches kind of supports that). Edge Master is probably the runner up

Street Fighter: Akuma. Oro potentially if he actually went all out and used both hands. Akuma has more support and feats though.

Guilty Gear: Sol Badguy. He's broken as fuck

Blazblue: Susanoo in general. Ragna technically by the end given what happens. Azrael potentially given he just seems to be busted for no reason and never went all out.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Paul Phoenix? I must be out of the loop on my Tekken lore. How did that happen? And who tf is Lars?

He made it to the finals of the first three tournaments. He had to forfeit the second one due to missing the finals and the third one he beat Ogre and Heihachi, but he didn't know he has to beat True Ogre to win the tournament.

I think he's too old and busted in the later games and an alcoholic, but he used to be one of the best before.
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Huh

I beat Tekken 3 loads of times but that's completely lost on me

So the canon result of Tekken 3 is Paul won and Heihachi or whoever pulled some lawyer shit and made him fight True Ogre at the end?
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XIII_rocks posted...

Huh

I beat Tekken 3 loads of times but that's completely lost on me

So the canon result of Tekken 3 is Paul won and Heihachi or whoever pulled some lawyer shit and made him fight True Ogre at the end?

Paul beats Ogre, doesn't realize True Ogre is a thing, leaves, and Jin defeats True Ogre.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Huh

I beat Tekken 3 loads of times but that's completely lost on me

So the canon result of Tekken 3 is Paul won and Heihachi or whoever pulled some lawyer shit and made him fight True Ogre at the end?

Paul Phoenix beat Heihachi, then he beat Ogre. Then he just left, thinking he won. Ogre became True Ogre and was still technically in the tournament, so Heihachi just took Paul's place as the runner up and then beat True Ogre to win. If I remember right Heihachi runs that tournament so he just makes the rules.
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What about dead or alive?
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Heihachi is such a bastard
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XIII_rocks posted...

Heihachi is such a bastard

Well I mean the dude chucks his kids off mountains.
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Actually, I was wrong. Jin jumped in at the last second to defeat True Ogre. Paul is the technical winner of Tekken 3 but I guess since Jin beat True Ogre, he wins.

Jin is pretty lame though.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Huh

I beat Tekken 3 loads of times but that's completely lost on me

So the canon result of Tekken 3 is Paul won and Heihachi or whoever pulled some lawyer shit and made him fight True Ogre at the end?

The thing about fighting games is that they don't reveal what canonically happened until the next game. They actually go over all of this in Tekken 4
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Yeah I figured that

Still I never would have guessed Paul won it. He felt like such a nonevent to me when I played it as a kid
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XIII_rocks posted...

Yeah I figured that

Still I never would have guessed Paul won it. He felt like such a nonevent to me when I played it as a kid

Tekken does stuff like this. You've got your obvious strong ones like Jin, Kazuya, and Heihachi, but then you've got stuff like Paul winning the tournaments and Hwoarang being able to go toe-to-toe with Jin until he goes full Devil.

There's an obvious elite once they all tap into some of the Devil power and junk, but then otherwise Tekken has more characters on the "top tier" than you'd expect.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Heihachi is such a bastard

After Jin replaces Paul and beats True Ogre, Heihachi just shows up and shoots him
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I thought Algol or Zasalamel would be the top dogs in SC in terms of kayfabe strength.
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