How have you guys been feeling about ranked mode recently? Let me know! I also wanted to clarify that I'm not saying you shouldn't be proud of your achievements in ranked mode, just wanted to go over some problems I have with ranked mode and explain why you shouldn't stress over a silly little rank.

My recipe for having fun and improving at the same time : 1. Play ranked till you feel you’ve reached your comfortable rank range. Should take you just coupla hours. 2. Forget about ranked. Go to quick match and play within that rank range (cause the quick match still has matchmaking, even though its a bit less strict) till you feel like you’re dominating that bracket. 3. Return to ranked, and if you actually improved enough to dominate your current bracket - it will only take you like an hour to rank up. 4. Return to quick match and repeat. Dont sit in ranked 24/7 trying to grind it out. It’s exhausting, it’s triggering and it will burn you out.

I quit ranked a month ago, and I can tell you, the salt levels I encounter when I beat Fujin and Battle Ruler ranks as a Garyu, are so palpable that you could cut it with a dull knife.

Also shoutout to anyone who noticed the thumbnail saying the opposite of my "How Good Is Your Rank In TEKKEN 8" thumbnail lol Its was intentional I thought it would be funny

I've ran into a few pluggers but my journey to flame ruler i definitely enjoyed because I feel I earned it tbh.

I think if you get to purple rank legitimately without no Plugging or cheating, you’re a top-tier player you’re really good. Now that doesn’t mean you’re on professional esports player but you’re still better than like 99% of people. Keep in mind most people don’t even play ranked because they know they’re not good enough and don’t want to lose. So being around 10% of competitor players is really good.

Remember guys, not having a high rank allows you to conceal your power level against scouters

I played my first ranked matches last night and ran into a plugger who was upset his mindless spam was being beat by my poor launchers and good jabs..

Idk why more people aren't talking about the "no restriction" thing what kind of ranked system has an option for no restriction isn't the whole point of ranked systems to fight people who are the same level as you? Makes ranks mean nothing lol

Waiting for them to make plugging an instant loss not playing until then

EVERYONE needs to see this video! so many good points, so much insight. well done!

Really needed to hear this. Last night I had a rough time on ranked. Ran into 3 cheesing opponents back to freaking back! Was so upset at myself for loosing two out of those 3. And to add insult to injury, they didn’t finished the entire set for me to adapt to the matchup.

The only thing that matters to me about playing Ranked is it raises the possibility of running into someone better than me and playing some good Tekken. It would be amazing if they made a lobby system that had different levels of Tekken players. If you're new, go to the beginner lobby. If you think you're pro, go try out a match at the pro lobby. No points, no ranks, just let people choose for themselves and play whatever they think is fun. Just like at a regular arcade. I think this would be a nice addition to Tekken.

I'm playing ranked despite the issues but I legitimately don't care about my rank atm because I know anything I lose now I will gain back later once I improve the issues I need to work on. It took me a few weeks to get to this mental stamina, and sometimes the one and dones and pluggers still get to me, but I cope by knowing at the end of the day those guys are just chasing imaginary points and aren't trying to get better at the game so their wins don't bother me too much

As soon as I rank up I finish the set and call it a day…. Then I spend a couple of days training in quick matches - Rinse and repeat. This helps me stay mentally fresh and detached from all the toxicity…. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I ranked up and then got greedy only for it all to come crashing down. Currently at Kishin with Feng and Raijin with Paul - I think rank definitely means something if your doing it the honest way.

I play with open rank level, you get substantially less points for a win of a much lower ranked person but more for higher. Most people search for a rank difference of 2 so you mostly match against those. I did it to just try and get a game as much as possible nothing to do with my ranks, but I enjoy playing people of a higher rank so I can typically improve and see what level I need to be personally.

I think if most people did the math and added the plugging matches they got to their win/loss they'd still be in the same rank

Slowly taking my time getting out of red rank,just made it to tenryu today cause I ran into a good amount of players who one and done. I value my progress a lot in this game and performance as well. I would watch my replays,lab for a good a couple of hours play with my small circle of friends who are higher than me in player match then wake up lab again for a few hours then play quick match to work on my mistakes and improve. Once I come back to rank match I already gain alot of Ws with no rank anxiety whatsoever while I’m having fun at the same time.

Struggled at garyu for a couple weeks with raven, played around with other characters, labbed and just stopped caring about losing and winning. At tenryu now and fighting purple ranks feel much easier now. A lot of purple ranks still use special style 😂

I see it, as a returning player since Tag 2 it’s bad out here. But in this environment right now I feel proud of reaching the rank I’m at knowing I’m doing it legitimately.

The best strategy in rank is that once you get promo take a long break and do quick match and once you feel fresh and ready then you can play. If you get demoted and promoted back to the rank you were then also take a break and do quick matches. This works a lot since its very exhausting and impatient. Always keep the rank short and sweet and not long and frustrating.

I've been having a blast, made it to flame ruler but can't get out of mighty ruler now, I'm sessioning ranked to try and learn the game and improve. It's a slog though jheeez. Might play some quick matches to chill and learn the game a bit without the intensity of ranked. Have been enjoying ranked though even though I've been getting cooked quite a bit.

Got Flame Ruler playing Kuma. I lack a lot of Sidestepping, Block-punishing, combos, adapting strings close to walls, spacing and character specific things. I have restricted to maximum 2 ranks. I rematch every game. I don’t plug. I know the character is carrying me quite a lot due to not being popular. For me is the way to get more experience and stamina since just labbing bores me although I know I need it to get better and try my best to engage in replay mode to analize. It takes a while for me to react and recognize strings ppl throw at me. The more tired I am the bigger the struggle to block, move properly, react, remember, etc. Next day I feel I can handle it better and got more resilience. To me, there are too many layers of knowledge in this game to care about rank. I focus on trying to solve the changing puzzles they throw at me and try to focus on the small victories I know I can get through games. Winning does feel good, but it is less hyped, lower adrenaline rush, losing does not feel as bad, it is less of a failure, less dopamine crash, more like a learning opportunity I can get something from and more awareness

I need them to penalize plugging with points being taken whether it be rank/quick matches. But till then rank really don’t mean Jack..sh.. also good video bro ❤

ever since I first played TK7 since 2022, I already been condiction about playing rank after seeing the POV from other streamers, never I would dare attempt it in TK8

I never knew that about the No Rank Restrictions. Since launch I've been playing mainly -+2 so I can play close to my rank (currently a Fujin).

Just can't get anywhere, I try to learn something each game and not care about rank but when I keep losing it is impossible and makes me want to give up because the longer I am doing badly, the more everyone else is getting better.

Never cared where my rank is, only if I'm improving and having fun with my main. So far I'm doing that. But I understand the problem with pluggers

I literally have my rank restrictions on +2 only and it still mayched me against a tekken king. And when its not somehow messing up its just pluggers or 1 and dones

Honestly, a video of a deeper look into your personal experience of toxicity in Tekken 8 would be pretty fye and will probs start up more conversations/content on KZfaq around the topic I love Tekken 8, already my favorite fighting game of all time, next to UMvC3. But that toxicity is next to none - corpse hitting, ki charging, one and dones for no apparent reason, PLUGGING 😂😂 never experienced nothing like this in Tekken 7 or even other games with multiplayer. Imma laugh it off and still thrive but yeah this game is fun(ny)

I made it to raijin today and man everything that was said in this video is correct.

Being a tekken king I’m hanging up the ranked gloves for a little while. I’ve decided I’m going to get every character to fujin for fun and to learn matchups. At 8 fujins and 2 Kishins!

Im not bothered about rank tbh, my best achievement was beating a devil Jin player that was on a 17 win streak In quick match, I was a beginner he was a combatant rank

I just like the way the ranger rank looks, and will stick with it for a while. I normally just play quick matches anyways and try to learn more about the characters I like. My prowess is only around the 37k range, and I’ve beaten people in full sets with 70k+, and I’m still unsure how the game will calculate it. I just enjoy playing the game, and even if I get stomped in a match, if I can learn something or stand a chance I will enjoy it.

Just pick the best looking rank that you like looking at. For me it was Tenryu (the lightning dragon and the name looked sick) bu then i got bored and went to flame ruler because it looks so vivid on the screen 😂

Saw a mid blue victor plugger in a separate video and their stats were Attack: 79 Technique: 54 Appeal:70 Spirit: 74 Defense: 40 Almost all Orange Ranks have better stats than this. That blue victor has very similar stats to most pluggers, so I believe rank is super flawed and rank doesn’t matter when there are many many many players with similar stats like this.

tbh apart from plugging there is a very simple way to make ranked instantly a hundred times better: just implement sets, and reduce points for individual matches. for example, making it so that individual matches can only range from 50 to 200 points (you win less if you don't rematch, you win more if the opponent refuses), and that ft3 and ft5 grants a big bonus if you win the set. obviously, ranked matchmaking would have to be adapted to allow longer sets, I think that a ft5 maximum would be ideal. this would make one and dones be the grindiest way to rank up, but it would still be possible. and it would encourage people to play honest instead of trying to cheese people out all the time. this would most probably fix ranked and online matchmaking at the same time, in my opinion. the way it is now it's just horrendous to play. ranks are all over the place, and I regularly face people with just annoying flowcharts and nothing more, people that can't do a simple sidestep or walk, that can't kbd, and that uses heat burst and smashes and power crushes instead of blocking. and this game made it very, VERY hard to punish these things with movement, you get clipped by sh1t that should in theory be linear ALL the time... but balancing apart, if they just changed the ranked system it would immediately make it almost impossible for these people to rank up where they shouldn't be

A very great video logically explain the "logic". I am not a pro and although outdated 7 I am not serious but I have already joined too many international or local tournament already there are opponents like KHAN JDCR etc actually it is not that mystery or hard as people think about but the same time I saw too many feeling themselves series player just because they have the highest or 2 rank online then they come to tournament and they totally being destroyed by other players easily including pro or non pro players like me so this video really very good for newbies

Its like so stressful these days I have more fun in playermatch

maintenance error stops me playing ranked it basically disconnects me and not only frustrates me but i think it could get me banned

Honestly im proud that i got to purple ranks as a new player without plugging or getting carried by s tiers like jun,azucena etc

You so right about stamina part, i Also agree with your idea insted of banning people let winning side get their points and loser side lose their points, i used to be scary upon q for rank, But yeah i taking joy in small things, like match up and stuff

So I stopped worrying about wins and losses and rank as a new player. I learned most things I learned were to get me easy wins not to learn the fundamentals of the game. So now I’m just learning Devil Jin, and learning to not get hit

No, save scumming is not a thing on pc in tekken 8 but the way the designed the system now pretty much any one can save scum by plugging and yes, banning is not the answer

I'm going to be a Warrior forever. Changing my GT to Fleece Johnson...

Currently hard stuck Jin/Jun in Garyu and I HATE. When people plug…. However I don’t mind the one n done peeps… some how I take pride knowing they don’t wanna rematch 😂

Anything over red ranks is just toxic. No rematches, BS characters, plugging

My way with dealing ranks 1. Play at least 2 characters 2. Rest your highest ranked character and let the other/s catch up to that level 3. When at least 2 characters reached your highest ranked, push one of them to go further 4. Repeat This way, I have minimal stress as I know my rank as a player is secured

SO THE LAGGING LEGIT IS NOT ME! I thought I was the only one. I notice some games are clean while other a nightmare but holding five bar the whole time.

I'm having fun with rank, i plataued at garyu and think i need to step up my game to reach higher ranks. Didn't have too much pluggers and I don't really mind one and doners, didn't noticed any cheater so far. I don't get why people are getting so upset with this mod or even calling it toxic, it's been good fun for me. I also enjoy the replay mode where you can try "what should i've done" stuff, it works really well

Hard working mighty ruler with Jin, never plugged it’s impossible to rank up now been stuck at flame and mighty for 2 weeks lol all good tho I only play against 2 lower or higher

Honestly this game as a new Tekken and fighting game player is just frustrating in general. The knowledge checks are overwhelming. Not to mention remembering the core game mechanics themselves. Oh and remembering your OWN moves lmao. It makes me not want to play because no matter how hard i try i feel like I’m always going to be played for a fool because i didn’t know that this characters move was punishable. I feel like the only way to win is nonstop in your face offense which as the description of the game says is exactly what the devs want. and by non stop offense i mean mashing buttons. It just doesnt feel good to play for me.

The only time i one and done is when i face a Mirror ( as a Raven main i hate the mirror ) also when the lag gets too much. I’ve definitely lost in this game but felt good about it as strange as it sounds. Espe

You sure be focused on play having fun and learning. Just went up from a 7win streak to an 11 last night as well.

The fact that you can go and change the settings to no restrictions that can match you up with lower ranked people is crazy. That’s probably what a lot of people who like to brag about their rank do. They just take the path of least resistance in order to rank up faster.

Banning an account is the same as making them lose points, except they arent only made go down a few points. They are essentially demoted back to beginning, and the further down you go, the less likely it is that you'll want to make the climb back up. So im all for bans. However, how long will that take to get results? Can the folks who got DC'd on get their win points, atleast?

Had a Steve plug on me the other day He just stopped moving, the match continued for a bit. Then he quits, he was expecting me to run to him I think but I was playing keep away with kazuya.

I agree, most 1st dan players tend to be able to kick my ass. (been playing since Tekken 6, intermediate skill)

Damn he really hit that phiDX opening

annoying part of rank is that other people in tekken places like discords often judge others based on rank, try to find people to play with based on rank etc.

longest i could go was 60 hours in ranked. but i had chemical assisstance ;)

You definitely have to know how to deal with the her chainsaw

What rank is all this one and done and plugging happening? It happens every now and then but for the most part people don’t plug or one and done. Up to Fujin I hardly ran up to any of that.

I am really not stressing my rank at all right now. First tekken in YEARS. I've just got my 4th player to red ranks, moving on to my 5th and every time i get another player to red ranks its getting easier and easier. Still not set on a main im just really enjoying building my fundamentals and matchup knowledge so why bother going for rank when im not sure who i want to take me there, I got the year 1 character pass so my main might not even be in the game yet (if they added Bruce itd be deal done)

Rank is character specific, so it doesn't imply anything. I look at Tekken Power. If I see someone with a Tekken Power of 170,000+, but in Cavalry rank, it means this player is purple rank class, but presumably ranking up his/her secondary character. So the takeaway is, this player may not necessarily be super proficient with this Cavalry character, but the knowledge check (punishes, throw breaks etc.) is at purple rank level. But of course, this player could have plugged his/her way to 170,000+. But just saying that between rank and power, the latter is the better indicator of experience/knowledge.

I don't feel like the "No restrictions" thing is a fair point. You get a very small amount of pts even if you're a couple of ranks apart. I'm Fujin, with a couple of characters in red\purple ranks, and I've been playing with this thing on, and, maybe, once in like 50-70 games, I'll get someone, who's significantly lower rank, and, usually, I just wait after the game - if they press rematch, I just confirm, if they don't, and they're not interested in playing - I just go on. I won't stop stressing this - the main issue with ranked system, imo, is the fact that they removed deathmatch. The game both felt better in T7, stresswise, when you could find yourself someone to deathmatch for like an hour stress, until someone ranks up\deranks, lol. And it would make an issue with pluggers less pronounced, since you wouldn't run into pluggers as much. I just feel like BO3 made ranked so much worse, both as a learning experience and as a competitive environment. And the worst thing about it, is, even though a lot more people play T8 - I feel like I spend way more time in searching the game, compared to even late T7, where you could just run into 1 guy, who feels like fighting a decent amount, and spend the entire session just fighting it out.

Like I’ve said in the past, I just think of the rank as a byproduct for improving. Playing for the sole purpose of “ranking up” will put more pressure on yourself and play worse than you normally would. But I also agree that Namco shouldn’t ban pluggers as these players are only cheating themselves in the bigger picture and it won’t save them when push comes to shove for a Tourney.

I'm barely orange rank and just turned on the any match feature so I can possibly play much better players sooner and learn from them to beat the shitters in my actual rank. Worked to get me out of Dominator. But yea I'm a beginner so I dont really care about my rank, I'm just tryna learn as much as possible without tilting my ass off...

Smash bros and mortal Kombat frustrates me way more then tekken for some reason, guilty gear also never frustrates me. I think its because yoshimitsu and Faust are so goofy that i have fun just playing with them win or loss

Tekken 8's Garyus is the equivalent of Tag 2's Brawler rank lol

I agree with everything said in this video

I’m genuinely interested. If the nature of the game is “triggering,” why play it? Why not do something that you hate but gives you money instead? I just really like the game because I’m relatively new to fighting games and love how cerebral they are and because of their depth. You never stop learning. If I didn’t have fun I would never play them.

It's mot even the plugging it's the fact that people get to tekken king without any form of defense at all

Ranks matter. The cream always rises to the top, and thick shit eventually sinks to the bottom

I’m shinryu, Got matched with a mighty ruler, It was my promotion match, Spanked him with three perfect rounds, he plugged, I got no points, So yes rank means nothing in this game, I think majority of players are garbage honestly, trash

i like my rank in red Shinryu i can fight people who are learning yet i can battle people who are better than me for improving just balance

Orange rank here, i hate playing ranked so i always play quick matches. Been playing Tekken for 20+ years so i suprise a lot of high rank players 😂

I’m still cavalier rank decided to get all the characters up to there and then I will aim to go higher but in player matches I destroyed so many players much higher rank than me

Nah man i feel like no restrictions doesn’t work the way it is supposed. I once got matched up against a mighty ruler while being a yellow rank while i only had +-4 rank difference set, what is worse, i received that after 10 mins of waiting

dunno what laws state that you cant deduct points or give a person a loss if they plug but im not a lawyer so i dunno. at least in canada there isnt such a thing.

I’ll be reaching for Garyu after that i’ll be waiting for actual fixes of the ranked mode.

its sad, Bamco made rank meaningless in tekken 8. its weird cuz they made the save files online so people cant cheese that locally anymore but then they drop the ball hard on every other way that people can cheat their way up the scale.

If a match disconnects, whoever is the reason should take a loss, regardless. Its annoying when it happens in games like FIFA, but there isn't really a better option. And if someone leaves on you, if you're winning, you should win, and take a draw if it's anything else.

It's kind of a bummer to get to purple ranks in my first Tekken game (without plugging, without rank restrictions, etc) and then see people saying it doesn't matter.

I played a guy last night in ranked that was on a 31 game winning streak. He wasn’t good at all so I’m assuming he was a plugger. I just knew he was gonna plug but he didn’t. I was going to report asap 😂

Ranks in general just bring out extremely toxic behavior. Its much hard to try and learn match-ups when you have the eqivalent of an annoying brother who is screaming "YOU'RE GONNA LOSE, BETTER NOT DEMOTE" Just fucking infuriating. Also people generally don't like feeling like their time was wasted, so when you play like 4-5 hours and make no progress or actually regress in rank it feels like that was just a waste of time.

I think plugging is obviously bad but one and done matches don’t bother me much in ranked.. If someone leaves they just don’t wanna continue and that’s fine.. maybe they need to leave to work on their skill.. I’d rather you one and done rather than half ass the next match.. plus Tekken 8 is pretty fast I mean you’re in and out of matches all the time for that to matter that much.. or if the match was laggy or sum like that.. That’s not as big of a deal as plugging

I think your win rate is a better indication of skill

I tell people this all the time im a shinryu and i seriously beat a lot of purple and blue ranks.. my nina makes a lot of people plug😂

I dont get why just because others cheesed the rank system you should disregard your own rank progress. If you dont plug losses and set your range to +/-2 your rank still has value.

I have king and hwo at shinryu and I rematch everyone unless it’s a bad connection even when I know someone is way better than me. I’ve been plugged on and not rematched when I’m the hammer not the nail. Ik I could’ve gotten a better rank if I didn’t rematch strong players and sniped weaker players but who cares I’ll get it the hard way and be better in the long run.

#excelent

I also don't care about ranked at all. Got alot of chores within my daily life so with the sparse time I got Im enjoying labbing/learning stuff to get better with time.

I just got plugged on by a smurfing fake god of destruction after his main account got banned. I don’t think anyone should care too much about their rank in general but definitely not in tekkens current state.

You’ll rank up naturally!… when you get a string of matches where you don’t have to fight dragunov. Ez

I wouldn't call strings gimmicks, you need to know when you can punish and when you can't. What happens if you get into a tournament and someone is doing a string or setting you up for one? Also ranked doesn't matter in fact online doesn't matter because fundamentally the game can't be played properly online when you emulate both players on P1 side things can happen that aren't even possible playing offline.

the titles me when I drop rank

The only thing good in Rank is for content. Rank ain't shit. I have witnessed low ranks beating TGOs on Tekken 7. It will be the same on Tekken 8.

Personally i do not care about ranked - I have experience playing - i am just enjoying the game at "1st Dan" i done several FT10s vs ranked players (Flame rulers, Fujins, Raijins, Tekken Kings ect) and i have won several of these sets - so far my record is 4-2 in those FT10 sets Playing long sets and watching your replays and cleaning up mistakes is more effective than gambling 2/3 on ranked for a fancy title

Or no restrictions should just be another bracket of rank system