Tekken 8 professional turns into first participant to achieve God of Destruction 7 stage earlier than recreation’s eventual demise

Tekken 8 goes via a tough patch, with the adjustments from Season 2 persevering with to create large backlash from aggressive gamers. Nevertheless, not everybody has given up on Tekken.

Professional Tekken participant Fahad “yOReDz” Almutairi has been grinding Tekken 8 nonstop, perhaps greater than each different FGC participant ever. Since Tekken got here out in 2024, yOReDz has been competing in ranked on-line matches sufficient to turn into the highest-ranked participant within the recreation, based on the leaderboard.

Now, yOReDz has reportedly turn into the primary participant on the earth to achieve the God of Destruction 7 rank on-line. The one rank left for him now’s God of Destruction Infinity. To succeed in God of Destruction 7, yOReDz needed to earn a minimum of 400,000 factors. He wants 30,000 extra to get to the ultimate rank.

yOReDz is clearly an distinctive participant and all of the grinding paid off. He positioned thirteenth at Evo Japan final 12 months, seventeenth on the Esports World Cup, and thirteenth on the Tekken World Tour 2025 finals, all whereas utilizing Ling Xiaoyu.

However yOReDz is only one of many execs within the scene. Whereas he has been grinding away, many professional gamers have been leaving altogether. The variety of opponents at large tournaments is sinking decrease and decrease, with many execs blaming Season 2.

Season 3 hasn’t executed a lot to enhance something, with builders admitting that solely small adjustments might be made for now. This leaves the sport in a really troubling state with aggressive, simplistic gameplay that doesn’t attraction to aggressive gamers. It’s powerful to say if Tekken 8 will survive one other season.

Effectively, a minimum of yOReDz can attain that closing rank first.