Nah, he pushed Harada to change the game and punish boring players like him. He got punished for spamming pokes and playing safe and was defeated by a player that kept sliding and launching him....tekken finals are fun to watch again. No more turtling countries winning...even koreans were knocked further down. Now the only thing that would make tournaments perfect is if Majin were to make a comeback.
@@ibendover4817 i also share the same opinion. it was boring af to watch him and knee play because it was unli pokes and almost every round they'd run out of time because these people turtled hard
@@ibendover4817 Just say you were a red rank MAX in tekken 7. The reason t7 had pokes were because it was a solid strategy when paired with riskier plays. if you look at the gameplay now, there is no such thing as gameplay versatility. Tekken 8 Is really just the smash bros version of tekken and it's sad to see.
@@johnsolace2588 There was a lot of strategy in those matches you somehow missed. this tournament only seems interesting to people who never actually took the game seriously.
That dodge on 10:26 probably the best thing I've seen in tekken for awhile. Either that's calculated or just some random camera works, but that just insane
This was such a hype top 8 and your reactions to it only made it better! AK is a beast, Arslan was playing really well this tournament and i mean the guy is very possibly the best tekken player right now. congrats to every player involved honestly this entire tournament was exciting.
TBH, I thought the greatest threat to Arslan would come from players like Chikurin, Joka, Knee, Joendding, Nobi and others. I didn't think he would be losing to AK. Guess AK was the perferct underdog.
As a Filipino, I'm glad AK won! 🇵🇭 Still, kudos to Arslan Ash for getting the runback to the finals! Insane gameplay from both! Quite impressed how AK avoids getting cornered! Are you gonna feature the Dr.theJakemanMD vs Arslan Ash match? That was pretty shocking! 😆
Congrats to AK too. From Pakistan Yeah that king match was wild. Arlsan was struggling to break those king grapples. And was having a hard time to keep with his aggressive approach. Hopefully he will learn from it and come back strong. Lol that yoshi match was fun too. Man rlly had to put that clown nose on 😭, and almost had arslan. I think this is their new strategy. If you can't win, put them under pressure and stress. Nonetheless, it was a pretty good tournament. Some good ass tekken as they say.
the reason why he keep dropping combos because he's forcing himself to do the hardest combo in shaheen. That's some crazy balls u got there man. despite the fact he kept dropping it, he continued to do it.
I remember seeing those 2 at grand finals way back at Evo Japan 2019, although it was a one sided stomp, it was the start of Arslan Ash's greatness. 5 years later, deja vu vibes on how both got to grand finals (AK from winner's bracket and Arslan from loser's bracket) and this time, AK got his revenge on Arlsan who has that G.O.A.T status.
Yo. I’m just happy to have been part of this community for so long. It’s never mattered where you’re from, what you look like or how much money you have. It’s all about Tekken.
At this point, I don’t think he will. He used to say he was now he kinda just avoids the question from what I’ve seen. Something about this game is making him stay put
winning against arslan arguably one of the goat player is a huge achievement let alone defeating him in the finals and grabbing that trophy is insane. Kudos AK!
Its crazy the mind games going on this match. AK set up that Slide to win it the whole time. AK has been using a lot of mids at the end game of most of the rounds and staying patient...to finally throw that low at the end without any fear. He just knew it was gonna land
I was right there in the front.. i was def rooting for AK.. very proud of him and the fillipino community! May i add shaheen is much improved from T7 but AK carried this character
as a shaheen main you guys don’t understand how hard those while standing 3 cancels are there’s a reason why you only see ak, low high and sephiblack do it and even they drop it. it’s quite possibly the hardest combo in the game and if you mess up you may get his kick flip move which swaps side which means you are at the wall now
This is Deja Vu of Anakin's Jack vs Knee's Jin finals where Knee switched to Paul Phoenix in last round of reset and then goes all way to win the trophy. It was Tekken 7 Combo Breaker, 2019 finals, I think. That was best Tekken match I ever saw on competitive level. Even the commentators of this and 2019's match are same. Same crowd hype and chants. LOL
When Tekken 8 dropped I asked a lotta people, who do you think is the weakest character? They all said Shaheen. Rewind back to May 2024: Ak, a Shaheen player wins vs Arslan Ash.
Should be an easy time for you, then. Shaheen doesn't have cheese moves or a gimmick. He's slow and he doesn't have much in the way of cancels, so there's no surprise knowledge checks to worry about. Just think of him as a way slower feng wei without a kempo stance and way WAY lower damage output. I'm tempted to even say his T7 version is stronger, if only because there's no heat mechanics to use against him to keep him scared.
Arslan mentioned the story on his channel that when he was travelling to the US he put his laptop bag over his Gaming Stick and that damaged one of the movement switch, can't remember it was forward or backward movement and couldn't replace it on time. That is the reason why Arslan dropped a lot of combos otherwise he would have won.
Wow I've never seen anyone go to to toe with Arslan like that. Usually they get buried but my god those infinite combos. What a match! Congratulations to Ak ♥️
AK play style is eerily similar to how he used to play in T7 the heat system is made for him. Not to take anything from the GOAT but today Tekken is the way it is, because of the GOAT Arslan Ash pushing it further than it ever was.
We, here in the PH, we have a huge Respect on Arslan Ash. He fights back until the end. A true champion. Never gives up so easily. kudos to him. Meanwhile, AK Deserve this Win after so many years of being a 2nd place. Finally breaks the curse. Congrats for both of them for the wonderful Tekken 8 Grand Finals.
As a relatively new Tekken player (only really playing seriously on 8) seeing the potential, and how many things you need to consider at this level is insane. Gives me a lot of motivation to take my Alisa to a higher rank 😂
The format is double elimination. But if you're in the win bracket all the time, you don't get to use the double elimination until the final match. So in the final, your opponent has to beat you in 2 full matches.
The way it works is you have to lose 2 sets to be out of the tournement. At this point AK had won all his sets, and Arslan had been put into lovers by losing a set to JakeMan (a king player). So Arslan needed to win this first to 3 and then win another first to 3 to win. Whereas AK had to just win 1 set -- since he's coming from winner side and hadn't lost any yet.
@@taguro1006 how it works in all fighting game tournaments is that if you come from the losers bracket, you need to win twice, thus 6 games in total. In this case, AK only needs to win 3 games, whereas Arslan needed to win 6 games.
no disrespect but sometimes, Arslan forgets he plays Tekken 8 now; not Tekken 7. Same goes for Knee, I think we still need to wait for them gods to adjust to this game
@@HAIDERyt148 I'm not hating man, i'm just sharing my opinion and i'm still excited to see Arslan and Knee adjust to T8 properly. As we can see, Harada had to change the game and punish turtle players. Turtles got punished for spamming pokes and playing safe. As a result Knee and Arslan was defeated by players that kept their aggression in the match ei. Farzeen and AK.
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The best Combo Breaker Tourney since watching the 2019CB
.. I could be wrong 🤔... 😅
Yes sirrrr
He finally broke the 2nd Placer Curse
And his arcade stick
No one can stay 1st forever. One day they will lost.
2:16 sequence is insane, and AK playing out of his mind the whole tournament
I knew AK was in the tournament but did not expect this in the finals. AK came into this tournament like a true Dark Horse.
Arslan has really pushed the Tekken community to improve their skills. What an impressive game from Ash.
He'll be back >:)
Nah, he pushed Harada to change the game and punish boring players like him. He got punished for spamming pokes and playing safe and was defeated by a player that kept sliding and launching him....tekken finals are fun to watch again. No more turtling countries winning...even koreans were knocked further down.
Now the only thing that would make tournaments perfect is if Majin were to make a comeback.
@@ibendover4817 i also share the same opinion. it was boring af to watch him and knee play because it was unli pokes and almost every round they'd run out of time because these people turtled hard
@@ibendover4817 Just say you were a red rank MAX in tekken 7. The reason t7 had pokes were because it was a solid strategy when paired with riskier plays. if you look at the gameplay now, there is no such thing as gameplay versatility. Tekken 8 Is really just the smash bros version of tekken and it's sad to see.
@@johnsolace2588 There was a lot of strategy in those matches you somehow missed. this tournament only seems interesting to people who never actually took the game seriously.
That dodge on 10:26 probably the best thing I've seen in tekken for awhile.
Either that's calculated or just some random camera works, but that just insane
Yeah that was freaking sick
I agree, this happens a lot when you play lei in t7 or raven in t8 and someone SS!
i think he is used to it..
As I was reading your comment it happened lmao 😂😂
Takes a split second to see if the combo landed or not. AK saw he didn’t land it after the first or second hit combo and back peddled. Good eye by AK.
This was such a hype top 8 and your reactions to it only made it better! AK is a beast, Arslan was playing really well this tournament and i mean the guy is very possibly the best tekken player right now. congrats to every player involved honestly this entire tournament was exciting.
Ak is insane.
Indeed he is! He put on a clinic in undefeated fashion!
@@lilmajin yeah. He beat all of them.
Arslan the 🐐 will come back stronger
TBH, I thought the greatest threat to Arslan would come from players like Chikurin, Joka, Knee, Joendding, Nobi and others. I didn't think he would be losing to AK. Guess AK was the perferct underdog.
@@johndavid5424 bro ak have been 2nd place in a lot of tournaments for so long though.. finally in this one he broke the curse
As a Filipino, I'm glad AK won! 🇵🇭
Still, kudos to Arslan Ash for getting the runback to the finals!
Insane gameplay from both! Quite impressed how AK avoids getting cornered!
Are you gonna feature the Dr.theJakemanMD vs Arslan Ash match?
That was pretty shocking! 😆
Congrats to AK too. From Pakistan
Yeah that king match was wild. Arlsan was struggling to break those king grapples. And was having a hard time to keep with his aggressive approach. Hopefully he will learn from it and come back strong.
Lol that yoshi match was fun too. Man rlly had to put that clown nose on 😭, and almost had arslan. I think this is their new strategy. If you can't win, put them under pressure and stress.
Nonetheless, it was a pretty good tournament. Some good ass tekken as they say.
Just need FilipinoChamp back for EVO
Im proud being a filipino🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ak playing perfect Shaheen
Not perfect, so many combo drops, but still win 🎉
Ak's Shaheen vs Ahsan Ali's Shaheen And The JON's 🦁 vs Dr the Jakeman's 🦁 Will be amazing
@@XLite. Seems its due to the hit box, Nina being a female character
@vincentmarcelo7890 I agree with that, I see AK doing those combos in Try Hards RR tourney and he lands mostly all of it
the reason why he keep dropping combos because he's forcing himself to do the hardest combo in shaheen. That's some crazy balls u got there man. despite the fact he kept dropping it, he continued to do it.
So good to see AK get such a big win. And over arslan of all people. Would have loved to see you at combo breaker though Maijin!
I really enjoyed this Combo Breaker event has to come back, this was a vibe! AK deserved this for sure what a amazing tekken player 🇵🇭.
AK beat the man who beat the man. That's a legit Win.
It is really fun to watch Tekken! BUT it's even more fun to watch you play in Tekken. We need you back in there scene Majin!
Dang! Congrats to AK! This is the very first time I saw him win a championship. Against Arslan as well. Good job! 🎉
yeah he got a lot of 2nd place in T7, now we run it back in T8 the future run looks great
AK displayed a spectacular performance here at Combo Breaker which could one of the best TWT events in North America
I remember seeing those 2 at grand finals way back at Evo Japan 2019, although it was a one sided stomp, it was the start of Arslan Ash's greatness. 5 years later, deja vu vibes on how both got to grand finals (AK from winner's bracket and Arslan from loser's bracket) and this time, AK got his revenge on Arlsan who has that G.O.A.T status.
16:35 you can see AK was on flow state or he was just sleepy 🥱 or maybe both 😄
He always looked like that when he plays, we all have our own locked in faces haha.
AK winning will bring Josie back to tekken 8 100%
Probably gonna be a Season 2 or Season 3 DLC
Im still waiting for it. No josie no tekken8 for me🤣
Thanks for the watch party fam. Always a treat to be able to watch with your company
Yo. I’m just happy to have been part of this community for so long. It’s never mattered where you’re from, what you look like or how much money you have. It’s all about Tekken.
I love playing fighting games but I suck at a lot of them, watching people that know what they are doing leaves me in awe!
When is Lil Majin going to play in these events?
Was going to ask this also. We want Majin slammin people up!
Lil Majin competed for years, if he enters nowadays it's likely just for his enjoyment.
At this point, I don’t think he will. He used to say he was now he kinda just avoids the question from what I’ve seen. Something about this game is making him stay put
Never
He is retired
winning against arslan arguably one of the goat player is a huge achievement let alone defeating him in the finals and grabbing that trophy is insane. Kudos AK!
I'm very happy to see my character win a big tournament. Also really happy for AK.
Crowd was so hype. Great event. Congrats AK
Cringe crowd. Obvious bias towards 1 side. Even these commentators R in favour of AK.
@@Jurgir09 ak is an underdog here lets be honest
Let’s go!!!!! Philippines 🇵🇭 🇵🇭
Its crazy the mind games going on this match. AK set up that Slide to win it the whole time. AK has been using a lot of mids at the end game of most of the rounds and staying patient...to finally throw that low at the end without any fear. He just knew it was gonna land
congratulations kababayan representing our country 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Proud to be pinoy🎉🎉🎉🎉
i watched this match 3 times already. its that good
This one is a rematch, the 2 of them already faced in evo japan 2019 (grand finals) and finally he broke his 2nd place curse.
AK finished the story
Nah. He only played multiplayer all this time
Gives me a lot of hope for the future of this games esports scene, set was really great.
This was sooo hype to watch live. You could tell how nervous AK was because after the win he could not hold back the tears, so much fun this CB
I was right there in the front.. i was def rooting for AK.. very proud of him and the fillipino community! May i add shaheen is much improved from T7 but AK carried this character
OI, PHILIPPINES! PHILIPPINES!
Really though congrats to AK for the W that haunted him
I was so hype for my brother 🇵🇭 . What a game to both of them
as a shaheen main you guys don’t understand how hard those while standing 3 cancels are there’s a reason why you only see ak, low high and sephiblack do it and even they drop it. it’s quite possibly the hardest combo in the game and if you mess up you may get his kick flip move which swaps side which means you are at the wall now
We need plus frames for throws defended and a get out of jail free card like MK.
AK stayed calm and focused during the game, not letting his emotions affect him until the final moment of victory.
wow theres a lot of people present too
This is Deja Vu of Anakin's Jack vs Knee's Jin finals where Knee switched to Paul Phoenix in last round of reset and then goes all way to win the trophy.
It was Tekken 7 Combo Breaker, 2019 finals, I think. That was best Tekken match I ever saw on competitive level. Even the commentators of this and 2019's match are same. Same crowd hype and chants. LOL
AK! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🔥🔥
Where do they hold these tournaments ??? I gotta go !!!
AK finally broke his own curse.
let's go AK PHILIPPINES 🎉🎉
Really happy for AK!
Hope you get to participate on major tournaments as well Majin!
When Tekken 8 dropped I asked a lotta people, who do you think is the weakest character?
They all said Shaheen.
Rewind back to May 2024: Ak, a Shaheen player wins vs Arslan Ash.
AK : Hold my water. I'm gonna slide my way to victory.
🤣
@@kyadabs Very accurate description of these past, exiting events!
Now the ladder is gonna have more Shaheens good lord
Should be an easy time for you, then.
Shaheen doesn't have cheese moves or a gimmick. He's slow and he doesn't have much in the way of cancels, so there's no surprise knowledge checks to worry about. Just think of him as a way slower feng wei without a kempo stance and way WAY lower damage output.
I'm tempted to even say his T7 version is stronger, if only because there's no heat mechanics to use against him to keep him scared.
@@janematthews9087 "shaheen doesn't have cheese moves or gimmicks" lmaoo okay
I wish that there was a tekken Lil Majin edition now that would be dope
Arslan mentioned the story on his channel that when he was travelling to the US he put his laptop bag over his Gaming Stick and that damaged one of the movement switch, can't remember it was forward or backward movement and couldn't replace it on time. That is the reason why Arslan dropped a lot of combos otherwise he would have won.
AK unorthodox gameplay worked out finally!
WHATAAAA FIGHT!!! INTENSE
Congrats ak.. Proud to be Philippines .. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
A new legend born..
Hey Majin are you planning to participate in this year tekken events?
AK is really saving the slide spam...
Majin will you play at CEO?
Congratulations AK I'm So Proud of You Proud to be Pinoy Best Wishes bye for Now I Love you.☺️☺️👏👏👏
Wow I've never seen anyone go to to toe with Arslan like that. Usually they get buried but my god those infinite combos. What a match! Congratulations to Ak ♥️
AK play style is eerily similar to how he used to play in T7 the heat system is made for him. Not to take anything from the GOAT but today Tekken is the way it is, because of the GOAT Arslan Ash pushing it further than it ever was.
Excellent video bud! We want more. Bless you and your family and tekken family - Erin
Majin have you match with AK? Love to see it. The best king vs the best shaheen
We, here in the PH, we have a huge Respect on Arslan Ash. He fights back until the end. A true champion. Never gives up so easily. kudos to him. Meanwhile, AK Deserve this Win after so many years of being a 2nd place. Finally breaks the curse. Congrats for both of them for the wonderful Tekken 8 Grand Finals.
The BEST fight in tournament was Dr Jakeman vs Arslan Ash. This King was epic !!!!!
This shows anyone can be a top Tekken player 😎
Anyone?? AK has been a Tekken pro since 13yo and has placed several times in big events, even placing second in Evo2019 after Arslan.
Dude thinks AK is the new kid on the block
As a relatively new Tekken player (only really playing seriously on 8) seeing the potential, and how many things you need to consider at this level is insane.
Gives me a lot of motivation to take my Alisa to a higher rank 😂
Amazing final. Such high level gameplay.
finally a championship! congrats!
How much the price for winner ?
im very proud of philippines.
❤❤❤ congrats AK .
Wht a great performance by AK
Finally after many many years Ak regularly played almost every Tekken tournament and won one of the best tournaments.
AK getting rewarded for stick with shaheen all through out tekken 7 history and finally breaking his 2nd place curse
Someone in the Chat : Arslan era is done.
Boy literally became 5x EVO Champ , no one acomplished something like that in the history yet .
Now i want Lil Majin back again!
About time the KING OF KINGS reacted on it! You dropped this 👑🐅
Tekken noob here. What does point reset mean? If ak needs 3 how many does arslan need?
He needs to win 3 games to reset the set then win another 3 to win the whole thing
The format is double elimination. But if you're in the win bracket all the time, you don't get to use the double elimination until the final match. So in the final, your opponent has to beat you in 2 full matches.
@@devinroi3886 win another 3? Meaning in total 6? 🙀
The way it works is you have to lose 2 sets to be out of the tournement.
At this point AK had won all his sets, and Arslan had been put into lovers by losing a set to JakeMan (a king player).
So Arslan needed to win this first to 3 and then win another first to 3 to win.
Whereas AK had to just win 1 set -- since he's coming from winner side and hadn't lost any yet.
@@taguro1006 how it works in all fighting game tournaments is that if you come from the losers bracket, you need to win twice, thus 6 games in total.
In this case, AK only needs to win 3 games, whereas Arslan needed to win 6 games.
Was an amazing tournament even in the group stages.
AK finally did it! 🇵🇭
AK crazy with Shaheen. God this match made my heart beating like crazy
Wow, what a Match. AK finally did it. .
Tekken is the best gaming community! I love this game!
AK's coach is Philippines' Nina God, and AK got a good nina too as pocket, he read that matchnlike an open book.
Thank you Lil Majin and congrats AK, he really master that Shaheen 🙂
Majin!!! It's your time... we're waiting
LET’s GO AK. Lol at 17:44 the slap on the TABLE! Ash needs to practice more. Hahaha
I couldn't. The pressure
AK!!! 🔥🔥🔥🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
This was a great match! I wanted to see you react to the Jakeman vs Arslan. It was hype asf!
And again, another TEKKEN map has been opened. This time : The Philippines
Ngl all the combo drops and whiffs made it exciting 😂
AK INSANEEEE Unbelievbale moves OMG 😮😮😮😮😮
didnt knew kendrick was a shoutcaster
Thanks AK for putting Tekken PH on the map
no disrespect but sometimes, Arslan forgets he plays Tekken 8 now; not Tekken 7. Same goes for Knee, I think we still need to wait for them gods to adjust to this game
He came 2nd place 😂😂. My God these haters
@@HAIDERyt148 I'm not hating man, i'm just sharing my opinion and i'm still excited to see Arslan and Knee adjust to T8 properly. As we can see, Harada had to change the game and punish turtle players. Turtles got punished for spamming pokes and playing safe. As a result Knee and Arslan was defeated by players that kept their aggression in the match ei. Farzeen and AK.
@@ColinDafilmoto Arslan was 2nd this tourney 🤡. Come on dont look like a joker bro .
Awesome bro
I hope you’re back for EVO. One of the best King’s in history
Omg glad you win kababayan -fan from PH letsss goioooo🎉🎉🎉
Congrats kababayan! Pinoy Tekken fan/player nkakaproud! Big deal to sknya napanuod ko sya nun tag 2 top 3 lng ngaun champ na!!
idol yan...