Best Rage Arts In Tekken 8

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Rage Arts are special attacks you can use when your health is low to allow you to cause a lot of damage and even scale the fight in your favor. Depending on who's doing these specials, they vary from combos to powerful strikes and even superpowers. Though they're all fun to watch, we'll display our favorites here and why they're so amazing.

10 Leroy Smith

Painful And Stylish

Leroy has such a unique style and personality that sometimes we forget he's actually one of the most recent characters introduced in Tekken 7. His Rage Art isn't particularly over-the-top, but the execution makes it fun to watch nonetheless.

He starts with a flurry of blows and proceeds to trip the opponent over to the ground, and as the opponent stands up, Leroy finishes it off with a one-inch punch, throwing the opponent away as a majestic energy dragon follows the movement.

9 Claudio Serafino

Vade Retro Satana

Another relatively new character in the series, Claudio, is an exorcist - a perfect foil to all the Devils wandering around in this series - and he shows a type of magic in his attacks. Well, his Rage Art is no different.

His special is essentially a single strike, where he charges his special power, holds the person, and shoots at them point-blank with a type of spiritual arrow, sending them away with his strike.

8 Shaheen

He Was A Skater Boy

Shaheen's Rage Arts isn't a super-powered strike, but it's worthy of being here because of the absurd level of disrespect he has against his opponent - humiliation is a good way to break their morale, right?

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He throws his enemy onto the ground and starts to ride them like a skateboard for a while until he flips them toward the air to finish them off with a powerful flying kick. It's just brutal.

7 Raven

This One Feels Unfair

Raven's moves make him a unique character in a game where everybody is pretty distinct already. His Ninjutsu gives him the ability to make multiple copies of himself, which he takes advantage of during his Rage Art.

By summoning many copies, they attack their opponent one after the other in quick succession, only for the real Raven to finish it off by also using a flying kick, like Shaheen - though it feels different thanks to the animation and style.

6 Ling Xiaoyu

Dance Of The Phoenix

Xiaoyu has another excellent example of a more grounded Rage Art, with a sequence of attacks that are so graceful that it's like she's dancing around her opponent while beating them.

As she spins around them, she hits them repeatedly until she stops in front of them to execute one final strike with her hands, sending the opponent away with beautiful style.

5 Panda

Comedy And Brutality

Not every character here is a serious combatant. Panda is a good example of the comedic vein the Tekken series has always demonstrated throughout the years, and her Rage Art shows that beautifully.

She throws the enemy upward, only to lie down and use her paws and legs to spin the enemy repeatedly and then toss them away. The enemy keeps spinning, though, returning to her like they're Sonic, only for her to do one final strike on them. Exquisite.

4 Kazuya Mishima

Feat Devil Kazuya

As has been the case in most recent entries, Kazuya has complete control of his Devil Gene, using his powers along with his moves like it's no big deal rather than being separate characters like Jin.

Thus, it's only reasonable that his Rage Art involves him shooting his opponent with laser beams, grappling them as he flies upwards, and sending them onto the ground with such ferocity that the ground breaks from the strike.

3 Alisa Bosconovitch

Don't Lose Your Head

Not many characters can use their own head as a bomb. Or have chainsaw hands, for that matter. Alisa is also one of the most peculiar cases in the series, as a powerful android with many unique features in her design.

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During her Rage Art, she flies away with the opponent and tosses him afar, only to detach and kick her head like a soccer ball to hit her opponent. Her head then explodes in a rather beautiful explosion. Don't worry; she can make more heads, so you won't have to be headless until the end of the fight.

2 Reina

Powerful And Intriguing

Reina is a new character who has a lot of mystery concerning her identity, with even the characters in-game questioning who she is. We won't get into any details here, but it's safe to say her Rage Art is more than meets the eye.

Things start simple, with a series of hard punches that put her opponent on the ground. Then, the whole arena changes to a dark environment, where her attacks spawn a strong, dark energy through the screen.

1 Yoshimitsu

In True Anime Style

Yoshimitsu, the legendary samurai wielding his namesake, has always been a staple to the series, being in every mainline Tekken game to date. His Rage Art is also one of the most gorgeous ones to witness.

The arena turns black and white, with an old film effect, simulating old samurai movies, as the opponent suffers many sword slices without even seeing Yoshimitsu. Then, he goes for one final strike, dashing through the opponent, who even has a delayed reaction to the strike - very anime-like.

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