Qudans shows off his legendary Devil Jin at Tekken Online Challenge Korea
Korea’s Final Boss was the ultimate Tekken God.
Last weekend, the Tekken Online Challenge featured Korea’s finest fighters in an open tournament and superstar exhibition matches.
One of the country’s best Geese Howard players, Meo-il, won the tournament and earned the chance to face the legendary Tekken God, Son “Qudans” Byeong-mun for a shot at doubling his prize money.
Despite not playing competitively for a while, Qudans showed no signs of rust and opened up the match with a classic vintage EWGF to flying kick combo.
With the infinite stage selected, Meo-il had trouble cornering Qudans for any significant play. With a few pokes here and there, Qudans eventually utilized the wavedash-cancel to lay some heavy mid damage and quickly went for a cheeky low to claim game one.
With Geese Howard having no significant mix-ups to pressure him, Qudans did his best to play safe and bait out Meo-il’s meter-burn. Even though he was low on health, the DJ specialist perfectly punished Meo-il’s high poke with a WS2 into a rage drive.
While Qudans pulled out some of DJ’s signature moves like Demon Steel Pedal and his EWGF, he started to chip Meo-il down with the hellsweep. By the final round of game two, Qudans easily caught the flatfooted Geese player with a succession of simple, low kicks.
Back on his preferred stage of Howard Estate, Meo-il started to feel his rhythm with Geese. Knowing that Qudans heavily relies on the EWGF for the punish, Meo-il opted to play it safe and backdash after every poke.
With Qudans slowly relieving his offensive pressure, Meo-il immediately went for the attack with an impressive meter-burn combo, featuring a double wall-splat and a defiant grab finish. Rocking a significant health advantage, Meo-il sat back and managed to hit a jump-back fireball that easily led into a two-punch punish.
Seeing as how Meo-il felt hopeful after a clutch win, Qudans had to shut it down in the fourth and final game of the Final Boss series. Flexing his DJ skills, Qudans went all-in with the wavedash and hellsweep mix-up. After every get-up, Meo-il was dumbfounded at what to do with the offensive force and opted to block the potential hellsweep. Qudans instantly read the hesitation and committed to a deadly WS2 into a flying grab combo.
With Qudans remaining as the undefeated final boss, Meo-il still goes home a champion of the Tekken Online Challenge Korea with a cash prize of US$500.
The next Tekken Online Challenge will feature theUS East regionon September 26-27.
