Best Tekken games

Tekken 7 leads the Tekken ranking with 1294 ELO points over 33 duels, ahead of Tekken 5 and Tekken 3.

Tekken 5 holds second place with 1270 ELO, but the sharpest divide appears between it and Tekken 3: a 27-point gap separates ranks 2 and 3, the largest in the entire ranking. Tekken 6 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 share fourth place with identical 1240 ELO scores, though their win rates tell different stories: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 wins 60% of its duels compared to Tekken 6's 54%. Meanwhile, Tekken 3 at rank 3 posts 1243 ELO with a 56% win rate across 36 duels. At the bottom, the original Tekken sits at rank 9 with 1039 ELO and a 31% win rate, suggesting the community favors the series' modern entries over its origins. Tekken Tag Tournament struggles at rank 8 with just 38% of its duels won, while Tekken 2 fares slightly better at rank 7 with 44%.

This ranking draws from 582 duels submitted by 33 players across 9 contenders. The data was last updated on 12 October 2026. VAINKEURZ remains open: cast your votes in head-to-head matchups to shape the standings and push your favorite entry higher.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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