Tekken 7’s next season is shaping up to be a wild one. At Evo 2019, Bandai Namco revealed first details about season 3, revealing that Tekken 6’s ancient martial artist Zafina will return for Tekken 7, and that the game is getting a brand-new fighter, Leroy Smith.

There was some confusion during the live venue during the Tekken 7 finals as there was a snippet that aired off-stream that allegedly teased Solid Snake could be joining the game. That created some confusion throughout the crowd. 

EVO staff had to speak up to clarify that "joke" they did.




Season 3 Incoming - Free Update Highlight



Harada is promising brand new moves for every character in the game along with the usual balance changes. At this point, I think they should give characters multiple Rage Arts and Rage Drives to spice things up even further - unless that's in the plans already. I haven't played Tekken 7 since before Geese Howard dropped, so I wouldn't have the foggiest idea on what changed or what


Returning Character: Zafina



If her ending from Tekken 6 is canon to the main storyline, then I think she has been infected by Azazel after his defeat by Jin Kazama. That would explain her new clawed arm mechanic story-wise. While I'm excited to see her return in Tekken 7, I would be lying if I said that I enjoyed fighting against her freaky playstyle. She was up there with Xiaoyu and Eddie Gordo/Christie Montiero as my most hated Tekken character match-ups.


New Character: Leroy Smith



At first glance, I thought this was going to be a trailer/reveal for Wang or RZA's character from The Man With The Iron Fists. I'm glad that it's a brand new character and a black one at that. I couldn't help not laugh at the name though. Could have been worse. He could have been named Otis... (Laughs) One of my buddies said it's Bushido Brown's daddy from The Boondocks in Tekken at Grandmaster status.

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