As of the end of 2023
In the entirety of the fighting game community, there’s very few people if anyone who can stand up to the success across multiple games / franchises that Justin Wong has over the past two decades.
The multi-title champion just put together and released his new tier list, which ranks what he believes are the best fighting games basically ever released as of the end of 2023.
Instead of starting with his more expected picks out of Capcom entries, Justin goes back to some Namco classics by putting up Soul Calibur 2 and the original Tekken Tag Tournament high on the list that most here probably won’t have a problem with.
Obviously, the Marvel vs. Capcom games are going to up up there too for Wong, but his highest Street Fighter rankings are of course Street Fighter 3 Third Strike and Ultra Street Fighter 4.
Vanilla Street Fighter 5 ends up in the trash tier while Champion Edition is quite a bit higher, and Street Fighter 6 is the last one he ranks — so you’ll have to see his explanation for where he put that.
Some of his other trash picks may stir up a bit of controversy among certain fans like Guilty Gear Strive, original Street Fighter 2, original Tekken, King of Fighters ’94, the Injustice games, Mortal Kombat 11 and the first Killer Instinct though others should probably be there like Street Fighter 1 and SVC Chaos.
We did something similar a few years back, so you can go back and take a look at the EventHubs’ staff fighting game tier list from the 2010s here too.
There’s a ton of titles to go through, so you can check out Justin Wong’s full tier list below as well as his video breaking down many of his picks.
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