
Difficult, but Awesome: His stance system and transitions require players to know a lot.This is why Hwoarang has such high combo damage potential. Cycle of Hurting: A good Hwoarang player will trap opponents in these, initiating a combo and then using mix-ups to cut off avenues of escape.Coat Cape: Wears a blue jacket over his shoulders in Tekken 7:FR, held on by chains.Downplayed in later games as his moves began to transition into his other fighting stances. Button Mashing: Could be this in Tekken 3.but to a lesser extent than the Capoeira characters.Beating A Dead Player: One of his iconic outros sees his opponent weakly trying to get up, only for Hwoarang to come over and sit on them.Battle in the Rain: The Tekken Tag Tournament version of his stage.His taekwondo dobok would be this if it's actually fastened by belts at all. Bare Your Midriff: All of his biker costumes.Though it's actually a jacket, he wears it as if it's a cape.



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Artistic License Martial Arts: One of his stances is the Crane Stance.The arrogance is not that uncommon in this franchise. Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Arrogant Tae Kwon Do Guy more like.This carried over up to Tekken 7, as seen here paired with Yoshimitsu's Manji Dragonfly stance. It's then up to you whether to let the round time run out, or have the decency to hit him out of it. Breaker: When fighting against an AI-controlled Hwoarang in TTT2, if you side-walk while he's advancing in his Flamingo stance (or if he starts to do this when he's not directly facing you), he won't stop moving forward and will not change his stance, all the way to and in spite of the stage limit. Hwoarang can be stymied by a solid defense and has poor whiff-punishment, requiring a good Hwoarang player to memorize stances and the movements between them, never let up the pressure once it's been applied, and read their opponent well enough to account for their defense. This gives him a truly absurd number of mix-ups.

Hwoarang has six stances depending on his orientation to his opponent, the position of his feet, and whether or not he is in his raised-leg Flamingo stance, each with their own comprehensive moveset. In Tekken 7, Hwoarang is an relentlessly offensive mix-up/rushdown character who specializes in keeping an opponent off balance, applying huge damage through branching combos to prevent opponents from escaping the Cycle of Hurting.
