Tekken 8 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

When the blue bar below your health is filled press either or + (standard controller setup). Your character will start glowing, this is a “Heat Burst”. Repeat 5 times total. The Heat Bar is automatically filled at the start of each round.

Go to Online > Player Match, win one match. You can invite a friend to this mode to boost this.

Win any 10 online matches across any online modes (Fight Lounge, Ranked Match, Quick Match, Player Match, Group Match, Tournaments). It’s okay if you lose, you just need to play (not win) 10 matches total.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Story > Story: The Dark Awakens. Finish the first series of fights and this will unlock at the end of Chapter 1.

In Chapter 15, in the fight between Jin vs. Kazuya, you must WIN the final round as Jin, the character you play.

You know it’s the final round when Kazuya (your opponent) enters rage mode and he starts glowing red / his health bar burns red (this is after you get 3 QTE sequences saying “I will not deny my…” where you can press ). If you win the final round, you get the Jin ending, if you lose the final round you get the Kazuya ending.

It doesn’t matter if you complete the 3 “I will not deny my…” QTE sequences or not, but you do have to complete the QTE after the first round to stand up as the match restarts if you don’t.

In Chapter 15, in the fight between Jin vs. Kazuya, you must LOSE the final round as Jin, the character you play. You must let Kazuya (your opponent) defeat you IN THE FINAL ROUND.

You know it’s the final round when Kazuya (your opponent) enters rage mode and he starts glowing red / his health bar burns red (this is after you get 3 QTE sequences saying “I will not deny my…” where you can press ). If you win the final round, you get the Jin ending, if you lose the final round you get the Kazuya ending.

It doesn’t matter if you complete the 3 “I will not deny my…” QTE sequences or not, but you do have to complete the QTE after the first round to stand up as the match restarts if you don’t.

Go to Main Menu > Story > Character Episodes. Complete the Character Episodes of 5 different characters. These are short series of 5 fights each. You can play on the easiest difficulty. It will show a green checkmark next to the characters you completed (it also unlocks that character’s ending in the Gallery). An easy tactic is to activate “Special Style” mode ( ), then spam to do air combos or + to spam strong attacks.

Go to Main Menu > Story > Character Episodes. Complete the Character Episodes of 10 different characters. These are short series of 5 fights each. You can play on the easiest difficulty. It will show a green checkmark next to the characters you completed (it also unlocks that character’s ending in the Gallery). An easy tactic is to activate “Special Style” mode ( ), then spam to do air combos or + to spam strong attacks.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. “Gong” is the 2nd location you visit and this will be your first story trophy in this mode. Win your first story-related tournament to unlock the trophy.

First, you must finish Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST mode. This unlocks SUPER GHOST BATTLE mode.

Then go to Main Menu > Offline > Super Ghost Battle. Finish the first match against your ghost (this one doesn’t give a trophy). Then interact with the Arcade machine and challenge your Ghost to another match and win.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. “Kobushi Dojo” is the 6th location you visit and this will be your second story trophy in this mode. Win the story-related tournament to unlock the trophy. You have to win the tournament for story purposes, can’t miss it.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. This unlocks after finishing the Champion Cup in the last location (7th Arcade Station).

First, you must finish Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST mode. This unlocks SUPER GHOST BATTLE mode.

Then go to Main Menu > Offline > Super Ghost Battle. Win the first match against your ghost. Then interact with the Arcade station, pick “CPU Ghost”. These are the developer Ghosts, can pick the easiest ones with lowest score ranking. You must win against 10 of them.

*OFFLINE – SUPER GHOST BATTLE*

First, you must finish Arcade Quest mode (won the “Champion Cup” in the last location). This takes around 2 hours total. Finishing Arcade Quest mode unlocks “Harada_TEKKEN” in SUPER GHOST BATTLE mode.

Then go to Main Menu > Offline > Super Ghost Battle. Win the first match against your ghost if you haven’t already, then interact with the Arcade machine. Select “CPU Ghost” > “Harada_TEKKEN”. He will be the top ranked Ghost. Luckily, the fight is relatively easy and no more difficult than lower ranked Ghosts.

To make it easier, go to Main Menu > Options (bottom left) > Game Option Settings > No. of Rounds (Ghost Battle) = 1. This way you can win in a single round.

Go to Online > Tekken Fight Lounge. You will see other players walking around there. Interact with them, click the yellow “Ghost Match”, win the match.

The other players must have played Ghost Battle (while connected to online servers) at least 3 times for enough data to be captured to enable their AI driven ghost data! If other players haven’t done this, they won’t have a ghost you can challenge. Just keep interacting with different player avatars until you find one that has a Player Ghost.

Go to Main Menu > Offline > Arcade Battle. In total there will be 8 stages. Win all 8 stages to “finish” Arcade Battle. Can be done on Easy difficulty.

Combo Challenges are found in Practice Mode. Go to Main Menu > Offline > Practice > Select a Character & Arena > after the Practice starts open the Pause Menu (  ) > select “Combo Challenges”.

Complete any 5 Combo Challenges. It counts across different characters, you don’t need to do 5 with a single character. The easiest way is to only do the first Combo Challenge of 5 Characters.

Go to Main Menu > Replay > My Replays & Tips > select any Replay (must’ve played matches in “Offline Player vs CPU” / “Arcade Quest” / “Ghost Battle”) > Play replay > choose your side > after the match starts press to open the menu > change everything to “Display” / “Show Details” / “Display without pausing”. It should look like this:

Now wind through the replay with / > press / for “Next Tip” > to pause > then press “Train” (this will appear in the bottom left, only when a “Recommended Sample Combo” shows at the top). The trophy will unlock immediately when you click to “Train”:

You won’t get the “Train” prompt on Throw Commands. It has to be specifically a “Recommended Sample Combo” as shown at the top of the screen. That’s why you should change everything in pause settings to “Display” / “Display without Pausing” to get these to appear. You have to pause the replay with for the “Train” prompt to appear, it won’t show during unpaused gameplay. Some matches might not have any moments that show “Recommended Sample Combo” at the top, if this is the case you must watch another replay until you find one that has this.

A “Perfect Victory” is awarded when you win a Round without taking any damage. For this you must win only ONE ROUND (not an entire match). This is best done on the lowest difficulty.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

*ANY MODE (EXCEPT OFFLINE VS/PRACTICE/REPLAY)*

A “Great Victory” is obtained when you have only 1% health remaining and still win the match. You need to let your opponent beat you up and hope you survive with just 1% health before dying. It doesn’t matter how much health your opponent has when you reach 1% health yourself. All that matters is that you are at extremely low health and then still win. You don’t need to win with any particular attack either, anything is fine for landing the final hit on the opponent.

This image shows how low your health must be (just a few pixels, barely visible):

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

*ANY MODE (EXCEPT OFFLINE VS/PRACTICE/REPLAY)*

This is most easily done during Chapter 1 in Story: The Dark Awakens. Play this chapter until both Jin and Kazuya grow wings and shoot lasers at each other during a mini-cutscene. After this they are both buffed with more health and a new moveset that deals more damage. Now playing as Jin make sure you are in Special Style (press to toggle it, buttons will appear in bottom left when Special Style is active) > activate Heat with > spam repeatedly for an air combo. This will deal 70+ damage. Because both characters have more health and deal more damage in this fight you can easily get it here. Note that this isn’t the first round of Chapter 1, you must keep playing through the Chapter 1 fights until Kazuya (your opponent) grows wings on his back.

Let your health reach the last segment, then you start glowing red, this is called “Rage Mode”. Then press to activate a Rage Art. Your health bar will also start burning red when at low health, then the Rage Art can be used (during some story fights you also enter rage at higher health). Repeat 20 times. These DON’T need to be 20 different Rage Arts from different characters. You can use the same Rage Art from the same character 20 times.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

In the Move List, check for moves with a blue/purple icon that has a white burning person on it, these indicate so-called “Heat Engagers”:

Use such a move at the start of a round while the blue bar below your health is full. This will make you enter “Heat” and your character starts burning blue.

For example, with Claudio you can press  + . Repeat 5 times total (once per round). The blue heat bar refills at the start of each round.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Heat Smashes are performed by pressing (press the button twice), while the blue Heat meter is filled. Each round starts with your Heat meter filled. Easiest method is to always spam at the start of every round until you get this. The first will trigger a “Heat Burst” (character starts glowing blue), the second must be done before the Heat Burst runs out to trigger the “Heat Smash”. This will do a special supermove that deals a lot of damage.

When you press to toggle on the Special Style (button prompts appear on left side of screen) it will also show the “Heat Smash” prompt in the bottom left corner.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Press to activate Heat (while the blue bar below your health is filled), then press (without any directional buttons) for a “Heat Dash” (before the blue bar is depleted). The blue heat bar refills at the start of each round. Can be done with any character, for example with Jin. You can do it over 10 rounds, always start each round by activating Heat and spamming until the trophy unlocks. Odds are you’ll get this pretty early from natural gameplay without even trying. Heat Dashes can also trigger in other ways, for example by pressing to activate heat and then spamming combos while Special Style ( ) is activated.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

This trophy will come automatically over time without doing anything special for it. After taking damage a part of your health segment is sometimes silver, this segment of health will recover when you attack the opponent. You regain a little bit of health naturally just by playing the game. This trophy will come completely automatically over time, don’t worry about this. Just suffer some damage, attack the opponent, repeat. You don’t need to heal 500 damage in one match, it counts across all matches. You will get this after probably 50-100 matches (you need to do way more matches for other trophies so this is pretty much guaranteed to unlock along the way).

This is counts across Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It doesn’t count in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. The Rank Promotions are all obtained in the offline mode “Arcade Quest”. You have to reach this rank to progress through the Arcade Quest story so this is unmissable. Brawler is the first green colored rank (after Combatant Rank). This is NOT an online rank, it’s entirely offline and you’ll get all rank-related trophies within 2 hours while finishing Arcade Quest Mode.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. The Rank Promotions are all obtained in the offline mode “Arcade Quest”. You have to reach this rank to progress through the Arcade Quest story so this is unmissable. Warrior is the first yellow colored rank (after green ranks). This is NOT an online rank, it’s entirely offline and you’ll get all rank-related trophies within 2 hours while finishing Arcade Quest Mode.

Automatic story-related trophy in ARCADE QUEST mode. The Rank Promotions are all obtained in the offline mode “Arcade Quest”. You have to reach this rank to progress through the Arcade Quest story so this is unmissable. Warrior is the first orange colored rank (after yellow ranks). This is NOT an online rank, it’s entirely offline and you’ll get all rank-related trophies within 2 hours while finishing Arcade Quest Mode.

*ANY MODE (EXCEPT OFFLINE VS/PRACTICE/REPLAY)*

“Hard Floor Break” can only be performed on the following stage:

• Descent Into Subconscious (starting floor)
  

In Stage Select it will show on the left side which environmental attacks are possible on each map. This trophy is best done in GHOST BATTLE (unlocked after completing Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST). In Ghost Battle you can select which stage you want to play. In Story / Character Episodes / Arcade Quest the stages are random, and the trophy doesn’t unlock in Practice / VS mode.

Pick the Character “Lili”. Then spam at the start of the match, to perform her Heat Smash (the first button press activates Heat, the second does the Heat Smash). Lili’s Heat Smash will grab the enemy and smash him on the floor, which will break the floor. This works from the floor where the fight starts.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

“Wall Blast” can only be performed on the following 2 stages:

• Midnight Siege (starting floor, from where you start the wall above you)
  
• Rebel Hangar (bottom floor, left/right wall after breaking through balcony)
  

In Stage Select it will show on the left side which environmental attacks are possible on each map. This trophy is best done in GHOST BATTLE (unlocked after completing Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST). In Ghost Battle you can select which stage you want to play. In Story / Character Episodes / Arcade Quest the stages are random, and the trophy doesn’t unlock in Practice / VS mode.

Pick any Character, for example it works with Claudio > pick the stage “Midnight Siege” > face the destructible wall above from where you start, the opponent must stand close to it > toggle on “Special Style” mode ( ) > press + (if you’re on left side) to perform a powerful punch. This will toss the opponent backwards into the wall. Repeat a few times until the wall explodes and the trophy will unlock.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

“Wall Bound” can only be performed on the following 3 stages:

• Arena (Underground) – starting floor left/right wall
  
• Elegant Palace – bottom floor on left/right wall
  
• Ortiz Farm – bottom floor, any wall
  

In Stage Select it will show on the left side which environmental attacks are possible on each map. This trophy is best done in GHOST BATTLE (unlocked after completing Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST). In Ghost Battle you can select which stage you want to play. In Story / Character Episodes / Arcade Quest the stages are random, and the trophy doesn’t unlock in Practice / VS mode.

Pick any Character, for example it works with Claudio > pick the stage “Arena (Underground)” > face the wall to the right of where you start, the opponent must stand close to it > toggle on “Special Style” mode ( ) > press + (if you’re on left side) to perform a powerful punch. This will toss the opponent into the wall, then he catches fire and gets tossed back in the opposite direction. The trophy unlocks right away.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Go to Online > Ranked Match. Win one match in this mode.

When you enter Ranked mode for the first time, it will ask you to play a CPU fight to determine your starting rank. Choose to SKIP this CPU fight. This will make you start at the lowest rank so you get matched against weaker players. If you play the CPU fight just let it beat you up and lose all rounds to start at the lowest rank. If you perform well during the CPU match you’d get put into a higher rank against stronger players which could make the ranked win more challenging.

“Floor Blast” can only be performed on the following stage:

• Into the Stratosphere
  

The easiest way to get this is to play Story: The Dark Awakens > Chapter 14. In Chapter 14 you play on this stage as Angel Jin. At the start of the fight toggle on “Special Style” ( ) > press + (standing left). This will perform a grappling move. Angel Jin will fly up and smash the opponent on the ground, unlocking the trophy in the process.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

*ANY MODE (EXCEPT OFFLINE VS/PRACTICE/REPLAY)*

This can only be done on the following stage:

• Ortiz Farm
  

This trophy is best done in GHOST BATTLE (unlocked after completing Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST). In Ghost Battle you can select which stage you want to play. In Story / Character Episodes / Arcade Quest the stages are random, and the trophy doesn’t unlock in Practice / VS mode.

To make it easier, go to Main Menu > Options (bottom left) > Game Option Settings > No. of Rounds (Ghost Battle) = 5. Then go to Main Menu > Offline > Ghost Battle. Play as Lili, pick any opponent, select Ortiz Farm.

There are 3 floors in Ortiz Farm: The top floor you start on > from where you spawn above you is a balcony, punch the opponent into it to destroy the balcony (while in Special Style ( ) spam or + ), then you fall down to the floor below > perform a floor break, easily done with Lili by pressing to perform her Heat Smash (the first button press activates Heat, the second does the Smash). Then you fall down to the bottom floor which looks like a treasure cave and unlocks the trophy. Lili’s Heat Smash will break the floor.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Go to Main Menu > Offline > Tekken Ball.

This game mode has you attack a beach ball to hit an opponent. Hit the ball with the following moves to give it a “Devilish Effect”: Use a Power Crush for a Fast Ball, a homing move for a Zigzag Ball, and a Tornado move for a Tornado ball. Heath Smashes and Rage Arts will activate a random Devilish Effect, making it extremely hard for your opponent to deflect.

The ball will get a visual effect (depending on the type of Devilish Effect). To make it count you have to HIT and DAMAGE the opponent while the effect is active. If the opponent blocks it won’t count.

The easiest method is to spam for a Heat Smash at the start of the round (must hit ball with it). Then let the opponent hurt you until your health gets low and you start burning red, then press for a Rage Art. Keep repeating this until the trophy unlocks.

Simply finish “Story: The Dark Awakens” and you’ll get 10 Million G as a story completion reward. Then the trophy unlocks automatically after the story. Alternatively, finishing “Arcade Quest” mode also gives 10 Million G as a completion reward.

Finishing 10 Character Episodes will also give you 10 Million (1 Million per Character Episode). Another way of getting more money is to play Arcade Battle, or keep playing Arcade Quest, these modes give money for every match.

Go to Title Screen > Customization > Character Customization > Select any Character > Create New > Change any style element of the Character > Finish Editing > Save and Exit > Take Photo > Yes.

Go to Online > Tekken Fight Lounge. Enter the purple hall and sit down at the purple arcade machine where it says “Group Battle”. Select your character and stay there until it finds a match (must wait until another player sits down next to you). These are 1 vs. 1 matches just like any other, they are just called “Group Match” but aren’t any different.

“Tornados” are the moves with an orange icon in the Move List:

An easy method is to play Character Episodes as Azucena. Toggle on “Special Style” ( ) then just spam combos. The third hit of her combo is always a “Tornado” attack. Alternatively, play as Devil Jin, toggle off “Special Style” ( ) then , , .

Do 10 of these moves total. It counts across all matches, doesn’t need to be in one match. This is sure to come naturally at some point without worrying about it.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

“Hard Wall Break” can only be performed on the following 2 stages:

• Sanctum (starting floor, right side)
  
• Elegant Palace (starting floor, golden windows leading to balcony)
  

In Stage Select it will show on the left side which environmental attacks are possible on each map. This trophy is best done in GHOST BATTLE (unlocked after completing Chapter 1 in ARCADE QUEST). In Ghost Battle you can select which stage you want to play. In Story / Character Episodes / Arcade Quest the stages are random, and the trophy doesn’t unlock in Practice / VS mode.

Pick any Character, for example it works with Claudio > pick the stage “Sanctum” > face the destructible wall to the right of where you start, the opponent must stand close to it > toggle on “Special Style” mode ( ) > press + (if you’re on left side) to perform a powerful punch. This will toss the opponent backwards into the wall. Repeat a few times until the wall breaks and the opponent flies through it.

This is obtainable in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It’s not obtainable in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Go to Title Screen > Offline > Practice > Select Characters and a Stage. Now you will enter Practice Mode, in the bottom left it shows how much total damage you have dealt in this practice session. Reach a total of 2,000 “Total Damage” and the trophy will unlock.

You enter “Rage Mode” when your health bar reaches the last segment, then your health bar starts burning red and you get a red glow around you. This happens at about 20% health remaining.

Play on easy, let the opponent damage you until you glow red (jump up to be easily hit), then destroy the opponent’s whole health bar with normal attacks (no rage art). Repeat over 10+ fights. It doesn’t seem to count properly when using Rage Arts (the finishers), so just use normal strikes. It counts 1000 damage cumulatively across all matches. You can expect this to take between 10-20 matches if you take down the opponent’s full health each time.

This is counts in Arcade Quest / Super Ghost Battle / Character Episodes / Story. It doesn’t count in Offline VS / Practice / Replay.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in The Dark Awakens mode, after story chapter 7.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in The Dark Awakens mode, after story chapter 12.

This can be done in Story: The Dark Awakens, in “Chapter 10: All-Out Assault”. In this chapter you play as various characters on a battlefield full of enemies. You must get a 30+ hit chain while attacking these enemies. The easiest option is to spam with Lars who is the first character you play, it will always hit multiple enemies in a single use. You will most likely get this trophy automatically without trying, but if not you can always replay the Chapter from Main Menu > The Dark Awakens > Chapter Select.