Knee found himself again in the rivalry of the year in 2019, when the young ace from Pakistan, Arslan Ash defeated Knee in the group stage and went on to win EVO Japan 2019, signalling the rise of the Pakistani Tekken Community. At the end of 2018, Knee had achieved a minimum 3rd position in 11 major tournaments that year. Knee later lost to eventual champion Rangchu's Panda in the losers final, whom Knee had defeated earlier in the top 8 with ease. However despite switching to Devil Jin himself later, he lost to Qudans' improved play with the character he had stayed loyal to for more than a decade. Knee and Qudans faced off in the Winners Final in the top 8 of the final event, with Knee picking " Lili", a strategic counter-pick to Qudans' Devil Jin, something which had worked exceptionally well and earned him multiple tournament victories and praise for his multi-character expertise throughout the year.
Knee finished the competitive season ranked number 1 on the leaderboards as the clear favourite to win the TWT Finals later that year in Amsterdam. Furthermore, TWT 2018 was dominated by Knee, defeating players from all over the world and having a positive net result against all top players, except to fellow South Korean legend Qudans, with whom he shared the rivalry that was the headline story of 2018 Tekken Esports. However things changed, starting with Knee winning the first EVO Japan in early 2018. Tekken 7 FR (Tekken World Tour era) 2017ĭuring the first year of TWT in 2017, Knee made it to the inaugural Tekken World Tour finals but lost out in the group stage, losing all his group matches to much surprise, to end the year that was dominated by the likes of Qudans, JDCR and Saint to a disappointing finish. Knee finished second again in the EVO 2016 Finals to fellow Korean player Saint, before ending the year-end finals event of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 outside of the top 8. Knee participated in the first international finals event for the Tekken 7 arcade version in Tokyo, Japan at The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2015, finishing in second place, losing to Japan's Nobi in the final. Tekken 7 (King of Iron Fist Tournament era) He was part of "Team Korea" which won the Mastercup 7 Team Tournament, becoming the first Korean team to win the prestigious 5v5 team tournament held in Japan. He won his first ever EVO Title in 2013, for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, defeating American veteran Bronson Tran in the finals. He famously chose his in-game name of Knee during this time, due to the signature moves of both his main characters (Bruce and Bryan) being attacks made by their knees. He also played strongly in domestic competitions, winning the Korean 3v3 Tournaments "Tekken Crash" multiple times being part of Team Resurrection and continued training amongst the best Tekken players in the world at the legendary Green Arcade in Seoul, in what was considered as the golden age of Korean Tekken. Knee's popularity grew after winning the World Cyber Games in 2010, the first time Tekken was included, which gave him international fame. This gave credibility to his extensive game knowledge-based playstyle. It is widely considered as one of the most difficult execution-having move/setup situations in the entire franchise. It was during Tekken 5 days, that Knee invented the famous setup in Tekken, called "Taunt Jet Upper" by using two of Bryan's moves in quick succession, which if successful would deal big damage to the opponent with them having no way of blocking it (as the Taunt was unblockable, and the Jet Upper was done before the opponent could guard against it).
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Knee has played all Tekken games since the series started, but started competing in tournaments since 2004 in Tekken 5.
However as he reached his 20's, only Tekken was popular in the Korean arcades as other games' arcade cabinet shipping to Korea was hit by the Asian Financial Crisis. Taking a liking to fighting games at an early age, he played King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown and Tekken. Knee grew up in Gyeongbuk Province and was born on June 24, 1985. 2.5 Tekken 7 FR (Tekken World Tour era).2.4 Tekken 7 (King of Iron Fist Tournament era).
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