I love lei. He definitely deserves his reputation as a party animal type character but thats cuz thats literally Jackie chans style in all his movies lol, but he's also tricky to play because he gets blown up by randomly ducking, he has like 0 +frame moves that do anything for him and he's always unsafe, even if a move looks safe or even plus, u can probably jab before he can do anything or even dick jab. Yea he's annoying to face but he's so easy to blow up, and he struggles to get in so if you just backdash even once, he can't reach you with anything. Literaly one single backdash and a df2 will whiff punish 99% of lei's moves, and razor rush is super easy to step/interrupt, and if he really "just spams a couple strings" then why is he so hard for everyone to fight? If its just a couple strings he spams it should be easy to learn then no? Not to mention anytime he transitions into stances he's usually neutral at the most. Which means anytime u see his stance bs u can just dick jab him out of it. Ik he won't be in 8 and yea it'll suck that he will miss a tekken game for the first time but I'm tired of everyone treating lei like he's somehow any worse than facing a Kazuya with good 50/50 pressure or zafina or even Feng, but you don't hear anyone get as mad about them as lei even tho they have wayyyy better tools for pressure and range in addition to 50/50 bs, can't we admit that fighting lei isn't as bad as everyone makes it seem? Cuz realistically it comes down to nothing but 50/50 and there are plenty of other Characters with the exact same game plan that don't get hate like lei does
Lei main since Tekken 2 and I hope he's on every base roster from now till the heat death of the universe. By then he'll have about 200 stances and playing him will require a PhD and an IV drip.
I've been a Lei main since Tekken 3. I've always loved Jackie Chan movies and Lei is essentially Tekken's Jackie Chan. I was devastated when he wasn't in Tekken 7 at launch. I hope he comes back in Tekken 8.