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Jun

Heat	Kazama Powers cost less health. Inner Peace (f+1+2) becomes powered up, gaining more parry frames.
Heat Smash	Mid, i13, -6~+37g Low, i20, -12
Heat Engagers	1+2 f+2,1+2 SS.4 IZU.3 MIA.2
Stances	IZU (Izumo) – u+2 GEN (Genjitsu) – f+3+4 MIA (Miare) – b+1+2
Fastest
Launch	i16 – df+2 (standing) i14 – ws3 (crouching)
CH launch	i15 – df+4 (mid) i14 – d+3+4 (low, high)
Wall splat	i10 – uf+1 (standing) i10 – FC.df+1 (crouching)
Archetypal moves
Parry	b+1+3 (high or mid attacks) f+3+4 (lows or throws)
Sabaki	f+2+3 (high or mid punches) f+1+2 (high or mid attacks, powered up in heat)
Mid check	df+1 (standing) b+2,2 (standing) ws2 (crouching)
Stature kick	db+3
Generic moves
Remapped	(none)
Missing	d+2 d+4
External links
Lore	Jun Kazama
Twitter	#T8_Jun
Discord	Jun Kazama Discord

Jun is a versatile poking and defense-oriented character, who excels at chipping away an opponent's health and frustrating them into running into her strong whiff punishment, reversals or counterhits. Her unique Kazama's Power allows her to power up key moves at the cost of grey health, with Heat allowing her to heal herself by landing these key moves.

Jun retains the powerful defense of a Kazama-ryu practitioner, with access to strong whiff punishers like the Demon Slayer (f+2), and a number of parries and sabakis. Unlike her fellow practitioner, Asuka, she has a much more potent poking-based offense, allowing her to safely and effectively wear down her opponent with a multitude of pokes, counterhit tools and poke strings. She also has access to strong early punishment, an i14 crouching launcher, and likely the most devastating i10 crouching punish (FC.df+1) in the game (shades of Akuma...).

Jun's mysterious Kazama Power allows her to spend grey health to buff her key moves. This can allow her to turn some moves into launchers, make launchers safe, and increase the damage on her mixups. Heat allows her to heal herself upon landing these moves, making the strategic use of her Kazama Power an important part of gameplan. She has three stances, however they don't see much use outside of being combo filler.

Jun has many strengths and few weaknesses, chief among them being her lack of a standing i15 launch punish. She lacks heavy mixups and cannot snowball an opponent or make quick comebacks. Proper usage of her Kazama Power can be tricky, with mismanagement quickly putting you in a situation with too much grey health, and too few opportunities to heal yourself.

Strengths

Very well rounded character, with emphasis on her defense and CH tools
Layered string mixups are hard to defend against
Can launch from crouch at i14
Good Heat Engagers and Heat mechanic which makes Kazama Power cost less health, along with a fast, long range Heat Smash that can heal her grey health

Weaknesses

No i15 standing launcher
Can end up spending too much health to either make a strong fast punish with uf+1 or FC df+1, or make df+2 and f+2 safe
Unrewarding lows

Key techniques

Mashing

importance

★★★★★

value

★★★★★

dexterity

★☆☆☆☆

rhythm

★★☆☆☆

Blocking

importance

☆☆☆☆☆

value

☆☆☆☆☆

dexterity

★★★★★

rhythm

★★★★★

External links

The DEFINITIVE Jun Kazama Guide For Tekken 8 by Fergus2k8 by Fergus2k8
Jun Kazama Character Guide, part 1 - Moves and Playstyle by mastermind6000 by mastermind6000
Jun Kazama Combo Guide | TEKKEN 8 by RyzingSol

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-* '''Well-Rounded''': All facets of Jun's play are excellent; whiff punishment, evasiveness, keepout, damage, and even safety are all well-above average, especially if she spends health. uf+1 and FC.df+1 stand out as excellent fast punishes in this regard.
+* Very well rounded character, with emphasis on her defense and CH tools
-* '''Strong Defense''': Jun's defense stands out above the rest, being able to interrupt quickly with her counter-hit tools, parry with either her reversal or GEN stance (which uniquely parries both lows and throws), and being highly evasive with various crushing options.
+* Layered string mixups are hard to defend against
-* '''Tricky''': Almost all of her strings have layered mixups that can counter various defensive measures (catching high duckers with a mid, going into either GEN or MIA, covering sidesteps with a different extension, etc.), making it nearly impossible to solidly defend against her.
+* Can launch from crouch at i14
-* '''Strong in Heat''': Jun has a great set of Heat Engagers, and she arguably benefits the most from entering Heat state, as all of her pillar attacks will heal her gray health instead of giving her gray health. She also has one of the fastest and farthest reaching Heat Smashes in the game (which also heals her gray health), and an enhanced low Heat Smash out of her GEN stance.
+* Good Heat Engagers and Heat mechanic which makes Kazama Power cost less health, along with a fast, long range Heat Smash that can heal her grey health
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-* '''Standing Punishment''': She cannot launch from standing at i15, though she still gets a decent mini-combo (and i14 launch from crouching makes up for it anyway).
+* No i15 standing launcher
+* Can end up spending too much health to either make a strong fast punish with uf+1 or FC df+1, or make df+2 and f+2 safe
+* Unrewarding lows
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