Akuma Currently Has the Largest Pool of Higher Ranked Players in Japan
Tekken 7 Fated Retribution has now been out for roughly 2 months and the data on how well certain players and their characters are piling in on Tekken-net to review. The most interesting piece of info I'm taking away from is the amount of high ranked Japanese players for each character. This I feel gives a good idea on not only who is succeeding well in Tekken, but which character as well. If you're not aware, Tekken 7 uses a ranking system that goes from Beginners into the Dans and from there it goes into a series of ranks organised by their color scheme. It's not a 1:1 representation but I would say, a player that got to the red ranks (Genbu, Byakko, Seiryu & Suzaku) in Tekken 7 is roughly the equivalent of a Street Fighter player getting something like Platinum rank in SFV. With all that said, here is all the data I compiled from Tekken-net.
Dan Ranks (Tekken 7.0) ≫ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%B2%A0%EA%B6%8C%EC%9D%98%20%EA%B3%84%EA%B8%89/%EC%B2%A0%EA%B6%8C%207
Tekken-net JP (Tekken 7.0) ≫ http://web.tekken-net.jp/tk7/
Tekken-net JP (Tekken 7 Fated Retribution) ≫ http://web.tekken-net.jp/tk7fr/