The world champion of the popular card battle "TEPPEN" has been chosen! The editorial team also secretly participated in the tournament behind the

On Saturday, December 21, 2019, TEPPEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019, a tournament to determine the world's strongest player of TEPPEN, a card game for smartphones jointly developed by Gungho and Capcom, was held at the Tokyo International Forum.

The total prize money is 50 million yen! Unprecedented scale for a game that has only been in service for a short time!

TEPPEN" is a smartphone application that began service in August 2019 and is a digital card game that brings together all of Capcom's popular characters. The main feature of the game, which is unique as a card game, is its system, which is officially called "Ultimate Card Battle." Although it is a card game, the system is basically real-time instead of turn-based, which makes the intense battle tactics appealing.

In addition to the cards in the deck, players select a "hero" and a special move called a "hero art" from among four attributes. In addition to the normal deck, these two elements also require detailed countermeasures and reading each other, making this a completely new type of card game with tower defense and fighting game elements added to the mix.

The total prize money for the tournament is 50 million yen! In addition to the 30 million yen prize money, the winner received a Nissan "Skyline GT [V6 TURBO]" as a complimentary gift, making this a tournament of an unprecedented scale for a game that has been in service for less than half a year.

An event in which players could participate was also held on the day of the event! The prize money was a whopping 100,000 yen!

Kaneko was in high spirits, having downloaded the special prize for visitors! How far will he go?

The "TEPPEN TOKYO CUP 2019" was also held at the venue, where the winner could win 100,000 yen in prize money. Kaneko, the editor of Akiba Research Institute, was perhaps blinded by the prize money, but he recklessly announced his participation in this tournament.

The full-scale training period was about three weeks. According to him, he is an intermediate level player, but I wonder how he is doing. The character he uses is Morrigan, and his hero art is "Temptation," which requires 23 points to use, but it has the effect of stopping all enemy units on the field for 13 seconds, and it can also be used to win a single victory if a unit card on the field or an action card in hand is used. Depending on the unit cards in the player's hand and the action cards in the player's hand, it is a powerful tool that can be used for a one-shot victory. The 16 professional gamers who were aiming to win the tournament were aware of its performance, and many of them had chosen it as one of their three decks for the tournament.

Here are the decks they brought

Kaneko had such a "super-powerful" deck, but his first match was against Ryu, whose Hero Art is Vacuum Hadoken, which is one of Temptation Morrigan's weak points.

This vacuum Ryu is the most aggressive of all the hero arts, and has a wide variety of effects that can damage the opponent's heroes. Essentially, Temptation Morigan must withstand the opponent's attacks until Temptation builds up by using Action Cards and other means to block or remove them. In fighting game style, it is necessary to understand the opponent's performance against the character, but due to the difference in skill, the opponent's firepower was pushed aside while the player was struggling.

When he finally accumulated enough AP to activate Temptation, he had no unit cards on his field and could not attack, so he could only watch the time pass by. In the end, he lost the first round with nothing to show for it. As for the cause of his defeat, he said, "I had poor character compatibility and a poor card draw," but in fact, in TEPPEN, the more "skilled" a player becomes, the more likely he is to consider luck a minor factor. I think there was a difference that even if there was luck, it would not matter.

In the end, TEPPEN suffered a perfect loss, not inflicting a single damage on the opponent.

In the final match for the first champion, a mirror match of Temptation Morrigan occurred.

In addition, Temptation Morrigan was also used by Taiwan's Last Guardian and Japan's tarakoman, who fought for the first world champion in the finals.

The first round was a mirror match with the same Morrigan character. In a battle of various effects, advanced reading and a damage race ensued, with players growing a unit card called "Ibuki" to inflict heavy damage on each other. In the end, the Taiwan's most backward guardian won the round first, and the audience was thrilled. Kaneko was astonished, saying, "I didn't know there was such a different way to attack than the one I have," and "I don't know what he is doing, it's too advanced.

In the second round, the Daimon Rearmost Guardian player using Dante skillfully used the Hero Arts "Devil Trigger" and Action Cards to thoroughly block the Temptation Morrigan attacker used by tarakoman, winning the first championship.

In addition, it was announced at the event that the 2020 World Championship will be held as soon as possible. In addition, campaigns such as "CORE" pack tickets will be given to the first 10 billion players" and "Online tournament where secret cards can be obtained" were introduced. The new hero "Gouki" and the new card pack "The Force Seekers", which will be released on January 7, 2020, were also unveiled.

TEPPEN World Tournament