10 Hit Combo 1 is a combo used by both Kings and Armor King since Tekken.
Description[]
10 Hit Combo 1 is comprised of six individual moves chained together: Palm Attack to Uppercut (or One Two Uppercut when playing as King I or Armor King), Elbow Sting, Smashing Hook, three Stagger Kicks, a left uppercut, and King's u/f+3 jumping roundhouse kick. The final kick is almost always a juggle due to the previous hit launching the opponent; the kick will cause knockdown on hit if the preceding uppercut is blocked or whiffs.
Starting the combo with f+1 will deal slightly more damage. The combo can also be started with f+2 in place of 1,2, resulting in a 9 hit combo which deals slightly less damage.
In the original Tekken, the third Stagger Kick caused hit stun just like the original move, however the hit stun was changed to the first and second Stagger Kicks in Tekken 2, and only the first Stagger Kick from Tekken 3 onwards.
As of Tekken 3, if the uppercut following the Palm Attack hits a side-on or back-turned opponent, it will cause a weak flip-over launch and the rest of the combo will whiff. The first Stagger Kick will also cause a sweep fall if it hits a side-on or back-turned opponent.
Trivia[]
Despite the second last hit being a launcher, the recovery from the uppercut (without the following kick or Elbow Drop) is too slow to be useful as a juggle starter. In Tekken 2, it is possible to perform three Stagger Kicks, or a Stagger Kick Spinning Uppercut and a single Stagger Kick, after the uppercut, resulting in a 12 hit combo. In later games however, the opponent can simply tech roll before the Stagger Kicks can connect.
In Tekken 5, King's 10 Hit Combo can be used as an AI breaker by simply spamming the combo until the first Stagger Kick; the CPU will block the punch strings and then attempt to counter the first Stagger Kick but get hit instead, causing them to be stunned by the kick. Due to the slow recovery however, King cannot gain anything from this aside from restarting the combo while the CPU once again blocks until the same Stagger Kick. This trick can be used as an easy way to defeat Jinpachi in Story Mode as well as to level up King to Tekken Lord rank in Arcade Battle mode.