Floor Break

Emilie De Rochefort's attack on Kazuya Mishima causing a floor break in Forgotten Realm

Floor Break is a stage gimmick first introduced in Tekken 6. As its name implies, the floor beneath the player and the opponent will break after an attack that spikes the victim downwards, and the attacker will be free to continue their combo. The victim's state when they are being spiked downward will also affect the state they will be in when they land on the floor.

The floor break can also occur as a result of certain throws such as Hwoarang's Falcon Dice Kick. Due to the nature of this mechanic, a floor break will still occur if two characters spike each other on the ground at the same time. Doing this results in both being thrown into the air as they land, and both being denied a combo.

Description

In its introduction, whenever someone fell through the floor, they were always left in a Bound state. As a result, the attacker could no longer Bound their opponent assuming they had yet to use it when the Floor Break occurred.

In Tekken Revolution, this was changed to the receiving character bouncing up on the ground rather than being left in a Bound State, similar to the effect given when a Balcony Break is triggered in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and this change would persist to Tekken 7. Due to the introduction of consecutive Floor Breaks in Tekken 7, multiple Floor Breaks will not trigger in a single combo. In vanilla Tekken 7, the workaround, however, was to spike an opponent with a combo reset, such as with Shears to Spinning Edge, but this was removed in Fated Retribution. A Floor Break also cannot occur after a Balcony Break.

In Tekken 8, triggering a floor break will prevent the player from being able to use a Wall Bound.

Hard Floor Break

The Hard Floor Break is a variant of the normal Floor Break introduced in Tekken 8 and requires two hits to trigger the break instead of the normal one or by one Heat Smash which can cause a Floor Break.

List of Stages with the Floor Break

Tekken 6 / Bloodline Rebellion

• Cemetery
• Fallen Colony
• Anger of the Earth (Bloodline Rebellion)₁

_{1. Shares the same trigger as the Wall Break.}

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

• Hall of Judgement
• Strategic Space₁
• Moai Excavation (Console)

_{1. Cannot occur if Balcony Break was used}

Tekken 7 / Fated Retribution

• Forgotten Realm₁
• Cave of Enlightenment (Console)₂

<sub>1. Contains three Floor Breaks, originally only two in Beta
2. Can only be found after performing the Balcony Break.</sub>

Tekken 8

• Ortiz Farm₁
• Descent into Subconscious₂

<sub>1. Can only be found after performing the Balcony Break.
2. First floor contains a Hard Floor Break. Second Floor has a normal Floor Break</sub>

Gallery

Kazuya vs Jack, floor break in Fallen Colony.

Jin Kazama vs Asuka Kazama, during a Floor Break.

Floor Break Icon

Trivia

• During the beta for Tekken 6, a successful floor break would immediately ground the opponent as opposed to leaving them in a Bound for further follow-ups.
• In its original release, there was a glitch in Cave of Enlightenment where, if there was a trade between a move that triggered a Balcony Break, and a move that triggered Floor Break, both characters would fall past the bottom floor and would be unable to interact with each other until the end of the round. This glitch was eventually fixed in Patch 3.31.
• All attacks that trigger a Bound will also trigger the Floor Break.