Hwoarang

Hwoarang is a character from the Tekken franchise.

Hwoarang is the Taekwondo student of Baek Doo San, and entered the third Tournament to get revenge on Ogre for "killing" his master. He has also become Jin Kazama's rival after the two fought to a draw in one of Hwoarang's street matches.

Appearance
Hwoarang is a Korean fighter known for his distinctly orange dyed hair.

Hwoarang's biker outfit consists of his Tekken 6 vest with the Tekken 5 colour scheme and his Tekken 6 blue jeans, with his chaps being colored green, like his vest. He maintains his two brown leather straps tied to his left foot and his red flame-like designs from Tekken 6. However, his fingerless gloves and steel-capped cowboy boots are light brown.

Personality
Hwoarang is a hot-headed, impulsive person who enjoys fighting. He is sometimes arrogant and brash as he likes to boast about his skills and strength. He still holds his focus on his opponents to not lose himself in his pride. He is very rebellious and does not like to obey orders, but this changes in regard to his master, Baek, whom he dearly respects. Hwoarang tends to hold a grudge towards his enemies, and he has a strong sense of determination to fight his rivals, especially Jin Kazama.

Abilities
Despite having a flashy and agile moveset, Hwoarang’s speed is quite average. He makes it up with a powerful set of kicks, rivaled only by Baek in terms of damage and range. His kicks are also relatively safe to perform punishment-wise, the only major drawback being their vulnerability to counters.

His punches are best used as quick pokes or something to keep the opponent mid-air during juggles. The raw damage of Hwoarang’s punches is minimal and they should be only used with good strategic planning.

Hwoarang is one of the most complex characters in the series due to his multiple stance transitions and massive movelist, making him not very beginner-friendly. Hwoarang specializes in a very aggressive playing style and many of his moves leave him in an advantageous state, even on block. Having poor defensive capabilities, he is best-suited in applying constant pressure to the opponent.

Trivia

 * He bears the nickname, Blood Talon, and the pseudonym 'BoB' (not to be confused with Robert Richards, the character introduced in Tekken 6, who is more commonly called Bob), allegedly because western gamers have difficulty in writing his name correctly. Another theory is that it is derived from the pre-release Tekken 3 art by Namco where he was seen on a motorcycle, but without any name given, he became known simply as Boy on Bike.
 * Hwoarang's name means 'Flower Boy,' In chinese, It is spelt (flower/hwa) and (Boy/Rang)
 * He (along with Jin and Steve) is currently the youngest human male character in the series.
 * Hwoarang can be seen practicing Hwarang-Tul of I.T.F. Taekwondo in Tekken 3 's demonstration video[4], and many of his win animations in the series are taken from various Tul (Korean for Kata) from the I.T.F. Taekwondo style.
 * Hwoarang's movements are motion captured. The actor is Hwang Su Il, a Taekwondo I.T.F. black belt of Japan.
 * A lot of fans, especially those of European and American origin have trouble pronouncing Hwoarang's name; canonically, it is pronounced "Hwa-rang", common mispronunciations include "Whore-ang" and "How-rang". Somehow, his name ended up consistently mispronounced as the latter in Street Fighter x Tekken.
 * Hwoarang's name may be based on the Hwarang, a group of elite male youth in Silla, an ancient Korean Kingdom.
 * Hwoarang has the most win animations in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection and Tekken 6, with a total of ten win animations each. However, one of his win animations would only show up after defeating Jinpachi Mishimain Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, which is (obviously) not the case in Tekken 6.
 * Hwoarang is the only person to win an official tournament match against Jin Kazama, thus make him one of the most "powerful" fighters in the series.
 * So far, all his prologues and epilogues involve Jin Kazama. In Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, Hwoarang's endings involve Devil Jin.
 * Yun-Seong from the Soul Calibur series has some of Hwoarang's kicking moves.