EVO 2013 champion Kun "Xian" Ho defeated reigning 2014 Capcom Cup title holder and arguably best Street Fighter 4 player in the world Yusuke Momochi to take home the first 2015 Capcom Pro Tour event.

Razer Kun's victory over Evil Geniuses' Momochi at Final Round 18 is what the Singaporean hopeful considers his first major breakthrough since the EVO title run.

"It feels really great to win a major again", Kun told The Score eSports. "It's been quite some time since I won, so I am exceptionally happy about it.

Ever since last year's Capcom Cup, I feel really determined to win tournaments again this year. My mental state at this point of time I would say is almost at the same level as when I won EVO 2013. I used to think I may not be able to win anymore about 9 months ago when Ultra came out, because Gen was nerved and system delay wake up affected Gen a lot. However, I have been making an effort in learning many pocket characters to cover that up."

Kun was in the driver's seat to take home the Capcom Cup title with consecutive wins over EVO champions Daigo Umehara (2009/2010), Lee "Infiltration" Sun Woo (2012), and Olivier "Luffy" Hay (2014). That is until Momochi reset the bracket in a match that went the distance, eventually leading him to the win. Kun's redemption at Final Round, including a dominating performance in the winners finals, makes it that much sweeter.

"Momochi is now like the guy to beat as he has been beasting in the last few majors," he said. "I work very hard this time and I am happy my results paid off. I think because I lost to him 2 times in a row in tournaments, and I got more chances to play against him, my salt was really high when he took my Capcom title last year."

Kun admits he had to make some adjustments.

"I actually worked very hard in using Poison against him, but it didn't work out the last 2 times as he has a bit too much experience in that matchup. So this time I worked hard on the Gen vs Ken matchup, focusing on his play style by watching all of his videos.

In fact he does release an explanation for all the matches he played in Capcom Cup and explains all of them, but until this day, he hasn't released the one that he fought against me haha."

The consensus from Kun is that Momochi will continue to be the number one target for the rest of the players. He believes that just as his opponents studied Gen after his EVO victory, work needs to be done to analyze Momochi's powerhouse Ken.

"He is still really consistent, placing first and second at all the majors, I think it will be a while until people really start studying the Ken matchup.

I think people have been using Ken wrongly. I don't have many Ken's in my country so I don't have a lot of experience, but it's the way Momochi maximizes Ken's potential that makes it look really scary."

Final Round 18 is the first event on the revamped Capcom Pro Tour, featuring $500,000 in prize money throughout 2015 in partnership between Sony and Capcom. Kun's $7,000 first place check for winning this weekend may seem small compared to the prize pools seen in other eSports titles, but its significance is large not just for Kun, but for the Street Fighter community as a whole.

"This huge increase of prize money changed my decisions in real life. Because of this year's prize money I kind of quit my job (shop) and decided to travel around and play, so I am really serious this year.

"If it wasn't this way, I am very sure I would stay back in Singapore and travel to only a few events. The increase in prize money is what motivates everyone too I believe. I like it that way as people all around the world can see their favorite players because top players travel everywhere. So big thanks to Capcom and Sony, without them it wouldn't be possible."