On December 24 2013 11:39 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: Holy shit, there are other Leonas? Awesome.
KoF13 Leona is the sexiest thing in a video game.
You're not alone in thinking that character is awesome I played her when the game came out, but switched pretty quickly (I've never kept full team for long in this game), and we have a dedicated leona player in my city as well. For a mid tier character she's relatively popular
I'm learning this game as well, playing Athena/Yuri/(claw)Iyori at the moment. Does this sound like a team that will teach me the fundamentals of KOF? Might swap Yuri for Terry or king because they seem to be a bit more straight-forward to play than Yuri.
On December 25 2013 07:09 2stra wrote: I'm learning this game as well, playing Athena/Yuri/(claw)Iyori at the moment. Does this sound like a team that will teach me the fundamentals of KOF? Might swap Yuri for Terry or king because they seem to be a bit more straight-forward to play than Yuri.
Those characters are fine to learn KoF with. If you want some more purely fundamentals based characters, ex Kyo, flame Iori, King, Kim etc are all great for that. Athena, yuri, and claw are all great for the crazy offensive aspect of KoF. Claw is just so fast with some scary damage, yuri can do crossup / divekick / grab mixups for days, and athena can be played as one of the scariest grapplers around with her invincible meterless grab into great damage if you can do the butt loop
On December 24 2013 11:39 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: Holy shit, there are other Leonas? Awesome.
KoF13 Leona is the sexiest thing in a video game.
I swear when I find the vods of the Japanese Anchor Leona who was on stream during Evo Kof13 pools....... He almost knocked out Xian for Top 8 with his Leona play.
On December 25 2013 04:46 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: Yeah, it's funny. If you ask any top player about Leona and Ash, they say 'too hard, too much work', but she seems really popular with new players
Those characters are fine to learn KoF with. If you want some more purely fundamentals based characters, ex Kyo, flame Iori, King, Kim etc are all great for that. Athena, yuri, and claw are all great for the crazy offensive aspect of KoF. Claw is just so fast with some scary damage, yuri can do crossup / divekick / grab mixups for days, and athena can be played as one of the scariest grapplers around with her invincible meterless grab into great damage if you can do the butt loop
Thanks man, I'll stick with these three for a while then. Gonna hit the training mode and practice some butt loops
I wanted to play a more rushdown oriented style this game so I'm glad the team fits the bill
On December 25 2013 08:39 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: I think the Japanese Leona player you're thinking of is Sange Tenchou.
But yeah, fuck 'too much work'. She's so worth it, her combos are the most satisfying thing, and I really like her normals set
I love and hate her normals at the same time. j.cd always feels like it should be better than it is, her overhead occasionally got me killed if I accidentally had a charge, and she doesn't have a great confirm string for HDs. She's got some hella goofy stuff though, like how she gets low for her run. She can just run clean under iori's st D, which was a put-down-the-controller-wtf-just-happened moment when I first saw it.
you can hold down charge while running too lol, if you run and then just hold down-forward. 30 frame charge time = sometimes i can anti-air with moon slash while running :D
On December 25 2013 13:22 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: which characters can get the best damage for like, 1 drive 1 meter or so?
Drunk Hwa Jai if you count that I think.
Kinda depends on how much work you're willing to put in / whether you're in the corner or not. Midscreen, I want to say yuri, karate, maybe maxima have really high one bar damage. In the corner a lot of people can do 40% if not a bit more, including some who get weak damage midscreen like Mai.
For 1 bar + 1 drive, Hwa Jai and Takuma both come to mind for some nasty corner stuff. Drunk Hwa can do absurd damage with 1 bar & drive both midscreen & corner. Chin can do 35-45% off pretty much anything anywhere for 1 bar 1 drive. Takuma is crazy though, his corner to corner HD does 89% and you don't even need a full bar at the start.
Then there are the weird outliers like the beni / flame iori / yuri infinite / semi infinites, I don't really count those though
On December 25 2013 17:39 Demoninja wrote: Regular Hwa deals stupid damage as well in the corner. hit confirm into slide, qcf+AC tk dp+B dp+D (DC) qcb+D qcb+D tk dp+B qcf+A into whatever ender.
Yeah, been messing with Hwa, but I wasn't sure how to get more damage out of him when he's sober, so this is a great help! thanks man
Aha glad I still know some things about this game. Maybe I should read up on it again but right now PC version is dead and the game is all but dead in NorCal.
On December 30 2013 05:32 Demoninja wrote: Aha glad I still know some things about this game. Maybe I should read up on it again but right now PC version is dead and the game is all but dead in NorCal.
lol ??
PC version isn't dead, I run into a lot of good (like, ppl who go to majors) players on it.
On December 30 2013 05:32 Demoninja wrote: Aha glad I still know some things about this game. Maybe I should read up on it again but right now PC version is dead and the game is all but dead in NorCal.
lol ??
PC version isn't dead, I run into a lot of good (like, ppl who go to majors) players on it.
I don't know how you're running into all these people. Once the first two weeks of KOF 13 passed I have not found a single match. I tried again and I did find a match but after 20 minutes. Around what time do you usually play?
I netplay at kinda random times of day tbh, but I just pop open training mode instead of manually searching for a match so I'm never bothered if 5 or so minutes go by without me getting a match. for real though, last few times I did random netplay I ran into Ziwa and James Jr (midwest player who got 2nd to Mario at frosty faustings this past weekend and top 8 at FR etc) for long sets. I've run into a couple people who were kind assy just mashing on grapplers online and praying, but that's the exception and not the rule in my experience.
EPT
I played her when the game came out, but switched pretty quickly (I've never kept full team for long in this game), and we have a dedicated leona player in my city as well. For a mid tier character she's relatively popular
