KOF issues, vol.1 "JUMPING"

In any 2D fighting game, the most usual way to attack is by jumping into your opponent. You can do this by pressing UP & FORWARD together, commonly abbreviated as UP/FWD.

In KOF, the directions are reversed: to attack your opponent, press DOWN/BACK together.

Holding DWN/BCK like this is commonly called "turtling", but in KOF it's called "winning".

A typical example is of character GLAUCOMA SUCKALOTTY. If you want to attack, press and hold DWN/BCK and wait for your opponent to do something stupid. Which would be, like, anything. If your opponent jumps, you can press HP to counter. If your opponent rolls, you can just throw them.


"A weiner is me!" Glaucoma Suckalotty


In KOF, pressing UP/FWD will make your character jump straight up 90% and forward 5%. The remaining 5% is for sluggish response.

SKN programmers figured that, since there would be no way to fix the Jumping issue, they decided that there should be TWO jumps:

(1) a standard SUCKALOTTY high-jump, and

(2) a SHORT JUMP. Because this is obviously a platform game.

With the new short-jump, you can now do INFINITY CHOMBOES in a real easy way: choose KYO.

P.S. KYO is short for "I SUCK, YO!"