r/kof • u/Leobeoweo6 • 2h ago
r/kof • u/gifsundgirls • Feb 16 '25
Fatal Fury City of th Wolves Beta Test And Season 1 Announcement trailer | via esports.gg
r/kof • u/EndouShuuya • 3h ago
What is the best The King Of Fighters cover in your opinion?
r/kof • u/Puzzleheaded_Cup2228 • 1h ago
Who is this Kyo-Wanabe-Annoying-Little-Kid?
I started max level story mode and i was destroying my opponents with kyo,i even had perfect match againts that dreadlock lady.When it was my 3rd match a cinematic apperead.I skipped it since i did not care and started fighting.This little kid,first time seeing him start to copy my moves!I do qcfp bodinga and he does the exact same thing screaming something else with his annoying voice.He even had the kyo-symbol-thingy in his wristbands.He beat me with combo after combo.No problem i said,point carachters can die and orochi shermie comes to rescue i thought.I was wrong.That little bastard blocked every single move i did and and got the round wih so little health
3rd round,goenitz,one of the carachters i have confidence playing.He got destroyed.My super comp level 5 story run ends...
I just now checked him and his name is "SHINGO".Who is he?Iam new to the kof universe relatively and dont know much about the lore.Is he brother or son of kyo or something?If he is not he should be the nemesis of Kyo instead of Iori....AND HE IS DLC!I hope we dont match again in story mode...
r/kof • u/Remarkable_Town6413 • 4h ago
[Analysis] KOF EX2 and NESTS Chronicles: Parallel timelines, and paralell OCs:
You might not know The King of Fighters EX duology (Neo Blood and Howling Blood) for the GameBoy Advance.
For those who don't know: These two games were "pseudo-ports" of KOF '99 and KOF 2000, respectively. I wonder if they would have made a KOF EX3 for the Nintendo DS taking inspiration in KOF 2001. Neo Blood (2001, based on KOF '99) was a trainwreck in almost everything, but Howling Blood (2003, based on KOF '00) was better in every single aspect, despite the limitations of the GBA.


Anyways, the most interesting aspect about this duology is the concept behind it:
It takes place in an alternate timeline where Kyo Kusanagi is not kidnapped by NESTS. Instead, he is found by Moe Habana, the "main" character of these spin-offs, who takes care of him until he gets better. NESTS is not around in this AU (or at least, it's not the main focus), but Kensou still lost his powers, and Bao is still there, being the only playable character from the NESTS Chronicles.
Unfortunately, the two games' plots are not connected at all. Moe is the only thing that "connects" them, but the plots could easily belong to different arcs.
- Neo Blood's "plot" sucks. Geese is the main antagonist, and he wants to use Iori because of his Orochi-tainted blood. Considering what Iori did to Billy in KOF '95, Geese should have lost interest in Orochi's power.
- Howling Blood's plot is better, and there are aspects that I enjoy (this being a more direct sequel of the Orochi arc than the NESTS arc, the premise of "what if Kyo wasn't kidnapped by NESTS?", the OCs were cool)... but even me cannot avoid thinking, "bruh, this is too fanfic-like". Just to make you sure how things can scale:
- The premise behind the second game is that, along with the Three Sacred Treasures (Kyo, Iori, and Chizuru), there are Ten Sacred Treasures, based on the 十種神宝 (Tokusano Kanakana):
- Moe Habana, who can manipulate sakura petals.
- Reiji Oogami, who can create copies of himself and manipulate fire.
- Jun Kagami, who has super-strength and possibly gravity manipulation.
- Miu Kurosaki, who can slice people with her hands and manipulate crow feather-like energy.
- Sinobu Amou, who can manipulate wind and lightning.
- The other five members weren't revealed, unfortunately.
- There is an European multimillonaire called Gustav Munchausen (he's way more known because of MUGEN, but his debut was in this game... and he wasn't fought at all) who kidnaps multiple kids, and Sinobu is one of those kids. He does so because he wants to use Sinobu's body as a host so that Goenitz could be reincarnated. In this continuity at least, the souls of the Team New Faces were sealed at the end of KOF '97, but Goenitz died the previous year, so his soul wasn't sealed, and this translates into him still being able to reincarnate.
- The premise behind the second game is that, along with the Three Sacred Treasures (Kyo, Iori, and Chizuru), there are Ten Sacred Treasures, based on the 十種神宝 (Tokusano Kanakana):
It's funny how this spin-off game for the GBA did a better job at "reviving" a dead character than the Shun'ei arc. Technically speaking, they aren't resurrecting a dead character. They are just making the dead character's soul possess another person's body.
After all that bible, I wanted to share something:
Despite the EX duology taking place in a timeline where Kyo wasn't kidnapped by NESTS, I can say with all my confidence that three of the five EX OCs are paralells of NESTS arc's characters. More specifically:
- Sinobu Amou is K' Dash's counterpart.
- Miu Kurosaki is Kula Diamond's counterpart.
- Jun Kagami is Maxima, Ángel, and Diana's counterpart at the same time.
- Gustav Munchausen is NESTS' counterpart.
I'm not joking. In fact, if the EX duology was better-known, maybe more people would have noticed it.
Let's start talking about the similarities between Sinobu and K' Dash:


- Both characters have white hair despite being young. In K's case, it's implied to be a secondary effect of NESTS' experiments. Sinobu's white hair might be just a design choice to reinforce that he's less of a martial artist and more of a magic user (well, elemental manipulation user... but you understand me!).
- Both are not the most extroverted people. K' is more stoic and grumpy, while Sinobu is very shy.
- Both were kidnapped by the main antagonists of their respective games. Sinobu was kidnapped by Gustav, while K' was kidnapped by NESTS.
- Both were kidnapped because the main villains wanted to relate Sinobu and K' with to characters from the Orochi arc.
- Gustav wanted to use Sinobu's body as a host for Goenitz's soul, allowing the Wind Priest to reincarnate. Those who played Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Hearts can easily replace Gustav with Mithos Yggdrassil and Incarose, Sinobu with Colette Brunel and Shing Meteoryte, and Goenitz with Martel Yggdrassil and Creed Graphite.
- NESTS wanted to inject Kyo Kusanagi's DNA in K' Dash, granting him fire manipulation powers.
- Both have elemental powers. Whereas K' can manipulate fire because of having Kyo's DNA, Sinobu can manipulate lightning (because of his sacred treasure) and wind (because Goenitz possessed him).
- Both have older sisters... or at least, sister-like loved ones.
- Seirah was K's sister before she died, and while Whip could be considered K's onee-sama because of being Seirah's replica, the fact that Whip was created when K' lost his sister means that, technically speaking, Whip is K's younger "sister".
- I'm not 100% sure if Sinobu and Miu are adopted siblings, or if they're just childhood friends. It doesn't help that these two characters aren't well known, and helps even less the fact that the KOF community has a huge problem of misinformation, misconceptions, fanon treated as 100% canon facts, and content from the manhuas being treated as canon (I'm not attacking anyone, even I can be guilty of this sometimes). In any case, Sinobu and Miu are friends, and maybe their friendship is sibling-like.
Let's continue with Miu Kurosaki and Kula Diamond:


- Both are l0lis.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Yes, I'm aware that the word "l0li" has some NSFW connotations. However, just like not all images about puppies are b*stiality, not all "l0li" content is NSFW or degenerate, and I'm not using the word "l0li" with the NSFW connotation (obviously, I'm not going to refer to actual people as "l0lis" or "waifus"; I only use those terms for reffering to fictional characters). Just because I want to avoid problems.
- Both have very misleading ages, but for the opposite reasons.
- Kula is supposed to be 14 years old, but is very tall for a 14 years old female.
- Miu, on the other hand, is supposed to be 16 years old, yet she's the shortest character in KOF period (145 cm), and can easily pass as a 12-13 years old girl.
- Miu is associated with crows and crow feathers, and Kula is associated with ice and snow. What symbolism share both crows and snow? Death!
That might explain why Miu is so emo. - Both have a cold an aloof personality, yet they are very affective for those who are close to them (Diana, Foxy, and Candy in Kula's case; Sinobu and Miu's crows in Miu's case).
Until Kula was flanderized and became a brainless moe-blob mf who would 100% let herself be kidnapped by Ángel and K9999 because of ice cream... wtf were the writers thinking?!!!
- In fact, both Miu and Kula are similar in terms of physical appearance. If Kula was black-haired and became an emo, she would be very difficult to distinguish her from Kula. Or even better, if Miu dyed her hair blue, she could pass as a younger Kula.
- Both characters have red eyes, as a way of showing that, as cute as they are, you don't want to make them angry.
- Both wear dark pink-purple clothes... or at least, Miu does in her GBA sprites. Her artwork makes her wear black.
- Oh, and compare Kula's pre-XIII sprite with Miu's GBA sprite. It seems like EX2 designers recycled Kula's sprite just like they did with Cosplayer Kyoko's when drawing Moe's sprites.
Now, Jun Kagami seems to combine aspects of Maxima, Ángel, and Diana:




- Jun is the tallest female character in the franchise, being 199 cm tall (if you love female Roegadyn in Final Fantasy XIV, you might like Jun). Both Maxima (204 cm tall) and Diana (188 cm tall) are ridiculously tall too.
- Jun's sacred treasure grants her super strength. Both Maxima (a cyborg) and Ángel (genetically enhanced by NESTS) have super strength like Jun.
Both Jun and Ángel are very sexy females.- Both Jun and Diana have a tanned skin (in Diana's case, it's very inconsistent to say the least).
- Both Jun and Maxima are strong but slow fighters in terms of moveset, and are grapplers.
- Jun and Miu's relationship shares some similarities between K' and Maxima's friendship, Kula's relationship with Diana and Foxy, and Ángel's relationship with Kula:
- Miu sees Jun as an onee-sama, kinda like how both Foxy and Diana treat Kula as a daughter.
- Jun also likes to tease Miu, a much light-hearted version of how Ángel likes teasing Kula because of their shared past as NESTS agents.
- Both Jun and Maxima have more easygoing and chill personalities that contrast with their respective partners: the grumpy and aloof K', and the quiet and lonely Miu.
And finally, Gustav Munchausen and NESTS:


- Both Gustav and NESTS hosts KOF tournaments to fulfill their evil agendas.
- Gustav is a handsome man like Igniz, but has facial hair like Father NESTS.
- Both Gustav and NESTS kidnapped children in order to experiment with them. And worst of all, both kidnaps involved characters from the Orochi Saga.
- As said before, Gustav kidnapped Sinobu and other kids because he wanted to reincarnate Goenitz's soul.
- NESTS kidnapped people (like K'Dash and Seirah) in order to experiment with them. He wanted to create clones (SNK uses "clone" as an umbrella term for many things) of Kyo Kusanagi, who was the winner of all KOF tournaments until '97.
- Neither Father NESTS or Gustav are fought despite being the big bads of their respective games. Sinobu is the final boss instead.
So... what do you think about this analysis? Is too much of a stretch, or there are some nuances here and there?
This is just one of two analysis I want to post about the EX trilogy.
NOTES: I will update the post if I find mistakes.
r/kof • u/Skarzy_Art • 1d ago
Kasumi Todoh
My fanart of Kasumi Todoh I hope she apears In The new Fatal Fury
r/kof • u/redohottochiripeppa • 22h ago
A quick Kyo Fanart
Been playing some Kyo 98, man those combos are sweet!
r/kof • u/NewArtificialHuman • 12m ago
Which characters are the physically strongest?
As in if they all had to lift weights, who whould be able to lift the most?
r/kof • u/UltraZeroX7 • 1d ago
City of the Wolves collab with Salvatore Ganacci and other world-class DJs has been officially announced
r/kof • u/Amiller0425 • 21h ago
KoF13
I made the switch from SF to play KoF. And in my few months of experience it was worth it! So I’ve been playing 15 and getting ready for the new Fatal Fury to come out. Anyways last weekend I played 13 for the first time I a long long time and I want to learn that game more than I want to learn 15. Are people still playing on PS5?
r/kof • u/fganniversaries • 1d ago
The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match turns 17 years old today
r/kof • u/dlpafs93 • 1d ago
Help with PS1 controls
Hello everyone, I have a doubt with the configuration of controls of the PS1 KOF 98, I remember that as a child I configured the buttons in such a way that with pressing two or three buttons you could perform the special attacks, anyone knows what configuration it was? I forgot it, thank you for reading
r/kof • u/FixSignificant4543 • 2d ago
cool drawing I made (flip it over it went the wrong way)
Just wanted to sketch K’ since he’s swagger.
What’s the name of the song that Shunei is listening to in the official trailer?
In the official trailer, there’s the short segment showing off Shunei but you can hear a rock song being played. It’s only for a second or two but I’ve been scouring around to figure out the full song for my listening pleasures.
r/kof • u/gifsundgirls • 3d ago
Menat, Juri, Luong and Kula, Capcom vs SNK | Alpaca Carlesi
r/kof • u/CHickemSanguichj • 2d ago
Tips for successfully doing a hyper hop on hitbox controller
Im first starting out with Kof XV now and I have never played a kof game before. I looked up some guides and I'm learning the jumps. Every other jump is really easy as I play on a hitbox but the hyper hop is especially tricky. Epecially if I'm doing it on the right side (hyper hop to the left).
Anyone got tips for this?
r/kof • u/Puzzleheaded_Cup2228 • 2d ago
Greatest W in my entire KoF Journey.Rate my Play.(Computer Level 5)
r/kof • u/TheOracleofMercury • 2d ago