Mortal Kombat is an insult to Kung Fu.

O M Elder Gods XD

i swear the first time i saw it it was green but when clicking this timestamp it's now red MK is cursed

Im just glad I didn't Imagine it.

@@yikes6758 not the same frames, but yeah I saw the same thing too.

It makes sense when you look at hit hurtbox. The devs wanted you to be able to hit his hand.

I prefer his 2D for how Leo is so adamant on reaching the opponent that he throws his entire body on the floor to spread his legs forward, all the while T-posing on you. It manages to look funny and painful both at the same time.

Ah yes, the James Brown.

50% low kick. 50% praising christ.

I thought he was getting in his morning stretches. Gotta work those Hamies. His 2D though, that shit is actually hysterical.

Even going frame by frame, I still don´t know Jack-O low kick works and which one is her right foot, yet, it looks so natural during game.

Which just shows how well made it is. In the words of Sakurai, whoever designed this must be a genius

Probably my favourite down kick ever

@@ikagura So of course GGStrive Leo made his own “FALL NOW, them me!” XD

My favorite low kick of all time if I’m being honest

@@MrTheil If you're being honest? I mean I think you are.

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I was shocked to hear that that is a low kick. I thought it was like a mid, or a special mid

Honestly, it would probably look way better if Kitana planted her right arm and leaned back for her little leg flick.

@@zegreenemachine8160 agreed

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Don't forget about Terminator kick which is also a anti air lol.

MK hitboxes are weird as shit.

Wtf she's crouching? How does it have anti air.

To be fair ryu sweep and sol 2d can be used as anti-air

Yeah for real

The funny thing is that its only brought to attention when it HEAVILY fails. It cant just be bad, it has to be so comically bad that it becomes a meme

Anthony Pettis' Ninja Kick I suppose you could explain it as Chun-Li is actively using her ki to increase the speed and power of her kicks when she does lightning legs, while with her normals she's just punching and kicking...normally. As for the fact that just running into active frames hurts, I mean, have you ever played any of those physics based "fighters" out there? They're pretty awful...

only thing i can come up with is the superman punch from kickboxing, but i have no clue otherwise lol

Gazelle punch is kinda that

Tbh the only viable ones are flying elbows and knees, we thai in this shit

I've always been weirded out by Sakura's flying double hammer fist, an aerial move that combos into itself a couple times. It's like, she raises her fist over her head, then throws them down towards her opponent. Sure. The force of this attack launches her upwards. I don't think you can generate much force with an attack like that but okay. Her opponent also flies into the air after her. What. She does this twice more as they go higher and higher until the last one spikes her opponent to the ground. But... physics? Sakura says, "Fuck your physics."

I think the worst example I remember from the small time I played MK11 was Shao Khan's stomp. (forward 3 > forward 4 I think) It looks SO much like an overhead because of the way he raises his leg, but no it's a low. People at low level get tripped up by him often because of how that animation looks.

I freaking hate the MK series for various reasons, but I'm playing it because a friend wants to unlock the Kombat League skins, and let me tell you, those tricky animations make my blood boil. Even when I block correctly it pisses me off, because it doesn't look right.

the main reason i can't even touch MK is due to the animations

@@leithaziz2716 I believe MK11 also has Kotal give a full-on sweep with his leg that isn't a sweep gameplay-wise, because the ACTUAL sweep is... a weapon attack.

@@the4thblacksnake I tried because of a friend and can't do shit against some attacks because they don't look like overheads at all, meanwhile strive and fighterz have some god tier animation and I can see what I'm against even if I know jack shit about the characters

Don't forget Baiken tripping on her chest in Xrd either.

Yeah, love her or hate her, you gotta admit that they commit to the theme hard

Whether or not she fits in the Tekken universe is debatable, but Lucky Chloe's design and movement are both top tier. (Also, imo if you're going to have fighting bears, a kangaroo, a raptor, and Negan, I think we can give a cute, annoying idol a pass.)

@@TakaComics She does fit in Tekken, more so than other Tekken 7 newcomers that are just bland with basically no backstory to them at all. Josie, Katarina and Shaheen are honestly so generic that sometimes I even forget they are in the roster. At least Lucky brings some originality and new flavor to the game.

@@TakaComics her whole personality is being annoying, it's great

I believe that why heights logic is reworked in 3D fighting games and it's more logical. In 2D fighting games you have 4 heights of attack: Low blocking protects against low and mid atacks. But does not protect against overheads. High blocking protects againts high and mid attacks. But does not protect against lows. Also, high attacks miss crouchers. So, low blocking is more effective, especially considering the fact that overheads on the ground are rare and slow. So, crouching stance is extremely effective in 2D fighting games. In 3D fighting games it was reworked. Maybe because to make fighting more realistic. Maybe with no reason. Here we have 3 heights: Low blocking protects against low attacks only. But does not protect against mid attacks. High blocking protects against high and mid attacks. But does not protect against low attacks. Yes, high attacks miss crouchers, but mids are faster than overheads from 2D fighting games, lows are slow. That made high blocking preferable and fighting more natural.

What's also kind of weird when you think about it is that in most fighting games, low blocks usually also include the character crouching to block low kicks. In real life fighting, you usually use your leg to block any kicks to the low area or if using a melee weapon you simply drop the point of your weapon downward to block a strike to the leg; neither defense would involve squatting down into a crouch. It's actually pretty unsafe to crouch and try to block a low kick with your hands since doing so will put your head dangerously close to the kick and it might blow through your guard. Probably the reason why it's like that in fighting games is to role compress a crouch to duck high attacks and block low into one move, but you gotta wonder what a fighting game would be like if it was more realistic and low blocks didn't involve forcing your character into a crouch and the crouch move was instead a stance or special movement that didn't block lows.

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Cirno's "Low" Kick has the shortest range BUT it's also the fastest move in the game.

Same with Voldo

Ok but the best part is that blitztank isn't even the funniest thing in his own game

@@PakuTheMagnificent not too familiar with his home game, so please tell me: what out weirds the giant skull-faced tank?

Kansen Drift Astral Finish

what the fuck IS that thing, anyway?

Potemkin's kicks are legendary. Both his 2K and 5K make him look like he's dabbing. I tend to see Pot players disrespecting the opponent at the end of the match by kicking them when they're down.

Geese Crouching 4/heavy kick is amazing like I could see someone doing it to drop an enemy on their ass so you can grapple them like Geese does.

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nah there are way more mix-ups than any fighting game. like even just a punch can go three basic ways, it can be a hook, a cross or a straight. hook has shortest range, but a wider hit box and power, also puts your arm in front of you so you keep your guard up. goes through attempts to block a cross. cross is a bit faster than a hook and also maintains your guard by placing the arm between you and your opponent. goes through attempts to block a hook or a straight. straight is fast and powerful, longer range but leaves you wide open, beats cross block. then you have to add that each of these can come from the left or the right so we're at six already, add that each of these can be aimed at the head or the mid section and we've reached twelve. add in back fist, hammer fist and upper cuts, which can also come left or right we've hit eighteen. kicks also have multiple mix-ups. kicks also have three basic ways to go. there is the front kick, the push kick, hook kick and the side kick. front kick is the fastest and the weakest generally only aimed low. push kick can be aimed low or mid (rarely aimed high), high power but really bad if you miss side kicks can be aimed low, mid or high and have the added bonus that you can easily faint a side kick, tuck the leg back in and do a push it instead. also side kicks can go left or right hook kicks are generally aimed low or mid and can also go left or right. that's over twenty kick mix-ups if my maths are correct, which they might not be, but you get the idea, then add in elbow strikes, knee strikes, headbutts and shoulder blocks and it just gets out of hand.

Damn, hearing this makes me wish we got Ohma as a SFV guest character.

@@bloodwingdragon6486 Iria ser muito melhor do que o Luke , sem sombra de dúvidas ( Sorry , my english is bad )

@@edersouzamendes8695 No worries man :), thanks for agreeing with me. At the very least, Luke does look fun to play. Here's hoping we get a final random Ohma character release by the end of the year.

MK has NEVER been about low attacks mattering except the infamous uppercuts. I've *always* found every crouching kick to be unanimously worthless and only ever used the b~LK footsweeps - and they're the only universal that requires a low block anyhow! The MK low kicks have NEVER fit in the game meta whatsoever.

That combo name XD

Yeah, it's funny because in 2D fighters most crouches are practically sitting down on the ground, which already makes them completely impractical. But just crouching very slightly (and realistically) wouldn't look different enough. Fighting game characters can make a lot of stuff look right just because they can ignore physics and body limitations and do certain motions way faster and with way more power, even if it'd be impractical in real life.

A lot of other people do that already. You can check out Extra Frames videos on Smash, and RelaxAlax was doing a whole gigantic video breakdown series for each fighter.

I really like C.Falcon

Link when finished?

@@Ramsey276one Why not lol

Nah, BlazBlue had a character with an *aerial* low

@@emeraldmann1329 I mean, sure if you consider it from where the character using it is on the screen, but j.D's actual hitbox didn't reach that far off the ground.

Goldlewis is easily the coolest "fat" character in any fighting game.

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Her back walk is among the absolute best in all of fighting games

Still haven't had the chance to play Strive, only the beta, but I've put a few hours in GG:XRD, and Jack-O's animation is wack-o ;p It's so much fun watching the way she moves. But that's true for the whole cast, if I'm being honest.

@@Kanti852 it's way up there along with slayer and kula diamond in kof xv.

It's almost a tradition in arc sys/french bread anime fighters to have a standing low kick which looks exactly like ky 5k. where he just does a quick sideways kick to the shins

They're only relatively slow in comparison with the 2D games (lows that come out in single digit frames vs Tekken, where unreactable lows are pretty much anything at or faster than 20~ish frames of start up). That's because in 2D games they tend to be primary moves that make up a lot of your core pokes and confirms, characters are built around them, whereas in Tekken they're supplementary moves, which is why powerful lows also tend to be reactable, telegraphed, extremely unsafe on block, or even all of the above.

You fail to block them not due to your old man reactions but the way the game makes you take into account everything else coming at you. In Tekken 7 If you are being peppered by highs and mids you aren't really thinking about defending your ankles. Some chars also have deceptive lows be it how it comes out via animation (may look like a mid attack) or through a string that you are used to seeing through highs and mids. So those low pokes add up over time and unless you get a hard read and a low parry ready, you aren't making that counter play.

Don't worry. They're about as slow as overheads in other games and we don't block those either.

Yeah, it's his sweep, and it's sadly pretty terrible due to the massive recovery (although it does make sense). Just look at the top of this strategy page on him: srk.shib.live/w/The_King_of_Fighters_%2798/Iori It's fast, though, but incredibly punishable making it not really worth it.

Similarly, I think it's adorable how much character and silliness they put in Squigly's cr. MK: use her dragon Leviathan's tail as a planting point, then have her assume rigor mortis in the traditional "crossed-arm funeral" pose and thrust herself out into a toe kick. Works with the stiffness of her outfit, uses her unique dragon, and brings to mind her death-related zombie imagery all within 35 frames.

@@SuperLuigiKart64 All of Squigly's animations are adorable, my favorite is her taunt where Leviathan gives her a surprise hug :3

Skullgirls as an example of animation is almost cheating. That game has had so much effort and detail put into every frame that nearly every game pales in comparison.