Alright, you, prospective Angel main, im talking to you. Yeah, she's a sexy lady so its time to main her right!? WRONG. This video on top of the usual lore and trailer breakdown doubles as a character guide cause its time you learn the UNCHAIN SYSTEM, and why Angel is the single most complex and difficult character in KoF history. If you think she's cool, make sure to go through the entirety of the gameplay section of this video(its all timestamped) and make sure if you are ready for what you are signing up for! She's sexy and cool, but way more difficult to understand and use correctly than everyone else so you gotta put in the time!

Angel mains picking up their character for the first time be like: - alright let's see who's the hardest right now. You or me? -

"Do you play any instruments?" "I play Angel from King of Fighters."

Ah, are we finally at the end of this massive glut of news? From KoF beta to Project L to Street Fighter and more? Well I got some special videos in the works and keep in mind Luke and Happy Chaos launch next week! The first of the KoF Saga lore videos(orochi saga) im finishing up right now. If it can make it up by the weekend it will, otherwise it will have to wait until after Happy Chaos week is over because Happy is getting the royal treatment in terms of combos/guides/etc. Each main saga will get a lore video building up to the launch of KoF 15! They will probably be pretty long!

I had started learning her in 02UM because I love her fighting style/animations, but I did't lab long enough for the UC to become natural and second nature, so I dropped her. Now I'm taking her back to the lab in XIV to learn her moevs by heart. BTW the strongest Angel player I've seen is Dechimo, if someone wants to see what she looks like at high level, check his matches out!

i gotta admit...the thing im attracted to IS the Unchain System in a "why did you want to climb mt everest?" "because it's there" way. gonna go fire up kof14 to see what ive got ahead of me

Angel is the hardest because you'll be constantly "appreciating" her and dropping your strings

I played KoF 2002 for about 10 years against fairly high level competition, including tournaments. I only ever met one guy that played Angel well and he was a total beast with her. Everyone else was trash so this guy is not exaggerating when he says you really have to earn it to play well with her. That one guy though, he could even go into the corner infinite semi reliably for 20+ repetitions. It was a major "WTF".

> Boots up KOF 2002 UM (ON SALE BTW) > Picks Angel > Checks Move List > Returns to Character Select So many ppl saying they're gonna main her online lol she's on that Zafina/Baiken level "she's my main I swear"

I don't main Angel (though I do main May Lee), but I love what she represents. SNK's willingness to include characters that do something absolutely crazy. I love that KOF is a series I can play three Shotos or THIS.

FYI about Ángel: her name was inspired by Evoga's lead lead programer in the 2000's who is a Mexican man named Ángel and speaks Japanese. In fact her genesis was in a bet between Evoga (Mexican dev team) and SNK staff.

I decided to learn Angel in XIV after playing the other two members of Team Mexico, and she's honestly a blast if you're willing to try and get to grips with the unchain system. She also has a crossup jump normal, command grab and counter super, all of which i'm a sucker for. Also, fun fact: All of Angel's moves are named after songs from the band Soul Flower Triad, which I find very ironic considering they're very nice people (ie playing music in Palestine refugee camps), and Angel is well, Angel (ie mocking children that are traumatized due to the actions of the organization she worked for.)

[Guilty Gear character guide voice] “In this Unchain Circle…”

Angel's got a lot going on but she's kind of like a Tekken character where yeah they have a jillion moves, but you really just need to know a handful of routes you like and not really worry about the rest.

Ah yes, the waifu version of The Rock that uses rekkas on drugs.

I tried learning her once. It's uhh, definitely a challenge.

No matter how much people say she's a hard character I will never waver I will learn her even if it means I die The power coom in me is strong and I shall use that to persevere and master Angel

Funny thing is after your “mains” video I sat down and learned her just so I’d be able to say I am NO LONGER ONE OF THESE ÁNGEL “MAINS” 😈🙏🏾

I love her role in the KoFXIV manga.

The hardest character to use in KOF franchise...but me personally I think it's May Lee

I'm excited to play this game and test out all of the characters just to play kyo for another 3 years

Gonna be real that unchain system makes me wanna play her more lmao, it seems super fun to fuck around with

I spent countless hours in training mode in the previous games, and I will spend countless more continuing to grow with her

I saw your vid a few months back about Sexy fighting game characters that are hard. I felt personally attacked, as I wanted to play all these characters for that reason. But unlike most people I like putting in the effort to master the SEXY

So that’s how the unchain system works. That…seems a lot more reasonable than what I expected. Still gonna take a lot of time truly wrap my head around it, but I get the concept now. I think.

As a Jack-O main, I feel drawn to this character

Unchain looks pretty badass. Also, I’m never gonna bother to learn all that. Now we need an “easiest to play characters” video for KoF.

10:14 What roofle said: The animation for the blowback attack is actually all new. What I heard: The animation for the booba #neuronactivation

"Angel of justice, friend to children everywhere" I'm ded

I'll take on the challenge of learning her, she seems pretty fun once you know what you're doing

Very nice video once again. Its nice that you're taking the time to explain to new or beginning players that Angel is quite a complex character to play. You should definitely do the same with Vanessa. :D Anyways great vid. Looking foward to playing her on the 14th. :D I'm soooo hype for this game.

Sounds like the most fun character to use for sure, awesome video.

The other day, I took a look at Angel's moveset in KOF 2002 UM, and ooh boy! You weren't kidding with how complex her Unchained Circle is! There's gonna be a huge difference between Good Angel players and bad ones when KOF15 comes out! So I commend those who can actually play her correctly! ^^

Day by day I’m kinda considering getting this game as a total outsider. My first real traditional fighting game I kinda invested time in was Tekken 6. And after experiencing Kazuya and Terry in Smash I’m thinking of getting Tekken 7 and KOFXV. Can’t wait to main invest month’s into perfecting Angel.

Cheers again fella. Appreciated

Let's Go, People's Elbow!!The champ is here and can't wait to learn her for 15. Appreciate the breakdown Big Roof!

I remember using her back in the days, I only came up with one combo and can only use that one combo, sneaked like 4 chains in iirc

before kof 2001 I was one of those shoto spammer dirtbags. when kof 2001 was released in the arcade...spent an ungodly amount of time and coins to learn how to play her properly. (i blame my teenage brain during that time) after learning her, I never really went back to shoto ever again. Angel, Blue Mary, King and Benimaru were my team back then...ahhhh, the memories.

Harder to learn just means I will spend more time with her

Getting the matchup experience is the hardest part, no one was playing 14 online but my friends when I learned her fully so knowing what to use and when instead of just going for high low follow ups during unchain strings is a challenge. But I’m glad my girl is back, I was hoping for her or Vice and was sure neither were gonna make it.

15:49 "they gon' take yo face off"

Praise Vishnu! Thank you for pronouncing her name correctly!

Rewatching this video 5 months later and got a good chuckle out of “Obviously she tried to kill Kula so that’s not happening”

Thank you very much for this video.

I think May Lee is much harder than Angel but in a different way. Angel depending on how far you wanna go execution wise the skill ceiling is pretty high, but you don't have to, that's the main thing. You could play a "simple Angel" and still make her work fine since she got pretty straight forward tools with a very clear purpose. She got combos from her cr.B, overheads , built in low/high/throw/unblockable mixups in her follow ups, an specialized crossup aerial button, long confirms,etc. You could aswell do fine with her basic combos that require very little execution and not bother with the higher damage ones, specially in 14 and most likely in 15 aswell, the difference in damage isn't that big of a deal and won't gatekeep you from playing her. The hard part at the beginning is wrapping around your head how the follow up system works, but once you do that then she becomes a pretty standard character with a standard gameplan, you can do fine with that even against intermediate or advanced players, she becomes hard again beyond that when you need to squeeze all of her moves that are not used much and start thinking outside the box with them as if they were stand alone moves (by whiffing them, the first and second phase moves) May Lee on the other hand doesn't have a straightforward moveset at all she is the kind of character that even if you know all of her moves and are an advanced players you will have a lot of trouble winning against players of your same skill level and losing versus players below your skill level more often. May Lee in vanilla 02 is considered Top Tier yet almost no one uses her, you will see a lot of angel players in comparison to may lee players. She doesn't have combos starting from cr.B in neither of her modes, can't crossup into a combo, has no overhead normals, unrealiable anti airs, true 1 frame links for her most essential combo, her counter may whiff on hit and is intended for non aerial attacks, pretty reactable short hop since it's a little floaty, only has a command grab in hero mode and her aerial normals don't have much horizontal range or above her. Despite of all of that she is top tier , her gameplan is far more complex and hard to execute aswell. You can't really play a "simple may lee" and roll with that and be fine like you can with "simple angel", simple may lee would feel like limiting yourself. With Angel it's optional to not use her entire kit and do fine, May Lee you MUST use all of her kit if you want to win, and that's very hard to do because she is basically 2 characters in one (and one of them can't block) , you must keep in mind both movesets at all times at the same time, her normals and special moves in both modes are very specialized kind of moves, she has trouble opening up opponenst the traditional way since anybody can block her all day. She might hit you with a cr.B but that will lead into nothing, she has to hit with close D and rely on "full combo" kind of combos, to accomplish that goal she needs to force the opponent into committing to a roll or any high risk option, and she does that by pressuring the opponent enough with a guard break (which takes a lot of work and execution to pull off by the way), she relies a lot on that and on carefully frametrapping the opponent. Her strength comes from being able to cancel into her stance change from any normal (even on whiff) and any special move (on hit or block) To play a May Lee that actually wins it takes someone who is beyond advanced level, i am talking about kof expert junkie level , i know a lot of junkies like that and most don't even bother, May Lee is an specialist kind of character, it's rare for a top tier character to be so hard that still not so many people pick it. You need more overall kof knowledge and mastery to play as may lee, as Angel not so much honestly because the got tools with a clear, straight forward, easy to understand purpose Tl;dr Angel is hard at the beginning , pretty easy in the middle , then slightly harder later, "simple angel" is viable up until advanced levels, "expert" levels not so much anymore. May Lee is hard at the beginning and never gets any easier, her moves are simple to do but "when to actually use them in a match" is hard to apply, angel is the other way around, "simple maylee" is actually "crippled may lee" and isn't viable. .

easily the funnest character in kof, she is my main, trust if you learn her you wont let her go, bro if nameless is in the game im gonna flip, forward punch is new to me, havent played her since 2002 where she is broken, i,m liking her here also

Expected Team: Nests WTF Team: Kukri Angel Adelheid

You fool, you absolute rube, you've only awakened my interest in this character as my fight circles resident lab monster

I'm convinced they made Angel look as good as she does solely to reward players that actually master how absurd her depth is. Like "Great job! You can now main the hottest girl." Only the truly dedicated can earn her

At this point, might as well do “Team Waifu” with Angel, Kula and Li Xiangfei. Look, I just want Xiangfei in the game, okay… Fio from Metal Slug would be a good fit on a waifu team, too, tho

I'm willing to give her chance

Can you smell what Angel is cooking?

Oh no, I didn't know my aesthetically pretty mechanically rewarding character was capital E Evil 😞.

I applied for a bachelors in FG (Bsc) to try and understand her reka… haha ( great video and content as always keep it up 💪)

Imagine she is on a nest team with her, kula and k9999 like in 2002. I would be so happy if k9999 return he is one of my favorite kof characters. But its hard for them to get him but he could fit in the shatter all expectations, I hope he is back for me and the fans who want him back

Bro, I did not bet an eye to this character (design's not for me) but after that gameplay explanation I actually want to try her out, I like offense n violence.

Yea she's super waifu material and all that, and I definately picked her because of her aesthetic, but I've always liked super complex characters and stuck with her the last time around. I'll stick with her again this time around as well. Can't wait to play K' Athena and Angel as my team!!!

Rekka into Rekka into more Rekka into more and more Rekka.

this is like a one-two punch of heartbreak for the newbies. not only is angel the hardest character to learn in kof, but her being in the roster as a member of the mystery team basically means rock howard is confirmed dlc. people who don't play snk games are absolutely INCONSOLABLE at the loss of their lifetime main i liked angel in xiv!! never clicked with me in 02um but if she's like xiv angel but more usable then i'm all for it. i might very well have a full team with her reveal!

Since Kim likes to reform criminals what if he is on that team with another previous villain? I would like to see SNK finally bring K9999 back to be on her team too, maybe with a slight redesign.

Yeah when I played KOF XIV and I got down to angel I was struggling when trying her out, I’m not one for memorization I got a terrible memory and the combos and everything was a real headache, makes me wonder why they make it so complicated lol

Ok she definitely will be on my team I didn't play KOF 14 but I played 2002, I want my Girly team and for that I need Vice. I love Vice and I still have hope to see her on KOF 15 maybe on the same team as Angel who knows

TIL her starters are NOT command normals, meaning you can add a free f+B between her normal and her starter.

I would use my comment to go full Angel Simp, but I actually noticed a funny detail about the trailer. Remember when Dinosaur showed up and everyone was like "Team Mexico" and literally yesterday, we all thought she was gonna be Team K'? Well, intentional chosen or not, she beats up Antonov and K', both characters who represent those different guesses we all had, lmao

I decided to mess around with Ángel (hope i spelled that right) in kof 2002 um and she seems really fun but very complicated

I agree with the title as a Angel main since fucking 2001. My fingers hate me so god damn much

Yup I m up for the smoke learning this chick

Seems fun and scary, time for a challenge

Welp, time to go back to practicing Ángel in Kof 14

Ive played her in every game shes been in so im already in it for the long haul

I can try to learn this character just the meaty hits and the peoples elbow, and the cowboy boots. I dont know if im strong enough though.

Not many people know this but you can also follow up a start up unchain with a low kick into an up dog

Loving the Metal Slug stage! They need to make a new game or at least remakes!

Once upon a time I helped a friend make Ángel 2002 for mugen, so I did learn how to play her. She's really fun, but when you can just pick Iori for consistency is it really worth it?

I really want to play her with that unchain stuff that seems super fun to do I may not be able to memorize all the motions but damn that seems like so much fun. For now a team that I want to play is Terry, K' or Shun ei, Kyo or Iori I may be switching one of them out for her.

unchain circle go brrrrrr

I used Angel a bit in KOF2001 and 14. The former, I sucked at with her yet ironically, I finished off the boss with her, though I nerfed Igniz's health (despite him still kicking my ass). 14 I wasnt as bad with her, but not the greatest. She's still rockin' though.

We are about to see Ash vs Angel match-ups in the future. Both have high combo capabilities

Somehow she reminds me Himeki Luna. I liked to play her a lot. I know, Himeki Luna is a stance character, with 8 different stances and a stance switching mechanic, but anyway. I definitely wanna try to learn Angel. Not because she's thick, but because she's sick.

3:40 DID NOT KNOW THAT O_o

I appreciate the extreme difficulty of playing a character with one hand.

I played her in 14 because i picked up nelson and she felt similar. Interesting that they both have NESTS in their backstories.

I remember when I first started playing her in 2001. I couldn't do jack shiz AT ALL. I had to study harder than I did at school to learn even the basics of using Ángel.

Literally never played a KoF outside of messing around with friends in XIII. Saw Ángel and thought "she looks cool..." Bruh, she made me reconsider playing fighting games at all lol!

I love Angel but, I really expected the final team to be heavy hitters (Rugal, Goenitz, mature, vice, etc)

I played way more Complex Fighters like *King* and *Armor King* in the "Tekken" series, but I'm only good at 3-D Fighters, I never even tried to Master a 2-D Fighter like Angel from KOF in my whole Life, the only 2-D Fighters I'm good at are *Jax* from "Mortal Kombat" and *Bane* in "Injustice" 1 & 2.

Hey man, great content as always. (Especially the last week or so as there has been so much fg news. Sorry for offtopic, but I was wondering do you plan on making a video for the new DNF Duel video(videos?). I was a little surprised I Didnt see you post a video about it. Like I said so much fg news. it wouldn't surprise me if it did a flyby on you.

Gonna be sad if Maxima doesn't make it in even if Kula is more popular. But Maxima has been been with K since 99 so I'm feel our cyborg Canadian will make through. As he's one of my favorite character in KoF from the nest Saga. And then their leaves just Betty.

I mained her and 2k2, and loved every bit of it. Took me months to get comfortable in using her and making it feel natural, but it was SO worth it! And now you tell me her dash-grab is now a FULL ON COMMAND GRAB? Goddamn that makes her FEARSOME AS HELL. That shit's powerful.

I still wanna try. I'll also post my progression with learning her on my channel. Because I don't see too many videos on her. Just some old combo & match videos of people playing her in kof14.

She gonna be apart of Team "That's my main"

There are TWO BIG reasons why I like Ángel: her Hair and her Boots! Did I said something wrong?

Great video as Always man. But did you actually saw the "leak" that came out around the time of GamesCon? That rumor it's very strong just because it came months ago and actually confirms a lot of characters and teams. And it's seems more than just luck, this leak confirme the Isla, Dolores and Heidern (the team that no one espect) so maybe you want to check it out. The leak it's an image of the KOF xv roster but the blank/white spaces of the roster are fill with fictional characters for movies/anime/cartoon. Like for example they use Master Raven as a way to illustrate Dolores.

Ill probably get the game just to play her i like this kind of challenge

I really hope they do another open beta. It would be great given the guides that Roof and others are putting out. Fingers crossed 👍

It’s characters like this that keep me playing Tekken.

KOF XIV was 75% off this week, bought it for steam so I could get some labbing ahead of things.

Something funny if i remember is that angel was made after a bet with the developers in wich they got beated by some mexicans and the bet was that they will add a mexican character if they loose.

The Bloody Roar Combo Ring is here! XD

whats the background music?