some of these are crazy to the point of “Why would i do this to another human being” I get like tournaments winner takes all but what if you just wanna have a nice game with you friend or siblings, and you just decide to throw out Terry combo #7. That bond is severed for life.

No lie, KOF 13 made me realize that no matter how much I absolutely love fighting games, I am nowhere near equipped to play them at the highest level lmao.

13:29 THIS. This is what people need to hear.

7:10 perfect ok timing

"He's a grappler so it's gotta be easier"

I feel like more fighting games should explain buffering inputs and shortcuts the way you do. I could not figure out trials like this year's cuz I didn't know the hidden tech. Thank you is what I'm saying.

Everyone: kof 13 trials are so hard! Maximillian Dood: always has been.

To anyone that would be interested in 13 but worried because they think it'll be "too hard." The game really is generous with how it handles inputs. The trials are mostly made to be impractical (they are actually trials), and ask a lot more of you than is actually typically required for practical combos. For example, many trials involve tight links that are rarely if ever used in real matches, or have sequences of moves that require odd timing or difficult execution to connect. These sort of things aren't typically necessary for most characters' BnBs or HD combos. For a specific example, take Terry's trial that requires you to cancel Rising Tackle directly into Power Geyser. This cancel is NEVER used in actual play. For the same or fewer resources, you can do similar or better damage from a rising tackle with a much easier route, e.g. Rising Tackle DC qcb+D j.C or EX Rising Tackle.

I think I actually enjoyed other characters just by playing their trials. Benimaru was a character that I knew FOR SURE that I would never play, but 30-45 minutes into his trials, and I realized how fun that character actually is. But yeah....these trials will take it out of ya. ALL OF IT

Damn this game is gorgeous.

"Guys, this is gonna be fine." And just like JWong, famous last words.

Hey I didn't know Terry from smash bros got his own game!!

When Terry and JM said okay at the same time 7:10 😳

Love how this game is getting love recently just because of the trails lol. It has that styling type of combos.

Good stuff!! I LOVE the visuals of the game! I remember watching Reynolds plus the other competitors play this at EVO. It looked so fun! I played it for awhile and tried the trials. It was tough! I'll have to revisit it. Love your channel! 💯

Was snk on DRUGS when they did the motions??? Pretzel input like 📉📈

What makes these trails very difficult for me is the timing between the jumping attacks and the first hour afterwards. That and also, there's no tolerance for the qcf inputs - They need to be inputted perfectly, including the diagonal inputs, which can be difficult on pad

The dedication is real I loved watching how you did this. Keep up the good work

Please realize you don't have to do these combos to actually play KOF 13, they're just fun trials to test yourself and to show how far you can go if you want. There's no way anyone was hitting these combos online against human opponents.

After watching so many people in the FGC attempt these trials, one thing stands out clearly regarding what separates the noobs to KOF from the veterans: whether or not they know the abbreviated and alternate inputs.

Developer: What should the combo trials be like? Director: *Abuses controller to the point of torture*

Leona's, Ashe's and Elisabeth's are the hardests trials. Mai's is the easiest. K's and Athena's are kinda hard too.

The carpal tunnel in my hands looking at the inputs: *agony intensifies*

LOVE watching kofXIII, keep at it with these trials!

anyone who plays kof13: How hard can they be? *Famous last words*

Youre really built different

I was able to complete all KOF XIII trials when KOF XIII was really played. But I was never able to do all Umvc3 and Usf4 trials. You def are a goat.

It's crazy to me that the FGC is just now learning about KOFXIII. I'm loving watching all these pros struggle though. lol. This is why they say "if you can play KOF, you can play anything".

Finally the trials series is back! This was always my favorite

thank you for telling us how long u struggle on something, thats a big confident boost for beginners

When he gets to the hard ones:😅😲😳😫

Mannnnnn these trials will never get old. You will learn a lot about the game and yourself attempting them lol

Ok, you have my attention now. Finally subbed after ghosting you for years. Good work, guy!

Remembers doing KOF14 trials. "Darn Geese and his wierd rekkas. And Leona and Kim. Ugh."

Whoever designed KOF 13’s trial mode, did it while doing Jack Nicholson’s evil grin and nod from Anger Management.

Nice, your combo trial content is my favorite of yours

I remember I struggled with the Daimon's AAB (BC) AAB too, took me a long time until I figured out I had to change the input timing (input between B and BC needs to speed up a little bit) to make it work.

YESS love this video, would love to see Kula or Leona next!!!

Nice job JM. This was a fun watch

Always a good time watching your content thanks dude. Man I had no clue these input shortcuts even existed! Wonder if kof15 will have anything near this level?

Absolutely loved that last Terry combo

Hello new sub here. Back in the good old days, I play KoF 10th anniversary and still didn't understand number combos. Great vid btw

Lol Justin Wong struggled with a lot of these but I couldn’t learn about it-like that trick for terry’s combos, because dude already knows all that stuff. All that to say this; I really hope you do more of these so I can learn more stuff like that 👍

Game was a huge flex for me in high school I subbed Bc of this, can’t wait to see something like this again

Kof 13 is one of my favourite fighting games of all time just love playing this game its trials are hard especially Ash Leona Takuma and Duolon were really hard and it was a fun game to play on Xbox 360 & Steam and watching this game's tournaments was a total blast

Loved that Spongebob picture as that was me for Ash Crimson, Terry and also Leona for 8 Hours!!!

I never get tired of looking at KoF13.

Bring in some milk and Let the pain begin.

I've never seen a thumbnail so accurate to what fighting game combos felt like XD. best clickbait

So happy to help my brother with this one! lol

Finally another COMBO trail JM CLASSIC!!!!!!

Any man that attempts KOF combos has my respect

This may just be my age showing, but this is still one of the most beautiful video games of all time. I wish they ported this to current gen systems, cuz there's no way I would ever try to play a fighting game on PS Now.

Many kudos for persistence, mate!

Aw man I was so excited about this series, any plans on revisiting? I obviously understand if not, these combos are pretty bonkers

Never touched a kof game before but this seems so so so satisfying

What a coincidence i been doing kof 13 trials too Honestly 13 is my favorite kof from the graphics to the gameplay it never got old or aged bad

Our boy FINALLY went back to the trials

The backgrounds and sprites are so beautiful in this game

I remember that video w/ bala and that commentator "the corner combo" with joe higashi

Im scared, I'm never leaving tekken.

You should try ASH trials, it's a terrible headache! Good video!!

Dude...Crazy!!! ...and AWESOME! Thankx!

I really need to play KoF XIII Terry has always been my main, so it was nice seeing him get some love

I don't understand what did you change that made that made it easier here 2:51. Were you buffering inputs?

KoF is amazing. So much options/skillcap. Terry having the howard super 0o Would love to see a full 1

Buenos intentos jmcrofts bien hecho

everyone complaining about the amount of inputs in these combos but these combo trails were the tip of the iceberg. The toughest trails in kof13 are leona and ash crimson by a long shot because they are charge characters and you have to input downback into upback to forward up which can input 2 charge inputs. Also before using your stored charge, you can micro move and use up the charge at the same time, ash uses that alot in his trails. There are trails that require lots muscle memory and tight links. I can't give alot of examples but there is takuma's trail 7 which I am stuck in. I don't think I can give more examples but you get the idea.

KoF really buggin with these inputs, that’s why I never gave it a fair shot 😂

man i love the graphics from KOF13

1. The game does not check the combo very strictly so you can add extra moves into the combo to make it easier as long as the combo connects. So for the earlier ones you can activate in between and special cancel some in between moves and the trials become very trivial. 2. The trials are not sorted by difficulty level but the meters required to complete. 3. One of the hardest trial, for no reason at all, is Elizabeth's 2nd trial. Everything looks simple and easy, except it just doesn't link up...

6:30 Ah yes my favorite cancel, relief into realization

Idk virtual fighter 4 has some real complicated inputs too especially when it came to the Akira Yuki character 👀.

I love this more kof.I used play kof almost every day week month.

new viewer here. Would love to see more of this XD

2:35 And here we have our first example of something that looks way harder than it actually is to someone not familiar with SNK's (relatively modern) input buffer. It's actually even simpler than the notation in Furix's message, as long as your Rising Tackle input includes 4 on the way to 8 you can just input 6+A/C after the Tackle and that alone will give you the super. The tl;dr of why it works that way is because SNK supers (and even most specials) actually don't care at all about diagonals, the game only requires you to hit the straight ones with appropriate timing. For this reason you can actually shortcut Terry's Power Geyser as 2146 and it'll work. 3:46 Actually the majority of the attempts shown here involve the drive cancels being performed too early, not the other way around. This is kind of a Terry-specific thing, he's not the only character who makes use of staggered inputs but he suffers the most without them and gains less for learning the timing than other characters (Such as Claw Iori, who has a considerably less difficult but also more damaging corner loop)

"These combo trials in KoF13 are legendarily some of the most difficult in the genre." Oh, good. So it's not just me. I have fun with this, but I'm not good enough to play online against people who actually know what they're doing.

Always nice to see KOF13

I tried them as my first combo trial ever. I'm glad i wasn't the only one struggling.

After seeing Jwong quit in the middle of one, I was like uggghhhhh

That ash trial looks like the equation for making a time machine.

This makes me want to download the game again on crack and do the trials with my keyboard.

You should do a quick video on that input shortcut that helped you so much.

6:31 His face was so priceless lolll

that thumbnail is pretty good

Let’s do UniClr next 👀

I laughed too hard at the thumbnail 😂

I can't even comprehend how your supposed to quarter circle back and still have to hold down for rising tackle cancel loops

Nice! :D Just a suggestion Maybe you should place a timer on screen while recording/streaming, so we can see how much time everything took while watching the video :)

The journey begins

Those button presses are aggressive 😳

It gets hard asf until you realize the repetition and timing is what makes the combo difficult. I learned that from Kenzou after I did his 10 trials

12:00 We've entered Solomon Grundy combos XD

Funfact: when trying to figure out what DLC character they should add in smash sakarai asked his employees how could they make one of the least fun DLC characters to play. One of them suggested Terry.

man I grew up playing arcades of kof2002 THERE ARE NOT TRIALS! and everyone of my neighbors knew the combos, god!

I just love kof cancel combos. It's one of the funniest mechanics I experience in fighting games.

Most characters seem to have a sequence like LP LP LP HD LK LK LK somewhere in their combo trials. I've seen ones that do stuff like 2LK 2LK 5LK HD HP, too. To me they're by far the hardest aspect of these trials, other than maybe the elaborate cancels that you have to look up shortcuts for on the internet to get. They went a long way into scaring me out of not just KOF, but other games with no normal buffer like Skullgirls, though I did eventually end up trying out Skullgirls and KOF 2002UM later on.

6 Button fighters are soooo over complicated but I live for it like you’re absolutely going to want to do these combos in matches

First and only game at the time of this writing I actually did every combo for was Dead or Alive 4, still one of my proudest fighting game achievements, shame there's no actual achievement for doing it though. There is a pretty sweet in game reward of unlocking different announcers though with unlocking Alpha as the announcer for getting them all so at least there's a pretty nice in game reward which is more than nearly every other game does for these damned things.

“There’s no way it’s gonna get any harder than this right?” *Famous Last Words