Better Starter: Duo Lon or Mature?

[BLACK STAR]

Having trouble picking a starter character.  I know Mature has better damage and space control options for zoners, but Duo Lon has better normals, is faster, and has a better ground game.  I keep flip-flopping, so I need the help and advice of you guys before I invest one of these characters into a huge timesink of training time

[Reiki.Kito]

I dunno. If I had to say, I'd pick Duolon. Mature can trap people using her D Massacre and d.A into Massacre again. She's pretty brutal. However, I feel she becomes a lot more brutal with meter and Duolon needs none of it.

[Rex Dart]

By "starter" character, you mean a battery (i.e. the first character in your team), right? Or do you mean a character for a player new to KOF?

Regardless, I'm going to give a cop-out answer and tell you to try learning both. You need to get good with three characters anyway, so I don't see how trying to learn four characters is unreasonable. Which character you prefer largely depends on your own playstyle anyway.

[BLACK STAR]

thanks for the replies.

I'm thinking of battery character, yes.  I'm picking one or the other, because I'm still relatively new, and want to really learn my 3 characters well for Final Round coming up in little over a month.  Though I would like to, I don't really want to stretch myself thin with too many characters.

My last two teamcharacters are EX Kyo(2nd) and Claw Iori(3rd)

[cableG]

Character turned out to be battery issue?