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King of Fighters XIV => General Discussion => Topic started by: solidshark on June 24, 2016, 04:05:38 AM
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I've lost count of main teams I'm interested in trying when I get XIV. A troll team of Sylvie/Xanadu/?, interchangable masters teams between Gang-Il/Tung/Chin/Kim/Geese/etc, the Andy/Mai/Bandeiras ninja team, etc. The more I see of each character, the harder it is to pin down a team to stick with. Like with XIII, I could easily stick with Kim/Andy/Ryo, but that will change the more I get into this.
What about you guys? Given what you've seen or expect to see, do you already have a set or incomplete team, or teams yet? If so, who's on it?
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Tricky question. XIV's roster excites me more than XIII's and gameplay seems to be more suitable for me skill level.
If we choose from character who have gotten proper showcase, I'd say my team is MuiMui/Terry/Sylvie. MuiMui seems fun, Terry is solid (although I prefer Garou incarnation) and Sylvie seemed to be surpririsngly high damaging.
There are few I really want to try, like Luong and Mian. Also yet to be showcased, Zarina, Ramon and Love Heart intrest me. Probably my team will be formed from these eight characters :)
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I don't know my mains or subs yet, but I have some theme teams for fun I've been mulling over
Team Contact Sports: Goro, Joe, Nelson
an Ancient Art: 3 of Tung, Chin, Mian, and Mui Mui
Armed and Dangerous: 3 of Chang, Choi, Nak, Love Heart, and Billy
Glorious Beards: 3 of Antonov, Chang, Gang-Il, Tung, Chin, and Xanadu, maybe Robert and Bandeiras
Bandanas: Ralf, Billy, Zarina
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Kukri, Joe, choose a character with flames
XYZ: Xanadu, Yuri, Zarina
Keep it Classy: 3 of Hein, Robert, King, and Mature. If either gets his suit as an alt Geese or Billy, and depending on his fight attire Antonov
Team Ninja: Andy, Mai, Bandeiras
The list goes on and on and on
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My Day 1 team will be the Ikari team. They are my go-to characters on tourneys. Will try the newcomers as well.
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Darn! Someone posted Team XYZ before I did!
I'm not entirely sure what my team's gonna be. I just know Iori will be in it; he always is.
Hein, Tung, Ralf, Mui Mui, Shun'ei, and Mai are looking mighty fun to play as. Perhaps Ryo for some raw power and Sylvie for trolling. I wanna know if Love Heart and Meitenkun are characters that will interest me.
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Other than Fatal Fury and Kim Team, the whole Official Invitation team might get some playtime from me as a whole, especially if Mian is truly a stance character like it has been theorized.
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Geese, Ralf, Nelson, Hein, Angel. Its difficult to say yet though. Geese is a definite staple on my team.
First thing I will do when I get this game is play one ranked match, then go into trials mode with geese. Cant wait to see the trial combos.
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My Classic Team is Mai, King and Mature. But this time I really want to put in works new characters that interest me like Luong, Mian, Bandeiras, Kukri and Nakoruru (for now) and maybe I'll be changing my team between these characters.
I can't wait to have the game and practice with them all.
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(Main team) Nelson, Joe, King- Team Baxers (boxers with a Brooklyn accent)
(secondary team) Kensou, Athena, Mian
(Third Team) Angel, Ramon, King of Dinosaurs
Id use Mature as an alternate for all my teams
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Main Team:
Terry/Iori/Kyo
2nd Team:
Luong/Gang-il/Luong
Sub Char:MuiMui
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Now thinking of an Exotic ladies team with Luong/Mian/Zarina
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Now thinking of an Exotic ladies team with Luong/Mian/Zarina
Yo the tropical/multicultural arrangement?
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King and Angel for sure. 3rd spot is undecided and i'm waiting to see the remaining characters first, but Luong or Zarina are looking pretty likely for now.
Plus Leona/Mature/Vice/Shun'ei/Ramon/possibly Mian fitting in there as alts from time to time
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Main: Clark, Billy, Kim (or Andy)
Wrestling team: King of Dinosaurs, Ramon, Clark.
Fun Team: Kukri, Hein, Meitenkun (in no order)
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Terry and...whoever else! Honestly so many characters look so fun to play in this game that I have no idea who I'll be using aside from Terry. But I plan to try every character until I can find at least two more I like for mains. Almost everyone in the game looks like they'll be fun to dabble with.
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My team may just be Iori, Hein, and Alice.
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My team may just be Iori, Hein, and Alice.
Hein and Alice both looks really awesome. I'm gonna try them out first cause I think they may end up being on my main team.
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Luong, Iori, Geese all the way. Although might throw in Ryo or Bandeiras once in a while.
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Vice and Iori go into any team I make. After that I'm gonna mess around with old favorites (Kim, Kensou, Maxima, King) and some new ones (Luong, Antonov, Shun) and see what sticks. Getting into the series on 13, I'm excited to try out Geese too. Predictabu!
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For most KOF's I go with Terry, Blue Mary, and Iori. For XIII I went with Maxima because Blue Mary wasn't in it. In XI I used Tizoc a lot. I tried KoD in the demo, but he doesn't play like Tizoc at all. Iori is good as usual, but I'm having lots of fun with Kyo in the demo. I also want to try Luong and Gang Il. So... I guess I'll start out with Kyo, Maxima, and Terry, and I'll try swapping various characters out till I get a combination I like.
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The game has so many charachters and lot of them are fun but i must do what i always do when i get a new game play all of them and see which charachter move set i like the most kyo clark ryo ralf are my mains so il stick with them to get a flow with the game
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Leona and two other characters. They'd most likely be Kyo and Mai.
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Right now it would be Leona, Terry, and Geese. I do want to try out Kukri, Luong, and Angel though.
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I like to switch my team around a lot, but if i had to pick it would be benimaru/Vice/Angel.
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My current team is Luong/Bandeiras/Gang-il. Interested in almost the entire cast though. But yeah, forcing myself to stick with this squad for a bit.
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Starting team will most likely be a combination of Yuri,Iori,Shun'ei,Mai,Andy. I have Yuri,Andy and Iori experience from KOF XIII, and demo experience for Shun'ei and Mai. But whos to say a month a 2 down the road this doesn't change completely.
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Soon as I decided I was in on KoF 14 I knew right from the start Terry was in. Currently the main roster is looking like either:
- Terry, Maxima, Vice
- Terry, Luong, Maxima
Haven't looked beyond that for other potential teams, but I want to get some trigger time with Geese, Joe, Love, Kukri, and Alice.
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So, I think I'm going to definitely start with my XIII team, the "exotic ladies team" I suggested earlier, and slowly check out every new character, and then the veterans. I can wait to see who'll appeal to me the most.
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I don't know if I'll put him on my list of frequently used characters yet but I do want to dedicate more effort than normal to unlocking the mystery that is Xanadu. From a lot of streams I've seen not many players want to put much effort in labbing him. Such a shame that is because I find him to be so interesting despite how difficult he seems.
I think I will stick with my aforementioned team of Iori/Hein/Alice with Mai as an occasional swap out for Alice. Any other secondaries I will determine as I play.
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It's already changed around for me after getting a chance to finally play around with characters on day one. Now it's looking solidly like Terry, Luong, Kukri, and Love Heart for me. Not sure of the default starting lineup yet, but it's down to these 4 for sure now.
I'm interested to see if anybody switched it up once getting their hands on the game.
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Don't have the full game yet but my main team would be Luong, Mai, and Leona. Another team might be Mature, Vice, and Zarina.
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Took a bit longer then I expected to settle into a main team. Been having a lot of fun just doing lab work on a bunch of the cast to figure out what I like.
Main Team: Muimui, Maxima, Terry
Future Members to switch in and out:
Joe
Nelson
Geese
Banderas
Angel
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This is the first time a new KOF has come out with me actually having tourney level experience to build on from the previous entry, and I've loved just about every second of it so far, the rare exceptions being my discovery of certain normals no longer being cancel-able... but I've quickly overcome that, and settled quite comfortably into my new iteration of the team that I've wanted to bring to a major ever since I grew into my understanding of who they were as characters...
King has lost air Venom strike, but that's more than a fair trade for the midscreen confirms she gains in XIV's max mode. Her damage isn't top tier but her maxmode confirms are generous, she no longer needs the corner or more than 1 bar + a drive just to stay on par. I can play the neutral game with her normals the way she always has, and Silent Flash replaces EX trapshot quite comfortably. Also her Climax is ridiculously strong, she can even do it in mid-air and after seeing so many games where Illusion Dance was just bad compared to other ranbus... yeah, it's incredibly satisfying to see that dazed look on the opponent's face when they're reeling from the last kick. Her "edgelord" palette even looks better than that monochromatic one in XIII, color 3 is much more tasteful for her character and even matches up way better with my choice of teammates...
Mature has EX Heaven's Gate. This is exactly the tool she needed badly in XIII, and it just feels so damn good to call out sloppy jumps and bad specials with this move. Her neutral is just as graceful and slippery as ever, and her raw maxmode activations are incredible. The result of the latter in particular seems to be that she's seeing a lot of top 8 action on the WNF circuit, and just tonight I saw two different maxmode combos I didn't know were possible yet. Both of them were from Isauro (who was my favorite Mature to watch in XIII, he's the only one I ever saw landing EX qcb+BD xx cl.C link combos and I respect that a lot) so needless to say, things are going really well for her so far in XIV.
Vice... unfortunately has yet to see much success in tournaments, technically I don't yet have a great idea of what optimized XIV Vice looks like so my observations could be off. But from my experience, she seems considerably better at playing offense/neutral, in spite of not having the ability to EX sleeve off of air-to-airs. Her jump arc is less floaty (I.E better) and her old cr.C is a considerably better anti-air than the one she had in XIII. A 1-frame command grab is still a really useful tool to have, and despite not knowing the new safejump setup off of that (until realizing as I wrote this that there's a thread right here on the forum, just checked it out and I'm good to go lol) all in all things are shaping up. She has potential, and above all else I feel like the time is going to come where I can choose to put her on point for a specific matchup and have it pay off, something that was considered unorthodox to the point of being basically unheard of in XIII. Much in the same vein I feel like King can legitimately pull anchor duty, so team order is now something I can mess with based on what I'm up against instead of a strict hierarchy determined solely by the constraints XIII's systems placed on these characters.
So yeah, that's me in XIV. Anyone want to help me officially name this team? I'm thinking either "Classy Ladies' Team" or "Women's Suits Team" ...or something. There's probably a variation of either concept that flows better, but idk right now.
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I havent started playing the game yet but im lookin at Benimaru, Geese and Tung
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For now, since I'm still getting used to the game, such as mastering hops. Billy Kane, Kyo and Terry. I want to master these 3 before I start moving on to other characters that I really want to try because I never played KoF at a competent level. Hell, I did want to main Chang, but he just downright sucks, I had to replace him with Billy Kane.
But yeah, Billy Kane seems like one of the best characters to learn the game with, with him u can easily focus on the overall flow of the game such as staying mobile(I had to learn the hard way)and the new mechanics benefits him alot with his st.C, Basically a strong whiff punish tool and u can practice on mastering 1-hit confirms. I have trouble with doing short hops and hyper short hops during fights so his jumping C kinda helps back me up from mistakes.
I generally choose characters who I'm most fond of from seeing in the past is one of the reasons why I wanted to use Chang.
In the future, I do plan on using xanadu and geese in the same team with xanadu on point as a battery character, because it looks like xanadu can build insane meter for geese with his safe specials and he has a command grab, also his cr.D looks like a good anti air.
God I wished I've played KoF at a competent level in the past because I basically have no matchup experience and what each character excells at doing, needing matchup experience against 48 characters? It's gonna be A WHILE.
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FatalFrame, if I were you I wouldn't worry too much about matchup exp. The sheer number of characters may seem intimidating, but in reality there's less information per character to absorb than in a 1v1 fighting game, and learning a matchup should be a relatively quick process. For example...
Vice's important special moves are her command grab and sleeve (hcf+B/D) the command grab gives her a safejump and the sleeve is a blockable attack that converts into said command grab while covering a decent portion of the screen. It shouldn't take more than a few rounds fighting against someone playing this character for the applications of these tools to become apparent, but while it might take you a bit longer to figure out how to beat her normals with all 3 of your characters, the "matchup" in a general sense should be easy to understand. Granted there are characters with more complex gameplans than the one I've just described here, but it shouldn't be something to feel overwhelmed by. Go forth and learn!
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My team ended up pretty far from what I had planned, mostly because I got tired of training mode, but also having my weaker characters dunked on (Billy, Tung, Chang).
On point: a 10min Iori arguably pulling the most weight on the team (I have some past experience though).
Middle: Ryo, which I wasn't gonna play b/c his shrunken fireball and lack of a long range cancelable normal.
Anchor: Maxima, the only really new addition, basically a beefier Ryo with a 1f command grab into 740dmg.
Basically I have a penchant for mid range zoners, but begrudgingly have to admit that rushdown characters gives me more wins.