Quote from: solidshark on March 31, 2012, 02:36:01 AM
First off, welcome to DreamCancel enterix. I think I recognize that name from the SRK forums; regardless, thanks for joining us, and hope your loving 13 so far. And I'm guessing the "intro to KoF" was Dandy J's "SF to KoF video," which was excellent, so good start.
I've just barely scratched the surface with Terry and mainly work with other characters now, but I'm going to suggest that characters like Kyo and Robert work as batteries (1st up) cause of their decent meter builds and not having to rely on meter usage so much. EX Iori works in almost any position well as his normals and combos are very good. Terry might be best in the middle. He can do damage pretty well, but a little like Leona, it's best with meter. Shen is usually an anchor when he's on a team, and with good reason. Lots of players who know how to use him and have full meter can end up with ToD HD combos. Shen is pretty much the Ken of this game, so you'll be seeing a lot of him probably.
But from someone who hasn't full embraced team/meter management yet, I will say work on the basics and intermediate stuff for all your characters; make sure you can KO a character with any character. I've seen a few upsets with what looked like "mis-management".
thanks for the welcome, and yeah i'm from srk (getting bored with AE, SFxT is 2v2 at Evo, so I've decided to pick up KoF13 and see how it strikes me).
I've heard a few times that Shen should be placed on Anchor, I had been considering making my order Shen, Terry, Iori - but now think that might not be ideal placement. Maybe i'll switch shen out for kyo or robert, or switch shen and iori's positions...
and yeah the vid was dandy J's - it was very very helpful for me coming from street fighter. My only snk experience is from playing Terry for a couple months in Garou, but this game seems pretty different from Garou so far.