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SNK: COMBO AND SYSTEMS GUIDE Applicable to the Arcade and Import Dreamcast versions of Capcom Vs. SNK. This was written before the American version was created, and thus cannot be assumed to be fully accurate for that future version of the game. Although I am using the import Dreamcast version to write this FAQ, I am using the characters' American names (so the boxer is named Balrog, The super-evil Shotokan is named Akuma, the psycho power guy is M.Bison, and the guy with the mask and claw is Vega). written by James Chen Unpublished work Copyright 2000 James Chen PLEASE READ THIS SECTION BEFORE READING THE REST OF THE FAQ: This Guide is written and thus owned by me, James Chen. Any attempt to reproduce this Guide in any way, whether it be on paper or on computer or through any other known method, is prohibited. The information in this FAQ cannot be used IN ANY WAY for profit. It cannot be sold to anyone or traded in any sort of commercial transaction. 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If you disagree with any part of this disclaimer, you must promptly delete / destroy this FAQ. To put it simply, don't try and make a living off of my work, since I have every right to take legal action against you if you do so. FAQ ripping, plagiarism and misuse is sadly blatant in today's world. However, if it happens to you, remember that anything you create is automatically protected by copyright, and that gives you the right to take legal action, assert your rights, and punish transgressors to the fullest extent of the law." -- taken from Kao Megura's Street Fighter Alpha 3 FAQ And to set an example of how I myself obey these copyright laws, I hereby give full credit to Kao Megura for writing the above paragraph regarding the International Copyright Law. It was very well stated, so I have used it in my Guide rather than paraphrasing it and writing my own. I have not tried in any way to make a profit by quoting his paragraph in this Guide and have given full credit to him for writing it. Although the above paragraph uses the word "FAQ" and was written for Kao's Alpha 3 FAQ, its content and meaning still applies to this Guide. * * * The Street Fighter game series, the DarkStalker series (specifically NightWarriors and Vampire Savior), and the Versus Games series, as well as all of the characters from these games mentioned in this FAQ, are (c) Capcom of Japan and (c) Capcom of America. The King of the Fighters series and all characters from these games are (c) SNK of Japan. All other copyrights and trademarks that I have failed to mention are also acknowledged. * * * ===================================================================== This FAQ can also be found at www.shoryuken.com Also found there are individual Character movelists and Combo Videos from Capcom Vs. SNK! Movelists and Combo Videos from many other games can also be found there, including Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and Street Fighter Alpha 3. Please check the site out. It's the best resource out there for all of your Capcom Fighting game needs!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- This FAQ can also be found at GameFAQs: www.gamefaqs.com ===================================================================== ============================================ | System Guide Outline / Table of Contents | ============================================ 1. Intro 2. Controls 3. Picking your character - The Groove System - Capcom Groove - SNK Groove - Advantages and Disadvantages to Each Groove - Normal or EX Version - Ratio System - Color 4. Basic Gameplay Elements - Walking, Crouching, Jumping, Attacking - Blocking - Dashing - High Jumping - Throws and Tech Hits - Rolling - Guard Crush - Delayed Get-ups 5. Combos! - Buffering - Rapid Fire Weak Attacks - Links - Chain Combo - The Raging Demon Supers - Combo Damage 6. The Juggle System - The Alpha 1 / 2 Juggle System - The Juggle Set-Up - The Juggle Potential - The Juggle Count - The Juggle Count Part 2 - The King of the Fighters Juggle - The Set-up - Juggling Opponents - The Sakura / Vice Exception - The Spiraling Reel 7. Character Specifics - Akuma - Balrog - Benimaru - Blanka - Cammy - Chun Li - Dhalsim - E. Honda - Evil Ryu - Geese - Guile - Iori - Ken - Kim - King - Kyo - Mai - M. Bison - Morrigan - Nakoruru - Orochi Iori - Raiden - Rugal - Ryo - Ryu - Sagat - Sakura - Terry - Vega - Vice - Yamazaki - Yuri - Zangief ===================================================================== ================ | INTRODUCTION | ================ "Everybody rumored... Nobody believed... But you see... It's TRUE!!! Now it's time to have REAL answer... Who is... THE STRONGEST!? CAPCOM VS. SNK: MILLENNIUM FIGHT 2000!!!" With these words, Capcom Vs. SNK was ushered into the Fighting Game realm with much anticipation. Many people speculated for a long time: who would win in a fight between Ryu and Kyo? Mai and Chun Li? Geese and Bison? Well, when rumors flew that Capcom was developing Capcom Vs. SNK for the arcade to be a true, arcade fighting game (unlike the Super Deformed characters from SNK's Neo-Geo Pocket SNK Vs. Capcom), people got very excited. FINALLY, we can see Guile vs. Kim Kaphwan. Finally, we could see Yamazaki take on the likes of Sagat. Finally, we could see Ken vs. Iori! It was all too exciting!! And in the year 2000, Capcom Vs. SNK was brought into the arcades and Dreamcasts of Japan, as well as the Dreamcasts of us impatient importers here in the American shores. And, the verdict? Not so good. These days, with the huge selection of fighting games that exist, there have grown MANY factions of gamers out there. Even within the Capcom fighting games themselves, there is a HUGE discrepancy between what gamers like and dislike. There are the fans of the Street Fighter Alpha series, and even among them they can't agree whether 2 is good and 3 is bad, or 3 is good and 2 is bad (or they are both good!). There is the Three faction, who love the Street Fighter Three series. There are the old schoolers, who still can't get enough of Hyper Fighting and Super Turbo. Then, there are the Versus game players, whose newest fascination is the highly popular Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. Then, on the SNK side, there are the huge King of the Fighters group, who play every version when they come out, and are absorbed by the story line. There are even those out there who love all SNK games EXCEPT the KOF series, who still think Art of Fighting 1 is the bomb and can name you every Fatal Fury game ever made. Then, there is the 3-D fan base, those who love Soul Calibur, Tekken Tag Tournament, Virtua Fighter... So to put it simply, there is just WAAAAY too many factions out there, these days, to behold. So as a result, we get a lot of preconceived ideas of what Capcom Vs. SNK is. So in this intro, I'm going to do my best to speak to a select few of the above groups, to help them prepare for what type of game you are getting yourself into... I, personally, LOVE this game, and think it deserves much better reaction than it is getting. * * * A Message to the Fans of the Versus Game Series: Capcom Vs. SNK, although containing the word "Vs." in the title, is NOT a Versus game. Capcom Vs. SNK belongs in the Street Fighter series. It was meant to be a less manic, more precise game than your typical Versus game like Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. Thus, the pace is slower, the combos are MUCH more toned down, and you can't use more than one character at a time, even though you can pick teams. So realize that in order to like this game, you'll probably need to have a strong appreciation for the Alpha series, or the classic Street Fighter series. You can't expect the manic pace of, say, MvC2 in this game. And Capcom is NOT going to put in strange characters like Megaman or Strider or a character from Metal Slug or Arthur or anything like that in it (at least, I hope not). In fact, Morrigan and Nakoruru are already a stretch, one that I personally don't like. Don't expect Air Combos or two screen-high Super Jumps. Don't expect any Chain Combos or Supers that fill up the screen. What you've got here is a game of slow paces, where defense is more powerful than offense. The Combo System is complicated (thus, this Guide), and super motions are more complicated. And manic attacking will only bring your demise, especially since, at beginning levels of this game, Turtling (playing purely defensively) can be extremely effective and deadly. So if you are expecting a combo-madness game, with Iori Air Comboing Chun Li into a Super in the air after Kyo has come out with his Alpha Helper to set up the combo, and then catching the enemy with a Delayed Hyper Cancel into Benimaru's screen-filling Raikou Ken... You'd better go and play another game. ^_^ But if you're willing to give a slower paced game, the type that first made fighting games popular, a chance, well then, by all means, read this FAQ and learn how the combo system and the gameplay elements technically work in this game... * * * A Message to the Fans of the King of the Fighters Series: This game is made by Capcom. Not by SNK. And so of course, Capcom will prefer their stuff to SNK's stuff, and use their own interpretations of SNK's systems. This will cause two main problems for you KOF fans: 1) The Combo System is unlike that of KOF, so expect a lot of things to be missing and changed. For example, if you are expecting to be able to do, with Yamazaki, Standing C chained into Towards + A canceled into Reverse Fireball motion + C... well, you won't be able to do that. The Chaining System you know and love from KOF is gone. The feel and gameplay of this game is MUCH more similar to a typical Capcom game. So those people who come from Capcom will be a bit more used to doing combos in this game than you. 2) There's very little that's new to you here. Whereas, for Capcom players, the idea of High Jumping, Rolling, and Dashing all in one game can be a new change to the engine of the game, it's old hat for you KOF players. You've all done it before, so the newest thing for you is to actually learn how to play those Capcom characters you haven't used before. This might actually give you an advantage, though, seeing as how you're good at reacting to Rolls, whereas a typical Capcom player may have problems dealing with them for a while. So if you are expecting a game with a great deal of new tactics, don't hold your breath. However, if you are excited about learning a new Combo System, by all means, read on in this guide and learn all about it!! It's different than what you're used to, probably one of the biggest and newest things you'll experience. And it's quite complex, but opens the world to some interesting combos! So take a look, and learn, so you can apply your KOF knowledge to the Capcom rules of Combos to dominate in your arcade... * * * A Message to the fans of the Street Fighter Series: Out of everyone, you will be the most used to this game, regardless of which Street Fighter game you've played. If you are an Alpha fan, the Juggling and Combo system is almost identical to the Alpha 1 and 2 games (as well as Super Turbo). Controls feel VERY Alpha-like. If you are a fan of the Three series, you'll at least be used to the Dashing and High Jumping. However, Parries are gone and the high/low game that is more predominant in the Three series is gone. Out of all Street Fighter players, the Three players may have the hardest time getting used to this. If you are an old schooler, and love Hyper Fighting and Super Turbo, you're probably in the best condition to play this game. Why? Because everything fancy has been removed from the game. In fact, it's become SO simple again, that it is almost off-putting to most players who are used to having Custom Combos or Parries or huge Versus Game-like combos or Helpers. However, if you maintain the mentality you had when you played Hyper Fighting, when you realized the game is all about sequences, traps, attack patterns, and how to break these attack patterns, you will enjoy the game a lot (at least, that's how it was for me). And the Combo System is almost identical to Super Turbo's Combo System. But that doesn't necessarily mean you understand it still, since it was kind of confusing, even back then. But mastering the combo system is still key to helping you create the most devastating combos possible. So if you want to learn, read on... * * * So there you have it... Capcom Vs. SNK. A quick warning, though: although this IS a Combo FAQ and will help describe many aspects of combos, it is also a Systems Guide, and is actually more so a Systems Guide than a Combo FAQ. So if you are looking for a list of combos for each character, you won't find them at the end of the Guide. I did not take the time to list combos for every character. You WILL, however, find some Combo Videos at www.shoryuken.com. If you want to check out some nice combos (or find lots of information regarding any Capcom fighting game), please check it out! We've got a lot of information regarding various Capcom fighters for you! Again, that's: http://www.shoryuken.com Check it out. It's your TRUE competitive edge. And enjoy this Systems Guide. Hope you find it helpful. If you ever want to comment on the Guide, please feel free to send me an e-mail to jchensor@shoryuken.com. I cannot guarantee I'll write back... I am a VERY poor responder to e-mails these days. So if I do not respond to your e-mail for a month, please don't feel like I'm ignoring you... I simply just have very little time for e-mails these days. So please don't take it personally. Again, enjoy the Guide! ===================================================================== (Notation: This may be a bit confusing, but I just wanted to point out that if I mention a character without any title, I am either referring to the original character or both the original and EX version of the character. So if I say "Ken", I may mean both or just the regular one. However, normally if I am referring only to the regular one, I will point that out. So if I ever want to refer to, say, just regular Ken, you might expect a sentence like: "If you do a Shippu Jinrai Kyaku with Ken (original one only), you can... etc. etc." If I ever want to refer to the EX-version of a character, I will state their name with "EX-" in front of it, such as "EX-Ken".) ===================================================================== ============ | CONTROLS | ============ Here is a diagram of the controls in Capcom Vs. SNK. Standard joystick set-up with four buttons. JOYSTICK POSITIONS | BUTTONS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | ^^^^^^^ | Jump | o | Back Jump o | o Forward Jump | PUNCHES \ | / | o o \ | / | Light Hard Back o ----- o ----- o Towards | Neutral | o o / | \ | Light Hard Defensive Crouch o | o Offensive Crouch | KICKS o | Crouch | The Controls of the Capcom Vs. SNK will be very familiar if you've played a lot of Capcom Fighting Games before. The major difference, however (and I'll never forgive Capcom for this), is that instead of Six Buttons, there are only Four Buttons: Jab (the Light Punch), Fierce (the Hard Punch), Short (the Light Kick), and Roundhouse (the Hard Kick). (--Note: A slight warning for those unfamiliar with the original Street Fighter Button names. I will refer to the Light Punch button as "Jab", the Hard Punch button as "Fierce", the Light Kick button as "Short", and the Hard Kick button as "Roundhouse" often in this FAQ, mainly due to force of habit. But I will do my best to remind those unfamiliar with these names which button I am referring to with abbreviations like "LK" meaning Light Kick and "HP" meaning Hard Punch. Also, I will refer to "Strong" and "Forward" quite often, which were the Medium Punch and Medium Kick buttons from old Street Fighter days, since many of the Street Fighters still possess these moves in some form or another.) However, Capcom did not want to take a lot of their characters and strip down their normal moves. Any person who's ever used Ryu before can tell you that Crouching Short (LK), Crouching Forward (MK), and Crouching Roundhouse (HK) were all extremely useful in their own ways. Capcom did not want to limit Ryu to only two Crouching Kicks for CvS. Thus, in order to distinguish between performing what used to be Ryu's Crouching Forward Kick (MK) and what used to be Ryu's Crouching Roundhouse Kick (HK), you must hold the controller in specific directions. So, continuing with Ryu as the example, to perform what used to be Ryu's Crouching Forward (MK), you now have to hold the controller at Defensive Crouch and hit Roundhouse (HK). To do what used to be Ryu's Crouching Roundhouse (HK), the controller must be placed at Down or Offensive Crouch when you hit Roundhouse (HK). For each character, it is different. Most follow the Ryu example (Defensive Crouch for the Forward Kick (MK) version, and Offensive Crouch or straight Down for the Roundhouse Kick (HK)). However, some characters only have a different move at Offensive Crouch (such as King) and some only have two Crouching attacks altogether (such as Sakura). This goes for Standing attacks as well. Some characters will do their Standing Strong (MP) or Standing Forward (MK) normally when you press the Fierce (HP) or Roundhouse (HK) button. However, if you hold Toward on the controller, they will do their Standing Fierce (HP) or Roundhouse (RH) instead. EX-Dhalsim and Morrigan are examples of this behavior. Although the button can do two different moves, such as with Ryu above, it is still significant to note that Reel lengths are different between those attacks. In other words, a Crouching Forward Kick (MK) still causes a shorter Block Stun time than a Crouching Roundhouse (HK), even though they are performed with the same button. ===================================================================== ========================== | PICKING YOUR CHARACTER | ========================== Most players from either side will be used to the idea of choosing "Modes" for your fighters. The King of the Fighters group of players are used to choosing between Extra Mode or Advanced Mode from, say, KOF98. Street Fighter players are used to picking X-ism, A-ism, or V-ism from SFA3. Well, in Capcom Vs. SNK, there are still Modes you have to choose from and a lot of other things to consider now... Here are the steps and considerations you need for choosing your character: * * * -=The Groove System=- The first thing you must decide is your Groove. The available Grooves are Capcom Groove and SNK Groove. The Groove chosen does not affect your character. The Groove you choose only alters the way your Super Meter works. -Capcom Groove- In Capcom Groove, your Super Meter behaves almost exactly as it did in the Street Fighter Alpha series. Your Super meter has three levels. As the fight continues, certain actions will continue to build up your Super meter. If you fill up 1/3 of your meter, you are entitled to performing a Level 1 Super Combo. If you fill it up 2/3 of the way, you are allowed to perform a Level 2 or a Level 1 Super Combo. At level 3, you are permitted to perform a Level 3, 2, or 1 Super Combo. Whichever level you choose drains that much energy out of your meter. In other words, if you have a Level 3 and perform a Level 1 Super Combo, you still have 2/3 of your meter left, and can do a Level 2 or two more Level 1 Super Combos. To choose between Levels is simple. For a Level 1 Super Combo, perform the Super Combo motion and activate it with the appropriate Light attack. If the Super Motion requires a Punch, do the motion and end it with Jab (LP). If the Super Motion requires a Kick, do the motion and end it with Short (LK). A Level 2 Super Combo is activated by pressing a Hard attack: Fierce (HP) or Roundhouse (HK). And to do a Level 3, do the motion and press both Punches or both Kicks, depending on which one you need. Once the levels fill up, they remain so until you perform a Super Combo. They will not be drained in any other way. -SNK Groove- In SNK Groove, your Super Meter behaves almost exactly like Extra Mode from the KOF series. You only have one level of your Super meter at any time. Although your meter does build up during regular combat, it does so VERY slowly. In order to build up your meter quickly, you need to press Fierce (HP) and Roundhouse (HK) at the same time at any point when your character is on the ground and not in the middle of an action. Your character will then begin to charge up their Super meter manually. You can stop this at anytime by letting go of the buttons. However much meter you have built up will remain in your meter, until you begin to charge it up again. Once the meter fills up, you are allowed to perform a Super Combo. However, regardless of what button you push, the Super Combo that gets performed will always be a Level 1 attack. There is a catch, though: you have a time limit on how long you have to perform your Super. After you charge it up, your Super meter slowly begins to drain, acting like a timer. If you let it drain all the way without performing a Super Combo, the meter will start over again, empty. You will have to charge it again to perform a Super Combo. An extra added bonus to SNK Mode is the fact that if your character is about to die (has very little health left), his or her life meter begins to flash red. Once the meter is Flashing Red, characters in SNK Groove can perform a Level 1 Super Combo any time they so desire. As long as their life meter is flashing red, they don't need their Super Meter anymore. You can fire off Level 1 supers at rapid fire!! However, if you manage to build up your Super meter while your life meter is flashing red, and THEN perform your Super Combo, your character will perform the Level 3 version of your Super Combo. So the only way for an SNK Groove character to perform a Super Combo that is greater than a Level 1 Super Combo is to make sure their health is in Red and then charge up their Super meter fully. But the charged up meter still has the time limit. -Advantages and Disadvantages to Each Groove- Here, I will list differences between the two Grooves, and why each one has their own advantages. + Capcom Groove - Builds up while attacking. Can gain a full meter without having to ever stop and charge. So if you play aggressively, you'll have a meter built up for you at all times. If you are aggressive and attack effectively, you almost never find yourself devoid of at least a Level 1. This is the BIGGEST advantage of Capcom Groove. - SNK Groove - Meter never builds up on it's own. Well, it does, but very, very, very, VERY slowly. If you forget to stop and charge it up once in a while, you'll never have a Super to use until you are dying! And most people try to avoid being near death most of the time as a general strategy... + SNK Groove - Dying characters can do Level 1 supers at anytime. So if your character has a great Level 1 Super, you can do it over and over and over again while your life meter is flashing red! This makes characters like EX-Mai, who has two EXCELLENT Level 1 Supers, particularly dangerous. This is the BIGGEST advantage of SNK Groove. - Capcom Groove - Once you use up your meter, it's gone. No benefits to dying characters. So if you have no meter and you're about to lose, I've got news for you... if you're counting on your meter to win, you're going to lose. + Capcom Groove - You can have Access to a Level 3 or Level 2 Super Combos at anytime. You don't have to be dying. Plus, you CAN be conservative and unleash Level 2's if that's all you need at the time, since most Level 2 Supers are better than Level 1 Supers, but use up less Super meter than a Level 3 Super. It also opens the door to having combos with multiple Supers in it, like Terry's Level 2 Buster Wolf followed by a Level 1 Power Geyser. Very good for those who have smart meter management. - SNK Groove - If your character's life is not flashing red, you'll never be able to do more than just Level 1 supers, and some character have some pretty worthless Level 1 Supers. Plus, you have NO access to a Level 2 Super at ALL! So if you ever want to do a Level 2 Super (for example, Vice's Withering Surface will make her jump forward and try to grab. The Level determines the distance. If you are at the optimal distance for a Level 2 version of this Super, you're out of luck). + SNK Groove - Free Meter whenever you like! Knock the enemy over, charge up! This keeps you with a Level 1 at almost any second, and if you're good at comboing Supers, that means you can unleash a barrage of Level 1 Supers in combos. - Capcom Groove - If your meter is empty, and you need a comeback by landing a Super, kiss yourself good-bye. You won't be able to get yourself any free meter at anytime. + Capcom Groove - Your meter stays after a character dies. Whether you win or lose, your meter will remain the same between Rounds, more importantly after you lose. So you can pick a character who doesn't need any Supers to go first, attack a lot, and when that character dies, the next character will have a full Level 3 meter waiting at his or her disposal. - SNK Groove - If your character dies, you no longer have any meter left at all. Not TOO big of a consequence, since it's easy to charge and a Level 1 is the max you can use anyhow, but having a Level 3 to start a Round off would have been nice... Plus, if you win a Round while your meter was charged up, you start the next Round NOT with a full meter, but only with however much of the draining meter was left. + SNK Groove - Extended Combos. Some Level 3 supers can be followed up with another Level 1 super for extra hits. This is a little more useful than it sounds, especially for dishing out that LITTLE extra damage that might be needed to finish someone off. It never hurts to add that extra damage!! If your life meter is flashing red and you have a full meter built up and then you land a Level 3 Super, your life meter is still flashing red! Do another Level 1 if you can to add even more hits and damage! And not only that, after you blew your Level 3 super, you still have Infinite Level 1's! - Capcom Groove - Three levels is all you get. If you land the Level 3 and need another level of Super meter to add more hits, you're out of luck. Not a great consequence, however, since those extra hits more than likely won't do too much damage. + Capcom Groove - Your meter doesn't ever drain. Once you build it up, nothing it draining it except for doing a Super. So there's no worries to use it or pressure to throw out a Super Combo before it "goes away". - SNK Groove - The timer pressures you, sometimes, to use the meter before it runs out. Also, say you're Ryu, and your life is Flashing Red. You charge up your Super meter for a Shin Shoryu Ken. However, the enemy knows you can now perform that Super, so they can play cautiously until your Super Meter drains away and the threat of the Shin Shoryu Ken is gone. Thus, they can all out attack you again, once the danger has passed, never giving you an opportunity to land the Level 3 super. If you were Capcom Groove and had a Level 3, you'd be able to do it at any given second, so the enemy cannot play cautiously hoping the threat will go away. They can only play knowing the threat is still there. + SNK Groove - The false "vulnerability" of charging your meter in SNK Groove proves to be useful sometimes, especially for characters with Uppercuts. Basically, while charging up, you often look like you are a sitting duck, and people try to hit you. This can be a bait, and can be used to nail would be attacks with a well-timed Uppercut or something. - Capcom Groove - No real disadvantages here, except that you don't have this tactic. * * * -=Normal or EX Version=- Every character except three has two versions of that character available to him/her: Normal and EX. This does not affect your Super Meter like the Groove System does, this actually affects the moves available to your character. There are actual differences between the Normal and EX characters that can completely alter the way they play!! For example, EX-Cammy does not have the Cannon Drill! This changes her offense COMPLETELY! You simply cannot play her the same way you play normal Cammy. To pick the EX version of your character, highlight your character and hold the Start button. While holding the start button, pick your character. This will cause you to select the EX version of your character. As mentioned earlier, the Normal vs. EX versions only affect your character's moves. It does not affect their Life Meter, Super Meter, or Basic Gameplay elements like Blocking, Super Jumping, or Dashing. The three characters who do not have EX versions are Akuma, Nakoruru, and Morrigan. Ryu and Iori technically don't have EX versions. However, if you choose Evil Ryu or Orochi Iori, they will be counted as the EX versions of Ryu and Iori, even though Evil Ryu is vastly different than Ryu and Orochi Iori is a LOT faster than normal Iori. * * * -=Ratio System=- A brand new system implemented by Capcom, the Ratio system determines how many characters you are allowed to pick. You have a 4 point Ratio limit for choosing your character. In other words, you have four "slots" available to you when you start choosing your characters, and you cannot exceed these four slots. So how does this work? Well, every character falls under a certain Ratio level: 1, 2, 3, or 4. Depending on their Ratio level, that's how many slots they take up in your Ratio limit. In other words, a Ratio-1 character will take up one slot, a Ratio-2 character will take up 2 slots, and so on and so on. And since you only have 4 slots open to you, this limits the type of team you can choose. So given the constraints, these are the team combinations you can come up with: - 4 Ratio-1 Characters - Total of 4 characters - 2 Ratio-1 Characters, 1 Ratio-2 Character - Total of 3 characters - 1 Ratio-1 Character, 1 Ratio-3 Character - Total of 2 characters - 2 Ratio-2 Characters - Total of 2 characters - 1 Ratio-4 character - Total of 1 character Some people get the wrong impression that Ratio 1 characters are characters that Capcom thought were "not as good" as the others, and thus stuck them in Ratio 1. Actually, the Ratio is not a presumption of how good they are. It simply reflects their damage level. Ratio 1 characters do very little damage, and take large amounts of damage. A good Level 3 Super from a Ratio 3 character against a Ratio 1 character can do upwards to 80% damage. However, a Level 3 Super from a Ratio 1 character will do only about 45% damage to a Ratio 3 character. So the Ratio system determines strength, not quality. Right now, it's still a debate as to which combination is best. Really, it all depends on the characters you choose. Pick whichever combination of characters you think you play the best. There's really no pressure, as of now, to choose 4 Ratio 1 characters or two Ratio 2 characters etc. So far, all combinations seem like they can win, depending solely on how well you play your characters. Here is a list of which Ratio each character falls under: -=Ratio 1=- -=Ratio 2=- -=Ratio 3=- -=Ratio 4=- Sakura Ryu M.Bison Evil Ryu Cammy Ken Sagat Akuma Dhalsim Chun Li Vega Orochi Iori Blanka Guile Yamazaki Benimaru Terry Rugal King Mai Geese Vice Iori Yuri Kyo Morrigan Balrog E.Honda Zangief Raiden Kim Ryo Nakoruru * * * -=Color=- Heh, picking your color for your character is always a way to personalize yourself. Be the only person in your arcade to play the Benimaru with the red hair!! ^_^ Each of the four buttons picks a different color of your character. In the Dreamcast Version of the game, there are four other secret colors you can choose by hitting Jab + Fierce (LP + HP), Short + Roundhouse (LK + HK), Jab + Short (LP + LK), or Fierce + Roundhouse (HP + HK). Also, there is a special Color Edit mode where you can create you own colors. To select those, pick your character with Jab + Roundhouse (LP + HK) for the first available color you created and press Short + Fierce (LK + HP) to select the second color you've created. I will say that I enjoy the "Color Edit" feature a little too much... ^_^. ===================================================================== =========================== | BASIC GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS | =========================== Every game has their new system of controls and techniques. This section will describe to you all of the basic gameplay elements the game has. * * * -=Walking, Crouching, Jumping, Attacking=- If you've ever played a fighting game before, Capcom or SNK, just skip this paragraph, trust me. But I'll be brief about it, in case you read it anyhow. The four basic actions that are given to a character in almost every fighting game created are the ability to Walk forward or backwards (by hitting Toward or Back), Crouch (by hitting any of the three Down positions), to Jump in any of three directions (straight up for a straight up jump, Back Flip to jump backwards, or Forward Flip to jump forward), and to Attack (by hitting a button with our without the combination of a joystick motion). These are the four absolute most basic actions given to a character. * * * -=Blocking=- Although this can be considered a fifth basic action, I will give this it's own section just to clarify one thing. Unlike the original SF games, CvS takes the stance of Blocking similar to more recent Street Fighter games. Your character will only Block if the enemy is attacking you and the attack is NEAR you. In other words, if your character is a screen away from the opponent, and your opponent throws out a bunch of Crouching Shorts, your character will not go into Block stance. The attack has to be near you in order for it to cause you to Block. Everyone knows this: hold Back to block High, Mid, and Jumping Attacks, as well as "Overheads". Hold Defensive Crouch to Block Mid and Low attacks (Sweeps). Once you Block an attack, you are rendered "stuck" in Block Stun. If another attack connects on your character before you end your Block Stun, you will again be put into Block Stun and forced to Block again. In fact, since you are stuck in Block Stun during an attack, you can let go of the controller altogether and still block the next attack if you have not recovered from the first Block Stun. So for example, if Ryu performs a Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku (Super Hurricane Kick) next to you and you block the first attack, you can pretty much let go of the controller at this point, because you will automatically block every other attack from that move. However, if you are Blocking in the wrong direction, you will still be hit. So say the enemy does a Jumping Roundhouse and you high Block it. If the enemy does a Crouching Roundhouse while you are still in your Block Stun and you don't Crouch Block it, just because you are in Block Stun doesn't mean you will automatically Crouch Block. You still have to adjust high or low for Blocking. * * * -=Dashing=- In Capcom Vs. SNK, Capcom has implemented Dashing. However, if you are a fan of Capcom's Versus Game series, you'll notice that Dashes in this game behave VERY differently. However, if you are familiar to King of the Fighters Extra Mode style Dashing or the Street Fighter Three series style of Dashing, then you'll quickly adapt to this game. To Dash, tap the joystick Toward twice (to Dash forward), or Back twice (to Dash backwards). What this will do is cause your character to quickly move forward or backward a fixed distance. But note I said a fixed distance. In other words, once you start your Dash, you are committed. You cannot stop the Dash early, you cannot perform an attack until you are finished, you cannot Block until you are finished. This makes Dashing mostly useful for positioning and surprise attacks against opponents who have been mentally trained to be afraid to attack (allowing you to get a full dash in against the enemy just sitting there). With your Dash, your character technically counts as if they are in the air. In other words, if you are struck out of a Dash by, say, a Standing Jab, your character will bounce up into the air in an Air Reel and land back on his/her feet. This is significant because, for example, if Ken hits you with a Crouching Forward Kick (MK) while you are Dashing, this will bounce you into the air. Thus, he cannot perform a Crouch Forward canceled into a Hadou Ken and have it combo. Your character will bounce into the air and land, able to block the Hadou Ken. A few exceptions: If you do get hit out of a Dash by a Sweep, you will be tripped to the floor as usual. You will not bounce into the air into an Air Reel. Also, if the enemy hits you out of your Dash with anything that Juggles, like Ryu's Shin Shoryu Ken, you will get hit by all hits of the Juggle anyhow. There are some characters whose Dash causes them to hop much higher than most characters. Examples of these characters are Nakoruru, Morrigan, and Blanka. In these instances, their Dashes make them hop so high that they can actually use this to avoid attacks. They can hop right over Sweeps and other low-to-the-ground attacks. For example, Blanka can even Dash right over Terry's Power Wave and other such projectiles! This gives their Dash an extra dimension that other characters don't have. And even though certain characters, like Terry Bogard, do look like they hop during their Dash, they can barely use it to go over any attacks. So even though Ken slides and Terry hops in their animation, their dashes are essentially the same. Once last thing: Dashes cannot go through enemies. So if you Dash right next to the enemy, you will not pass through them. In fact, you won't even make them budge!! * * * -=High Jumping=- Again, if you are thinking Versus Game, change your mind set. Once again, put your mindset into King of the Fighters or the Street Fighter Three Series. A High Jump is simply that: a High Jump. To do a High Jump, simply hit Down before you hit any of the three Up positions on the joystick. Your character will do a higher, longer jump. You'll know if it's a High Jump because your character will leave behind a "shadow trail". This is good for attacking enemies across the screen, or getting an advantage on Air to Air attacks. Otherwise, there are no special properties of a High Jump. They are simply just that: a higher version of your regular Jump. * * * -=Throws and Tech Hits=- Throws have been reverted back to their original style of only needing one button to Throw for those of you from the Capcom side of things. For you SNK players out there, Throws are pretty much done the same as in King of the Fighters. To perform a Throw, simply walk right up to the opponent, hold Toward or Back, and Press Fierce (HP) or Roundhouse (HK). Every character in this game has two Throws now, so either one will work. Throws cannot be blocked. Some characters also have Air Throws. They are done pretty much the same. If you jump and your opponent is near you in the air, hold any direction except Up and press Hard Punch or Hard Kick, depending on which button is your Air Throw. Not every character has an Air Throw (more don't than do) and those that have Air Throws may only have one, unlike ground Throws where everyone has two Throws. They also have implemented Counter Throws (their official name is a "Tech Hit") in this game. If you get Thrown by the enemy, but anticipated it and tried to counter Throw, you will "deflect" their Throw attempt. Both of your characters will push each other away (a big, bright light flashes between you, and you two slide away from each others with arms in the air...) and no one will take damage. The technical way to do this is to simply hit Fierce or Roundhouse RIGHT as you are Thrown. If you hit either button right after the enemy begins their Throw (and I mean RIGHT after), you will be able to deflect their Throw with a Tech Hit. Note, you cannot Tech Hit Special Move Throws. So if Zangief, Raiden, Benimaru (EX only), Vice, Cammy, Morrigan, Evil Ryu, Akuma, etc. catch you with any of their Special Move Throws, you will be Thrown. There is no way to Tech Hit those. One fun and trivial thing to note about Throws: they implemented the Darkstalkers missed Throw animation system!! If you try and throw an opponent and the opponent leaves your Throw range RIGHT before you hit the Throw button, your character will actually execute a missed Throw animation!! Heh... I guess if Morrigan is in the game, they had to implement SOME aspect of Darkstalkers into the game!!! * * * -=Rolling=- Rolls come straight out of the Advanced Mode of the King of the Fighters series. To perform the roll, hit Jab (LP) and Short (LK) at the same time. However, there is one major difference that KOF players will have to get used to: there is no more backwards Rolling. Regardless of what direction you are holding on your joystick, hitting Jab (LP) and Short (LK) will cause your character to Roll forward. This is great, especially for charge-up characters like Guile and Honda. Now they can remain charged up (holding Defensive Crouch) and still move forward at the same time! Personally, I think this has made some characters, like Guile, more deadly than he's ever been. Sonic Boom traps have never been so powerful. Rolls are invincible to attacks pretty much the whole way through. During a roll, you cannot be struck out of it by any move whatsoever. However, the do have vulnerable points right at the beginning and right at the end of the Roll. The vulnerability at the beginning of the Roll is VERY small. It's mainly there, I think, so that people cannot use it as a "Wake-up" defensive maneuver. In other words, if Ryu throws a Shinkuu Hadou Ken into you as you are getting up, you cannot instantly Roll right when you get up with a "Reversal" Roll. Since you can be hit right at the beginning of a Roll, you will get nailed by the Shinkuu Hadou Ken. However, if the Shinkuu Hadou Ken is right in front of you when you start the Roll, no problem. You'll go through it with ease. You are only vulnerable RIGHT when the Roll starts. The invulnerability at the end of the roll is a bit longer. At the end of your Roll, you can be hit by anything that would hit you normally had you been Standing. So even though the enemy did, say, Rugal's Standing Roundhouse (HK), it'll still strike you at the end of your Roll. I say this only because it looks like only Sweeps should be able to get you out of a Roll, but anything that hits a Standing character will do. This doesn't make the Roll useless, though. The vulnerable period is still short enough for effective surprise attacks and smart positioning. It keeps it, however, from being abused, which is perfect. Rolls have the ability to go through enemies. When you perform a Roll right next to the enemy, you will Roll right through them. This can be useful for confusing the enemy or used against characters getting up, waiting to nail you with their Wake-Up attack. Roll through them and nail them from the other side when their attack misses. The distance of your roll depends on your character. Some characters have extremely long Rolls (Nakoruru) and some have very short Rolls (E.Honda). For characters like Honda, being a Charge-Up character and having such a short Roll, you pretty much never have to walk ever again. Rolls sound very powerful, as of this moment. Is there any guaranteed counter against a Roll? SNK was smart enough, back in the KOF series, to implement a way to stop Rolls that requires anticipation and wariness: Throwing. You can Throw a character out of his/her Roll regardless of what phase of the Roll they are in. It is true that I said you cannot be struck out of a Roll, but you can certainly be Thrown. So if you predict someone is going to Roll through, say, a Kaiser Wave you are about to throw out with Rugal, fake it, walk forward, and Throw the character when they Roll. Special Move Throws qualify here as well. So a Zangief Spinning Pile Driver, a Honda Ooichou Nage, or Vice's Nail Bomb can all grab you out of a Roll. This goes for Super Throws as well. So if Zangief is trying to set up a FAB on you, and you try to avoid it by Rolling, you will get Thrown. Remember this tactic well. If someone tries to Roll behind you as you get up, like mentioned above, you can simply perform a Wake-Up Throw, and pretty much Throw the enemy out of their Roll regardless of what side of you they are on. Throwing enemies out of Rolls becomes a very good counter to remember. * * * -=Guard Crush=- If you end up Blocking too much in this game, eventually, your "Guard will break". Essentially what that means is your character, after Blocking one too many attack, will go into a short stun period in which they are vulnerable. The Guard Meter is not visible on screen as it was in SF Alpha 3, but the border of your Life Meter will begin to flash wildly as your meter gets closer and closer to being broken. Once the Guard is broken, the opponent is left stunned, but only for a VERY short period of time. Take advantage of it while you still can!! For more information regarding Guard Crushes, please read the "Guard Crush FAQ" written by Joe Van Pelt, Derek Daniels, and John Choi which can be found exclusively at www.shoryuken.com. * * * -=Delayed Get-ups=- Once you are knocked-down by anything, normally your character immediately gets back up only half a second after hitting the floor. For the first time in a Capcom Fighting Game, you can delay when your character gets up! This is very simple to do. Before your character starts to get up, hold both Punches. Your character will remain on the floor for about half a second longer, and then get up. You'll know you did this because your character, when getting up, with have the "shadow" effect. It isn't too much longer on the floor, but enough to throw off Meaty Attack timing and Cross-Up timing. Also, since the character generally gets up pretty quickly after being knocked over, you pretty much have to have decided to do the Delayed Get-up before you hit the floor. If you try to hold two Punches after you are lying on your back, you'll usually start getting up by then. Learn when to use this tactic, and it can be effective enough to shift the Wake-Up game to your advantage, as it will add a small element of inconsistency to the timing of your get-up. This could save you from a lot of damage, like a Ryu Cross-up that combos into a Shin Shoryu Ken... You could potentially save 80% of your life! ===================================================================== ============== | COMBOS!!!! | ============== The Combo System in Capcom Vs. SNK is primarily based off of the standard Street Fighter combo engine. Fans of SNK games may be a bit confused or disappointed in this aspect of Capcom Vs. SNK. The Combo system that you are so used to from KOF is gone. You can no longer chain into the "Towards + button" attacks. In fact, most SNK characters have lost these Towards + button attacks. For example, Terry's Towards + A, which was a two-hitting punch, is no longer Towards + Jab (LP). It's his close-up Fierce (HP) punch. It's still Bufferable, but there's no way to chain into it anymore. So a lot of the combos that you have learned to know and love are gone. Meanwhile, all of the standard Street Fighter combos still exist. So if you're used to KOF, better start learning to understand the Capcom style of combos. It's a little one-sided, but I guess that's what we would expect since the game IS made by Capcom! Below are the basic components of combos. These are what you will end up using to get maximum damage against your opponents in Capcom Vs. SNK!! * * * -=Buffering=- Capcom is never going to abandon the most widely used form of comboing invented back in the days of Classic Street Fighter. And there's no reason they should, because, arguably there is no better system of creating combos than this simple method: the ability to cancel certain Normal Moves into a Special Move. This technique is known as Buffering or "Two-in-ones." It has been adapted into almost every fighting game you can think of from every company: KOF, Samurai Shodown, MK4, Killer Instinct, Guilty Gear, TMNT: Tournament Fighters, Critical Blow, Dynasty Warriors, and many, many others. There ARE games that don't follow this system of comboing, but most of those are all based after Virtua Fighter, and are based mostly on the principle of Major Counters and Juggling... just to be thorough. The concept of Buffering is the ability for Street Fighters to be able to cancel the animation of certain Normal Moves into one of their Special Moves or a Super Combo. Normally, the Normal Move causes the enemy to Reel long enough for the Special Move to hit them while they are still in their Reel Stun, rewarding the attacker with a combo. An example of this is the ability for Ryu to cancel Crouching Forward Kick (MK) into a Hadou Ken for the two-hit combo that we've seen since the dawn of Street Fighter. One of the major factors of using Buffers in combos is the amount of time a Normal Move will put a character into Reel Stun. All Jabs (LP) and Shorts (LK) done from the ground cause the same Reel Stun length, the shortest Reel Stun length in the game. All Fierces (HP) and Roundhouses (HK) cause the same Reel Stun length, which are the longest Reel Stun lengths that can be caused by a Normal Move. And any move that is interpreted as a Strong (MP) or Forward (MK) will cause a middle length Reel Stun, shorter than that caused by a Fierce (HP) or Roundhouse (HK), but longer than that of a Jab (LP) or a Short (LK). Since Special Moves have varying distances and different speeds at which they come out, it becomes imperative to learn, for your character, which moves are Bufferable and which Special Moves combo from these moves. For instance, a move such as Kyo's 114 Shiki - Aragami (fireball motion + punch) is a bit slow to come out. Thus, a Crouch Short (LK) or a Crouch Jab (LP), both of which are Bufferable for Kyo, Buffered into the Aragami will not combo. If the enemy gets hit by the Crouch Short (LK), it will not put him in long enough of a Reel Stun. He/she will recover in time and be able to block the Aragami. However, since a Crouching Fierce is ALSO Bufferable for Kyo, and puts the enemy into a decidedly longer Reel Stun, the Aragami WILL combo if Buffered from the Crouch Fierce. So Crouch Fierce into Aragami and followed up by the last two hits (Kono Kizu and Nanase) will all connect for a four-hit combo. It is good to note that if a Special Move combos after being buffered from an attack, it is pretty much guaranteed to also Combo after any Normal Move of the same and weaker strengths. So for example, if Iori's Style No. 127 Shiki - Aoi Hana (Reverse Fireball + Punch x 3) combos after being Buffered from Crouching Short (LK), then it will also combo after being Buffered from Crouching Jab (LP), a same strength Normal Move, AND a Standing Fierce (HP), a stronger Normal Move. Distancing can also affect the ability of Buffered Special Moves to combo or not. Cammy's Crouching Forward (MK) Buffered into a Short (LK) Cannon Drill, for example, will combo at close distance. However, if you do this from too far away, where the Crouching Forward (MK) barely connects, it pushes the enemy too far away so that the Short (LK) Cannon Drill will NOT combo. So not only does Reel Stun affect if a combo works or not, so does the distance you are from the enemy for certain Special Moves. Some Normal Moves that are not Bufferable into a Special Move CAN be Buffered into a Super Combo. For example, Benimaru's Crouching Fierce (HP) cannot be Buffered into any of his Special Moves, but it CAN be Buffered into a Super Combo. Same goes for Guile's Crouch Fierce (HP). Yuri's Standing Far Away Short (LK) and Standing Far Away Roundhouse (HK) are also only Bufferable into Super Combos, but not Special Moves. This is very important, actually. For example, if you know you can cancel Benimaru's Crouching Roundhouse (HK) into his Raikou Ken Super, Benimaru gets a very useful and practical combo. Buffering his Crouch Roundhouse (HK) into the Raikou Ken is a very useful combo in normal combat. * * * -=Rapid Fire Weak Attacks=- Rapid Fire Weak Attacks are basically the quick Jabs (LP) and Shorts (LK) that can be chained into themselves. The most well-known of these moves is Ryu and Ken's Crouching Short (LK). If a player is Crouching and hits Short (LK) as fast as possible when right next to the opponent, you can easily be rewarded with three successive Crouching Shorts (LK) for a three-hit combo (usually, the next Crouching Short (LK) misses, as the enemy has been pushed too far away). Thus, in essence, the Crouch Short (LK) is chaining into itself repeatedly. Thus, the Crouching Short (LK) of Ryu and Ken can be called a "Rapid Fire Weak Attack" in that it can chain into itself. That is a good, simple way to describe it. (note: -- I'm gonna be saying Jab and Short a lot here... to preserve my time and sanity, just try and remember that a Jab is LP, and a Short is LK... thanks... ^_^.) However, the actual technical way in which a Rapid Fire Weak Attack works, as it did in the Street Fighter Alpha series, is that, if a Weak Attack has the ability to Chain, it has the ability to Chain into ANY Weak Attack. If that Weak Attack that it chains into happens to be ANOTHER Rapid Fire Weak Attack, you can then Chain from that one again. Thus, the above Crouching Short scenario is merely Ryu or Ken Chaining a Crouch Short into a Crouch Short, which is still a Chainable Weak Attack. Thus, Chain it again into another Crouch Short. However, the restriction must be stated once again: you can only Chain a Rapid Fire Weak Attack into another Weak Attack, i.e. any other form of Jab or Short (Crouching or Standing). There is one restriction, however. Because of the loss of the Strong (MP) and Forward (MK) buttons, a lot of the directional Normal Moves were moved to the Jab and Short buttons. Thus, moves such as Ryu's Overhead or Hop Kick are now performed by holding Toward on the controller and pressing Jab or Short respectively. These Normal Moves cannot be Chained into from a Rapid Fire Weak Attack. So the only restriction for Chaining Rapid Fire Weak Attacks is that they cannot be Chained into a Directional Move that uses the Jab and Short buttons. Many characters have at least one Jab or Short that counts as a Rapid Fire Weak Attack. Some characters have more than one. Let's look at Sakura for example. Her Standing Jab, Crouching Jab, and Crouching Short are all considered Rapid Fire Weak Attacks. Thus, you can chain any of those three moves into each other, such as Standing Jab into Crouching Jab into Crouching Short. You can also Chain them into the Standing Short kick, which provides us with Sakura's most heavily relied-on combo: Crouching Short into Crouching Short into Standing Short. However, since Standing Short is NOT a Rapid Fire Weak Attack, the Chain Combo ends there. Fortunately, Sakura's Standing Short is Bufferable and a Fierce Shou Ou Ken combos from a Standing Short, so tacking that at the end of the Chain Combo gives Sakura her most highly used combo: Crouching Short, Crouching Short, Standing Short, Fierce Shou Ou Ken. Some characters, such as Balrog have all four Weak Attacks as Rapid Fire Weak Attacks. Thus, he can conceivably Chain any of the attacks into any other of the Weak Attacks. Of course, he normally can't get more than three or four of them off in one combo. Some characters only have one, such as Chun Li (only her Standing Jab is a Rapid Fire Weak Attack). Other characters have none at all, such as Blanka. Then there are characters like Cammy whose Close-Up Short is a Rapid Fire Weak Attack but her Far Away Short is not. So it is highly varied between characters. * * * -=Links=- In the olden days of Street Fighter, Links were very useful in doing longer combos if you had no Chain Combos or Bufferable Moves (like Honda... What did he do for combos in Classic Street Fighter II?!?). A Link is not a special form of combo like Buffering. Basically, a Link is when you combo two moves in a row using no special methods. Usually, a Link occurs if the first move ends fast enough so that a second move, which typically comes out really quickly, can hit the enemy before he/she finishes recovering from his/her Reel Stun. Thus, the two hits register as a two-hit Combo. Links have become highly prominent in Capcom Vs. SNK. In fact, I can't think of a game, other than Street Fighter II Classic, where Links have played such a HUGE role in comboing. A LOT of things Link in this game. Fortunately, this does not get abused, because Linking is still perhaps the most skilled version of combos ever created in a Street Fighter game. Links are all about timing and are not very "user friendly" at all. There's nothing intuitive about them. They are simply just timing, and the only way to get good at them is to practice. So for example, Iori, up close, can do a Stand Jab (LP). Before the enemy recovers from the Reel of the Jab (LP), Iori will recover, and can throw out a Standing Fierce (HP) and catch the enemy before their Reel Stun ends. Thus, the two hits will connect as a two-hit combo. And then, you can Buffer that Standing Fierce (HP) into his 127 Shiki - Aoi Hana. Ryu can Link a Crouch Jab (LP) and a Standing Fierce (HP). Or a Crouch Short (LK) into a Crouch Forward (MK) or Crouch Roundhouse (HK). Cammy can Link a Standing Close-Up Fierce (HP) into a Crouch Forward (MK). The list goes on and on. There are so many Links in this game, it would take a LOT of space to list them all!! As I said, performing Links consistently is mainly a result of practice and timing. There is no trick to them. Just remember that if you hit the button too early, your move won't come out (you're still in the delay from the first attack). If you hit it too late, the two moves won't combo. Keep adjusting you timing until you can get them to connect consistently. If you are having trouble doing Links, just keep practicing. That's the only advice I can really give. * * * -=Chain Combo=- There's only one character who can do Chain Combos in this game: Morrigan. Basically, her Chain Combos work exactly like they did in NightWarriors. She can Chain her attacks together, but only in a specific order. The order in which you can Chain her attacks is: Jab -> Short -> Strong -> Forward -> Fierce -> Roundhouse (LP -> LK -> MP -> MK -> HP -> HK) You can use either Standing or Crouching Moves in this sequence. Also, you can go forward in this sequence and skip any moves you want. You can only not go backwards in the Chain. So, for example, you can choose to just do a Standing Jab (LP) Chained into Crouching Forward (MK) Chained into Crouching Roundhouse (HK), skipping Short (LK), Strong (MP), and Fierce (HP) all together. However, she cannot do a Jab (LP) Chained into a Strong (MP) and then Chain back to a Short (LK). You can only progress forward in the series. The timing is more difficult than your standard Versus Game Chain Combo. The timing for these Chains is that when one move connects, you hit the next move you want to Chain into right before the last move that hit leaves the Animation Frame that is connecting. It's a bit tricky at first, especially if you are used to the Chain Combos in the Versus Game series. In the Versus Games, you cannot hit the button too late. In this game, you CAN, and if you do, the move will no longer chain. Of course, you can't do a five-hit chain like you could in NightWarriors. Morrigan's moves come out far slower than before and they push the enemy farther away. Three hit chains are the most practical with Morrigan these days. However, Morrigan's Crouching Short (LK) is a Rapid Fire Weak Attack, the only time it's ever been that way. Thus, she can do a bunch of Crouch Shorts (LK) and then Chain it into a Crouch Roundhouse (HK). Also, Morrigan's Crouching Jab (LP) is a two-hit attack. Only the first hit of this Jab (LP) can be Chained from. The second hit cannot be Chained into other moves, but can be Linked from. * * * -=The Raging Demon Supers=- One last thing to mention is the Raging Demon Supers. The code for this move is very complex compared to most Special Moves. You have to tap Jab, Jab, hit Toward on the joystick, then hit Short and finally Fierce (LP, LP, Toward, LK, HP) very quickly. Because of this, the Raging Demon was given a lot of leniency. Basically, what I mean by this is, these moves are allowed to cancel ANY NORMAL MOVE at ANY ANIMATION FRAME. They did this because they knew that while tapping out the code, you will be flailing a bunch of Normal Moves. To make it easier for the move to come out, they allowed you to interrupt any Normal Move with it. So for example, if you are using Akuma, You can do the following trick. Hold Toward on the controller. Then tap Jab (LP) twice, tap the controller Towards once, then hit Short (LK) and then Fierce (HP). What will happen is that you will go into your Overhead. That move is rather slow and takes a while to finish, and is not, in any way, Bufferable into a Special Move or a Super Combo. However, because you finish the code for the Raging Demon WHILE the move is still animating, it will cancel the Overhead anyhow and the Raging Demon will come out!! So if you are fast, you can have the Raging Demon cancel anything you want, like Crouch Roundhouses (HK) or Stand Fierces (HP) etc. This doesn't do much in terms of combos, though. But it does help set-up great ways to land the Raging Demon. Raging Demons in this game are VERY powerful... They WILL grab enemies QUICKLY in this game. Unlike the past few games, if he has it started up and you are near him, he will grab you... You do NOT have a chance to jump away. It can even grab people out of moves. I've seen it grab the enemy out of a Shoryu Ken before!! The Raging Demons in all past Street Fighters have never been this good. You could always jump away from it pretty easily, or nail it with Uppercuts and such. Only in this game has the Raging Demon become as powerful as it should be. And if you do the trick I mentioned above, with the Overhead, the enemy may stand up to block the Overhead. But if you cancel it into the Raging Demon before the Overhead actually hits, then it's pretty much a guarantee that the Raging Demon will connect. However, there are three situations where the Raging Demon will NOT connect, even if performed right next to the enemy. It cannot grab enemies out of Block Stun, Hit Stun, or while they are getting up off the floor. So if you do, say, a Crouch Roundhouse (HK) which is blocked and it gets canceled into the Raging Demon, the enemy can ALWAYS JUMP AWAY from the Raging Demon. If you actually HIT someone with the Overhead and cancel it into the Raging Demon, Akuma or Evil Ryu will slide into the enemy, even while the enemy is Reeling, and not grab them. And if the enemy holds up, they will simply jump away. And if you do it to someone getting up, they can always jump away right when they get up. It is ONLY effective against enemies who are simply crouching or standing there, or in the middle of a move. One more character has a Raging Demon super: Morrigan. Her Darkness Illusion is the same code as a Raging Demon, and has been given equal lenience in doing the code. That means that anything can be canceled into the Darkness Illusion, at any point in time. This is VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, because this allows you great combo opportunities. For example, one of her easiest combos is Crouch Short (LK) Chained into Towards + Roundhouse (HK). Her Close-Up Towards + Roundhouse (HK) is a somersault kick that hits four times. While all four of these hits are connecting, you can, at your leisure, tap out the Darkness Illusion code. And even though NONE of the hits in that Towards + Roundhouse (HK) is Bufferable in any way, shape, or form, the Darkness Illusion will cancel that Roundhouse (HK) and combo into the enemy. So if Morrigan is in the middle of ANY Normal Move, it can be canceled into the Darkness Illusion. This goes for while she is Jumping too!!! Morrigan has a Down + Short (LK) in the air on her way down that hits three times. None of these three hits are Bufferable in any capacity, but if you are quick enough, you can tap out that Darkness Illusion code and cancel the last hit of Down + Short into the Darkness Illusion and it will combo. Heck, you can even wait until Morrigan lands and cancel the DELAY that Morrigan has of her Down + Short when she lands into a Ground Darkness Illusion. Also, one other sneaky trick you can do with this is cancel your delay of a Jumping move. If you Jump and hit Roundhouse (HK) right away with any character, after the Roundhouse is done, your character is pretty much stuck in the air and vulnerable all the way until he/she lands. Not so with Morrigan. You can actually cancel that "vulnerability" into the Darkness Illusion!! Technically, you are still considered in a Normal Move "delay", and since the Darkness Illusion can cancel any Normal move, it can cancel this delay as well. So if you do any Jumping move, you can do this to cancel it. So anything that has a Raging Demon code can cancel any normal move at any frame of animation. This can be useful in various situations, but mostly for Morrigan, who can use it in combos. * * * -=Combo Damage=- Just an interesting thing to point out... Damage Reduction is VERY prominent in this game. In case you don't know what Damage Reduction is, it's the effect in the game that causes hits that occur late in combos to do FAR less damage than they would had you hit the enemy with that move by itself. For example, if you nail the enemy with a Level 1 Shinkuu Hadou Ken with Ryu, the three hits of the fireball ball will do a good chunk of damage. However, if you, say, do a Crouch Short x 3 link into Crouch Forward Buffered into a Level 1 Shinkuu Hadou Ken, you'll notice that the Shinkuu Hadou Ken, occurring very late in a combo, does almost no damage whatsoever. This is damage reduction. The most extreme case of this, however, occurs at around 29 or 30 hits. Pretty much, if you do ANY combo that goes into that many hits, you'll notice those hits do ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE. So this is one of the first times that Damage Reduction can actually take SO MUCH effect that moves can do absolutely ZERO DAMAGE. So in the above case, with Morrigan, the Crouch Short (LK) Chained into Towards + Roundhouse (HK) canceled into Darkness Illusion will do 30+ hits. You'll notice that the final hit will do absolutely no damage at all whatsoever. Thus, it's actually a strong consideration to try and reduce the number of hits you preface the Darkness Illusion with if you plan on Comboing it. But even so, Damage Reduction really is in strong effect in this game, such as the above Ryu example. So sometimes, you may have to consider if it is worth it using a Super to do such little damage (unless, of course, you are in SNK mode and almost defeated, so that your level 1 Supers are free). ===================================================================== ===================== | THE JUGGLE SYSTEM | ===================== The Juggle System in this game can be best described almost like a cooking recipe: A scoop of Alpha 2 and a table spoon of Super Turbo, mixed with a dash of King of the Fighters and a sprinkle of Alpha 3. It's a nice mixture of a bunch of games together. But again, this is a Capcom game, so I would dare say it's primarily an Alpha Juggle System. If you are a King of the Fighters player, you'll want to take note of this section greatly. The Juggle System works nothing like KOF, except for a FEW tiny specific moves (which will be explained in the KOF Juggle System part). Otherwise, it will be a completely new system to get used to, nothing like you've seen before in a KOF game. If you are a Versus Game player and are used to the X-Men Vs. Street Fighter or Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 style Juggle, you're in for a surprise. The game is nowhere NEAR as loose and restriction free as a Versus game. There are VERY strict rules to follow when trying to perform Juggles. If you are an Alpha 3 player, this will be greatly different for you as well. In Alpha 3, you could Juggle with anything practically anywhere. And all hits would always seem to connect! But not anymore... Only the players of Super Turbo, Alpha 1, and Alpha 2 will be able to get used to this system of Juggling the quickest. It is almost exactly like those three games' Juggle Systems. They all shared a very similar style of Juggling, with very minute differences between them. So as I said, the Juggle System is a throwback to Super Turbo, Alpha 1, and Alpha 2. And it's not very intuitive. It's rather... quite complicated. And confusing... I'll do my best to explain it... However, it is not PURELY the Alpha Juggle System. There are a few exceptions to the Juggle rules that follow the KOF Juggle rules. However, as I said, the predominant one is the Alpha Juggle system. I'll talk about each Juggle System one by one, starting with this Alpha Juggle System. * * * --------------------------------- | The Alpha 1 / 2 Juggle System | --------------------------------- There are three main parts to an Alpha 1/2 Juggle System. The three parts, which will be discussed one by one, are: 1) A Juggle Set-Up, 2) a move with Juggle Potential, and 3) the Juggle Count. - - - -=The Juggle Set-Up=- If you are going to be Juggled in this game, you have to have one main thing: a Juggle Set-Up. There are two types of Juggle Set-Ups in this game, and are extremely reminiscent of Alpha 3's two Juggle Set-Ups: the Knock-Downs and the Air Reel animation frame. The first type of Set-Up, the Knock-Downs, are simple to explain. Anything that knocks the enemy over so that they will land on their backs counts as a Knock-Down, and as a Juggle Set-Up. Be it a Sweep, a Dragon Punch, or a Super Combo... if it will put the enemy on to floor, you can Juggle them before they hit the ground. They can be VERY close to hitting the floor, too. If your move is fast enough to catch them the instant before they hit the floor, they will be Juggled, no problem. Throws, which are Knock-Downs, aren't quite as simple however. Only some characters have Throws that actually qualify as Juggle Set-Ups. The best way to determine whether or not the Throw actually qualifies as a Juggle Set-up is whether or not the Throw builds up on the Combometer. For example, King's Punch Throw, Dhalsim's Punch Throw, and Blanka's Punch Throw all build up on the Combometer. Those are Throws that can actually be Juggled afterwards. Let's compare Guile's Kick Air Throw and King's Punch Throw. You can Air Throw the enemy in the corner, and have enough time to charge up for your Somersault Strike before the enemy hits the ground from the back breaker Air Throw. This, however, does not build up on the Combometer at all, so it cannot be Juggled after the enemy bounces off your back. If you perform the Somersault Strike (and the enemy is CLEARLY in the air and in range for the Level 3 Super to connect), it will whiff completely. Now, let's look at King's Punch Throw. She takes you, smacks you once, and then strikes you again and knocks you into the air. The second hit will register as a 2 hit combo! The Combometer will even come out and say "2 hits". If you Throw someone in the corner, that counts as a valid Juggle Set-Up, and you can Juggle with, say, a Level 1 Silent Flash afterwards. Of course, this isn't an absolute way to tell. Benimaru's Kick Throw is ALSO a legitimate Juggle Set-up, but it doesn't have the Combometer come out. However, it's still a "hit" Throw, not a "Throw" Throw. By that, I mean that Benimaru's Kick Throw doesn't really "Throw" you, he smacks you with his knee. So stuff that actually "hits" you as opposed to "Throwing" you, usually counts as a Juggle Set-up. The second type of Juggle Set-Up is a bit harder to explain. Basically, the second opportunity for Juggling comes from one particular Air Reel animation frame that all characters go into when NOT being Knocked-Down after getting hit out of the air. Whenever you strike an opponent out of the air with a Normal Move (that's not already a natural Knock-Down, like Geese's Toward + Fierce), the enemy will Reel in the air for a second. They will fly back in an animation frame where they look like they are in pain for just a tiny bit before automatically doing a small somersault in the air that makes it so that they will land on their feet. That "pained" Air Reel animation frame is the key frame for this type of Juggle Set-Up. They remain in this animation frame for that half a second before they do the small somersault to land on their feet standing. That animation frame allows the enemy to be Juggled by anything that has the ability to Juggle the opponent. As long as the Juggle move connects while the enemy is in this Air Reel animation frame, it will connect for a Juggle. If you try and Juggle them after they finish this animation frame, you can't Juggle the enemy anymore. Let's look at Akuma. His Jab (LP) Gou Shoryu Ken has the ability to Juggle the enemy. If the enemy jumps at you and you strike them out of the air with a plain ol' Standing Jab (LP), the enemy will Reel in the air for a second, then flip and land on his or her feet. So let's say you Buffer that Jab (LP) with a Jab (LP) Gou Shoryu Ken. Since the Gou Shoryu Ken has the ability to Juggle, and you did the move quickly after the Jab (LP) connects, it will Juggle the enemy. The Gou Shoryu Ken reaches the enemy while they are still in the Air Reel animation frame. And since that frame allows characters to be Juggled, the Gou Shoryu Ken will connect without any problems. But let's say you are in the corner, your opponent jumps straight up, and you run under and Jab (LP) the opponent out of the air. Now, instead of Buffering the Jab (LP), you just Jab (LP) the enemy and then do a Gou Shoryu Ken after your Jab recovers. Well, by this point, the enemy has already left the Air Reel animation frame and is Flipping to land on their feet. If that's the case, then they can no longer be Juggled: they become "invincible" until they land. So the Gou Shoryu Ken will completely whiff and you won't get your Juggle. This is all because the Gou Shoryu Ken did not connect while the enemy was in that crucial Air Reel animation frame. So to sum things up, in order to have a Juggle occur, you have to have a Juggle Set-Up, whether it be a Knock-Down or use of the Air Reel animation frame. If you don't use either of these methods for a Juggle Set-Up, you will not be allowed to Juggle the enemy. - - - -=The Juggle Potential=- Regardless of what you do to set up the enemy for a Juggle, if you don't have a move that actually is ALLOWED to Juggle the enemy, you are at a loss. Only certain moves in this game are allowed to Juggle, like Akuma's Gou Shoryu Ken mentioned above. However, some moves just aren't allowed to Juggle. Let's take a look at Ken, shall we, and see if we can make this a bit clearer. Ken's Crouching Roundhouse (HK)is a Juggle Set-Up. So if he gets the enemy in the corner, and connects with a Crouch Roundhouse (HK), he can Buffer that into a Fierce (HP) Shoryu Ken. The Crouch Roundhouse (HK) is a Juggle Set-Up, so the enemy is set-up for the Juggle, right? The Fierce (HP) Shoryu Ken should connect and Juggle, right? No. This is because his Fierce (HP) Shoryu Ken does not have any Juggle Potential. In order for a move to actually Juggle the enemy, it has to have a Juggle Potential. Ken's Super Combos all have Juggle Potential, so instead of Buffering into a Fierce (HP) Shoryu Ken, Ken can Buffer the Crouch Roundhouse (HK) into any Level of his Super Combos. So if, say, he Buffers the Crouch Roundhouse (HK) into a Level 1 Shinryu Ken, the Super Combo will actually connect and Juggle the enemy. That is because the Shinryu Ken has actual Juggle Potential. Without it, it would have completely whiffed. Moves that actually have Juggle Potential also have a number assigned to it. This will be explained a bit more in the next section, when the Juggle Counter is explained. However, just for now, know that all moves with a Juggle Potential have a number associated with it. For example, Evil Ryu's Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku (Hurricane Kick) has a Juggle Potential of 2. As I said, though, why this is will become clearer in the next section. - - - -=The Juggle Count=- As a character gets Juggled while Reeling in the air, the game implements a "Juggle Count". This Juggle Count does not appear anywhere on screen, it happens in the background. Basically, it counts how many times a character has been Juggled in the air. For example, if you do Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into a Short Hurricane Kick with Evil Ryu, the Roundhouse (HK) will set the enemy up with a Juggle and the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick will Juggle with one hit. When that Hurricane Kick hits, the game will start to count how many times the enemy was Juggled. So if Evil Ryu does another Short (LK) Hurricane Kick and Juggles the enemy again, the Juggle Count is now at 2 (one Juggle from the first Short (LK) Hurricane Kick and another Juggle from the other Short (LK) Hurricane Kick). This Count is very important, because it will determine just what can Juggle and what cannot anymore. This is where the Juggle Potential comes into play, mentioned in the last section. The Juggle Potential of a move determines how many times the move can Juggle. Basically, if you do a move, the number of times the move is going to connect is calculable with a simple formula: The number of hits is equal to the Juggle Potential minus the Juggle Count. Or: Num Hits = Juggle Potential - Juggle Count Okay, let's create this theoretical situation. Ken has knocked the enemy into the air in the corner and Juggled them with three hits already. Thus, the Juggle Count is now at 3 since the enemy has been Juggled three times. The Level 2 Shinryu Ken has the Juggle Potential of 10. So how many hits will the Shinryu Ken land if you perform the move against the enemy Reeling in the air? It was Juggle Potential minus the Juggle Count, right? 10 - 3 = 7. Seven hits. Thus, that means if Ken tries to Juggle the enemy with the Level 2 Shinryu Ken, even though the move can Juggle 10 times, it will only Juggle 7 times since the enemy has already been Juggled 3 times. So in other words, if the enemy has been Juggled more often than your Juggle Potential, your move will miss entirely. Let's use Ken as an example again. His Level 1 Shinryu Ken has the Juggle Potential of 6. His Level 2 Shinryu Ken has the Juggle Potential of 10, as mentioned before. Thus, if I do Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into the Level 2 Shinryu Ken, I will get a total of 11 hits (1 from the Crouch Roundhouse, 10 from the Juggles). Ken will land quickly enough to perform a Level 1 Shinryu Ken while the enemy is still in the air. However, the Juggle Count is now currently at 10, and the Level 1 Shinryu Ken has a Juggle Potential of 6. What was that formula again? Juggle Potential - Juggle Count = number of times move will connect. So that's 6 - 10 = -4. Basically, that means the move won't Juggle at all. If the Juggle Count is greater than or equal to the Juggle Potential, the move will whiff entirely. The Level 2 Shinryu Ken Juggled 10 times, putting the Count at 10. The Level 1 Shinryu Ken can only Juggle 6 times. Since the enemy has already been Juggled more than 6 times, the Level 1's Juggle Potential has been surpassed. So it will whiff entirely. If we switch this around, however, and Buffer the Crouch Roundhouse (HK) into the Level 1 Shinryu Ken, it will Juggle the enemy 6 times. The Juggle Count is now at 6. Then, Ken lands and you do a Level 2 Shinryu Ken, which has the Juggle Potential of 10. 10 - 6 = 4. Thus, the Level 2 Shinryu Ken will connect for 4 hits, since it's Potential is 10, but the enemy has already been Juggled 6 times. Does this make any sense at all? Let's try another example. Chun Li's Level 1 Senretsu Kyaku, when done to the enemy in the corner, is a Juggle Set-Up and leaves the enemy vulnerable for Juggles since Chun Li recovers in time. So if we jump in at the enemy and hit them with a Jumping Fierce (HP), Standing Jab (LP) Buffered into a Level 1 Senretsu Kyaku in the corner, we want to follow that up. So what can we Juggle with? Let's see, Chun Li's Level 1 Kikou Shou has the Juggle Potential of 4 and her Level 1 Hazan Tenshou Kyaku has the Juggle Potential of 7. Since the Hazan Tenshou Kyaku has a higher Juggle Potential than the Kikou Shou, we should follow up the Senretsu Kyaku with the Level 1 Kikou Shou, which will Juggle the enemy for 4 hits (so now the Juggle Count is 4). Chun Li recovers quickly enough, and since the enemy has only been Juggled 4 times and the Hazan Tenshou Kyaku has the Juggle Potential of 7, you can get three more hits there. So do the Hazan Tenshou Kyaku for the grand total of a nice looking, stylish 14 hit combo (Jumping Fierce (HP) and Standing Jab (LP) for 2 hits, the Senretsu Kyaku for 5 hits, the Kikou Shou for 4 hits, and the Hazan Tenshou Kyaku for 3 hits). Let's go back to Evil Ryu for one more example. Let's say Ryu does a Crouch Roundhouse (HK) and Buffers that into the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick. Now, his Crouch Roundhouse (HK) is a Juggle Set-Up, and his Hurricane Kick, either version, has a Juggle Potential of 2. So Juggle Count is 0 before the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick connects and the Juggle Potential of the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick is 2. That means it can hit the enemy two times in the air (2 - 0 = 2). However, the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick only hits once! Then Ryu lands. So the Juggle Count is now at 1, but Ryu's Short (LK) Hurricane Kick STILL HAS the Juggle Potential of 2. That means he can do ANOTHER Short (LK) Hurricane Kick and Juggle the enemy again! The Short (LK) Hurricane Kick, since it still has a Juggle Potential of 2 and the Juggle Count is only at 1 (2 - 1 = 1), will connect again for a second Juggle. However, now that the Juggle Count is at 2, and the Juggle Potential of the Short (LK) Hurricane Kick is 2, that leaves no hits left for the Hurricane Kick. So if you did another Hurricane Kick, it will not connect at all. However, your Level 2 Messatsu Gou Shoryu (Uppercut Super) has the Juggle Potential of 6. So after you land from the second Hurricane Kick, you can do a Level 2 Messatsu Gou Shoryu. The Juggle Count is 2, the Juggle Potential of the Super is 6, so you'll get an extra 4 hits! And since you're Evil Ryu, a Ratio 4 character, those extra four hits HURT!!! So once you get the idea of how the Juggle System works, you can begin to take advantage of it. Evil Ryu's Shoryu Ken also has a Juggle Potential of 2, so if you go into the corner, you know this will work as well: Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into Short (LK) Hurricane Kick. When you land, do a Jab (LP) Dragon Punch. Then, before the enemy hits the ground, do the Level 2 Messatsu Gou Shoryu. The Dragon Punch does more damage than a Short (LK) Hurricane Kick, and since it's clear how the Juggle System works, you know that this combo is possible. But here's a question I anticipate I might get. "You said that Evil Ryu's Shoryu Ken has the Juggle Potential of 2. Yet when the enemy jumps at me, and I do a Jab (LP) Dragon Punch to them and hit them out of the air, I get three hits. If you can only Juggle for 2 hits, why did I get 3?" The explanation of this is simple. The first hit does not count as a Juggle. Sure, you are hitting them out of the air, but remember you need a Juggle Set-Up before the enemy actually starts getting Juggled. Thus, the first hit of the DP knocks the enemy INTO a Jugglable State, acting as the Juggle Set-Up. From there, the enemy gets Juggled two more hits, equal to the Dragon Punch's Juggle Potential. - - - -=The Juggle Count Part 2=- There is one major difference between the Juggle system between Super Turbo / Alpha 1 / Alpha 2 and the Juggle System used here in Capcom Vs. SNK. In the Alpha Juggle System, the Juggle Potential only applied to the entire move. For example, if Sagat's Tiger Uppercut in Super Turbo had a Juggle Potential of 5, that's all you would need to know. The entire move had a Juggle Potential of 5. In Capcom Vs. SNK, however, the Juggle Potential may sometimes only apply to a specific HIT of the move. So what do I mean by this? The best move to describe this situation is King's Surprise Rose. Let's examine the move hit by hit, shall we? The first hit is a knee strike, which knocks you into the air. As King rises up a little further, she strikes the enemy again, with another strike from the same knee. She then reaches the top of the screen, flips around, and drops down with three quick stomps to the opponent, landing three more hits. This brings us to the grand total of 5 hits for the Surprise Rose. Now, let's examine this a bit closer. The first hit is the Juggle Set-Up, knocking the opponent into the air. The second hit Juggles the enemy and the last three hits also Juggle the enemy. Thus, in the end, we have one hit as a Juggle Set-up, and four hits of Juggling. So we can say that the Surprise Rose has a Juggle Potential of 4, since there are 4 hits that occur in the air as Juggles. However, there are some strange situations regarding this... Let's consider this combo: Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into a Level 1 Silent Flash. The Crouch Roundhouse (HK) is a Juggle Set-Up, and the Level 1 Silent Flash has a Juggle Potential of 2. So after the Crouch Roundhouse (HK) connects, the Silent Flash knocks the enemy HIGH up into the air with two more hits. The Juggle Count is now at 2. Before they land, you can do the Surprise Rose. The Surprise Rose EASILY passes the enemy in time for it to connect. Well, the Surprise Rose's Juggle Potential is 4, right? And the Juggle Count is currently at 2. So, since 4 - 2 = 2, the first two hits of the Surprise Rose should connect (the two knee strikes) and the three stomps should miss entirely, since the Juggle Count has reached the Surprise Rose's Juggle Limit. But this is NOT the case. In fact, the first two hits of the Surprise Rose miss altogether!! The enemy then falls to the floor, unscathed by any hits from the Surprise Rose. But why is this?!? The Juggle Potential is 4 and the Count was at 2! There's no reason it should miss! This is where the Juggle System of Capcom Vs. SNK differs from your standard Alpha Juggle System. Although this occurs in a very few select moves, it's still worthy to note. Basically, in the Alpha Juggle System, the whole MOVE shared the Juggle Potential. In Capcom Vs. SNK, certain hits of certain moves have THEIR OWN JUGGLE POTENTIAL. Let's try this other combo with King: Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into a Surprise Rose. The Crouch Roundhouse (HK) sets up the enemy for the Juggle, and the Surprise Rose rises into the air... but it hits on the way up! She falls back down and all three hits from the stomps connect. But something is amiss here: the first hit of the Surprise Rose completely missed! The first hit that Juggles the enemy is the SECOND knee strike. The first one completely misses, and that's why Crouch Roundhouse (HK) Buffered into a Surprise Rose is only a five hit combo. So obviously, the first hit of the Surprise Rose has absolutely no Juggle Potential. It cannot hit an enemy who has been set-up for the Juggle. However, the second hit connects, so the Second Hit obviously has Juggle Potential. However, in the first combo example above, the one that involves the Silent Flash, the Juggle Count was at 2 when the Surprise Rose passes through the enemy. That means, you can assume the Juggle Potential of the second hit of the Surprise Rose is 2 or less (2 or 1, essentially, since we KNOW it can Juggle). Here's another combo attempt: King can do the Tornado Kick close to the enemy in the corner, and the enemy will be set up for a Juggle. So the Tornado Kick's first hit is the Juggle Set-up, the second hit Juggles the enemy on her way down (the Juggle Count is now at 1). King is ready to do another move at this point. So if we do a Surprise Rose here, will it connect against the enemy? Actually, it doesn't. The Surprise Rose rises up into the air and misses completely. Thus, we can determine that the second hit of the Surprise Rose has the Juggle Potential of 1. The last three hits of the Surprise Rose, it's impossible to determine what their Juggle Potential is. It's safe to assume that their Juggle Potentials are 4, 4, and 4. It is also safe to assume the Juggle Potentials are 2, 3, and 4. Either way cannot be proven (at least, I haven't found a situation where this can be tested). Let's look at one more example of this: Ryu's Shinkuu Hadou Ken. The Shinkuu Hadou Ken, if Buffered from a Crouch Roundhouse (HK), will pass right through the enemy. Thus, it most likely has no Juggle Potential. However, what if the enemy is Jumping, and lands on a Shinkuu Hadou Ken? The entire Shinkuu Hadou Ken will connect, 5 hits from a Level 3, 4 hits from a Level 2, and 3 hits from a Level 1. So obviously, it CAN Juggle... What gives?!? Why doesn't it connect after a Crouch Roundhouse (HK)? The first hit of the Shinkuu Hadou Ken has no Juggle Potential, but the other hits do. And since the second "hit" of the Shinkuu Hadou Ken will never occur until the first hit connects, there is no way for the Shinkuu Hadou Ken to Juggle unless the first hit connects against an airborne enemy. Once it connects, the first hit acts as the Juggle Set-Up, allowing the rest of the hits to occur. And since those hits have actual Juggle Potential, the enemy will be Juggled. But if you try and Juggle the enemy with a Juggle Set-Up other than the first hit of the Shinkuu Hadou Ken, it will never connect. The first hit has no Juggle Potential. Thus, the second hit, which does have Juggle Potential, will never occur and not be able to Juggle the enemy. Very few moves actually exhibit this behavior. Most moves actually have a Juggle Potential for the entire move. However, there are these few exceptions, and, again, knowing these exceptions will help explain why sometimes certain Juggles work, and why at other times, they don't. - - - So understanding this Juggle System is very important to learning what will connect and what will not. This Juggle System is pretty complicated, and isn't the most intuitive thing. If this still isn't clear, and I haven't done my job explaining it clearly enough, please drop me an e-mail at jchensor@shoryuken.com. I will NOT explain it further in an e-mail response, I just want to know if it's not explained clearly enough. I will attempt to make it easier to understand in a further revision of this FAQ if it is necessary. Again, I will NOT, repeat, NOT explain it to you more clearly in a reply e-mail if you send me an e-mail. I simply don't have the time. But I would still like to know if it is not described understandably. Thanks to anyone in advance who gives me feedback on the explanation I have provided. * * * ----------------------------------- | The King of the Fighters Juggle | ----------------------------------- There are a very select few moves that set-up the opponent for a free Juggle. These certain Juggle Set-ups behave very differently than the Alpha system of Juggling. Instead, the Juggle system behaves exactly like these set-ups found in the King of the Fighters series. And its no coincidence that these set-ups are only found in SNK characters. No Capcom character has this type of Juggle Set-up. - - - -=The Set-up=- Unlike the Alpha style of Juggling, the move itself is just the set-up. Certain moves just put the enemy into "KOF Juggle State". And these moves can be listed here, since there are so few of them. EX-Kyo: 75 Shiki - Kai Only if it is done with Roundhouse (HK) will it act as a Set-up for the KOF Juggle. Kyo will hop into the air and kick. If you hit Kick again, he will kick a second time. These two hits will knock the enemy into the air and Kyo will land. After he lands, the enemy is currently in KOF Juggle State. EX-Kim: Houou Hiten Kyaku Only the Level 2 or 3 versions of this Super Combo act as a Set-up. Once Kim kicks the opponent high into the air and recovers, the enemy is currently in KOF Juggle State. Terry Bogard (either version): Buster Wolf Any Level of the Buster Wolf Super Combo will put the enemy into the KOF Juggle State after Terry recovers. Iori: Ura 108 Shiki - Ya Sakazuki If you tag someone out of the air with this move, it freezes them in the air. Basically, in this situation, the enemy is rendered in KOF Juggle State. Hmmm... and I really don't think there are any other ones, unless there is one I am unaware of. However, these are the only moves I am aware of that create set-up the KOF Juggle State. - - - -=Juggling Opponents=- This is the easy part. Once the enemy is put into the KOF Juggle State, the only rule that applies is that any one move can now Juggle the opponent, regardless of what it is or what it's Juggle Potential is. Basically, the best way to think of the character is vulnerable, but still in a "normal state". In other words, although they are IN the air, and are Jugglable, they technically AREN'T in a Juggle State. So in other words, moves that have no Juggle Potential are allowed to connect. The enemy is in the air to get hit, but any hit that connects is not considered a Juggle, even though you are hitting the enemy out of the air. Let's look at the Buster Wolf set-up. Once Terry lands this, say, against a cornered enemy, he opens a world up to himself for Juggling. Since the KOF Juggle State allows anything to Juggle, Terry has a world of options open to him. He can Juggle the enemy with a Standing Jab (LP) if he wanted to. Or, he can use a Crouching Fierce (HP). If he wanted, he could even do a Jumping Roundhouse (HK), a Jab (LP) Burning Knuckle, a Roundhouse (HK) Crack Shoot, a Fierce (HP) Rising Tackle, OR a Level 1 Power Geyser. In fact, if anything can hit the enemy, it will connect. This is very different than the Alpha Juggle system mainly because almost no Normal Moves have a Juggle Potential. In other words, if you do manage to set the enemy up for a Juggle in the Alpha System, you can usually only Juggle with Supers or Special Moves. In this KOF Juggle System, anything and everything is allowed to Juggle, regardless of Juggle Potential. Whenever something connects against a character in KOF Juggle State, this actually counts as the Juggle Set-Up. From this point on, all normal Alpha Juggle System rules are enforced. The first hit you do is a Juggle Set-Up, so any hits afterwards will start the Juggle Count at 1. For example, with EX-Kim, you can do the Houou Hiten Kyaku super and launch the enemy into the air in the corner. Before they hit the floor, you can Juggle them with a Standing Short (LK). This will connect, because the enemy was in KOF Juggle State. However, you can then Buffer that Standing Short (LK) into the Roundhouse (HK) Kuu Sajin, which has the Juggle Potential of 0, 1, and 2 for each of the three hits. So the Standing Short counted as the Juggle Set-Up and then the enemy will get Juggled by the last two hits of the Kuu Sajin, since their Juggle Potentials are 1 and 2. Iori's Ura 108 Shiki - Ya Sakazuki behaves differently than the others, mainly because it's not actually a "KOF Juggle Set-up", but it emulates that type of Juggle the best (and thus, it's best to qualify it as one). Basically, the difference between this and the others is that after the enemy is set up in the KOF Juggle State, a non Knock-Down move will cause the enemy to fall back on their feet. However, with the other three KOF Juggle Set-Ups, if you hit the enemy with a move that is not a Knock-Down, the enemy will still fall on their backs; in other words, it counts as a Knock-Down! So again, any move that connects with the enemy while they are still in the KOF Juggle State will count as a Knock Down (setting up some nice combos, especially for Kyo). * * * ------------------------------- | The Sakura / Vice Exception | ------------------------------- Sakura (only the Normal Sakura, EX-Sakura does not have this Juggle...) owns one type of Juggle that seems like the KOF Juggle System. In fact, it displays all the properties of the KOF Juggle System except for one glaring problem... you can only Juggle someone if his/her body is on its way up in the air Reeling but not after it's well on its way down. In both the Alpha Juggle System and the KOF Juggle System, you can hit the opponent anytime he or she is still in the air after a Knock-Down. Even if you do a move right before they hit the floor, you can Juggle them if they are there. Sakura's Juggle Set-Up, her Fierce Kou'ou Ken (Dragon Punch motion + Fierce), will put the enemy into the air and cause the enemy to fall on their backs when they hit the ground. However, while they are still Reeling on their way up, Sakura is allowed to Juggle them with anything she wants. However, what she can Juggle them with gets highly limited because of the one extra restriction: she can only Juggle the enemy as long as they are still high up in their Reel Arc. Basically, the enemy gets knocked into the air and starts to drift upwards. Eventually, they start to fall back down to the ground. Once the body starts to fall back down, the enemy starts to fall even faster. Right when the enemy starts to increase his or her falling speed, the enemy becomes invincible and can no longer be Juggled. But as long as they are still in the air in the earlier portions of the Reel Arc, they can be Juggled without any problems by anything that reaches. Moves that can reach are any Jumping Normal Move, a Crouch Fierce (HP), a Standing Close-Up Roundhouse (HK), another Jab Kou'ou Ken (against some characters), a Shinkuu Hadou Ken, her Taunt (against some characters), and a Standing Jab (against some characters). Otherwise, nothing can hit the enemy quickly enough before they start to fall back down and become invincible again (at least, to my knowledge). I haven't mentioned Vice here anywhere, yet I call this the Sakura / Vice Exception. I used to call this just the "Sakura Exception", until I pretty much convinced myself that Vice's moves behaves the same. So I'm adding Vice to this Juggle Type. She has a similar situation, where she can Juggle the opponent with any move she wants. A move with a no Juggle Potential will connect against an airborne opponent. However, that is only while the enemy is still on the early portions of their Reel Arc. The reason why I'm a bit hesitant to say anything about this is because, well, only ONE move can reach the enemy to Juggle the enemy! Vice's move that sets up this Juggle is the Fierce (HP) version of the Gore Fest, the Throw where she drags the enemy along the floor and hurls them up in the air. EX-Vice's move that sets up this type of Juggle is the Fierce (HP) version of the Mayhem, her shoulder charge. Both of these moves, after performing them, launch the enemy high up in the air. However, Vice doesn't recover soon enough to be able to Juggle the enemy early on in their Reel Arc. After the Mayhem in the corner, Vice recovers before the enemy hits the floor, but none of her moves will connect on the enemy. So on their way down, the enemy is invincible and cannot be Juggled. HOWEVER, both of the moves listed above, the Gore Fest and Mayhem, can be chained into the Uppercut + Kick motion (Tranquility for Vice, Deciding Slayer for EX-Vice). And those moves will catch the enemy before the enemy reaches their invincible point. Both moves that Juggle the enemy, however, have NO Juggle Potential. Thus, it can only be assumed that the enemy is in a KOF Juggle State. However, since they cannot be Juggled by anything on their way down, then the Juggle State is identical to Sakura's. As I said, this behaves mostly like a KOF Juggle System, but has that one strange exception where you cannot hit the enemy before they land. * * * ---------------------- | The Spiraling Reel | ---------------------- One last thing to note: there are some moves that put the enemy into a special type of Reel. In this Reel, the enemy is sent flying into the air, but spiral as they travel. The reason this is significant to point out is that the enemy CANNOT BE JUGGLED while in this Reel AT ALL. Even if your Juggle Potential is higher than the Juggle Count, your move will miss, as the enemy has become entirely invincible. Some examples of moves that put the enemy into this Reel are Raiden's Crazy Train super, the last hit of Ryu's Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku super, and the last hit of the Level 3 Illusion Dance from King. In King's case, if you are in the corner, the enemy, at the end, has been Juggled only once (by the second hit of the Tornado Kick done at the end of the Illusion Dance). And if you do a Level 1 Silent Flash (it's possible to do a Level 3, then Level 1 in EX mode), which has the Juggle Potential of 2, should be able to hit one time. However, the move will completely whiff the Spiraling body. Of course, if you do a Level 2 or 1 Illusion Dance, you CAN get that one extra hit of Juggle from the Silent Flash, only because the Level 1 and Level 2 Illusion Dance do not put the enemy into the Spiraling Reel. So if you have a move that puts the enemy into the Spiraling Reel, that's it... Combo's over! So keep that in mind. * * * So there you have it: the Combo System of Capcom Vs. SNK. Now that you know how it works, creating combos that will punish your opponent will be much easier to understand. Also, unlike the Versus Games of XvSF, MSHvSF, or MvC2, the more relatively difficult combos to pull off in this game are worth it, and definitely are practical in normal combat. So understanding the whole Combo System is very important, and vital to punishing your opponent the best you can when you can land a hit. ===================================================================== ======================= | Character Specifics | ======================= In this section, I will simply only go as far as to list the Juggle Potential for every character in the game for all of their moves. I won't list any combos for each character, though. Combos in this game are relatively simple and easy to come by and create on your own. You can, however, go to www.shoryuken.com and download some Combo Videos I have made for this game if you really want to see some Capcom Vs. SNK combos. There are Combo Videos for other games like Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Street Fighter Alpha 3 as well. Please visit the web site if you have a chance. There is a lot of good information regarding Capcom Fighting games there. Again, the address is: www.shoryuken.com ...It's a good site. Please check it out. ^_^ * * * -=LEGEND=- Sample Move data: __________________________________________ | | | ---:--- | | HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th-... | | JGL POT--> # # # # | |__________________________________________| - The first row contains the move name and version (by version, I am referring to Super Level or performed with Fierce (HP) only, etc.). - The second row indicates which hit I am referring to. Most moves go from one hit to the next and have a max hit count. This row, then, lists all these hits. If a move's Juggle Potential is not based off of the hit number (they all have the same Juggle Potential), this will be noted as '-ALL-'. - Under the hit numbers in the third row are the hit's Juggle Potential. These numbers indicate what the highest Juggle Count that particular hit will reach. # - A plain number indicates that that IS the Juggle Potential. There is no question. [#] - A number in brackets indicate that this Juggle Potential is most like 90% correct. However, this number is derived through logic, usually based off of the behavior of other Levels or versions of this move. (#) - A number in parentheses means that it is MOST LIKELY that number, but no way to prove it to be EXACTLY that number. In other words, numbers in parentheses usually mean they can have the value of that particular number in the parentheses, but they could also have the Juggle Potential of the first move NOT in parentheses following the ones in parentheses. SO in a sequence like "(1) (2) (3) 4", the first three hits could have the Juggle Potentials as listed, but they very well could be "4 4 4 4" as well. <#> - A number in angled brackets means that the Juggle Potential is more than likely HIGHER than what is listed, but there simply just isn't any way to find out, 'cause I've never found a way to land more than that number of Juggles with that move. But listed is the MAX number of Juggles I DID manage to get with it. * * * So for example: ---Surprise Rose--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 1 (2) (3) 4 This means that King's Surprise Rose has five total hits. The first hit has no ability to Juggle the opponent at all. The 2nd hit is GUARANTEED to have the Juggle Potential of 1. This value is proven. The 3rd and 4th hits may have those values listed, but they very well could have the Juggle Potentials of 4 as well... there's just no way to prove it. And the fifth hit has a Juggle Potential of 4, with very little doubt. ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Akuma | (Gouki in Import versions of CvS) \-------/ ---Gou Shoryu Ken--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Shakunetsu Hadou Ken: Fierce (HP) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 * * * ---Tatsumaki Zankuu Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Air Tatsumaki Zankuu Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> [7] * * * ---Messatsu Gou Hadou: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Messatsu Gou Hadou: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ---Messatsu Gou Hadou: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 7 * * * ---Tenma Gou Zankuu: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Tenma Gou Zankuu: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ---Tenma Gou Zankuu: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 7 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /--------\ | Balrog | (M. Bison in import versions of CvS) \--------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | Benimaru | \----------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Raikou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ---Raikou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ---Raikou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Raikou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ---Raikou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ---Raikou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 * * * ---Taikuu Raikou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ---Taikuu Raikou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ---Taikuu Raikou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /--------\ | Blanka | \--------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Direct Lightning: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 1 ---Direct Lightning: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 1 * * * ---Shout Of Earth: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 6th---7th- JGL POT--> 5 6 ---Shout Of Earth: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th JGL POT--> 9 10 ---Shout Of Earth: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 14th---15th JGL POT--> 13 14 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Ground Shave Roll: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Ground Shave Roll: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Ground Shave Roll: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Cammy | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 (1) 2 ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 2 ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th---9th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1) (2) 3 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 (1) 2 ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 2 ---Spin Drive Smasher: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th---9th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1) (2) 3 * * * ---Reverse Shaft Breaker: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Reverse Shaft Breaker: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 ---Reverse Shaft Breaker: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 14 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /---------\ | Chun Li | \---------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Forward Flip / Back Flip Roundhouse (HK)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Tenshou Kyaku: Short (LK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 1 1 ---Tenshou Kyaku: Roundhouse (HK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> [2] 2 2 * * * ---Kikou Shou: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ---Kikou Shou: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ---Kikou Shou: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 * * * ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 * * * ---Hazan Tenshou Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ---Hazan Tenshou Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 8 ---Hazan Tenshou Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Forward Flip / Back Flip Roundhouse (HK)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ---Senretsu Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 * * * ---Spinning Hornet Kick: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 ---Spinning Hornet Kick: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <4> ---Spinning Hornet Kick: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <5> ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /---------\ | Dhalsim | \---------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Yoga Hurricane: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Yoga Hurricane: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Yoga Hurricane: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Yoga Tempest: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Yoga Tempest: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Yoga Tempest: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | E. Honda | \----------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | Evil Ryu | \----------/ ---Shoryu Ken--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Air Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 * * * ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Messatsu Gou Shoryu: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> [7] ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Geese | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Rising Storm: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 ---Rising Storm: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Rising Storm: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Rising Storm: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 ---Rising Storm: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Rising Storm: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Guile | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Total Wipeout: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Total Wipeout: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Total Wipeout: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 * * * ---Somersault Strike: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Somersault Strike: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 8 ---Somersault Strike: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Somersault Strike: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Somersault Strike: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 8 ---Somersault Strike: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 10 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /------\ | Iori | \------/ ---127 Shiki - Aoi Hana--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- (repeat code twice for all three hits) JGL POT--> 0 0 1 * * * **KOF Juggle State Set-up** Ura 108 Shiki - Ya Sakazuki: Hit someone out of the air with it ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Ken | \-----/ ->Normal<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 * * * ---Shinryu Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Shinryu Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 11 ---Shinryu Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 15 * * * ---Shippu Jinrai Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 12 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Shoryu Reppa: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 7 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Kim | \-----/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Hishou Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <2> * * * ---Hien Zan: Roundhouse (HK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th---15th---16th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th---15th---16th---17th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 * * * ---Hou'ou Tenbu Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ---Hou'ou Tenbu Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th---9th- JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 7 ---Hou'ou Tenbu Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th-... (cont'd next line) JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) (2) ...-5th---6th---7th---8th---9th---10th---11th- (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 9 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Hishou Kyaku--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <2> * * * ---Ku Sajin: Jab (LP) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Ku Sajin: Fierce (HP) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd JGL POT--> 0 1 2 * * * ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th---15th---16th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Hou'ou Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th---14th---15th---16th---17th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 * * * **KOF Juggle State Set-up** Hou'ou Hiten Kyaku: Hit someone with the Level 2 or 3 version of it ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /------\ | King | \------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Surprise Rose--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 1 (2) (3) 4 * * * ---Tornado Kick--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Illusion Dance: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 8th---9th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Illusion Dance: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Illusion Dance: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Silent Flash: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 ---Silent Flash: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 2 2 0 1 2 3 ---Silent Flash: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th-...(cont'd next line) JGL POT--> 2 2 2 2 ...-5th---6th---7th---8th---9th---10th---11th- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Tobi Nidan Shisshukuri--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 1 2 * * * ---Illusion Dance: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 8th---9th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Illusion Dance: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Illusion Dance: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 12th---13th- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Double Strike: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 3 3 3 3 ---Double Strike: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 5 5 5 5 5 5 ---Double Strike: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Kyo | \-----/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---125 Shiki - Nanase--- HIT NUM--> -1st- JGL POT--> 1 * * * ---Saishu Kesse Ougi: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 5th JGL POT--> <2> ---Saishu Kesse Ougi: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 9th- JGL POT--> <5> ---Saishu Kesse Ougi: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 11th- JGL POT--> <7> * * * ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st- JGL POT--> 1 ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 2 2 ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 2 2 (3) (4) 5 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---101 Shiki - Oboro Guruma: Roundhouse (HK) version)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 * * * ---75 Shiki - Kai--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st- JGL POT--> 1 ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 2 2 ---Ura 108 Shiki - Orochi Nagi: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 2 2 (3) (4) 5 * * * **KOF Juggle State Set-up** 75 Shiki - Kai: Hit someone with the Roundhouse (HK) version of it (has to have both hits connect) ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Mai | \-----/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 7th- JGL POT--> 0 [6] ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 8th- JGL POT--> 0 [7] ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 11th- JGL POT--> 0 10 ---Beni Suzaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Beni Suzaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Beni Suzaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Kagerou no Mai: Roundhouse (HK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 * * * ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 7th- JGL POT--> 0 [6] ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 8th- JGL POT--> 0 [7] ---Chou Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd through 11th- JGL POT--> 0 10 * * * ---Mizudori no Mai: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> [2] 2 2 ---Mizudori no Mai: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> [2] 2 2 ---Mizudori no Mai: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th JGL POT--> [5] [5] [5] [5] 5 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | M. Bison | (Vega in import versions of CvS) \----------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> [4] [4] [4] [4] ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 5 5 5 5 5 ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Forward Flip / Back Flip Fierce (HP)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> [4] [4] [4] [4] ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 5 5 5 5 5 ---Knee Press Nightmare: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | Morrigan | \----------/ --- Cardinal Blade: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 6 6 6 6 6 6 --- Cardinal Blade: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 --- Cardinal Blade: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th---8th- JGL POT--> 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | Nakoruru | \----------/ ---Shichikapu Kamui Irushika: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> (1) (2) 3 ---Shichikapu Kamui Irushika: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Shichikapu Kamui Irushika: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------------\ | Orochi Iori | \-------------/ ---127 Shiki - Aoi Hana--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- (repeat code twice for all three hits) JGL POT--> 0 0 1 * * * ---Ura 100 Shiki - Oni Honou: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <3> ---Ura 100 Shiki - Oni Honou: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <4> ---Ura 100 Shiki - Oni Honou: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <4> ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /--------\ | Raiden | \--------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Fire Breath: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ---Fire Breath: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Fire Breath: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Rugal | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Kaiser Wave (Charged to second strength)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Kaiser Wave (Charged to second strength)--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 * * * ---Genocide Heaven: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Genocide Heaven: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 <1> <2> ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Genocide Heaven: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Genocide Heaven: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 0 0 <1> <2> ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Ryo | \-----/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 * * * ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th---12th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th---12th---13th---14th---15th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Kyokugen-ryu Renbu Ken--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 0 0 1 * * * ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 * * * ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th---12th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) ---Ryuko Ranbu: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 10th---11th---12th---13th---14th---15th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-----\ | Ryu | \-----/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 * * * ---Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 4 ---Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 ---Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <10> * * * ---Shin Shoryu Ken--- HIT NUM--> -1st-... (1st hit connects) ...--2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 1 (2) (3) 4 (1st hit misses) ...--2nd- 4 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Sagat | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Tiger Genocide: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 6th---7th- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Tiger Genocide: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 5th---6th---7th---8th---9th---10th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ---Tiger Genocide: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st through 9th---10th---11th---12th---13th---14th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Tiger Cannon: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Tiger Cannon: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Tiger Cannon: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 * * * ---Ground Tiger Cannon: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) 3 ---Ground Tiger Cannon: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ---Ground Tiger Cannon: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) 5 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /--------\ | Sakura | \--------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 3 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 3 4 ***Note: Sakura's Shinkuu Hadou Ken shrinks as it travels, thus, it WILL reach its second hit without having to have the first hit connect, so you can Juggle with it, unlike the Super Fireballs of Ryu, Akuma, Sagat, Ryo, Yuri, etc. ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 3 ---Shinkuu Hadou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 1 2 3 4 ***Note: Sakura's Shinkuu Hadou Ken shrinks as it travels, thus, it WILL reach its second hit without having to have the first hit connect, so you can Juggle with it, unlike the Super Fireballs of Ryu, Akuma, Sagat, Ryo, Yuri, etc. * * * ---Midare Zakura: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Midare Zakura: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> <6> ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /-------\ | Terry | \-------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Rising Tackle: Fierce (HP) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th---6th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) ***Note: Rising Tackle seems to behave like a Super Fireball. The first hit of it cannot Juggle the opponent, and if the first hit does not connect, than the move never actually goes into the next five hits, even though, animation-wise, he does. Thus, Rising Tackle only Juggles if it is the move that counts as the Juggle Set-Up. * * * ---Power Geyser: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 1 ---Power Geyser: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * **KOF Juggle State Set-up** Burn Knuckle: Any Level ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Power Dunk--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Power Geyser: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 1 ---Power Geyser: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 * * * **KOF Juggle State Set-up** Buster Wolf: Any Level ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /------\ | Vega | (Balrog in import versions of CvS) \------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Scarlet Terror: Roundhouse (HK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 * * * ---Rolling Izuna Drop: Level 1 (Claw strike)--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 1 ---Rolling Izuna Drop: Level 2 (Claw strike)--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 2 ---Rolling Izuna Drop: Level 3 (Claw strike)--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 * * * ---Scarlet Mirage: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 5 ---Scarlet Mirage: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 6 ---Scarlet Mirage: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 9 * * * ---Red Impact--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 3 2 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Scarlet Terror: Roundhouse (HK) version--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /------\ | Vice | \------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Ravenous--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Ravenous--- HIT NUM--> -ALL- JGL POT--> 3 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /----------\ | Yamazaki | \----------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---The Guillotine: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 8th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ---The Guillotine: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 10th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ---The Guillotine: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 13th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ***Note: The Guillotine works very bizarrely. The first three hits are as follows: 1A) A hit (punch) on his way up. 1B) A blockable "grab" still on his way up. 1C) A blockable "grab" as he charges down to the floor. The reason why I call them blockable "grabs" is because, when those parts of the Super connect, the "Throw" sound effect can be heard. Plus, they do not add to the Combometer. But they can be blocked! Now, hit 1A does not Juggle. Hit 1B can Juggle, but will ONLY Juggle if hit 1A connects. Hit 1C will Juggle for 1 hit at any and all times. If hit 1A connects, the enemy is knocked into the air, and hit 1B will grab them out of the air right away. If you cancel Crouch Roundhouse into the Guillotine in the corner, hit 1A will whiff (since it cannot Juggle) as will hit 1B!! But hit 1C will grab the enemy before they hit the ground (Levels 2 and 3 only). This is strange, because if hit 1A connects, hit 1B also Juggles. I can't quite figure out this happens. * * * ---Drill--- ***Note: Yamazaki's Drill is a Throw super. Once it connects, there are four different strengths you can do with it with each different Super Level. Many of these actions that occur during the 12 different results involve Juggles. But I'm not going to write any of them down. There's no point to, and I want to save time and space. ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---The Guillotine: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 8th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ---The Guillotine: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 10th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ---The Guillotine: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1stA---1stB---1stC---2nd through 13th- JGL POT--> 0 1* 1 0 ***Note: The Guillotine works very bizarrely. The first three hits are as follows: 1A) A hit (punch) on his way up. 1B) A blockable "grab" still on his way up. 1C) A blockable "grab" as he charges down to the floor. The reason why I call them blockable "grabs" is because, when those parts of the Super connect, the "Throw" sound effect can be heard. Plus, they do not add to the Combometer. But they can be blocked! Now, hit 1A does not Juggle. Hit 1B can Juggle, but will ONLY Juggle if hit 1A connects. Hit 1C will Juggle for 1 hit at any and all times. If hit 1A connects, the enemy is knocked into the air, and hit 1B will grab them out of the air right away. If you cancel Crouch Roundhouse into the Guillotine in the corner, hit 1A will whiff (since it cannot Juggle) as will hit 1B!! But hit 1C will grab the enemy before they hit the ground (Levels 2 and 3 only). This is strange, because if hit 1A connects, hit 1B also Juggles. I can't quite figure out this happens. * * * ---Drill--- ***Note: Yamazaki's Drill is a Throw super. Once it connects, there are four different strengths you can do with it with each different Super Level. Many of these actions that occur during the 12 different results involve Juggles. But I'm not going to write any of them down. There's no point to, and I want to save time and space. ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /------\ | Yuri | \------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ ---Double Yuri Chou Upper--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th- JGL POT--> 0 0 (1) 2 * * * ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 1--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd- JGL POT--> 0 1 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 2--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd- JGL POT--> 0 (1) 2 ---Haou Shoukou Ken: Level 3--- HIT NUM--> -1st---2nd---3rd---4th---5th- JGL POT--> 0 (1) (2) (3) 4 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== /---------\ | Zangief | \---------/ ->NORMAL<------------------------------------------------------------ >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ->EX<---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>NO JUGGLES<<< ===================================================================== ====================== | Credits and Thanks | ====================== -- Thanks to Capcom for bringing us the SNK characters with actual animation frames. ^_^ -- Thanks to SNK for letting Capcom use their characters in a terrific fighting game made for the old schoolers. -- Thanks to Kao Megura, whose KOF FAQs and Alpha 3 FAQs provided me with many move names. -- Thanks to Sailer Bacon, whose Capcom Vs. SNK FAQ provided me with names of moves that don't exist in any KOF or Alpha game! -- Thanks to the rest of the staff at Shoryuken.com (javi, inkblot, omni, choiboy, s-kill, ponder, etc.), of course, for maintaining a great website for Capcom fans, and for giving me a place to house my Combo Videos. ^_^ And an extra huge thanks to omni, who helped read through my FAQ and edit it and offer critiques. -- And thanks to all of those people who play me in this game all the time, providing me with good competition and challenge: Jeffrey Chen, Calvin Lin, Aric Tetley, Patrick Coyne, and Jason Villarreal. -- And, as usual, thanks to Alan Sentman and Jason (again) for coming up with the "proper" pronunciation of "Combometer" (comm-BAH-muh-ter). I will pronounce it this way forever now thanks to you guys... ===================================================================== =========== | Closing | =========== All right. So now you know the Combo System. Or... at least... I think you do... ^_^ Hopefully, I was able to explain it enough so that you can figure out where and when you can throw in extra Juggles. This can be the key to your victory. Say, for example, you are SNK King and almost defeated and catch the enemy off the ground with a Level 1 Silent Flash. If the enemy only has a sliver left after the Super finishes and you know the Juggle System, you know that you can tack on one more hit from another Level 1 Silent Flash before the enemy lands. So knowing these things can be the difference between life or death. As I said earlier, if the system still isn't clear, please e-mail me and let me know. I'll do my best to help explain it better in an update of this Guide. Again, if you are looking for any sort of combos for the game, please visit www.shoryuken.com. I've made lots of combo videos of this game for the site. And it's got a lot of other useful info as well! All of us who work on the site have worked very hard to make it your True Competitive Edge. So take this newfound knowledge of the Combo System and use it well. And remember one thing... COMBO IS THE KEY!!!