The best advice I can give if you are picking up King is to get out of the mindset that he is a grappler character. Making his throws high or low completely destroys the typical grappler archtype’s hit/throw mixups, not to mention having such slow startup and being throwable means the opponent can do literally anything to evade your command grabs. Mash jabs > King.
Sure you can condition your opponent to stand or crouch, but why then go for a command grab when you can safely hit-confirm into a big combo off a low/overhead?? The only way throws start to become useful I find is if you’ve conditioned your opponent to be afraid of your rolling elbow mixup and they’re waiting to block high or low, then and only then go for a grab. Without this fear people will just jab/throw/stare you out of your grabs, assuming you guessed right with the high/low also.
Omggggg
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Can we see some gameplay footage so we can learn how to play him too? I’d love to learn from some high-level King play. Even a cell-phone vid would be helpful.