KOF Match Analysis Series

Current Fighting Games King of Fighters
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I’m starting KOF match video analysis series on my Youtube Channel called Laban’s Lesson.

Every now and then (when I could), I’ll re-upload a KOF match video I’ll find on Youtube/Nicovideo/etc. and add Annotations with commentary and analysis of the video. This will serve the purpose of helping players new to KOF to understand the general flow of a KOF match, explain certain setups, and clarify certain weird KOF nuances.

I’m just starting out on doing something like this so my technique certainly needs refinement. Feel free to give corrections and suggestions if need be.

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Here’s my first video, hopefully you guys will enjoy it. My Youtube account is PoolsAnonymous so feel free to subscribe to me or just my KOF Analysis playlist. I’ll try to crank out one more by the end of today at least.

Also, the annotations move quickly. I decided ultimately to leave the video as is rather than to put in forced, paused intervals. So if you’re not quite the quick reader, feel free to pause and read. Then you could re-watch it uninterrupted and see the flow of the game as it naturally progresses.

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Maybe explain what happened with the throw techs at 3:09. In kof98 especially, players end up too close to each other after a throw tech, resulting in a continued series of mashing throw techs.

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Here’s another one finished for now. Please enjoy. Most probably I’ll do two each Saturday, but I’ll squeeze in extras in the middle of the week if I have more time.

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Good stuff Laban, I’m looking forward to future iterations.

Are you aware that you can also autopause vids, so you can give some time for us to read the comments automatically? That would be rad.

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Yeah, I didn’t feel like doing it. I guess people have requested it enough so I’ll put it in later.

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cool vids bro

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New video. So this time I added some pauses to tell me what you guys think of the timing and pacing of the whole thing. I’ll edit this current post later today with another video. On a different tangent, I’ll try to make it out to the South Town Arcade ranbat for sure this coming Sunday. Wooooooo

EDIT: Nope, got distracted by the cool Catherine Vs. Tournament on FinestKO’s stream. I’ll update later this coming week.

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any analysis on the [COLOR=#0033cc][SIZE=13px][Ichigeki Hissatsu!] matches?[/COLOR][/SIZE]

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Maybe sometime in the future if I can identify the songs. But otherwise, and for many reasons, no.

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hey man sick analysis brother i approve, but perhaps that match Dakou threw wasn’t the best match to analyze yo

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Good work

Your first 2 vids are good in the way you do it. I dont mind pausing it to read what you wrote

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Hmmmmmm

Okay I’ll just do it the way I first did I prefer it wwwww

Between Thursday and Sunday I’ll try to crank out 4 matches.

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Okay, I’ll really try to crank out some videos this weekend then I’ll just help out with the XIII Hyper Guide. Dark Souls is coming out next week so I’ll be further blown up.