I planned on running King along with Poison. Knowing he can fit with just about anybody makes me happy.
Yeah same here. I always have planned to main King. And I played him almost exclusivley at Gamescom last year.
Still gonna play him like I did Ken in Vanilla SF4, but I’ll still feel kinda “meh” to be lumped in with the King “online scrubs”
On King teams though, I am looking at:
King/Hugo
King/Gief
King/Abel
What would be the best out of those?
I know it’s early and shit, but just some theoryfightan here.
That’s assuming “online scrubs” would even catch on to King. Despite all the good shit we’ve seen out of the Tekken characters in this game but players stick to shotos. I don’t see that changing even long after the game’s released
This is my day one team as well.
this guy is gonna be popular
What are people thiking as far as Gem load outs? I like the idea of using the one where you get a damage boost on a tag in. Have King in the back, tag in for gem activation, King gets damage boost on his knee loop for some serious damage.
My guess the popular ones are going to be the shotos, the Mishimas, Jin, Raven, Rolento, and Sagat.
Like you, I don’t think King or most of the mixup characters are gonna catch on.
Well that confirmed it for me…my one true fear in this game will be other King players 
Edit: Just saw this come up:
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Hai gais. I’ve decided to be a bandwagon player for King because his hop kick looks hella broken.
Enough of that, what I really wanted to ask is levelup said that backflip kick move was unblockable. Is that true? If so, whats stopping it from being abused? Rolling only? I could imagine it being really cheap if you tag cancel someone with a really long move and then hitting them with it while they block.
From the GamesRadar vid I posted, it’s really slow and can be punished if the other player can see it coming (which they should because it’s slow). Now, that’s when you’re just throwing it out there; but yeah, after knockdown if they don’t roll forward I can imagine some dirty stuff with it. However, I’m sure things like wakeup SRK and the like would easily trade with it.
Now, like you were saying, if you were to get someone stuck in block stun with, say, Law’s EX multi-punch move, tag King in during it and do the somersault? It sounds like guaranteed damage. At least it looks like you can’t follow it up with anything, which would just make it broken.
Kens hurricane kick would also be good for this. Is it vega’s roll his attack? That would be good as well.
nice! king looking fierce. i’d like to see the counter-hit properties for all his moves. jaguar step>clothesline looks like it may crumple on ch, but it links to low jab anyway. i really like that people’s elbow and s.rh (sobat is a good choice by capcom for this buttonl) hop over lows. looks like c.rh does the same. hopefully people’s elbow is safe (wishful thinking). if it is, DOZE MIXUPS/RESETS. and jaguar step itself…o_0…is this move really 100% invincible mid-spin AND off the ground to avoid throws during? lions, tigers, bears oh my. :tup: and hop knee’s continued reign of terror. oh the nasty things i’m thinking of with King/Yoshi. lol @ ex GS range and speed. still have some things in mind that i’d like to experiment with like f+m,m,m and super-charged-dash-cancelled-normals in combos and juggles, but i already see kings fuckery. THIS GAME IS GONNA BE CRACK! my major concern with king at this point is just how safe/unsafe certain moves are and his health.
Word on the street is his c. Fierce is godlike, and on top of that he has an AA counter.
BTW I’m running team Latin America: King x Ogre
Definitely gonna be running king in the second spot, just too stylish to resist.
Sadly I gotta wait for bryan fury to come out till I got my real team set.
I’d say it depends where you want to place King. In my opinion if you want King on point I’d do King/Hugo and you can go chain combo, Ex Convict Kick into knees with a jumping roundhouse, tag out and finish with a backbreaker. That’d be your bnb with two bars, while with one you might want to play a little safer until you land a raw knee. Playing King as anchor, I’d go with Abel/King since ending with elbow tag can go into knees and then all of the enders king will do with that. Now imagine with Able, doing his rekkas mixed with that unblockable King can do? Shenanigans
King looks like a beast, and his combos look braindead easy. Expect this guy everywhere.
They might do something like SF4 where unblockable level 3 FAs can be blocked if you’re still in blockstun (like Rose level 3 FA between orb hits of her U2.)
I can see King being really popular early but when people learn to defend themselves there’s a lot of opportunity to punish him hard when he whiffs high grab/low grab/knee in your face.
I like that though, unique strengths and weaknesses are a good thing. Needs meter to get any sort of decent combo against crouchers but high damage potential otherwise. Looks like his neutral/poking isn’t completely useless either.
Fixed for ya.
Still wish it was King X El Fuerte, but you can’t get everything.
As a King main in Tekken HOLY DICK HE LOOKS INCREDIBLE!!
HE IS NOT THE HERO WE NEED, BUT THE HERO WE DESERVE (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT)