It’s OK, and more combo-friendly IMO, but beware the infinites and Duo Lon.
Tizoc is overpowered in it though…and the WORST part- SPECIAL MOVES’ THROW RANGES!
Gato’s got a semi-infinite- juggle with his :qcf::qcf:+:k: at the corner.
KOF 2003 is all about Duo Lon anyway.
If you pick anybody else, you’ll fail (kind of like picking anybody but Kabal in MK 3).
Huh? You still need 2 other people to make a 3 man team 
Just avoid Duo Lon then, :/, no one’s forcing you to play as him ya know.
Try saying that to the 30+ scrubs that go to the arcade and challenge me with him. :bluu:
Those are scrubs they’re different, they choose Duo Lon out of their own will. Either that or they just hate losing
'98, hands down.
Neowave is second.
2002 … ugh.
Daimon is elite in '98, but not really exactly because of grapples. Clark is pretty elite in '98, though.
I really don’t understand why people like 2002. ABC is really, really retarded. Like, Chun-Li in 3S retarded. At least Goro in '98 is manageable.
By the way, if you’re getting raped by Extra mode fireball super over and over, stop playing KOF.
ABC?
Athena, Billy, Choi.
But I’d add Vanessa, Leona, Kula and Kim to popular characters in 2002.
seems like 2002 is balanced from the tournament vids ive seen, its cool they use Whip, Whip is my fav KOF character.
Whip is said to suck in 2003…why?
Whip lost a lot of her good stuff- like her ground CD, HSDM, dp move (which had uses), hcb+b direct into DM/SDM.
She didn’t really gain anything.
Another reason I prefer 98 over 02 is some characters play a lot scrubbier in 02 then 98, notably Kim (who went from being a technical character to complete scrub-bait), and Yuri
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The big flaw in 98 is Iori and Goro are overpowered, but balance is not as bad as most KOF games- Goro particularly has some bad matchups.
Also, extra mode can be messed up due to glitches
Yeah whut the hell? :annoy:
Huh? You CAN cancel her HCB+:snkb: into her DM/LDM, I do that all the time?
ABC
Anyways, yeah scrubbyness to the max in 02. Psychoball *N for the win. Oh and don’t give me that you can roll through it bullshit. Coupled with teleport and back dash cancelling oh and that annoying as fuck super. Good luck touching Athena. Yuri can be as annoying, if not more so with, her hadouken, delayed hadouken, air fireball. However, she gets a lot of her damage in through c.B c.A dp+C dp+C which is meaty damage off a low. So she’s not as scrub tastic. ABC are all pretty scrubby, but at high level half the cast is broken.
I’d rate the 2k2 tiers like this
top:
C
A
B
playable:
everybody else
sucks the horseshoe:
seth
chin
ralf
o.shermie
^You forgot to add Yashiro to the bottom of your post
I remember while I was in Mexico that 2002 EX edition or something was really big. There were a ton of people on those all day in the arcades.
The funny thing about it was that the special meter just filled up to max without anything happing. Which was…kinda lame.
Ralf isn’t bottom in 02. He has enough useful tools to be semi-reasonable.
Why hasn’t SNK gotten rid of backdash cancels- a lot of the WTF factor of KOF games have come from dash cancels…
How is Yashiro bottom tier? Wait cuz hes not. Bottom tier is Seth, Mature, O. Shermie, and i think Vice in 2k2.
Outside of Dou, aren’t Ash, K’, Jhun and Malin up in the tiers but without being too broken in 2k3?