Probablemente es el video que mejor explica el neutro de KOF y en especial el del XV.
El problema mas grande no es conocer estas cosas (personalmente, hace un tiempo que conozco la mayoría). Para los principiantes en KOF (y que además no somos unos prodigios aprendiendo) esta franquicia tiene una característica especial, que es que gameplay es tan frenético, que aunque conozcas estas cuestiones, te sientas tentado a recostarte inconscientemente en el autopilot. Por eso es que para los jugadores nuevos se nos hace tan cuesta arriba asumir el neutro de KOF, y mas aún nos resulte tan frustrante tratar de desactivar el flow rival.
Es algo que puede pasar en muchos fgs, pero en KOF creo que pasa mas, al combinar la velocidad con exigencia mecánica... al menos estos dos factores son algo distintivo respecto de los fgs actuales (Gran Blue, SF6, GGStrive, etc).
Muchas gracias Luigi por el esfuerzo.

Ahora tengo todo lo que necesito para irme 0-2 en el torneo de mañana, pero sabiendo por qué pasó....
(porque el rival era un random, obviamente).

"Hops beat lows"
>gets low profiled by a crouching B

SF players be like "Why is jump viable? Stop hopping at me!"

Kof neutral isnt random its dynamic

Kof is so much a part of my muscle memory at this point that even when I play a non snk fighting game my first instinct is to hop around all over the place

know you can label the game is random, but is not

Jumping is the NEUTRAL in KOF tho, it's just that KOF is different from SF like it relies a lot on pre-emptive play/reads. Defense is also dependent on reads moreso than reactions.

The match analysis alone makes this one of the best KOF neutral tutorials I've ever seen, you've done an amazing job with this video.

nah cuz that's just kof's flavor of neutral. it's jumpy. in tekken it's 3d movement. in 2d games it's shimmies, airdash, etc. the problem is all these new kids only play a few games but back in the day while you waited your turn you played games off to the side. for me it was arcsys, namco and snk games.

always start the match by short hopping in place to assert dominance

Such a complete video about KOF mechanics, hope that more people watch this and spread the KOF love. Thanks

Finally someone who can explain KOF has the neutral gameplay from the classics like Street Fighter but with faster reactions, LOTS of movement options, and even with an extremely rushdown gameplay, there are still great defensive tools.
There are characters who are pretty solid for neutral and poking (Kane pre-XV version, Vice, Mature, Mr. Big,  Daimon, Elizabeth, Yashiro/O.Yashiro, etc.) and others who rely in air pressure by mixing hops and jumps.

Pretty nice analysis, parcero, hope more people can understand more basics from KOF. I know for us who started playing these games since their release time, we rarely (if ever) went into full analysing the game this deeply but just finding out what was safe and what wasn't, just like the old times. But now that everyone is using frames/footsies/neutral, etc.I think this can illustrate the basics.

Dodges, rolls and short hops are what make the KOF franchise better.

as a kusoge enjoyer calling kof random is wild

You will never believe who won in the clip at 5:11

Any game may look random to untrained eyes.

I love this game.
Here's to City of the Wolves being a little more grounded

Damn bro this is perfect in introducing KOFs neutral game and the mind games that go on.

The high level analysis was icing on the cake. Let us see all the things you were talking about being used to a high degree.

A quick note: '94 and '95 are significantly different - this really began in '96 and mostly just got better with time, give one or two oddballs like '03.

This is the best KoF video I've seen for teaching