How $15 BROKE King Of Fighters 

Who else is playing the KOF XV beta this weekend?

I can already hear the KOF 15 announcer yelling "TEAM FIFTEEN DOLLARS!!"

At one point Mr Karate's theme was the only background music you heard during the whole top 8 lol Great video!

I just can't stop smiling at these sprites moving so smoothly

Xiao hai actually considers kof xiii to be the most balanced kof where most of the cast is viable as opposed to say 98 where you need to pick from 5-6 characters to win.

NESTS Kyo wasn't really on the same level as EX Iori and Mr. Karate. Sure he had fantastic space control and pressure, but he lacked the incredible reversals and versatility that 13 Kyo had, plus if you could do backdash EX Orochinagi combos 13 Kyo's damage output was one of the best in the game. EX Iori and Karate otoh basically made playing their normal counterparts obsolete in a competitive setting. Claw and Takuma did have some unique strengths, but their DLC counterparts were just more versatile and had more BS.

Mr. Karate in kof 13 is the most respect kof has given to art of fighting, and him being a busted top tier makes up for some of the abuse. while a part of me feels bad for how centralizing he was, this is snk's akuma we're talking about: he deserves it

That Iori infinite meme had me dying LMAO

I commented about a meme, but I also wanted to add, this was a great video. I love these short dives into random moments in FGC history. I would have never learned about the $15 team without you!

I think it's misleading to paint EX Kyo as if he were on the same level as Iori and Karate. People give him this rep simply because he was also a DLC character, but in retrospect it's clear the reward for purchasing him just wasn't quite as game-breaking as the others. He's not _weak_ by any means but if your goal is to build the strongest possible team, you've already got Iori/Karate and the likes of Kim or Chin are in the mix contending for a spot, Kyo is the one who comes up short. Consider that Reynald's Evo 2013 victory is easily the best showing the character ever had on stage, and there were various other factors (some arguably more important) in play than the specific character Reynald went to when he switched. The pressure (both mental and physical) from the crowd, the simple fact that the switch facilitated a drastic shift in playstyle, as well as the fact that as a general rule Reynald has proven himself to be the type of player who will bet on his opponent lacking matchup knowledge when his back is against the wall. Woo's dropped combos and failed punishes in Game 3 alone speak to these factors all working against Woo at that point in time, and the rest showed Woo was unable to recover from those mistakes.

The DLC characters come bundled with the steam version, so for me it's team "I just got the game"

NESTS Kyo was my fucking MAN. played King, NESTS Kyo, Shen Woo and I NEVER Felt let down by my performances.

You forgot to mention how Mr Karate is straight up a boss character from another game(SVC chaos), has every possible tool in the game, and even has tools from other games (like dp break from Garou, dash cancel from svc, a jump cancelable normal for no reason). Overall he's absurdly overtuned. Still, the characters in this game kinda feel more powerful than their previous versions due to how much stronger conversions are in general, even if a lot of then feel like they lost half their moves, the game is pretty fun too play.

The best team though was team "Buy 2 get 1 free" also known as Kim, Mr K, and EX Iori.

You know part of me wished that they had more DLC Characters had they had the budget. According to the Trading Cards and Scrapped Sprites Momoko, Shingo, Heidern, Oswald, Whip, Geese, Malin, Chang, Botan, Shroom, Rimelo, and many others were robbed of being in this artstyle. Imagine how busted the game could have been with a longer lifespan?

I would argue that Kim is just as good as any member of team $15 if not stronger

13 is still the best kof to date, despite Kim/ex iori/mr.karate being the strongest and most centralizing team avaiable, to the point of being really detrimental for pros not to run it at tournaments. The game popularity decline at tournaments is arguably partly due to everyone using slight variants of this same team :(

The only real downside I remember to Team $15 was that Karate was really REALLY hard

i remember watching an Evo top 8 for this game and everyone always picked iori and Mr karate, the only variety was in whichever 3rd character people would pick and those were the most interesting parts like seeing what people could do with Kim or Chin, iori and karate aren't even characters i dislike but it gets sorta bland watching the same characters over and over

NODOBYS GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW BROKEN KIM WAS?

KOF 13 is up there with 98 and 02.

Base Iori was always S tier in every kof

I preferred regular Kyo over EX Kyo, I usually tend to prefer Kyo's older moveset with the fireball, but boy is EX Iori fun in this game, even casually you can tell just how poweful he was, Iori being one of my secondaries, I had a little bit of trouble trying to get used to flameless Iori back when there was only an arcade release, thankfully I didn't have to get used to him for very long, because EX Iori basically rendered him useless very quickly.

I'm surprised that not a lot of People really know (or even Forgotten) about the fact KOF XIII was the Game that completely almost killed the entire SNK Company because they were on the Virge of a Bankruptcy (for a 2nd Time), I mean hey, it at least didn't End up like a huge Failure like "Duke Nukem: Forever" level of a Garbage Mess.

Your videos have excellent quality. You deserve all the success in the world. Love the videos about KOF. Keep up the good work.

this was fun to watch. i hope there will be more KOF competitive history vids

There’s also Smash Wii U Bayonetta to discuss regarding broken DLC characters. But yeah, I remember seeing Mr. Karate everywhere in competitive KoFXIII.

Who knew winning tournaments only cost $15 dollars?

Great content, great editing, subbed👍🏿

Kim was the only one standing up to injustice 😤

KOF XIII videos in 2021?? Sweet! Never knew these characters were so busted, no wonder there are so many Mr. Karate's online lol

Glad to see 13 again. Now that I think about it, there was a hell of a lot of Mr. Karate in the Evo matches lol. I was just glad to see Shen around, but it seems that his fists just can't beat 15 dollars.

I upset my friends who were running a tournament that I used the whole $15 team so they had to log into an account that bought the dlc, and this was in top 3 so they needed to do it lmao

Good to see XIII discussion videos nowadays.

Great video, loving the content from the channel as always. One thing I did notice was some heavy plosives in the narration peaking, especially in the beginning. Not a huge deal, but definitely something I noticed, so you guys might want to just be mindful of that in the future. There are steps you can take during recording and post to make those p's and t's come out less harsh. Looking forward to the next video :D

0:33 jack's eyeball changing illumination got me from a room away

Fantastic video as always. Thank you for the Hellraiser clip

Man I miss this game so much. It's the FG I grinded the most aside from SF4 and Accent Core Plus during that generation.

What a glorious game 💚

how are you making your videos?:) they are great!

To my surprise I really enjoyed playing with flameless yagami.

great video! i miss seeing this game in action.

Very fun video. Tyvm

I knew that subbing to this channel 3 years ago was going to be worth it

Yup that's right almost everyone pick one in team Mr Karate or Iori with Flame. But I like Takuma more thanks to the loop combo.

Love how you added the Flash blooper lol.

LOL the edit at 1:00…when you showed GT Goku I 😂🤣 god I love this channel

I only have 1 friend who plays FG, and everytime he comes to my house we play a FT10 in KOF XIII

"Team Fifteen Dollars" I just love how that sounds

the volume levels for this video are all over the place for me as i watch with earphones. i can't even get past 1:15.

im kinda happy that Leroy made it in the intro

When I got into KoF and started watching competitive KoF13 these characters ruled the finals hell NESTS style Kyo has replaced normal Kyo because of the DLC

Takuma Sakazaki after seeing former boss characters still be top tier in fighting games like Akuma and Kazuya "that's it I'm about to put the mask back on and make them learn today"

3:12 what is this from?

I still remember how this game completely out did Street Fighter in terms of hype

Kim's smooth pants animation is worth 15 bucks.

whats the song at 1 minute

I don't even play fgs but I can appreciate people getting a ton of dlc value for a mere $15

This is amazing content

kof13 is one of the best looking fighters ever

Yeah the Abundance of Kim, Flame Iori and Mr Karate pretty much killed the 13 hype for me, evo 2012 and 2013 were spectacular.. But once Xiaohai showed the world in 2014 that these three wrecks the rest of the cast with ease, it becomes almost pointless to not have one or two in tournaments and it made for some very repetitive matches spectator wise As much as 14 rotated between K' Nakoruru to Leona and iori and Benimaru to SHUN nei Heiden and Nadj at least none of those of the same three lasted the entire life cycle of the game.. KOF 13 should have had a patch instead we got the trinity of Kim, Iori and Karate making everyone look like fools in an absurbly greater ratio compared to everyone else for the rest of the game's life span.

KOF 13 is still ranked 1 on my favorite KOF games list. Not because of the graphics, but because Chang & Choi are not in this game, lol. This is the game when i can enjoy playing as Kim with his canonical team, Hwa & Raiden. Those two are badass and fun to play.

damn imagine losing 60 percent just because your opponent got a counter hit on a jump cd thats a feelsbadman

Team $15 (AKA They Ditch Chizuru for Karate-San)

What I don't understand is that Claw Iori was often put higher than Flames Iori on several tier lists back in the day for KOF13.

It's really more EX Iori and Mr. Karate that made them strong. I honestly didn't see NESTS Kyo play often in tournaments.

As a carpenter, the best hammer is a stiletto.

7:07 what are you doing here, Harada?

adding in the Flash meme was godlike

NESTS Kyo is from KoF 99, not 98.

And then Misterio showed up and we all know how it ended !

Out of all the KOF 13's cast,i'd also add that those 3 DLC characters were among the easiest to play overall!But EX iori was at the same level as regular one (if not worse) if you didn't know how to perform his infinite consistently...And like 4/5 pro players were able to so,yea...

The Pin Head cameo was a DBD reference?

Omg kokonoe on release was sooo busted that it was fun. Damn i feel old now😭

Best KOF ever hands down

I was so sad to see this happen in real time. I loved 13 and watching the tournaments even after but it felt like mvc2 again lol

I've seen alot of the Korean 10 dollar team. Iori, Mr. Karate, and Kim

Great video! The gags were a litte too "fellow kids" for my taste but it didn't stop me from being entertained.

I've said this since day 1, DLC SHOULD BE BANNED FROM TOURNIES. In dream land, DLC characters are balanced, but in reality, if they don't release broken, sales won't be as high.

Good old KOF 98' and Takuma style beat down - those were the days...

Damn i really wish they return to 2d again someday

3:03 NOICE XD

Mr Karate is literally Akuma of SNK series.

Leroy and Goku GT gives me PTSD

I used to shred my friends and people online on the mobile KOF i 2012 with Nests Kyo and EX Iori lmao

getting the feeling that the newly released Garou team is doing the same shit…but as a longtime Garou player, I am so here for it

And despite all this, the thing that really takes me back with XIII was just how slick Tokido's Duo was

"You seek out every advantage you get over every other player" JDCR: hehe armor king go brrt

Mister karate needs to return in kof 15! Kof needs their akuma.

They take your 15 dollars and give you OP characters. Then people complain and start nerfing the OP characters you spent 15 dollars on

4:20 WHY did I think Anchor was the FIRST chara... Anchorman... Right XD

This game is kino, even though Athena looks like a chubby school girl.

So pretty much a ZeroMayCry team with no MorriDoom to oppose them

As much as i liked old iori i very much enjoyed his new movesets in 13 and its a shame we'll probably never see it again

but how 15$ i did bought the game in steam without any dlc that i was aware of or in any offer, and those characters were in the game no problem, makes me think that everyone did have those characters and that's why i've make them my team

I didnt believe in dlc tier. Then, i played dbfz.

The NFL comin for you for that draft jingle.

ain't this guy too well dressed for a fighting game video? "also I'm not wearing any pants" ahh that's more like it

It's crazy to think that Iori and Kyo were DLC in the first place

This vid reminded me of reynald vs hee san woo