Worst Fighting Game Characters | Triple K.O. 

"If Sylvie comes back in SNK I will eat my hat." I hope the hat tasted good.

Street Fighter 3:00 KOF/SNK 29:00 Mortal Kombat 52:00 Virtua Fighter 1:06:17 Tekken 1:07:16 Marvel vs Capcom 1:18:00

Matt: "Q-Bee ABSOLUTELY has mad sex appeal!" Max: "If you're gross, man!" Matt: "I AM!" Justin: "She's full of that honey!" Best way to close an episode

Justin's reaction when Max started ranting about 3rd strike Chun Li is just golden.

My favorite part of this whole podcast was whenever Matt or Justin would mention a character that Max doesn’t remember and all of sudden you just hear him yell, “Oh this asshole!” after he looks them up. Freaking hilarious

The P in Tekken's P.Jack stands for "Prototype." Also, as far as I know, The reason why Jack usually don't have actual weapons most of the type is because they were intended to be worker robots, not fighters, until they made Gun Jack. I think in Tekken 2, Jack 2 wonders off from his job and does his own thing, and in his ending, he gets deleted for going rogue by a satellite laser or something. He was just giving a girl a flower and they blast him.

Personally I think Adon should have used Muay Thai's sister style Lethwei which is more focused on Headbutts, Punches, and Hyper Aggression that would fit him perfectly and he still gets to do the rivalry with Sagat because the IRL beef between Muay Thai and Lethwei is nuts

The biggest thing they could've done to fix Elena in Ultra, is to make Healing a Super instead of an Ultra. Switch it with her Spinning Beat or something. That way, she's not getting rewarded as often for getting beaten, and it makes it more of a choice for how you want to spend your meter: give up your EX moves, or hold onto it for a clutch life regen?

Time to eat your hat

I like that we get three different views on why they dislike certain characters and that this is specified as a completely personal list. It’s much more interesting because we’re not going to get the same generalized opinion we see on most “worst fighting game characters” lists.

Hope that they do a Triple KO on fighting games spin offs like Soul Calibur Legends, MK Shaolin Monks, Death by Degrees, Puzzle Fighters, DOA Volleyball, Virtua Quest, Guilty Gear Isuka, and the KOF for Girls dating sim.

Max's intense hatred towards devil jin always makes me laugh

I hate playing against Vega too but his design is just way too cool to be left out. Just his theme and stage alone in SF2, ooff.

has he eaten his hat yet

Honestly surprised Max or Justin didn't mention anything about their hatred of Vergil and how he ruined UMvC3. I guess SNK Galactus finally made Max embrace his dark side.

Since the KOF legacy, Max still to this day have no idea that the Chang Choi duo character is a Capcom thing... SNK never did that, they are two separated characters in every KOF game.

32:15 Sylvie's not only playable in KOF All-Stars, but also has two separate variants. 47:38 His name was Kusare-Gedo. He's *a* youkai.

I came into this episode right after Season 2’s roadmap for KOFXV dropped. So… is Matt gonna eat his hat?

I have a tendency to gravitate to annoying or weirdo characters because I think it's funny. I seriously played as F.A.N.G., Hakan, Q, Xanadu, Teddie in Persona, Servebot in Marvel, and Blanka in CVS2. I actually get irritated when I see a lack of weirdo characters in a fighting game like KOF15 and the leaked SF6 roster.

The thing with Alisa versus Gon or Panda or whomever is that Tekken treats Panda as a joke. Because Panda is a joke. But they treat Alisa like you're supposed to take her seriously.

I might be the only person in the world that likes Fang's character design. It's very reminiscent of Big Trouble in Little China or Kung Fu Hustle.

As a Street Fighter player that mains both Dhalsim and Vega I feel attacked even though their claims are completely legitimate

Don’t hate the character hate the function

Kuma from Tekken 7 will always and forever piss me off for ONE reason. Because I played it a lot my freshmen year of college with people in the video game club, and this guy named Keith would always pick Kuma, would do nothing but medium punch you, and would get you in an unblockable cycle and beat you. And after beating me, Keith would put the controller down and walk away laughing maniacally.

This has to be one of my favourite episodes for this podcast 😂 I didn't know Frank replaced Leon in TvC, that's just as heartbreaking as Frank also (supposedly) replacing Gene from God Hand in UmvC3...

It's funny how yesterday I was thinking "what if Triple K.O. did a podcast about shitty fighting game characters" and here we are.

P-Jack was Prototype Jack, wasn't it? The feral Wolverine was after Magneto had ripped his adamantium skeleton out in Fatal Extractions. His healing factor kicked into a really high gear. People at the time thought his bone claws was his skeleton adapting to his not having the adamantium claws anymore, but later on it turned out that he'd had the bone claws all along.

I disagree with Alisa. Sure the chainsaw arms and exploding head may be weird and silly but I always thought that it was pretty cool idea for a character. Plus we need more fighting game characters who have chainsaws as weapons aside from her and Leatherface from MKX.

Justin: I despise Iori Yagami Max: Sakurai is weeping tears 😭

You know, I used to hate Lucky Chloe as much as the next guy. Then Lord Kaizur changed me because he used her against Akuma, and the DLC P2W characters. Nothing better than seeing backswing blow against +frame move.

17:00 JWong's reaction is absolutely freakin priceless XD

"It's just video games at the end of the day." Thanks, Matt. I appreciate your level-skulled approach. ;D

If you were wondering before watching, most of their disdain comes down to their play style and playing against them, but there are a few characters where they hate their design and personality.

32:00 get some salt Matt... SHE IS BACK

The creativity for FANG was good they can change some of his stuff and it will be great. The worst character would be Oni. A character derived from a derived character.

The Meitenkun slander is crazy lol. Who doesn’t love a character that wakes up, beats your ass, then goes back to sleep. Thats amazing !

Lol Sylvie is back on KoF XV season 2 😅 (31:58)

(Sylvie confirmed in Jan 2023!) Time to eat that hat of yours, Matt.

I hope they do a triple k.o. episode on "fighting" games. As in games that definitely have fighting in them, but are not the first things you think of. I'm talking punch-out, fight night, wwe, Sifu, For honor, fighting mini-games within bigger games, and so on.

You should an episode "Which anime, manga, videogame, comic book deserve a fighting game adaptation?".

Im surprised there was no mention of Vergil. I personally love him, but he is the biggest robbery character in fighting games lol.

I can't get enough of this podcast, thanks for the content guys ♥️

I've never liked characters that I have to mash moves like Blanka's electricity and Chun-Li's lightning kick. I can never combo into these.

39:50 I feel that Maxima is one of these characters that fits very well for the story, visual and mood of the game they are introduced in, but then they stop making sense when dragged into future releases. "K" and Maxima had a great synergy with the whole KOF 99 theme - you know, with Kyo clones being revelead, new early-cyberpunk-era technology being introduced on the villains side, all of that. Even Maxima clothes and default color palate goes well with the whole thing. The decision of keeping "K" in following games made sense for me because he carries that edgy and "visual key" style that comes with the franchise, but Maxima is just... out of place, imo.

My personal choice for worst fighting game character will always be the old lady from the Power Instinct games. Don't get me wrong - I ADORE the concept of an impossibly spry ancient old lady who is the matriarch of her family & to prove your martial arts skills you have to beat her. But you CANNOT beat her. Every time I played those games and saw her come up next on the roster, I just knew that I was gonna lose.

Calling out Matt, Sylvie is back so he will have to eat his hat

Matt: *Calls out Sylvie Paula Paula* Oh, Matt... I can't imagine you liking her latest reveal...

Gigas has some very interesting lore that's connected to another forgettable character; Katarina. so Katarina competes in the King of Iron fist tournament in search of her stepfather because she understands that Mishima zaibatsu had something to do with his disappearance, only to find out that her stepfather has been experimented on and transformed into Gigas. that is some very interesting lore, unfortunately the characters involved in it are not.

I don’t care what anyone says, I love Havik and I guarantee if he was put into a modern MK game the people who didn’t like him will probably end up liking him.

No character is uredeemable in terms of quality. As Geoff Johns once said: there are no bad characters, only bad writers. Same with fighting game characters. Look at how NRS reimagined characters like Shinnok (MKX), Fujin (MK11), Bo Rai Cho (MKX), Tanya (MKX), Kenshi (MK9). I think you can always reimagine a character no matter what. You just need an imagination.

As someone who has not played most of these games, please allow me to thank you for putting in the pictures of the characters you are talking about. I just opens this whole video for people like me who are only casually experienced with fighting games.

The Jin twins actually did return in Neo Geo BC lol. Also funny how Kusaregedo gets brought up without the most disgusting thing about him...poop toss secret move...2nd most being his 40% command throw.

I love Justin at 35:00 mad at Iori always being top tier meanwhile he mains Chun Li and Sagat 😂

The P in P-Jack stands for prototype.

Great episode, had a big smile the whole time with you reactions.

I can't hate on FANG, getting to Platinum rank with him was the most fun I had with SFV. He came off as far more interesting in his solo story than he was in the main story. Birdie and Laura were butchered there also.

Time to chow down matt

This is a personal take but for me here's top 3 potential characters in fighting games that I actually like. 1. Ferra/Torr (MKX)-Thier designs are interesting and I like the general aspect of fighting 2 in 1 characters and since Noob Saibot/Smoke did I ever love the idea. 2. Meitenkun (KoF)- He's literally the definition of I would kick your ass with my eyes close, he lowkey kinda reminds me of a kung-fu movie where a guy fights his enemies while he's asleep and is OP when he wakes up. 3. Rufus (SF)-Look I don't know about anyone but I sometimes like a bit of comedy in fighting games and Street Fighter where most of the cast are all serious,stotic and down to earth Rufus fits as even more of a literal joke character. Implementing his style of kung-fu,mistaking other people as Ken and getting into fights with them and like most other fighters strive to become a strong fighter despite his girth. Plus his comedic fight between Bob in SFxTekken trailer was hilarious. Of course again this is just my take and not to offend no one, it's just how I feel anyways.

Justin: I'm hate Roll Screen: *Show Roll.exe*

I actually like F.A.N.G, but hey...

As a Chipp enthusiast, can confirm, grapplers like Potemkin are walking PTSD.

Matt’s wheezy laughing makes my day

I know this is about 2D fighters, but firstly: Ganondorf and secondly I'm going to throw my own hat into the ring and say: Zorgulon from War of The Monsters. His only good move is his super: a probe that summons three U.F.Os to ether hunt down an enemy or to patrol an area and blast nearby enemies. That is the only good tool that isn't shared across the cast. To bad you can't use it very often as he has to burn his super-charge on a reversal/melee super to get people away from him as the launching hit of all of his standard light string is very easy to trigger by accident instead of a heavy string-ender and it is so ridiculously delayed that the opponent has time to block before it lands. And don't think you can bypass this by starting with your strong attacks as the first hit is even slower. Unless you have an item like an explosive, spear or a bloodening weapon or if you spend your super to send them flying (and it's the slowest one in the game so don't expect to land it all the time). Finally, despite being a ZONER, his projectile is slow to shoot and barely tickles the foe. Oh, and if the opponent is playing a top tier or Raptros, your fucked; Agamo can brush off his piss-poor damage and hits so hard that he can kill Zorgulon in two and a half light-strings WITHOUT using his torch, Robo-47 can out-zone him despite not being a zoner himself and if he gets into melee range Zorgulon is turbo-fucked as Robo has the best normals in the game whilst Zorgulon has the worst by a MILE and Kenteticlops and Raptros are a pick your poison: armouring through your reversal before hitting you with a stupidly damaging command grab with more range than you or being chased by a normal-heavy Rushdown with a fuckton of jumps and a super powerful flamethrower WITH AFTERBURN! Zorgulon is so ridiculously bad that not only is arcade stage 10 which is a one on three against three full-strength Zorgulon on a tiny map piss easy, but I also don't even think its possible to beat stage 5 with him due to it being a two on one against two Raptros on his worst and their best stage, meaning that if it weren't for the fact that Zorgulon is an unlockable like Raptros and they share the behind the scenes video for their endings, 100% would be impossible. He is the worst character I've used not just in fighting games but games in general and is a weird black-spot on this very good and weirdly balanced for something in the middle of the "fuck balance; just make the attack feel kind right" era game.

I never find out about these channels when they're announced/brand new, but I love them, 3 Legends imo 💪

So that part about Leon almost getting in was interesting, did not know about that. I knew about the Date Masamune cut, but definitely not the Leon change. Might be a fun topic to talk about characters that almost made it into various games.

Hey guys, love the podcast! I would love to see you guys talk about the rise of indie fighters and how much of a cult following they have. Games like Terrordrone, skullgirls, etc. Or another subject would be going franchise by franchise and suggesting new characters for each and what you'd like to see from them.

You pretty much nailed it for those games I hope we get a part 2 of this because there are other like smash or guilty gear, blaze blue etc. ps hope for favourites of franchises part 2 as well

When you guys got to MK I was like "well here's the last topic of this podcast" cause there are wayyyy to many characters that can just stay deleted. So many I deleted my list and just left this comment instead

Has anyone brought up yet that Youkai Kusaregedo was designed by Yasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun? He created him after he drew a Samurai Shodown manga.

I couldn’t pull off Gief moves on SNES so when I finally learned him years later on stick or analog it was so fun. They took away banishing fist in SFV so I don’t get all the hate, he’s hard to use but I like a challenge and like being different. My other favorite is Dhalsim. I learned him in X-men vs SF and never looked back.

great episode! super funny :)

I once fought Justin using my scrublike Zangief in SF4 and got absolutely wrecked for my efforts. The man ain't lying. He also bodied a good chunk of my friends, by his domination of my Gief felt personal. GG Justin, it was a great match.

I wonder if they're going to reference the SugarPunch Design Works' Design Shop episode on F.A.N.G at some point, Matt featured in one of their videos about Abigail, so maybe ?

Hey a heads up the Spotify version of this podcast cuts short around the Wolverine discussion.

I liked playing as Adon in SF4. He's flighting style was more closer to muay thai

The fact they didn't talk about Soul Calibur V's cast is serious missed potential!

Gargoyle's Quest is kind of an underrated gem on the SNES, so I like Firebrand.

Much respect for Matt's Noriyoshi Ohrai Spacegodzilla poster

Watching this today, I wonder if Matt ate his hat? Sylvie Paula Paula is back! 🤣

28:08 - I love guile in MVC2, he is very strong against sent. His air flash kicks don't need charging and they cover a wide range of the screen, so you could super jump and quickly do down, up, kick to get a sent murdering flash kick blade.

oof at 31:59

I kind of want to see them do an episode on fighting game mods like the UMvC3 character mods, SF2 Rainbow Edition, or the Goku invading other game stuff But i can't imagine what else could come up for that one

I know these guys aren't big Dragon Ball FighterZ players but it's weird to not hear UI Goku mentioned in a talk about hated fighting game characters.

44:27 Max's gonna need those Manscaped boxer briefs after what happened the other day lmao

I was always bumped that they had two Wolverines in MvC2. It would’ve been cool if they used Dhalisms sprite and move set to make Super Skrull,

Xanadu is rough but Slyvie is my personal least favourite from XIV, curious how many 3D MK era characters will be mentioned.

We are curious what your thoughts would be on our fighting character draft episode!

Meitenkun actually gets sleepy all the time because he wields more than excessive amount of Chi energy that makes him tired all the time. Lore wise, Meitenkun and Shun'ei both are extra ordinary kids and that's why Master Tung took them in. I think Meitenkun is actually fun to play and I saw many times that he is being used in professional tournaments.

P-Jack is Prototype Jack

Personally I would say Rufus for sure, almost every single new character we saw in the PS2/Xbox 3D Mortal Kombat games, Cetrion in MK11, and Abigail in SFV.

When they were saying to get rid of Firebrand and Arthur, I love those characters so that made me sad

25:15 "His outfits so tight" From the myway production video...Legendary

I'm with you on F.AN.G. and Abigail. Terrible designs, they can be consigned to the trash bin. Ditto on Meitenkun for KoF. Have to completely disagree about Alisa from Tekken though, she's just fun as a character design. Flying chainsaw-armed robot girl with detachable head is my kind of silly. (Granted, I don't play Tekken itself, but she was one of my favorites to play in SFxT.)

Sylvie is coming back to KOF 15.

Great episode again . Woot

Stryker from MK3 is just the lamest character ever. I'm really surprised he wasn't mentioned.

I hope you can invite the following content creators to your podcast as guests: - Leon Massey - TheoryFighter - Hold Back to Block - Mori Calliope - SugarPunch Design Works - Koefficient - Jmcrofts - Rooflemonger

Hard disagree on Alisa, I like the Astro Boy inspiration as she resembles Dr. Bosconovitch's deceased daughter, and her elegant but also fierce and powerful fighting style mixing ballet with thruster kicks and punches, she's just so cool and cute to me, and I love her playstyle I love Matt's take on Devil Jin, he's just so over the top edgy that he ends up being great, and I kinda also think the same of Lars Btw the P. in P. Jack stands for -penis- Prototype

25:09 killed me. That My Way Entertainment reference was too slick. "I'm the Juggernaut bitch! My suit's so tight!"

Great job