Most of the new generation aren't being played or didn't make an appearance in top 8. It's not a fair comparison in the first place when you compare a game with mostly the same old cast with a game with a lot of newer characters. It's then a matter of playstyle and XIII is homogenized at best because the best characters in that game was spending meter fishing for some hit into a conversion into infinite/TOD and those characters themself are either suck and relying entirely on the system or just broken/op. You take Ex Iori out, people will flock to Kim, you take Kim out, people will flock to Mr.Karate, you take him out and people will flock to Benimaru, so like you said, it's just a repeat of what already happened like previous KOFs. The difference here is that people figure out XIV quicker than XIII and with the latter losing all it's fire when it did.Д®DIT: And if you're gonna talk about balance in KOF then no KOF game is balanced going by what you mean, wasn't XIII tell you anything? You literally can't do jack in XIII against the combination of those 3 and you see them pretty much on every team, almost all of them and XIV is unbalanced because it also has a couple of characters that are dominant? The irony. Heck, if you gonna compare XIV in it's first release then technically speaking, XII is XIII's first release and it took SNK 2 years and it's still 'unbalanced' nonetheless given the state it's now. XIV also kinda have that but you can't deny when you've more characters doing different stuffs than whatever XIII was doing in it's prime time. To me, numbers of characters getting played is nothing but an illusion in XIII because almost everyone were doing the same shit so it doesn't even matter if the whole cast got played in XIII. Which is a good thing btw, cant let the new faces beat experienced seasoned KOF players who put the work in. The entry barrier is lowered but to actually get good in XIV is as hard as any other KOF for its own reasons. Both XIII and XIV going off the data are roughly the same balance wise, but if things are left alone it will 100% gear towards a set team and an army of Benimaru's. XIII Climax came out in the same year but that was arcade exclusive at the time. History repeats itself and XIV was in an even worse state before the 3 updates it had while XIII only had 1 and that was with the console release. There were 5 Benimaru's and 2 Iori's in XIV, over in XIII 2012 there were 5 Kims and 2 Iori's. GCCM.PK|White-AshX (Nakoruru/Yuri/Athena, Mian/Yuri/Athena)ДЄRCADESHOCK|REYNALD (Gang-il/Geese/Meintenkun, Geese/Benimaru/Meitenkun, Gang-il/Robert/Benimaru)

TC|PAKO (Meitenkun/Luong/Mai, Meitenkun/Luong/Muimui) Huomao|ZJZ (Benimaru/Mature/Leona, Mature/Yuri/Leona, Athena/Yuri/Mature, Meitenkun/Yuri/Mature) Qanba.Douyu|Xiaohai (Kula/Robert/Iori, Kula/Benimaru/Iori,, Kula/KвЂ™/Iori, Robert/Benimaru/Iori) (Meitenkun/Benimaru/Leona, Billy/Leona/Benimaru, Leona/Daimon/Benimaru, Clark/Benimaru/Daimon) VVv.TC|Romance (King/Benimaru/Yuri, King/Hwa/Benimaru)ДЎ. IGL|BALA (Billy/Takuma/Shen, Ralf/Takuma/Shen, Clark/Takuma/Shen, Benimaru/Shen/Takuma)Д¬afeID|Verna (EX Iori/Duo Lon/Kim, King/Duo Lon/Kim)Д¬afeID|Gutts (EX Iori, Saiki, Vice, Mr. Lets compare the current state of XIV to the early stage of console XIII back in 2012. Coliflower's KoF XIV Quick Combo Guides.Constant trolling about how terrible KoF games are.

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