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Summary
The King of Fighters (ザ·キング·オブ·ファイターズ, Za Kingu obu Faitāzu), officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games developed by SNK Playmore (formerly SNK), which began with The King of Fighters '94 in 1994. The characters in the story's canon include character from other series including Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and other SNK games that exist in alternate timelines within the series.
The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004, when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the Atomiswave arcade board. Only two King of Fighters games were made on the Atomiswave platform (The King of Fighters Neowave and The King of Fighters XI) before SNK decided to discontinue using the platform for the series. The current arcade hardware for the series is the Taito Type X2, with its first usage coming with the release of The King of Fighters XII. Ports of the arcade games and original The King of Fighters games have been released for several video games consoles.
Power of the Verse
King of Fighters is a fairly strong verse with a decent amount of hax and special abilities, including, but not limited to: Soul Destruction, Sealing, Mind Control, Teleportation, Elemental Manipulation, among others.
Its top tiers reach Small City level, and in speed they reach up to Relativistic levels.
A lot of the characters are scaled to each other into an incomprehensible mess, which sometimes makes it hard to measure how strong they are relative to one another.
Calculations
Attack Potency
- Goenitz creates a storm (5.46257 megaton TNT, Low 7-B)
- Zero Cannon about to destroy Southtown (~5 megaton TNT, Low 7-B)
Speed
- Bao tackled at the satellite Zero Cannon (Mach 874.6, Massively Hypersonic)
- Orochi's Desperation Move Speed (0.24255 c, Relativistic)
Other calculations not yet evaluated
Supporters/Opponents/Neutral
Supporters
- Dino Ranger Black
- Dragonmasterxyz
- Mariogoods
- Tonygameman
- BakiHanma18
- PuasLuisZX
- Zencha9
- SamanPatou
- The Element Kirbies
- N-nani
- CrackerVolley
Opponents
Neutral
Characters
The 3 Sacred Treasures
The Orochi Clan
Fatal Fury Characters
- Terry Bogard
- Andy Bogard
- Joe Higashi
- Mai Shiranui
- Blue Mary
- Duck King
- Rock Howard
- B. Jenet
- Hotaru Futaba
- Gato
- Tizoc
Team South Town
Team Korea
- Kim Kaphwan
- Chang Koehan
- Choi Bounge
- Jhun Hoon
- May Lee
Psycho Soldiers
- Athena Asamiya
- Sie Kensou
- Bao
- Chin Gentsai
- Momoko
Ikari Warriors
- Leona Heidern
- Ralf Jones
- Clark Still
- Heidern
- Whip
Art of Fighting Team
- Ryo Sakazaki
- Robert Garcia
- Yuri Sakazaki
- Takuma Sakazaki
- King
- Eiji Kisaragi
Team Japan
- Shingo Yabuki
- Benimaru Nikaido
- Goro Daimon
Team USA
- Heavy D!
- Lucky Glauber
- Brian Battler
K' Team
Mercenary Team
- Seth
- Vanessa
- Ramon
NESTS Cartel
- Igniz
- Original Zero
- Zero (Clone)
- Krizalid
- Misty
- NESTS
- Angel
- Foxy
- Diana
- K9999/Krohnen McDougall
- Nameless
Team Ash
- Elisabeth Blanctorche
- Duo Lon
- Shen Woo
Those From The Past
Official Invitation Team
China Team
Other
- Verse
- Antonov
- Kusanagi
- Saisyu Kusanagi
- Rugal Bernstein
- Ash Crimson
- Adelheid Bernstein
- Malin
- Hinako Shijou
- Ron
- Lin
Discussions
| Discussion threads involving The King of Fighters |
General Discussion
| General discussion thread for this verse |