Every Fighting Game Type Explained

[@CoreAGaming]

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Bro not gonna upload for another year after this let's be real 😂

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[@MajoraZ]

I play/do outreach for Pokken, and I think it + its experimental mechanics woulda been fun to mention. If anything, I think it's MOSTLY a traditional 2d fighter, NOT primarily a Arena fighter or a 3d fighter like Tekken (despite it often being called those), but it's kinda its own unique thing with some innovative ideas: It has per-character movelists/inputs (vs Arena fighters usually having shared inputs & autocombos), multiple attack buttons with lights and heavies (vs Tekken having limb based buttons), an attack height system (tho a unique one, see below), and cancels, just-frames, resets, oki play, footsies etc all as concepts, even SFIV style Focus Attacks. However, there's dedicated special, block and jump buttons, and of course, the Phase Shift system, the game's most unique and most misunderstood mechanic. All of what I said is true of the game's 2d Duel Phase (DP), but If a player inside the DP lands a universal grab, or maxes out the hidden Phase Shift Point (PSP) gauge, then the game Shifts into the 3d Field Phase (FP). The FP does kinda play like an Arena Fighter, in that there is an over the shoulder camera, and each character now mostly has universal inputs that yield similar moves, but the FP only lasts until a heavy hit, most specials, or a grab successfully connects: Then the game instantly then shifts back to the DP. In essence, this means Pokken is a traditional 2d fighter where the game's Anti Infinite system (the PSP gauge) forces a return to neutral by shifting to the FP, with the FP itself basically just being an extra layer of Neutral play (the state of the match where neither player is at an advantage and is trying to get a hit in/do mindgames) that lasts for one on-hit interaction, on top of the neutral the DP itself has. I often see people wish the game just stuck to one phase, but I think people miss the benefits this mechanic has: Beyond forcing the game to regularly reset to and therefore emphasize neutral (tho the player who causes a shift does retain an advantage state to a degree: you can chase after the other player or set up as the other player is sent flying from the shift and has to wakeup), the fact that different moves add more or less PSP to the gauge means that it also acts as a system to discourage flowcharting and to encourage combo route/move choice variety and having to weigh their pros/cons in real time: Ideally if you're going for optimal damage, you're altering your combos so based on whatever the PSP gauge is currently at when you land your starter/hit confirm, the combo will always max out the PSP gauge and shift right on the high damage ender, rather then the shift interrupting the combo early. But you can also go for non-optimal combos/moves that have higher/lower PSP: For example, a low PSP combo won't max out the gauge and will leave the enemy in the corner, so if you land another starter, you'll get more total damage in that DP (or get another opportunity to use a move that steals meter or applies a status etc) vs if you did a single optimal combo and shifted (sorta like a reset). Or you can use high PSP moves/combos to cause a shift faster then an optimal, if you really need the meter causing a shift gives you right away, or maybe because you're under pressure/in the corner and landed a reversal and just wanna quickly shift to get some space. Some moves also don't add to the PSP gauge at all or even reduce it, so there's a resource management element too. That (finally) brings us to the attack height system: Most FG's use height as a way to make blocking risky, allowing moves on X height to bypass, and punish a block on Y height. But in Pokken, blocking is height universal (but can be broken) and height states exist for moves to bypass and punish OTHER MOVES during their active frames: Think how a 2H in DBFZ is invulnerable to aerials, except in Pokken like half of your moves are invulnerable to one or more of the game's 8 height states. In practice, this means heights enable extra reversals, so even on the backfoot, you can make a read/use a move on reaction to bypass and punish a move the enemy is doing. (Pokken still does have offensive height mixups, tho: If you're doing a meaty or a combo with a gap, the other player might expect a move of X height they can punish with a move of Y height, and you can mix them up by going for a move of Z height instead to still punish them) Both the Phase Shift System and how Pokken handles attack heights contribute to Pokken being a VERY neutral, fundamentals, and mindgame heavy title: Shifts will cause regular returns to neutral, the FP acts an additional layer of neutral play, there's more opportunities for players to get reversals and to revert to neutral thanks to heights even inside the DP, etc: There's so many opportunities to get back in control or to juke the other player out. Each character also plays very differently and has unique mechanics (EX: Aegislash's unique parry mechanic, form switching to change his moveset + you get buffs/just-frame combo extensions the more you form switch), and there's tons of player expression: two people using the same character can play them totally differently. It's also very well balanced and widely-agreed-to be low tier characters regularly still have top 8 placements. Maybe i'm making it sound a bit sterile and constrained, but I assure you the game's absolutely got some wild sauce and nutty moves, character gimmicks and tech/exploits too: EX: Thermodynamics allows you to use moves from one phase in the other! It's a great game and if any of this sounds interesting (there's other unique things I didn't mention, such as the Crit system/attack triangle, which has some weird effects like making it so you tech/punish grabs with attacks rather then other grabs; the game having status buffs and debuffs; Supports, varying stage attributes etc) then I encourage you to check it out: You can still find matches on ranked, and while these days we don't have many majors at big regional events like CEO, there's still online weeklies/monthlies run on the main D1schrord server (disc__d.gg/pokken ; just replace the __ with "or") and run seperately by devlinhart_, Road to Greatness, KalamityKTK etc (there's also some EU and Asia specific events); and the Pokken Supercombo page has frame data, movelists, character guides, and other resources. Here on KZbin, Jukem, 21 Hits, Badintent (he has multiple channels), Comboster, Coronation Productions, Shadowcat, DualDeathLucario, etc all do or have done Pokken competitive content here on KZbin.

[@naejimba]

This game is really fun and it's a shame it didn't blow up. I think it is due to it being console exclusive (and not on PC or the console most FGC plays), there was almost no advertisement in the states (I didn't hear about it until way after XD had been out), and of course it's nintendo and they even tell you what types of controllers you can use in tournaments. They all but sabotaged it, and it's still a banger.

[@Jako3334074]

the height system is basically tekken's high/low crush, & the way attacks blow through grabs is directly from virtua fighter

[@Julian-um2om]

pokken is fucking awesome 😛it also has its own mini assists in support Pokémon, although they’re not nearly as crazy because support calls have a longer animation and longer reboot times. Everyone gets their own install supers and there’s some airdashes or unique air options that a select Pokémon have. It’s a lot slower paced and beginner friendly but nothing beats a good soul read or 300 damage combo in pokken.

[@MajoraZ]

@@Jako3334074 I haven't played a ton of Tekken or Virtua Fighter, but my impression is Pokken's height interaction mechanics are a LOT more fleshed out then Tekken's height crushes. Again, Pokken has 8 different height states and most of them bypass at least one other height state. It's not nearly as simple as highs vs lows. Overall I feel like the game is much closer to SF then it is to Tekken, but there's no one true perfect comparsion.

[@BlazinTre]

I didn't expect a dissertation on Pokken when I hit "Read More" but I'm glad I did! I miss watching the Official VGC matches.

[@jinpei05]

When the world had lost all hope... HE RETURNED.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force scene with the spring rolls is from the episode “The”

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@@admiralAlfonso9001 thank you 🫂

[@link1016]

God damn, no wonder why they where gone for a year, this masterpiece is a hour long

[@CagedPhoenixThe1st]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2534">42:14</a> in naruto ultimate ninja storm, if the screen was behind my opponent, i would use my assist, sakon and ukon to form a giant wall between us and use a character that could teleport to the opposition. 😂

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[@Trekiros]

One extra subgenre to add to the big graph: turn-based fighting games. Pretty much only has two entries: YOMI and YOMI Hustle, which, confusingly, are very different games :p

[@itchylol742]

Toribash?

[@WilkenKear]

First of all. Crazy to see you here Trek, love your videos! Second of all. There are a few more, like Flash Duel, BattleCON and Exceed (who also has versions for the arcsys games)

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pokemon is a turn based fighting game.

[@oops3798]

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[@Neoxon619]

Quick correction, Sakurai actually debunked the “Smash was inspired by beating a couple senseless in KoF ‘95” rumor in the description of one of his recent videos. Although Smash as a series still does draw a lot of influences from KoF (as you pointed out), so you can still consider Terry as an honorary Smash OG.

[@The_Blazelighter]

Yeah, that experience moreso went on to influence Sakurai's general design philosophy, rather than directly inspiring Smash Bros

[@FamilyTeamGaming]

Can't believe Core-A Gaming mentioned Virtua Fighter, Touhou and Power Stone in the same video. Good stuff.

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[@averagemechanenjoyer]

call it recency bias, but this might be Gerald's best video

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MY GOAT IS BACK 2024 IS REDEEMED

[@bearynicebear]

are you using AI @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1136">18:56</a> ? man you make the best fighting game videos and they are always respectful but that just isnt cool. for a channel all about awesome media/art this seems strange.

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The GOAT is back!

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Super Akouma downplaying Akuma is such a classic.

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Oh how I have missed you

[@disgustingg]

chivalry and its successor mordhau are kinda fighting games but the mix isn't entirely where the attack comes from, instead focusing more on the when or even if with feints, swing manipulation, and footwork. footwork is arguably just a part of manipulation, making swings arrive at their target faster or slower to confuse the opponent and try to trick them into using their cooldown-restricted parry. some particular ways of moving your mouse while attacking with certain weapons in certain grips can even beguile whether or not an attack is happening at all you do still have to actually look at the incoming attack to block it though and there can be some trickery there mordhau is the one i actually play so it's what i'll talk about. i don't know quite how much of it applies to chiv other than the basics of accelerated and dragged swings to bait missed parries parrying a strike will allow you to perform an unflinchable, but still blockable, riposte, by attacking immediately afterwards. chambering is an alternative defense technique wherein you mirror the incoming strike with a corresponding one of your own (their left horizontal - your right horizontal/their right overhead - your left overhead/their stab - your stab) just before the point of impact. they can be much faster than a parry-riposte, and safer. chambers aren't actually different from a normal swing, and as such you can feint them, something you can't do with a riposte. from my memory they're intended to be a counter to players dragging their swings excessively, making them much slower than normal. if you go to chamber and they swing normally or accelerate the swing, then you chamber. if they drag, you have a swing out and can potentially accel it to hit them before they can re-accel their own swing to compensate, or feint parry, which costs a lot of stamina. they have weaknesses in that you can be made to flinch out of the swing animation, the attacker knows what will be coming back at them, and the aforementioned swing manipulation can make it difficult to even know what the incoming attack actually is to be able to chamber it mordhau at least has (or had) an analogue to grabbing in the form of a kick, which couldn't be parried with a weapon, instead requiring a kick from the defender to cancel them both out like a throw tech. the devs decided to remove this for reasons unknown and let you block kicks normally and from what i recall people are still annoyed about it (thanks crush). at least you can kick in the air for kung fu roleplaying jump kicks can be another mixup tool in that in a duel many people will expect a jump kick if you suddenly jump while you have advantage, so you can empty jump and sometimes bait a parry for free. this tends to work much less often against veteran players individual player model animations actually play a decent role in defense, in that looking down and crouching will let you duck a careless horizontal swipe, for instance. there's more to playermodel manipulation and twisting around and past various stabs and slashes my personal main gripe of the game is that sometimes it feels like you can pay basically no heed to the spacing of your swings and stabs missed attacks drain your stamina, blocked attacks are free and hit attacks are stamina positive. certain weapons with far lunge distance like the waraxe can pick the second wind perk (more stamina on hit) and basically walk forward and spam swing. if you try and space around them and stab them during what you'd assume to be their recovery frames, they can combo the end of that swing into the start of another, which they can then feint, cancelling the swing, leaving them free to parry. this does have a stamina cost but there is usually some way for them to get away with this, like the aformentioned second wind perk mordhau is quite deep and used to be more fun but the devs have made their peace with allowing the game to slowly wither and that's mostly that it's still pretty funny and you can still find a game at peak hours at least

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WE WILL BE WATCHING

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Yeah, yeah. Touch grass.

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[@the1One38]

Really disappointed you used ai generated imagery. Not a good look

[@SabDizon]

Gerald, you're alive! I am so glad!

[@link1016]

HE IS ALIVE!!!

[@rfjb3537]

On the spirit of this MOVIE of a video I'm gonna take my time to type this COMMENT lol. First, this video could not have come at a better time. I literally was thinking the other day how I wish there was a video going in detail about every little archetype of fighting games. So to have you making it is beyond perfect. Secondly, I'd just like to thank you for your videos. I have no Idea what you make to them to make it so addicting to watch, but I keep going back to these videos no matter how much I've already seen them (I think I'm starting to quote the kbd video by heart lmao). You were one of the reasons I have fallen in love for fighting games after so many years of disliking them. So Tldr, thanks Gerald ❤

[@Simte]

Technical death metal mentioned!!! Time to listen Necrophagist again. Btw, this was a great retrospective video.

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[@zacharynovak2180]

You forgot about the first person fighting game that starts when I lose 10 times in a row to the same person. It’s pretty cool how every game can transition into it. Fighting game devs are truly masterminds for including it as a mechanic.

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I can’t believe it fathers returned with the milk 😭

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CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT BRO WAS COOKING

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The only person who can actually explain every fighting game type so well in the FGC. That’s why he’s the GOAT 🔥

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These videos remind me why I like this genre so much, will gladly wait years for the next one.

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Its been a year, but we got a new Core A video!

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The return of the great one! I can’t wait

[@JSTRIKE3000]

Why did this hour long video feel like 15 minutes 😂

[@SeelkadoomandJokic00]

I'm surprised you didn't mention The Outfoxies when you were talking about Platform Fighters since The Outfoxies sorta invented the Platform Fighting Genre, which then Smash Brothers popularized.

[@naejimba]

Everyone is excited you're back... but honestly having someone explain all of this is HUGE. No one really goes into detail comparing different mechanics and it's yet another hurdle to overcome for someone who wants to get into fighting games.

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FINALLY!!! BEEN WAITING FOR EVER! But take as much time as you need to produce these masterpieces. You are the FGC historical analysis king!

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When the world needed him most, he returned.

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I even watched the hit box ad ❤

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literally lmao

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i didn't even clock it was an add but then again i had a few drinks in celebration of this goated vid

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He's back ❤

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HE’S BACK!!!!

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Get hype!

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It's been a long year since I've seen the last upload... Glad to see you back.

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[@Rhino1004]

No Lethal League mentioned? It's so joever for us

[@BurnoutFighter]

38:40

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Hfs you’re back!

[@TheGiik]

Oh, so it was all a buildup to a 2XKO ad...

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That and MultiVS is just boring to look.

[@dudeman3594]

RETURN OF THE MACK!!!!

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[@kuekevin]

He has. Come back

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

[@RyuGoomba]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="65">1:05</a> Sister Rosetta Tharpe came before Chuck Berry to be the godmother of rock and roll.

[@samuelrichardson1564]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1634">27:14</a> - Kazuya wasn't the only character with the ability to move into the foreground or background, Yoshimitsu could do it as well with a backspin move which consumed health.

[@Maavs1]

Long awaited 🫡

[@MrMastercatfish]

Good lord, do my eyes deceive me? We are so back!

[@jtd3960]

HEY YO WAIT WHAT

[@mogullll]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2843">47:23</a> Chiv 2 has some of the best dueling in any fighting game, it has full 3d movement for footsies, mixups, feints and if the opponent refuses to call out a mixup he will have his guard gauge chipped down until he can't block. One on one this is one of the best fighting games ever made. And then it chucks you in a massive map with 32v32 and it somehow remains just as fun.

[@chadwicktouchdown]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2005">33:25</a> I would argue that cross ups and high low mix ups do exist in smash (atleast melee) to an extent. There definitely are extra layers to which side you land post-aerial which change up follow-ups or punishes because there's no auto turn and there definitely is a mind game between aiming your shield high (which might make you susceptible to downtilts) so you enter blockstun earlier and can punish.

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WE ARE SO BACK

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RETURN OF THE MACK! 🎉🎉🎉

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They're BAAAAAAACK!!!

[@rakan_mdr2699]

It’s been so long Gerald we miss you

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you're as beautiful as the day i lost you

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Goat is back

[@icekiller1594]

Amazing work as always 🙏

[@VortexF]

I WAS HERE

[@Mayadel100]

So nice to have you back. About 2XKO if you want the game to be accesible DONT MAKE IT A TAG FIGHTER

[@avr-d4t]

OUR GOATTTT

[@TsukiiHato]

1 full hour of peak

[@StardustSynchron]

New video?! :D

[@Salchi_Papas]

Tekken like? What a fool. When I see Soul Calibur: Ooo Tekken with swords.

[@GR33DMUSIC]

THE GOAT IS BACK LETS GOOOOOO

[@arcticbulktoaster348]

This feels like coming home. Core-A/Gerald forever.

[@saotomebuster]

Alright core, SHOW ME SOMETHING edit: ABSOLUTE CINEMA

[@UndrState]

Whoa , nice to see Bushido Blade and Hellish Quart included . They don't get the love they deserve .

[@Migraman2]

The Goat is back boys!!

[@202215jaffe521]

Yes!!!!! World is healing