The King of Fighters 2002/Ryo

General Info

Crouch height: Medium
Colors:

Movelist

Normals

	Frames	Advantage	Cancel	Block	Hitbox		Notes
Standing Close
	3/4/9	-1/-3	R,C,S,Su	HL
	3/7/14	-9/-11	C,S,Su	HL
	2/10/13	-3/-5	C,S,Su	HL
	4/9/16	-5/-7	C,S,Su	HL
Standing Far
	3/3/8	+1/-1	R,C,S,Su	HL
	7/2/14	-4/-6		HL
	7/4/19	-3/-5		HL
	12/4+4/16	-4/-6		HL
+	9/8/18	KD/-4	C,S,Su	HL
Crouching
	3/5/5	+2/0	R,C,S,Su	HL
	3/3/5	+4/+2	R	L
	2/2+3/23	-8/-10	C,S,Su	HL
	8/5/18	KD/-5	C,S,Su	L
Jump
	5/6/-	-/-		H
	2/7/-	-/-		H
	5/6/-	-/-		H
	4/4/-	-/-		H
+	13/5/-	KD/-		HL
Neutral Jump
	5/12/-	-/-		H
	2/14/-	-/-		H
	5/6/-	-/-		H
	11/3+3/-	-/-		H
Hop
	5/5/-	-/-		H
	2/5/-	-/-		H
	5/3/-	-/-		H
	11/3+3/-	-/-		H
Command Normals
f+	17/9/11	0/-2		H
f+ (cancel)	14/9/11	0/-2		HL
f+	5/15/14	-/-	S,Su				Guard point: Active period. Is not an attack.
df+	7/9/10	-/-	S,Su				Guard point: Active period. Is not an attack.

Special Moves
1. Ko'ou Ken - qcf+P Ryo releases a blast of energy from his hand. qcf+C travels a bit further than qcf+A, where qcf+A goes almost half screen qcf+C does a very slight amount of damage more than qcf+A, but has greater recovery time
2. Mouko Rajin Setsu - qcf+K Ryo jumps into the air, landing with an overhead chop. qcf+D goes higher and further (almost full screen) than qcf+B Has very good priority and is almost always safe on block Overhead Sometimes hits as a hard knockdown, but not always Free cancellable into
1b. Second Shell - f + D (after The Trigger) Vertical anti-air that knocks opponent into the air for juggles
2. Crow Bites - dp+P dp+A is supercancellable on both hits, dp+C is supercancellable on the first two hits on the ground dp+C can be followed up by f+D, which is an overhead hard knockdown. The f+D followup is free cancellable out of dp+C has some startup invincibility Free cancellable into Free cancellable out of on all hits
	f+
3. Blackout - qcf+K Teleport's K' forward. qcf+B goes half screen length and qcf+D goes full screen length Can be hit out of it fairly easily
4. Minute Spike - qcb+K Can be done in the air as well Can be followed up by Narrow Spike (qcb+K), on the ground only Free cancellable into Free cancellable out of	Ground
	Air
	Air
4a. Narrow Spike - (during Minute Spike) qcb+K Low attack Supercancellable Free cancellable out of
DMs
1. Heat Drive - qcfx2+P A version comes out faster, but C version will hit if the opponent is right in front of you Can be held to make unblockable (takes a long time though) Hard knockdown
2. Chain Drive - qcf hcb+P K' throws his sunglasses. If he whiffs, he will stand there for a long time, otherwise he will dash forward Hard knockdown qcf hcb+C is more likely to juggle than qcf hcb+A (mainly if used after his qcf+C, f+D)
SDMs
1. Chain Drive - qcf hcb+AC Same properties as qcf hcb+P, except it is not a hard knockdown
HSDMs
1. Crimson Star Road - qcb+C~A A must be pressed immediately after C K' travels forward a distance slighty more than his roll Unblockable			File:QcbCA.png

Special Moves

3. Zanretsu Ken - f b f+P
- Ryo repeatedly punches in front of him. This move has a "sucking" effect, in the sense that it can pull the opponent in if they are close. If the opponent gets sucked in, Ryo does a 13 hit combo punching them away
- has autoguard before Ryo begins punching rapidly
- f b f+A is a hard knockdown
- free cancellable out of on the last hit. It is only possible to juggle the opponent after f b f+C

4. Kohou - dp+P
- Ryo performs a rising uppercut that has great speed and priority. dp+A
- dp+A does one hit, knocking down, while dp+C does two hits, where only the second hit knocks down. Usually, the second hit whiffs an opponent on the ground
- free cancellable into
- free cancellable out of on the first hit

5. Hien Shippuu Kyaku - hcb+K
- Ryo jumps forward, kicking multiple times. hcb+B does two hits, going about 1/3 of the screen, while hcb+D does three hits, and goes full screen
- both moves are severely punishable on block, especially hcb+D
- free cancellable into
- even if comboed into, his hcb+D will whiff on the third (and sometimes second) hits against a crouching opponent, giving them more than enough time to punish him

DMs

1. Haou Shoukou Ken - f hcf+P
- Ryo releases a large fireball that does good damage
- f hcf+A comes out faster but moves much slower than f hcf+C

2. Ryuuko Ranbu - qcf hcb+P
- Ryo dashes across the screen. If he connects, he does a combo on the opponent. Otherwise, he stops and is open to attack
- qcf hcb+A comes out slightly slower than qcf hcb+C. qcf hcb+A goes almost full screen, while qcf hcb+C goes full screen

SDMs

1. Ryuuko Ranbu - qcf+C, A(immediately after C)
- Ryo dashes forward. If he connects, he does a strong combo on the opponent
- the range on this move is less than his qcf hcb+P DM version
- unblockable

HSDM

Tenchi Haou Ken - qcfx2+AC
- Ryo does a fast punch forward. If it connects, the opponent is knocked down and dizzied, allowing you to followup with any combo
- doesn't do much damage but makes up for it with the ability to followup with combos that would end up doing more damage than an HSDM can normally do

Notes

• Cancellable normals are close A, far A, crouch A, close B, close C, crouch C, close D, crouch D
  
• Whiff cancellable normals are clsoe B, close C, close D, crouch D, CD
  
• CD is cancellable into command moves, specials and DMs
• Doing Ryo's SDM is nearly impossible, due to a glitch. The motion of the Ko'ou Ken qcf+C overlaps with this move. Thus, attempting to do it results in qcf+C coming out. The only reliable way to do it is to do the qcf+C part of the motion during a state where he is not able to do his Ko'ou Ken qcf+C. Such states are:
  • right before waking up
    
  • just as you land from a jump
    
  • just as you recover from a roll
    
  • recovering from a move that is not cancellable into qcf+C
    
  • supercancelling from his Kohou dp+C(1)
    
  • cancelling a CD attack(this is an exception)
    
  • activating maxmode
  • possibly some other ways

Combos

Anywhere

1. cr.B, ~cr.C, qcf+C/qcf hcb+A - 30%/45%
2. cr.BBB, Far A, hcb+B - 28%
3. cl.C, dp+C, (S)qcf hcb+A(Buffer:qcb+A) - 55%
4. f+A(early on opponent's wakeup), A, hcb+B - 22%

Maxmode

1. cl.C, f+A, BC, qcfx2+AC(quickly), (j.C, cl.C, hcb+D)/(j.C, ~cr.B, cr.C, qcf hcb+A) - 75%/88%
2. (Already in maxmode) f+A, (C)dp+C(1), (S)f hcf+A(Buffer:hcf+A)/(S)qcf hcb+A - 42%/48%

Normal Links

1. cr.B, cl.C/cr.C
2. f+A(very early on the opponent's wakeup), A

Attack Strings

1. cr.D/CD, qcf+B/qcf+A
2. cr.B, ~cr.C, qcf+B/qcf+A
3. cr.B, ~cl.C/cl.D, f+A (delayed)

Strategies

• Since Ryo's f+A is an overhead and is not cancellable even if cancelled into, you should exploit the "glitch" which allows the command normals to not lose their properties if you cancel into them a bit late. Thus, you can do close C or close D, then late cancel the move into f+A if they blocked, making it hit as an overhead. The main disadvantage to doing this is that the opponent could do a very fast attack in between the cancel, such as Kim's _d u+B. Note that Ryo's crouch C cannot be cancelled late in it's animation, so doing crouch B, crouch C, delayed f+A will not work. Using crouch D instead of close C or close D also works, as his crouch D is late cancellable as well. This gives you an effective low into overhead attack string which is far less punishable than doing crouch D into qcf+B.

• His f+A overhead is very meaty compared to most moves. If done very early on a waking up opponent, Ryo will recover fast enough to be able to land a far A, hcb+B/HSDM combo. Thus, Ryo has a good high/low game with his f+A, qcf+B, crouch B and crouch D. It is especially good to cancel his crouch D into a qcf+B overhead and mix this up with f+A and crouch B, crouch C mixups

• The f+B parry is a great move for countering predictable yet high priority and unpunishable moves, such as Robert's air qcb+K, May Lee's qcf+B in Hero Mode, Terry's qcb+P, etc. After parrying the move, cancel to dp+C (if the opponent was airborne) or dp+A or qcf hcb+P if the opponent was parried on the ground.