The King of Fighters '98/Yashiro

Introduction

Highly stressed from his mediocre indie band being outsold by some waluigi guy with a mop for a haircut, Yashiro has already had his scalp entirely grey out from stress in his early 20s. Also probably some snake god thing but who cares.

In a nutshell

He is a rushdown and poking medium weight with a lot of cheap damage options, is more mid tier compared to his chuckster counterpart.

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In-depth Analysis

Movelist

	Frames	Advantage	Cancel	Block	Hitbox		Notes
Standing Close
	3/4/4	+4/+2	C	HL
	3/5/9	-2/-4	C	HL
	3/3+4/15	-2/-4	C (1st part)	HL			Fast, cancelable.
	3/5/21	-6/-8	C	HL			Same as above except does more damage but pushes back further.
Standing Far
	3/4/7	+1/-1	C	HL			Good long range poke. Generally Standing B is better, but this one is cancelable, so you can cancel into f + A to bait someone mashing.
	4/8/13	-9/-11	-	HL			One of the godliest pokes in the game. Fast, long range, stops short hop...stops a lot of other shit too!
	10/3/32	-15/-17	C	HL			Slow recovery, but it is whiff cancelable (f + B preferred) and connects against crouchers. Still, crouching C has all this move's got and more.
	8/4/33	-17/-19	-	HL			Uncancelable and super slow recovery, but it is notable that it beats some things. I see Chinese players use it sometimes in specific situations. Mess around with it if you're feeling experimental.
+	15/5/24	KD/-7	S	HL			Great long range poke with nice priority, cancelable of course.
Crouching
	3/4/6	+2/0	C	HL			Nice and long range for a cr.A. Cancelable into f + A as an anti-mash setup.
	6/3/10	-1/-3	-	L			It's a fast low! And it's chainable into other lights other than itself as you'd expect (timing is a little slower than other characters).
	3/2+3/28	-13/-15	C (1st part)	HL			One of the best ground pokes and a fantastic anti-air. The first part when his arm isn't fully extended is cancelable.
	9/3(5)5/22	KD/-9	C/-	L/L			Very long range sweep, cancelable and easily cancelable on whiff for safety.
Jump
	6/9/-	-/-	-	H			Awesome jump-in. Similar to Kyo's j.B. Can be used as an instant overhead on large characters (short hop only).
	7/9	-/-	-	H			Okay air-to-air or as a jump-in I guess. There are better jump attacks for those specific uses, though.
	8/5	-/-	-	H			Good jump-in, excellent crossup. Experiment to find the crossup hitbox, it's a little weird.
	7/7	-/-	-	H			Awesome air-to-air and air-to-ground from long range. Short hop up/back with this is a great poke.
+	11/4	KD/-	-	HL			Great air-to-air when they are slightly above you obviously. Good anti-air vs Choi.
Command Normals
f +	22/3/24	KD/-9	-	H			Overhead and knocks down when done alone. Fast, cancelable, and non-overhead when chained.
f + (cancel)	12/3/24	-7/-9	S	HL
f +	11/5/28	-13/-15	S	HL			Always fast and cancelable, does more damage than f + A but doesn't travel as far. This is the move of choice to cancel into on your opponent's wakeup, since if they reversal roll backwards, you can still whiff cancel into f + B with the same timing (close C/D > f + B) and catch their roll anyway.

Normal Throws

• b or f + C - Breakable, forward knockdown, face forward, rollable.

• b or f + D - Breakable, reverse knockdown, back turned, un-rollable.

Special Moves

• Upper Duel (dp + P) - Yashiro does an uppercut with a jumping one follow up if hits, use it to counter your opponent who's trying to punish your mistake on bad timing, you might get lucky on the autoguard.

• Missile Might Bash (hcb + P) - A wild series of punches in the mid section. The move is a lot safer than the same move in KOF97 (which was absolutely easy to be punished if blocked).

• Sledgehammer (qcb + K) - Yashiro does a fast forward leaping downward swing, use if after a blocked attack, a decent overhead move for suprise tactics.

• Jet Counter (hcf + P) - A very quick rush punch to the mid section of the enemy, Yashiro dashes and does a uppercut to the opoponent's jaw in A version, C version its an overhead downward swing, and with a bit frames of invicibility, safe on block
  • Jet Counter: Still (hcf + P > qcf + P) - A version is a straight punch aimed at the opponent's face that doesn't knock down, C version is an uppercut that knocks down.

Desperation Moves

• Million Bash Stream (qcb hcf + P > P rapidly) - Can mash P to deal more hits, a nice combo ender and cheap damage maker.

• Final Impact (qcf qcf + P, may charge) - Can hold P to charge and deal a lot more of damage, though impractical in matches, use it at your own risk for far combat.

Fastest Attacks

• 0F: C throw; D throw
• 1F: -
• 2F: -
• 3F: cl.A; cl.B; cl.C; cl.D; st.A; cr.A; cr.C
• 4F: st.B
• 5F: -
• 6F: cr.B
• 7F: -
• 8F: st.D
• 9F: cr.D
• 10F: st.C

Combos

• Best jump-ins:
  • j.A
  • j.C
  • j.D

• cr.C / cl.D / cl.C / st.C > f + A
  • (S)DM qcb hcf + P > P rapidly (Very close.)
  • (S)DM qcf qcf + P (Can always use f + B before instead of f + A for more damage)
  • hcf + A > qcf + P
  • hcb + C (Very close.)
  • dp + C (Very close.)

• cr.B / cr.A, cr.A, cr.A / st.A > (S)DM qcf qcf + P

• cr.B / cr.A, cr.A, cr.A / st.A, st.B

• cr.B / cr.A, cr.A >
  • (S)DM qcf qcf + P
  • dp + A

• Simple buffers:
  • f + A / f + B > (S)DM qcf qcf + P
    • qcf + A/B > qcf + P
  • cr.B, st.A / cl.A / cl.B > (S)DM qcf qcf + P
    • cr.B, qcf + A/B > qcf + P (As cr.B is not cancelable, qcf + A/B will chain into a normal attack.)

Strategy Corner

• MAX: cl.D > + A > + A > + C

deals just a tiny less damage (~ 3/4 cl.A) than

• cl.D > + B > + P

Keep this in mind, when you need to decide whether to trigger MAX or keep meter for a DM.