YuriMai's comments:
Put it this way, she isnt safe at all during the trap shot,
Her, Illusion Dance does a flip on the B version too now,
yay, even more lag..like she needed that.
She can always get hit after the move is blocked and
it does no tick damage...yeah..like she needed that too.

Her new Silent Rage is crap too.
Kensou nicknamed it the "Zero 
Priority Trap Shit Super".


From: Anthony Wedd <miku@camtech.net.au>  

To: kof-ml@umich.edu
Subject: Nasty King tactic




Hi,

Here's a nasty King tactic I've seen that should lift her a few places in 
the rankings. Sorry if everyone knows about this already. NB I'm not a 
King player myself so I don't know some of the exact normals 
concerned, but it should be easy enough for a King player to figure out.

OK, basically what you do is jump in with her best priority jumping 
attack (is it her jumping D?), then some standing interruptable ground 
attack, which you interrupt into the Trap Shot. Then, after a minimal 
amount of ground faking or whatever, you do it again. And again. And 
again. I know it sounds stupid, but it's surprising how effective it is. 
The air attack has extremely high air-to-ground and air-to-lower-air 
priority, so unless they jump before you do it's hard for them to hit you 
out of the air. The Trap Shot itself, in addition to doing five or so 
ticks for free, is quite likely to guard crush on the first or second hit 
giving you a reasonable chance of doing some real damage while you're at 
it. And if they happen to get hit by one of these combos and maybe a 
couple of guard crush hits, they are very likely to be dizzied.

You'll also charge meter like crazy while employing this tactic. So once 
you have stock or MAX or whatever, pause briefly after each Trap Shot to 
CD counter anything they might stick out, then jump in again as they 
stand up. I know CD counters are usually pretty much a waste of time, but 
in King's case she has little else worthwhile to use it on apart from 
MAXing herself, so it's worth doing if not just for the psychological 
effect it will have in frustrating your opponent further. They will also 
be quite likely to try and get up in the air before you after a couple of 
these, so every now and again look for a Tornado Kick after the trap shot 
for further damage/frustration.

Of course they can CD counter you at any time during this, but that won't 
really get them anywhere. The bigger danger is a MAX roll through the 
blocked combo. But remember you'll be building meter much much faster 
than them, so it'll be a long time between MAX rolls for them. In fact it 
may even be that whatever damage they can do to you after a MAX roll 
won't make up for the constant tick/guard crush damage they've been 
receiving in charging it. If they get 2 stocks (one for a MAX roll and 
one for a DM in the combo) it might be wise to ease back and mix it up a 
bit more for a while. If they've just charged a stock or MAXed and you 
strongly suspect they'll use it for a roll, you can do jump in attack, 
low A and get them to waste it, or just jump in and throw.

A lot of people have a decent uppercut or other air defense that can take 
you out of the air. In this case you have to mix in your jumps with 
simple walk forward interruptable pokes into the Trap Shot. This pretty 
much has the same effect except it's riskier and less likely to Guard 
Crush. It will be hard for them to be watching for both the jump and the 
poke at once so you should still be able to sneak a reasonable amount of 
jumps in.


Tony W.

To put it simply
The wonderful King tactic is like this:

Jump in with a jumping D and run forward to the trap-shot. Or, you back
the opponent into the corner, then do a jumping D to surprise rose+a, then
trap shot+d. It's a lot of tick damage, and you can mix it in with her CD
and D slide. Opponents can block the whole combo, but will be guard
crushed the second time you do the trap shot.

And if they're in the corner, you can just jump straight up with D, then
start the combo all over again. Of course, they can do the counter thing,
but by the time they have enough power from blocking, they'[ll have been
guard crushed. And the tick damage is greater than the counter damage.
Especially if you're powered up.

--Des