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| Ferrio
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|  "The Leona Appreciation Thread."
, posted Mon 29 Jul 06:40:
Hmm Leona, Leona.
I've never been the biggest fan of Leona. I'm not quite sure why, but it's probably due to a bunch of reasons. First and foremost she's mostly a charger character, and it wasn't until '99 when she gained her earring plant and (air) qcb+p that I started to play her regularly.
The 2nd reason is probably her character. She's very quiet, and serious..which is nice and all but not my type of attitude.
I never did play her much in 98, again mostly due to her charging nature. And if I was going to go for a charger, I would glady pick Heidern than her (except maybe for her Orochi SDM). Really the only thing I know for her is her from 98 is her basic D (2 hits?), f+B, qcf,hcb+p
99+ I started to like her more. She lost her d,u+k and gained the (air) qcb+p. She also gained her earring plant which was fun for extending combos like D (1 hit), b,d,db,b+D, D (1 hit), f+b, qcf,hcb+P
After that I never really played much as her. In 2000 I goofed aroudn with her a bit, but never found any really nice combos... and she lost the ability to combo after her earring plant...which sucked.
Though even though she isn't my favorite character, I really wish she had been included in CvS2... maybe even more than Mary. Why? Well she has a more tie in the the classic KOF orochi storyline, and she'd be a nice match up for Guile. But unfortunatly all she got was a background cameo....damn.
Oh well I'm tired and thats about all I can babel about for now... maybe I'll come up with something else later, as for now here's the art.
Leona 1
Leona 2
Leona 3
Leona 4
Leona 5
Leona 6
Leona 7
Leona 8
Leona 9
Leona 10
Leona 11
Oh and here's a hint what next week's appreciation thread will be of.
[this message was edited by Ferrio on Mon 29 Jul 07:15] |
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| Holiday 1280th Post
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|  "Re(1):The Leona Appreciation Thread."
, posted Mon 29 Jul 06:58:
Great job ^^
It's a bit hard to find fanpics of Leona, and you've unearthed quite a lot!
I've been using her ever since her debut, but unfortunately I'm not that fantastic with her.
Still, this is my favourite Leona combo; works every year?
 + ,  +, V Slasher
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Oopsie. Messed up the first motion! Should have been:
[in air, deep]+, +, V Slasher
Not the most useful combo in the world ( + ", V Slasher combos are more practical) but it's a great "what the?!" combo ^_^
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| Zyzyfer 515th Post
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|  "Re(3):The Leona Appreciation Thread."
, posted Mon 29 Jul 07:32:
i think it's actually supposed to be jump-in d, jump-out d, vslash. i dunno, jump-in combos i find become less and less useful over time, with the deadliest characters being those who can combo from a dwn b into something big.
leona's 99 incarnation had the biggest combos, she even had a like, 95% damage combo with two vslashes, though it was difficult, and a lot of other weird pseudo-glitch combos that i heard about but never could even remotely pull off, but it's not really the style she was meant to have, which is why she went back to her old style in 2k i think. she's just meant to be a 3-4 hit combo character. she was also limited in '99 to only having combos with the bomb plant, and lost all of her old quick, vicious combos.
i really used to like playing as her but the way pros play her is really discouraging, so i don't play her as much anymore. it's all about that stupid ball and jump pressure...bleh.
'98 was her best incarnation overall, even though people say she was great in '96. i tried her and the controls were too stiff for me to pull off the stuff she was supposed to be able to do.
now she's second fiddle to kasumi and lee jinju~
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| Hungrywolf 1234th Post
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| "Re(1):The Leona Appreciation Thread." , posted Mon 29 Jul 08:17
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Hmm Leona, Leona.
I've never been the biggest fan of Leona. I'm not quite sure why, but it's probably due to a bunch of reasons. First and foremost she's mostly a charger character, and it wasn't until '99 when she gained her earring plant and (air) qcb+p that I started to play her regularly.
The 2nd reason is probably her character. She's very quiet, and serious..which is nice and all but not my type of attitude.
I never did play her much in 98, again mostly due to her charging nature. And if I was going to go for a charger, I would glady pick Heidern than her (except maybe for her Orochi SDM). Really the only thing I know for her is her from 98 is her basic D (2 hits?), f+B, qcf,hcb+p
99+ I started to like her more. She lost her d,u+k and gained the (air) qcb+p. She also gained her earring plant which was fun for extending combos like D (1 hit), b,d,db,b+D, D (1 hit), f+b, qcf,hcb+P
After that I never really played much as her. In 2000 I goofed aroudn with her a bit, but never found any really nice combos... and she lost the ability to combo after her earring plant...which sucked.
Though even though she isn't my favorite character, I really wish she had been included in CvS2... maybe even more than Mary. Why? Well she has a more tie in the the classic KOF orochi storyline, and she'd be a nice match up for Guile. But unfortunatly all she got was a background cameo....damn.
Oh well I'm tired and thats about all I can babel about for now... maybe I'll come up with something else later, as for now here's the art.
Leona 1
Leona 2
Leona 3
Leona 4
Leona 5
Leona 6
Leona 7
Leona 8
Leona 9
Leona 10
Leona 11
Oh and here's a hint what next week's appreciation thread will be of.
Cool. There were some nice Leona pics in the "Scud Head" artbook that I got recently.
Hungry Like The Wolf
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| TheBeast 694th Post
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| "My Leona thoughts" , posted Mon 29 Jul 09:45
Ah yes, thanks a lot for doing an appreciation thread of Leona, Ferrio oh boy!!
Leona is one of my favourite characters in KOF. At first I didn't quite like her, mainly because I have gotten used to using Heidern in 94 and 95. My past strategies using Heidern all failed when I used her to perform the same strategies. But after all these years I have kinda got used to her moves and began to associate with her. She is the kind of character that most players would associate as "average" and taken too lightly. But no, as I found out, she has good priorities such as crouch C to anti-air that made her a good defense-to-attack character. Though her attacks do not pose too much damage, she is surprisingly a well-balanced character that can catch players off guard. She don't play second fiddle to Kasumi, Xiangfei, whip and the like. She is a league of her own. She ranks 4th in my fav KOF gals, after Mai, King and Blue Mary.
One useless tip. In KOF99 her qcfx2+c does hell of a lot more damage on Benimaru than any other. It is a bug, but another story has it that KOF creators wanted Leona to hate Benimaru, so they purposely left the bug there. Is it another rumour? Go figure.
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Oh and here's a hint what next week's appreciation thread will be of.
This music has been lingering in my mind for the past 10+ years! Without a doubt it must be CHUN-LI!!!
Oh boy, I forsee the tons and tons of pictures coming up next week...Do you know how many fan arts of hers are around the Internet??
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| Zyzyfer 522th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):The Leona Appreciation Thread." , posted Wed 31 Jul 07:39
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compared to the others, she's got a ways to go. nevermind the silly snk stats that list her way down at the bottom. she ain't hefty in the chest, yo. the only big thing is that uniform...look at the cuffs!
Again with the friggin' stats! First, Shermie's butt is the biggest in KoF from the stats, yet I don't see much back there, and now Leona's stats say she's flat chested.
Of course these stats are also screwed up on the character's ages, so I wouldn't be too worried about the stats.
....dude, i said "nevermind" the stats. the only pictures i've seen of her being big-chested are fanart pictures, and it usually doesn't look right. i don't really care much at all about her breast size though, so i relinquish the discussion with ya.
hungrywolf: the one where she's crying and the one where she's sitting down with her dogtags in her mouth?
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| Hungrywolf 1256th Post
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| "Re(3):Re(10):The Leona Appreciation Thread." , posted Wed 31 Jul 09:37
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compared to the others, she's got a ways to go. nevermind the silly snk stats that list her way down at the bottom. she ain't hefty in the chest, yo. the only big thing is that uniform...look at the cuffs!
Again with the friggin' stats! First, Shermie's butt is the biggest in KoF from the stats, yet I don't see much back there, and now Leona's stats say she's flat chested.
Of course these stats are also screwed up on the character's ages, so I wouldn't be too worried about the stats.
....dude, i said "nevermind" the stats. the only pictures i've seen of her being big-chested are fanart pictures, and it usually doesn't look right. i don't really care much at all about her breast size though, so i relinquish the discussion with ya.
hungrywolf: the one where she's crying and the one where she's sitting down with her dogtags in her mouth?
yeah.
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