KulaBot v1.0

Difficulty Moderate

Focus Movement and Whiff Punishes

KulaBot is part of a large group of bots that use the same inputs, under the Codename "Snow Angel". Any other bot with their own version of the preceding sentence, can be used/switched to, after entering this one set of Action Inputs. Those bots have unique point systems, purposes, and settings, so be sure to check other pages for that information. This bot works for Angel, Kula, Yashiro, Shermie, and Chris.

Learning to master the short hop (9 then any down direction immediately after or plink 9 very fast) is an important key to mastering pressure and offense in KOF. While the execution itself isn't too difficult, learning the right timings for when it's useful to do it and maintaining clean combos with it in tense situations can require more practice. KulaBot has a flow that will assist with this practice. Her normal attacks are good for keeping you at a specific range because of their longer reach, and she has decent air defense, meaning you have to work hard in carefully watching for openings. Additionally she requires patient use of both dash blocking and rolling to get close. It is therefore also a good bot for learning when you can freely attack out of roll and dash with your low Light Attack combo starters.

Another large benefit to the way this bot functions, is related to learning your various whiff punishes, and how to whiff punish in this game, in general. The more you wiff punish her the stronger the bot tends to get due to rythm changes and the more chances for her more difficult points and opportunities for doing combos arise.

KulaBot doesn't work well if the inputs for "Snow Angel" aren't precise or 'clean' enough. Things that can happen if they are not input well enough include 'not having her Shatterstrike happen often enough' and 'her using super too frequently'.

Bots in KoF are able to be saved by activating the game's "Autosave" function. However, you can only save 1 bot at a time. Therefore, we have checked all characters using the inputs used to determine which of them can be useful, resulting in the codename "Snow Angel" due to the two most explicitly effective characters. These have been given separate, specific pages, when we consider the result to be good enough to act as a functional bot for that character, but there are a few more where we didn't think that the bot reached that level, but a player could still get some use out of going a few rounds with that character with just these 'Snow Angel' inputs. A full list of characters and related things can be found in the 'In Depth' section at the bottom of this page.

Gauge Settings

As with all bots, 1P Health should be set to "Normal", set 1P Power Gauge to "1"

These settings may change based on your goals, explained in the Difficulty section below.

Settings for 2P are Health - "Auto-Recover" and Power Gauge - "5".

Goals

Completing each action gives 1 point. Try to get to 10 points without dying. Note that if you don't see the word Punish show up on your side of the screen when you perform a punish for points A and D you did not perform the punish correctly.

Points System

• A - Do a full punish on Kula's DP("Crow Bite") using all resources available if possible given whatever range you manage to get at after block or her whiffing the move.
• B - Dash up or roll and then use a crouching low to start a combo that results in a knockdown on the opponent. (If your character does not have a crouchiing low but has a 'standing low', use that instead.)
• C - Throw Kula out of her Roll.
• D - Jump over and punish Kula's ice breath("Diamond Breath") with a full combo OR whiff punishing her longer moves in neutral.

Variants

• To train Meter Awareness, change 1P Power Gauge to '2', points are gained for using the correct punish based on available meter (no points gained for punishes that use no power gauge).

Difficulty Levels

• Easy - Points given for ABCD, whiff punishes or jump punishes for D do not need to combo.
• Medium - Points given for BCD only.
• Hard - Points given for BCD only, whiff punishes and jump punishes for D need to be combos to count as a point.
• Extreme - Points given for B and D only (if you normally play defensively) or C and D only (if you normally play offensively.)

Recording Notes
• Players should note that if you hold buttons or directions before starting input they will instantly occur once you start recording. This makes it easier to get frame 1 (FirstFrame) inputs compared to most other games. Additionally you can use the Options button to end recording just like other games, as well as the 'record' button. Use whichever is easiest for you, but note that we are still investigating if there is some input loss when using the Options button, and if you encounter problems, try using just the 'Record' button to end the recordings.

In-Depth

In addition to acting as the inputs for KulaBot 1.0, AngelBot 1.0, ChrisBot 1.0, YashiroBot 1.0, and ShermieBot 1.0, the 'Snow Angel' bot inputs also function somewhat reasonably with Dinosaur (some slight experience can be gained), Ramon (experience with a limited subset of his abilities can be gained), and Joe Higashi (Most useful for practicing punishes similar to 'Big Fire' (KyoBot) without going to the effort of changing the bot back to that one.