The Original Troublemaker - Competitive History Of KANO

Soundtrack is Bloody Roar 2, for those wondering :)

" If this shang tsung guy's so great, how come he's got such a crummy lookin' boat? "

Im not joking I woke up today and wondered what characters PNDK&M haven't done the competitive history on and I promise the first character that came to my head was Kano

We use to call the Kano choke in MK 3 "the baby shaker" when we were young

Pass me a F’ckn Egg Roll!

MKX Kano player here! It was less that we didn't believe Cutthroat was his best variation, it's that we WANTED Cybernetic to be good because most of us were zoning enthusiasts who saw a mid hitting projectile. I only ditched Commando eventually because my training partner was one of the better Sub-Zero players who pushed the meta forward for the character, and playing a grappler into Grandmaster was depressing

To explain why Kano knew aikido in Deadly Alliance: in the MK lore, the style's innovator founded the Black Dragon Syndicate.

I was so caught off guard from you suddenly yelling “THE CRAZY KANO BALL”

The CRAZY KANO BALL, need to return as a move

Commando Kano will always be my favorite NRS character in MKX and probably top 3 NRS character. Two command grabs, two parries, extra strings and a hit grab. Every grappler players dream. Nowadays NRS is scared of grapplers and will never make a real one again. Really sad.

No coincidence that on Valentine’s Day, we get a video about the Aussie who stole all our hearts

I think "THE CRAAZY KANO BALL!" should be a standard way of saying this phrase.

Let’s go! The return of competitive history is very welcomed!

I still remember the "Dundee" combo that was shown off before MK11 released and how disappointed I was when you couldn't equip all 3 moves anymore

KANO BROS RISE UP

I legit had no idea that MK3 Kano literally had an air grab, I have never seen this man kick someone in the chest while airborne in my entire life.

Kano is literally one of the most iconic bad guys in fighting games. But its really a shame they never got Kano to do anything significant in MK lore, especially in the modern series. in the latest games (MK9, MKX, MK11 etc) he was nothing but a jobber. Sonya dies in MK11, at least let Kano to get it done, show that he is actually dangerous, give him moe role in the stories but no, NRS never cared about lore anyway, all they cared about was lolz and trollz. what a shame :)

Dang Kano has a up and down track record, glad these last three games he did amazing. Though both in X and 11, he had to buffed We will see if he becomes DLC in 1 soon. Also today is my birthday, thank you for this birthday gift

Kano was one of my favorites in MK VS DC but me and my brother were only online warriors and played in clan battles when we played, we didn’t know at the time there was offlines for the events that reo and Tom Brady went to but I’d imagine kanos gotta be high tier. Every other attack in rage breaks block so Kano could loop 4,3 until before rage runs out and do the DF1 combos. Kano had eye laser restand in the corner so you could 0 to death someone in one touch if you used rage. In rage I remember finding a 100% + combo and this was when I was in 1st grade 😭😭😭, good times 🥲

Yknow what would be fantastic? A "Comp History Catchup", where anybody whos recently had a new character addition in a newer entry (dlc for 11, mk1 characters, so on so forth) where you blitz through a handful (or all) of the characters already covered and see how they're shaping up in newer entries, making a new episode every now and then to touch up on whos back. Could do a smaller chunk so you can make it an episodal series which would also give time for more characters to come back, like Ermac and Takeda most notably, since both have been covered already.