Back Knuckle (バックナックル) is one of Terry Bogard's Command Moves in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series, first appearing in Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory.
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Description
Terry steps forward to do a spinning backhand punch with his following fist.
The KOF variant as him lead with his elbow first, making the attack do two hits (before becoming 1 hit in the CvS games and KOF XIV onwards).
The Street Fighter 6 version acting as his Drive Reversal, as Terry fully swing his arm in a swipe, as opposed to merely smacking it at his foe.
Strategy
A potent poking tool for Terry due to him moving forwards then back, this move serves to help him confirm within a spaced neutral or to help extend combos that involve him getting pushed away from his foe too far. It tends to be slow, and in some games has varied cancel properties; even then some combos might not properly work if he hits the foe with the very tip of the attack depending on pushback.
It also due to hitting twice in the older games, it also becomes a very potent guard crushing tool during his blockstrings.
However, as his far standing heavy punch in the Capcom vs. SNK games (where it only does one hit), there's no room to cancel it into anything normally, nor can it be chain-cancelled into. As a result on top of being minus on hit and block unless perfectly spaced or used as a spaced-anti-air, the move tends to be greatly overshadowed by Terry's better buttons, and can even be crouched under (unlike earlier versions with lower-reaching hitboxes).
Trivia
- For both Terry and his Wild Wolf version in the Maximum Impact games, he is able to use Back Knuckle as the starter to his Stylish Art 15 (in the first MI), Stylish Art 18 (normal Terry in MI2/Regulation A) or Stylish Art 18 (Wild Wolf in MI2/Regulation A). The second
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input to it leads into an alternating Back Knuckle with Terry's/Wild Wolf's left fist instead.
- Terry's case in MI2 and Regulation A can followup the double Back Knuckles into 2 extra inputs (,
), while Wild Wolf's harkens back to the first Maximum Impact version of the Stylish Art string which only has 2 inputs/2 Back Knuckles. - By this proxy, the Maximum Impact games and Street Fighter 6 are the only instance where Terry in his timeskip form has access to the Back Knuckle.
- Terry's case in MI2 and Regulation A can followup the double Back Knuckles into 2 extra inputs (
Gallery
| Terry/Wild Wolf's Move List | |
|---|---|
| Throws | Buster Throw • Grasping Upper |
| Command Moves | Crawl • Back Knuckle • Rising Upper • Hammer Punch • High Slash • Combination Blow • Backspin Kick |
| T.O.P. Attack/REV Blows | Max Power Dunk • Max Crack Shoot |
| Special Moves | Power Wave • Burn Knuckle • Crack Shoot • Rising Tackle • Power Dunk • Round Wave • Passing Sway • Power Charge • Fire Kick • Quick Burn • Power Drive • Power Shoot |
| Super Special Moves | Power Geyser • High Angle Geyser • Buster Wolf |
| MAX2 | Rising Force |
| Exceed | Rising Beat |
| A/D Assault | Buster & Stream • Storm & Stream |
| Leader Super Special Moves | Power Stream |
| Neo Max Super Special Moves | Trinity Geyser |
| Climax Super Special Moves | Star Dunk Volcano • Stardust Ignition |
| Final Smash | Triple Wolf |
| (Critical) Super Art | Rising Fang |
| Hidden Gear | Cosmic Strike Geyser |