nah, im garbage at any fighting games

the first time i ever even heard of king of fighters was when terry was revealed in super smash

like many others, i was like "who"?

I've played a couple of the older KoF games. I rocked with Heidern, King, and Billy Kane. They're pretty cool games, but having to learn three characters is definitely a barrier. I have a hard enough time learning just one character.

Yeah KOF's crew battle format isn't like tag fighters like DBFZ or MVC where you learn three characters but the characters are fairly shallow by comparison and so three of them amount to one "character" as a team.  KOF has your team of three full-ass characters to learn.  I like that more than the tag fighters format honestly though.  Feels more like you can make a comeback that way when you're down to your last character but that character has real depth.