For those that don't know 1 star = finishing in top 32 of the Killer League for the month. It takes a lot of grinding to get there because people absolutely do compete to get it. There are a few players with 50-60+ stars! So they have basically been playing KI well for the past 6+ years non-stop.
*top 32, and I don’t think anyone has over 70. The highest is ‘btsens3i’ with 66, then Carnitas with 65, and then Boss Shaolin with 62. I’m sure someone will get there someday, though.
@DINKLE BERG not that they have no life. There are people like myself that can compete at a decent level and play anything. Then there are people that pick games and stick with it and play at a high level. This is what pros do
honestly Hisako to me was always so sick. there really isn't that many characters like her in fighting games, but that can be said for a bunch of the characters from KI lol
Hisako is the character who inspired me to really get deep into a fighting game for the first time. Everything in her kit just feels so darn good to use.
He could promote the upcoming combo breaker 2022 tournament, and he is not even talking about it. Apparently he has moved on to other, maybe more lucrative games.
naa the 15 star was scared of out his mind facing max. it's why he took hisako. she's a hero no one plays and poor max bearly knows what she does much less how to stop her. If you noticed she had 100 wrath and max just started throwing hisako cause he didnt want to play the parry guessing game.
Knew a person online on Xbox named LEFT 4 DEAD PRO. Shit you not this account was L4D2 all day everyday. Me and another guy added him. They never joined invites or responded to messages or had anything in their bio besides a few call of duty games which they 100%'d. We just know they lived and breathed left 4 dead 2. Until one day after a year of first meeting them, the GT changed to something else and they were playing Sonic and racing games like NFS. I'll never forget that character.
Killer Stars are a mindgame by themselves. The more someone has, the stronger you assume they are. You literally just have to not let it fluster you and you'll immediately have an easier time. That being said it's very hard to not let it get to you, especially when your opponent has 32 stars. (Real actual number of stars I encountered once. I took a health bar and that was good enough for me.) It's also very hard to pin down how long it takes someone to get their stars, as you can only get one every month if you're in the top 32. 15 stars specifically would be at least 15 months of playing the game consistently enough to stay in the top 32. (And that's assuming you didn't fall out of top 32 a single time.) It essentially breaks down to: A long fucking time.
I don’t think you have to get them consecutively, though. You can get a star one month, fall out of Top 32 the next month, and then get a star the next month if you make it back by the end of that third month. I got one in mid-2019 but haven’t played consistently enough to place again since. Someday, though.
@@shinraknives That's exactly right, which is what makes it so hard to determine exactly how long it took for someone to get their stars. Their first killer star could've been a lucky break, and only got their second after another two months. I've got 2 killer stars on my Steam save and those will never go away, but Ranked isn't active enough on Steam for me to consistently play there.
There aren't a lot of fighting games I have interest in going back and trying for the first time, but this game and Third Strike easily peak my interest every time I watch someone play them.
Ok, yeah, makes sense he would body Max. Ngl, I was kinda hoping to see another game between Max and UG, as I love watching Max trying to learn and adapt and stuff, but I don't blame Max for ducking out after getting worked over like that.
Even though you won’t see this I would like to say thank you I’ve been watching for a long time and bought myself an arcade stick just recently (I suck with controller inputs,fingers too fat lmao) and starting playing some fight games and honestly it’s opened a whole new selection of games for me and it’s amazing
@@bruhder5854 I dont know if my reply is popping up for you but on my screen it keeps disappearing so i hope im not spamming lol, but i got a mayflash f500 elite from amazon its $144 but with taxes for me it was around $150, the elite versions come with a Sanwa joystick and buttons, amazon has a good selection of arcade sticks in different price ranges
Johnny and Venom (Guilty gear) King and Lee (Tekken) Hazama (Blazblue) Vergil and Dante (Marvel vs Capcom. Yes i know they from dmc. But they fit pretty well in a fighting game) All these characters are equally cool as hisako
Hisako is the character that truly got me into fighting games. I always dabbled in them but when I picked it up on PC and saw I could be a spooky ghost girl I was SOLD. Her play style is SUPER fun and I love doing mix ups
Maximilian You are awesome TH-camr of fighting games In General & I'm enjoying your vids everyday because You are good In dark comedy jokes & funny rage moments tbh its great To Have someone Who entertains his fans and IS COOL!!
One day, it would be fun to play you. It was fun watching that Hisako too (I'm a Hisako main). That jump circle slash is hard to pull off to make it a short hop rather than a full jump. I can do it but It's still tricky for me. It made me happy to see a good Hisako player. Thanks for uploading these, Maximilian!
19:57 bruh I never heard Jago's voice line here until now, I didnt know he said anything its so quiet and I guess i was always at the perfect volume for it to not be audible, at least for my eas lol
If it wasn't for Max's love of Killer Instinct, I wouldn't have realized that I suffer from the Mandela effect as, while I've always been aware of the KI announcer and have quoted it for decades, I don't believe I've actually ever played Killer Instinct... apparently yelling "C-C-C-Combo Breaker" while playing any 90s fighting games was a thing 🤣
Is there a benefit to doing the big combos on a character when their health bar is already empty? I don’t play this game so I figured it was just for meter build but in the first match someone spent meter on that mid round combo
I just noticed that the menu music of this game heavily reminds me of a lot of music from the old flash game Sonny. Which is a great thing cause Sonny had AMAZING music. The flash games not the mobile game version.
@@iamcarnitas 65 huh? Well that's impressive. I'm watching your last video, you're very good. I hope Max runs into you online. His reaction would be pretty funny.
9:30 No way that you were thinking of wake up shadow dp as a guaranteed win and didn't do it, just to wait for instinct to go for activation cancel into regular dp like you always do. I call bs on that one.
To give some perspective I have 13 Pro Stars and about 8000 wins with an 80% W/L. This is not including the 30k+ exhibition matches where I honed my skills.
Imagine your company has this IP just sitting in it's catalogue, doing absolutely nothing but collecting dust, when it could be making hundreds of millions of dollars for you instead.
@Lucifer In Hell the game is 9 years old, the last season was 6 years ago, they're not going to fix shit as they're certainly not selling new copies. Fingers crossed for a new KI, but I doubt it.
I play Ki on a daily but i dont plan to be e-sport or anything i just play for fun xD and so im a gold ranked as a master but i tend to encounter good killers player and i have encounter this player Dunken God ! I dont know if i have win once honestly against him but everytime he demolish me and my sabrewulf so yeah ;o; gg max thou for facing him !
Goddammit I saw last KI video, I remembered how much I love this game, reinstalled, sinked in another 25-30 hours, thought "I can't play this game forever" and uninstalled. And on the next day Max uploads another video Installing it again right now...
I haven't played a single second of this game (don't own Xbox hardware), but I absolutely love watching it being played at higher levels. So intense. Please, please.... bring back KI.
I played Killer Instinct Gold back on the N64 when that came out and invested much of time. I missed out on this game as it didn't release on the PlayStation system 😪
For those that don't know 1 star = finishing in top 32 of the Killer League for the month. It takes a lot of grinding to get there because people absolutely do compete to get it. There are a few players with 50-60+ stars! So they have basically been playing KI well for the past 6+ years non-stop.
*top 32, and I don’t think anyone has over 70. The highest is ‘btsens3i’ with 66, then Carnitas with 65, and then Boss Shaolin with 62. I’m sure someone will get there someday, though.
Somebody get Max to pin this for the nonplayers
Thanks for that, I'm way too late on this
@DINKLE BERG not that they have no life. There are people like myself that can compete at a decent level and play anything. Then there are people that pick games and stick with it and play at a high level. This is what pros do
@DINKLE BERG scrub alert. Carnitas is a tournament player the other 2 are just online warriors from what i know.
honestly Hisako to me was always so sick. there really isn't that many characters like her in fighting games, but that can be said for a bunch of the characters from KI lol
I find it funny she also someone max uses as well.
She kinda reminds me of Street Fighter's Makoto but with Rekkas
@@dyldragon1 really? How so lol
@@blyat8832 She was actually inspired by Makoto from 3rd strike. Slow walk and fast dash, command grab also she has a similar 'Axe Kick' move.
Hisako is the character who inspired me to really get deep into a fighting game for the first time. Everything in her kit just feels so darn good to use.
Yup we definitely need another Killer Instinct game a lot.
definitely
@Lucifer In Hell "not until they fix this one" lmao. The possibility of that happening is 0% m8
@Lucifer In Hell this game doesn't need to be fixed tho
If they can't make a game that is better than this one i'd rather not see a new one. Look at what happened to Def Jam Icon and MvCI....failed sequels
@Lucifer In Hell oh i want them to make a new one don't get me wrong but it will be difficult to make a game better than this one
Hearing this announcer is always a treat, especially with how hype he sounds whenever a reversal or counter is executed perfectly.
Max's love for KI knows no bounds. And we love him for it, although him fighting a hisako with 15 star level may push it. Let the teabagging begin.
"I'm fuckin' crying dude"
He could promote the upcoming combo breaker 2022 tournament, and he is not even talking about it. Apparently he has moved on to other, maybe more lucrative games.
naa the 15 star was scared of out his mind facing max. it's why he took hisako. she's a hero no one plays and poor max bearly knows what she does much less how to stop her. If you noticed she had 100 wrath and max just started throwing hisako cause he didnt want to play the parry guessing game.
@@nekoraver6179 actually max plays hisako aswell and was pretty good at her
Love the janky full-screen Breaker at 12:19. Reminds me of the CPU landing on the ground after being launched to Breaker you in the first KI.
It's not that janky. It's a wall-splat ender, so Max traveled some distance, but dude did it right after the opener, so it's breakable.
Hisako's menacing walk is so cool
Max your content has jumped up on quality significantly since hiring the new editor. Awesome work Jorge!
I think fifteen stars is basically "KI, sleep, repeat" territory.
It’s just “KI, 20 minute nap, KI”
That guy is a tournament player. seen him a bunch in Top 8's.
@@AsmodeusMKO So then I got his schedule right is what you’re saying
Knew a person online on Xbox named LEFT 4 DEAD PRO. Shit you not this account was L4D2 all day everyday. Me and another guy added him. They never joined invites or responded to messages or had anything in their bio besides a few call of duty games which they 100%'d.
We just know they lived and breathed left 4 dead 2. Until one day after a year of first meeting them, the GT changed to something else and they were playing Sonic and racing games like NFS. I'll never forget that character.
No it’s not really… stars aren’t THAT hard to get.
15:24 - the answer is 5500+ hours thats around how many hours they have played Killer Instinct
Killer Stars are a mindgame by themselves. The more someone has, the stronger you assume they are.
You literally just have to not let it fluster you and you'll immediately have an easier time.
That being said it's very hard to not let it get to you, especially when your opponent has 32 stars. (Real actual number of stars I encountered once. I took a health bar and that was good enough for me.)
It's also very hard to pin down how long it takes someone to get their stars, as you can only get one every month if you're in the top 32. 15 stars specifically would be at least 15 months of playing the game consistently enough to stay in the top 32. (And that's assuming you didn't fall out of top 32 a single time.)
It essentially breaks down to:
A long fucking time.
I don’t think you have to get them consecutively, though. You can get a star one month, fall out of Top 32 the next month, and then get a star the next month if you make it back by the end of that third month.
I got one in mid-2019 but haven’t played consistently enough to place again since. Someday, though.
@@shinraknives That's exactly right, which is what makes it so hard to determine exactly how long it took for someone to get their stars. Their first killer star could've been a lucky break, and only got their second after another two months.
I've got 2 killer stars on my Steam save and those will never go away, but Ranked isn't active enough on Steam for me to consistently play there.
Thanks for keeping the matches in it's full entirety.
There aren't a lot of fighting games I have interest in going back and trying for the first time, but this game and Third Strike easily peak my interest every time I watch someone play them.
This game is so good, I never get bored of watching it
If you're watching it instead of playing it then it can't be that good.
Unless you see Rash or Arias
@@oceansidee so why are you here? Why follow max when you should be playing 🤣 🤣
It's definitely one of the most fun fighting games to watch that's for sure. Never a dull moment.
I was actually playing earlier fyi
Anyone wondering undead gamer was at combo breaker 2019. He made it to top 24. He's legit.
I would have imagined he competed, the kid is sick!
Ok, yeah, makes sense he would body Max.
Ngl, I was kinda hoping to see another game between Max and UG, as I love watching Max trying to learn and adapt and stuff, but I don't blame Max for ducking out after getting worked over like that.
Even though you won’t see this I would like to say thank you I’ve been watching for a long time and bought myself an arcade stick just recently (I suck with controller inputs,fingers too fat lmao) and starting playing some fight games and honestly it’s opened a whole new selection of games for me and it’s amazing
I really like SF5 but Jesus online is terrible I would get the upper hand in the beginning then nothing else would register
What arcade did you get and how much was it? Asking for a friend
@@bruhder5854 I dont know if my reply is popping up for you but on my screen it keeps disappearing so i hope im not spamming lol, but i got a mayflash f500 elite from amazon its $144 but with taxes for me it was around $150, the elite versions come with a Sanwa joystick and buttons, amazon has a good selection of arcade sticks in different price ranges
Gotta say, video edits have been on point as of late!
Small flourishes that make funny bits even funnier without being intrusive at all.
Is there a single fighting game character more sick than Hisako? Easily one of the coolest fighting game character designs ever.
FULGORE!!!!!! HYPE BEAM!!!!
Johnny and Venom (Guilty gear)
King and Lee (Tekken)
Hazama (Blazblue)
Vergil and Dante (Marvel vs Capcom. Yes i know they from dmc. But they fit pretty well in a fighting game)
All these characters are equally cool as hisako
@@deadgunslinger8489 mid characters
@@mariaa.bejar-ochoa2816 I’m just curious, what does Hisako have over them that they don’t?
tj combo
5:02 "WOW, MY #@(%!×@ FACE!"
I don't know why, but that was hilarious🤣
I hope one day i run into Max playing KI online. It'll definitely be a fun match
15 stars? I've run into multiple people with stars in the 20's in one night. They be grinding.
Max is right. It does take time to be very good in fighting games.
Hisako.. might be the coolest fighting game character I have ever seen
Blood borne and killer instinct both need a next gen sequel
Your streams are so entertaining to watch max I always enjoy them
Hisako is the character that truly got me into fighting games. I always dabbled in them but when I picked it up on PC and saw I could be a spooky ghost girl I was SOLD. Her play style is SUPER fun and I love doing mix ups
Wow I absolutely adore this game. Just wishing we get another. 🤙🤘 hisako’s combos always look super sick.
Hisako is hitting that "TH-camrs In Their Thumbnails" look in the thumbnail
LOVE THAT YOU STILL PLAY THIS ❤❤❤❤ you did start the movement. It only makes sense.
0:05 Love that drowning voice clip from Super Mario 64.
Shimmy hype beam just made me almost knock over my desk
Maximilian You are awesome TH-camr of fighting games In General & I'm enjoying your vids everyday because You are good In dark comedy jokes & funny rage moments tbh its great To Have someone Who entertains his fans and IS COOL!!
All right.. who turned Fulgore into a storm trooper??
One day, it would be fun to play you. It was fun watching that Hisako too (I'm a Hisako main). That jump circle slash is hard to pull off to make it a short hop rather than a full jump. I can do it but It's still tricky for me. It made me happy to see a good Hisako player. Thanks for uploading these, Maximilian!
Air commands like that usually accept 'Tiger Knee' inputs.
@@bradblair3318 I think I learned that? Isn't that an almost full circle? It's tricky for me to pull off. I need to practice it.
Watching that 15 stars player is so satisfying. The precision is intoxicating. Shades of when Max played Waterhorses.
Destroyed to oblivion MAX. SAVAGE. Never seen that finisher until now. I knew I can count on u for content
That Hype beam set up against that Thunder was a beautiful thing.
21:18 its been so long since ive seen someone do that i forgot he had a special in the Air LOL god damn i love this game
I wonder when max plays fighters and even more so with this game how many people are like, oh God it's max! I'm fighting max!
This guy went from killer to straight hitman.
Ayy lmao always fun to see a Sabrewulf kick ass right from the get go.
Auto liking every KI vid, make these weekly please 😎
Awesome stuff as always Max
19:57 bruh I never heard Jago's voice line here until now, I didnt know he said anything its so quiet and I guess i was always at the perfect volume for it to not be audible, at least for my eas lol
This game is so fun to watch still!
this game is sucha joy to watch
*sees 15 stars* Clearly this person is insane.
Such a great game always loved watching the top tier matches when there are tournaments
If it wasn't for Max's love of Killer Instinct, I wouldn't have realized that I suffer from the Mandela effect as, while I've always been aware of the KI announcer and have quoted it for decades, I don't believe I've actually ever played Killer Instinct... apparently yelling "C-C-C-Combo Breaker" while playing any 90s fighting games was a thing 🤣
I love your killer instinct videos
Is there a benefit to doing the big combos on a character when their health bar is already empty? I don’t play this game so I figured it was just for meter build but in the first match someone spent meter on that mid round combo
style points.
Meter management. Either gaining meter for yourself or wasting an opponent's instinct
If you are spending the enemy instinct, then using meter is still worth. Meters builds hella fast in this game anyway.
Being flashy
Sending a message.
ULTRAAAAA COMBOOOOOOOOO never gets old tbh
This Guy really said oh KI is dead huh? 15 STARS HAS APPREAED IN THE CHAT. Shesh man lol
This game still has the coolest looks, sounds, & feel.
The gameplay on the other hand...
@@D4YT0N4 is amazing
I just noticed that the menu music of this game heavily reminds me of a lot of music from the old flash game Sonny. Which is a great thing cause Sonny had AMAZING music. The flash games not the mobile game version.
I used to play killer instinct. I mained the Saberwolf
Edit: Your Fulgore combos are godly mate
Sabrewulf
Fun fact: Saberwulf is a reference to one of rare's earliest games, to the point it predates rareware's name.
Undead ate doods lunch and reserved his dinner.
GOAT fighting game
...15 stars.... I can't wait for the day max sees how many I have XD
Are you the guy with 60 stars?
@@shinesparker1169 you are close but your guess is just a bit too low
@@iamcarnitas 65 huh? Well that's impressive. I'm watching your last video, you're very good. I hope Max runs into you online. His reaction would be pretty funny.
@@shinesparker1169 yeah XD one day
1:00 nice combo
Love seeing KI in my feed
There's literally no better fighting game on the planet.
Especially one that rewards high-risk-high-reward gameplay.
9:30 No way that you were thinking of wake up shadow dp as a guaranteed win and didn't do it, just to wait for instinct to go for activation cancel into regular dp like you always do. I call bs on that one.
To give some perspective I have 13 Pro Stars and about 8000 wins with an 80% W/L. This is not including the 30k+ exhibition matches where I honed my skills.
What does the stars mean?
@@Malba2810 Months finished in top 32 of the ranked leaderboard.
Best fighting game ever by farrr
This is definitely the craziest version of Killer Instinct, every hit feels 👌👌
Imagine your company has this IP just sitting in it's catalogue, doing absolutely nothing but collecting dust, when it could be making hundreds of millions of dollars for you instead.
A new KI with the Doom Slayer would be great. I'd rather see him here than in Mortal Kombat so you could really get across his brutal fighting style.
@Lucifer In Hell the game is 9 years old, the last season was 6 years ago, they're not going to fix shit as they're certainly not selling new copies. Fingers crossed for a new KI, but I doubt it.
Well Microsoft own both so yeah it's possible
He doesn't have a fighting style.
@@creaturetransylvania8943 Ripping people in half is a perfectly viable fighting style!
@Lucifer In Hell lmao, the game is perfectly fine in it's current state. Get good scrub
Can’t we admit how crazy Max comeback game is!?!
I need a stream where max plays big rigs over the road racing
What do you mean? This is Big Rigs Extreme edition
some tight matches I never tire of this game
Killer instinct looks like if the game a kid plays in a tv show was real...
Yo Max, that’s UndeadGamer… he’s one of the best Hisako players in the world.
I wish i could play like this.
I never notice, until now, the many goofy ass faces Max makes while playing matches lol
gotta love how the bro don't rage at loses.
Damn that final falgore ultimate bean.
the Hisako was giving me Kung Lao vibes when you were Alien lmao. Still put up a good fight.
You mean pretator, right?
@@turretboi no. He has a video against a kung lao that a shit ton of wins in mkx.
@@animepenguin7254 ah, fulgore's design and there being a xenomorph in one of the MK games confused me, as i am not big into KI. Sorry.
Wassup Max? Good matches bro! :)
That Hisako was unstoppable.
This game still plays so sick and looks so sick today! O_O
Hisako is one of the best designed fighting game characters ever
4:14 THERE it is
I need more of this
Finally max goings to the right place where he can boost the gamer. Stop killing fight cade :3
A star means they made top 32 at the end of a month apparently
Hisako and Baiken have such cool sounding voice actors it's hard not to be hyped when watching them.
Man the original killer instinct was the best game ever and this looks amazing
I play Ki on a daily but i dont plan to be e-sport or anything i just play for fun xD and so im a gold ranked as a master but i tend to encounter good killers player and i have encounter this player Dunken God ! I dont know if i have win once honestly against him but everytime he demolish me and my sabrewulf so yeah ;o; gg max thou for facing him !
i wish i understand k.i 10 hours in i still dont know how to combo fully lmao. great vid as always max
Goddammit
I saw last KI video, I remembered how much I love this game, reinstalled, sinked in another 25-30 hours, thought "I can't play this game forever" and uninstalled.
And on the next day Max uploads another video
Installing it again right now...
I haven't played a single second of this game (don't own Xbox hardware), but I absolutely love watching it being played at higher levels. So intense. Please, please.... bring back KI.
Watching this video reminds me why I absolutely DESPISE Hisako.
Played all KI but this one thanks for blowing the dust off. 😃
I played Killer Instinct Gold back on the N64 when that came out and invested much of time. I missed out on this game as it didn't release on the PlayStation system 😪
Get you a pc or a laptop and you can play it on there the is available pc as well as Xbox
does anyone have a clue what the announcer is saying at 18:05? it’s my favorite voice line and i can’t find it anywhere 😭
One two three
Pleasw more killee instinct. We need to bring this game back
The lil beat to the combos kinda kills this game for me.
that shimeyyyy into the chest laser sheesshhhhhhhhhhh
Really want to play you just to see how bad I get folded. 😂 I love KI and these videos so much.