EVO oddities
This Nintendo fighting game was held as a side event at EVO 2018, with Japanese player KHU winning the tournament.
ARMS
The masked luchadores from Tekken, or the elegant kickboxer who debuted in Art of Fighting.
King
A game mechanic where blocking too many attacks in a short period of time will shatter your defense and leave you wide open.
Guard crush
This Street Fighter character is a shapeshifting humanoid weapon developed by the Secret Society, led by Gill.
Twelve
Guilty Gear XX features this version of Sol Badguy from the past when he was a member of the Sacred Order of Holy Knights.
Order-Sol
An attack that neither hits nor is blocked; swing and a miss.
Whiff
This anime game's tournament at EVO 2010 ended with a grand finals match between Garu and LordKnight, both using the same character.
Melty Blood: Actress Again
A rushdown assassin from Under Night In-Birth, or the main antagonist of Street Fighter IV.
Seth
A situation where performing the same inputs can lead to several different outcomes depending on how the characters interact, usually accomplished by buffering a move.
Option select
This now-deceased Guilty Gear character was the commander of the Holy Order and Testament's adoptive father.
In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Frieza is able to expend 3 Ki bars to activate this form, giving him abilities like a 20% damage buff and a second air dash.
Golden Frieza
Going online in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will often put you face-to-face with this Resident Evil character alongside Dante and Vergil.
Wesker
Spectators weren't too thrilled at EVO's decisions to make this tag team game's tournament 2v2 in 2012.
Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter's Italian fortune teller, or another way to refer to Goku Black.
Rose
While most games allow you to combo normals by increasing strength (L, M, H), this is the ability to combo the other way as well (H, M, L).
Reverse beat
While she fights alongside her twin sister Mei Ling and is reincarnated with the powers of her mother, she still can't do much in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Hsien-Ko
Bi-Han, the original Sub-Zero in the first Mortal Kombat, died and was resurrected as this character for future entries.
Noob Saibot
Injustice features this mechanic in which a defending player can initiate a sequence where both players have to put forth a portion of their meter; whoever bets more meter wins the clash.
Wager
While Dominique "SonicFox" McLean is famous for tearing through Mortal Kombat brackets at EVO, they won their first tournament in 2013 playing this game.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Granblue Fantasy Versus's gun-wielding grenade user, or the cranky old farmer from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Eustace
An input trick where you press two different buttons on two consecutive frames, most commonly used in the Street Fighter series.
Plink
This Tekken character was created by the G Corporation as a biotechnological weapon by enhancing the genes of strong fighters.
Gigas
First appearing as a boss character in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, this alternate version of Ken made his playable debut in Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers.
Violent Ken (Brainwashed Ken)
Smashers use this brutal term to refer to a Jigglypuff player repeatedly hitting their opponent with Jiggs's dreaded back-air.
Wall of Pain
The number of different versions of Guilty Gear XX that have appeared at EVO.
An Ultratech war machine from Killer Instinct, or Robert Duvall's character in Apocalypse Now.
Kilgore
This sarcastically celebratory term is used when hitting two character at the same time in a tag game when the opponent tags in an assist.
Happy Birthday
This Pharaoh from the Darkstalkers series traveled to the present and entered the Majigen to learn of his kingdom's inevitable destruction.
Anakaris
This Marvel vs. Capcom 3 top-tier uses all five Hyper Gauges to resurrect as a "Dark" version of themselves upon death.
Phoenix
One of the most famous Smash Melee clips comes from a doubles match in which the commentators are repeatedly screaming this phrase as SS and Tang stunt on their enemies as Fox and Capt. Falcon.
Wombo combo