SvC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom playthrough (PS2) (1CC)

Playthrough with Ryo Sakazaki. For the longest time I have never been able to beat this game on one credit without using Shin Akuma, but I finally managed it.

It's not that the standard opponents are hard (although some have annoying A.I., like Balrog) but the bosses are stupidly difficult. There is an easy way to beat Violent Ken, at least: just get him away from you and then start doing kooh kens, and he'll keep dashing into them. You could also use haow ken, although you aren't fighting a guy with a weapon.

Next up is Shin Akuma. It doesn't really matter if you fight him or Mr. Karate here, you're still screwed. I don't know what SNK were thinking when they decided to give these guys infinite super moves, but the general plan is to spam Ryo's kohou shippuu ken and hope for the best. This move has some armor properties and if you can get the timing down right, you can get a pattern where Shin Akuma may block the first attack, but won't block it if you immediately do it again. However this really isn't a good strategy and I just got lucky when I beat him.

Finally there's Athena. Again, like Shin Akuma, she can do her super moves whenever she wants, but compared to the previous boss she's pretty easy. And it's vastly preferable to fight her instead of Red Arremer, who's one of the worst bosses of all time (see my playthrough of the Xbox version to see that boss fight:
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