Landing combos is the greatest feeling in Fighting Video Games, especially when they are difficult to pull off.

The higher the difficulty and complexity of the combo, the greater the payoff when you manage to land it, especially as these can end up deciding games in the tournament setting.

Fighting Video Games are not just an excuse to brawl. These NINE video games allow you to showcase your skill level with extremely tough combos.

9. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future has unique combo systems for different characters, and these combos require an optimal blend of memorization, mobility, and precise timing.

While the game can seem to lack the overall system depth of the new-age fighting games, the gameplay raises the overall execution ceiling to a level where combos become rare occurrences.

8. Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

The only anime fighting game on the list, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code deserves the shout for being inarguably the best title in the Melty Blood franchise.

The game championed mobility, prioritizing movement above all else in combat. Each character has complex combo routes, adding to the difficulty level.

7. Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

While Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown doesn't have a lot of lengthy combo routes, it compensates for the lack of these routes with extremely difficult one-frame timing execution demands.

Virtua Fighter's legacy three-button system already has a degree of complexity. But the timing requires a lot of precision and fast reflexes, which scales the difficulty up a lot.

6. BlazBlue: Central Fiction

Each character in BlazBlue: Central Fiction is so deeply written that every character switch almost feels like entering a new world inside the game.

Carl Clover and Izanami, in particular, are two characters whose combos are extremely difficult to master and land, with the character specializations raising the skill ceiling pretty high.

5. Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2

Quite possibly a contender for being the most demanding title in the Tekken franchise, Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2 is filled with highly technical juggle routes for gamers to master.

It is a fan favorite for delivering complex, high-skill gameplay wrapped in the Tag setting.

Tag Team Tournament 2 is Tekken's benchmark for combining new features and concepts with highly technical and demanding mechanics.

4. Marvel vs Capcom 2

Magneto's routes are so complex that even professionals have to spend weeks learning them and optimizing their gameplay to adapt to the difficulty.

Marvel vs Capcom 2 was not only a definitive title in tag team fighting games, but it also popularized the presence and usage of difficult-to-execute combos.

3. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

One of the defining Fighting Games ever, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike's execution is unforgiving, and the combo routes for characters such as Makoto, Oro, and Yun are famous for being difficult.

The single-frame timings and the cancels are extremely hard to execute. These make for cinematic tournament battles in the esports scene as well.

The game delivered Evo Moment #37, an immortalized fight between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong, where Daigo delivered 15 consecutive counters of Wong's attacks, snatching victory with just one hit of health left.

2. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R

While the gameplay in Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R isn't that taxing, the optimization and expertise level one can achieve makes the skill ceiling so much higher.

Widely regarded as one of the deepest fighting games ever made, this Guilty Gear title demands absolute precision, with elements like False Roman Cancel (FRC) having windows as small as 2 frames.

1. The King of Fighters XIII

The absolute benchmark for fighting video games when it comes to complex execution, The King of Fighters XIII prides itself on the character-based combos one has to learn.

Along with that, the cancels add the element of timing and punish even the tiniest of errors in combos easily.

The game needs proper execution, advanced movement, and complex combo routes for them to land properly.

Which combo did you find the hardest to land in Fighting Video Games?

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Abhisek Bajaj