Deadly Rave

Deadly Rave, also known as Deadly Rave Neo or Neo Deadly Rave is a reoccurring Super Special Move by Geese Howard and Rock Howard.

Description
Being a move based on Geese Howard's observation of the Kyokugen-Style's Ryuuko Ranbu attack in his younger years, the user lunges at the opponent. If the lunge hits, the user performs a quick-but-strong series of attacks (not counting the lunge) before finishing with an explosive blast of energy via a dual palm thrust.

However, what makes this super unique is what happens during it. In order to successfully use Deadly Rave, the player must manually input each required hit of the super, adding a twist to the typical ranbu-styled super; messing up the input series ends up forcing the sequence to be cut-short and often allows the attack to be 10 different attacks total (counting the lunge and final energy blast). Some games however, make the super automatic, forgoing the manual inputs (including in its debut in Art of Fighting 2 and by proxy, younger Geese in The King of Fighters Neowave). The animations per input have often varied across games, as well as the finishing blast itself varying between only having a single hit or multiple hits.

Even then, while it's often rewarding to connect the manual-styled version of this iconic technique for a large amount of damage (being one of Geese's strongest attacks), it's also a viable strategy to instead end the sequence at only its second-to-last attack to generate plenty of hitstun to allow the user to then combo right afterwards with an extended finisher, especially if they are able to have and/or acquire the resources to spare for another damaging meter-expending option.

Rock's version is known as the Deadly Rave Neo, is often weaker and/or slower than his father's, but is still just as damaging at times. In The King of Fighters XIV however, marks not only one of the very few times where Geese no longer even has this attack in his moveset in very few niche cases, but also when used only by his son Rock, that it now has a preset fully-cinematic connecting animation as opposed to a mere ranbu sequence that cycles through various animations.

In King of Fighters XV, Rock also now has a variation that exists alongside the original version in his moveset called Deadly Rave EXT which ends with Rock struggling to contain his own power (likely via Geese's influence) and unleashes a surge beyond his own control akin to the Raging Storm on the opponent and surrounding Rock's hands with chi, allowing him to deal more damage and adding extra properties to his other moves for the rest of the round he is active.