Elbow Spike

Elbow Spike is one of Rock Howard's Command Moves in The King of Fighters series, first appearing in Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

This was originally Rock's High-Evade Attack, though only in Capcom vs. SNK 2, it acts as his crouching Heavy Punch.

Description
Rock ducks low and shifts to drive his following-armed elbow towards his foe at a slight-upwards angle while rising.

Originally was used as his High-Evade move and was even named as such in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (High-Level Evade Attack).

Strategy
While rarely used, it still did its job well as an anti-air until Capcom vs. SNK 2 removed its high-crushing properties, and NGBC nerfed its speed and overall upper invul frames.

However, while the upper invul frames have been removed in both KOF XIV and XV, the Elbow Spike in trade gained buffs in being a solid combo tool in that it can connect easily from most close-standing light normals aside from just heavies. On top of always having advanced Rock forwards a bit, this makes it a solid pressure tool/combo confirm in one unlike before.