212 Shiki Kototsuki You

212 Shiki Kototsuki You ("Method 212: Zither Moon Yang"; "You" is read as "Yoh") is a Special Move in The King of Fighters series, being a semi-consistent signature move of Kyo Kusanagi.

Description
The user runs at their opponent, drives their elbow into the abdomen, lift-grabs them by their neck (or for the XIV and XV versions, a face-grab), and explodes them.

While the elbow needs to connect on either hit or block to have the lift-grab come out, the lift-grab itself is a blockable hit-grab.

For the version introduced in KOF XIII (and the Yanosabi-bridge-version in the NESTS saga games), it forgoes the run for either the immediate lifting-grab before ending it with the usual explosion. KOF XIV onwards however, throws a Hatsugane into the mix for the said version.

Strategy
Normally a hit-grab move, it can be blocked before the elbow can hit, so the move is used normally to end combos. However the version is a 3F command grab, and thus can surprise the foe when they least expect it, making it useful as a deadly mixup option, especially in the corner.

Trivia

 * In the original 1.0 Arcade version of The King of Fighters XIII, 212 Shiki Kototsuki You was an unblockable move. This was fixed in the 1.1 version.


 * Only in Capcom vs. SNK 1 and 2, the elbow lunge during the dash has Kyo's leading elbow emit a small bit of flame, which is not seen in any other variation of the Kototsuki You.