I am very new to fighting games and I just got MKDA the other day. I am trying to to perform some Fatalities but for some reason I can not do any of them. I understand at the end of the round when I see/hear "Finish him". I press L1 and then press the specific buttons for that fighter. But it never works. Either I will hit the fighter with my last button press or the fighter will just fall over and I win.

Can ANYONE help me with this? Do I need to be standing in a certin area or anything? Right now I am playing with Kano and for his Fatality I do the following...Press L1 to bring up the Fatality, and then press FORWARD, UP, UP, DOWN, SQUARE. Nothing happens till I hit the Square and then the player will hit the other player and I will with NO Fatality.

Please help, thank you.