Month: November 2016

After the reveal teaser for Akuma, fans everywhere were excited to potentially get their hands on the wielder of the Satsui no Hado in Street Fighter V at the PlayStation Experience. However, it recently was suggested by Yoshinori Ono that the trailer wasn’t what it seemed. While the future of Akuma is pretty uncertain right now, stalwart fans are still keeping the Akuma dream alive by showing his possible moveset in Street Fighter V.

Below is a fan teaser showing a potential version of Akuma; it uses his Street Fighter 4 model as a base, but shows off what the extra tools the dark martial artist could have in SFV. It theorizes that Akuma may have a V-Reversal teleport, a crush counter standing roundhouse, a V-Trigger which turns him into Shin Akuma and the ability to combo into Raging Demon after a Shoryuken. It’s a crazy “what if” trailer, so check it out. The mock up trailer also features a great remix of “Killing Moon”, Akuma’s theme from 3rd Strike which is always a bonus.

Source: sigmaG19

2GG|Komorikiri finally breaks the sponsorship curse and wins his first major outside of Japan, taking Smashdown World after a close 3-2 victory over IMT|ANTi. It was a hard fought battle for first, with Komorikiri’s Cloud making short work of ANTi’s Zero Suit Samus in game one. In a pick which initially seemed dubious, ANTi pulled out his Charizard for the rest of the set, actually taking games three and four, causing Komorikiri to counterpick to his old main of Sonic. The Blue Blur proved his worth, dispatching ANTi’s Charizard and crowning Komorikiri the grand champion.

One thing to note is that if Grand Finals was played in the two stock format as is standard in Japan and the USA, ANTi would have actually reset the bracket by game four, due to his Charizard pulling a stock ahead in games two, three and four.

ANTi’s counterpicks were in full force throughout a lot of top 8, with his Cloud duelling against Glutonny’s Wario in Winners’ Semis and then securing the win versus DNG|Kameme in Losers’ Semis. His Mario did get a look in against Kameme but once the Megaman master switched to his Wario, it was time to put the plumber on the bench for the rest of the tournament, with his ZSS avenging his Cloud in the runback against Glutonny.

Glutonny however, was the real standout of this tournament, acting as France’s hero and defender against threats from around the world. The Wario legend and Brawl veteran defeated Kameme 2-1 in Winners’ Quarters, pulling on his knowledge of some deadly jab lock and Waft setups to beat one of the Japanese contenders. Kameme actually mained Wario in Brawl and his loss to Glutonny prompted him to bring out the old flame for his fight against ANTi, even wearing the “Gluto” tag in-game. To get all the way to Losers’ Final with a mid tier character in a bracket of world class threats is a major achievement, so expect more of Glutonny in 2017.

Meanwhile, Mr. R was unable to defend his title as the ruler of Europe, thanks in part to the international talent attending Smashdown World. Komorikiri first sent Mr. R into the Losers bracket after a tense five game set in Winners’ Semis, repeating the success he saw using Sonic against Sheik back at The Big House 6. Kameme then acted as gatekeeper and executioner, racking up his third win against Mr. R and sending the Dutchman out of the tournament at fifth.

Elsewhere in top 8, it was a competition between members of Team Prismatic, as pM|cyve, pM|LoNg0uw and pM|Sodrek all fought for places at fifth and seventh. LoNgOuw went out at seventh after a robot battle between his ROB and Kameme’s Megaman, while cyve was forced to teamkill teammate Sodrek in a DLC battle between Bayonetta and Cloud. Cyve would then fall to ANTi 3-1 in Losers’ Quarters, putting cyve at fifth and sending the whole of Team Prismatic out of the tournament.

Despite some quite significant scheduling errors, Smashdown World was definitely a tournament worth tuning into, just to see oft-seen characters like Wario and Charizard feature in a top 8. Let’s hope the presence of top tier international talent will put the boot up the whole of Europe to continue improving at Smash 4.

RESULTS:

1. 2GG|komorikiri (Cloud, Sonic/Japan)
2. IMT|ANTi (Mario, ZSS, Cloud, Charizard/USA)
3. Glutonny (Wario/France)
4. DNG|Kameme (Megaman, Wario/Japan)
5. pM|cyve (Diddy Kong, Bayonetta/Germany)
5. Mr. R (Sheik/Netherlands)
7. pM|Sodrek (Fox, Cloud/Germany)
7. pM|LoNgOuw (ROB/Germany)

Sources: 2GGaming; smash.gg