Month: March 2017

Building enough meter and resources is an important part of many games, and The King of Fighters XIV is no exception. In KOF XIV meter-building is particularly important, as that valuable resource gets passed onto your other team members, too. You build meter through getting hit and attacking, but you also build this valuable resource from whiffing specific moves.

Gato Ray is here with another tutorial on how exactly to get the most out of your team. This time he covers how exactly to test your fastest meter gaining tactic, as far as whiffing your moves is concerned. Setting the training dummy to repeat an action and timing how long it takes to gain a bar will tell you your character’s fastest meter gain option, so be sure to use this to optimize your own play.

Source: Gato Ray

Over the past weekend, California became home to the latest iteration of the Smash Summit series, which saw the 16 best Melee players in the world competing for large cash prizes. If you missed the even–or just want to catch the action all over again–we’ve gathered up some replays for you here.

Smash Singles are of course the traditional staple, being the most standard way to play. Below we have a playlist of the whole bracket, going through all 4 brackets on up to the Grand Finals. Feel free to lose the next several hours just indulging yourself with some of the best Melee play in the world.

There’s also Doubles of course, which featured a smaller bracket with more compacted high-quality matches.

We also have two other events, which were Draft Crews, featuring teams of players competing, and a Low Tier Iron Man which showcases a lot of under-represented characters.

Source: Beyond the Summit – Smash

Es, the Guardian of the Azure, asserts her place in the cast of BlazBlue: Central Fiction with an interesting Drive mechanic and a balanced repertoire of attacks. She uses Type: Enchanter to power up her next move, which leads to longer combos. For instance, her Dragon Punch move will end combos, unless she has her next move charged.

Monarch returns with a new combo movie, “Cerulean Guardian,” which examines the combo possibilities of the DLC character. The video gives an extended look at how to perform highly damaging confirms when given the resources, as well as how to pressure or counter some reversals. There’s also a few interesting loops with her normal attacks.

Check out Monarch’s Es combo movie below. Their channel also includes an Es 6D mix-up tutorial and some Es match footage vs. Ragna.

Source: Monarch