Month: March 2017

Over the weekend, a tournament in Japan concluded after a two-month series of qualifiers. Braver’s Revel 2017 found competition across Japanese regions to bring them all together to a national stage. As the bouts are over, we have footage of matches leading up to the top 8 as well as Grand Finals, for those who missed it live.

First up, here’s a series of matches before top 8:

Next up, here are the final parts of the event:

It’s definitely worth it to see the hype conclusion to this fighting series in BlazBlue: Central Fiction. For a breakdown on who was qualifying, refer to our previous Braver’s Revel post.

Source: Jourdal; original footage streamed on Nesica Twitch

After covering the changes Capcom will be making to Street Fighter V’s system mechanics in the upcoming April update, VesperArcade now turns his attention to dissecting the individual character changes for all characters to-be-altered, starting with Alex.

After some eyebrow-raising nerfs in the initial Season 2 patch, the “Awakened Talent” will finally be seeing some buffs in the near future.

One of the first changes coming to Alex, and this is a pretty big one, buff-wise, is that they’re increasing Alex’s health from 1000 to 1025. Now at first, you might not think this is a big deal, it’s just 25 more health, but it is actually a pretty big deal. For one, a lot of characters are getting their health nerfed, and another thing is that Alex is already a character with high stun, he’s got 1050 stun, so now he’s going have high health and high stun. Not even Birdie has high stun, so Alex is going to be even beefier than him. Another thing to consider is that Alex is the only character in the game with a 2-bar V-Trigger and over 1000 health, so he’ll definitely be in a healthy condition when he gets his V-Trigger, since it costs so little and he builds it so much from his Crush Counters.

In closing, Vesper gives his final thoughts about Alex’s upcoming changes.

So my final verdict on Alex, on this patch alone, is that he’s overall buffed. I’m pretty sure you guys can agree with the reverts, but the question is, is Season 1 Alex better than future Season 2 April Alex? The original Alex was just slightly better. The biggest thing Alex will be getting in April is the HP buff. He’s going to have high health, high stun that’s going to allow him to take a lot more risks getting in, and it’s going to be scary because he only has a 2-bar V-Trigger… He’ll also have a faster and better V-Skill, which benefits from the high HP as well, which is great, so Alex doesn’t always have to go in and he can build V-Gauge if the opponent is trying to play keepaway with him. Also, Alex’s Lariat links into St.MP, which is a huge damage buff to Alex that makes his combos much more scary and rewarding. The deal-breaker I’d say is that Alex’s biggest problem is his anti-air options. He kind of has that Karin vibe, where he has to use meter to reliably AA. I can’t say buff his jab or Lariat or make his Cr. HP faster, but I think they should just increase the hitbox on it. I still feel like this trades a lot for how slow it is. As long as you did this fast enough, it should win as an anti-air.

You can see the full video below. What do you all think of Alex’s upcoming April changes? Do you think he’ll be better than his Season 1 incarnation? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: VesperArcade