Month: March 2017

The Street Fighter V patch notes were announced in the last week, which has done a lot of shaking to what we already knew about Season 2. While the jury is still out on how this will affect the season going forward, Michael Martin of Yahoo Esports took it upon himself to talk it out with various minds across the FGC and gather their opinions on the patch.

While Michael Martin attributes it to a step in the right direction, he questions the buffs to Cammy, who was already established as a strong character, and wonders why she needs anything else. BornFree also questions it from a marketing standpoint, and with ELEAGUE fast approaching, makes the top 8 potentially less exciting due to the possible inclusion of what he deems a “boring character.” He also talks to Vince Ingenito–formerly of IGN–who praised Capcom’s changes to DPs but criticized them for their lack of addressing whether the inherent input lag is actually intentional or not.

Finally, he spoke with Gerald Lee of Core-A Gaming, who said the patch notes look interesting and praised Capcom for being open about their design ideas, but showed concern that while this will mean little for casual players, the pros will have their game plans going into this Capcom Pro Tour season shaken up.

Source: Yahoo Esports

With Tekken 7 approaching, you may start experiencing flashbacks to previous problems you’ve had in the Tekken series. Considering how Steve Fox is almost always one of the strongest characters in every game he appears in, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of those memories involved a Steve Fox b+1.

With SpaghettiRip’s Anti-Steve Tutorial, you now have a plan of attack for the British Boxer. Covered in here are all the essentials: footsie ranges, duck-able strings, optimal stepping patterns, and even big changes Steve has in Tekken 7 that you can use Tekken Tag 2 to practice for. Steve has weaknesses like any other character, and this video lays them out cleanly and precisely for you to study.

Source: SpaghettiRip

One of the most frustrating parts of any Fox or Falco’s game is their laser games. This can keep you out, while zoning and pressuring you from afar. Most players don’t know how to combat this, and thus see their percentages trickle upward while their opponents wait for the opportune time to kill.

However, against Falco, there is one possibility against laser that a lot of players never consider–eating the laser. If you take the laser from a close enough range, you can actually punish everything Falco might do next just by reading his next attack properly. As such it is much more optimal to eat a laser to get your damage in, which essentially neuters that aspect of their game.

Source: SSBM Tutorials