Month: May 2017

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Yahoo! Esports chats with Lucky about teaming up with Mang0, his new approach to Melee, & his passion for craft beers

Selfless Gaming|Lucky has come a long way from being “The Bat of Norwalk” to being one of the SoCal Melee community’s most respected players. Even after sustaining an injury that rendered him unable to travel to tournaments late last year, he was still able to maintain the status of a high ranking competitor in the midst of his recovery.

Daniel Lee (a.k.a. Tafokints) of Yahoo! Esports recently had an conversation with Lucky, in which they discussed his new strategic angle for playing Super Smash Bros. Melee, his esports success, and teaming up with Mang0, who he notes is one of his childhood friends (something that makes their team dynamic quite unique.) They also cover Lucky’s love for craft beers, something that he would consider making a career out of should he ever lay his GameCube controller down for good.

Check out the full insightful interview right here:

Source: Yahoo! Esports

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Knee squeezes in five Electric Wind God Fists from Devil Jin’s WS+2 in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution

The Electric Wind God Fist (EWGF for short) is one of the Tekken community’s most favorite technical tricks. While most players–even pros–will opt for easier and more stable combos during tournaments, doing repeated EWGFs in juggles is something of a execution Holy Grail for Mishima players. It’s theoretically the strongest damage, but almost always just out of reach of mere mortals.

Knee, a Tekken legend among legends, is known for at least somewhat consistently landing four EWGFs in matches post Devil Jin’s WS+2 and Hell Sweep. Now, he’s broken that record off both moves: squeezing out a fifth hit on the small-framed Xiaoyu.

While exciting to see, it’s no surprise that Knee is the one to break it. He was able to demonstrate six EWGFs in a row a few months ago (if you include the initial launcher!).

This’ll likely still be just a party trick for most players, but it’s good to know what the record is! Let’s see if Knee can get this on stream at Evo, now. I hope he can!

Source: 무릎의 철권TV TekkenKnee

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Ultra Street Fighter II: The New Challengers: GameSpot’s new footage of Way of the Hado and Buddy Battle modes

New footage from GameSpot shows the most in-depth footage we’ve seen yet of Ultra Street Fighter II’s “Way of the Hado”: the mode that lets you play as Ryu in first-person and throw out his signature moves using the Nintendo Switch’s motion sensor system. The video demonstration takes you through a quick tutorial, which walks you through the ways to move to perform successful a  Shoryuken, Hadouken and Tatsumaki. It proceeds to show the first stage, which appears to a base where Ryu is up against a hoard of Shadaloo goons.

There is also a video showing off Buddy Battle, which allows two players to fight through arcade mode at the same time. It might be possible for a 2v2 four-player battle to take place, but there is yet to be a confirmation of such a possibility. Below is a screenshot of Ken and Akuma taking on Violent Ken together:

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You can watch both of GameSpot’s videos covering these modes by clicking the following links:

Way of the Hadou

Buddy Battle

Source: GameSpot