Month: August 2017

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BadIntent develops new safe jump for Pokkén Tournament’s Blaziken

If you’ve spent any time with Pokkén Tournament at all, you already know that Blaziken is a character of extremes. He does massive damage to his opponent, but his enhanced special moves deal damage to himself in the form of recoverable health. This is particularly true of the long wall combos the character is best known for, which can end up using several special moves in one combo.

Knowing all this, it’s a pretty bad feeling for a Blaziken player to have built up all that recoverable health after doing a cool combo, only to get popped in the jaw by a wakeup Extreme Speed from Lucario and watch your lifebar melt away.

Well, worry no more. Pokkén Pro BadIntent has developed a new safe jump off wall combos specifically to beat i9 armored moves. These are Pokkén’s Dragon Punch equivalents, such as Lucario’s Extreme Speed and Pikachu’s Volt Tackle. With this safe jump, these problem moves can now be baited out without giving up your meaty pressure. Burn brightly, Blaziken players.

Source: BadIntent

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Summer Jam XI added to the Curleh Circuit for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

With what has been a great year so far capped by an amazing tournament at Evo 2017, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3‘s competitive scene shows that there’s still life in the 7-year-old game. Part of this is due to the community-lead “Curleh Circuit” competitive tour.

Now, another major tournament has joined the Curleh Circuit. In a recent tweet, Big E Gaming has confirmed that, after some discussion with the Curleh Circuit’s Samantha “Persia” Hancock, Summer Jam XI will now be added to the year long tour.

Summer Jam has always been on of the biggest tournaments in the East Coast. With the announcement of that the tournament there will now be part of the Curleh Circuit, this gives East Coast UMvC3 players another chance to earn points towards the Curleh Mustache Finalé at the end of the year!

Summer Jam XI takes place from August 11 to 13 at Crowne Plaza: Philadelpha-Cherry Hill, in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Source: Big E Gaming

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How to creatively punish pressure with throws in BlazBlue: Central Fiction

Throws in BlazBlue: Central Fiction aren’t quite the same like in Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2. They’re not as much of a defensive tool, but they can result in damaging combos — depending on how much resources you put in. Because throws in BlazBlue have start-up, they can’t be used while getting up, and it’s tough to use them in the middle of enemy blockstrings.

And yet, there are many moves in the game that can be interrupted with a sneaky throw. Warui Neko-kun put together a creative video with some surprising grabs that can easily reverse the situation. Usually, those punishes revolve around knowing when the opponent will use some kind of special move. A couple of these aren’t that realistic — because normally, a player wouldn’t do two small jabs, which apply very little blockstun, into a move that’s slow to come out.

However, most of these are really good to know and not as obvious as they seem. You can grab Lambda out of her overhead attack, 4B; same with one of Mai’s overhead and Ragna’s; Valkenhayn is surprisingly vulnerable to a grab; you can punish Noel for using 2D in her Drive chains, and so on. The video also shows sample combo punishes.

Source: Warui Neko-kun

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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Knights of the Frozen Throne to Launch August 10th

Blizzard has announced that the next expansion to Hearthstone will be launching on August 10th. Called Knights of the Frozen Throne, the expansion brings 135 new cards to the game, including Legendary Cards that can turn the nine heroes into Death Knights with modified powers. In addition, there will be eight free missions that will yield a Legendary card on completion of each of the completed wings. Players can prepurchase a 50-card pack for $49.99.