Month: September 2017

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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – BAM Goes the Nerf Bat Sending 5 Cards Scrambling

Blizzard has swung the Hearthstone nerf bat on five different cards leading to some serious changes coming in the next update. Three of the cards come out of the Basic class card group and include Hex, FIery War Axe and Innervate. “[T]oo many Basic and Classic cards in individual decks means less fun when new expansions are released”, developers wrote in a blog on the official site. “We would rather make balance adjustments to them instead of moving them to the Hall of Fame.”

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Sajam analyzes how Tokido triumphed at Evo 2017 with these top 8 match breakdowns

As well as being on the mic for the whole of Street Fighter V‘s top 8 at this year’s Evo, Sajam has decided to go back over Tokido’s legendary run to find out how he pulled it off. Starting with his intense fight against Filipino Champ, Sajam has gone through and analyzed some of Tokido’s sets in great detail, in order to see how he adapted and overcame his opponents.

Next up is his analysis of Tokido’s match versus Capcom Cup 2016 champion, Nuckledu. This is one of the wilder sets of the top 8, with both players adapting to their opponent’s strategies mid-set. Keep in mind this was only a best of three, so Tokido and Nuckledu had to be firing on all cylinders.

And to finish off, we have Tokido’s blowout set versus Punk. This set is a prime example of retaking momentum from Losers’ side and dismantling your opponent in the second set. Sajam even throws some commentary pointers in for good measure.

Source: Sajam

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Learn your Super Smash Bros. for Wii U match-ups with this huge MU chart, courtesy of inktivate

Learning match-ups is pretty important to improving as a player. In Smash 4 — where the roster contains 58 different characters — you’ve got a lot of data to memorize. Hoping to create a “comprehensive” match-up chart, based off opinions gathered from over 250+ top players, Reddit user inktivate has put together the definitive Smash 4 match-up chart.

Listing over 3025 different match-ups (the list excludes the Mii Fighters), this chart gives players a decent idea of the best and worst characters in Smash 4 — at least on paper. According to the opinions gathered by inktivate, Sheik is currently the best character with 47 winning matches, eight even matches and not a single bad match-up. On the other end of the spectrum, Jigglypuff is the out and out worst character, with only two even match-ups and 53 losing ones. If you compare these ratings to the current Smash 4 Backroom Tier List, this places Sheik four points higher, while Jigglypuff is still dead last.

This list isn’t perfect of course, as there are less match-up charts for lower tier characters and also greater room for disagreement. Little Mac has the most variance when it comes to his match-up spread, while there seems to be a general consensus when it comes to Sheik’s match-ups.

Data is likely to change, and inktivate encourages decorated mains of specific characters to come forward to help flesh out the chart. Hopefully, this chart will be an evolving document as the Smash 4 meta evolves. For all the stats, methodology and other information on this gargantuan match-up chart, check out the Reddit thread.

Source: r/smashbros