Month: September 2017

Frame traps are essential to capitalize in damage with any character, and Ed’s light moves are prime buttons to create frame traps. As such, it is important to understand your frame data to know what to do to create a frame trap with him and exactly how you can capitalize from the counter hits you receive from it.

This guide gives you prime examples of follow-up buttons to create frame traps, and goes from the most basic punishes off of them to the most elaborate. Needless to say, Ed can get a lot of mileage off of one simple frame trap with his damage and mix-up potential, so be sure to toy around in the lab to see what you find.

Source: Young Commander

In Pokkén Tournament, few characters are more difficult to pin down then Weavile. This character has a gigantic list of options once he jumps, including:

• A multi-directional air projectile that also serves as an air stall
• Multiple jump trajectories
• A divekick that leads to combos on hit and can go back into the air on block
• Double jump cancels in Burst Mode

And this is just skimming the surface. Weavile is an overwhelming, slippery nightmare, and one of the reasons for that is the ambiguous landing properties of Weavile’s Jump X.

As Mitchel demonstrates, proper spacing and angles will allow tricky Weavile’s to mixup the opponent with divekick and empty-jump-grab. When you stop to consider that Weavile is not only getting buffs in Pokkén Tournament DX, but also access to a new double-jump granting support in the form of Popplio, this potent mixup will be even more terrifying then it currently is.

Source: Mitchel