SoCal Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite pros Supernoon, Priest, and SackTap stopped by Body Count Fighting‘s studios for their “Hitbox” tutorial series. If you were looking to get into MvC:I and weren’t sure where to begin, you can get decent rundown of most of the cast through their character guides:
Body Count Fighting’s channel plays host to Wednesday Night Fights replays and the “BCF” championship series. You can watch all the players involved in these tutorials over on their channel here.
After an 11-month absence, The Nostalgic Gamer has finally returned with new episodes of his “Meet The Darkstalkers” series. Part of the “Darkstalkers Forever” project, each episode of the series sees The Nostalgic Gamer take an in-depth look at one of the series’ colorful cast members, examining the initial ideas behind their creation and design by the Darkstalkers development team.
The two newest episodes focus on Hutizul — or Phobos in Japan — the robotic protector, and Rikuo, known as Aulbath in Japan, the curiously attractive fishman. Previous episodes have chronicled Morrigan Aensland, Demitri Maximoff, Felicia, Hsien-Ko, B.B. Hood, John Talbain, Anakaris, Lord Raptor, Bishamon, Donnovan & Anita and Victor von Gerdenheim. Since it’s been 20 years since the release of the last mainline game, Darkstalkers 3 or Vampire Savior, these videos serve as a fantastic reminder of the creativity and charm of Street Fighter‘s “sister series,” the legacy of which still lives on to this very day.
For more Darkstalkers history, you can check out The Nostalgic Gamer’s near-hour-long retrospective on the entire series here.
Tekken players are no strangers to high damage combos. It is, in fact, one of the selling points of the series: average combo damage can be 30~50% depending on the starter, which often can be punished for around 15% or so if it’s blocked. People are driven to go for big damage, but risk falling behind for fishing too much with their combo starters.
A more rare- but certainly possible- scenario arises with stage positioning, counter-hits, and rage. Stage awareness and manipulation are fundamental skills for both maximizing damage in Tekken 7 and for creating ridiculous looking combo videos, pushing damage to 90-100% per combo. Exhibit A: Blu3Angels‘s latest combo video features nothing but 100% combos for a large part of the cast, including: Paul, Lucky Chloe, Shaheen, Kuma/Panda, Asuka, Jack-7, Katarina, Akuma, Devil Jin, Claudio, and Jin. It’s a wild ride of execution, creativity, and a high level understanding of how Tekken works.
Earlier this week, five of America’s top Street Fighter V players made the journey to Japan to battle five of the best from the Land of the Rising Sun in a Team Exhibition, hosted by YOUDEAL, in order to determine which country was supreme.
The Teams were as follows:
Team Japan:
Hx.Twitch.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara (Captain)
GRPT|Haitani
GRPT|Fuudo
AW|Nemo
GGP|Kazunoko
Team USA:
Echo Fox|Justin Wong (Captain)
Rise|Smug
CYG BST|PR Balrog
CYG BST|Snake Eyez
SPY|Filipino Champ
A series of five First Round matches were held between each team members, with the winners receiving a “second life” during the Team Battle, meaning they would need to lose twice to be eliminated, while the losers only received a single life for their respective squad.
Results:
Street Fighter V
Team Japan
– GRPT|Haitani (Necalli)
– GRPT|Fuudo (R. Mika)
– Hx.Twitch.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara (Guile)
– AW|Nemo (Urien)
– GGP|Kazunoko (Cammy)
Team USA
– CYG BST|Snake Eyez (Zangief)
– Rise|Smug (Balrog)
– FOX|Justin Wong (Karin)
– SPY|Filipino Champ (Dhalsim)
– CYG BST|PR Balrog (Balrog)
The internet seemed to be lacking in a ranking of step effectiveness for characters in Tekken 7. To this goal, Electric Wind God Vids returns to rank the sidestep of every character in the game!
Note that this serves as reference to sidestepping, and not side-walking. If you are a little unclear on the difference between these two, we advise you to check out our previous sidestep tutorial, located here. We will follow up this video with a ranking of sidewalk effectiveness in the near future.
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