Month: November 2017

There’s so much obscure tech in the venerated Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R, it’s no surprise there are still videos coming out about it. Though this trick probably has been known and used by the most arcane masters of +R, it’s nonetheless well-presented in the video below.

Clayton chapman explains an “advanced proximity blocking” trick: whenever characters in Guilty Gear get ready to block, they switch their stance. Certain characters (not everyone!) have more than one blocking stance, which means that their hurtbox slightly alters. Clayton shows this below mostly with Ky and Potemkin. Ky uses Stun Raising to show that some attacks would trigger a taller box on Potemkin. In effect, you could force Potemkin to block attacks at certain spaces.

Read the full YouTube description for an explanation from the player, who talks about another setup.

Source: Clayton chapman

“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” is the regularly-occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. This series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high-level play for a variety of games. We are halfway through this tournament season, so you can catch up here if you missed any of the action.

The most recent game is NEO GEO Battle Coliseum, SNK’s other dream-match crossover fighter.

NEO GEO Battle Coliseum is SNK’s 2v2 tag game, though without assists it still retains a patient footsie-mind feel. The timing of running this tournament is pretty nice: NGBC has become something of a topic ever since rumors began circulating that a sequel was in the works at SNK. There’s also that fact that SNK is expanding their esports division… if you missed out on NGBC when it came out, it may be worth your time to get a sneak peek at it just in case NGBC2 is around the corner.

Of course, a lot of what you will learn may be null and void if Hotaru and Mr. Big don’t make the cut in a theoretical NGBC2. As you’ll see from this event, they tend to hold important places on many of the teams represented. If you want to read up on why these characters seem to be so common place, you should check our SRK’s wiki guides for the game!

You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado

If you remember the Street Fighter IV series for anything, elaborate combos is definitely one of its hallmarks. Most people first heard of desk from his amazing displays of execution through the game, and now not to be outdone is Toronto player gentle_step.

In his most recent combo video for Ultra Street Fighter IV, he showcases some long and execution-laden combos for Blanka, Poison, Sakura, Makoto, Decapre, Cody, Oni, Dan, Ibuki, Seth, Deejay, Akuma, Rufus, and Evil Ryu. While some of these may have some more optimal variants for tournament play, gentle_step is merely showing off how rich this game is for its combo system.

fun combos! some of these were pretty tough lolhttps://t.co/KXBb29WdWh pic.twitter.com/XecaU8JjTW

— james (@gentle_step) November 6, 2017

Source: james