Month: March 2018

Juri has been gaining popularity, due to Infiltration’s usage of her in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. While she is still agreed upon to be low tier, she has her utility and is always interesting to watch on a technical level.

This combo video shows some of the heavily situational and technical combos Juri is capable of, in a stylish way. On top of that, we see great usage of both of her V-Triggers as combo extensions, showing that there might be some utility to her V-Trigger II after all!

Source: Qeiji

Sailor Mars has always been a corner monster in Sailor Moon S. She has fireball traps that she can abuse and use to predict jumps with her high fireballs. She can also set up unblockables as Player 2, if someone techs her heavy kick throw in the corner. But she also has gimmicks involving her untechable heavy punch throw.

Against tall characters such as Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Neptune, Mars can cross-under them off of her heavy punch throw. By implementing a neutral jump closer to their wakeup, you can set up a 50/50 mix-up where you either stay in the corner, or cross them up depending on the timing of the jump.

Source: valorsora16

Piccolo has damage output problems in his current state in Dragon Ball FighterZ — this has been proven emphatically. His mid-screen game leaves a lot to be desired, as he is hampered more than the rest of the cast on his damage output, unless he is in the corner. Further, he needs more help from assists than any other character to get similar damage output to the top tier characters.

For those brave enough to venture into using the character, there are still ways around his handicaps to make him work. This combo tutorial by rooflemonger shows off his capabilities, and how to make him a dangerous threat on any team.

Source: rooflemonger

While Dragon Ball FighterZ is the current Arc System Works game that’s enjoying most of the spotlight, there’s a chance newcomers to their games might be willing to also try picking up Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2. Generally considered rather intimidating, it’s not as easy to pick-up-and-play this game compared to some — but it can be very rewarding anyway.

Apolo Loussalier wants to help out that crowd, and has started posting character introduction videos for the zany Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 cast. The first one features his own main character, Ramlethal Valentine: a setplay-oriented warrior who uses two special swords in battle. The video starts out by listing out Ramlethal’s strong suits. With her sword at her side, she has very good pokes and anti-airs at her disposal, and a quick counter-hit can lead to a full combo. When she places the weapons around the stage, she has access to some slower and faster attacks that cover a large area and are particularly dangerous with a YRC. Ramlethal also has very good corner-carry, and she shines particularly when the opponent’s back is against the wall.

As for the weaknesses, she lacks a reversal move — but she isn’t completely defenseless. She can take advantage of the many system mechanics in the game that helps with defense, like back-dashing, Blitz Shielding, Bursting, and throwing.

Source: Apolo Loussalier

Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

This week, Mikado Arcade is bringing you 3 very different FGC flavors. For starters, we have the grounded 2D footsies of the indie fighter Koihime Enbu…

Some 3D action from Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown…

And finally, the juggle and air-reset heavy experience of Project Justice: Rival Schools 2.

You can follow the action of SFCX 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 Arcade