Author: Casey "Waveflame" Rinaldi

Yogaflame24 is back with more Street Fighter V highlights, courtesy of Episode 6 of his “Top 10 Plays of the Week” series. This week’s showcase includes some fancy Urien sequences, courtesy of Flash and TarksDR, and ZOWIE|Oil King showing impressive corner control against RB|Bonchan at Saigon Cup. OBS_RickWa93 just keeps landing a series of EX Running Bear Grabs on a Laura player, msingha’s Karin shows Jammerz’ Mika the divide in their class, and Chr1st3and0 makes a runaway Vega player pay for an attempt to timer scam, and more.

You can see the full video below–and check out last week’s episode here.

That’s another week of “Top 10 SFV Plays of the Week” on the books! If you’d like to be featured in next week’s episode, contact YogaFlame on Twitter on respond in the YouTube comments. And let us know what your favorite clips were in our comments section!

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With Injustice 2 now fully in the hands of the public, top NRS content creators The Condiment Brothers–PND|Ketchup and Mustard–continue their “Getting Started” series by looking at the game’s final boss, Brainiac.

This guide covers uses for Brainiac’s key strings and specials, as well as his Tendril Swing and Divekick, that afford him tricky aerial mobility and mixups. His Trait, the Beta Barrage, allows the Collector of Worlds to launch a drone: providing him both a zoning tool, as well as covering his approach–though it goes away on hit. The video also covers some of the few ways he can remain safe without spending meter.

You can begin the path to collecting worlds by seeing the video for yourself below–and you can also check out their pre-release coverage of Dr. Fate, Deadshot, Gorilla Grodd and Scarecrow.

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Following up on his discussion on how to properly play neutral, Genex eSports’ Frabisaur now looks at the concepts of tempo and momentum in the latest chapter of The Fighter’s Dojo. After defining the terms, Frabisaur suggests for players to just stay down, as well as mixing up Street Fighter V’s trio of wakeup options to potentially disrupt an attacker’s offensive storm, while keeping your mind clear.

After using some of his own recent match footage to show examples of both fast and slow tempo applied, Frabisaur offers a key piece of advice to players that may become frustrated by a quick loss: using the time between rounds to collect their thoughts and ensure they’re truly fully prepared before accepting another match, lest they jump headfirst into another defeat.

This episode is certainly a departure from his usual content, but is a great way for players of all skill levels to see the finer points of a longer set broken down in detail, with solid insight into the decisions being made on both sides. You can see the video in its entirety below.

Don’t forget to follow Frabisaur on Twitter for more information on any of these topics, or suggestions for future episodes of TFG. You can also tune into Fighter’s Dojo Live on Thursday nights at http://www.twitch.tv/frabisaur, where you can receive live play critiques as you try to apply these concepts in real match situations.

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One of Guile’s most significant changes in Street Fighter V‘s second season was his V-Trigger going from 3 to 2 bars, as well as timer consumption alterations for his Sonic Break–drastically altering the Air Slasher’s Sonic Boom loops, and making them shorter overall.

For those looking to master the new variant–which players like Team Liquid’s NuckleDu and Twitch.Hx.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara are currently using in tournaments–VesperArcade has you covered with a new updated guide that breaks the new loop down into three phases, which can also be altered based on whether or not you have Critical Art available. Keep in mind this tech will still work after the new balance update arrives with Ed, at some point in the future. You can see the full guide below, to get you on the path to chucking American plasma like a pro.

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As the first week of Injustice 2’s release rolls on, players and content creators around the world are pushing a variety of cast members further and further as the community continues to understand more about NettherRealm Studio’s latest title. First up, VesperArcade brings us a pair of beginner combo guides for the World’s Finest duo of Batman and Superman.

rooflemonger brings us basic bread & butter combos for the Man of Steel, as well as some tips and tricks to fully unleash the rage of the Red Lantern Atrocitus:

DeBun has managed to net some impressive damage with Cheetah:

FightersLegend brings us some stylish Black Canary combos, while HapkidoRed looks at Reverse-Flash.

UltraDavid continues “Injustice 2 for Dummies” by looking at how to hit confirm, as well as providing some tips for playing footsies and the mid-range game.

Peter Souvanarath brings us a Poison Ivy setup that guarantees a Trait summon after her F213 string that also lets her block any wakeup attacks afterwards.

Cody Dickson bring us a Batman combo video that “encompasses all of his abilities,” with a variety of old and new combos from a variety of situations–as well as a look at Scarecrow.

Finally, Kombat Houston’s Cat brings us a combo tutorial for The Joker, to help you carve some smiles on the faces of your opponents.

Sources: VesperArcade; rooflemonger; DeBun, FightersLegend; HapkidoRed; UltraChenTV; Peter Souvannarath; Cody Dickson; Kombat Houston

After covering a variety of tips and strategies over the course of the series, Genex|Frabisaur finally lands on one of his most-requested topics–and something essential to all fighting games. Possibly easy to explain, yet difficult to master: how to properly play neutral. As some of our readers may know, this is how every round begins, the battle to establish positioning between you and your opponent, as well as trying to begin your offense or defensive strategies to gain ground and push them towards the corner. Frabisaur offers a three-part explanation, as he looks at the goals of neutral, the mentality of neutral, and the tools of neutral.

Frabisaur advises that the mentality of neutral should be to always play the opponent in front of you, as leaning solely on character matchup knowledge needs to be supplemented by identifying your foe’s habits and tendencies and exploiting them to your advantage; he demonstrates his thought process by taking you through some of his own Street Fighter V match footage. Simple things, like walking and blocking, filling up space with buttons, or buffering your combos, even on whiff, are great ways to confidently establish yourself and increase your chances of emerging victorious more often during these exchanges. You can catch the full video–with Frabisaur’s complete explanation and visual aids–below.

Check out his previous episode on mastering a better combo mentality here.

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The hype for Injustice 2 is now in full swing; featuring the largest roster yet in a NetherRealm Studios fighter, many players are no doubt on the hunt for the hero or villain they’ll inevitably main. The newly-signed Method|REO has been looking to help players through this process, by creating brief character breakdowns for several of the game’s cast members–covering their key normals and strings, Specials and Trait functionality, as well as providing an early summary of their general playstyle.

So far, he’s provided looks at newcomers Cheetah, Captain Cold, Poison Ivy, Firestorm, Scarecrow, Swamp Thing, and Darkseid–as well as a returning veteran in The Joker, whose video focuses more on what’s changed compared to his original Injustice: Gods Among Us incarnation. These brief guides are a great watch for anyone interested in learning about these characters, either as a player or an opponent. You can see all of them below!

For more bits of Injustice 2 tech, including the power of Supergirl’s F3–as well as matches against other top players–be sure to subscribe to his channel.

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