Author: Corey "Missing Person" Lanier

One character that is curently drawing heavily-polarized opinions in the Street Fighter V meta is Menat. Her spacing abilities have put a twist into a usually offensive game via her heavily-defensive tools. Traditionalists cheer for this, while newer players may find the playstyle boring — even worse, if it’s a mirror match.

Regardless of your opinions of the character, Capcom has made several buffs to the character, including some input changes to prevent overlaps. With many top players having already picked her up, and several others — including Capcom Cup 2017 champion MenaRD — flirting with the possibility, the future looks bright for Rose’s fortune-telling apprentice.

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The Windjammers Flying Power League is bringing back the nineties faster than you can say “Oakley shades,” and their most recent stop at NorCal Regionals 2018 was an amazing display of disc-chucking. With players on the hunt for points, everyone was at the top of their game, and showed off this game’s amazing depth.

With players like Drewchuck, Geordi, and Myname1sjeff in the arena — all of them having strong prowess in this rapid-paced game — this top 8 shaped up to be a stunner.

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Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition had some bizarre interactions. This game was essentially a mashup of every playable version of the characters along the Street Fighter II franchise. With that came some unique interactions between the original characters from World Warrior to Hyper Fighting — which were coded on CPS1 — and the Super Street Fighter II versions — which were coded in CPS2.

Because of differences in hitboxes, there are certain combos that will only work on the CPS1 versions of the characters when playing as a CPS2 version. This is a glimpse off the many things Ryu can do against the older characters — and it’s stylish, and scary.

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Injustice 2 is known for its swag combos, and this combo video is no exception. In fact, it advertises itself as such in its title!

As one of the more-recent DLC characters, we haven’t seen too much in the way of exploration with Enchantress since her release. This should change with the tournament season ramping up. However, this combo video shows off a bit of the impractical with her, which in turn shows off her capabilities. With excellent usage of her avatars stemming from her Trait, as well as some amazing inclusions of stage interactables, you’ll see some soul-stealing combos.

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Prepare for trouble! And make it double! When evil meets even more evil, you know exactly how grimy a combo video is going to be. With this Blazblue: Central Fiction combo video, you know full well before watching that nothing but sinister combos are heading your way.

Watch as Hazama leads off with crazy combos, only for bad to get worse with Terumi tearing up the Wheel of Fate. With great spacing of meter usage, including several of instances of multiple distortion drives in one combo, you may feel a little dirty after this one.

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Nash has been a proverbial yo-yo throughout the course of Street Fighter V. After experiencing success in the hands of players during Season 1, Season 2 saw him suffer due to heavy nerfs. He saw a bit of help in Season 3, but with a new balance patch coming in this week, players of the character had every right to be nervous.

According to SonicSol, he has some nerfs, but also some buffs that help him out. While his V-Trigger II was nerfed to the point that SonicSol suggests that no one will use it, V-Trigger I was buffed to the point that you have far more options using it.

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It’s been well-known for decades that you don’t want to mess with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, lest you end up shell shocked! The cast of Injustice 2 now has to learn this the hard way, with the quartet having made their way into the game via DLC.

With the popularity of the characters, you knew that combo videos exploring their capabilities were inevitable. This one focuses on Raphael, the bad boy of the group. And his combo capabilities prove that. With ambiguous cross-up setups, great interactable usage, and amazing midscreen combo abilities, you’ll see more than enough turtle power in this video.

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