Author: Corey "Missing Person" Lanier

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Jump right into these new Ryu safe jump setups for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

Ryu received a major boon to his setup potential in the Season 3 update for Street Fighter V: with the two-frame reduction in recovery on his EX fireball, Ryu now has a new opportunity for safe jump setups on opponents’ quick rise.

With an empty jump, Ryu can now beat out three frame reversals, and with a few normal jump-ins, you can beat out four and five-frame reversals. While you won’t be able to do immediate damage if they back rise, you can still apply pressure after their wake-up, as the spacing will make them second guess inputting a reversal.

Source: NurseLee

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VesperArcade offers a full breakdown of Blanka’s reveal trailer for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

Blanka’s reveal came as birthday surprise for all of us, but with his sudden trailer and release next week, we got a lot of information on the changes to the character since his last appearance in Street Fighter IV.

In his video breakdown, VesperArcade looks at all the tools afforded Blanka in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. He shows how Blanka’s Coward’s Crouch V-Skill is comboable into and out of, something Blanka has never been able to do. He also discusses Blanka’s V-Trigger I and II, looking at their combo and mix-up potential.

Source: VesperArcade

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Infiltration answers questions from his fans on Street Fighter V, Evo Japan, and more in this YouTube video

Infiltration has gone from a 2017 that saw him struggle, to being instantly catapulted back to the upper echelons of players early in 2018 with his win at Evo Japan 2018. But with the changes he has experienced, he has remained the same humble and witty guy that always drew fans to him from the start.

He recently put out the call to Twitter for his fans to ask him questions, that he would later answer in a YouTube video interview — and has just recently uploaded his answers to those questions. In the interview, he talks about his feelings about Evo Japan and Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. He also explained his change in characters against John Takeuchi during the finals of Evo Japan, citing that he felt more confident with Juri than Menat, despite both having disadvantageous match-ups against Rashid. He also expounds why he said he wasn’t “back” after winning Evo Japan, and declared his wish to do well this year — including winning Evo 2018 and Capcom Cup.

Source: 인생은 잠입 INFILTRATION

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Combo Breaker is boasting a $500 pot bonus for Super Street Fighter II Turbo

In 2017, the largest midwestern major of the year — Combo Breaker — played host to one of the largest Super Street Fighter II Turbo events in a long time, with 117 players vying for a chance to take home a tabletop arcade cabinet supplied by Paradise Arcade Shop. While nothing of that nature has materialized this year (yet), there are still other incentives to encourage people to play.

One Frame Link has recently announced that they will be supplying ST with a $500 pot bonus for Combo Breaker 2018. When you factor in that this is also a stop on the qualification circuit for the Tournament of Legends 3 — which will culminate at Canada Cup 2018 — you have multiple reasons to show up to Chicago to play this event.

Sources: Atari; COMBO BREAKER

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NuckleDu to fly out local Florida FGC talent to Evo 2018 this year

Top players have always had a history of supporting the fighting game community by trying to bring up rising talent. From Justin Wong’s tradition of sending players out under his “WongNation” tag, to Infiltration bringing NL, Verloren, and Xyzzy out to overseas events, and now MenaRD’s esports team supporting Dominican players, it is always great to see the top players give back.

2016 Capcom Cup champion NuckleDu is doing the same. This year, he has endeavored to send out one local player from his native Florida to Evo 2018, in an effort to “share with players who don’t have the opportunity to travel, to experience what I do on a daily basis.” The way to take advantage of this opportunity is to win a local tournament in Seminole — called GoTE — that has NuckleDu publicized in his Facebook post regarding his choice to give back to the FGC.

The tournament is tomorrow, on Tuesday the 13th at 6:00 PM ET, so make sure you are in attendance if you are in the area!

Source: NuckleDu (Facebook)

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Arina romps through this Waku Waku 7 combo video

Rarely do you hear of Waku Waku 7 combo videos. While Sunsoft’s fighting game has a slight following, not much is heard of this retro title — possibly due to its obscurity and its limited roster of seven characters. However, the game has some interesting mechanics to toy around with.

In this video, we see Arina — a parody of manga characters — do some major damage thanks to Waku Waku 7’s charged supers. We also see a bit of mockery in the video with a bit of teabagging between dizzies.

Source: PAUL-KNIVES

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Be the (Feng Shui Engine) alpha with these Juri tips for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

Evo Japan brought more fame to Juri than any Street Fighter V tournament yet has, with Korea’s Infiltration taking the character to her limits to beat John Takeuchi in Grand Finals. Now, more people are paying attention to the character — and while she has weaknesses, it’s definitely possible to make it work.

In this video, we see the spacing game focused on first — because Juri cannot play too up close, but does well in the neutral game. We also see some combo tips, as well as some advice about picking V-Trigger I (the Feng Shui Engine alpha) over the newer variant.

Source: TheRedGambit

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Catch the crazy interactions in this King of Fighters 2002 combo video

With older titles, you’ll often see a lot of hitbox interactions that can leave you scratching your head. The King of Fighters 2002 — which is considered one of SNK’s best fighting game titles to date — is no exception to this.

In this combo video from Nightmare Alex, we see some interesting interactions, including faux cross-ups and cross-throughs that can be mind blowing. Another landmark of older titles is their damage output, of which these combos have plenty; most of these combos are 100% damage combos!

Source: NightmareAlex

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FightCade alternative KnightCade has entered public beta

While FightCade and its successor FightCade 2 have enjoyed mass appeal from retro fighting game fans, the program is not without what some would call flaws. There have been lingering issues of IP security where people can grab your IP address and trace your physical location based off of that.

This is where KnightCade has stepped in, and is launching their public beta of their client. This client acts in similar fashion to FightCade, but lacks peer-to-peer pings — which secures your IP by never sending it to any other client and disables country flags — which also can cause location security issues.

The beta is accessible via their Discord channel if you wish to try out this FightCade alternative.

Source: KnightCadeHelp

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SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy will ship as a “full game” at launch

Upon the announcement of 20 DLC characters in a 40 character cast, many players were quick to decry Arc System Works for their choices in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. Fortunately for SNK fans, the company have been keeping an eye on community complaints for their upcoming fighter.

In a recent interview with DualShockers, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy producer Kaito Soranaka stated that SNK “really needs to think about how we are going to approach future announcements”, following the negative feedback to BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle‘s character roster reveal. Clearly the backlash has echoed around the Japanese games industry, with other companies hopefully learning a valuable lesson.

NISA’s Senior Product Marketing Manager Travis Shrodes followed up this answer with his own response, stating that Tag Team Frenzy will launch as “a ‘full game’” later this year — suggesting that there will be no day one DLC characters like with BBTAG.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy launches for both Nintendo Switch and PS4 in 2018.

Source: DualShockers