Author: Corey "Missing Person" Lanier

It seems like every time we turn around, the more we see CYG BST|Daigo Umehara playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Between his stream on Thursday with Ogou and Kurahashi, and his pledge to play in ST at Canada Cup, it looks like The Beast is back in his natural habitat.

While at Celtic Throwdown in Dublin, Ireland last weekend, Daigo sat down to a first to nine set against one of England’s best ST players — GolcarJack. Every game was packed with action, and shows not only how strong Umehara is in the game after all these years, but how strong Europe is in the game.

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In the mid to late ’90s — not to mention a bit of the early 2000s — there were a slew of fighting games bent on cashing in on the fighting game craze caused by Street Fighter II, Tekken, and Virtua Fighter. While some are remembered for their innovations to the genre, and others are remembered for being poorly designed, some are hardly remembered at all.

TheFightersDen chronicled some of the forgotten fighters of the past. Whether they’re good, bad or ugly, they deserve to be remembered as part of the history of the genre. How many do you remember? These might actually be worth throwing into the mix of meetups or even mystery tournaments.

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Last week, Young Commander explained that he had found an unblockable with Ed, by utilizing his V-Skill on a knockdown in conjunction with the last hit of his V-Trigger. However, it is escapable in various situations.

Young Commander shows that if you either perform a reversal on wakeup or block that has one frame invincibility and moves you away from the V-Trigger, you can escape it. He also shows various setups that work on normal wake-up, quick rise, and back rise, and shows that he is also working on a setup that will take care of hard knockdown situations.

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As one of the new characters in The King of Fighters series, Sylvie hasn’t seen much in the way of serious play over the year. Perhaps it’s her aesthetics, or perhaps it’s her gameplay itself. However, her damage potential is insane, and should not be ignored within the competitive landscape of The King of Fighters XIV.

This combo exhibition showcases what Sylvie can do at every level of meter, from 0 bars to 5 bars. She has lots of potential, getting her opponents down to nearly a magic pixel with full meter.

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One of the most interesting changes about Juri from Street Fighter IV to Street Fighter V have been the alterations to what she “stores” in the game. Whereas in the former game, she stored fireballs but had to hold the button she used to release the fireball, in Street Fighter V she stores different moves (including non-fireballs) but must input the motion again to unleash it.

This would require her to have a charge of a move in order to release it, which is impossible in the midst of a combo. However, with the use of her V-Trigger — which doesn’t remove her charges when Fuharenkyaku is used — she can use multiples of the same special strength when transitioning from V-Trigger to out of V-Trigger. This opens up her combo potential a little more, in an albeit situational way.

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