Author: Corey "Missing Person" Lanier

One of the reasons that Cloud Strife is so strong in Super Smash Bros for Wii U is his Limit meter. The Final Fantasy VII character can charge the meter on his own–preferably after taking a stock off someone–or build it when he incurs damage. Either way, Cloud can create unique setups while in Limit, which can lead into kills with the use of select Limit specials.

This tutorial will lists some great kill setups to use when Cloud has Limit. It shows you various setups for various damage percentages, but as always, stage and character weight will always factor into your decisions. But a few laps in the practice mode with the setups on various characters will help you discover what options work when.

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One of the reasons that Cloud Strife is so strong in Super Smash Bros for Wii U is his Limit meter. The Final Fantasy VII character can charge the meter on his own–preferably after taking a stock off someone–or build it when he incurs damage. Either way, Cloud can create unique setups while in Limit, which can lead into kills with the use of select Limit specials.

This tutorial will lists some great kill setups to use when Cloud has Limit. It shows you various setups for various damage percentages, but as always, stage and character weight will always factor into your decisions. But a few laps in the practice mode with the setups on various characters will help you discover what options work when.

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Shun’ei is a character in The King of Fighters XIV that is considered to be a difficult character to learn. Should you not have a firm understanding of that game series and its core mechanics, you will likely be lost in some of the key differences Shun’ei has from more simple characters.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, and this quick guide from Coliflowerz will certainly jump start your progress. The tutorial first starts with some of his most useful buttons, and exactly why they are good. Then it goes into some of his strongest and most viable combos. This could help you build a strong game with this character easily.

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Looks like Team China in The King of Fighters XIV is getting the full combo video treatment. Next up is the prince of narcolepsy, Meitenkun. While among KOFXIV’s roster he may be a character that many players sleep on, this combo video won’t lull you into dream land. A lot of these combos actually deal with very low meter usage–usually one bar into Max Mode–and could even be viable if you were looking toward making Meitenkun a viable point character. But like many a combo video, there are a few impractical combos with heavy meter usage that not even the anchor character of the team would use in a match.

All puns aside, you owe it to yourself to pour yourself some sleepy time tea, curl up with a pillow, and watch some highly damaging combos.

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Right after Kolin was announced by Capcom to be the newest character for Street Fighter V, the entire internet went abuzz. People have begun to analyze the video for anything they can use to their advantage when playing her upon release come February 28.

VesperArcade is doing a mass amount of leg work for everyone else with this breakdown video. Vesper takes great detail to talk about her play style, which they hypothesize to be rushdown oriented as opposed to zoning like the leak notes alluded to. They also discuss her double jump, back throw, and normals, and also suspect that her health will be 900, due to her being one ranking over Akuma in the health department.

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Any character that has stances in a game can be very difficult to play intelligently, especially for newcomers to fighting games. (Part of that is why Gen was always considered lower in the tiers in Street Fighter IV, despite Razer|Xian’s artful usage of the character to win Evo 2013.)

BlazBlue has a couple of these characters, including Kagura. Here’s a tutorial on how to properly utilize his dive stances to maximize your success with the character: there is a huge difference between him and other stance characters, in that he can cancel his stance changes easily just by hitting 4D in order to mix up his opponents–however, his stance cancel has been slowed down since Chronophantasma. Also, one big thing to note that the video goes over is that Kagura cannot enter the same stance twice in a combo or blockstring, so it is important to train yourself on picking and choosing your stances properly.

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One of the toughest things to accomplish in Super Smash Bros. Melee is a proper recovery from getting knocked off the stage. This problem is even further exacerbated by the dreaded edgeguard: when your opponent grabs the edge for a handful of frames to make you fall right through to your death.

However, there is a way to circumvent their devious efforts to make you plummet. If you perform an ASDI fast fall technique, as showcased in this tutorial video, then you can make it onto the stage without their edgeguard blocking you. While this technique is most useful with Marth or Sheik, it is still useful across the cast.

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Smug is the hot new player on the scene. While we have known for a long time how strong he is with his Dudley in the Street Fighter IV series, he is now completely hitting his stride and dominating every tournament he appears in. Not only that, but he consistently sits either #1 or #2 on the CFN leaderboard. People have had great difficulty dispatching him, including Echo Fox’s Justin Wong and Evil Geniuses’ K-Brad.

With the younger players struggling with Smug’s Balrog, it’s now time for the veterans to take their shot. Who better in America to test Smug’s mettle than Alex Valle? Valle is still known as a giant killer, always taking care of business when it’s crunch time against the world’s best. So can his Ryu stand up to Smug?

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