Are you a fashion conscious fighter with some dough to spare? Well-known Italian fashion brand Diesel has just put out a line of slick Street Fighter V inspired sneakers just for you.
Each of these leather high top lace-ups have character specific move names (or in Bison’s case, a V-Trigger state) lettered on the rubber sole.
Birdie’s “Bull Horn”
Chun-Li’s “Spinning Bird Kick”
Bison’s “Psycho Power”
Nash’s “Sonic Boom”
Ryu’s “Denjin Hadoken”
Since Diesel is an Italian fashion brand of some notoriety, you may want your bank account’s Variable Gauge to be full before you consider splurging. Each pair of shoes retail at $200.
This past Sunday, Body Count Fighting just finished the third entry of their title-defense series, BCF3! BCF3 hosted both exhibition matches and title matches in Street Fighter V, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, Tekken 7, and Injustice 2. If you missed any of the action, every match is now available on BCF’s YouTube page!
The exhibition matches were:
Street Fighter V
Low Tier God vs. Nick Tanella
Smug vs. Marn
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Angelic vs. Joey D
Coach Steve vs. Dual Kevin
Tekken 7
Weapon X vs. Joey Fury
Injustice 2
Krayzie vs. Nubcakes
And the title matches, including brand new titles for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Tekken 7:
Think you and your friends can compete with the best Street Fighter players in the world? If so (and if your group can also get to/is already in Europe), energy drink manufacturer and esports sponsor Red Bull has announced a new 3v3 tournament called “The Pit.”
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, this 32-team open registration tournament will run October 21st and 22nd at Bootshaus in Cologne, Germany. Team synergy will be particularly important at this event, as each player will be character-locked throughout the tournament, and each team member must have a different character from the rest of their team.
If you’re wondering how this tournament is being spread across two days, here’s Red Bull’s format:
Day One: The 32 teams will be divided into 8 round-robin groups. The top 2 teams from each group will advance to Day Two.
Day Two: 16-team single elimination tournament.
The 3v3 event is a bit of a change of pace for Red Bull. The Pit will now give everyone the opportunity to compete with the stars of the scene!
Injustice 2‘s Black Canary is a rushdown heavy character in a nether realm world of powerful zoning. This means that it’s critical for a character like her to make the most of every exchange: That’s where NRS pro MK_REO‘s latest video comes in.
Her “Canary Drop” special move, which is normally unsafe, has an abundance of active frames that you can use to make this safe after you knock some down. This is similar in principle to the tech that allows Green Lantern to pressure on wake-up with his Will Power Wall. These setups allow Black Canary to not only make the move safe, but still force dangerous cross-up mix-ups. Check out MK REO’s video for a detailed breakdown of the setups!
You may remember Woolie’s (of Super Best Friends fame) podcast Tales from the Loser’s Bracket a few weeks ago, with special guest Rami “Potatobrain” Nuseir. In part 2 of this podcast, the two are going straight into the Tekken 7 lab to cover common beginner mistakes, and how to overcome them.
Many overlooked aspects of the Tekken engine are covered: stepping, frame data, movement, taking turns, and more. This hour-long study on the structure of Tekken matches is an excellent crash course for anyone wanting to jump into the game.
Of all the new characters in Pokkén Tournament DX, the one most shrouded in mystery was the high flying console-exclusive Decidueye. With less then a week out in the wild, the community has already scored some impressive tech and tournament footage from a major. Let’s take a look!
21 Hits has a great breakdown of several advanced Decidueye combo paths in Duel.
For field phase, though, check out Bolimar’s 3-day old, tournament-ready Decidueye at SCR 2017’s top 8! In the first round he shows off a 184-damage wall combo in Field phase from a command grab — an odd sight in the Pokkén universe, for sure.
ZyflairGriffane has a great anti-throw combo when Decidueye’s back’s to the wall…
… and a practical example of Decidueye’s Ghost Dashes, a surprising mechanic from a character as mobile as the Ghost Owl. For comparison’s sake, Gengar and Chandelure are the other characters with this mechanic.
It’s not all good news for the new bird in town, though. StDxALLISTER shows of a strange bug that prevents Decidueye from command-grabbing a Lucario near the wall, if they are in high stance.
Evo champ tonosama721 found that the cross-up hitbox of Decidueye’s panic button, 4A (Frenzied Plant), does an absurd amount of damage. Beware, teleport characters!
In Tekken 7 tournament play, Rage Drives tend to fall into one of two categories: either as a neutral tool or as a combo extender. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but you’re a lot more likely to see Rage Drives used in the way they are clearly built for. Clear examples of this are Heihachi’s powerful combo-filling stomp, or Xiaoyu’s mix-up low combo starter.
Lars’s Rage Drive sits at an odd place, then. It can only be done from “Silent Entry” stance, so it doesn’t quite have the explosiveness of, say, Paul’s Rage Drive Death Fist. But it also doesn’t wildly increase the combo damage output on Lars’s Juggles, only netting him another 5% or so typically.
This is where JusticeSoulTuna‘s video comes in: here, he examines the strength not of Lars’s damage output from Rage Drive, but the rushdown setups afterwards. On block, Rage Drive puts Lars into his “Dynamic Entry” stance and leaves him at +7 on block — enough to counter-hit freely with DE 2. It also gives him an uninterruptible throw attempt from DE stance, if you think the opponent’s throw-breaking is less than stellar. If the opponent gets hit by DE 2 on normal hit instead of counter-hit, you also have another counter-hit setup for B+4: an underrated safe, high-damage on counter-hit, unparryable mid.
It was last at Evo 2017 that we had a major announcement from Sector-K Games on their sci-fi indie fighter Punch Planet. In the interim, the development team has been quietly toiling away at their engine, improving game speed and polishing up animations.
They’ve recently released a in-development teaser for the game, showing the announced cast’s combos and mixup potential. Based on this footage, we can see that the game seems to be moving in a more reset-heavy direction. If you love or hate this design decision, you can let Sector-K Games know directly: they stream development of the game live on their Twitch channel, and are always looking for player feedback.
Punch Planet is in development for Steam by Sector-K Games, and you can find more information about the battle system and story on their official website.
It wasn’t that long ago that Bandai Namco surprised us with the new DLC announcements of Phantom Gundam and Nightingale for their new arena fighter, Gundam Versus. On Sept 26th, you can add Gundam Age’s pilot Flit Asuno to that DLC list, with his Gundam AGE-1 suit.
This DLC also comes with a host of new strikers: RGE-B790 Genoace, RGE-B790CW Genoace Custom, WMS-GEX G-Exes, CMS-328 Desperado, and AGE-1 Gundam AGE-1.
While none of the recently-announced DLC has English trailers or confirmed release dates outside of japan, the timing of this batch is close to the North American and European launch date of September 29th.
The newly released Pokkén Tournament DX brought five new characters to consoles, among them the steel/bug-type Pokémon Scizor. Anyone that happened to just catch SCR 2017 this weekend may have seen sponsored Pokkén Pro Labib “Slippingbug” Haq rocking Scizor in top 4, in fact.
Based on his performance, it’s easy to say that Scizor is a pretty good pick right now for tournaments. He’s new, unfamiliar, and as Swillo & BimmyQuestion demonstrate in their latest combo video, pumps out a ton of damage. Once he equips his power-up Swords Dance, he can even further extend his damage output and versatility. Being able to convert into 200+ damage from anywhere on the field in Pokkén is absolutely no joke, no matter where the meta goes.
