Today is the last day of Bandai Namco’s Gundam Versus open beta for the PS4. If you’ve been curious about the game but unsure of how to approach it, Sabator just recently made a simple introductory video that covers the basics of movement and attacking. It should be enough to get your gears moving!
You can download the Gundam Versus open beta from the PS4 store for free right now. Tonight will be your last chance to try it before the game officially drops in the west on September 29, 2017.
When you first start out playing any Tekken game that has Taekwondo practitioner Hwoarang in it, you will lose. You will lose to him, you will be angry, and you will want to know what you can do about the non-stop kicking your face just experienced. Just like losing to mashed Dragon Punches the first time you touch Street Fighter is something of a rite of passage, so is getting counter-hit Hwoarang’s d+44.
But just like a Shoryuken-addicted Street Fighter player, the tools of your average Hwoarang player are exploitable once you are armed with knowledge. FrameWhisperer Tekken knows this well,and has prepared an in-depth guide on learning how to fight entry-level Taekwondo lovers.
In Pokkén Tournament, few characters are more difficult to pin down then Weavile. This character has a gigantic list of options once he jumps, including:
A multi-directional air projectile that also serves as an air stall
Multiple jump trajectories
A divekick that leads to combos on hit and can go back into the air on block
Double jump cancels in Burst Mode
And this is just skimming the surface. Weavile is an overwhelming, slippery nightmare, and one of the reasons for that is the ambiguous landing properties of Weavile’s Jump X.
As Mitchel demonstrates, proper spacing and angles will allow tricky Weavile’s to mixup the opponent with divekick and empty-jump-grab. When you stop to consider that Weavile is not only getting buffs in Pokkén Tournament DX, but also access to a new double-jump granting support in the form of Popplio, this potent mixup will be even more terrifying then it currently is.
Happy Menat-Friday. I was at a local event last night and there were three different stations running Menat players, one of them with Menat mirrors. Something in my gut tells me that the Street Fighter V community is enjoying this character. Let’s see what the future holds for her!
First up, VesperArcade shares their basic Menat combo guide.
Next, we have Young Commander showing off some theoretical uses for Menat’s V-Trigger in offense and defense.
And while setups and smart play are all well and good, sometimes you just want a giant combo. Redwolfxx would like to remind you Menat can do that, too. (And get some nice punishes on block!)
Those that link a little rhythm in their long combos will appreciate Y. Xiao‘s V-Trigger loops.
Meanwhile, Speedy963 has some ideas for optimizing V-Trigger juggles.
While this is neither the first nor last time I’ll type this, someone (in this case, Eastyy) found that Abigail’s hitbox doesn’t quite match the model. Sorry, Menat.
RektScrub and karozzo have more great Menat compilations of some of the world’s best talent, RZR|Xian and CO|GO1, trying her out.
Here’s a fairly difficult combo from jav1ts. Look at the damage and stun!
The Electric Wind God Vids series was originally designed as a way to get you up to speed with the mountains of system mechanics and beginner information needed to rise in the ranks of Tekken 7. While this is still the goal of the series, we thought it’d be fun to take a brief detour. Our editor, mushin_Z, is brand new to the Tekken series and 3D fighting games as a whole. As the local 3D guy, I’m stepping in and analyzing mushin_Z’s first steps in the world of Tekken, giving him advice and a path for further growth.
This is not a replacement to the normal EWGV tutorial vids, which will resume next week with a training video on stepping! Think of this as an introductory video to a new series in the works: tentatively, we are planning on live-streaming mushin_Z’s play and giving on-the-fly tips and training.
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The ever-increasing presence of super meter in the Tekken universe is controversial among some parts of the community. The first character in the series to employ such a mechanic, guest character Akuma, uses it to dish out a tremendous amount of damage with his Focus Attack Dash Cancels. This Street Fighter IV shoto is the subject of HapkidoRed‘s latest high damage, high execution, and highly situational combo video.
Perhaps, we should have always seen Akuma’s (and soon, Geese’s) meter mechanic coming to the Tekken series. Tekken Revolution‘s Eliza was clearly a test run to see if a fireball/dragon punch centered character could even work in the 3D field. In the end, even she was gifted with a new meter system. When Tekken 7 (and possibly future installments, too) continue to broaden the scope of system mechanics in the series, we can look back at this Raging Demon to see where it all began.
It’s day three of Menat-Mania in Street Fighter V. Rose’s fortune-telling apprentice has proven to be by far the most popular of Season 2’s reveals thus far. After seeing the tidal wave of tech coming in for her, it’s easy to think her future looks bright: she’s got great neutral, gimmicks, and the ability to cash out for a ton of damage from a variety of situations if she needs to.
Let’s see what the SFV community has come up with!
DaikenDanBB shows off Menat’s ability to combo off a grab…
Really, your creativity is the only thing between you and an absurd V-Trigger cross-up setup. Check out what DaFeetLee cooked up after looking at zaaa_ruuu‘s work.
Before Brolynho’s Necalli existed, Brazil’s most successful fighting game player was arguably Keoma Pacheco. He exploded onto the world stage in the Street Fighter IV days with his impressive defeat of Haitani at CPT Brazil 2015.
Now playing Karin in Street Fighter V, the former Abel player has gained himself a sponsorship with Latin American esports organization Vertex.
Keoma is currently ranked #3 in Brazil for SFV on SRK Rankings, with the majority of his points coming from his 3rd place finish at the Fight in Rio 2017 event.
The arcade-adjusted update to Nintendo’s surprise Wii U hit in 2015, Pokken Tournament DX, is now less then a month away from release. While each of the demo characters has something new to try out in DX, by far the biggest draw of the new Nintendo Switch demo is the new Steel Penguin, Empoleon.
And now that Switch users have home access to Empoleon, the Pokkén community can sink their teeth into the previously arcade exclusive character’s moveset.
Empoleon brings a fairly unique flavor to the game: his normal movement is very slow, but he comes equipped with a wide variety of non-standard movement options that allow him to zip around the field quickly. Among them is Ice Beam, a projectile that freezes the ground and allows him to slide forward, and Surf, a jump-cancelable option from his HM Stance. If you are a Pokémon fan outside of the fighting games, you may smile at knowing Empoleon is the Pokkén’s first canonical HM Slave.
Arcade Empoleon Combos
If you’re interested in trying out the new way-of-movement Empoleon brings, the free demo can now be downloaded on the Nintendo Switch. Pokkén Tournament DX itself drops on September 22nd.
Circa eSports has decided to broaden its reach in the FGC by picking up their first Tekken 7 player: Joseph “JoeyFury” Bennet. Fresh off his excellent 3rd place finish at Absolute Battle 8, this Jack-7 main joins rank with other Circa eSports stars such as Marvel vs. Capcom player JoeyD, Injustice 2 player ForeverKing, Killer Instinct player Nicky, and Street Fighter V player LPN.
