Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Defend The North 2017, New York’s premiere fighting game major, has come and gone. For Tekken 7 fans that may have missed the event, Team Spooky has uploaded the top 8 matches onto their channel. The finest players in the North brought a wide and interesting character spread:

• Bloodhawk (Kazumi)
• EMP The Game (Law, Devil Jin, Heihachi)
• FightingGM (Lee)
• PepperBeef2Spicy (Leo, Law)
• Brian H (Paul)
• Tetyuzon (Miguel)
• EMP Blood Red (Steve)
• FBI (Claudio)

That’s 10 unique characters in top 8 for a 172-player major. Not bad, Tekken 7.

You can check out the top 8 finals here:

Source: Team Spooky

Season three of Ubisoft’s hack n’ slash fighter For Honor was just announced today! This season, branded “Grudge and Glory,” has officially been given a launch date of August 15th. “Grudge and Glory” introduces two new characters (the Highlander and the Gladiator), two new maps, tournament modes, re-balancing on both existing characters and maps, and new customization options.

Announcing #ForHonor Season 3! Two new heroes, new maps, ranked mode, and more are coming Aug 15. Watch more: https://t.co/RPPumYGRND pic.twitter.com/Tsr03pMDy8

— For Honor (@ForHonorGame) August 3, 2017

Considering the launch date is almost immediately after the conclusion of their World Tournament Series, it seems Ubisoft is trying to deliberately maintain any momentum from this event. Whether this and the announcement of dedicated servers will be enough to revitalize For Honor remains to be seen.

Source: ForHonorGame

Street Fighter V‘s Abigail: whatever your opinion of the controversial car-mimicking Canadian is, it’s clear from the work players are putting in that he has a ton of potential.

76Kelvinator has some juggle resets that will liquidate the opponent’s life bar in just a few guesses.

Cangu also has some great resets for Abigail, including cross-unders.

TheBeastsInc wants to remind you that Abigail does not care about Ed’s V-Trigger.

rooflemonger notes that because of Abigail’s slower jump, Abigail can use his pre-jump frames to add throw invincibility to his special moves.

Arlieth did some math and found out that, post-Critical Art, a perfectly timed dash > command grab will beat reversal buttons on wake up.

 

Lastly, if the above is a little over your head and you’re just looking for a place to start, Agni Kai Gaming‘s beginner’s guide will teach you everything you need to know to start driving.

Sources: Cangu; 76Kelvinator; TheBeastsInc; rooflemonger; Agni Kai Gaming; Arlieth

In Tekken 7, the fastest moves for every character are 10 frames — with one sword wielding exception. Yoshmitsu’s 1+4, known as “Flash,” beats the standard jab speed, and has quite a lot of versatility in use.

As SutekiChannel demonstrates, this attack comes in two flavors: standard Flash is 6 frames but has almost no range, and No-Sword Stance (or NSS) Flash is 8 frames but has more range. Both versions are combo starting mids. Though the above video demonstrates how Yoshimitsu can interrupt and punish Alisa in particular, the principal is the same for all characters: this swordsman doesn’t have to respect as many strings as other characters do, and NSS Flash in particular is one of the best punishment tools in the game.

Source: SutekiChannel

During the second round of the very first fight between Spero Gin and P. Ling at BCF2, P. Ling demonstrated a level of anti-character knowledge not yet seen in tournament play. He took advantage of a small gap between the two hits of Eddy’s rage drive to use Ling Xiaoyu’s Art of Phoenix stance, which allowed him to avoid the second hit on reaction and punish.

But this tech is not limited to the slippery Ling Xiaoyu. As TDG Fergus demonstrates, Ling is not the only character capable of wiggling out of the second hit of this Rage Drive. Included in the video above are methods for about half the cast to nullify the Rage Drive on reaction — though some are more practical then others.

Source: TDG Fergus

Only 9 players in the history of Evolution have won 3 or more total championships. The most recent addition to that list is also the current Street Fighter V Evo 2017 champion, Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi. Just Frame‘s latest video is a tribute to the journey Tokido took from 2002’s Capcom vs. SNK 2 win to 2017’s SFV hat-trick.

Opening the compilation, James Chen says Tokido has “had more Evo top 8s, probably, then any other player in the history of Evo.” James is almost right: Tokido has, in fact, had 19 top 8 finishes across various games, from Street Fighter to Virtua Fighter. Only Justin Wong trumps him at a staggering 26 top 8 finishes — but Wong’s are not quite as diverse a spread of games. All of this is to say: Tokido’s stats are in very good company, and his is a mind that transcends individual franchises.

Source: Just Frame

Only 9 players in the history of Evolution have won 3 or more total championships. The most recent addition to that list is also the current Street Fighter V Evo 2017 champion, Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi. Just Frame‘s latest video is a tribute to the journey Tokido took from 2002’s Capcom vs. SNK 2 win to 2017’s SFV hat-trick.

Opening the compilation, James Chen says Tokido has “had more Evo top 8s, probably, then any other player in the history of Evo.” James is almost right: Tokido has, in fact, had 19 top 8 finishes across various games, from Street Fighter to Virtua Fighter. Only Justin Wong trumps him at a staggering 26 top 8 finishes — but Wong’s are not quite as diverse a spread of games. All of this is to say: Tokido’s stats are in very good company, and his is a mind that transcends individual franchises.

Source: Just Frame

We’ve entered a time where we, the collective FGC, scrutinize Capcom’s back-catalog to find games we wish would get represented in the latest crossover fighter (in this instance, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite). Ignoring leaks that’ll probably deflate my dreams of seeing Roberto in a Versus game, now seems like a good time to remember that Capcom’s Project Justice: Rival Schools 2 is a great fighter with strong tournament play to this day at Mikado Arcade.

An old-school, formula-challenging arcade gem being played really well at Mikado is probably not the most unusual thing we’ve ever reported on here at SRK. After all, the diverse skillset of Mikado patrons is what they are best known for. But the Rival Schools series is close to a lot of people’s hearts, so any opportunity to call attention to one of the FGC’s best arcades playing one of Capcom’s most beloved fighters is an opportunity that should probably be taken.

Source: Mikado Arcade

When Chia-Hung “E.T.” Lin won Evo 2017, he did it from a dominant winners bracket performance, a variety of teams, and (at the last minute) with an incredibly unusual character pick of Goro Daimon. Abuget Cup, one of Indonesia’s largest fighting game tournaments, just concluded. E.T. was in attendance, ready to defend his title as champion at his first major since Evo.

Fans of KOF, Goro, and seeing whether a champion can maintain consistency with his pocket character should all find something worth watching in this top 4.

Source: Gatoray