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Tekken 7 roundup: Heihachi crossups, Jin Parry combos, Eliza wall carry, and more!

Another week, another avalanche of strange and powerful tech in the world of Bandai Namco’s juggernaut 3D fighter, Tekken 7.

Do you have a tech trap developed for your character yet? Because it seems like a lot of people are starting to figure out consistent ways to exploit wall techs in this game… For example, check out this insane crossup with Heihachi from ncea. Normally when you see a crossup it involves the overlapping hitbox of forward jump 4’s, but ncea has found new ways to exploit waking up hitboxes.

Leonid Vdovichenko found that tech trap situations make Xiaoyu’s RDS U+1 to hit on a later frame, allowing her to combo into AOP 2,1.

If you ever wondered why the Japanese tier lists consistently put Claudio so low despite his amazing hopkick, this punishment guide from Proper Tech might open your eyes.

Byakko shows off some 3rd Strike-esque parry punishes with this Jin Kazama combo video.

HelloMrBrahms has a ridiculous wall carry combo for Eliza to show off. It looks like you’re gonna hit the opposite wall no matter where you are.

Lastly, if you’re still struggling with combos for Ling, Kazuya, Lili or Akuma, rooflemonger has continued his excellent beginner combos series for those characters:

Did we miss anything? If you find any cool tech in Tekken, let us know!

Source: ncea; Cute Tricks; Nurse Lee; Leonid Vdovichenko; Proper Tech; Byakko; omgitsnewton; HelloMrBrahms; rooflemonger

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AnimEvo announces Gundam Versus will be free to enter, guaranteed prizes TBA

AnimEvo, an independently-organized group dedicated to running anime fighter events at Evo, have announced that Gundam Versus will be free to enter this year. The 2v2 Bandai Namco fighter launches on July 6th in Japan, and sometime in fall in Europe and North America.

In addition, AnimEvo confirmed there will be a future announcement about guaranteed prizes for the free event.

Eighty Sixed is already confirmed to be offering prizes for other AnimEvo events. Could the future Gundam prizes be related, or is perhaps Bandai Namco offering their support behind this free-to-enter tournament?

You can sign up for AnimEvo events through their smash.gg page. Evo 2017 takes place on July 14th-16th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Source: Anime_EVO

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LI Joe shares his E3 demo impressions of Dragon Ball FighterZ with Cross Counter TV

Rarely has a fighting game with as little build-up to E3 as Dragon Ball FighterZ wowed the the floor (and the world!) so thoroughly. The more cynical among us might think this is because of the nostalgia factor — Arc System Works has married Dragon Ball’s art style beautifully with their Guilty Gear Xrd cell shading. Visuals are all well and good, but we’re FGC. What about the game play?

That’s why I find Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli’s first impression of the game so interesting. Joe is a renowned Street Fighter tournament specialist who didn’t grow up with the anime adaptation of Drgaon Ball Z. He is exactly the sort of person most likely to shrug at a cut-scene of two Super Saiyans screaming at each other — and yet, here we are: like nearly everyone else that got to play the game, Joe walked away impressed with the gameplay. He has some concerns about the similarity of gameplay of the six currently-available characters, but also notes: “It’s a tech demo at E3 … If it fleshes out, I think it’ll be a damn good game.”

Source: Cross Counter TV

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Capcom enters into cross-licensing agreement with Bandai Namco for “online matching” content development

Capcom Japan just dropped a press release revealing their new cross-licensing agreement with Bandai Namco. Per the press release, the nature of the agreement is specifically in relation to “online matching” properties such as (but not specifically) Street Fighter.

It’s perhaps a little surprising that Capcom hadn’t already entered into such a contract, given the two companies’ close work with each other on past titles. The press release mentions this is in the “interest of accelerating production of titles and reducing development cost.” Now that both Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V are out in the wild, though, one might wonder if this is a hint at the long-buried Tekken X Street Fighter crossover in the works on Namco’s side.

Without further information, however, anything at this point would be pure speculation.

Source: Capcom

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Catch up on Mikado Arcade’s Street Fighter Carnival 9: Fighting Layer, Virtua Fighter 3tb, Art of Fighting 3

World-famous Japanese arcade Mikado continues its month-long, multi-game tournament series: Street Fighter Carnival 9. If you have missed any events in the past, they have already run a number of tournaments for some great arcade titles. The level play is high, the commentary is hype, and the games are classic.

Their most recent events include Arika’s Fighting Layer, Sega’s Virtua Fighter 3tb and SNK’s Art of Fighting 3. If you enjoy the tournaments above, be sure to subscribe to their channel for more SFC9 action. You can get a sneak peek at a few of the games they plan on playing here on their tournament leaderboard! You can also try to catch them live on their UStream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

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Catch up with E3’s Injustice 2 events, including exhibition matches with Scar, SonicFox, Kitana Prime and more

Nether Realm Studio’s presentation at E3 was predictably focused on one of their most successful and well received fighting games to date, Injustice 2. If you happened to miss any of these interviews or matches and wanted to catch up on the DC Fighter, Body Count Fighting has released all their videos for your viewing entertainment.

The King of the Hill tournament provides us with 45 minutes of battles between Kitana Prime, Michaelangelo, and E3 patrons.

There was an interview Ed Boon and Tyler Lansdown on the way Injustice 2 is shaping up right now, both competitively and in it’s single player campaigns.

Interviews with SonicFox, Scar, and Echo Fox owner Rick Fox, followed by an exhibition with the two NRS pros.

Ed Boon and Tyler Lansdown discussing Injustice 2’s latest DLC characters: Red Hood and Sub Zero.

Comic book artist Jim Lee and Ed Boon talk character design for Injustice 2.

And lastly, here’s an interview with Kari Wahlgren, voice actress of Starfire.

Body Count Fighting regularly puts out great FGC interviews and game-play footage, and most recently provided us with the excellent documentary on Commander Jesse. Be sure to check out their channel!

Source: Body Count Fighting

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Take up ARMS with NEV’s “ARMS University” Series

Street Fighter tutorial maker Andrew ‘NEV’ David Murphy has started a new tutorial series for ARMS hopefuls! NEV’s series looks to be bringing the same strengths his SFV tutorials–quick, concise info for new players to explore.

Thus far, he’s covered meter building basics…

Using parrys…

And some examples of combos, and what you may need to do to keep them stable.

NEV runs an active channel that constantly uploaded great SFV tech, so be sure to check out some of his work in that field, too.

Source: Andrew David Murphy

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NurseLee breaks down Ed’s throw loop game for Street Fighter V

It appears that Ed took a page from his mentor’s Super Turbo handbook.

Ed has a really oppressive mixup game after he lands a throw in the corner, and as NurseLee explains, this is going to be a key element in playing the character at a high-level. The severely limited get-up options the opponent has from a throw means that Ed can continually pressure with throw/attack mixups, even snuffing out 3-frame jabs after quick rise with dash > grab.

Imagine how scary it’ll be if Balrog teaches him how to do this mid-screen in Season 3.

Source: NurseLee

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Blow up back roll in Street Fighter V with World Warrior’s Ken sweep setups

Since game’s release, Ken’s fiery playstyle has lent itself well to Street Fighter V‘s offense-favoring pace. Even with changes to the overall system directly impacting Ken’s shoryuken, the pressure-centered shoto remains a tournament threat.

World Warrior’s latest video examines the meaty setups you can employ if your opponent back rolls after a sweep. In a few short guesses, the strategies here allow you quickly net a stun. The timing employed allows him to land meaty standing HP for crush counter opportunities, or dash into crouching MP for pressure/combo versatility.

Source: World Warrior

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Catch up with all the new information and changes surrounding Pokkén Tournament DX

The mods over at Pokkén Arena, the internet’s largest competitive Pokkén forum, have put together a fairly comprehensive list of the new features and gameplay changes in the upcoming Switch version: Pokkén Tournament DX. Included are all currently known modes (including the increasingly attention-grabbing King of Fighters-esque 3v3 mode), technical improvements (60 fps local gameplay! Same screen mode!), and moveset breakdowns of the previously-exclusive arcade characters.

You can read the compilation here.

While the currently compiled information is always subject to change, it’s looking like the Pokkén community will be getting the majority of their wishes — and then some — fulfilled on September 22nd.

empoleon pokken

Source: Pokkén Arena