Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Because of the new buffering window in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there’s been an uptick in unintentional buffered actions across all levels of play. Smash community star Wizzrobe has experienced this too, particularly with the way the game accepts roll inputs:

When it comes to rolls, at least, the problem likely boils down to holding shield too long. Wizzrobe breaks down the way the game is accepting these inputs in his latest video for Most Valuable Gaming, which you can check out above.

Source: Most Valuable Gaming

Inklings side special in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is their trademark Roller, which covers the ground with ink. Nintendo decided that the ink should interact with the physics of other special moves, and… perhaps you should judge for yourself if these interactions were intentional:

It would appear that the ink decreases horizontal distance traveled while either decreasing or increasing vertical distance. This seems to be selectively applied, however, on a move-by-move basis. Moves with slides appear to increase their slide distance dramatically, such as Meta Knight’s teleport, while others might get stuck all-together, such as Jigglypuff’s roll.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

Street Fighter Carnival 12 is a multi-tournament series for world famous Japanese arcade Mikado. While the large focus of Mikado’s events are on preserving the hype of legacy titles through top tier skill, there is one consistent rule for a Mikado Event — be prepared for any game to show up, arcade title or otherwise.

So while the latest Fatal Fury Special tournament was no surprise on Mikado’s event list…

…Blade Smash, a new mobile platform fighter that features SNK’s Nakoruru as a guest character, likely caught a few off guard. Audience and Player alike.

You can follow the action of SFC12 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

Fire Emblem Tactician Robin comes with one of the widest toolkits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This is primarily thanks to his multiple magic-spitting tomes — and with such a wide arsenal, comes an even wider array of ways to use these spells on the battlefield.

In the playlist above, you’ll find the “1-Minute Tech” series produced by Mad Ice King. These videos quickly condense complicated topics — such as Robin’s Elwind Cancels and Instant Tome Pickups — so that you can become a fearsome Grandmaster with one of Smash’s most unique characters.

Source: Mad Ice King

Some of the most wild tech from the Smash community in the past came from My Smash Corner, who has, up until now, been largely silent on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. As it turns out, they were just preparing a video on a game-changing mechanic: Attack Canceling.

Smash Ultimate allows you to cancel the startup of dash attacks, jabs, and other moves with a jump during their startup. This quirk allows players to get access to safer types of aerial attacks, instant b-airs, and for Rosalina players, a brand new combo tool. Check out the video above and get into training mode: If you play Ultimate, you’ll want to know how to do this.

Source: My Smash Corner

Is NieR: Automata‘s 2B your entry into the SoulCalibur VI universe? If so, you may want to pick up some quick and effective combos her. That’s where Sleepy Justin‘s combo primer will help you out:

No one will ever accuse 2B, your’s or anyone else’s, of having low damage output. This character was built to be easy to play and terrifying to fight: so hit training mode and analyze along with the above to get the most out of your stance conversions and whiff punishes.

Source: Sleepy Justin

World-famous Mikado Arcade is back with two more tournament VODs featuring high-level Japanese play in a variety of classic arcade titles!

This week’s tournaments include the indie footsie-focused fighter Koihime Enbu -RyoRaiRai-. Coincidentally, this game is on sale right now on Steam for the holidays… in case, you know, you enjoy the tournament footage.

The other entry today is Street Fighter EX2+. If you’re excited for the new Fighting EX Layer characters Area and Sharon but have never played as them, both are represented in today’s footage!

You can follow the action of SFC12 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

Omen of Sorrow‘s Erzébet Bathory was always a likely choice for the first DLC character: she features somewhat prominently in its story mode and was one of the most requested characters upon release. Her announcement today as the first of AOne Games’s “Season 1” DLC characters may not be a surprise, but the fact that she’s absolutely free, is:

Omen of Sorrow – Free Season 1 Characters Announcement

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— AOne Games (@AOneGames) December 21, 2018

On top of that, AOne Games intends to release all future DLC characters for free, as well. It’s pure speculation, but the glyph graphic at the end of  Erzébet’s trailer above indicates that we have three more DLC characters on the way. Not bad!

Source: AOneGames