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Join the Manji Clan with Hayate EIN’s Yoshimitsu primer for SoulCalibur VI

If you come from the Tekken series, you would probably never associate Yoshimitsu with solid fundamentals and versatile, practical strength. Get ready for culture shock: this has been the Yoshimitsu experience in high-level Calibur play for years thanks to his standard setting speed and incredibly strong and basic 50/50s. Not only does this hold true still in SoulCalibur VI, the fact he now builds meter faster than most characters in the game with his new “Soul Steal” mechanic makes him capable of bullying the opponent event more.

This doesn’t mean he is without stylish gimmicks, however. As Hayate EIN demonstrates in his latest breakdown video, his new Dragon Flight options and okizeme give him more than enough ways to confuse and frustrate opponents, particularly in Soul Charge. This is an excellent character to start SCVI with, and learn how a Calibur game is played.

Source: Hayate EIN

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Long and impractical combos for Minori in Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX SIX STARS!!!!!!

Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX SIX STARS!!!!!!, in addition to having the must punctuation in its title of any game I’ve ever had to write about, has a wide variety of characters and offensive freedom. Even among a cast of anime-typical airdashers, there’s at least one character that stands out for her long and flashy combos, powerful DP, and her unique air unblockable.

Needless to say, a character that comes front-loaded with combo potential is going to produce some absurd looking stuff, in the hands of a player pushing them to their limits. That’s the case for xDragonInstallx‘s latest combo video, who shows off her wide Arcana synergy and situational, lifebar-melting conversions.

Source: xDragonInstallx

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South Korea’s Tekken hotspot, Green Arcade, announces closure

For a very long time, Green Arcade has been the central point of South Korea’s Tekken scene. It has provided some of the highest level of game-play for Tekken over the years, and was often times the birthplace of important tech that would shape the scene. Unfortunately, that time has now passed:

Despite being home to the likes of international stars like NIN and Knee, the arcade struggled to stay afloat in a post-console release world, having cited a lack of revenue and attendance — both due to Tekken 7 Season 2 and DLC being console-exclusive. But it seems that the aging management has brought about the closure at last.

Source: GreenTekken

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TONY-T’s latest combo video celebrates cancelled PlayStation fighting game “Thrill Kill”

Thrill Kill sits in an odd, isolated place in gaming history. Created by Paradox Development and (almost) published by Virgin Interactive, this arena fighting game was set to make waves on the original PlayStation both for its unusual amounts of sex and hyper-violence (for 1998, mind you) and for its — at the time — innovative 4-player combat system. Two weeks prior to the game release, however, EA puchased Virgin and killed the project, saying they would never “publish such a senselessly violent game”.

Since the game was cancelled so close to release, copies of the game had already made it out into the world in one way or another, despite EA’s best efforts. 20 years later, NRS-focused YouTuber TONY-T pays tribute to what could have been, exploring the ruthless and long juggles possible in Thrill Kill‘s combat system. Coincidentally, Thrill Kill’s work didn’t entirely go to waste — this exact engine was later re-purposed for three different Activision published games: Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style and X-Men: Mutant Academy 1 and 2.

Source: TONY-T

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Scallywag93 breaks down scrubkiller strategies in Tekken 7, and how to beat them

Before you can walk, you have to crawl. And before you can beat competent players in Tekken 7, you have to know how to deal with the silliest gimmicks under the sun. This may be a frustrating fact and you may wonder why you have to learn to deal with “bad” strategies like, say, FF+4>Backlash from OnlineHwoarang#9178, but the truth is that there’s fundamental lessons buried into these “Scrubkiller” strategies about how Tekken works at all levels of play.

Be it learning string animations or manipulating freeze frames in armor, the lessons that you learn to beat the low-level strategies in today’s video tutorial from Scallywag 93 are lessons that you’ll use to solve several problems in Tekken moving forward. Get out your notebooks — it’s time to learn.

Source: Scallywag 93

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J King shows how King’s F+3 is secretly one of Tekken 7’s strongest mid attacks

No one doubts the strength of Tekken 7‘s King, especially now that we live in a post Lil’ Majin’s Evo Run world. But even with the popularity of Tekken’s iconic Luchador, there’s a powerful mid in his movelist that’s going woefully underutilized in intermediate play — King’s F+3.

A safe mid with great frame data and a just-frame attack throw, F+3 secretly leads to almost hopkick-like damage (or more, if you can call out techs when your opponent gets up). If you’re playing King and not already using this move, it’s time to add this frustrating mid to your gameplay.

Source: J King

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Jump into Breakers Revenge with these combo guides for Tia, Dao-Long, Rila, and more!

Following up on his most recent setup video for Condor, Sas Izm has delivered a whole new set of combo videos for several of the game’s characters below. If you’ve ever wanted to get in to Breaker’s Revenge and were not sure where to start (or were just curious about what its combos and setups looked like — practical or otherwise), then take a look at these recent uploads below.

Developed by Visco Corp, Breaker’s Revenge is one of the most popular “obscure” fighters in the FGC, survived almost exclusively by emulation and a vocal fanbase (which you can join via Discord). And it kind of has to, as Breaker’s Revenge never made it out of the arcades. Breaker’s Revenge continues to be played regularly in tournaments, particularly in Japan arcades like Mikado.

Source: Sas Izm

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Tyrant and PackZ breakdown Street Fighter V’s Ibuki in latest episode of “Frame Advantage”

“As a character, she can override neutral so easily…”

UK Street Fighter V Pros Tyrant and PackZ return today with another episode in the long running SF tutorial series, Frame Advantage. Today, they study the many options of Street Fighter V‘s ninja prodigy, Ibuki.

There’s a lot of parallels between herself and Akuma, whom the crew thoroughly dissected earlier in the series. Both characters are option-heavy, high damage characters with strong emphasis on post-knockdown momentum. Ibuki has a little bit less versatility than her shoto-counterpart, but makes up for it in frustrating wakeup 50/50’s and one of the best approaches in Street Fighter — EX Kunai.

Source: Frame Advantage

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STL1119 shows off the potential in Kazuya’s Wall Bounce in Tekken 7 Season 2

There’s some division on the potential of Wall Combos in Tekken 7‘s season 2, and given the disparity of each character’s options, that isn’t much of a surprise. Despite this, the combo mechanic is a new toy for the community to play with, and few have pushed as much potential out of it as STL1119.

Kazuya is far from the most picked Mishima, so if the absurd combo potential that STL1119 squeezes out here helps change that, that’s a good thing. And if not? Well, at least we’ll always have one of the silliest camera-switch, Kuma specific combos on record to laugh at.

Source: STL1119

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Get to know the history of FGC Interviewer BornFree in “Salt Shakers” podcast

Interviews are typically designed to get a deeper insight into the biggest players in our tournament scene — and no one is better known for getting interesting interviews than Mark “BornFree” Sheridan. It’s no surprise that the man that lives in the post-match minds of players for his job also has more than a few stories to share himself.

“Salt Shakers” is a New Zealand FGC Podcast hosted by Drax_8, working to cover NZ’s events and local FGC talent. Salt Shakers also serves as a stream for some NZ events, which you can catch on their twitch channel.

Source:  Salt Shakers