Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Even as the world prepares itself for the newly announced Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo Switch, Panda Global’s ESAM continues to push the meta against new threats in the current Wii U tournament scene. The latest example out of ESAM’s lab is the discovery of a fatal flaw in the rising-in-popularity Luigi — the plumber’s up+B has virtually no hit-stun.

Because of this weakness in one of his primary recovery tools, it’s easy for a lot of characters in the cast to simply throw themselves into up+B then get another guaranteed hit after getting knocked up by the uppercut. This knowledge will help you rack up the damage quickly versus the weird and wild plumber.

Source: imESAM

Some of Chile’s best Mortal Kombat players had the opportunity to spread their NetherRealm love on Free To Play, a cable TV show centered around video games, comics, and more. NGC 2016 finalists VTR and Ivanovic, Keytonne 2016 finalist Pelao Eis, and ETCChile founder McFly were all in attendance to show off, in particular, the high-level gameplay of Mortal Kombat II.

While Ultimate Mortal Kombat III might be the retro MK fighter of many players’ choice for its high-octane pacing and combos, the ETC Chile crew prove in the 20-minute exhibition above that there’s more than enough life to be had in the more methodical world of MKII.

Source: Elite Tournament Chile

Dragunov is one of Tekken 7’s strongest and, in many players eyes, most frustrating characters. With high juggle damage and a lean, versatile move-set, there’s little Dragunov can’t do. And while he is strong on his own, most of his move-list is anchored around the strength of one all-important move- While Running 2.

To properly defend yourself against this move, you need to understand how to step around it at various ranges, and you need to know  what to do if you’re forced to block it — both of which are valuable lessons taught in today’s BoxeR-King tutorial video.

Source: BoxeR-King

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for proper punishment in the Tekken series. In a game like Tekken 7 where most of the cast has close to 100 moves or more, you have to do the heavy lifting of investigating specific scenarios in each match-up in order to find out what your character can do on block, hit, and whiff.

This is especially true with hit confirmable strings, of which there are a number of in Tekken 7. If you don’t know how to properly punish these strings, you make life easy for your opponents — luckily, all the tools that Scallywag 93 has demonstrated in his past punishment tutorial videos come into play in today’s entry.

Source: Scallywag 93

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for proper punishment in the Tekken series. In a game like Tekken 7 where most of the cast has close to 100 moves or more, you have to do the heavy lifting of investigating specific scenarios in each match-up in order to find out what your character can do on block, hit, and whiff.

This is especially true with hit confirmable strings, of which there are a number of in Tekken 7. If you don’t know how to properly punish these strings, you make life easy for your opponents — luckily, all the tools that Scallywag 93 has demonstrated in his past punishment tutorial videos come into play in today’s entry.

Source: Scallywag 93

After the surprise announcements of Shovel Knight, Gunvolt, and other crossover stars in Blade Strangers, Nicalis’s latest 2D fighter has become a hot topic for a lot of players — casual and FGC hardcore alike.

If you’re starved for another glimpse of Blade Strangers gameplay, the folks at Nintendo Everything got to try out a demo featuring several characters (but… mostly Gunvolt, as the stream was hosted by Azure Striker Gunvolt‘s developer, Inti Creates.) While we do hope we get to see the game in some FGC-friendly hands in the future, this video still shows off the slower, more methodical pacing of the game well, and gives an idea of some of the combo possibilities with the cast.

Source: NinEverything