Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Just because a low is reactable does not invalidate its usefulness in Tekken 7. This is certainly true in the case of Josie’s D/F+3: it might clock in at a slower 26 frames, but it has a number of strong properties to balance out its slower startup.

Even if you know how to react to its startup, D/F+3 has decent step coverage and evasive properties — not to mention that once it actually hits you, Josie has an entire arsenal of crouch dash and string mixups she can work afterwards.

That doesn’t mean you’re defenseless against this mix-up, however: as Chad Barley demonstrates in his latest tutorial video, you can make informed defensive decisions to simplify the post-hit mix-up and avoid losing unnecessary amounts of life.

Source: Chad Barley

“Each step you climb is one more step up the ladder!”

While BadIntent might be known best for his tournament placements in Pokkén Tournament DX, his latest advice is applicable to every player of every game in the FGC. If you find yourself losing games — even if you feel like you know a lot about the game — it might be because you’re focusing on the wrong skill set for the level you’re playing at.

BadIntent’s latest video tackles what he calls the “Building Blocks of Improvement” — a tool to help us visualize where we are in our fighting game journey, and where we broadly need to focus in order to improve our results.

Source: BadIntent

“A trump of cards is useless if you never play it.”

It’s easy to intimidate your opponent when the deck is stacked in your favor. Oswald’s high damage output tilts the odds on your side in The King of Fighters XIV with his well-calculated assaults!

As demonstrated by playergodaines, Oswald can convert big from any position with any amount of meter, making him a versatile pick regardless of his team slot. Those that are in love with his corner Queen loops will be happy to see that Oswald even has a touch-of-death that employs this flashy combo option.

The King of Fighters XIV recently released its 3.0 update which brought new characters and balances to the title. SNK plans to release a 3.01 patch to fix certain issues surrounding the recent changes.

Source: playergodaines

“I gotta find a way to improve Leo’s wall game” is not a sentence anyone that plays Tekken 7 is guilty of thinking of, or saying aloud. And yet, for the intermediate Leo player, the latest Scallywag93 video does just that:

Once you are aware of both your stage positioning and your opponent’s frame data, Leo can opt for a (in other scenarios) weaker punishment option versus -13 lows at the wall for absurd amounts of damage. Proper usage of Leo’s uf+1,2 — among other tools — actually results in more damage at the wall then even some launch punishment options, thanks to its particular type of wall-splat state. This is an excellent example of the strength of situational awareness, and of Leo’s top-tier versatility.

Source: Scallywag93

If you’ve spent any time watching fighting game tournaments, you likely have a basic idea of what the “shimmy” is — a quick movement designed to bait a whiff out of an opponent. What may be a little more difficult to grasp for a newer player in Street Fighter V (or any game, really!) is the range, and the reason you would want to do this.

Whether you’re preying on your opponent’s tendency to throw break on wake-up or press a button at a specific range, you have to have a reason for doing everything in order to improve. World Warrior FGC‘s “Git Gud Series” tackles the shimmy concept, and offers some practice mode drills for you to turn your understanding of the shimmy into a powerful weapon.

Source: World Warrior FGC

102 5-player teams gathered on April 1st in Tokyo, Japan to play Virtua Fighter 5 Final Shodown. That statistic alone is staggering, but it’s not even the most interesting fact in the mountain of data gathered by virtuafighter.com admin Myke for the 16th Beat Tribe Cup event.

And it’s not just stats that he gathered — Myke took the 11-hour archive and dissected, translated, and timestamped each match in the playlist above. The event was originally streamed live on Game Newton Ooyama’s Twitch channel, which hosts several great tournaments for varied games. (And also served as the stream for many Evo Japan side tournaments — be sure to check out their archive!)

Source: virtuafighter.com