Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

SFCX ran a number of events over the last few days, so let’s play catch-up! Today’s tournaments include Sengoku Basara X Cross, The King of Fighters ’95, and The Last Blade.

You can follow the action of SFCX 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

King’s Frankensteiner in Tekken 7 is a blockable special mid that turns into a throw on close contact with a standing opponent. At an unimpressive 28 frames, its somewhat slower speed and spacing requirements might completely shy you away from this move. But as Saint showed us with the Jack’s tournament-winning body splash at TWT 2016, you can make some magic work with the right setups for these gimmicky attack-throws.

That’s the meat of BoxeR-King‘s latest tutorial for Tekken’s most famous luchador. Check out the video above for insight on both how to apply this move, and the surprisingly powerful setups King can pressure with afterwards.

Source: BoxeR-King

In every game and at every point in the FGC’s history, there has always been a belligerent character that grinds the nerves of its player base. In Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, for the moment at least, it seems like that character is Abigail.

This goofy, high-damage grappler has been doing fairly well in tournaments around the world lately. Emezie Okorafor‘s latest (excellent) tutorial hopes to mitigate some of Abigail’s more common gimmicks before the Capcom Pro Tour 2018 season begins. If you’re having trouble with the car-obsessed Canadian, then check out the video above for some insight on Abigail’s fake pressure and various reaction-checks you can learn to deal with.

Source: Emezie Okorafor

Do you love option selects? Are you looking to make your Akuma better in Tekken 7? If you answered “yes” to both of those, then HQRubbish‘s new technology for the guest-starring Street Fighter might interest you:

In the example above, Akuma is able to punish every single option off of Paul’s ff+2, including the ff+2 by itself. Theoretically, this would work versus any unsafe starter that leads to a string with fast high/slower mid enders.

Akuma also is able to use EX DP to blow up some strings other characters cannot, thanks to its invincibility on frame 1. In general, stance and string-heavy characters need to approach the Akuma match-up differently if they intend to survive versus a savvy Goshoryuken user.

Source: HQRubbish

Are you getting tossed around like a rag doll by the grapplers of Street Fighter V? If so, VesperArcade is here to help you brush up on the critical defensive fundamentals you need to survive the standard command grab mix-up.

In the long run, it’s not just enough to know that jumping beats grabs. There’s a world of nuance to command grabs once you start fighting smart enough opponents: the ones that mix in normal grabs, or anti-airs to counter your jumps. VesperArcade breaks down the details of the mind games, and lays out a battle plan for you to deal with your grappling opponents intelligently.

Source: VesperArcade

There are few characters in the fighting game genre as polarizing as Tekken’s Eddy Gordo. His toolkit is comprised of several evasive stances and long strings; these moves are designed to knowledge check foes — and most of his foes, as it turns out, don’t have the knowledge necessary to beat him.

FrameWhisperer Tekken‘s latest video isn’t so much a tutorial as it is a study about what makes a character “typical” in the world of Tekken 7. Even though Eddy’s long been a source of complaints, as FrameWhisperer points out, players have difficulty articulating why they have trouble with the capoeira user. With a little work and effort, you can learn to understand why you’re losing to Eddy, and what you can do about it.

Source: FrameWhisperer Tekken

JAM Festival 2018 is a ranking event in Brazil for the Capcom Pro Tour. It will be the last chance for Latin American Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition players to score CPT points. Considering this is a country that’s responsible for strong players like Keoma, DidimoKOF, Brolynho, and more, you can expect that JAM Festival 2018 will be the grounds for many difficult, exciting battles.

For a glimpse into the Brazilian scene, Brazil tournament organizer Mwisk has graciously put together English post-match commentary of JAM Pro League #1‘s finals. This league is a monthly event for Brazilian players, and while you can catch it live (and in Portuguese) at their Twitch page, you can see the finals below — with Mwisk’s English commentary — right now with this playlist.

Sources: JamPlay (Twitch); Gamewisk