Author: Crow_Spaceboy

The first week of Tekken 7‘s new DLC wrestlers — Marduk and Armor King — is coming to a close. The general consensus is that these two deal disgusting damage and break some Tekken rules in their own unique ways — just like good wrestling heels should.

Let’s see what the community has cooked today! High damage juggles for Armor King seems like a fine place to start…

It’s probably not surprising that Armor King has a cross-up move like this for tech catches. King has a similar trick with his Running Exploder, though this elbow is sadly inferior until we see a non-wall setup. Still, very cool find!

Sadly, it’s not all good news for Armor King. This particular ground throw is -27… on hit. Be careful where you place it.

why Harada #Tekken7 pic.twitter.com/sVqXcvTOXS

— abc (@kanoukyouko) December 6, 2018

As for Marduk? Well, it’s always nice when a normal combo ender can be delayed to tech catch:

Some VERY nasty Marduk tech the Discord figured out together! You can slightly delay the FC d/f+4 and it'll still hit guaranteed, but it can catch people who try to stand up. pic.twitter.com/K5EUj2lrss

— Shirdel (Charlie) (@Shirdel7221) December 5, 2018

If you’ve been having trouble with Marduk’s VTS combos, perhaps this tutorial can help out.

And closing out today’s list is the disgusting knowledge that Marduk can cross-under to keep wall positioning after a wall combo > ground throw setup. Gross.

Sources: Tekken // Mellowlink; Cockchopz; kanoukyouko; Shirdel7221; FrameWhisperer; Clive Palmer The Humble Meme Merchant

If you’ve spent any time on the internet at all, then you’ve almost certainly seen a video with stick figures fighting each other at some point in your life. A large entity associated with this style is RockHardGladiators, an animation collective with complicated and smoothly-choreographed fight sequences. There’s a whole community that has coalesced around this animation style, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it has bled over into interesting fan projects in the form of fighting games.

One of those projects, the in-development indie fighter Fatal Art, has announced it is ending its development. The announcement comes along with the reveal of its final character, Y.U.P.I.A, and her trailer is below:

You can download the last build of Fatal Art for free here.

Source: Bonehouse

As you may have noticed, we’ve made a more active attempt to cover the tournament scene of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown over in Japan. While we could continue to point out that events like the Tokyo Bay Area Cup — a 3-on-3 team tournament in Japan featuring 30 teams — validate the passion of this game, perhaps there’s no better explanation of the pull of VF than the fact that two-time Evo champion Fuudo found himself in the brackets. If a sponsored player for Street Fighter V could find the time to return to his roots, you know there’s a flame there that will never die.

As always, you can watch the highlights of this event thanks to the efforts of VirtuaFighter.com admin Mike Abdow. He also put together a full breakdown of character usage, which you can check out here.

 

 

If you like what you saw, you can watch the full VF5:FS tournament VOD, too:

Source: Mike Abdow

While it’s obviously still very early in their lifespan, the newly released Tekken 7 DLC characters — Marduk and Armor King — are looking stronger than perhaps any other character has looked upon immediate release. Let’s take a look at the huge damage output and gimmicks these two wrestlers are currently rockin’:

Damage is the major focus of our Marduk submissions today. Here’s some advanced infinite stage combos…

… and here’s about everything you could want to know about Marduk’s wall game, including his re-splats and a disgusting throw mixup.

Lastly, it’s important to know how to approach Marduk, as he has a fairly unique block punishment game. His While Rising options are great, but heaven forbid you ever get your hopkick blocked.

If you’re looking for a nice, long dissertation on Armor King, here’s an hour long breakdown on the character. Class starts now!

And once you have your basics down, what I really expect to see from all you AK’s out there is some cross-up re-splats.

Relatively easy AK resplat wall combo. Instead of 1 df shoulder you still have time to do run up 2 into ground throw mixup if you prefer that. #ArmorKing pic.twitter.com/x6B9VoZ45C

— Rommaler (@Rommaler) December 5, 2018

And closing out today’s post is the casual reminder that King and Armor King share a lot of similar qualities — for example, they both murder you on Forgotten Realm.

Tekken7 Armor king combo.
Trying to find legit death combo..
Any idea required to finish this.@PSN_DIGGS_86 @SavageOgreDG @STL1119 pic.twitter.com/bAP18OzX76

— KillingHawkPK (@FIGHTERS_PK) December 5, 2018

Sources: Tekken // Mellowlink; Scallywag 93; mastermind; Rommaler; FIGHTERS_PK

Feng Wei was, and is, one of the games strongest characters in Tekken 7. Though this is true both before and after the Season 2 patch, it’s true for different reasons, and it’s important to know what Feng players will look for now when you play against them.

Feng has exchanged his absurdly powerful Kenpo Step auto-guard for better okizeme and wall options, particularly in the form of the already strong DF+22. This changes Feng’s neutral approach a bit and places larger emphasis on corner pressure — as demonstrated in the latest breakdown video from That Blasted Salami.

Source: That Blasted Salami

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