Author: Crow_Spaceboy

The unique qualities of Tekken 7‘s Howard Estate allows nearly the entire cast to get either close to, or over 100% damage combos by way of its multiple breakable walls. But what if the character doesn’t even need all the walls to do that?

Certainly, Akuma is a case study in how damage cannot be the only factor when ranking a character’s overall effectiveness in a game. Despite his widely known damage potential, the Ansatsuken user is a niche pick in tournament play at best. But it’s hard not to see how a stage like the Howard Estate plays directly to his strengths, giving him potential death combos in multiple rounds.

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There’s few players, if any, pushing the Zeku meta quite in the way AutoMattock has. You may have seen AutoMattock’s numerous mixup and safe jump setups, but were daunted to jump into the ex-Bushinryu Master’s gameplay without knowing his fundamentals.

Well, that’s where AutoMattock’s Survival Guide comes into play. Covering both Old and New forms, AutoMattock’s new series is something of a ‘Zeku Bible’ for new players to efficiently learn the character from. This is the first part of what will prove to be a long and informative series, covering Throws, Anti-Airs, and winning the neutral.

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In Pokkén Tournament DX, Garchomp’s Burst Attack breaks several of the games “rules” for Synergy Bursts. It breaks your shield if you block it, it has super armor on frame 1, and although technically unsafe, it pushes out so far that most characters can’t punish it properly without a wall.

It is, however, possible to use a backdash’s invincibility to go through the last (and most important) hit. But if you’re even slightly off on the input, you’ll take the hit and completely unnecessary damage.

Depending upon your character, the timing on this can be very difficult, as some characters have a very small amount of invincibility on their backdash. Gardevoir main H2 Who has broken down the move’s extended block-stun properties, and has found a backdash timing that gives us a guard if we mess up the backdash timing, and a proper backdash if we don’t.

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Did you think that Excels were the only source of truly disgusting damage in Street Fighter EX2+? Then you haven’t been watching the Excel-less Combo Series from Shin Tanimoto!

With Fighter Layer EX not far off, it’s both entertaining and enlightening to see the various ways you can manipulate ARIKA’s combo systems. As you can see from the infinites and meter-positive loops, juggle states are very flexible, and the game has some… creative interpretations of what counts as a cross up on wake up.

Source: Shin Tanimoto

“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” marches on! SSFC2017 is the currently-ongoing Japanese tournament series at Mikado Arcade for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. If you missed the first few tournaments from SSFC2017, there’s a lot to catch up on!

Last week’s game was the classic Vampire Hunter: Darkstalker’s Revenge. I doubt anyone needed a run-down of Capcom’s fighting pedigree, but this week’s game (and developer) are a little bit more on the obscure side.

Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash was a 1995 2D fighting game by developer Racdym (now ‘Racjin’). It’s presentation contains bright colors, slick sprite animation and chaotic item interactions. The game’s interesting character designs are based on the “Far East of Eden” RPG series, which is more then a little ironic since the RPG series has never been released outside of Japan while Kabuki Klash has.

Enjoying SSFC2017? You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel, or you can even try to catch Mikado Arcade when they livestream!

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SRK’s Electric Wind God Vids is back with another episode! We’ve just finished discussing Eddy’s Relax and Handstand stances. But that was just a warm up: we have yet to talk about one of the scariest low stances in all of Tekken, Ling Xiaoyu’s “Art of Phoenix” stance.

AOP combines the low evasive state of Eddy’s “Relax” with the odd frame data and push-out of his Handstand’s transitions. On top of that, Ling also has a built-in sidestep when she goes into AOP — so when you go searching for an answer to this state, you have to keep in mind range, speed, and hitbox level.

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