Author: Crow_Spaceboy

Cross-ups are not the most common thing you see in Tekken 7. They often require fairly elaborate and specific setups, and outside of the wall there’s just too many get-up possibilities for it to be considered a likelihood that you’d even land the cross-up. Not without player-specific insight, anyways.

Now take most of what I just said and throw it out the window. America’s King, Lil_Majin, is here with a great arsenal of tricky cross-up body splashes and dropkicks. These setups come from a wide variety of throws and juggle-enders, both mid field and at the wall. You’ll want to think twice about quick standing versus a King that knows these — but considering King’s arsenal of ground-hitting moves and ground throws, that might be just want he wants, too.

Source: Lil_Majin

“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!

We live in a world where how “anime” a fighting game looks often tells you about its gameplay. By that logic, you’d expect the girls of Koihime Enbu (Developer Yeti‘s only fighting game to date), to spend about 90 seconds per round dashing through the air, filling the screen with shmup-like projectiles. If this is your first time watching Koihime Enbu, you might be surprised to see how grounded and patient the gameplay actually is. There’s a small but passionate scene for this game, which is also available on Steam for anyone looking to pick up a footsie-focused indie fighter.

Mikado is constantly uploading a wide variety of arcade entertainment on their channel, so be sure to check them out. You can also try to catch them when they livestream!

Source: Mikado Arcade

As the collective anime fighting game community hypes themselves up over BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, it’s always good to remember that you can reference (most) of these characters in their original series. Ragna Daimond‘s examination of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]‘s Gordeau is particularly timely, then, considering the scythe-wielders recent reveal announcement for ArcSys’ cross-over fighter.

Under Night In-Birth‘s giant normals and Gordeau’s combination of command grabs and slides will certainly make him stand out in BBxTB. While the west is still waiting patiently for UNIST release date, there’s still plenty of footage you can check out from the many UNIST events run in Japan, if you don’t have a Japanese PSN account to try UNIST on.

Source: Ragna Daimond

As the collective anime fighting game community hypes themselves up over BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, it’s always good to remember that you can reference (most) of these characters in their original series. Ragna Daimond‘s examination of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]‘s Gordeau is particularly timely, then, considering the scythe-wielders recent reveal announcement for ArcSys’ cross-over fighter.

Under Night In-Birth‘s giant normals and Gordeau’s combination of command grabs and slides will certainly make him stand out in BBxTB. While the west is still waiting patiently for UNIST release date, there’s still plenty of footage you can check out from the many UNIST events run in Japan, if you don’t have a Japanese PSN account to try UNIST on.

Source: Ragna Daimond

In Street Fighter V, Young Zeku’s target combo “Bushin Gokusanage” (LP, MP, HP, D+HK) is a three-punch string into a flipping attack-throw. Since this target combo switches sides on hit, it’s also a very quick way to get out of the corner and turn the tide in your favor.

Since the attack-throw portion of the target combo has a throw’s knockdown properties, the opponent is limited in how they can get up off the ground. NurseLee ran with this to come up with some safe wake-up pressure and a throw/medium kick mix-up off of a no-recovery wake-up. A lot of the tech we’ve had submitted here at SRK has so far focused on Old Zeku, but as you can see, Zeku’s got great knockdown pressure no matter what stance he takes!

Source: NurseLee

Ignoring for a second where your opinion may stand on Tekken 7‘s Lucky Chloe as a character, there’s an undeniable fact about the official mascot of G Corp — she hits like a truck.

Whatever weaknesses the acrobatic idol may have in neutral and punishment, she makes up for in absurd damage potential. This is true of both her normal bread and butter combos, and of the flashy juggles put together here by Japanese player KYSG. Regardless of whether you stick to the standard DF+1 filler or go for a more stylish dance, make sure you’re always cashing out your conversions for the highest damage you can perform.

Source: @realKYSG

Mismagius is an odd support in Pokkén Tournament DX. It’s great for a brief lock-down and chip damage, but its slow summon time makes it to vulnerable outside of specific knockdown setups. It also goes away very quickly once your opponent blocks it — assuming, of course, you don’t manipulate the situation.

Because you can push your opponent’s hurtbox with forward momentum, you can create situations where Mismagius “follows” you, causing one of its many hits to stagger one at a time. This completely prevents your opponent from escaping as long as you know how to “fill the gaps” of Mismagius’s hits, and allows potential guard break setups as well, depending upon your character.

Source: Ouroboro DFGaren

Did you find yourself inspired by Blackbeard’s performance at Tekken World Tour Finals? If watching his performance made you want to pick up Josie, then you have a little bit of studying to do: Josie is a stance character!

Continuing his comprehensive Josie tutorial series, BemaniAK‘s “Stance Mixup” guide covers how to use each of Josie’s stance transitions into Switch Stance, Crouch Dash, and Sway Back, then apply them once you’re there. Each stance’s options has varying levels of practicality and purpose, giving you a versatile toolkit versus every type of opponent.

Source: BemaniAK