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Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong to face off in Street Fighter V and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 this Thursday

The rivalry between Echo Fox|Justin Wong and Twitch.Hx.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara is arguably one of the most well-known in gaming. While it doesn’t heat up like other rivalries, encounters between these two players in any game tend to lead to amazing matches.

This Thursday at 3:15 PM PDT, the rivalry heats up again as Daigo and Justin face off once more to help promote the launch of Marvel’s Iron Fist series on Netflix. The interesting thing about this exhibition is the games that they’ll be playing. While Street Fighter V should come as no surprise, the announcement on Daigo’s twitter also states that they’ll be facing off in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Now, while it can be assumed that he means Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which is the most current version of the game, and the one that runs on PlayStation 4, the same console as Street Fighter V–it could be possible that they actually are playing the older Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Daigo did compete in MvC3 after all, with the team of Wolverine, Dante, and Haggar–using the synergy between the two so called “best friends” Wolverine and Dante, while also abusing Haggar’s lariat assist. The older game may also allow for a more even playing field as Justin is more familiar with the Ultimate version (which he won at Evo in 2012). That said: since this is for the Iron Fist launch on Netflix, Justin could simply use his Iron Fist team against Daigo if they do play Ultimate.

Source: Daigo Umehara (Twitter)

Photo c/o Evo

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Trouble with Ibuki? Nemo shares notes for defeating the schoolgirl ninja in Street Fighter V

Ever since RZR|Xian’s amazing performance at Final Round 20, all eyes have been on his new main: Ibuki. Long considered to be a very technical character with a steep learning curve, Xian’s performance with Ibuki had many top players rethinking her place in the game’s tier list.

For those who are either already having trouble with Ibuki–or are looking to prepare for the matchup as more and more players get good with the character–Alienware’s Naoki “Nemo” Nemoto recently shared some notes on how to deal with the character. While these notes were in Japanese, Ryan “Fubarduck” Harvey has translated these notes for English speakers.

In addition to helping deal with Ibuki, Nemo also shares some thoughts on Xian and the game’s overall balance.

Click to view slideshow.

Source: AW|Nemo, via Fubarduck

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Explore maximum damage: 5-bar combos for all characters in The King of Fighters XIV

With the MAX system, and the ability to Advanced Cancel character’s Desperation Moves into Climax Moves, 5-bar combos are some of the most damaging options in The King of Fighters XIV. That said, not everyone gets the same output from spending all 5 bars–certain characters get significantly more damage out of it than others.

In this new combo video, Renato Ramos explores the differences between each character’s damage output using those 5 bars. This is done by demonstrating the most damaging 5-bar combos he could find for each and every character in the game.

Now, the damage output from these combos hovers around the 800 damage range, in general. However: not everyone is able to reach 800 damage, and there are some characters–including some supposedly low tier ones–who can reach and even break the 900 damage barrier, even to the point of enabling full touch-of-death combos.

Source: Renato Ramos

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Marie as Platinum, Helena as Nine: Final Arc System Works Crossover Costumes for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round

The release of the Arc System Works crossover pack for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is almost among us. With this, Team NINJA has revealed the final two crossover costumes from the pack: the final reveals are BlazBlue’s Platinum the Trinity, and Nine the Phantom. The Platinum costume will be–predictably enough–worn by Marie Rose, and Helena Douglas shall be wearing the Nine costume.

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With this, we’ve now seen all 16 crossover costumes in the set. The set itself is available now on for $31.99 on Xbox One, and should be available soon on PlayStation 4.

Source: Team NINJA; thanks to Super Gotenks for the tip.

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Learn how Jill can dish out the damage in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Jill Valentine’s Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 incarnation is considered by many to be one of the harder characters to use in the game. That said: she’s still a viable character, in the hands of players who can master her speed and mobility.

For those who are looking to add Jill to their teams, CorkyJay has put up a new video showing off practical ways that Jill can be used as a “damage engine” in a team. This involves both straight up combo damage with Jill on point, as well as proper use of her assists to extend combos with other characters.

Check out the video below, and see if you can learn a thing or two from it.

Source: CorkyJay

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Here are some more Guilty Gear Xrd and BlazBlue costumes for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round

With the costume packs release just a couple of days away, Team NINJA has revealed a few more Arc System Works crossover costumes for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round.

Unlike the last reveal which focused solely on Guilty Gear, this latest one features a bit of both from that game and BlazBlue: Central Fiction. From the latter, we have a Makoto costume for Mila, and, fittingly enough, a Mu-12 costume for Phase-4 (both because she’s an artificial weaponized clone, and because Kasumi is cosplaying Noel). Meanwhile, from Guilty Gear, we have Ramlethal Valentine being cosplayed by the luchador La Mariposa.

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With this, there are only 2 crossover costumes yet unrevealed. We’ll likely find out who these are before the costume set’s March 14 release date.

Source: Team NINJA

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Street Fighter V servers going down for maintenance once again this Tuesday

For those looking forward to playing some Street Fighter V online after watching the hype action from Final Round XX, it seems that your time to do so may be cut a bit short. An in-game message has just confirmed that the game’s online servers will be going down for maintenance again this Tuesday, March 14.

Street Fighter V’s online servers will go down for maintenance from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, March 14. During this time, players will not be able to fight online, access the Capcom Fighters Network for replays, nor be able to earn any fight money.

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Now the 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM schedule shouldn’t affect those in the western hemisphere too much, since it coincides with work hours. However, players in other time zones will be affected much more, and any looking to get some matches should likely try to arrange for some offline sets.

Could we be finally seeing some of the promised Spring patching? As of yet, Capcom has not indicated any game additions to be arriving during this maintenance period.

Source: Street Fighter V

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Relive the Hype from CenCal Standoff: Top 8 Replays for Street Fighter V & Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

The first ever CenCal Standoff saw the birth of a new tournament: one that represented a region that tends to get overshadowed by Northern and Southern California. Thanks to its location between both these major fighting game areas, the event saw a lot of top players from California come to fight it out in a number of games.

For those who missed out on all the action, the folks at Kern County eSports–the production team behind CenCal Standoff–have begun to upload some of the on-stream matches from the event. This includes the top 8 matches for both Street Fighter V and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Street Fighter V saw a lot of top players from in and around the region, such as Evil Geniuses’ Chris “NYChrisG” Gonzales, Circa’s Long Phi “LPN” Nguyen, Kelvin Jeon, Bryan “bjUNCHAINED” Jeon, and Winter Fox’s Miky “XsK_Samurai” Chea. The top 8 was full of great matches, but the highlight has to be the grand finals set between bjUNCHAINED and ChrisG, where the latter pulls off a magic-pixel comeback with Guile.

The Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament was also filled with some of the best “killers” from in and around the region. This included FORT’s Jonathan “Cloud805” Morales, the “Golden Boy” Abraham “Neo” Sotelo, Vineeth “Apologyman” Meka, Priest, SS|Supernoon, Taekua, and of course, Evo 2016 champion Evil Geniuses’ Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzales. As with the Street Fighter V tournament, the highlight here is another amazing grand finals comeback, this time by Neo, using Dark Phoenix’s healing field to keep himself from getting chipped out by Apologyman, giving himself the opening to take the win.

Source: Kern County eSports

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Hsien-Ko with Wolverine’s Moves, Kicking M.O.D.O.K, and More: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Move Swaps Mods

One of the easier mods to do with today’s 3D fighting games is swapping moves from one character to another. With Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 now on PC, it should come as no surprise that some players are trying out exactly that.

A player by the name of pat728 has been playing around with UMvC3 on PC, creating some move swaps for certain characters; now, as is usual with this these things, the swapping isn’t as straightforward as you think. In this case, some effects–and even entire moves–change quite drastically.

The most complete move swap in this collection is for Hsien-Ko, giving her Wolverine’s moves. Here, the former seems to take to the latter’s moveset naturally and with few issues, and being able to pull off one of Wolverine’s bread and butter combos perfectly. However, there are some differences, the most obvious one being how the Fatal Claw hyper combo acts differently, tracking the opponent instead of forming an “X” as it usually would.

Next up is something pat728 call’s “Artinel,” basically being Arthur with Sentinel’s moves. At this point the swap isn’t complete and Arthur isn’t able to call in drones like Sentinel–he performs the motion, but no drones are summoned. Despite this, it’s interesting to see how Arthur’s model actually works quite well with Sentinel’s animations.

This next move swap is even less complete. The swap involves giving Magneto’s moveset to the Mayor of Earth himself, Mike Haggar. The preview video only shows off his neutral stance and  some moves, but with no effects yet, meaning he’s technically unplayable. What’s interesting, however, is how he now has the spinning speed line effect around him from his lariat move as a replacement for the trailing shadow effect on Magneto’s arms.

Pat728 isn’t the only person doing move swaps, Cole Diamond has also put up a couple of videos demonstrating some of his own move swaps. First up is a pretty straightforward swap with Nemesis using Super Skrull’s moves.

Less straightforward is the Mental Organism Designed Only for Kicking: M.O.D.O.K. with Chun-Li’s moveset, floating eyes, but without the rest of its face.

Of course, these aren’t the only mods that are being made for UMvC3 on PC. Check out our previous coverage of a stage mod that finally makes Galactus’ stage playable.

Sources: pat728, Cole Diamond

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KI Con and the KI World Cup Are This Weekend–And Killer Instinct Isn’t the Only Game on Show

This weekend sees the return of KI Con and the Killer Instinct World Cup. With this, some of the top Killer Instinct players from around the globe will be gathering in San Antonio, TX. To get everyone excited for the event, Ultra Arcade have released a special trailer to psyche everyone up for a weekend of Killer Instinct action:

Despite the name however, Killer Instinct isn’t the only fighting game that’s going to be at the convention. Numerous other classic fighting games will be at the event, with their own tournaments and streams. These fighting games include Capcom classics such as Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Vampire Savior, Capcom vs. SNK, Ultra Street Fighter IV, and even Street Fighter X Tekken, and Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. These will be joined by Garou: Mark of the Wolves, The King of Fighters ’96, Samurai Shodown IV, The Last Blade 2, Virtua Fighter 4, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, as well as singles, double, and triples tournaments for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

For those interested in catching these and other games on stream, you can check out the schedules for these–with accompanying Twitch channels–below.

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Of course, the main event is still the Killer Instinct World Cup. You can check out the schedule for this–including the last chance qualifiers for anyone going who’s still not qualified–below. The stream for the KI World cup will be handled by our friends over at TeamSp00ky.

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KI Con and the Killer Instinct World Cup will take place this weekend, from March 10 to 12 at the Tobin Center in San Antonio, TX.

Sources: Ultra-Combo; Ultra Arcade