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Learn to Apply Ibuki’s Set Play Game with DaFeetLee’s Updated Guide for Street Fighter V Season Two

Ibuki is arguably one of the characters that benefits from the removal of invincible meterless reversals in Street Fighter V’s second season. With this change, she can now much more easily apply pressure on scoring a knockdown.

With this in mind, it’s likely that more players will be looking to learn how to properly utilize her okizeme, and create some set play situations. For these players, Patrick “DaFeetLee” Lee has put together an extensive guide that teaches players the essential details that they need to know to get the most out of scoring a knockdown with her.

The guide contains detailed information for her set ups after specific knockdowns. This teaches players what exactly they can do, and how they can do it to get the most out of her. This includes season 2 specific changes, for those who may already be familiar with her set play in season one.

Interested players should follow this link to check out the guide.

Source: DaFeetLee

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Izumojin Celebrates the Marvel Versus Series Roots with This Combo Video from Classic Games

With the announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite–as well as the re-release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3–a lot of folks are interested in the Marvel Vs. series as a whole again. Folks are happy that the series is getting a chance to continue in the current video game generation.

That said, the series has always been known for the creativity that the games have allowed. To celebrate this, well-known combo video creator Izumojin–with the help of Magnetro–has put together a new combo exhibition featuring the older games in the series. In the video below, Izumojin showcases combos for almost every game in the series so far, from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 all the way to series’ roots in X-Men: Children of the Atom, and even going through the much-maligned Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter.

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Endless Comboz Celebrates Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s “Infinite Creativity” with This New Combo Video

Creativity has always been a hallmark of the Marvel vs. Capcom games; with all the crazy combos and setups players have created during its lifetime, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has certainly been no slouch in that department.

In what may be their final combo video for the game, Endless Comboz celebrates the creativity that UMvC3 allows. The combo video below features things such as unique loops, crazy extensions, unusual combinations, as well as a lot of impractical, character-specific stuff that’s still pretty cool to watch.

Source: Endless Comboz

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Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Lives: Justin Wong Takes on IFC Yipes and Sanford Kelly in These Sets from NEC17

While most of the Marvel Vs. community has been focused on Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 thanks to its new current-generation port on PlayStation 4, it isn’t the only “Mahvel” game that still draws competition in this day and age. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was the original long-runner–with players competing for more than a decade–and still draws hype whenever it shows up.

At Northeast Championships 17 a couple of weeks back, two of Marvel’s best and brightest, Evil Geniuses’s Justin Wong and Michael “IFC Yipes” Mendoza went back to Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for an epic first-to-ten set. While the set itself wasn’t recorded, AG Hyo was on hand to record the set off stream.

In many ways, it’s a callback to the early days of MvC2, where direct feed recording was still a luxury, and fans had to rely on off screen recording like this to get their dose of Marvel hype.

In addition to this, there was also a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 side tournament at NEC 17. While the official videos have yet of the tournament have yet to be uploaded, Lemagicdude has shared an off screen capture of the set. The interesting thing here is that the video also captures some live crowd commentary from Yipes, Chris Matrix, and Noel Brown.

Sources: AG Hyo, Lemagicdude

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Yasuyuki Oda Confirms That SNK Is Working on Several Other Titles for 2017

Leading up to The King of Fighters XIV, several major changes happened to SNK: with the company hiring new development staff, dropping their pachi-slot business, and going back to their classic branding.

With this, many fans have been wondering what this all means for the company outside of The King of Fighters franchise. Well, it seems that we’ll find out sometime next year; in a recent interview in 4Gamer’s year-end talk with developers, The King of Fighters XIV producer Yasuyuki Oda has confirmed that the company is working on several other titles. More importantly, development on these titles is going smoothly and the company hopes to announce them in 2017.

In addition to this, he also talks a bit about more content for The King of Fighters XIV, confirming that they have plenty more to announce in the near future.

Source: 4Gamer via Siliconera

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Enterprising Fans Play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at the Rockefeller Center in New York

Fans of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are some of the most active and passionate ones around. They’ve helped keep the game alive through the years, despite all the odds.

To show just how passionate fans can get–and to demonstrate the draw the Marvel Vs. franchise still has–the folks at Untechable Performance teamed up with Game Abroad, to set up and play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in the middle of the Rockefeller Center in New York.

Aside from answering the question “When’s Marvel” (anytime, as long as you have the equipment for it), the set up does actually draw a small crowd of people watching, including some who have passing familiarity of the franchise.

Check the video out below.

Source: Untechable Performance

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Modders Bring Cyber Akuma into Street Fighter V for PC

Street Fighter V’s Akuma has been out for barely over a week and he already received extensive costume mods on the PC version of the game.

This new skin from monkeygigabuster bring us back to Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter where he appeared as the boss character Cyber Akuma, or Mech Gouki in Japan.  In that game, Apocalypse had turned Akuma into his servant, giving him cybernetic upgrades and an expanded moveset.

Sadly, this mod for the PC version doesn’t give him those powered-up moves. Rather, just like in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, it’s simply an alternate costume, albeit a fan-made one this time.

Source: monkeygigabuster via PC Best Mods

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Check Out How The King of Fighters XIV’s New Demo Compares with the Original Retail Build

As previously reported, The King of Fighters XIV’s demo version 2–which features the updated graphics due in next months ver. 1.10 patch–is already out in Asia.

Now, those with North American and European accounts may be wondering at how different the new game looks. We’ve already done our own set of comparison screenshots. However, for those looking to see the differences side-by-side and in motion, Sennen War has provided exactly that.

In the videos below, Sennen War compares characters Leona, Yuri Sakazaki, Kyo Kusanagi, and Iori Yagami, showing both versions side-by-side in slow motion. These comparisons also include the game’s cinematic Desperation and Climax Moves where we can also see some of the updated effects, in addition to the new lighting.

Source: Sennen War

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Ricki Ortiz Talks Training for Capcom Cup, Street Fighter V Season 2, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and More with Yahoo! Esports

While much has already been said about Capcom Cup 2016’s finals and its winner Du “NuckleDu” Dang from Team Liquid, that’s only half of the Capcom Cup story. The other half involves Du’s final opponent, fellow American Ricki Ortiz from Evil Geniuses, who helped make history by giving Capcom Cup 2016 an unprecedented all-American grand finals set.

In this new interview, Yahoo! Esports’s Zorine Te talks to Ricki Ortiz regarding her performance at Capcom Cup. Specifically, they focused on how she prepared for it, leading her to go from being just a regular top 8 finisher at tournaments, to a strong contender to take Capcom Cup. According to Ricki, the change in her performance comes down to having structured training sessions (with Panda Global’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez) for two-and-a-half weeks in preparation for Capcom Cup. Prior to this, having to travel to a lot of tournaments prevented her from getting in any proper practice time.

“I promised myself that for two and a half weeks straight I would practice hardcore with [Filipino Champ] and just focus on practicing completely to get the sharpest I could in the game,” Ricki states. “I wasn’t sure how much I could improve until Capcom Cup, but I knew I had to put my all into it.”

As for having an all-American grand finals at Capcom Cup, Ricki describes it as “monumental.” In addition to this, she states that she feels that this means that America is catching up to Japan. While she won’t say that America is better than Japan, she says that at the top American players can compete with Japan’s best players, and the latter won’t automatically be favored. “It’ll be a fifty-fifty toss up” says Ricki.

In addition to Capcom Cup, Ricki also talks about Street Fighter V’s second season. This includes the possibility of dropping her main character, Chun-Li. According to her, she likes the character and, if she remains competitive, she will definitely be sticking to her.

That said, she’s definitely taking a “wait and see” attitude. Looking to see how Capcom changes the balance and how the tiers stack up. She also wants to see who the new characters are, and she feels that these characters “have to be really cheap” if Capcom is doing a lot of tweaking and buffing.

Finally, she talks about the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, with Street Fighter V possibly taking a back seat to the former when it comes out. Ricki points out that she got her start playing competitively in the Versus series. She plans to get sharp enough in Street Fighter V so that she can then focus on Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite when it comes out, putting the former in the back-burner somewhat. This, she says, should allow her to juggle both games.

Of course, that’s just part of what Ricki talks about in the interview. Head on over to Yahoo! Esports to read the rest.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

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Ricki Ortiz Talks Training for Capcom Cup, Street Fighter V Season 2, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and More with Yahoo! Esports

While much has already been said about Capcom Cup 2016’s finals and its winner Du “NuckleDu” Dang from Team Liquid, that’s only half of the Capcom Cup story. The other half involves Du’s final opponent, fellow American Ricki Ortiz from Evil Geniuses, who helped make history by giving Capcom Cup 2016 an unprecedented all-American grand finals set.

In this new interview, Yahoo! Esports’s Zorine Te talks to Ricki Ortiz regarding her performance at Capcom Cup. Specifically, they focused on how she prepared for it, leading her to go from being just a regular top 8 finisher at tournaments, to a strong contender to take Capcom Cup. According to Ricki, the change in her performance comes down to having structured training sessions (with Panda Global’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez) for two-and-a-half weeks in preparation for Capcom Cup. Prior to this, having to travel to a lot of tournaments prevented her from getting in any proper practice time.

“I promised myself that for two and a half weeks straight I would practice hardcore with [Filipino Champ] and just focus on practicing completely to get the sharpest I could in the game,” Ricki states. “I wasn’t sure how much I could improve until Capcom Cup, but I knew I had to put my all into it.”

As for having an all-American grand finals at Capcom Cup, Ricki describes it as “monumental.” In addition to this, she states that she feels that this means that America is catching up to Japan. While she won’t say that America is better than Japan, she says that at the top American players can compete with Japan’s best players, and the latter won’t automatically be favored. “It’ll be a fifty-fifty toss up” says Ricki.

In addition to Capcom Cup, Ricki also talks about Street Fighter V’s second season. This includes the possibility of dropping her main character, Chun-Li. According to her, she likes the character and, if she remains competitive, she will definitely be sticking to her.

That said, she’s definitely taking a “wait and see” attitude. Looking to see how Capcom changes the balance and how the tiers stack up. She also wants to see who the new characters are, and she feels that these characters “have to be really cheap” if Capcom is doing a lot of tweaking and buffing.

Finally, she talks about the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, with Street Fighter V possibly taking a back seat to the former when it comes out. Ricki points out that she got her start playing competitively in the Versus series. She plans to get sharp enough in Street Fighter V so that she can then focus on Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite when it comes out, putting the former in the back-burner somewhat. This, she says, should allow her to juggle both games.

Of course, that’s just part of what Ricki talks about in the interview. Head on over to Yahoo! Esports to read the rest.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

Photo c/o Yahoo! Esports