Author: John "Zidiane" Silvia

The Skullgirls community has been continuously ramping up since 2013, albeit at a slow and steady rate. The size that the community has grown to–combined with the game finally reaching its conclusion with no further updates being made–has some members of the scene excited to sit down and be able to pour everything they have into learning it without fear of it changing anymore.

If you’d like help getting into the game and improving yourself, Mr Peck is here with another Tuestorial (tutorials posted on Tuesdays) featuring Cerebella. Cerebella’s Tumble Run move has four followups; Battle Butt (armored headbutt), Kanchou (slide into butt poke), Pummel Horse (overhead hit-grab), and Run Stop (cancels the run). These moves help Cerebella deal with a variety of situations, and can be used in conjunction with assists to great effect, and this tutorial will help you get these moves as fast as possible 100% of the time.

Hopefully you found that useful! For more Tuestorials, be sure to check out Mr Peck’s playlist with his past entries.

Source: Mr Peck

Despite it being fairly recently that Ultra Street Fighter IV was the talk of the town, the landscape of the competitive scene has completely changed since Street Fighter V was announced. USFIV’s time was a time where esports was still a pretty elusive concept to the FGC–while today it’s an everyday aesthetic. Many things seems to have shifted since those days, not least of all the players.

As we saw last week, YogaFlame24 has put together a compilation in memory of those players seemingly “lost” in the transition from one era to the next. If you long for those days past, or simply never got the chance to see them in their heyday, be sure to check it out.

Source: YogaFlame24

Rivalries are a great thing for any community. They can form between friends, between top players, between regions, and sometimes between entire countries. A lot of US players tend to think of Japan as their primary rival in Street Fighter games, with so much focus being put on what Japan is doing in the latest title. Japan has their own rivals too, like their nearby Korean competitors.

TOOLASSISTED rerecorded many fights between the two regions from a Street Fighter V exhibition set (though for some reason they loop after about an hour and a half, leading to the 11 hour length…). His video does interestingly shows the inputs, frame data and hitboxes for all the sets, which is very informative to watch.

If you want to experience the streamed fights without anything extra added, you can watch the VOD of the Japanese stream at MOMOCHOCO’s channel here.

Sources: TOOLASSISTED, MOMOCHOCO

There are many common outlets when it comes to fan-created content. Two of these outlets are combo videos, and modded in-game content. These mods tend to be visual changes, from things as simple as color/costume mods, to things as all-encompassing as gameplay mods. Today we’ll be looking at a bit of the latter.

In something reminiscent of Omega Mode in Ultra Street Fighter IV, YouTuber Venom44 explores the potential of a mechanics-modded Street Fighter V. What shines in this video are pretty cool combo extensions and move properties, some of which would be really interesting to have in-game.

If you enjoy seeing this mod in action then head on over to his channel; he has posted several other videos using this modded version of the game.

Source: Venom44

2Good Gaming has picked up a lot of steam as a regular name in the Smash community, thanks in large part to regularly hosting great events for the game. They go so far as to work with events like Civil War and Southern California Regionals, in addition to their own tournament series, to ensure the best gameplay gets shown off right.

In that same vein of showcasing great Smash play, they’ve set up a Greatest Hits series to promote the play that transpires at their weekly events. We see several players feature in their own clutch moments–but we also see some unfortunate blunders.

Source: 2GGaming

Frame data can be a pretty elusive subject to some, while appearing quite simple to others. The concept of learning the in-depth measurements in a way that very few other games use can be hard to grasp. Guiding newer players is just what PugilistPenguin is doing, and continues to do on his YouTube channel; this time around, he tackles the concept of frame data, giving analogies and examples in an effort to make the topic more approachable. He does a pretty good job, so if you struggle with this important aspect of fighting games then give this video a watch!

Source: PugilistPenguin

The World Championship for KOF XIV took place over this past weekend; one of the biggest King of Fighters events of the year. After several qualifiers from all across the globe, 15 competitors duked it out in Tokyo–one short of the original 16 planned, as US competitor AS|Reynald was unfotunately unable to attend.

In case you missed it, the event has been uploaded to Team Sp00ky’s YouTube channel. Most of the videos include a fair bit of pre and post-match delays, so if you just want to see the matches you’ll have to jump around a bit.

Source: Team Spooky

Rivals of Aether is a very interesting indie fighter. It draws much inspiration from the Super Smash Bros. playbook, but a lot of the characters and play styles function in their own unique fashion. Combined with the entertaining sprite style and animations, RoA is certainly a worthwhile game to watch and play.

Today, YouTuber ThirstyWench, along with Phazed, puts together this collaborative combo music video using Orcane (the water-based whale-puppy thing). This video showcases some crazy neutral into surprising kill confirms, as well as interesting teleport shenanigans. This cheeky play is edited to the beat of the song, too, making it quite the show!

Source: ThirstyWench

As the top ranked Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player in the world, TSM|ZeRo’s opinions on the scene, and more relevantly the game, are always a topic of interest. He regularly shares his insight–hoping to help more players improve at the game themselves–and uploads videos with such content regularly.

He has talked about the competitive viability of many characters; this video features Greninja, who he thinks may be seeing a rise as players get his complex tech down. Don’t think Greninja can compete in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U? Water you saying? Shuriken!

If you enjoyed that, he has a playlist with more of his similarly-themed character discussion videos. You can watch that playlist here.

Source: ZeRo