A few days ago, Flying High offered up some of the craziest Haggar incoming mixups this side of the galaxy. Today, we’ve got another set of ways for the mayor to get in there and get the damage going.
The mixups include crossup Hoodlum Launchers, crossup standing light attacks which, if blocked, leave opponents vulnerable to Piledrivers, and ways to deal with pesky people who try to jump away from said Piledrivers. Flying High even includes a setup that forces pushblockers right into Haggar’s waiting arms.
To celebrate this weekend’s East Coast competition at The Fall Classic 2014, Mad Catz has marked down some of their most popular items. These discounts cover both the FightStick PRO and FightSick KE for Playstation 3 as well as the FightStick Carrier for easy transportation and protection of your favorite stick.
To take advantage of these discounts, simply enter the code “TFC30″ at checkout. If you’re in the market for a stick to add to your growing collection, of if you’ve not yet pulled the trigger on picking up your very first one, now is the perfect time to buy. Be sure to act fast, because The Fall Classic only runs through this evening.
Ricardo Roman recently put out a new Ultra Street Fighter IV video showing off some high-damage options for three very different characters: Sakura, Sagat, and Decapre. As with previous videos from Ricardo, you’ll probably see something that you’ve never seen before. There is plenty of looping, character-specific hurtbox abuse, and a whole lot more to keep this latest exhibition entertaining.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the video is a bit of tech with Sagat that comes early on. It involves a block string which spaces Sagat perfectly to land a cross-up EX Tiger Knee on his crouching opponent, which, of course, goes right into Ultra 1. And no Sakura combo video is complete without plenty of Tatsu loops!
Gouken is an offensive powerhouse in Ultra Street Fighter IV. Once he gets started, his damage and stun output are hard to ignore. Combine this with the fact that he can turn many of his combo enders into reset situations that result in a full dizzy and it’s easy to see that a well-played Gouken has a good chance at taking any matchup.
The tutorial below offers three different types of resets that involve either his overhead, a jumping fierce, or a fake cross-up. ViperGoomba explores these options in great detail and offers various applications against the game’s full range of health pools. The reset kills appearing late in the video will put down the entire cast if successfully landed.
Combo video producer cjbqulix recently released the latest addition to their redux exhibition series, once again putting Ultra Street Fighter IV twins Yun and Yang in the spotlight. These combos take advantage of some of the changes that the two characters received in the most recent update and does so through strings of attacks that border on the impossible.
Making use of plenty of strange hitbox interactions, lots of kara-canceled palms, and hilarious Genei Jin strings, these combos are sure to entertain. Of course, no modern combo video is complete without using Decapre’s Psycho Stream against her, and this time the hit counter makes it rather high against the masked fighter before Yang stops his onslaught.
The team at Capcom Fighters recently released another set of player spotlight interviews, designed to help fighting game fans learn more about some of the scene’s biggest players before this December’s Capcom Cup.
Today’s collection includes Justin Wong of Evil Genuises, Darryl “Snake Eyez” Lewis, and Canada Cup Gaming’s Henry “Chi-Rithy” Oung. As with previous interviews from this running series, the competitors discuss their history with the fighting genre, their greatest wins, and the losses that have really stuck with them.
When a player like Justin Wong has achieved so many things in his professional gaming career, it’s interesting to hear that he claims the victory at GameStop’s Street Fighter IV release tournament as his greatest. The Marvel mastermind also discusses how he had to train for that tournament, which included many painful sessions using an Xbox 360 pad, an area well out of his comfort zone.
It’s no surprise, however, that Wong also mentions Daigo Umehara’s infamous parry moment, which he remembers as both his greatest loss and a victory of sorts because it helped to breathe life back into the genre during the dark ages before the rebirth of the fighting game community as a whole.
To learn more about these players, check out the videos below.
Miss the previous entries in this series? Follow the links below to find interviews with PIE|Smug, EG|K-Brad, LU|Alex Valle, and many more.
The road to character mastery is long. Things start simple enough with figuring out which buttons do what, how to put those buttons together to score notable damage, and how to go about safely committing to the button sequences without losing half of your health due to drops or poor decision making. However, what comes afterward, like frame traps and resets, separates the particularly good players from the decent players.
Below, you’ll find a video from MaskedNobleman7 that covers the advanced side of what Vega brings to battle in Ultra Street Fighter IV. The first half of the reel is dedicated to frame traps, with varying gaps to allow errant buttons of different speeds just enough room to be stuffed. Afterward, the video goes on to demonstrate some particularly dirty resets and ways to score a cross-up Ultra.
Should you find yourself at a standstill in your Vega training, this tutorial may be your ticket to higher levels of play.
Owners of the North American localization of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax have only very recently found themselves able to purchase access to Margaret, the game’s third downloadable character. Luckily, community members have already stepped forward to help out newcomers to the fighter.
This Velvet Room assistant isn’t the most conventional fighter, especially when considering her access to multiple Personae and the forward momentum tied to many of her normal attacks. Luckily, Team Spooky’s Steve “Lord Knight” Barthelemy has had his hands on the character for a little while and aims to help ease hopeful Margaret players into the character with the tutorial below.
In his video, Lord Knight stresses the importance of neutral game control for Margaret to secure victory before moving on to to proper normal use. He also shows off some standard combos that can be confirmed into from multiple openers.
We know LiangHuBBB best for their long-running series “Funny & Cool Moments,” where they bring out the sillier side of fighting games through footage of various bugs and glitches. While that series is the standout for the YouTuber, they have also put together plenty of tutorials over the years, among those are a couple revolving around Injustice: Gods Among Us’ Deathstroke.
The footage below is the third such tutorial, which focuses on the more advanced tactics available. The video covers some things that you’d expect from a character guide, like which moves put Deathstroke at disadvantage and when not to throw those moves–or, in some cases, how to use those moves to bait opponents into poor decisions–as well as some more nuanced applications of his buttons, like using his forward 3 to set up side swaps with opponents and get out of the corner.
If you’re a new Deathstroke player or even if you have been popping caps in the Injustice community since the game’s release, this tutorial is sure to teach you a few things.
North American audiences have had their hands on Persona 4 Arena Ultimax for a week now, which has resulted in an understandable uptick of tutorial-style videos for the newest iteration of the RPG-inspired airdasher. The inclusion of Shadow characters has added a new level of variety to playstyle that could be causing an identity crisis for some players–myself included–as the enchanced offensive capabilities offered in the new mode stand to offer unique experiences the normal versions lack.
In the footage below, MythicVerbosity makes some strong arguments for choosing the shadow version of Naoto Shirogane, which take full advantage of Shadow Frenzy. The video covers damaging combo options with full screen corner carry and instant kill setups, as well as mixup and pressure strings that will make opponents’ heads spin.
Are these options strong enough to make Shadow Naoto the obvious choice over her non-shadow alternative? Check out the footage below and let us know what you think.
