Author: Lance "Tarnot" Hood

Thanks to her neutral and down specials, down smash, and down throw, Zero Suit Samus has a host of simple setup options that new players can pick up right away. Once the basics have been mastered, there’s plenty of room to get creative with these tools while mixing in the rest of her kit to dispose of opponents.

In the video below from SBphiloz4, you’ll find a lengthy collection of some of the most stylish Zero Suit Samus kills possible. There are plenty of stage spikes, amazing down smash follow-ups, SD down air kills, and plenty more.

If you’re a ZSS fan, or just love seeing Smash at its flashiest, you won’t want to miss this video.

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SRKUW|Fawwaz is no stranger to top level play. In the last year, he has taken his C. Viper into the top ten for Ultra Street Fighter IV at three major events, including a seventh place finish at Northwest Majors 7 and a ninth place finish at Hadocon VI. With such recent success, it’s exciting to see this player featured in Olympic Gaming’s weekly spotlight.

The matches highlighted below feature the top-level technical play that you’ve likely come to expect from any C. Viper worth their salt, and the opponents are also of a remarkably high caliber, including CCG|Air’s Poison, UG|Flash House’s Blanka, and AG|Native Impact’s T. Hawk.

As always, you can hit up the video’s description to learn more about the highlighted player.

Source: Olympic Gaming

There’s no shortage of Doctor Strange technology floating around the internet. Whether looking for help building a team around him, creating stylish ways for him to get his corner loops rolling, or any number of other strategies for the master of the arcane, players have plenty of places to turn.

But when it comes to hitboxes and hurtboxes, getting all of the information in one succinct package has only recently become an option thanks to this new video from e mc. This guide was released to show the world the secrets behind the Impact Palm, as well as the rest of Strange’s set of moves including his normals, hypers, and everything in between.

If you’ve been looking for ways around Strange’s projectiles, or just want a better idea of his general effective range, this guide is sure to help.

Source: e mc

Ryu has been a member of the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U cast for just over a week now, and his impact on the game has been rather impressive. On top of bringing his signature attacks complete with their classic inputs to the franchise, it looks like he’s also equipped with a parry reminiscent of Street Fighter III to help him combat the forces of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Cursory testing shows that this parry animation seems to play whenever Ryu would have performed a Power Shield, and it leaves him in an advantageous state from which he can perform an attack of his choosing. While it’s still unclear exactly how much frame advantage this parry affords the wandering warrior, you’ll see in the footage below that it looks to be quite significant.

Does this mean that we’ll be seeing a Smash version of the famed Evo Moment #37? Probably not, but anything is possible.

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Persona recently uploaded the final version of their NESTS Kyo Kusanagi combo video, and it’s an encapsulation of everything that we’ve come to expect from the combo master. The video includes twelve devastating combos that have reached the peak of optimization.

You may recall having seen a previous collection of EX Kyo combos from Persona earlier this year, but this version of the video features some slight alterations from the previous upload, including new combo technology that is perhaps best explained by Persona:

I nearly perfected EX Kyo’s combos the first time I made his video but there was something I noticed that was missing from the video and that was an extra backdash down C. Although people may think that both versions of Kyo are exactly the same in regards to normals, EX Kyo’s jump down C is pretty much the same from the older KoF games unlike normal Kyo’s. You can notice that normal Kyo’s jump down C shows him swinging his arms in an arc while EX Kyo’s arms almost instantly swings down which allows EX Kyo to get in an extra backdash down C unlike normal Kyo (which seems to be too slow). Also it seems no one knows about EX Kyo being able to get both hits of his qcf BD after his kick rekka ender. Just simply delay his rekkas so the opponent is very low in the air to get both hits. Other than those two big differences in this version of the video, I just added some random (not so useful) tidbits like showing uses of his ground qcf AC extensions and whiffing his Neo Max and still being able to combo afterwards.

If you’re looking to test your combo mettle, Persona has included a full transcript of inputs in the video’s description. Good luck!

Source: Persona

There’s no questioning the fact that Ryu brings a unique set of tools to the world of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, but just how much of what we already know about the world warrior carries over? To answer that question, Omni, who has an extensive background in both Street Fighter and Super Smash Bros., put together a small collection of videos dedicated to the wandering warrior.

The videos offer a look at the benefits of using an input-based Shoryuken–which can be performed with Street Fighter IV-style motions–over a simple Up+B, how negative edging can be used to help pull off some of Ryu’s combos more consistently, and plenty more.

For a full breakdown of what each video involves, you can head over to Omni’s Reddit post, which goes into great detail for each bit of footage.

Source: Omni

The inclusion of new stages to a game so heavily influenced by stage selection understandably raises some debate with regards to their tournament legality. With its most recent update, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U received three stages: Suzaku Castle, Dream Land, and Miiverse, the latter two appearing largely the same as the ever popular Battlefield, but are they exactly the same? Obviously, the wind that occasionally kicks up and blows contenders around Dreamland sets it apart in this group of three, but do these stages have other differences that evade cursory glances?

In order to determine this, Azzy set up some tests, which you can check out in the video below. While these findings alone can’t determine the legal status of the two new stages, perhaps this information will make such a determination easier for tournament organizers still on the fence.

Source: Azzy via Smash Boards

Plenty of new games have seen release since LiangHuBBB put together their last Funny and Cool Moments collection. That means that this most recent episode contains abundant footage from Mortal Kombat X, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and even the forthcoming Street Fighter V.

As with previous Funny and Cool montages, you can expect to see all sorts of hilarious bugs from the graphical to the downright confusing. You’ll also see top players unloading stylish combos while on stream, a handful of footage from top titles of the past, and even a short section where Evil Geniuses’ Justin Wong teaches the youth about the hardships of living in the real world, one Jax rocket at a time.

If you’re a fan of the lighter side of fighting games, you won’t want to miss this video!

Source: LiangHuBBB