Author: Lance "Tarnot" Hood

In his latest “Art Of” video, Link mastermind Izaw offers up tips on how to play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U’s Kirby, the hero of Dreamland. The tutorial begins with a lengthy segment dedicated to the pink powerhouse’s combo options and moves on to explore his various methods of breaking shields as well as getting the most out of his throws.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Kirby tutorial without a section dedicated to applications for Kirby’s ability to steal his opponents special attacks. Izaw covers this at length, showing not only how Kirby can use most of these attacks to compliment his existing moves, but also which characters can punish him for stealing their power.

Source: Izaw

Plenty of characters in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U get powerful follow-up options to their throws. Perhaps the most infamous are the down throw to up air and up throw to up air options that Diddy Kong brings to the fight, but he’s far from the only one to benefit from tossing opponents skyward.

In the video below, My Smash Corner outlines the options that Luigi has when following a down throw as well as the correct ways to apply each of these options.

In addition to offering up a plethora of Luigi combos, My Smash Corner does an excellent job outlining how the combo system in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U works. He details how weight, fall speed, size, and percentages affect strings as well as how to deal with directional influence as both the offensive and defensive party.

Granted, this video does focus on Luigi, but newcomers to the Smash series should definitely give it a watch even if they don’t main Mario’s brother just to get a better grasp on how all of this plays out.

Source: My Smash Corner

Plenty of characters in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U get powerful follow-up options to their throws. Perhaps the most infamous are the down throw to up air and up throw to up air options that Diddy Kong brings to the fight, but he’s far from the only one to benefit from tossing opponents skyward.

In the video below, My Smash Corner outlines the options that Luigi has when following a down throw as well as the correct ways to apply each of these options.

In addition to offering up a plethora of Luigi combos, My Smash Corner does an excellent job outlining how the combo system in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U works. He details how weight, fall speed, size, and percentages affect strings as well as how to deal with directional influence as both the offensive and defensive party.

Granted, this video does focus on Luigi, but newcomers to the Smash series should definitely give it a watch even if they don’t main Mario’s brother just to get a better grasp on how all of this plays out.

Source: My Smash Corner

If you caught last night’s segment of the Ultra Street Fighter IV top 32 at NorCal Regionals, you got to see Liquid|NuckleDu and r/Kappa.FGC|Infiltration face off in one of the most exciting Decapre mirror matches to date. There were periods where the footsies dance between the two grew so intense that neither one seemed to touch the ground as they threw out scramble variants and aerial spiral arrows to vie for spacing control.

And it seems that the Decapre hype just continues to build. Combo music video extraordinaire, cjbqulix, has released another reel, this time featuring the masked fighter herself in all her combo-heavy glory. As with previous offerings from cjbqulix, this video involves plenty of creative use of the character’s kit, including some hurt box abuse against large targets as well as a few unique methods of applying the Psycho Stream Ultra.

Source: cjbqulix

Last month we learned that series veterans Tanya and Rain will be making appearances in Mortal Kombat X–the former as a playable character made available as downloadable content and the latter as an assist character in the game’s Test Your Luck and Kustom Kombat modes. Until now, we hadn’t seen much of these characters besides a handful of screenshots and, in the case of Tanya, a brief appearance in the game’s DLC trailer.

Below, you’ll find a video from D’Vorah’s chapter of the game’s extensive story mode which includes fights against, you guessed it, Tanya and Rain. Given the nature of any gameplay footage that comes from outside of official NetherRealm Studios offerings, there’s not much to anticipate as far as proficiency with the game is concerned. We do, however, get to see how these two fighters handle themselves when their lives are on the line.

Since both kombatants are devoid of text which denotes their variations–certainly expected from Rain–this footage likely comes from an early build, and anything seen here is subject to change. Even so, it’s nice to get a quick look at a little bit more of what the game has to offer fans once it hits shelves in just over a week.

Source: Yankini GMs and a special thanks to Bruno R. for finding this and sending it our way!

While poking around Amazon.com, Mortal Kombat fan HatesideVids discovered a trailer for Mortal Kombat X’s resident Shokan, Goro. Since this trailer only covers a single character, it’s remarkably short–clocking in at right about 45 seconds–but it’s filled with plenty of footage of Goro busting heads. Given the fact that NetherRealm Studios has planned a five hour stream dedicated to the character later this afternoon, there’s a good chance that we weren’t supposed to see this footage just yet, but you can check it out below.

From the trailer, we can gather that the series veteran has access to his usual array of fireballs and attacks that make good use of his extra limbs and they look even more brutal than ever before. If you want to catch even more Goro action live, including a complete character breakdown, be sure to tune in to NetherRealm Studios’ stream today, starting at 1PM PDT, 4PM PDT.

Source: HatesideVids via Test Your Might

Last week, Dustin of Hitbox Arcade put out a video that showcases how well Doctor Doom’s Hidden Missiles assist pairs with M.O.D.O.K., and the various means of making the most of that assist. Yesterday, Dustin took a similar approach to Amaterasu’s pairing with the Marvel villain, and it seems that the Goddess’ Cold Star assist can be used for similar combo extensions.

Below, you’ll find a collection of combos that offer a close look at how this pair can turn all sorts of different combo openers into big damage for little meter expenditure. Just like the old saying goes, a Sun Goddess truly is an evil floating head’s best friend.

Source: Dustin