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The Jump-In Podcast is Joined by Femi “F-Word” Adeboye to Talk Capcom Cup and Street Fighter V Season Two

Ahead of Season Two’s launch next Friday and with people already playing it via a significant cock-up on Capcom’s part, the Jump-In podcast has assembled to ruminate over the recent past and bright future ahead for Street Fighter V.

Joining Kim1234 and Logan Sama for this installment of the podcast is Logan’s erstwhile commentating partner and Ibuki player Femi “F-Word” Adeboye to talk about the Capcom Cup, their experiences as commentators and the changes coming to Season Two.

The group talk about Ken and Ibuki’s Season Two changes, before speculating about the rise of Laura in Season Two and questioning whether this set of balances will spell an invigoration of SFV, or whether it will drive more people away. Pour yourself a drink, sit back and listen to the whole podcast as there is some great chat about the future of Street Fighter V in here.

Source: The Jump-In Podcast

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Stop, Look, Listen, Punish: GimR Demonstrates the Power of Audible Tech Chasing in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Punishing tech options in the Super Smash Bros. series is an integral part of high level play. If you can successfully read your opponent’s tech following a knockdown, you can oftentimes continue a combo or guarantee a kill. However, due to the four different tech options in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U–tech in place, no tech, tech towards and tech away–it can be hard to anticipate which option your opponent will pick in a tournament setting.

Going into the lab to research how to tech chase effectively, VGBootCamp’s GimR has made quite a significant discovery regarding reading tech options. For a large variety of the cast, they make an audible cue upon teching in place, usually a grunt or some type of exertion sound. Combine this with the fact that every character makes the same sound when they miss a tech–it’s a thudding sound–you have an easier time of narrowing down how to punish a tech.

When you combine this with the fact that the audio cue comes on out the first frame of a tech and that your audio reaction time is a third quicker than your visual reaction time, you will always have enough time to punish the two static tech options with a hard punish, like Fox’s up smash or Cloud’s Limit Cross Slash.

The rolling tech options both take 40 frames to complete, compared to the 26 frames of both no tech and tech in place, meaning you have almost double the time to react to those options. Once you commit those tech in place audio cues to memory, you pretty much have the answer for every single tech option for a decent portion of the viable cast. All you need to do now is make sure you play on a setup with headphones.

Source: GimR The VG Scientist

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Here Comes the Boom! desk Salutes Season One Guile with This Sonic Boom Combo Montage

As with his recent Zangief montage, desk is waving goodbye to certain Season One variations of Street Fighter V characters with special combo montages. Moving from the Red Cyclone to the Sonic Hurricane, his latest montage deals with the world’s most American man, Guile and his various Sonic Boom combos.

With Guile’s Sonic Boom loops changing for Season Two, it’s possible that many of the lengthy sequences in this combo compilation may not exist come December 20th. Things such as the Uber Boom–which counter hits six different times–could be a thing of the past so say your goodbyes now. Those with access to the Season Two balance changes have discovered a new way to perform the Sonic Boom loop, so some of these 20+ hit combos may exist in an altered form for Season Two.

You are dismissed Colonel Guile. You can go home and be a family man now.

Sources: r/StreetFighter; desk

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reslived Gets Us Up to Speed on Project M in 2016

While the development of Project M sadly ended with version 3.6 in December of last year, the PM community has kept the fires burning with tournament circuits and events throughout the year. In order to recap Project M’s tumultuous year, PM commentator and player reslived has created a comprehensive rundown of the year that was, going over major tournaments, rising players and the growth of the community.

With many events dropping Project M as a mainline game, due to problems with streaming it via Twitch and losing potential sponsorship deals with Nintendo, new events sprung up to keep PM going and Hitbox.tv became the home for any major PM stream. The Project M Championship Circuit stepped into the breach, providing an actual tournament circuit which the official Super Smash Bros. series has yet to see.

Source: reslived

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It’s Good to be Bad: UA|Bass Shows off His Best Replays in This Killer Instinct Montage

With KI World Cup approaching in March 2017 and the possibility of a Season Four after that, Killer Instinct players are looking back on 2016 and Season Three as a whole as we near 2017. With hundreds of Rough Sets with various other top KI players sitting on his YouTube channel, UA|Kalypso has edited together a “best of” replay collection of team mate, UA|Bass.

While infamous for his Spinal, this montage has replays of Bass’ Mira, Jago, Shadow Jago, Cinder and Spinal, collected from various online sets throughout 2016. Some of the combos in this video are downright sadistic, with massive resets with both Jago and Shadow Jago, Searing Skull traps with Spinal and a fair few perfects on some poor online warriors. He really lives up to the title of “Evil Bass” with some of these clips.

Source: XiBassiX

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Melee It On Me Adds Top Canadian Sheik, David “KirbyKaze” McDonald, to the MIOM Team

Following a short retirement period starting back in December 2015, David “KirbyKaze” McDonald is back in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene and has been picked up by Melee It On Me as their next player. As Canada’s best Sheik main and possibly their best player overall, KirbyKaze has been racking up some decent wins since his return to Melee, gaining ninth at The Big House 6, fourth at Canada Cup 2016 and fifth at Eden this past weekend.

Before his break from Melee, KirbyKaze had taken sets off of Liquid|Hungrybox, C9|Mango and EG|PPMD, marking him as one of the world’s strongest Sheiks during the period of 2010 to 2012. Hopefully, with the support of Melee It On Me, KirbyKaze will reach those lofty heights yet again. KirbyKaze’s first tournament with MIOM will be at Genesis 4 next January in San Jose, California.

For those who don’t know, rather than being your typical team, Melee It On Me is a sort of “player incubator,” advising and representing Melee players until they can sort them a high level sponsor. Previous MIOM alumni are DNL|Duck, Tempo|S2J, CLG|SFAT and C9|Mango, so the team has quite the impressive track record for securing their players decent contracts.

Source: Melee It On Me

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Red Bull eSports Partners with Melee It On Me to Host SSBMRank 2016

One of the most eagerly anticipated things in the Super Smash Bros. Melee calendar, Melee It On Me and Red Bull eSports are partnering together to host this year’s edition of the SSBM World Rankings. Listing the top 100 Melee players, this list gives players, tournament organizers and esports teams the most up to date information on the best Melee talent out there at the moment.

Decided by a panel of community leaders, top players and commentators, each player is ranked with a number from one to ten, which are then compiled into an overall average which is then plotted in a top 100 list. Other members of the community help write player bios, create special graphics and fact find to make this top 100 ranking a big community effort.

This year’s countdown will begin on December 26th with ranks 100-91, with new ranks being released every day until January 13th, 2017. There will no doubt be plenty of vigorous discussion via Twitter as the ranks are released, so make sure to check back in with Red Bull eSports regularly to see who has made it into the top 100.

Source: Red Bull eSports

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Selfless Gaming Adds Another Super Smash Bros. Melee Player to Their Roster, with the Signing of Hugo “HugS” Gonzalez

Joining fellow Californian Joey “Lucky” Aldama, Selfless Gaming has added another Super Smash Bros. Melee player to their roster, with the signing of Hugo “HugS” Gonzales. A veteran in the Melee scene with his competitive career stretching all the way back to 2004, HugS is arguably the progenitor for the current generation of Samus mains.

Currently ranked 20th on the 2015 Melee It On Me World Rankings, HugS’ main achievement of 2016 has been growing his stream, becoming one of the biggest Melee streamers out there, with his mix of serious play and humorous chat. Hopefully, his addition to the Selfless Pride should allow him to grow his stream even more and help aid his growth as a player.

His signing also comes after his departure from Dream Team at the start of this month, with Selfless swooping in out of the blue to snatch HugS up. HugS will be competing at Don’t Park on the Grass in Seattle, Washington this weekend, so look for him rocking a brand new Selfess jersey on stream during the tournament.

Source: Selfless Gaming

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Some of the UK’s Best Street Fighter V Players Show off Akuma in This Special WSO Showcase

In a special festive livestream straight from Capcom’s UK headquarters, this week’s WSO Session saw some of the UK’s finest Street Fighter V players gathering to compete in a special random select tournament, as well as to show off Akuma ahead of his launch next week.

The random select tournament saw players like Imstilldadaddy, UM|Hurricane, PxP|Problem X, Perilous|Packz and others picking numbers from a hat to decide their character. These numbers were tied to specific kidrobot Street Fighter figures, which the players then had to use in a special eight-player bracket. It’s definitely a fun idea, and I’d personally like to see more of these light-hearted side tournaments at more events–if there is the time to run them.

However, the main event was the Akuma showcase, where Capcom community manager Matt Edwards and Jammerz ran through everything you could possibly want to know about Akuma before he is unleashed on the world on December 20th. Along with going through all of his kit, the rest of the stream was dedicated to Akuma mirrors between players like Hurricane and Problem X, so give the whole thing a watch if you want that headstart next Tuesday. The Akuma showcase starts at 1:58:50 on the video, so skip to there if you are just here for the gameplay.

Source: Capcom Fighters

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Dazzle the Competition with these Gold Skins for TJ Combo, Orchid and Sabrewulf in Killer Instinct

Forgetting the frankincense and myrrh, Iron Galaxy are going straight for gold with their gift giving this year by releasing the second set of Gold Skins for Killer Instinct. These shiny skins coat TJ Combo, Orchid and Sabrewulf head-to-toe in gold, making them look extra stylish when triple Ultra’ing you in Ranked.

If you bought the Definitive Edition of Killer Instinct either digitally or physically, and redeemed the code for Gold/Platinum Gargos, you will get Gold Skin Pack 2 free of charge. Otherwise, this gaudy skin selection is $4.99 for those wishing to bling out their favorite fighter. Gold Skin Pack 1 is already available, where Kim Wu, Maya and Jago have been given the Midas Touch.

Source: Ultra Combo