Author: Sam "Trilby" Foxall

In a recent episode of BeasTV, Daigo Umehara was joined by Third Strike god Kuroda in the inaugural meeting of the Research Institute of Ryu, dedicated to teaching fighting game players how to master the wandering warrior and climb to the top of the Street Fighter V mountain. Now, unless you are fluent in Japanese, much of Professors Umehara and Kuroda words will have flown over your head–but thanks to the translation work of Toshio Gurupon, English speakers can learn from these two prominent Street Fighter technicians.

While this stream was mainly played for laughs, with both Daigo and Kuroda donning lab coats to explain the theory behind throwing the perfect fireball, there is some useful applicable information here; like how throwing certain Hadokens can shrink Ryu’s hurtbox to avoid attacks. Grab your note pad and make sure to put your hand up first if you want to pose a question to Professor Umehara.

Source: Toshio Gurupon

While certain team compositions like Morrigan/Vergil/Doom and Zero May Cry have become regular features at every Marvel 3 tournament, the spirit of Marvel is still alive and well among lab monsters and tech scientists, who are continuing to push the boat out with new teams and combos. Pink Lem0nad3 is one of these researchers, creating a sizable 17-minute combo video, featuring an eclectic mix of different characters and team compositions.

While familiar suspects like Doctor Doom, Dante and Vergil feature within the many combos on display here, less often-seen characters like Jill, Ghost Rider, and Chris Redfield also get a look in between the hail of Hidden Missiles and Judgement Cuts. Check out all 17 minutes of Marvel goodness below and if it’s popular, Pink Lem0nad3 may put the lab coat back on and make another compilation.

Source: IKnowWhoDoomIs

While his “Optimising Fox” videos are about practicality and fundamental play in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Skarfelt has started a new series which is dedicated to the cooler tricks that this vulpine fighter pilot can pull off. This combo compilation shows off the sillier side of Fox, featuring combos with neutral-air locks, forward-air to footstool kills offstage, and repeated up-air strings which results in super early KOs off the top.

Some of these combos are frame perfect, requiring sequential footstools, single hit down-airs and neutral-air locks to kill. The majority of them are technically precise and darn right impractical to pull off in a match but if you manage to, you’d be heralded as a god. Check out all of the Fox madness below and expect more remarkable combos from Skarfelt in the future.

Source: Skarfelt

Getting hit by a wakeup Critical Art can be one of the most demoralizing things in fighting games; you have a setup planned off of a knockdown then BAM, hit in the face with a random Shinku Hadoken. However, if you are prone to getting hit by this most nutty of options, there is now a way to blow up wake-up Critical Arts with the use of a kara cancel.

Noticed by r/StreetFighter user ZacharyM123: upon sweeping their opponent, players can kara cancel any normal to mash out their own Critical Art during the animation of their opponent’s Critical Art. In the video example, after knocking down with Chun-Li’s sweep, Zachary whiffs standing medium punch to get his timing right, before whiffing a standing light kick to kara cancel into his own Critical Art upon seeing the enemy animation.

Any character is capable of doing this with any normal, but they have to be at zero to account for the knockdown advantage they have on the opponent quick-rising to do the wake-up Critical Art; that’s why he uses the standing medium punch to time the light kick kara cancel. While Zachary says he is at +1 for this setup, he is actually at zero and your character must be at a neutral state in order to mash the Critical Art during the opponent’s animation.

Zachary states there are possible oki setups with this, so get experimenting to see how you can get this kara cancel tech to work for you.

Sources: r/StreetFighter; Zachary Mallicoat

While there are hundreds of highlight compilations following any modern day tournament, it’s rare that montage makers delve back into the past and create montages of landmark events that newer players may have missed. Well, VGBootCamp are seeking to redress the balance with their new “Blast From The Past” series, where they goes through the annals of Melee’s storied history and highlight certain moments from historic tournaments before the age of Twitch.

For their inaugural episode, VGBC has chosen Pound 3 from 2008, a tournament which saw a young Mango making an absolute tear through the Losers’ bracket and proving that his third place at Evo 2007 was not just a fluke. This was back in the days where Mango mained Jigglypuff, players like Azen and PC Chris were still dominant in the Melee scene, and matches were fought on stages like Corneria and Brinstar, if you can believe such a thing. While lacking the high production values of modern day events and filmed via dodgy capture cards or handcams pointed at CRTs, this first look back into the early days of competitive Melee shows just how far the meta, the game, and its players have come.

Source: VGBootCamp Highlights

Gliding gracefully between games in the series, desk’s latest Street Fighter mixclip is a thing of wonder; carrying combos across screen transitions and even different Street Fighter games. A exploding screen transition in Street Fighter V may lead to a follow up combo in Ultra Street Fighter 4, while some clips have a character traveling through time to finish their opponent off with a game hopping finisher.

As well as this time traveling combos, desk even mashes up scenes from the Street Fighter animated movie and recreates them in Street Fighter V, having both fights playing out side by side. This mixclip is truly a display of not only desk’s Street Fighter prowess, but his skills in the editing bay.

Source: desk