Author: Zavian "mushin_Z" Sildra

“A bad carpenter blames his tools.” Maybe a little bit.

Following up on his Super Smash Bros. for Wii U “Solomar” challenge–using Olimar without any Pikmin moves–TSM|ZeRo’s follow-up adventure turned out to be a bit more direct–For Glory with random character select. For a player with as much experience with Smash 4 as ZeRo, surely this shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Check out the video below to see ZeRo working to take those stocks with characters such as Ike, Marth, Link, Cloud (a lot of swordsmen…), as well as Rosalina & Luma, among others.

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He’s not being slept on anymore; remember the name well.

It seemed to take a while for the Street Fighter V metagame to realize that Rashid can be a threat. With increased exposure and tournament success lately, eyes are definitely on Rashid of the Turbulent Wind now–even if his private jet is grounded for the Capcom Pro Tour.

THE COOL KID93 put together this compilation of his own online adventures with Rashid; featuring good examples of Rashid’s pressure game and V-Trigger mix-ups, it’s worth a look for all aspiring Rashid mains out there.

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An examination of what the Red Cyclone needs to do to take down the Sleeping Lion.

Zangief has a bit of an uphill battle in Street Fighter V’s environment, but the Red Cyclone isn’t without his loyal supporters. Zangief main and YouTuber Mr. Slay n man has put together this lengthy–over an hour-and-a-half!–examination of Zangief’s tools versus his fellow wrestler and DLC addition Alex. It’s an all-out analysis of this grappler matchup–including discussion from an Alex player’s side and example clips–that Zangief players will want to pay attention to.

It appears that Mr. Slay n man may continue this with other feature opponents, so this may only be the beginning of your Training Pilgrimage.

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As much as she likes to play with danger–safety first for the win.

Things are a bit tougher for Street Fighter V’s Juri, after it’s become known how vulnerable her Ryodansatsu can be! But aspiring sadists out there can still shore up their Juri game by practicing these safe jumps from marlonlonmilk. Time your jump-ins well to keep the pressure on your opponents–when they might be inclined to pull a meaty-crushing invincible move!

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A classic matchup, as played by experts in these World Warriors.

Xuses continues to compile matches from some of the world’s top Street Fighter V players; this time, Daigo Umehara faces OR|Nuki in three 2/3 Ranked Match sets–providing a great chance to see these competitors fight it out with the characters that they are famous for specializing in. Will Ryu follow his fist to victory over the strongest woman in the world? Check out the video below to find out.

For more Street Fighter V action as compiled by Xuses, check out his fourth volume of Crazy Comebacks.

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The Capcom Pro Tour’s decisive battle is almost upon us!

Street Fighter V’s ultimate battle looms: the last stop on the Capcom Pro Tour’s first journey for SFV is in Anaheim, California–December 3, 2016. Over $350,000 is on the line, and the first CPT Street Fighter V champion will at last be decided from among the greats that have struggled to earn a place to compete in 2016’s final fight. Check out Capcom’s official event trailer below!

Keep your eye on Shoryuken for continuing coverage of Capcom Cup 2016!

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Rank up faster in Street Fighter V, with this one weird tip…

Xuses took a break from the usual match uploads and player compilations to talk a little bit about his personal strategy on how to break a CFN “plateau” and push your rank up the ladder in Street Fighter V. Very simply: back off Ranked Match, and play more Casual Match.

The reasoning is solid: playing Casual keeps you facing opponents in a similar rank to what you’d face in Ranked Match, but removing the threat of lost League Points lets you focus on improving your play and matchup knowledge with less emotional pressure. It sounds obvious, but impatience and the craving for that next rank up will keep many players from taking a break to hone their skills–and result in lost points they’ll need to struggle to regain. Give yourself some breathing room when necessary, and you can hit Platinum faster overall than if you stick with Ranked exclusively.

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Some fighters balanced, some fighters imbalanced.

MagicScrumpy is still hard at work picking Super Smash Bros. Melee to bits, and putting those bits back together in intriguing ways. Lately, he’s been working on what changes it would take to make lower-tiered fighters like Link and Donkey Kong as sturdy as Melee’s stronger fighters. Observe, his finished “viable” versions of these two characters:

Comparatively, sometimes it’s fun to see what it takes to push a character into the range of “broken&#8221$$ below, check out his overpowered versions of Pichu and Kirby.

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