Author: Zavian "mushin_Z" Sildra

Good timing on meaty attacks is an important part of keeping the pressure on your downed opponent in Street Fighter V–correct timing keeps your offence on, and even better can stuff attempted wake-up attacks and open up potent combo opportunities. In the video below, LnGrinta shows some examples of “deep meaties”–using moves that have a lot of active frames to cover as much time as possible and start some nasty combos if unblocked.

Check out even more meaty combos from Street Fighter V in this video from desk.

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Red Bull’s Darryl “Snake Eyez” Lewis was once synonymous with his Street Fighter main, Zangief–but after expressing discontent with Street Fighter V’s additional three frames of input latency over Ultra Street Fighter IV and its impact on his reactive approach with the Red Cyclone, we’ve seen him revert to his former fighter of choice: Ryu. His SFV Ryu has already made some tournament appearances; check out these online matches from CFN–compiled by XusesGB–to see how strong Snake Eyez’s Ryu can be.

Speaking of high-level Ryu players: XusesGB recently also compiled some of Daigo Umehara’s online fights in the CFN worldwide top 5.

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The King of Fighters XIV’s release is coming up fast–if you “burn to fight” with SNK’s new brawler, you’ll enjoy these combo exhibition videos featuring members of the playable cast of the currently available PSN demo, prepared by the COMBONAUTS. While these combos are intended to be more showy than practical, always good to see what these fighters are capable of!

Sylvie, Iori, Mai, Nelson, and King of Dinosaurs all get exhibition videos of their own, and the COMBONAUTS have also prepared four more videos of mixed fighters. You can access the full list on YouTube for all nine combo videos here.

Check out the story trailer for Team Another World, or the stories behind all the teams on the King of Fighters website.

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VesperArcade continues  his series of video guides to completing Street Fighter V’s Survival Mode on Hard difficulty–this time focusing on the speedy kunoichi Ibuki, considered by VesperArcade to be a tougher run through the mode, due to her low (900 HP) health. Check out his tips for surviving those grueling 50 fights in the video below.

Of course, with haunts promising easy ways to get those costume colors with tomorrow’s update, the motivation to endure Survival Mode is lessened–but there’s still Fight Money and PSN trophies to be earned by taking it on.

Check out VesperArcade’s Survival Mode tips for Alex and Balrog here.

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Since his addition to the Street Fighter V roster, Guile’s V-trigger Sonic Boom barrage has become a regular feature (and threat) of his play, both as a combo extender and a pressure tool. If you’re a Guile player looking for some variation on his V-trigger options at midscreen, check out this setup from James Chen, from UltraChenTV. The key here is to utilize the final (or the last two) Sonic Boom(s) in the chain to create high-pressure mix-ups and ambiguous cross-ups.

There’s more Guile tech in our most recent Street Fighter V roundup as well.

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Forever in search of the next fight, the next challenge–where does Ryu’s search for meaning in battle lead him, when all digital opponents have been overcome? He’s mastered the Mu no Ken to calm the dark power of the Satsui no Hado, but is that all there is to becoming a true martial artist? There must be something more to strive for, a new battle to fight…

The fight is everything.

Thus, Ryu follows his fist out of the digital realm to seek new challenges in the real world. But he’s about to learn that as a video game sprite, there are certain limitations to what he can achieve in a three-dimensional setting.

Watch him learn this lesson in the video below, courtesy of BombArrow.

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