Category: Fighting Games

You land a down-grab and send your opponent’s fighter into the air; they might have buffered an air dodge to avoid your follow-up attack, or they might jump–so to land your attack you might have to delay it, or maybe the immediate attack would land. Of this ambiguity is born the “50/50.” In their latest Super Smash Bros. for Wii U video the Beefy Smash Doods (featuring Izaw) break down deadly 50/50s: exploring how these highly situational moments arise, based on the damage percentages and character interactions that make a 50/50 potentially fatal.

Watching out for these scenarios can help you avoid losing a stock over a bad call.

If you’re looking for more Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tips, the Beefy Smash Doods can also help you to utilize effective footstooling, or instruct you on Smash 4’s 2-frame punish.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

ESL has confirmed that Street Fighter V will be added to their already exciting ESL One lineup. Street Fighter V will be making history as it’s the first ever fighting game to appear in an ESL major event. The Brooklyn Beatdown will be held on October 1-2, 2016, at the Barclays Center, with a whopping prize pool of $75,000.

The tournament will feature an open bracket with a player cap of 1,024. There will also be a series of online competitions that will be held on the ESL Play website. These online events will feature top prizes that include flight and hotel support for the ESL One main event. This is to ensure that competitors from all over the world can compete and make it out to The Brooklyn Beatdown. Regarding this event, ESL’s Product Manager, Stuart Ewen, had some words to share with fans and players alike, “We’re very excited to bring Street Fighter V to an ESL One event. The Street Fighter community contains some of the most legendary players and moments in esports history, and we hope that with The Brooklyn Beatdown we’ll be helping to realize and relay many more of these moments to Street Fighter V fans worldwide.”

If you are interested, registration is now open on Eventbrite, with a $10 registration fee. Spectator passes will be starting at $45 on Ticketmaster.

For all information on The Brooklyn Beatdown, you can check out the official ESL Brooklyn Beatdown website.

Sources: Capcom, ESL, with a tip from Joseph K.

While Europe has quite an active fighting game scene, most of the noise you hear likely comes from Western Europe. This weekend however Eastern Europe is getting a bit of the spotlight with Moscow Fighting Arena 2016, this Saturday through Monday.

The 13th annual MFA will feature Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR, Mortal Kombat X and Street Fighter V as its primary line-up, with some juicy prizes for each. The GGXrdR and MKX tournaments will give the winners of each a trip to Evolution 2016 in Vegas (Russian and CIS citizens only). Meanwhile the SFV competition is part of the Capcom Pro Tour as a ranking event, meaning ranking points for the top 16 placers and a spot in the Europe Regional Finals for the winner.

If you want to check out the action Fighting.ru will be providing a live stream of the event.

Watch live video from FightingRu on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

Saturday June 11

Sunday June 12

Monday June 13

Sources: Moscow Fighting Arena, Capcom Pro Tour

One of the most important things in the Super Smash Bros. games is movement; after all, the techniques that have defined the series for well over a decade, wavedashing and wavecancelling, are designed to improve your control of–and movement with–your character of choice.

Project M is no different, and there is plenty to explore when it comes to character-specific movement technology to up your game. Casino Wolf has done the work for his signature Mewtwo, and has put together a demonstration of some of his most flashy techniques. It’s a dizzying display of movement and teleportation that any Mewtwo main should have in their arsenal, so check it out below.

Source: AZ Project Melee

Getting a Happy Birthday–a combo on both the point and the assist characters– in Skullgirls 2nd Encore has always been fairly rewarding. Between getting a Double Snap and utilizing midscreen assist kills, punishing bad assist calls has always been highly rewarded. Now, however, brand new tech has been uncovered that’ll make bad assist calls punished harder than ever.

The technique involves paying close attention to hitstop in order to allow the involved assist character to momentarily drop from the combo, but still be picked up again to tack on loads of unscaled damage to make sure they don’t survive the barrage.

Source: SkullgirlsTV, Skarmand, with a tip from JasonS

As a fan of Charlie Nash from his first appearances in Street Fighter Alpha and its sequels, LiangHuBBB was eager to put together their own Nash gameplay breakdown for Street Fighter V. The final product takes the form of this 40-point gameplay tip video, covering aspects including mobility options, meter management, punish combos, and more. Much of it may be well-known already to the experienced Nash fighter, but any player is bound to pick up some new tools or approaches to their play.

If you’re still seeking revenge against M. Bison at any cost, you can start with Momochi’s Nash basics lecture, check out some practical Nash combos, or explore the use of Nash’s meter-draining Tragedy Assault.

Source: LiangHuBBB