Category: Fighting Games

While Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- features a burst system that allows players to break out of combos, there are some moves that are difficult to escape properly. One such move is Sol Badguy’s Grand Viper, which forms the basis of VR-Raiden’s latest tutorial.

In the video below, VR-Raiden shows how a player can burst Sol’s Grand Viper at just the right moment to cause most of the move to whiff, and then put Sol in an unsafe situation. The guide also takes time to explain that Sol can fight back against this by using a Roman Cancel to keep himself safe or, on the more complex side of things, by implementing a jump install for a chance to punish the burst.

Source: VR-Raiden via Dustloop

With a new entry to the King of Fighters series on the horizon, Persona has redoubled their efforts to push out the completed, final versions of their always impressive King of Fighters XIII combo videos. In many cases, the original entries for featured characters brought about combos insane enough to stand for years to come, but that hasn’t stopped the mastermind from going back and making some adjustments where (not entirely) necessary to squeeze out every bit of damage possible.

Their most recent offering stars Ikari Warriors and Metal Slug vet Ralf Jones. Persona opens with a three-hit kill against Duo Lon, reminding viewers that there’s good reason Ralf has come to be known as The One-Man Army. The combos that come after follow the same sort of formula, trading plenty of Ralf’s meter for plenty of health on the part of his opponents.

This combo video comes complete with a change log from the original upload, as well as an input transcript, both of which can be found in the description.

Source: Persona

The Ultra Street Fighter IV grand finals match at Stunfest 2015 was arguably one of the best in recent memory. In it, none other than “the Beast” himself, Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara, came out of losers to go up against reigning Capcom Cup champion Momochi of Evil Geniuses, eventually taking the whole thing with an impressive bracket reset.

But the results only tell part of the story. After breaking down the first two games in the set, Jay Rego has returned to shine a light on the third.

Here, Rego focuses on the fireball war, touching on how they both players challenge the other and anticipate attacks. He also looks at some interesting tech that Momochi brings out during the middle of the set.

Source: Jay Rego

The Ultra Street Fighter IV grand finals match at Stunfest 2015 was arguably one of the best in recent memory. In it, none other than “the Beast” himself, Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara, came out of losers to go up against reigning Capcom Cup champion Momochi of Evil Geniuses, eventually taking the whole thing with an impressive bracket reset.

But the results only tell part of the story. After breaking down the first two games in the set, Jay Rego has returned to shine a light on the third.

Here, Rego focuses on the fireball war, touching on how they both players challenge the other and anticipate attacks. He also looks at some interesting tech that Momochi brings out during the middle of the set.

Source: Jay Rego

The Daily Dot’s Best of 3 is back with another interview of a top American fighting game player. Last time, they talked to Team Liquid’s Du “NuckleDu” Dang, and now they’ve gotten in contact with former Evo championRyan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez of Panda Gaming.

In the interview, they go over a wide range of topics, such as Ramirez’s role as a “villain” in the community, his recent Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 performance in tournaments such as Evo 2015, and future plans.

When talking about Absolute Battle 6 coming up this weekend in particular, he mentions not being able to attend due to his associating the event with the loss of his grandmother, who passed away while he was visiting Texas for Absolute Battle 5 in 2014.

Moving on to games, they touch on Radiant Entertainment’s Rising Thunder, which is currently in open alpha testing. Ramirez recently won the game’s inaugural tournament, and believes that he’s probably the best Rising Thunder player at the moment. Apart from that, he says he likes how accessible the game is and its emphasis on good decision-making over pure execution.

But what would a Filipino Champ interview be without Marvel talk? The biggest question these days seems to be whether or not it’s still “America’s game”, considering how well foreign players have been doing, most notably Chilean Nicolas “Kane Blueriver” Gonzalez of The Black Eye, who was crowned champion at Evo 2015.

Ramirez says that Gonzalez deserves the win with how hard he has worked to get to that point, even if he missed out on playing Ramirez himself and fellow Marvel god Christopher “ChrisG” Gonzalez. That said, he still thinks Marvel belongs to the United States and that, overall, Americans are still more dominant.

Of course, this is just a small bit of what they talk about during their lengthy interview. Be sure to check out the video below for more; the discussion in question begins around 14 minutes in if you want to jump right to it.

Source: The Daily Dot

Whether you just got grabbed at a critical moment or recently found yourself buried up to your neck thanks to Zero Suit Samus’s down special, knowing how to properly mash in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U can mean the difference between losing a stock or living to keep the fight going.

In their latest video, the Beefy Smash Doods took a scientific approach to figuring out what works best for getting out of these sticky situations. They came up with three rules to help maximize the amount of mashing the game can read while keeping the strain on hands and fingers minimal. Through these rules–avoiding the C-stick entirely, avoiding simultaneous button presses, and avoiding holding down buttons–they were able to determine that the safest escape method should be buttons-only or left-directional-stick-only.

To see this in action, as well as to hear the thought process behind their methods, be sure to check out the video below.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods via Smash Boards

A few Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom Pro Tour events will be going down this week, including The Call of Ragnarok in Norway and EGX in the UK, both ranking tournaments. The headliner however is the premier event, KO Fighting Game Festival (KO FGF) in Kuwait, hosted by WhiteTowerQ8. Scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, KO FGF will taking place at the Kuwait International Fair in West Mishref, with competitions for Ultra Street Fighter IV and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

As mentioned above, the Ultra Street Fighter IV competition at KO FGF will be a Capcom Pro Tour premier tournament, with one player walking away with a spot in the Capcom Cup finals this December. In addition, the top 16 placers will take home ranking points, key for qualification via the many slots alloted for total points.

Quite of few skilled Street Fighter players will be taking part in the event. In addition to local players like WTQ8|Aziz, WTQ8|Gannoon and WTQ8|Nox2 and other Middle East natives like Latif, you’ll see a number of players from Japan, including YBK|Dashio, YBK|SANTAROU YBK|KichijojiKEN, YBK|-R-, Akimo, RZR|Fuudo and Itazan. RZR|Xian of Singapore and F-Word and FA|Ryan Hart of the UK will also be participating in the event.

If you’re interested in watching the Ultra Street Fighter IV tourney, the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel will be your destination. Track brackets and progress on WhiterTowerQ8’s Challonge page.

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

Scheduled Start Time (Thu, Fri)

AST (Local)	EDT	PDT	GMT
6:00 PM	11:00 AM	8:00 AM	3:00 PM

Source: Capcom Pro Tour, Capcom Fighters

While CTRL’s RayRay is perhaps best known for his Magneto and Sentinel in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, it may surprises some folks to learn that he also runs a second team built around Felicia.

To help remind people of this fact, RayRay recently shared footage of an exhibition he ran–fielding a team consisting of Felicia, Doctor Doom, and Strider Hiryu–against Punisher’s M.O.D.O.K., Rocket Raccoon, and Hawkeye. While somewhat unorthodox, this Felicia team shows some good synergy, with both assists locking his opponent down as he sets up the catgirl’s offense; Hiryu’s Vajra in particular helps keep characters grounded for Delta Kick setups.

Be sure to check out the match below and let us know what you think of RayRay’s Felicia.

Source: RayRay, featured image courtesy of KaboXx