Category: Fighting Games

Though generally hard to find in series’ initial outing, Yosuke Hanamura has seen a surge in representation in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax thanks to a number of beneficial changes between installments. If you’re a player who found themselves switching to the Persona 4 party member in this title but have yet to incorporate his powerful short hop mixups in your gameplan, the following video is definitely worth a watch.

Created in response to Mokke taking home first place with his team at ARC REVOLUTION CUP 2015, Greek Angel imparts a good deal of important information in the guide below, including the technique that made the Japanese player such a dominant force this past weekend. Also keep an eye out for a contribution by Pssychh that shows how Yosuke can utilize his jumping A+B during a hop to fake out opponents expecting it to hit mid like the rest of the game’s normals.

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If you’re looking to add space animal mastery to your Super Smash Bros. for Wii U resume, Izaw’s most recent video, The Art of Falco, is a great place to get started. Like their previous “Art of” videos, this guide details everything that players will need to know when picking up this character or simply deepening a pre-existing mastery of the Star Fox veteran.

The guide opens with an extensive breakdown of Falco’s combo options before moving on to some of the more advanced tactics that the laser-toting bird brings to the battle. Things like down air canceling, using short hops before phantasms to speed their recovery, and how to make the most of Falco’s jab cancel all get touched upon here.

Izaw has also peppered kill options throughout the footage to make sure that Falco’s opponents find their way to a blast zone in a timely manner.

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Lee Chung Gon, more commonly known as Poongko, recently celebrated his birthday, and took the time to sit down with Arcade Stream for a small interview.

In addition to talking about his sponsorship opportunities with r/Kappa, Poongko touches on how he thinks he stacks up against other top Ultra Street Fighter IV players Surprisingly, he doesn’t consider himself at the same “super high level” as other professional players, but he’s still grateful to be able to play on the same stage as them.

You can check out the entire video below. Aside from the interview, it also contains some footage from Poongko’s birthday celebration.

Source: Arcade Stream

One thing that can discourage any player from trying out Super Smash Bros. is the fact that the series isn’t built for traditional fighting game controls. Smash is still best played with a gamepad–preferably the GameCube pad–with an analog stick.

But that hasn’t stopped some players from figuring out how to play the game on an arcade stick. In this new video, FRC|TheBlackHombre explains how he modified an arcade stick, specifically a Qanba Q1, to work with Super Smash Bros.

Most of the work went towards creating a comfortable way of mapping Smash’s inputs onto the eight-button layout. The tricky bit was to allow a semblance of Smash’s analog controls using the standard digital joystick. This was done using a trick that folks who’ve played Smash with a keyboard on the Dolphin emulator might be familiar with: using a separate button to toggle the sticks inputs between full tilt and various degrees of tilt.

Check out the video below to see how this all works.

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Olympic Gaming’s most recent Ultra Street Fighter IV spotlight is a little bit different than what we’ve been seeing in past weeks. Mainly, the video runs shorter than usual–not even reaching the ten minute mark–but it’s not for lack of match footage, as there are just as many sets as ever. These matches, however, are often over before they even start thanks to WWBH|Mike.

Mike plays Ibuki. Mike’s approach to Ibuki will likely have a polarizing effect on viewers, but love or hate his tactics, it’s hard to deny that Mike knows his way around a kunai.

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Last weekend, Capcom quietly conducted an “internal stress test” for Street Fighter V, which led to the game’s beta opening up for a limited amount of time. This allowed a few lucky folks to jump into training mode and even play a few matches online, even if the beta had yet to officially return.

Urichinan, who we’ve featured before in an earlier roundup, took the time to explore how Chun-Li could use her V-Trigger to juggle opponents in the current beta build. These combos include V-Skill launches, as well as some interesting anti-air and air-to-air setups where she can use her V-Trigger’s multi-hit properties to keep her opponents airborne longer than she normally could without it.

Check the video out below and share your thoughts in the comments.

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August saw Pokkén Tournament’s very first update land in arcades, adding fiery bird Pokémon Blaziken to the playable cast. As such, footage has started to make its way online as folks have become more accustomed to the newcomer.

We’ve included a ton of recent videos below for those of you interested in what Blaziken brings to the table. The first demonstrates a number of basic combos the Pokémon is capable of, as well as one super damaging string that combines its Mega Evolution with the Eevee assist to demolish the opponent. After that, you’ll find longer videos containing competitive footage against a number of the other cast members.

Pokkén Tournament is currently exclusive to Japanese arcades.

Sources: たべっ子どうぶつ, リョウ, special thanks to jed for his help in tracking down these videos.