Category: Fighting Games

Following up on his recent breakdown of base Vegeta, Maximilian returns with another breakdown, this time focusing on base Goku. Noting that a lot of his neutral and normal attacks are “fairly Goku-like,” and will be familiar to players of his Super Saiyan and SSGSS incarnations, Max feels that base Goku really distinguishes himself in his unique combo routes, making note of his ability to seemingly get multiple Smashes per combo with one of his unique normals, as well as his interesting downward Ki blasts that can be launched into the sky, held, or extended into his medium Auto Combo, providing him will full-screen conversations if they hit.

After a basic overview of his specials, Maximilian transitions into discussing his Spirit Bomb, which sees him gathering energy which can be charged to unleash a long-range, launching command grab that can knock opponents further into the air the higher its level, which can set up big combo opportunities.

Moving on to his super special moves, specifically his Level 1, the Kaioken, Max shows off some of the currently-optimal pathways for the rekka-style attacks, though he feels the best aspect of base Goku is his Level 3 Super Spirit Bomb, which inflicts a notable amount of damage on both hit and block, in addition to catching Vanishes, so it may be best to try and Reflect it if you see it coming. Max feels this could be the strongest aspect of this Goku, due to its ability to set up near touch-of-death situations, especially from his fully-charged Level 3 Lend Me Your Energy special. You can see the full video below.

Have you found any good tech with base Goku so far? If so, feel free to share it in the comments.

Source: Maximilian Dood

If there’s one thing that’s been consistent with Street Fighter throughout its history, it’s been how it tends to change almost wholesale for each new installment. The changes in each mainline installment make it so that each new game often feels very, very different from the last.

In a new video, Novriltataki takes a look into this phenomenon, and how it tends to lead to each installment unfortunately being focused on the new changes and mechanics to the point of feeling “gimmicky”.  It’s something that many veterans are already familiar with, and Novril does list out some of the most egregious examples, such as Street Fighter III‘s parries, and Street Fighter Alpha 3‘s V-ISM and ineffectual projectiles.

In addition to all this, Novril also points out how some other games have been able to implement new mechanics into a Street Fighter-style, grounded non-airdash fighter without them being as dominant.

Source: novriltataki

Yesterday, the online portion of the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour continued its steady forward march with the Finals of the second Online Ranking Event for Northern Latin America. Eligible regions included Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Republic of Panama, and Puerto Rico. With 101 registered entrants, it was certainly going to be a tough time to crack into the top 8 and score some precious Ranking Points.

Though this event was played to top 8 on its originally scheduled date of Saturday, July 28th, a PlayStation Network outage forced the top 8 matches to be temporarily postponed and rescheduled until after Evo 2018. A Champion has now been crowned, though — and we have results and replays here for you.

Results

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

1. OWL ALLIANCE|Crossover (Akuma) – 150 Points
2. Mono (F.A.N.G) – 70 Points
3. TIGERS|LuiMan20 (Dhalsim) – 40 Points
4. RH|Zeromex7 (Balrog) – 20 Points
5. Lilo24k (Balrog, Abigail) – 10 Point
5. Jochy (Akuma) – 10 Points
7. MGR|NovaMage (Kolin) – 1 Point
7. RD_EricKOF1 (R. Mika) – 1 Point
9. RISE|Caba (Guile)
9. DR Ray (Ibuki)
9. PXLN|Roberto (Ryu)
9. FS|Fraud0noko (M. Bison)
13. Infused|Droker (Akuma)
13. -Starlight- (Nash)
13. Juanfraroth (Alex)
13. Taker (Ibuki)

We’ve got replays of the top 8 action below, featuring commentary from LevelUp’s Alex “Calipower” Valle and Godspeed, below.

The next Capcom Pro Tour Online Ranking event will be the second event for Eastern Europe, next Saturday, August 18th. Eligible regions include Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and the Ukraine. The tournament will begin at 10:00 AM BST, with the top 8 being streamed at 4:00 PM BST at twitch.tv/capcomfighters, as well as the Capcom Fighers YouTube Channel and Street Fighter Facebook page. Registration is currently live at smash.gg.

Source: Capcom Fighters

From the fall of Marvel vs. Capcom, to the rise of Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter V, Evo shifts into the modern esports era!

After detailing the origin point of the Evolution Championship Series, theScore esports returns with Part 2 of their documentary on “The Story of Evo.”

Following Daigo Umehara’s back-to-back victories in Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV in 2009 and 2010, Capcom made the pivotal releases of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in 2011, ushering in what would become a new 7-year era for the Versus Series — that would sadly end with 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite being excluded from this year’s main lineup of titles.

In the meantime however, another force was slowing rising up, Super Smash Bros. Melee, which made a triumphant return to the Evo main stage in 2013 after raising a whopping $94,683 for breast cancer research, ending a five-year streak of absence. Notably, they trumped Lab Zero’s Skullgirls, which to this day has yet to taste main stage glory. However, as noted by James Chen, Maximilian, Liquid|Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez, and Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar, they first had to combat Nintendo’s attempts to shut down that portion of the event.

However, the Smash community would not be denied, as Evo 2015 and 2016 played host to the four biggest Smash tournaments of all-time between Melee and Wii U. In more recent times, we’ve had the controversy of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being added to this year’s lineup months before release, to the massive 5,065 player debut of Street Fighter V in 2016, to last Sunday’s Dragon Ball FighterZ Grand Finals between Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and Cyclops Osaka’s GO1 being the most watched set in the history of Evo. There is also the rise in developer support, with new characters, entire games, and tournament circuits being announced in Las Vegas, not to mention the expansion into the East with the debut of Evo Japan.

The video closes with a rundown of all past and current Battle by the Bay and Evolution Championship Series Champions. You can enjoy the entire video below.

Feel free to share some of your favorite Evo moments in the comments.

Source: theScore esports

From the fall of Marvel vs. Capcom, to the rise of Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter V, Evo shifts into the modern esports era!

After detailing the origin point of the Evolution Championship Series, theScore esports returns with Part 2 of their documentary on “The Story of Evo.”

Following Daigo Umehara’s back-to-back victories in Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV in 2009 and 2010, Capcom made the pivotal releases of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in 2011, ushering in what would become a new 7-year era for the Versus Series — that would sadly end with 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite being excluded from this year’s main lineup of titles.

In the meantime however, another force was slowing rising up, Super Smash Bros. Melee, which made a triumphant return to the Evo main stage in 2013 after raising a whopping $94,683 for breast cancer research, ending a five-year streak of absence. Notably, they trumped Lab Zero’s Skullgirls, which to this day has yet to taste main stage glory. However, as noted by James Chen, Maximilian, Liquid|Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez, and Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar, they first had to combat Nintendo’s attempts to shut down that portion of the event.

However, the Smash community would not be denied, as Evo 2015 and 2016 played host to the four biggest Smash tournaments of all-time between Melee and Wii U. In more recent times, we’ve had the controversy of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being added to this year’s lineup months before release, to the massive 5,065 player debut of Street Fighter V in 2016, to last Sunday’s Dragon Ball FighterZ Grand Finals between Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and Cyclops Osaka’s GO1 being the most watched set in the history of Evo. There is also the rise in developer support, with new characters, entire games, and tournament circuits being announced in Las Vegas, not to mention the expansion into the East with the debut of Evo Japan.

The video closes with a rundown of all past and current Battle by the Bay and Evolution Championship Series Champions. You can enjoy the entire video below.

Feel free to share some of your favorite Evo moments in the comments.

Source: theScore esports

Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s latest patch was meant to give some of the less-used characters a bit more tools to work with. Now, content creators are starting to unlock the potential of these buffed characters. One of these combo video creators is none other than Final Showdown, who’s discovered a lot of the tech for Dragon Ball FighterZ. His latest videos cover two of the characters affected by the patch: Teen Gohan and Piccolo.

For Teen Gohan, the patch has basically made some harder-to-do combos much easier. This includes a couple of loops that used to be a bit impractical, that are now much easier to pull off in real matches.

His video for Piccolo is much shorter, simply focusing on his orbs, which received more hit stun post patch. This makes combos out of the orbs much easier.

Source: Final Showdown