Category: Fighting Games

Around the middle of December, our very own Terry “Kineda” Ng hosted HADOCON VI in Burlingame, California. This tournament saw players like Crs|NuckleDu, pH|HooDaMan, Snake Eyez, and plenty more face off in a wide variety of games.

In addition to standard tournament matches, the event also held a team tournament and a NorCal vs. SoCal showdown in Ultra Street Fighter IV, as well as a grudge match between SRKUW|Fawwaz and Revolver Sagod.

If you didn’t catch the event live, or if you just want to relive the Ultra Street Fighter IV portions of the tournament, you can check out the embedded playlists from IPLAYWINNER below. Full results can be found in our coverage hub.

Ultra Street Fighter IV singles

Ultra Street Fighter IV teams

Ultra Street Fighter IV NorCal vs. SoCal

SRKUW|Fawwaz vs. Revolver Sagod grudge match

Source: IPLAYWINNER

While many regard the airdasher sub-genre as one that focuses mainly on offense over defense, learning to counter what your opponent throws at you is just as important as it is in slower-paced titles.

With Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on the verge of resurgence thanks to the beginning of a brand new tournament season and an impending arcade update, three very helpful members of the community have stepped forward to make entry into the title a bit easier from the defensive side of things.

Starting off, we have an incredibly comprehensive tutorial from Team Spooky’s LordKnight that covers a ton of information, including the various options available to members of the cast, background on the mechanics, ways they can be beat, and much more.

Though a very good starting point when first trying out Persona, there’s much more to learn in the way of defensive option selects. Fortunately, Bace and M’Ellis took the torch and created a sort of sequel to LordKnight’s guide that covers further ground from a more technical standpoint.

In addition to teaching how to pull off these defensive option selects, the two players also discuss how they shape the game’s overall strategy with regards to tier lists, risk vs. reward, and more.

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Sources: LordKnight, M’Ellis

This week’s installment of Next Level Battle Circuit is now streaming live courtesy of Team Spooky. As always, the event is being broadcast from its namesake, Next Level Arcade, in New York City. Tonight, they’ll be running Ultra Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, featuring some of the best players on the east coast.

If you would like to check out these weekly tournaments, be sure to head on over to Next Level Arcade and take part every Wednesday. The address has been included below.

4013 8th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

The stream is currently live below, but you can also visit Twitch to join the chat. The full bracket will be made available through Challonge.

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Team Spooky

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS has proven to contain quite a bit of depth beneath those beautifully rendered characters from our childhoods. While the community has yet to stumble across something as game changing as the wavedashing technique made famous in SUper Smash Bros. Melee, there are plenty of roster-wide maneuvers that up the ante while providing benefits to players who harness their power.

Adding another item to this growing list, Zeta recently put together a video showing off what they’re calling “edge sliding.” This technique seems to work much like perfect pivoting, in that it can be used to greatly extend the effective range of various attacks.

In addition to showing how to perform an edge slide, Zeta demonstrates how it stacks up against perfect pivoting so you can get a better feel for which technique best suits your style. There’s a good chance that they’ll both be useful in certain situations, so hit up the lab and see what you think.

Source: Zeta

With news swirling about new titles like Street Fighter V, Mortal Kombat X, and Tekken 7, our attention towards Ultra Street Fighter IV’s Omega Mode has drifted a bit since it was first released. But just because we haven’t been posting about content relating to Omega’s unique remixed gameplay doesn’t mean folks haven’t stopped creating it, and we have some great stuff to show off this afternoon.

First up, Doopliss has released a couple of lengthy combo videos over the past few weeks, broken up between original World Warriors and those that first made appearances in Super Turbo. Much like their earlier exhibitions, these feature some crazy stuff only possible in Omega, making full use of the new tools the characters have been granted.

Of course, you can’t have a discussion about combo videos these days without mentioning Desk, and he’s certainly been putting in work since Ultra Street Fighter IV was updated. As of today, the execution master has released a grand total of thirty-five Omega videos. While we’ve featured some of them before, you’ll find the full playlist included below to help you catch up.

What are some of your favorite Omega videos so far? Feel free to let us know in the comments!

Sources: Doopliss, Desk

As is the case with most every installment, Lab Zero Games had a few treats in store for Skullgirls Encore fans during last week’s Salty! broadcast. While going over the new balance experiments in the Endless Beta, lead developer Mike Zaimont also took the time to demonstrate the interesting hype mechanic employed by upcoming roster addition Beowulf.

By doing specific moves or taunting, Beowulf can build up to three levels of crowd excitement, gaining buffs along the way. For example, having at least one level of hype allows him to link certain throw finishers out of most of his supers.

For those who missed it, Makr0ss has posted a recording of this particular portion of the stream, which we’ve included below. The segment on Beowulf’s excitement mechanic can be found around thirteen minutes in.

Source: Makr0ss via Skullheart