Category: Fighting Games

What happens when you give Makoto unlimited super meter and have her spam her Tanden Renki? Aside from kicking up an alarming amount of dust and likely straining her vocal cords, Makoto manages to slow time to a crawl. Of course, this sort of slow down happens with any super flash, (or, more appropriately, super freeze) but since Makoto’s animation plays out the way that it does, some fun visual effects can take place.

In the clips below, Snooootch takes advantage of Makoto’s animation slowing ability to show off Poison, Decapre, and Elena’s supers in slow motion. While we’ve all seen these supers plenty of times before, it’s interesting to see how many different poses the fighters rotate through during their duration–something we’d likely not notice at regular speed.

Snoooootch also experiments with Ibuki’s ability to contribute to the making of these sorts of videos, so be on the lookout for her!

Source: Snoooootch

The importance of knowing the various minutiae associated with the buttons and special moves of your favorite characters can’t be stressed enough. In order to make your way to higher level play, a deep understanding of these concepts will take you far; knowledge is indeed power.

But what about knowing this information when it comes to general game mechanics? E mc has set out to enlighten the masses on the hidden details of X-Factor activation, TACs, and character incoming animations in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Obviously, many of the shapes of the hitboxes and hurtboxes shown are tied to the characters used in the demonstrations, but the fact that it takes an incoming character’s hurtbox roughly ten frames to appear, for example, applies across the board.

If you watch closely, you’ll also notice that performing a Team Aerial Counter results in a screen-wide hitbox. Pretty interesting stuff.

Source: e mc

The importance of knowing the various minutiae associated with the buttons and special moves of your favorite characters can’t be stressed enough. In order to make your way to higher level play, a deep understanding of these concepts will take you far; knowledge is indeed power.

But what about knowing this information when it comes to general game mechanics? E mc has set out to enlighten the masses on the hidden details of X-Factor activation, TACs, and character incoming animations in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Obviously, many of the shapes of the hitboxes and hurtboxes shown are tied to the characters used in the demonstrations, but the fact that it takes an incoming character’s hurtbox roughly ten frames to appear, for example, applies across the board.

If you watch closely, you’ll also notice that performing a Team Aerial Counter results in a screen-wide hitbox. Pretty interesting stuff.

Source: e mc

If you recently found yourself in possession of a copy of Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and are looking for the perfect tutorial to help you get started, this Elphelt Valenine breakdown from Smash and Grab has everything you’ll need to know to pick up one of the series newcomers.

While this video does offer some basic combo options, its focus is to explore Elphelt’s entire moveset. You’ll find frame data, damage output, and various uses for every attack that she brings to the fight. If you’d like a nice collection of combos to go with this information, you can start by checking out our previous roundup dedicated to the shotgun-wielding fighter.

Fans of Smash and Grab’s Super Smash Bros. 4 tutorials need not fear; the duo is merely expanding their horizons when it comes to tutorials and they intend to continue their previous series of Smash character tutorials.

Source: Smash and Grab

Domy, known for the best bursts in Japan, is putting on a year-end Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold (Persona 4 Arena Ultimax) tournament. Not only does the tournament have some of the best P4U2ers in Japan, like JEO, Tahichi, JEO, Souji and JEO (did we forget to mention JEO?), the event has a special set of rules. If any player pulls off a Domy Burst (i.e. a poorly timed, easily punished panic Burst) on-stream, they’ll have to take a drink of whatever their opponent designates. You can watch the dirty fireworks on Jame Xie’s Twitch channel.

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Link and Toon Link in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS are known for their projectile-heavy play styles. While this infatuation with item tossing may not be the best for combos in other engines, LordWilliam1234 demonstrates in this quick bit of footage that the two green garbed fighters can thrive in the Smash environment.

Many of the combos shown aren’t the most practical options available for the characters, as they typically involve well-timed bombs and boomerangs, but when the stars align, these two Hylians are able to drop jaws with the best of them. There’s something truly magical about bombs leading into down-air spikes.

Source: LordWilliam1234

We recently shared a video from My Smash Corner that demonstrated how to effectively perform and make use of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS’ perfect pivot. While it’s not quite as powerful as wavedashing in Melee, few can argue that the tactic stands to change how many characters achieve ideal spacing and even how effective some moves can be.

Since then, Izaw has put together a video that demonstrates how the technique affects every move in the game–those that it does affect, anyway. It seems that the maneuver doesn’t add momentum to every button on every character, but the applications are still vast, as is indicated by the sheer length of the nearly twenty minutes of footage you’re about to consume.

Since the name for the technique is still up in the air, I’d like to suggest that it be dubbed “Tarnot Presents: Tactical Momentum Canceling.” Has a nice ring to it. But in all seriousness, “Perfect Pivoting” seems like one of the best names that the technique is going to get; it may be a little bit boring, but it’s descriptive without being deceptive.

Do you have any better ideas for what to call it? Hit up the comment section and share your thoughts.

Source: Izaw via Smash Boards

Momochi of Evil Geniuses didn’t let the holidays slow him down; while many of us were enjoying time with family (and stuffing ourselves with cookies), he continued to release more entries in his new series of videos dedicated to helping Ultra Street Fighter IV players up their skills enough to pass beyond the realm of the beginner. As anyone who has plateaued at the intermediate level will tell you, getting out of the rut can prove quite difficult.

Below, you’ll find the Capcom Cup champion’s two newest videos, which focus on different ways to add throw techs to new parts of your game. While throw teching itself is far from an advanced tactic, these option selects demonstrate how the defensive measure can permeate many more parts of game play than some may realize.

Source: Momochi & ChocoBlanka TV