Category: Fighting Games

El Fuerte is one of the characters that has gotten a lot of attention lately in Ultra Street Fighter IV, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Pepeday from the Fukuoka Gamers Club.  As a result of this, many folks are coming to realize just how hard dealing with him can be once he’s gained momentum.

For those players who have gotten sick of getting Quesadilla Bombed, Bifuteki’s SpabRog recently started a brand new tutorial series dedicated to showing how to deal with the cooking luchador. The first three videos of the series are already available – the first provides a quick series overview and the other two deal with what a competitor’s mentality needs to be when playing against Fuerte and how to properly meaty him when he gets knocked down.

As a Fuerte player himself, Spab is offering quite a service with these videos, so check them out and see what you can learn.

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Tonight, Super Arcade will be hosting another installment of the brand new weekly tournament series they created to take over where Level|Up Series’ Wednesday Night Fights left off, continuing their tradition of providing the Southern California area a competitive hub to congregate in. The event (which is without a name as of this writing) will feature brackets for Ultra Street Fighter IV and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

If you’re interested in watching, be sure to tune in live below or head on over to Twitch to join the chat. Brackets for all the games have been made available through Challonge.

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It’s not quite a wavedash, but it’s likely the closest thing to Melee’s much-loved mechanic that we’re going to see in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.

A perfect pivot allows characters to turn quickly in place through the proper canceling of a dash with the flick of the stick in the opposite direction. As the name implies, this maneuver requires perfect execution in order to perform, but the payoff makes it worth programming into muscle memory.

Why’s it so useful? Well, lots of reasons. If an attack is performed during the pivot, that attack will gain directional momentum and allow for a sort of sliding attack to come out. This works for specials as well as tilts and smashes; you can even perform a perfect pivot grab. This sort of slide can be used for everything from positioning to baiting to allowing punishes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.

As with everything else, the slide distance out of a perfect pivot varies from character to character, with Captain Falcon having the longest range and Jigglypuff having the shortest.

For more details including practical application examples, as well as a full list of perfect pivot slide distances, check out the video below.

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Until you understand a character’s normal attacks, you don’t really understand the character. That seems pretty self-evident, but the truth is that many characters have plenty of buttons that can fill all sorts of different roles and lead to different results because of their properties. Sometimes these basic tools, which should be the foundation of any character’s play, get overlooked in favor of flashy combos or vortex setups; I was personally guilty of the latter for longer than I’d like to admit.

Decapre players should keep this lesson in mind when they check out the Ultra Street Fighter IV tutorial below, which focuses entirely on the masked fighter’s normal attacks. You’ll find frame data and hit boxes, as well as how to apply each button in combat. Frame traps, block strings, footsies tips and yes, even some setups make it on to the reel–she is a reset-heavy character after all. You’ll also find a handful of short combos that are used to demonstrate certain situations and provide basic follow-ups for properly-applied normals.

Many of our readers will quickly notice that the tutorial isn’t in English. Luckily, it does have English subtitles and most of the important information comes in the form of standard combo notation, so nothing should be lost.

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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.

In addition to the normal tournaments, a side event for Ultra Street Fighter IV’s Omega Mode will also be taking place.

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

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While Sheik saw a massive drop in high-level competition during the transition from Super Smash Bros. Melee to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, things are definitely looking up for the mysterious fighter in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. This is due in part to some useful movelist expansions afforded to her after separating from Zelda as well as a reverting of numerous changes made to her attacks in Brawl.

In order to assist players who may be looking to main Sheik once again, Swedish competitor Izaw recently released a super useful guide that covers a number of techniques crucial to playing her competently.

Some of the topics covered in this video include helpful movement options, ways to properly make use of Sheik’s new Burst Grenade special (as well as its variable properties), the multiple trajectories of Bouncing Fish, a deadly chain grab, and much more.

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It’s no question that we’ve seen some amazing and hilarious things come out of Ultra Street Fighter IV’s Omega Mode, but there were plenty of balance tweaks that took place in the 1.04 patch outside of the new edition select that have yet to be fully explored.

In an effort to remedy that, Doopliss sat down with some of the affected members of the cast and created combos crazy enough to feel like they belong in Omega Mode, but that could very possibly soon grace tournament streams and ranked matches. That is, if everyone spontaneously develops robot-like execution.

Everything from Decapre stunning Guy and Dhalsim hit-confirming like you wouldn’t believe to a tool-assisted Guile combo that will make you need a cold shower make it onto the reel. Even if Omega Mode isn’t your thing, Doopliss proves that there’s still a lot of fresh fun to have on the main side of the patch.

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