Category: Fighting Games

While Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- isn’t out on home consoles yet, that hasn’t stopped players from using the PlayStation 4 demo to try and figure out some tricks. On such player is VrRaiden, who recently shared this video showing how you can Yellow Roman Cancel the startup of Sol’s Dragon Install in a variety of situations.

For those not familiar with Xrd’s mechanics, players can Roman Cancel out of the starting frames of a move in the game, resulting in a “Yellow” colored Roman Cancel that only takes 25% of their meter.

What’s interesting, however, is that Dragon Install has invincibility frames right at the start, even before the super flash. By canceling it beforehand, players can take advantage of the invincibility and consume less meter in the process.

As detailed in VrRaiden’s video below, this can lead to some interesting setups.

Source: VrRaiden via Brandino

Without a doubt, one of the most hype matches at Evo 2014 was the Super Smash Bros. Melee top eight bout between Mortality’s Axe and Silentwolf of GameClucks. In it, the former was able to “four stock” the latter, a term used by the Smash community so signify a player’s ability to defeat their opponent without losing any of their own lives.

And if that wasn’t enough, Axe’s Pikachu took down Silentwolf’s Fox in less than a minute.

Interestingly enough, Axe doesn’t consider this match as representing him at his best. Rather, he attributes his performance to making some good calls at crucial moments in the match.

If you want to check out the full match without commentary, you’ll find it here.

Source: Axe via Kyou_Saya

Kenneth “K-Brad” Bradley of Evil Geniuses recently began offering online training services, and some of the footage from these sessions has made it onto Cross Counter TV.

One particularly helpful lesson that has made its way to on-demand status features K-Brad going into great detail about how to properly perform throw techs, the advantages of and differences between standing and crouch-teching, and how frame traps play into all of that.

If you’re a seasoned veteran of the fighting genre, it’s doubtful that any of this information will come as a surprise to you, but if you only recently got involved with the greatest gaming genre there is, there’s much to be learned from the 20-minute lesson included below.

Source: Cross Counter TV

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, 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

Thanks to a newly-announced Ultra Street Fighter IV training program called Full Punish, there will soon be even more reason to favor the PC version of Capcom’s current fighting giant. The application works as well as, if not better (much better in some cases) than a human acting as the training dummy. It’s also worlds ahead of trying to convince yourself that “randomly” recording these setups on the dummy yourself is a good way to train.

Been there, tried that, memorized the sequence.

Through the use of Full Punish, the training dummy can be set to perform various attacks in a truly randomized order to help practice defending or, as the name of the program suggests, full punishing whatever setup or approach option has been giving you trouble. In the case of the brief demo footage below, Rufus has been set to perform a wide array of tick throw setups, some of which mix in divekicks to blow up traditional crouch-teching.

As demonstrated, Ryu’s best solution to this pressure involves adding another layer to the crouch-tech option select by pressing Strong as well. Now he’ll tech throws as well as beat out those pesky divekicks with a c.MP. Ryu players that regularly face off against Rufus are probably well aware of this, but for those of us who only face the rock opera lover rarely, it’s great to finally have a way to practice not only the best way to beat this kind of pressure, but to train for proper punish timing in a controlled environment.

Not yet convinced that you need to give Full Punish a whirl once it releases? This is only the first of many upcoming demo reels, so stay tuned to check some more footage in the coming days.

Source: Full Punish, special thanks to UltraChen TV for bringing this to our attention.

With Capcom Cup growing closer and closer, the folks over at Capcom have released three more player spotlights.

While they may not be playing in the main event, Ari “fLoE” Weintraub, YUBIKEN’s Jason “Jayce the Ace” Nghe, and Chris “CJ Truth” Jayson provide an interesting at the overall fighting game community from two very different perspectives: the grizzled veteran and the hungry up-and-comers.

All three videos touch on topics similar to past interviews, like each player’s favorite game, greatest achievement, and worst loss, but also delve into more personal topics. Weintraub, for example, talks a bit about his love for Vampire Savior as well as his tendency to choke in big tournament matches, while Nghe touches on his respect for Justin Wong’s patience.

Miss the previous entries in this series? Follow the links below to find interviews with PIE|Smug, EG|K-Brad, LU|Alex Valle, and many more.

• Filipino Champ, BAS, EG|K-Brad
• PIE|Smug, CCG|Air, MOR|Rico Suave
• NuckleDu, AVM|Kelvin Jeon, LU|Alex Valle
• EG|Justin Wong, Snake Eyez, CCG|Air
• AVM|GamerBee, DIG|Ryan Hart, pH|HooDaMan

Source: Capcom Fighters