Category: Fighting Games

In a game full of interesting characters, Ms. Fortune arguably ranks near the top of the weirdness chart in Skullgirls Encore. Her ability to detach her head in the middle of a fight allows the feline combatant to chain together some furious combos and resets that can deal catastrophic damage.

That said, being able to pull these combos off isn’t easy. To help new players out, Skippy McYay recently put together a tutorial video that teaches players how to beat down their opponents when Fortune is in separate pieces. Apart from the combos, they also demonstrate how to properly use her cranium to head off any reversal or escape attempts.

Source: Skippy McYay

If you’re a fan of King of Fighters XIII combos that are as flashy as they are damaging, this latest exhibition from Persona might just make your day. Not only does Persona deliver the quality combos that their name has come to be synonymous with, but they do so at a beautiful 60 frames per second.

The video below puts Shen Woo in the spotlight and Persona is able to use the fighter to KO opponents in fairly small strings of blows. There are, however, some combos that finish with alarmingly small hit counters when considering the damage output. For example, near the end of the video, Persona is able to put down Duo Lon in only four hits. Granted, there’s an incredible amount of meter involved, but this does prove that Shen Woo’s damage is nothing to take lightly.

If this is the first time you’ve seen a video from Persona, you might want to sit down if you’re not already.

Source: Persona

 

This weekend Versus Gameplay will bringing to you Absolute Battle 5, one of Texas’s largest fighting game events. AB5 will feature some of the best of Lone Star State and surrounding areas, including DL|FourWude, BT|Angelic, Ranmasama and Boost|Jan as well as quite a few talents from across the US, like EG|Ricky Ortiz, Snake Eyez, Filipino Champ and CTRL|RayRay (Check here for player profiles!). If those unable to attend the event in persons, PandaxGaming will streaming a selection of fighting game events as they happen.

Tournament Games

• BlazBlue Chronophantasma
• Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Killer Instinct
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Ultra Street Fighter IV

Featured Events

In addition to the scheduled tournaments, Absolute Battle 5 will have a few featured events.

Ultra Fight Night: Battle in The Pandagon

This highlight event pits Texas’s finest against the out-of-towners in the popular Ultra Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The fight card for each game is scheduled to begin after completion of the titles’ respective pools.

Ultra Street Fighter IV Redemption Tournament

Tournament play is naturally of a harsh nature. Regardless of the quality of players competing, by the end of the first round of the losers bracket, a quarter of the players who started the tournament will be eliminated. The vast majority of players won’t make it out of their pools. The USFIV Redemption Tournament is a fun way to give players another chance to play in this 32-player single-elimination event limited to non-top 16 players only.

Stream

PandaxGaming will be providing a live broadcasts of the fighting game events. Friday kicks off with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom team action, with singles pools for the main titles beginning Saturday.

Watch live video from PandaxGaming on www.twitch.tv

Below is a schedule for the event. All times are in Central Standard Time (UTC -6).

Sources: Versus Gameplay, PandaxGaming

At this point in the life of the Street Fighter IV series, it’s fairly common knowledge that Sakura can follow up her EX Tatsu with a hit of some sort to put her opponent in a tough situation to react to. What may be less common knowledge is just how many different ways that Sakura can approach this sort of setup.

As shano shows in the video below, there are dozens of options at the fighter’s disposal, each heavily impacting exactly where Sakura lands once the reset is done. Some of the options put Sakura in a position where she can choose to dash or not dash to pick which side she’s on, some allow her to sail over her opponent and some of the corner setups just look so strange that opponents may very well still be scratching their heads when the new combo begins.

After all the EX Tatsu reset options have been exhausted, shano moves on to explore some tricky situations that Sakura can put her opponents in after a focus crumple. Many of these are the sorts of things that you’d guess she can do after the crumple’s aerial frames begin, but they’re still good to keep in mind to keep your opponents on their toes.

If you missed shano’s extensive Sakura combo tutorial, follow this link to check it out.

Source: shano

Evolution 2011 world champion Keita “RZR|Fuudo” Ai recently discovered an interesting new option select in Ultra Street Fighter IV. The technique, which he calls “Ai-Shiki” (literally “Ai-style”) after his surname, allows a player to option select between a regular focus attack and a red focus attack depending on whether or not their opponent attacks them.

KarbyP has uploaded a video that explains how Fuudo does it.  In the video below, he presses fierce punch and roundhouse kick together immediately after a focus, and then inputs the command for a red focus (pressing jab, strong and forward) at the same time immediately afterwards to cancel the focus once its armor absorbs a hit (called an armor cancel) into the red focus.

The interesting thing, however, is that the method shown above has already been simplified. As Dooplis demonstrates in his own video, you do not need to armor cancel the focus attack with a taunt as focus attacks can themselves be armor cancelled directly into a red focus attack.

Give the video below a spin and see if you can find a use for this in your game.

Source: KarbyP, Dooplis

As with most Super Smash Bros. 4 content creators, the folks at Smash and Grab will soon be making the switch from the 3DS version of the game to the Wii U version for higher quality visuals to pair with their already high quality tutorials. The final Smash for 3DS hurrah from the team comes in the form of a character tutorial for Lady Palutena.

As with previous tutorials from Smash and Grab, you can expect to learn the kill thresholds for various moves, effective methods of spiking, various combos and how to approach the neutral game. One of the scarier parts of Lady Palutena is her throw game as her upair can kill from a grab at around 110%, a tactic which the video covers in-depth.

Smash and Grab also made tutorials for a few other members of the cast. To check those out, follow the links below.

• Bowser Jr.
• Zero Suit Samus
• Lucina

Source: Smash and Grab