Category: Fighting Games

Street Fighter Carnival X is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. To see the beginning of these high-level Japanese tournaments, go here!

Starting us off is SNK’s Fatal Fury Special, which has been the most-often played title of this year’s SFC. Because of this, the competition is as fierce as it’s ever been!

Next is Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash. This 1995 game is the first fighting game made by developer Racdym, and with its deliberate ground game, slick sprite work and chaotic item interactions, it’s likely their best entry in the genre. None of this forgives Lucifeller, though.

And closing us out is ADK’s World Heroes 2. Don’t confuse this with World Heroes 2 Perfect –– these titles are quite different from each other, both mechanically and in pacing. If you want to compare, SSFC2017 has had its own tournament for WH2P, which you can check out here.

You can follow the action of SFCX by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

Nothing has more swagger than ending a nice long combo with a “HAKAI.”

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Beerus is essentially built at design level for the crazy and impractical combos that the Combonauts excel in, thanks to his persistent and versatile Orbs of Destruction. The perfect spacing and timing necessary to make the most of these “projectiles” may be difficult (if not near-impossible) to achieve in an actual match, but that makes it no less fun to see how the God of Destruction can use them to play pinball with his opponents!

Source: Combonauts

Nothing has more swagger than ending a nice long combo with a “HAKAI.”

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Beerus is essentially built at design level for the crazy and impractical combos that the Combonauts excel in, thanks to his persistent and versatile Orbs of Destruction. The perfect spacing and timing necessary to make the most of these “projectiles” may be difficult (if not near-impossible) to achieve in an actual match, but that makes it no less fun to see how the God of Destruction can use them to play pinball with his opponents!

Source: Combonauts

Brace yourself for over two hours of ARMS action!

Nintendo’s own original fighting franchise ARMS is still grabbing players with its stretchy and strategic spin on the fighting game concept. To promote the title, Nintendo recently held an event for North American ARMS fans: the US & Canada Online Open, taking place at the end of March.

For a hefty fistful of what ARMS competition looks like, check out these VODs of the event from Nintendo; you can watch the semi-finals and top 8, all the way to B2S¤Gryff and Resolve battling it out in the Grand Final.

ARMS will also be a featured title at the upcoming SwitchFest from 2GG.

Source: Nintendo

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Vegeta is unquestionably the keeper of the game’s strongest assist. But anyone can press the assist button — what do you do when your Vegeta pick is forced to stand on his own?!

For those that are looking to explore the toolkit of the Prince of All Saiyans, That Blasted Salami has put together a masterclass on learning his fundamentals. This well-rounded fighter has one of the game’s few true meterless reversals, excellent specials, and a decent bag tricks for close range pressure.

Source: That Blasted Salami

More tech to take into your training room!

The community is still sorting out the aftermath of the surprise Season 3.5 balance patch for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition that dropped last week. This patch meant some changes — in some cases slight, in many cases significant — for every character. Here are  a few examples of what the cast can do in SFV’s new normal.

NurseLee took Sakura into the lab to put together some Hanakaze throw setups for Sakura:

With the reversion of Alex’s standing jab, NurseLee reminds us what meaties can be performed with it again:

Peter Souvannarath offers this example of how Dhalsim 3.5 can utilize his fiery techniques:

World-Warrior shares an overview of how Ken has changed in the new patch:

Joutai expands on this with a V-Trigger I mix-up.

Brian_F looks at the changes to Balrog in the new patch:

Urien players can catch a bit of tech for the tyrant (from Twitter) below:

In season 2.5 these loops only worked on counter hit, now they only work on regular hit, which I think is better since you can do it after a jump in or after stun. Doesn't work on Alex, not sure about Blanka and Sakura. Works on everyone else pic.twitter.com/q5QATp91ZM

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 4, 2018

HBL ideas after VT2 activation, Low damage due to Vtrigger scaling.

First loop, activate VT2 on the second hit of ex fireball
Second loop, microstep back after https://t.co/xnh6beUkFu pic.twitter.com/a8UWSA5qzJ

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 4, 2018

pic.twitter.com/JAVHrTBfI5

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 5, 2018

立小Kからの投げは届かないからね　投げこすってるとこんな事故もあるから気をつけましょう #PS4share pic.twitter.com/zCIZ5bvepZ

— えんちゃん(ながとも) (@nagatomo55_) April 5, 2018

トレモ楽しい #PS4share pic.twitter.com/pOs8U68pNR

— えんちゃん(ながとも) (@nagatomo55_) April 5, 2018

And as usual, there’s no stopping desk from pushing the limits of SFV’s mechanics!

The new patch also introduced a new invisibility bug…

Thanks to everyone that sent in tips! If you’ve got some SFVAE tech to share, drop us a line on our tipline.

Sources: NurseLee; Peter Souvannarath; World-Warrior; Joutai; Brian_F; a_e_o_n_; nagatomo55_; desk

More tech to take into your training room!

The community is still sorting out the aftermath of the surprise Season 3.5 balance patch for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition that dropped last week. This patch meant some changes — in some cases slight, in many cases significant — for every character. Here are  a few examples of what the cast can do in SFV’s new normal.

NurseLee took Sakura into the lab to put together some Hanakaze throw setups for Sakura:

With the reversion of Alex’s standing jab, NurseLee reminds us what meaties can be performed with it again:

Peter Souvannarath offers this example of how Dhalsim 3.5 can utilize his fiery techniques:

World-Warrior shares an overview of how Ken has changed in the new patch:

Joutai expands on this with a V-Trigger I mix-up.

Brian_F looks at the changes to Balrog in the new patch:

Urien players can catch a bit of tech for the tyrant (from Twitter) below:

In season 2.5 these loops only worked on counter hit, now they only work on regular hit, which I think is better since you can do it after a jump in or after stun. Doesn't work on Alex, not sure about Blanka and Sakura. Works on everyone else pic.twitter.com/q5QATp91ZM

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 4, 2018

HBL ideas after VT2 activation, Low damage due to Vtrigger scaling.

First loop, activate VT2 on the second hit of ex fireball
Second loop, microstep back after https://t.co/xnh6beUkFu pic.twitter.com/a8UWSA5qzJ

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 4, 2018

pic.twitter.com/JAVHrTBfI5

— Fabio Sossa (@a_e_o_n_) April 5, 2018

立小Kからの投げは届かないからね　投げこすってるとこんな事故もあるから気をつけましょう #PS4share pic.twitter.com/zCIZ5bvepZ

— えんちゃん(ながとも) (@nagatomo55_) April 5, 2018

トレモ楽しい #PS4share pic.twitter.com/pOs8U68pNR

— えんちゃん(ながとも) (@nagatomo55_) April 5, 2018

And as usual, there’s no stopping desk from pushing the limits of SFV’s mechanics!

The new patch also introduced a new invisibility bug…

Thanks to everyone that sent in tips! If you’ve got some SFVAE tech to share, drop us a line on our tipline.

Sources: NurseLee; Peter Souvannarath; World-Warrior; Joutai; Brian_F; a_e_o_n_; nagatomo55_; desk