Category: Fighting Games

“Expectations are premeditated resentments.“

If your journey in fighting games has led you to the FGC, that means at some point you had enough fire within you to seek self-improvement. You know that it takes hard work and practice to get to a better “you”. And yet, oftentimes, no matter how aware a player is of what they want, many players will find reasons to not to work for it– even if they want to.

That’s the subject of The Philocypher‘s latest video: the “Lazy Perfectionist.” This is the person aware of the path they want to take, but is unable or unwilling to take it. It’s a struggle that goes beyond fighting games, and it could be holding you back from your growth as a player — and a person.

Source: The Philocypher

We now know why the well has been dry for Blastoise info for Pokkén Tournament DX — it looks like the producers were saving his reveal for a live demo at Japan’s Spring Fist tournament this weekend.

Now that the turtle has come out of his shell, we can see that Blastoise’s move list is (at first glance) surprisingly diverse. He possess more than a few different types of projectiles from his cannons, each covering various angles in different phases. He also seems to have a “Withdraw” stance in both Duel and Field Phase. Perhaps most interesting, Mr. Cannon-Turtle has an armored, mid-range command grab. Add all this together with his healthy 660 HP lifebar, and you have a tank that’s ready for every phase of the fight.

Blastoise is scheduled for release in Pokkén Tournament DX on March 23rd.

Source: Allister Singh

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!

SFCX ran a number of events over the last few days, so let’s play catch-up! Today’s tournaments include Sengoku Basara X Cross, The King of Fighters ’95, and The Last Blade.

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

Just a slice of what made Evo Japan so much fun to watch.

Evo Japan was overflowing with hype — and in this look back from Just Frame, he highlights some of the most exciting aspects of the spectacular event. Check out Abadango’s perfect (literally) Bayonetta play in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Chanel’s thrilling Red Bull-fueled Tekken 7 run, Majin Obama’s passionate Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 commentary, Tokido and Daigo Umehara playing the preview to their epic Kemonomichi 2 bout, and more. Warm up some Cup Noodles and enjoy the show.

Source: Just Frame

King’s Frankensteiner in Tekken 7 is a blockable special mid that turns into a throw on close contact with a standing opponent. At an unimpressive 28 frames, its somewhat slower speed and spacing requirements might completely shy you away from this move. But as Saint showed us with the Jack’s tournament-winning body splash at TWT 2016, you can make some magic work with the right setups for these gimmicky attack-throws.

That’s the meat of BoxeR-King‘s latest tutorial for Tekken’s most famous luchador. Check out the video above for insight on both how to apply this move, and the surprisingly powerful setups King can pressure with afterwards.

Source: BoxeR-King

Earlier this month, the upcoming BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle was on display at the PlayStation Arena event in Korea, with a pre-release tournament providing us some new gameplay footage of several characters. We now have a look at some additional matches between the developers from the event, courtesy of Bloo561.

Our first match features a battle between the four protagonists, as BlazBlue’s Ragna The Bloodedge and RWBY’s Ruby Rose unite to battle the high school team of Persona 4 Arena’s Yu Narukami and Under Night In-Birth’s Hyde Kido. In addition to hearing the fighters call out their partners names for Assists, (which may be team-dependent), we can also see how much damage Yu — who will likely be an average-health character — takes when his Persona is hit in battle, as well as the fact that Resonance Blaze turns the final hit of his Cross Slash Distortion Skill into the Thunder God Dance.

In the second bout, we see Es and Chie Satonaka taking on Hazama and Yukiko Amagi. Fans of the “Unconquerable Snow Black” will be pleased to know that she can automatically gain one Fire Boost Level when her Phoenix Flame Swirl assist is called, and the properties of SB Maragi have been changed to now fire three flames on release/contact (instead of both the C and D versions simultaneously like in Ultimax). The third and final game features Ruby and Weiss taking on the brotherly duo of Ragna and Jin. You can see all three matches below.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC in Japan on Thursday, May 31st, with a North American release on the same platforms Tuesday, June 5th.

Source: Bloo561

 

Stop the trolling, before it stops you!

Sure, Blanka-chan starts off all cute and cuddly, but before you know it, there’s a crazy screaming ball of fur and claws flying straight at your face. The light version of his Rolling Attack is a tricky special move in terms of timing, and can be easily abused — but as long as you keep your cool and block that roll, VesperArcade has you covered. The video below offers examples for the whole cast on how to punish the Rolling Attack on block.

Refer to the list below if you’re looking for punishes for a specific character, or jump right to where you want using the timestamps in the video description.

• Ryu: 00:26
• Chun-Li: 00:47
• Nash: 01:12
• M.Bison: 01:27
• Cammy: 01:40
• Birdie: 01:59
• Ken: 02:26
• Necalli: 02:49
• Vega: 03:09
• Rashid: 03:38
• Karin: 03:53
• Laura: 04:16
• Dhalsim: 04:32
• F.A.N.G: 04:44
• Alex: 05:09
• Guile: 05:24
• Ibuki: 05:40
• Balrog: 06:07
• Juri: 06:35
• Urien: 06:49
• Akuma: 07:11
• Kolin: 07:41
• Ed: 08:00
• Abigail: 08:20
• Menat: 08:39
• Zeku: 08:59
• Sakura: 09:33
• Blanka: 10:00

Source: VesperArcade