Category: Fighting Games

Pokkén Tournament’s Lucario has always been Mr. Fundamental: a low-execution, well-rounded character suited to handle any situation adequately. This made him a popular tournament pick, and an unlikely candidate for any major buffs or nerfs in future releases.

There was, perhaps, one tool in his movelist that seemed redundant though: his 2X. Coming in at the speed as his jab (13 frames), this ducking sweep led to nothing if it hit other then a low-damage knockdown. It has shorter range then his other ducking tool (2Y), so aside from situations where your opponent was in Burst Mode, it had little use.

DX solves this by giving 2X a small launch property, allowing you to follow up with 6Y or 2Y for a decent 20% (and potentially more if you hit the wall!). Whether intentional or not, this also combos after Counter Attack stuns, effectively giving Lucario a new optimal path. Mr. Fundamental is fundamentally better, no matter how you look at it.

Source: DualDEATHLucario

Bringing together some of the finest Street Fighter V players from the USA and Japan, esports organization YOUDEAL is hosting a special 5v5 team exhibition to determine which country is truly the best. With Daigo Umehara as Japan’s captain and Justin Wong as the USA’s, it’s going to be quite the showdown. The lineups are as follows:

Team Japan

• GRPT|Haitani
• GRPT|Fuudo
• AW|Nemo
• GGP|Kazunoko
• Hx.Twitch.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara (team captain)

Team USA

• RISE|Smug
• Splyce|Filipino Champ
• CYG BST|Snake Eyez
• CYG BST|PR Balrog
• FOX|Justin Wong (team captain)

Both teams are missing some heavy hitters, with both NuckleDu and Punk nowhere to be seen for Team USA, while Team Japan have let Tokido, Yukadon and Momochi sit this one out. You’ll have to be up pretty early to watch this exhibition, with it streaming live on NicoNico at 8pm JST/4am PDT tomorrow. Hopefully, there will be an English restream at some point, so non-night owls can catch up on all of the action.

Source: YOUDEAL LIVE

In Pokkén Tournament DX, damage scaling and phase shift mechanics are Bandai Namco’s chosen methods of controlling damage output for optimal combos. Because of this, you generally see damage cap at similar numbers in Duel Phase, somewhere within the 200-230 range, before a phase shift occurs — depending upon the character at combo starter.

Scizor, Namco’s clear pitch to airdash fanatics, breaks through all of that with his “Swords Dance” subsystem, and the long air combos that come about because of them. Muramishi shows off some impressive stuff here, including a link from Scizor’s sword-buffed “Aerial Ace” and an insane Burst Mode-only 300+ combo that doesn’t consume his Burst Attack.

Source: Muramishi

Team synergy has always been an important factor of every game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. Despite the changes to the tag system, the mechanics still require a lot of thought into how to form your team to be both effective and defensively sound.

In this video, Gootecks and Echo Fox’s Justin Wong sit down to discuss exactly that. Using his team-creation theory, Justin discusses all the important factors — including mobility, combos, and damage — that he considers when picking up Marvel. He also discusses what could potentially be an example of a bad team.

Source: Cross Counter TV

It’s a generally accepted fact that Injustice 2‘s Brainiac is a coin-flipping monster once he pins you down in the corner. With access to unreactable combo-starting options from both a 9-frame overhead and a 7-frame low, jockeying for position becomes incredibly important in order to beat the “Collector of Worlds.”

MK_REO, a NRS content creator and Method Gaming -sponsored player, observed that this isn’t enough to build a gameplan off of, when fighting Brainiac. The reason for this is because the “background bounce” mechanic allows him to setup the same unseeable, high-damage mix-up mid-screen on certain stages — which, as REO notes, is half the stage list of the game.

Source: MK_REO

In most fighting games, control of the neutral is all important. It’s also a little more difficult to maintain in the backdash heavy, high-execution world of Tekken 7.

But whereas grapplers in other games might spend their time on just getting in and coin flipping, the hyper-mobile Jaguar can control the neutral with his own assortment of strong, long range pokes. Mixed in with his wave-dashing and whiff punishing capabilities, King’s neutral is just as fearsome as his Giant Swing.

Source: BoxeR-King