Category: Fighting Games

This past weekend at the New York Comic Con, Capcom brought out Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite’s first batch of DLC characters: Black Panther, Monster Hunter, and Sigma. Alongside revealing the release date for the three, they also allowed people to try them out at the show.

For those who weren’t able to go to NYCC, GameSpot was able to capture some direct feed footage of the three in action. The video below features a match between all three characters (alongside Captain Marvel) duking it out. While the gameplay on showcase isn’t exactly high-level competitive play (you can tell that whoever is playing is letting their opponent get some hits in), we do see some examples of what these characters are capable of, such as Monster Hunter’s post-super install mode, and Black Panther and Sigma’s wall jumps.

Source: GameSpot

If you go online much with Street Fighter V, you will see an army of newcomers who have major difficulties with throws. You’ll also find some players that ride solely on throws, and will get frustrated when they run up against players who know how to tech them.

Gootecks covers both of these scenarios in his Cross Counter Training series. He teaches the importance of throws — and how to execute them, or map them to one button within Street Fighter V‘s menu — and also goes over how to tech throws, and how to use shimmies to mix up people who will mash techs out of your block strings.

Source: Cross Counter TV

If you go online much with Street Fighter V, you will see an army of newcomers who have major difficulties with throws. You’ll also find some players that ride solely on throws, and will get frustrated when they run up against players who know how to tech them.

Gootecks covers both of these scenarios in his Cross Counter Training series. He teaches the importance of throws — and how to execute them, or map them to one button within Street Fighter V‘s menu — and also goes over how to tech throws, and how to use shimmies to mix up people who will mash techs out of your block strings.

Source: Cross Counter TV

With Capcom bringing Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite to the New York Comic Con, it should come as no surprise that Long Island’s favorite son, Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli, was at the event to try the characters out.

Also at the event was Mark “BornFree” Sheridan, who caught up with LI Joe. In the video below, BornFree shares some of LI Joe’s matches against Capcom’s Mike D, while also getting his impressions on the DLC characters — who he’s using, what he thinks will be effective with them, and more.

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We’re is back with more Electric Wind God Vids, and today marks the start of our dissection of individual character’s tools, and how to beat them. We’re going to start with Leo’s B+1,4: a frustrating mid-mid string that seems, at first glance, shockingly safe.

But as with many other things in Tekken 7, picking apart the way the move works reveals a lot of opportunities for you to exploit and defeat anyone that throws this out predictably. Get your footsies and reactions ready — we’re going to turn one of Leo’s favorite moves into a liability.

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It goes without saying that in the Super Smash Bros. series, movement is the cornerstone to playing well. One of the most overlooked movement options is navigating toward platforms, in particular on Yoshi’s Story and Pokemon Stadium.

While most of the cast can use No Impact Lands — which negates the landing frames of your jump onto a platform — Sheik has a few more options to land on platforms. Using her short hop needle landings and short hop neutral air landings, she can land faster on the platform and extend her combos.

Source: SSBM Tutorials

Following its appearance at the Nintendo World Championships last night, Nintendo has released a new trailer showing off some of the new content coming in ARMS Ver 3.2. The main addition is the Badge Stash, a special achievement system where players gain badges for completing specific tasks. You can then attach these badges to your online profile, to show off your skills.

In a short teaser at the end of the trailer, we get a glimpse of a robotic version of Spring Man, designed in the style of Hedlok from the single-player Grand Prix mode. He appears on for just a few seconds, so it’s hard to tell if this metal counterpart is a brand new character, or just an alt-skin for ARMS‘ mascot.

Source: Nintendo

This past weekend, alongside the New York Comic Con, IGN held their first ever WWE x IGN eSports Showdown. The event saw a number of WWE Superstars compete in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

The main event was a 4 man tournament featuring the Phenomenal AJ Styles, the Swiss Cyborg Cesaro, Kofi Kingston, and the fighting general manager Xavier Woods. In addition to this, a grudge match also took place between 2 former WWE Raw Woman’s Champions, the BOSS Sasha Banks, and Bayley.

What’s interesting about the latter is the fact that it was a tag team match with both the Boss and Bayley bringing in actual professional fighting game players. In Sasha’s corner, she brought in F3 Flipside Tactics’ Hollywood Sleep. Bayley on the other hand stacked the deck in her favor by bringing in fellow NorCal resident, Splyce’s Filipino Champ.

For those who missed it, you can check out the entire event in the video below.

Source: IGN

There’s a large disparity in the options different characters off their magic 4s in Tekken 7. (If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a Magic 4, SRK has made a video detailing the concept here!) While some characters get quite easy conversions off these fast counter-hit tools, many have to work on difficult micro-dashes in order to convert meaningful damage output.

Leo is one such character. It’ll take some practice, but with Scallywag 93‘s latest tutorial you can finally break 33% off of Leo’s Magic 4, and in the process cover one of the character’s few weaknesses.

Source: Scallywag 93