Category: Fighting Games

As part of the build up to this month’s release of Pokkén Tournament DX, the official Pokémon YouTube channel has been releasing a series of Pokémon introduction trailers. The latest of these features the versatile fan-favorite Aura Pokémon, Lucario.

The video, which you can see below, specifically highlights its in-game abilities such as its Aura Sphere, Bone Rush, and Extreme Speed. These are shown off in some quick combos, demonstrating just a bit of what Lucario can do.

Source: Pokémon

The floodgates are still open on Menat tech on the Internet, and as such, it’s time for another Menat roundup to show you everything currently circulating on the web.

Go1 leads off, showing what he’s discovered with the character — a 50/50 mixup in the corner with V-Trigger. By varying the button used to achieve her drill, it can either cross up the opponent, or land in front, making this completely ambiguous.

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— CYCLOPS | GO1 (@GO13151) September 4, 2017

Next up, VesperArcade discusses the viability of Menat in his review of the character. He discusses the complexity of the character, among various other things that will factor in to a lot of people’s decision-making process in maining her.

Young Commander also shows a variety of Menat resets. Due to her damage scaling on her intricate combos, this is something that must be watched for anyone considering to pick her up.

He also goes into a bit about her mixup potential beyond what Go1 displays above.

AutoMattock also discusses how difficult to deal with her V-Trigger will be in the future.

Finally, let’s go full circle and return to Go1. One of the closest examples of the character within Street Fighter V’s roster is Dhalsim, due to Menat’s long range buttons. How does she fair against her Yoga counterpart?

Sources: Young Commander; YogaFlame24; AutoMattock; CYCLOPS | GO1

If you’re a traditional fighting game player, you’ll have basic knowledge of what a cross-up is. In the Super Smash Bros. series, cross-ups work a little differently as shields cover a character’s whole body. Rather than messing up your opponent’s block direction, cross-ups in Smash try to make your opponent drop their shield so you can start a combo.

In their continuing mission to inform Smash 4 players, the Beefy Smash Doods have made a video which shows all the ways a player can cross-up their opponent. These include using attacks which can cause a player to pass through an opponent’s shield, attacks which push the opponent in the opposite direction even when shielding, and aerial attacks which knock their opponent in a number of different directions.

The latter category of attacks are called “DI Cross-ups”, as they can cause your opponent to DI in the wrong direction and die earlier than expected.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

With the alliterations in the title aside, Street Fighter EX2 is known for some pretty creative combos with its loose cancel mechanics and the Excel system — which acts similarly to the custom combo modes in Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Capcom vs. SNK 2.

With ARIKA’s current-generation fighter coming next year — and currently lacking an alternative to Excel, there are less mechanics to use for extending combos. However, is that really necessary? With this combo video that leaves out Excel in Street Fighter EX2, and focuses on the three characters that were available for play at Evo 2017, it shows that the combo system is still very deep even taking away one of the most vital parts of the mechanics.

Source: Shin Tanimoto

Let’s face it, we all need some chill out time after our sets. Fortunately, The Consouls haven’t forgotten about the fighting game scene with a couple of releases in the last month, this being one of them.

Straight out of Nintendo’s title ARMS, they have now released a jazz cover of Spring Man’s theme — Spring Stadium. With some smooth bass and sax added into some amazing improvisation, and you have a beautiful arrangement for an awesome theme.

Source: The Consouls

Dragon Ball FighterZ has been slowly expanding its cast to add some more varied characters and playstyles. The latest build of the game at Gamescom debuted a number of these new characters for show attendees to try out.

Three of these characters are Android 16, Android 18, and Piccolo. These three are the focus of these gameplay breakdowns from Maximilian who got to try them out and record some footage (in beautiful 4K Ultra HD) at Bandai Namco’s headquarters before the show. Here he takes a look at the characters moves, specials and their combo potential, speculating on how their likely gameplan and playstyle.

As most of you already know, Android 16 is the game’s grappler. However, what Max points out is just how well rounded he seems to be with decent mobility, and ability to convert into good damage anywhere on the screen.

Compared to the rest of the game’s cast, Piccolo is arguably the least “traditional”. He pins him as a character where players have to be a bit more nuanced and creative to get in and do damage.

Another character who requires a bit more nuance is Android 18. Players using her will have to make the most use of her brother, Android 17, while focusing on trying to create set ups out of her combos to continue her pressure.

Dragon Ball FighterZ launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in February 2018.

Source: Maximilian Dood