Category: Fighting Games

With Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite less than three weeks away from its release date, people are digging deeper into the trenches of theory and trying to speculate on how the game will actually perform in the competitive landscape. One picture that’s been painted during the preview builds has been the belief that the Reality Stone — which causes a homing projectile to chase down your opponent — is the strongest one of the bunch of Infinity Stones.

Novriltataki however views the stone in a different light and believes that things will shape up differently to the point that Reality is rarely used. Given the fact that if you pushblock at a certain timing, you can reflect projectiles back at your opponent, it makes sense as to what the stone may be overrated at this point. He also talks about how tag switching could quite possibly make reflecting an even more dangerous game.

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When you first start out playing any Tekken game that has Taekwondo practitioner Hwoarang in it, you will lose. You will lose to him, you will be angry, and you will want to know what you can do about the non-stop kicking your face just experienced. Just like losing to mashed Dragon Punches the first time you touch Street Fighter is something of a rite of passage, so is getting counter-hit Hwoarang’s d+44.

But just like a Shoryuken-addicted Street Fighter player, the tools of your average Hwoarang player are exploitable once you are armed with knowledge. FrameWhisperer Tekken knows this well,and has prepared an in-depth guide on learning how to fight entry-level Taekwondo lovers.

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Frame traps are essential to capitalize in damage with any character, and Ed’s light moves are prime buttons to create frame traps. As such, it is important to understand your frame data to know what to do to create a frame trap with him and exactly how you can capitalize from the counter hits you receive from it.

This guide gives you prime examples of follow-up buttons to create frame traps, and goes from the most basic punishes off of them to the most elaborate. Needless to say, Ed can get a lot of mileage off of one simple frame trap with his damage and mix-up potential, so be sure to toy around in the lab to see what you find.

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In Pokkén Tournament, few characters are more difficult to pin down then Weavile. This character has a gigantic list of options once he jumps, including:

• A multi-directional air projectile that also serves as an air stall
• Multiple jump trajectories
• A divekick that leads to combos on hit and can go back into the air on block
• Double jump cancels in Burst Mode

And this is just skimming the surface. Weavile is an overwhelming, slippery nightmare, and one of the reasons for that is the ambiguous landing properties of Weavile’s Jump X.

As Mitchel demonstrates, proper spacing and angles will allow tricky Weavile’s to mixup the opponent with divekick and empty-jump-grab. When you stop to consider that Weavile is not only getting buffs in Pokkén Tournament DX, but also access to a new double-jump granting support in the form of Popplio, this potent mixup will be even more terrifying then it currently is.

Source: Mitchel

In Tekken 7, there’s more to Lee Chaolan than just his good looks and classy taste in menswear. His fighting style that is just as refined, and movelist consists of clean hits and technical inputs that appeal to those who are fighting for the finer things in life.

In their latest Tekken 7 combo breakdown, Hurtbox TV, gives you a closer look at some of the fancy inputs that are required for doing adequate damage with Lee. For most of his bread-and-butter combos, Lee uses a lot of forward dashes, stance cancels, and moves that only work while in a crouching position, so you should definitely familiarize yourself with Tekken 7‘s core movement mechanics and Lee’s various stances when in training mode. You may also take note that Lee isn’t the hardest hitter in the Tekken roster, and that the huge wall carry potential is one of the trade-offs for his somewhat mild damage output.

Though he is the adopted son of Heihachi Mishima, Lee Chaolan isn’t as easy to master as one of the inheritors of the God Fist. Check out his combo video below, and if some of these inputs have you feeling lost, try checking out this Tekken 7 beginner guide.

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Broken is a word thrown around loosely within the FGC these days, but not always meant in the exact context of what it actually means. But when we talk about broken characters, we are literally talking about characters that are seriously unbeatable in all matchups, and these characters are the worst offenders.

ScrewAttack recently rated their 10 most broken characters in fighting games, and the list has some interesting ones. Did you know that Ibuki had a standing roundhouse infinite in the original Street Fighter III? How many people have heard of how bad Ivan Ooze is in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Well, now you can hear about the most broken of the broken.

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Season 2 has been better for Juri overall, even if she’s not considered a very strong character yet. With a faster V-Skill and improved combos, she can be more competitive, but she is still held back by the charging mechanic. However, JusticeSoulTuna provides a refreshing combo video that might just change your mind.

The player combined a year of training and experimentation to produce this video titled The Spider’s Mark. It shows a variety of damaging combos, often utilizing the V-Trigger. There’s a very strong Dragon Punch punish against Ryu and a multitude of corner variations.

If you want to focus specifically on a certain aspect of the Street Fighter V character, JusticeSoulTuna also published a Juri V-Trigger guide video that takes a closer look.

Source: JusticeSoulTuna