Dan Hibiki is a man who’s lost everything: his family, his students, his dojo… he’s even lost his starring role in the Street Fighter IV series, reduced to a part-time DLC shill in Street Fighter V’s Shop menu. But you can only push the master of Saikyo-ryu so far before he’s forced to show you his true strength!
This trailer sets up the story of Dan’s sure-to-be meteoric rise to the fame and fortune he deserves, as to be seen in an upcoming fan-made series from The Real Dan Hibiki. Will he succeed in regaining all that he’s lost? Will Dan finally get the respect he’s been so long denied? Is 4K Ultra HD enough to contain the awesome power of Saikyo-ryu?! The journey to find the answers begins below.
One of my personal favorite SNK characters, Ryuji Yamazaki, has finally made his glorious return to the King Of Fighters series, joining the KOF XIV roster earlier this month as part of the game’s massive Version 2.00 update. Today we shine a special spotlight on what the murderous Hakkeshu of Death is capable of in his newest incarnation.
We begin with a combo video from veteran KOF content creator Persona Entertainment. The first four combos aim for maximum damage utilizing between 1 and 4 Bars, along with 1000-1250 MAX Gauge. These combos also have the added bonus of being performed on his Fatal Fury compatriots, most of whom still have 1,000 life, but there are also Touch Of Death sequences 0n the now 900 health Mai and 950 health Kim, while his former boss Geese Howard now sports 1050, the same as Ryuji himself.
Yamazaki may have left his trusty knife behind but he now boasts a new Super in KOF XIV–Pit Viper–that inflicts massive poison damage to the opponent, despite not being calculated in the damage counter in Training Mode, that will persist when Climax Canceled into his Drill Super, which means your foe is continuously losing life as you prolong the attack by mashing for more hits, damage and alternative animations! (Eat your heart out, F.A.N.G)
Next up, we have the COMBONAUTS take on Yamazaki, which features some stylish Super and Climax Cancels, MAX Mode confirms, more Pit Viper poison goodness, combos off of his Counter and a Rising Heart whiff punish on poor 950-health Love Heart. We even have a combo off of a Double Returned Mamahaha that poisons an unsuspecting Nakoruru.
Gatoray gives us a look at every projectile Yamazaki can Parry with his Double Return. Unlike Whip’s Orbs, his Kaiser Wave’s cover the screen extremely quickly, similarly to Azrael’s Phalanx Cannons in Blazblue. He can even get multiple Waves from multi-hitting projectiles, and in MAX Mode, they’re large and durable to clear the screen of enemy fire, even other EX projectiles.
LeoKingdom69 gives us a look at all 4 Levels of Yamazaki’s Drill Climax and how they differ in damage, number of hits and animations, as well as a 5-Bar combo.
After releasing guides for Whip, Vanessa and Rock, TrueUnderDawgGaming has FINALLY put out his combo guide for Yamazaki.
TBS_BrunoKof also has a variety of combos.
Finally, Black Out brings us all of the win quotes to and from Yamazaki, for the entire cast, while zxyu0369 gives us the special intros between all 4 DLC characters.
Recently, we featured a corner to corner TAC Infinite for Magneto in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Now, we have yet another character who can unsurprisingly go the distance off a side TAC – Dr. Doom.
In the video below, datHazy demonstrates a variation of Dr. Doom’s TAC infinite (specifically, the Plasma Beam variant) that can get him and his victim from one corner to the other off a side TAC. The main difference is a down-forward air dash where Doom would just normally fall in the regular, corner variant combined with the lack of footdives usually used in the mid screen variants.
Some tools to shut down Laura’s projectile pressure.
If Laura’s not up close and taking you down with her mixups, she’s trying to control your approach and punish your jumps by using her slow-crawling Thunder Clap projectile. To help players deal with this component of Laura’s game plan, Ominous_ compiled this video demonstrating a variety of ways to deal with Thunder Clap, without just jumping over it and eating an anti-air attack.
Knowing what moves your character of choice possesses with projectile-invincibility will help give you the edge; the right kind of trade can also work out in your favor. Examples for almost the whole SFV roster are shown above (including Laura herself, but Kolin players are apparently on their own).
With Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 now on PC, mods where players swap a characters model with that of another have become quite common. In fact, we’ve even featured some of them here on Shoryuken. However, what about swapping the model of a non-playable assist character? And not only that, but making a combo video out of a team consisting of that character’s model swapped into an entire team. That’s exactly what Lythero has done in his new combo video.
The video in question, which you can see below, has every single member of Lythero’s team of Dante, Viewtiful Joe, and Phoenix Wright swapped in for the latter’s assistant Maya. The result is this frankly bizarre looking combo video where what seems to be three different versions of a character, beating up their opponent. The icing on the cake however has to be “Devil Trigger Maya” who turns invisible (likely because she has no equivalent Devil Trigger model, like Dante), with only her sword as an indication of where she is and what she’s doing.
The Skullgirls community has been granted an opportunity to bring some of the world’s top competitors to compete on the game’s largest stage. Combo Breaker will once again serve as the finale of The Skullgirls Tour, and StreamMe has contributed $2,000 to bring international players to the event next month.
Skullgirls is already guaranteed a spot on Combo Breaker’s main stage for the finale of the tour, and the opportunity to bring in more international talent should make Sunday’s Top 8 Finals that much sweeter.
The crew in charge of The Skullgirls Tour will host a fundraising stream announcing which players have been chosen on Saturday, May 6th starting at noon on www.stream.me/skullgirlstour. Additional funds will be used to fly in as many players as possible, and based on the reveal trailer from SkullgirlsTV, each chosen player will be from a different country of origin.
The Skullgirls Tour is a series of five offline events and seven online tournaments celebrating the indie title and its community. In August 2016, leaders within the community announced their intention to launch an event series focusing on the tournaments that best support the game.
CEOTaku kicked off the tour in October 2016, and in the time since several other fighting game communities have organized specific tours in support of their own games, such as the Curleh Series and Burst League.
Skullgirls Tour organizer, KPB|Sheila “Sharpie” Moore said the tour helps the community support the events that are most important to the players, content creators and tournament organizers that keep the scene alive. By including online tournaments in the mix, the tour is also working to help the netplay community transition into offline competition.
“I’m really happy to see other tournament organizers, players, and general community members working to organize series and tours for their communities,” Moore said. “It’s really nice to see people that have a genuine interest in making their community accessible to others, and helping their community grow in general. I honestly think it’s really important that tours and circuits are created because they help inspire members of communities to action.“
Echo Fox|SonicFox has won each of the tour’s offline events in North America, and is the current points leader on the tour with 950; his former teammate cR|dekillsage in second place, having come in second place at those same events. Swedish player zeknife is in third place on the leaderboard with his win at Revolution 2016, and was one of three international players who was able to attend Combo Breaker 2016 due to crowd funding.
Skullgirls developer Autumn Games has announced a $2,000 pot bonus for the Combo Breaker 2017 prize pool, and special events have been announced for Friday and Saturday evening. Last year’s Combo Breaker featured a 10-on-10 East Coast vs. The World exhibition. Be sure to tune in to the fundraising stream on May 6 to find out which international players will be competing at Combo Breaker, and check out the tournament starting on May 26.
The first issue of the new series will now come packed with two cards for the upcoming UFS game from Jasco.
The first issue of UDON’s new Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers comic series was originally set for an April release, but it will instead arrive slightly later–on May 3rd. The delay comes with a new bonus, however: the comic will include two exclusive foil UFS game cards featuring the World–and Night–Warriors, usable with your current Universal Fighting System cards or with the upcoming Street Fighter-themed collection from Jasco that will be hitting stores soon!
More details about the bonus cards can be found on UDON’s own blog.
Red Bull Kumite is returning to Paris for another epic throwdown in 2017!
Before TBS’ ELEAGUE Street Fighter V event, there was another high-profile invitational: Red Bull Kumite!
Returning to Paris on May 28, the competition will feature the following well-known fighters:
Meltdown|Mister Crimson
Rize|Infexious
Red Bull|Luffy
BX3|Phenom
Echo Fox|Tokido
CYG BST|PR Balrog
XYZZY
Razer|Infiltration
Qanba.Douyu|Xiao Hai
RB
Twitch.Hx.CYG BST|Daigo Umehara
Red Bull|Bonchan
Gachikun
Alien|Nemo
A 256-player open qualifier tournament the day before will determine two additional competitors. You can find more information on 2017’s Red Bull Kumite at redbullkumite.com.
Scotland’s largest annual fighting game event Hypespotting 6 is happening this weekend. Taking place in Glasgow, the tournament will feature a number of current popular fighters as well as a few classics.
Tournament Games
Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-
The King of Fighters XIV
Mortal Kombat XL
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Street Fighter V
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Tekken 7
Hypespotting is another stop in the Capcom Pro Tour, functioning as a ranking event. In addition to the CPT event, Hypespotting is the first of five stops in the Tekken 7 UK Championship, with the top 3 finishers qualifying.
Some strong European talent will be in attendance, like Ryan Hart, Afii, Imstilldadaddy, RB|Luffy, Cobelcog, mouz|Problem X and more. Brackets can be found on Smash.gg here.
Balrog was dangerous in Season 1 of Street Fighter V, and is outright deadly in Season 2. We’ve seen PIE|Smug tearing it up at tournaments with the Crazy Buffalo; but sitting at the top of the Capcom Fighters Network leaderboard is Iwate from Japan, presently the highest-ranked player–and thus the highest-ranked Balrog on the network. Xuses put together this compilation of Iwate’s online matches to show what a threat this dirty boxer is!
You can check out VesperArcade’s look at Balrog’s upcoming balance changes here.
