Category: Fighting Games

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Cloud9 hints at sponsoring Street Fighter V players, requests applicants

Formed in 2012, Cloud9 is one of America’s–if not the world’s–largest and most successful esports organizations. They’ve sponsored players and teams in over nine different games, and brought home championships in the majority of them. While the company’s main focus has been first person shooters and MOBAs, they have a couple of fighting game players under their umbrella too, in the form of Smash pros Joseph “MangO” Marquez and Elliot “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce.

Recently, the company completed a Series A round, which is a term used to describe the first time a company performs a large round of venture capital financing. With almost serendipitous timing, Cloud9 owner Jack Etienne had an interview with PVP live, and dropped the following brief quip:

I love Street Fighter. If you’re a talented player contact danan@cloud9.gg and let us know you’re interested in Cloud9.

It doesn’t get more straightforward then that. Considering how highly competitive Cloud9 is, it’s difficult to think this offer will go to someone that hasn’t already been doing well on the major tournament scene. Still, it’s worth keeping an eye on the company to see who they give their prefix to next.

Source: PVPLive

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Mad Catz has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange

It’s no secret that peripheral maker Mad Catz has had a tough couple of years. The company has experienced a downturn in revenue recently, which has resulted in significant layoffs and restructuring last year–including letting go of most of the fighting game players that they sponsored.

It seems that the company has suffered another blow, as they have now been delisted from the New York Stock exchange due to the “abnormally low trading price” of its common stock. NYSE regulations require that a company’s stock trades at $1.00 across 30 consecutive days to remain listed in the exchange. Mad Catz stock, on the other hand, went as low as $0.06 before they were delisted.

Mad Catz made a name for itself at the turn of the decade as a producer of top-of-the-line arcade sticks. Now, while its association with the fighting game community was generally successful–with them having a heavy involvement in both sponsoring players and the Capcom Pro Tour itself–other ventures haven’t seen quite the same level of success. Their Rock Band 4 peripherals, something which the company seemingly hinged their future on, failed to stem the tide of loss and turn their fortunes around.

Source: NASDAQ

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Learn to play for more than honor in with this advanced For Honor Valkyrie guide

For Honor is a fairly unique fighting game, one that the FGC hasn’t quite decided what to do with yet. There are many players trying to build up a scene for it, something we heard a bit about from Long Island Joe, while some aren’t quite certain where it can fit in to our current scene. We talked at length about this subject when the game first dropped, and since then only more hype and money has lent itself to the community around it.

For those who play it, adapting to the new style of play can be a bit difficult. To help you along the way, TrueUnderDawgGaming put together this handy guide on using all of the Valkyrie’s tools to their advantage.

Source: TrueUnderDawgGaming

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Flex your Iron Muscles with this Zangief tech for Street Fighter V

Zangief goes a bit under used in most Street Fighter games, and Street Fighter V is no exception. He’s strong, but there are usually genuinely stronger choices, leaving only those who appreciate hard reads and high damage picking him up.

While that’s his angle, you don’t always have to rely on hard reads. As Brutus, Toronto Zangief player, shows us here, he has some strong Option Select potential. Here we see him setting up against Balrog after EX Spinning Pile Driver, beating most of the wakeup options he has.

He also has a similar type of setup against newcomer Kolin.

Aside from these OS setups, Zangief also has a surprisingly nasty 50/50 mixup in the corner.

There’s also an entry for the #2ComboDeadAkuma challenge, which falls in line with his notorious high damage output.

Source: Brutus

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Show off your veteran status in Rivals of Aether, with these special Early Access colors

With the full release coming up next Tuesday, the Rivals of Aether team are planning to release a set of special colors to commemorate those who have been playing throughout Early Access. These Gameboy-esque colors will be available to anyone who bought and played Rivals of Aether during its Early Access period, marking those veteran platform fighters from the crop of new players.

Along with the colors–which cannot be recreated in the game’s Custom Color mode–Early Access players will also have a colored Steam name to mark them out to fellow players. The actual color choice is a reference to Dan Fornace’s previous retro platform fighter, Super Smash Land. While it was just a fan game back then, certain elements of Super Smash Land–like Vaporeon’s moveset–were integrated into Rivals of Aether.

RoA Retro Colours

There is still some time to get these colors if you’re one for exclusive in-game items, so long as you buy Rivals of Aether on Steam before Tuesday. Those players who bought Rivals of Aether on Xbox’s Game Preview will also get access these retro colors, once the team sort out how to publish DLC for the console.

Source: Rivals of Aether

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Utilize Juri’s venomous Counter Hit game in Street Fighter V with this conversion guide

Counter Hit properties do different things from game to game, and when they do have an impact on gameplay it’s very important to learn your options after one. Having your Counter Hit routes down could mean the difference between victory and defeat.

If you’ve been trying to get your Counter Hit conversions down with Juri, the below video is for you; it features many of her basic and advanced Counter Hit setups from all of her basic pokes, going for normal Counter Hits over Crush Counter setups. This collection is fairly comprehensive, with confirms using various resources and screen positioning, so you’re sure to find a new setup here.

Source: JusticeSoulTuna

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Arc System Works releases Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2’s opening movie

Though Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 doesn’t come out on consoles until late May, the game is scheduled to be hitting Japanese arcades in a few days on March 30th. Though it’s exciting for it to be coming out, for the most part fans in the rest of the world will still just be waiting for it to finally be in their hands.

Something that might tide players over just a little is the opening movie, which was just shown off on Arc System Works’ YouTube channel. It was pretty intense, with a few really cool sections clashing to the beat of the new opening song–which is also amazing. It also showcases Baiken and Answer, the two newcomers in REV 2.

Source: arcsystemworks

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Learn how to optimize Solo characters in Skullgirls 2nd Encore

One thing that many players both in and out of the community think about Skullgirls is that it’s required to play teams in order to compete, or stand a chance against other teams. This thought comes from nearly the entire selection of competitive players in the community choosing to use either Duos or Trios in tournament, and placing highly doing so.

While the fact that teams place very well is undisputed, there are players who reject the notion and have been trying to make Solos work. This tutorial video from SkullgirlsTV seems to be targeted towards those players and others who might be interested in single characters. The Solo option is more than just a damage and health boost, and as the video points out there’s a whole new way the player needs to think about the game in order to be successful. Give it a watch, whether you play Solo, you play against Solos, or even if you’ve just been curious about their viability.

Source: SkullgirlsTV

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Become an ice-slinging machine with this Triborg tutorial for Mortal Kombat XL

In Mortal Kombat XL, Triborg’s Cyber Sub-Zero variation is vastly different than any form his more fleshy counterpart takes on. With increased mobility and a variety of of up-close and long range attacks, fans of the frozen ninja who are looking to increase the pace of a match may find what they seek in Triborg.

Offical MKX ESL Commentator Ketchup does a great job at covering Triborg’s Cyber Sub’ form in his advanced overview video. The near half-hour long breakdown covers bread and butter combos, practical set-ups, projectile options and more.

At the start of the video, Ketchup notes his hiatus from making Mortal Kombat X tutorials and says it is due to the game’s frequent patch history. With the game feeling solid and Injustice 2 on the horizon, he is confident that the current version of the game is its final installment, and will resume creating tutorial video content. You can check out the Triborg advance tutorial video below and subscribe to Ketchup and Mustard’s official YouTube channel for more.

Source: PNDK&M

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A must attend event in the Summer of Smash, Low Tier City 5 returns August 5th to 6th

One of Texas’ most prestigious events and a staple in the Summer of Smash, Tourney Locator is bringing Low Tier City back for its fifth installment from August 5th to 6th. Featuring the original Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Project M, the Lone Star state is going all out for this year’s event.

Project M, Smash 4 and Melee are all set to have doubles as well as singles, with a guaranteed $5000 pot bonus to be split across events. Low Tier City 5 will feature as part of 2017’s Championship Circuit for Project M, with the PM community always coming out in their droves to support LTC events. Last year’s event saw 233 entrants for PM, making it the second largest event on the circuit, behind Smash ‘n Splash 2’s 234 attendees.

Low Tier City 5 will be held at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas. For more details and to register for the event, head on over to the LTC5 smash.gg page for all the relevant details.

Source: smash.gg