Category: Fighting Games

As it stands right now, For Honor’s meta is largely defensive. Play is centered around the strength of reactions, to greatly reduce your opponent’s options, and taking advantage of stamina drain from 50/50 situations. It just so happens this is what the Lawbringer, arguably the game’s most defensive character, excels in.

YouTuber Evil Canadian has put together two great guides to playing the polearm-wielding class. Starting with the basics and working up, these videos cover his strengths, weaknesses, and general thought processes during battle.

Additionally, Evil Canadian recorded and explained how the controversial Unlock Glitch impacts Lawbringer. Unlocking mid-combo in For Honor sometimes allow characters to perform some combos they otherwise normally can’t–and in this instance, the unlock bug allows Lawbringer to get some small guaranteed damage off of his main pressure tool, the unblockable shove.

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Following his last episode back in January, LiangHUBBB is back with another installment of his long-running Funny & Cool Moments series. This edition includes clips from–but not limited to–Street Fighter V, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Soul Calibur V, Power Stone, the Injustice 2 Online Beta, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, Ultra Street Fighter IV, and even a bit of For Honor.

In this video, you’ll see a V-Trigger comeback from Chun-Li off of a whiffed EX Goshoryuken from Akuma, all the hits of Gouken’s Denjin Hadoken absorbed by Hugo’s Meat Squasher, Makoto fully absorbing Ryu’s Metsu Hadoken with Red Focus to get a punish, an M. Bison player jumping over Chun-Li’s Critical Art–only to kill himself by teleporting back into it with a backdash–and more.

Other highlights include a bit of salt from one of Floe’s streams, Guile’s Sonic Hurricane being interrupted by Nadeshiko, a great Danger Time comeback from FAB on Panda Global’s MarlinPie, Mika dropping the mic on Ryu for the win, Chun-Li blocking a Birdie onslaught only to die on his can, stylish Injustice 2 combos, Bison and Urien’s Critical Arts canceling each other out, Victor “Spooky” Fontanez commenting on Ayane’s boob bounce, as well as the thrilling Danger Time sequence from Anime Ascension. You can catch the video below for all the great clips.

Let us know some of your favorite moments in the comments section!

Source: LiangHUBBB

Japanese Skullgirls players are quite interesting to watch. They have a completely unique way of playing the game, one that’s fresh after years of watching American play. Recently an offline Skullgirls event was held in Japan on February 25th, on the PC version of the game–likely due to the latest patch not yet arriving on consoles.

You can watch the compiled footage from this event below, as posted on スカルガールズ対戦会. They still have a ways to go, ironing out their play styles and tightening up their combos and setups, but it’s flat out refreshing to see completely unseen tactics like using Cerebella’s s.hk assist. It’s exciting waiting for their play to evolve, and see just how far they’ll take these options–that USA players rarely consider.

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The King of Fighters XIV is riding a solid wave of momentum as of late. With the KOF World Championships recently concluding–along with the announcement of new content–it’s never been a better time to learn the game.

However, with a staggering roster of 50 characters–that is set to expand even morein the future–choosing a team of three can prove quite the challenge. Fortunately, the community for the SNK fighter has a wealth of content creators making tutorials and guides for the various cast members, to introduce them to new players. We’ve collected some great recent content here in this roundup.

Following his coverage of Leona Heidern, Ra3bones continues his Beginner Breakdowns by looking at the two remaining members of the Ikari Warriors Team, Clark Still and Ralf Jones. He’s also covered the first member of the Fatal Fury team, Joe Higashi. These Tutorials give a basic overview of each character’s tools, from their normals, to what they can do off throws, specials, supers and cancels, along with some basic combos. This should provide any player a good starting point with these characters; timestamps are included so viewers can come back to any section for review. You can see all three guides below.

Following their Chin Gentsai video, the COMBONAUTS bring us combo exhibitions for Geese Howard and–everyone’s favorite shrine maiden–Nakoruru!

For those interested in a bit of KOF lore, they’ve also got videos of several character’s win quotes in both English and Spanish. K’s are below.

Keep an eye on both these channels for more KOF content!

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With day 3 of the new ice queen in the books, Kolin is shaping up quite nicely. As with every character release, we’re seeing everyone hitting the lab–and some amazing tech and combos are emerging to help aspiring Kolin players level up fast to be on par with everyone else. So here’s some more great Kolin findings for you to make use of.

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First, we have Nurselee showing off some amazing meaty options off of Frost Touch. As explained in the video, low and mid parries have interchangeable setups, and Frost Touch results in a hard knockdown, thus giving you plenty of time to set up your meaty.

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Next up is a video showcasing some of Kolin’s bread and butter combos, as well as some more setups and conversions off of snowball stuns.

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Next, we have a combo video sent in by Brain Kasugano. While it is short but sweet, it shows how strong Kolin’s combo potential and flexibility truly is, and is quite impressive given how early it is into the character’s life.

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A lot of players have struggled with finding reliable anti-airs with Kolin. However, she does have an impeccable anti-air game, and VesperArcade goes into great detail on what moves deal with what air attacks in this video.

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Finally, we have none other than TS|Poongko showing off his Kolin in this Ranked match compilation. Poongko has done well with Cammy since starting in Street Fighter V, but after seeing this video, one has to think that he may have found his Seth in this game.

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Sources: NurseLee; VesperArcade; Brian Kasugano; XusesGB; Meno Jazz