Another series veteran was confirmed for Dead Or Alive 6 at Paris Games Week. The “She Quan assassin” Christie was confirmed today at the event.
A screenshot of Christie was shared by Koch Media that was later confirmed by KOEI Tecmo Europe. The photo, which you can see in Koch Media’s tweet, shows off her new outfit for Dead Or Alive 6 as well as a new stage.
Si vous passez sur notre stand à la PGW ça sera l’occasion de découvrir le nouveau trailer de Dead Or Alive 6 qui annonce un personnage bien connu de tous : Christie @TeamNINJAStudio#DOA6#PGWpic.twitter.com/j0DyI17dLQ
A veteran of the series since Dead Or Alive 3, Christie is an assassin who uses her She Quan style to deliver fast strikes and deadly mixups. These tools made her a strong character throughout Dead Or Alive 5‘s various iterations, making her a familiar sight in tournaments.
KOEI Tecmo Europe has confirmed that a trailer for her would be coming soon, so stay locked on to Shoryuken for that and more fighting game news.
Dead Or Alive 6 arrives on PlayStation 4, PC, and XBox One on February 15, 2018.
Patrick Miller, author of the excellent From Masher to Master strategy ebook, has a knack for identifying broad ways in which a player can improve in fighting games. Such is the case when a viewer asked him about how to improve via watching your own replays — and though Patrick’s answer cites specific examples within Guilty Gear Xrd, his way of thinking is universally useful.
Patrick regularly uploads gems like these, but we figured this no-nonsense framing of what a fighting game match actually is would be particularly insightful for players struggling to move up ranks. If you enjoyed this, check out his YouTube channel for more theoretical dissections.
One of the reasons that King is such a popular character in the Tekken 7 series is because players have, over the years, built up a massive reservoir of tech for the character that keeps carrying over to new games. While some of it is more difficult than other, there’s perhaps one technique that is the holy grail of Luchador execution – Wavedash Instant Shining Wizard.
Combining everything you know from wavedashing and iSW — two difficult techniques on their own — BoxeR-King shows us how to put these past lessons together into a horrifying new weapon.
As you may have noticed, SRK is moving into the arena of video reviews to accompany our articles. This has been the case with a number of our most recent reviews, but I wanted to give our review for SoulCalibur VI a slight twist.
Since we’ve already covered SCVI exhaustively in two pre-release editorials, I figured it would be more helpful to do a post-release review that captured my thoughts now that they’ve incubated a bit. If you wanted a more immediate reaction sort of breakdown, I highly encourage you to read the previous editorials on this game, both for its competitive and casual aspects.
In light of Ultra Street Fighter IV‘s inclusion in digital pre-orders of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, I’ve decided to dedicate some time to examining the most slept-on online-capable Street Fighter title: Street Fighter IV: Omega Mode. Packaged as a free alternate version within the edition select of USFIV, Omega uses leftover game files, recycled taunts, and repurposed animations to completely change each character’s toolset; it’s essentially a completely new and unique Street Fighter title built within SFIV’s engine, with an entirely different balance philosophy than Ultra.
Omega was not popular at release due to some easy infinite combos — not to mention players’ interest in Ultra as a more serious, competitive game. I personally think Omega went woefully unexplored for being an extremely interesting venture, and I’ve started a series where I document each character’s Omega changes, and then show off some basic optimal combos.
This week I’m looking at Guile and Chun-Li. Guile was given two new special moves, both with motion commands, which significantly alter his basic combo routes. One is an unsafe double kick that mostly operates as a combo ender, while the other is Remy’s Cold Blue Kick from Street Fighter III. His EX Sonic Boom can be thrown three times as a reference to Nash’s Sonic Break super, which later appears in SFV as Guile’s V-Trigger I. Overall Guile’s new specials do little to annul his original two, and between his EX Boom and his plethora of juggles from a Flash Kick, it’s clear this version of Guile was a testing ground for the one that would eventually show up in SFV.
Omega Chun-Li has more in common with the Chun-Li that showed up in the pre-release versions of SFV, with a crouching fierce that only cancels into EX moves and a jump-cancelable throwback to her 3rd Strike Hoyokusen Super Art. Her fireballs now have a motion command, allowing her a much greater capacity to walk around while zoning than her Ultra version. She also has what is probably the fairest divekick that Capcom has ever created. The execution on her lightning legs has been mitigated somewhat, paving the way for the motion legs she would eventually receive in SFV. Overall she’s a bit more well-rounded and easier to play, as is typical for Omega characters.
Canada Cup Gaming and Cygames are hosting the ninth annual Canada Cup this weekend. This year’s event will be held as part of the Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, with a packed line-up of twenty games.
Tournament Games
BlazBlue Centralfiction
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle
Dragon Ball FighterZ – DBFZ World Tour Dragon Radar Event
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
Injustice 2
The King of Fighters ’98
The King of Fighters XIV
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
Pokkén Tournament DX
Sailor Moon S
SoulCalibur VI
Super Street Fighter II Turbo – Tournament of Legends III Finals
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike – SF 30th Tournament Series
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter V Arcade Edition – Capcom Pro Tour Premier Event
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Tekken 7 – Tekken World Tour Challenger Tournament
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
As one of Canada’s premier fighting game tournaments, Canada Cup 2018 is an important event for multiple pro circuits and tournament series. Canada Cup 2018 is the site of the Tournament of Legends III Finals, included Last Chance Qualifiers; the final standard Premier Event for the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour (excluding Regional Finals); the final event in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Tournament Series, for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike; a Tekken World Tour Challenger Tournament; a Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Dragon Radar Event.
As such a major events, some of the best players in the world will be in attendance, including Tournament of Legends III invitees Mattsun, Komoda, Murasaki, Kusumondo, Shogatsu and Daigo Umehara. For a full list of players as well as live brackets, check out Smash.gg.
Canada Cup will be providing four streams for the event, while Capcom Fighters will be covering the CPT singles event. You can find each stream below.
Capcom Cup 2018 is less than a couple of months away. For players looking to head to Las Vegas to take a chance at getting into the event, or just spectating, the news you’ve been waiting for is now here. Both the registration for the last chance qualifier, as well as ticket sales for spectators for Capcom Cup 2018 are now open.
For players looking to enter the last chance qualifier, registration is now open over at Smash.gg. Entry costs $30 and will include admission into the Top 32 and Finals for those who don’t make it out of the last chance qualifier – provided that the players show up for their pools.
As for spectators, tickets are now available for purchase at the Luxor website. A two day pass for the event goes for $75.00. Those who do attend will not only see high level Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition action, but will also be treated to performances by Super Cr3w, DJ Qbert, as well as Del the Funky Homosapien with Domino and Dan the Automator – the artists behind the them for the G reveal trailer at Evo.
Tickets are limited however, so interested folks should book as soon as possible.
SoulCalibur VI marches on! The combo potential and ease-of-play has kept content streaming in to the SRK tipline: here’s the latest work from the community:
rooflemonger starts us off today with a beginner’s combo guides for Ivy and Astaroth. They might be quite different from each other, but both are technically the game’s grapplers. They can still put on the hurt though!
NurseLee has a beginner’s combo guide for The Witcher himself, and some nice tech traps with 6K!
KayaneTV is one of the world’s most famous Xianghua players. If there was ever a person you would want to see a breakdown of their character from, it’s her… so! Here you go:
Closing us out today is LegendaryWolf Shirou. Though this combo does start with a fairly impractical Mitsurugi unblockable, it doesn’t make the rest of it any less impressive:
Thanks to everyone that submitted content to us! If you have some SCVI tech you’d like to share with the world, reach out to us through our tipline.
Alisa’s “Daisy Chain” in Tekken 7 is DB+22, a somewhat slower but relatively safe mid, mid string with linear space control. But this cute little two hit poke has a secret — a massive +14~+15 frame advantage that can be taken advantage of for absurdly strong counter-hit combos.
Particularly when near a wall, Daisy Chain skyrockets Alisa’s damage potential in ways a safe mid, mid string rarely does for other characters. There’s even enough frame advantage that you can get some truly combo video only combos — for example, a guaranteed back throw!
You may not believe it if you’re relatively new to the FGC, but there was, at one point in time, a surprisingly solid scene for Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4 on the GameCube. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate — there still is a surprisingly solid scene for this game, one that’s lived on through reddit and modding.
It’s that latter part that’s the focus of today’s video: TheCape has been working on a remastered, re-balanced version of this niche GameCube title for a long time, and the fruits of his labor are seen below. if any of this intrigues you, make sure you stop by the GNT4 reddit to learn more about the game.
@TeamNINJAStudio #DOA6 #PGW pic.twitter.com/j0DyI17dLQ
(@KochMediaFR) October 26, 2018
