Category: Fighting Games

If you missed this year’s Capcom Cup or simply wish to relive some of it’s hypest moments, this massive highlight video from Xuses contains the most impressive occurrences captured from this prestigious fighting game tournament. The full 45-minute compilation is filled with close calls, comebacks, perfects, shenanigans and more that arose from the start of the matches between the top 32 all the way to the Grand Finals. In order to avoid any adverse side-effects that may occur due to overexposure to an unprecedented dosage of hype, viewers are advised to not watch the whole video in one sitting.

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With tons of information coming out of the PlayStation Experience about Akuma–thanks to players getting some serious hands-on time with the Ansatsuken master–we now have a decent grasp of what the returning Street Fighter can do in Season Two of Street Fighter V. In order to help potential Akuma players learn the ways of the Satsui no Hado, VesperArcade has gathered together all this information into a single, comprehensive Akuma breakdown video.

While he doesn’t show any Akuma gameplay besides the official trailer released by Capcom, Vesper goes through all of Akuma’s normals, specials, V-Skill and V-Trigger as well as speculating on some of Akuma’s combo potential, based on the information gathered from play sessions at the PlayStation Experience. If you are looking to play Akuma come December 20th, note down anything you find particularly interesting and get testing on launch day.

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As the Super Smash Bros. series is not designed purely around competitive play, there has been a fair bit of jiggery pokery which each game’s competitive ruleset to reduce instances of over-centralized play and polarizing stages. In this way, Smashers have been accustomed to banning certain stages–and even tactics–to stop the metagame descending into the same match-ups or stage picks over and over again.

Seeing as the idea of willfully banning elements of a game seems counter-intuitive, MySmashCorner has created a new video, running through what makes something ban worthy, using specific examples from Smash’s history. One need only look at the legal stage lists of games like Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to see how thinking has changed on the legality of specific arenas, due to players discovering polarizing tactics on those select stages.

MySmashCorner also touches on the idea of banning whole tactics, like Meta Knight’s infinite Dimensional Cape in Super Smash Bros. Brawl or wobbling in Melee. Whereas the infinite Dimensional Cape warranted a ban as all it takes is for one Meta Knight to take the lead and they can then disappear until the timer runs out, wobbling can be prevented by a player knocking the computer controlled Ice Climber off the stage, with characters like Fox being able to do this with ease. Even then, the Ice Climbers do not overcentralize the meta with the presence of wobbling, with it being rare for an Ice Climbers to place in a top 8 of a major. Compare this to Brawl, where Meta Knight already made up most of Brawl top 8s without the use of the infinite Dimensional Cape.

This analysis raises some interesting points about what makes something ban worthy and should hope stop some players calling for a ban for things which they just find difficult to beat.

Source: MySmashCorner

Relive the hypest moments of Street Fighter V’s first season on the Capcom Pro Tour.

Capcom Cup 2016 was full of surprises. While many felt that Liquid|NuckleDu had a good chance of going the distance, it was not expected to see Evil Geniuses’ Ricki Ortiz rise up to challenge him in an all-American Winners–and Grand–Finals. Additionally, we got to see last year’s champion GGP|Kazunoko fight his way up to Losers Finals, only to meet a impenetrable wall of resistance in Ortiz as she dispatched him to face NuckleDu for her rematch. Check out the climax matches of Canada Cup 2016 in the videos below!

Of course, Capcom Fighters has many more match videos from Capcom Cup’s top 8 and more on their YouTube channel. You can see the full results for Capcom Cup here.

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We’re back this week with the latest Rising Up full-character tutorial hosted on ShoryukenTube; and this time the spotlight is on Karin Kanzuki. Bread and butter punishes and confirms, counter-hit setups and damage optimization, fireball answers, frame traps listed by delay, meaty pressure, setups, and more. If you want to learn Karin, everything you need to know should be right here.

My own Street Fighter V bread and butter combo videos are by far my most popular YouTube videos. However, the vast majority of them were made during the third SFV public beta test. While almost no serious balance changes were made between that beta and release, certain damage values were incorrect and the players have had a lot of time to develop. The initial videos were made based on my own training mode findings and nothing else, and were fully featured around combos. I asked around, and have decided to flesh them into full character guides, now including a basic game plan I’ve summarized from watching a lot of pro matches. This is the full scope of my observations on Karin. As usual, I’ve included an enormous guide in the video description.

I’ll be aiming to launch a new character tutorial every Monday, until all 22 characters are covered. I intend to do the characters in order of most to least popular; next is Laura. Remember to subscribe to the Shoryuken channel, and keep an eye out for future videos!