Category: Fighting Games

The herald of 20XX and widely regarded as the best character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Fox can seem impossible to beat at times. His mobility, combo game and Shine give him options to cover almost every situation but there are still ways to deal with this wily space animal. In his latest character guide, Kira from SSBM Tutorials has listed some of the things to look out for when trying to defeat Fox.

While Fox has plenty of strengths, lack of range is his main weakness and most other top tier characters can abuse their increased range to wall out Fox’s attacks. His speed is terrifying, but awareness of his approach options and having the defensive tools to counter them can alleviate the stress of dealing with a woodland creature assaulting you. Kira also lists potential edgeguards, what to do about laser camping as well as Shine pressure on your shield, which should be enough to get you started in your fight against Fox.

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The release of a new fighter must be like Christmas for lab monsters, as it provides a brand new engine to experiment with and subsequently break. With the release of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, technicians have already found a pretty devastating combo which is potentially infinite and works on the majority of the cast.

Playing around with the Stun attack in Xenoverse 2, YouTuber HaWXx Is Rippin has discovered that you can infinitely stunlock an opponent, by inputting a frame perfect Stun attack just as their stamina gauge recovers. Upon landing a Stun, your opponent’s stamina gauge drains and they cannot move until the gauge fills up again. If you time another Stun attack to sync up with the flash which indicates that your opponent’s stamina gauge is back up to full, you can continually keep them in this stunned state until death.

If you input the Stun attack too early, the opponent is knocked away and you must chase them to continue the combo, while if you input it too late, they can Z-Flash away and start hitting you. Players must also note that landing consecutive Stuns is very difficult for certain characters, due to the speed of their standard attacks when compared to recovery rate of an opponent’s stamina gauge, so definitely experiment with your main to see if they can easily perform this infinite. Do note that this combo works as of Patch 1.02 of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, so it’s quite likely this combo will be removed in the future, so enjoy it now!

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Daigo fans may be aware of a recent piece of tech shown off in his “Research Institute of Ryu”. During the streamed sessions we saw a “Super Hadouken“, performed by plinking a normal Hadouken into an EX version, which seemed to evade attacks that would otherwise hit a normal EX Hadouken.

Below, TOOLASSISTED shows us exactly what is going on with this tech. He reveals that it’s not an amalgamation of the two hurtboxes or any such magic, as some thought, but simply doing a kara cancel out of the Hadouken. A Hadouken moves Ryu back slightly, and so does EX Hadouken, so plinking into an EX Hadouken gives the combined backwards momentum of both moves, allowing it to evade slightly better. This can be clearly seen, as a normal Hadouken has visible hurtboxes on the feet, which appear when plinking a normal Hadouken into an EX one.

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This weekend is Red Bull Battle Grounds, the Capcom Pro Tour North America Regional Finals. The third of four Regional Finals, this is the second to last CPT event for the year before Capcom Cup itself. Like the other Regional Finals, the event starts off with the last chance qualifier to determine the final two players who will join the fourteen who have qualified at the ranking events held through the year.

It’s not only North America players looking to compete. In addition to John Takeuchi who is already qualified for the Regional Finals, Tokido, Daigo Umehara and Bonchan will be joining in for the last chance qualifier. Of courses a number of US players will be shooting for one of the last chances to get into Capcom Cup, including 801 Strider, RB|Snake Eyez, RN|Alex Myers, brenttiscool, Wolfkrone, iPeru, Circa|LPN, Vagabond and gllty.

You can check out the action live from Seattle Washington on the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel. Two other channels will also be covering the last chance qualifier: Level|Up and LogicHole. Brackets can be found on Smash.gg.

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With careful use of his Parry, some super hard reads and a fully stocked EX gauge, a good Alex can obliterate an opponent’s health bar. In this combo video dedicated to those scramble situations where hard reads can convert into big damage, The Real Dio gives Alex mains certain scenarios where the New York native can pile on the pain. Most of these scenarios involve parrying V-Reversals, normal Reversals and wakeup Critical Arts to punish a desperate option thrown out by your opponent.

For this volume, The Real Dio labs out situations against Ken, Cammy, M. Bison, Birdie, Vega, Dhalsim, F.A.N.G, Balrog, Urien, Guile and Necalli, so expect the few remaining members of the Street Fighter V cast to be covered in a future video.

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One of the most exciting moments of the Super Street Fighter II Turbo tournament at Canada Cup 2016 came during the grand finals. In the midst of one of the most heated games, Kusumondo’s E. Honda had jumped over Mattsun’s Ken fireball and tagged Mattsun with a jumping roundhouse. Mattsun then seemingly countered with a reversal fireball, which Kusumondo also seemingly swept under. This was entirely unexpected, as the fireball went through Honda’s face, which would presumably have a hurtbox. The entire room gasped, with Kenny “Unessential” Ng wondering if the 22-year-old game had tech that was just discovered at this very morning.

After the event, James Chen explained to me that it was Ken’s reversal super glitch, which prevents the super from coming out, and the last special that was used to happen instead. It was presumed that this caused the fireball to have no hitbox, which allowed it to travel through Honda no matter what Kusumondo did. However, it was also found that this in itself does not cause the hitbox on the fireball to disappear.

The sleuths in the American Super Turbo scene went to work, and Silentscope came up with an answer and was able to replicate the glitch. It ties into something that desk had already explained regarding fireballs in Street Fighter V as well as Super Turbo. It was already established that there was a fireball that Kusumondo had jumped over to attack Mattsun. What Silentscope found was that in an accidental frame perfect input, Mattsun had not only activated Ken’s super glitch, but did so on the very frame that the first fireball was leaving the screen, allowing for the second fireball to lose its hitbox. While it does mean that new anti-shoto tech has not been found for the sumo, the fact that this not only happened, but occurred on the biggest stage Super Turbo has seen in forever makes Mattsun’s accidental feat even more impressive.

Watch Silentscope’s full explanation of the glitch below.

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