Category: Fighting Games

As a continuation of their bonus content for the Cultivation: Leffen series, Red Bull has posted the fourth episode of Evidence.zip–a video series where they ask top Melee players about their experiences with William “Leffen” Hjelte of Team SoloMid.

This week, they talk to none other than Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman of Team Echo Fox, who undoubtedly has a history with Leffen. In the video, he talks about some of the controversial comments Leffen has made about Mew2King’s play during Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments. He also discusses what could potentially happen in a matchup between the two players if they were both playing at the top of their games. He states that he is the best in the world at Sheik vs. Fox (Leffen’s main)–as well as Marth vs. Fox–and also states that one of his better matches is the Fox ditto.

For more, check out the video below.

Source: Red Bull eSports

After rocketing to stardom with his landmark win at the largest Project M tournament of all time, Paragon Los Angeles 2015 at only 13 years of age, Mr Lz has cemented himself as the world’s best Mr. Game and Watch. With top 8 finishes and victories at other tournaments like Smash ‘n Splash 2, Tipped Off 11 and Low Tier City 4, Mr Lz has the plethora of clips to draw upon in order to make a combo video showing off his mastery of the oldest member of the Smash Bros. cast.

Multiple combos into the Judgement Hammer, killing people off the very top of the stage with the Parachute, and devastating resets using Mr. Game and Watch’s frying pan; Mr Lz is in tune with the wackiness of Mr. Game and Watch’s kit and uses all of his many gimmicks to ensure victory. People get ready to hold a big L when they see this white Mr. Game and Watch brandishing the hammer.

Source: MrLz Smash

VesperArcade continues providing trial mode guides for The King of Fighters XIV: uploading character by character since the game’s launch, he has now added guides for Angel, Sie Kensou, Leona, and tournament host Antonov to the growing collection of reference videos. Have a look for a touch of assistance working through your favorite characters’ trials!

Check out VesperArcade’s prior trial mode guides for Meitenkun, Kyo, Vice, King of Dinosaurs, Kula, and Chang. Stay tuned to VesperArcade’s YouTube channel and Shoryuken.com for more, as they appear!

Source: VesperArcade

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U’s largest ever online tournament with 1669 entrants overall, Anther’s Ladder monster and Georgia native Wrath spin-dashed his way through the competition to win the North American qualifier for The Big House 6. For his 1st place placing, Wrath gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Michigan for the tournament, the ability to train with fellow Panda Global members during The Big House 6 and gets to be an honorary Panda Global member for the course of the event. After losing to the New England ROB main Raffi-X 3-1 in Winners’ Semis, Wrath had to fight through fellow Ladder player and Texas Peach Twi, member of the PG Stats team Zan, SoCal Link Scizor before facing Raffi-X in the Grand Finals runback, where he eventually triumphed with a 3-1 win in the second set, after Raffi took Wrath to game 5 in the first set.

By all accounts, this online qualifier was a massive success and served as the first “proper” tournament that many players had ever entered. With online still being an untapped frontier for running large-scale Smash events, I imagine we could see many more online qualifiers for big tournaments in the near future. For those in Europe, the EU qualifier for The Big House 6 begins this Thursday at 5pm BST, with the final top 128 bracket happening on Sunday the 18th.

The full VOD for the top 128 of this qualifier can be found over on Unrivaled Tournaments’ Twitch channel.

RESULTS:

1. Wrath (Sonic/Georgia)
2. Raffi-X (ROB/New England)
3. TiE|Scizor (Link/SoCal)
4. PG|Zan (Toon Link/SoCal)
5. Twi (Peach/Texas)
5. JET|The Wall (Yoshi/Texas)
7. VexX|Seagull Joe (Sonic, Diddy Kong/MDVA)
7. VexX|StreetShark(Sonic/Florida)

Sources: smash.gg; Unrivaled Tournaments

 

It was a busy weekend for Street Fighter V: in addition to Daigo Umehara securing top spot at Lockdown and EG|Justin Wong claiming first place at Manila Cup, we saw the second round of Capcom Pro Tour online qualifying events for North America and Latin America. XusesGB has compiled the CFN footage of the finals matches for these events, so you can check out the action in the videos below!

The North American Losers Finals pitted ANBU|Punk against Liquid|NuckleDu, resulting in Punk advancing to fight PG|Filipino Champ’s Dhalsim in the Grand Finals; meanwhile the Latin America Grand Finals saw SOA|Brolynho face off against GAM|DR Ray.

Have a look at the full results for the CPT Online qualifiers #2: Latin America and North America.

Source: XusesGB

Zero-to-death combos in Super Smash Bros. Melee are things of beauty: one player so in tune with their character that they can decimate an opponent’s stock in a matter of seconds. When he is on fire, G2 Esports’ Weston “Westballz” Dennis is the master of the zero-to-death, and performs combos which look like they were created by a TAS, not a human.

In this compilation from Smasha G, 20 of Westballz’ best zero-to-deaths are all in one place. These range from ridiculous Falcon Punch combos, to the infamous matches against Leffen at BEAST 6, where Westballz had about three of these insane combos over two sets. You can see truly see how crazy Melee can be, when someone like Westballz is in true control of their character.

Source: Smasha G

As goofy as it looks, F.A.N.G’s Critical Art in Street Fighter V can be an annoying tool to deal with. The move happens to be his only invincible reversal, meaning that many F.A.N.G players will resort to using it on wake up.

For those having trouble dealing with the move, ElChakotay Andrich has put together a new video that shows how to properly punish F.A.N.G.’s Critical Art. The video, which you can watch below, shows how to properly avoid the poison bombs that he drops–while still being able to go in and punish F.A.N.G afterwards–for every character in the game, including upcoming DLC character Urien.

Source: ElChakotay Andrich