Category: Fighting Games

The virtual Capcom Pro Tour train continues with another online ranking event, making another stop in North America. The bracket for the region’s second and final online CPT event has already been whittled down to 16 players. Some of those remaining include Flash, Fchamp, XsK_Samurai, NuckleDu, Zaferino, takuyasugi and Chris Tatarian.

If you want to check out the action and see who qualifies for another spot in the NA regional finals, head over to Capcom Fighters now.

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

Source: CapcomFighters

This one is bound to be controversial. In his series which attempts to balance the entire cast of Super Smash. Bros Melee to the same level of viability as Captain Falcon, MagicScrumpy has taken the nerf bat to the bringer of 20XX, Fox McCloud. The video outlines how in his current state in Melee, Fox has so many powerful tools which make him far and away the best character. He has the best move in the game with Shine, one of the best recoveries, moves like up air and up smash that kill super early, incredibly mobility and a projectile which allows him to reset his list of stale moves – to name but a few of his strengths.

Fox can do what he wants, when he wants and for Scrumpy who wishes to radically balance the game so that every character is roughly at the same level, Fox cannot stay as he is. Some of the major changes made by Scrumpy are that Fox can only short hop single laser, up air is now a combo move instead of a kill move and Shine is no longer invincible and it comes out on frame 3, rather than frame 1. The resulting character is one radically different from standard Melee Fox and one which requires a fair amount of relearning in order to be used effectively.

Source: MagicScrumpy

In a scene familiar to anyone who watches European Smash 4, Mr. R has claimed yet another victory on the continent at Syndicate 2016. The Dutch Sheik main saw off competition from France, the US, Germany and from his homeland of the Netherlands to gain first place, finally taking the whole tournament with a convincing 3-0 win over SoCal’s Rich Brown. Rich Brown had quite the Losers’ run after being put into the lower bracket by the Netherlands’ top Greninja iStudying, fighting through US ex-pat Jbandrew in a super tense 3-2 set, the UK’s IxisNaugus with a 3-1 win before finally triumphing in the runback versus iStudying with a 3-0 victory.

The entire top 8 was a mass of momentum shifts and knife-edge final stocks, with players coming back from the brink of defeat many times over. Ixis’ incredible final stock versus Purple~H at the very start of top 8 set the tone, with several matches causing clips to rebound Twitter over the course of the final bracket. iStudying was the king of the clutch play as usual, riding on the momentum of the crowd to often times come back and win a match. Unfortunately, he was unable to beat his demon Mr. R and Rich Brown’s Mewtwo had got the download by the time they rematched in Losers’ Finals, sending iStudying out at third place.

The speed of some matches continued to make the case for three stock to become the standard Smash 4 format, as that extra stock gives players that drive to play aggressively. There were no painfully long matches like at BEAST 6 earlier in the year; quick, ferocious play was king during the Syndicate top 8. Diversity is thriving in Europe, with every top 8 player using a unique character, comprised of familiar faces like Sheik and Sonic, as well as some rarely seen picks like Wario. While the rest of Europe is starting to catch up to him, Mr. R is still the king of European Smash 4. He did not lose a single game over the course of the whole tournament, so major work needs to be done if Europe hopes to fell his fearsome Sheik.

RESULTS:

1. Mr. R (Sheik)
2. Rich Brown (Mewtwo)
3. iStudying (Greninja)
4. IxisNaugus (Sonic)
5. Mutiny|Jbandrew (Meta Knight)
5. Glutonny (Wario, Captain Falcon)
7. unK|Griffith (Bayonetta, Lucario, Mario, Zero Suit Samus)
7. SFTO|Purple~H (Cloud Lucina)

VODs are now available over on the Geeky Goon Squad YouTube channel and you can find links to Winners’, Losers’ and Grand Finals below.

Sources: Geeky Goon Squad; smash.gg; Twitch Clips

After seven months of dedicated uploads, UA|Bass’ Rough Sets series for Season 3 of Killer Instinct has finally reached its 200th episode. This series has seen KI pros from all over the world, fighting off against each other in first to 10 sets, to help Bass practice certain match ups or to see if the challenger can go toe to toe with the Spinal master.

With Bass taking a break from KI for the foreseeable future, it makes sense that this 200th episode is a special one. This set sees Bass go up against ARIA specialist and Killer Instinct prodigy SeaDragon in a nail-biting set. Bass does not stick to Spinal, switching to Cinder for the second half of the set while SeaDragon briefly swaps to Hisako before returning to play his favorite robot overlord. As an extra bonus, this Rough Set is commentated by renowned FGC commentator Sajam, opening up the action going on in this tense set and allowing newer players to understand some of the intricacies of this high level series of games.

Source: XiBassiX

Whereas Daigo may be known for his cautious, footsies based Ryu play, Tokido’s Ryu is all about that fearless rushdown and oppressive pressure which leads into huge damage. This offensive playstyle seems to be so effective in Street Fighter V that alongside his qualification to the Capcom Cup finals, Tokido is ranked as the best Ryu online.

As the compiler of replays and online matches, it was only a matter of time until XusesGB took Tokido’s clips into the editing suite and created a montage of his best moments from various matches online. Xuses has really leveled up his editing on this video, adding some cool effects and transitions whenever Tokido makes a hard read or lands a particularly devastating combo.

Source: XusesGB

This weekend is the second round of Capcom Pro Tour online ranking events for Latin America and North America. Today it’s Latin America’s turn to get into the online action. Some familiar names are in the brackets for the top 16, including Kusanagi, DR Ray, Brolynho, BabyBrasil and Dark817. You can find the brackets for Top 16 on Challonge here.

Tune into the action on the Capcom Fighters now, and be sure to catch the North America online event tomorrow at at 4 PM PDT, 7 PM EDT.

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

Source: CapcomFighters

Welcome to the Rollback: a frame-by-frame look back at our past week’s most notable news and our favorite SRK articles from September 3 to September 9, 2016!

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Zavian “mushin_Z” Sildra, Editor-in-Chief:

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Get Ready to Crush, Kill, and Destroy! Urien’s Official Trailer for Street Fighter V Has Arrived

At long, long last, we get an official trailer for Urien. I love the music, but why Kanzuki Beach…? I guess even the Secret Society’s vice-president needs to take a vacation to go beat F.A.N.G up once in a while.

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“Upload Complete”: Infiltration Talks About His Evolution 2016 Championship with Core-A Gaming

A nice bit of insight into what was a spectacular moment, and RZR|Infiltration’s succinct and ever-memorable “download complete” quote from Evo 2016.

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Interview with Labib “Slippingbug” Haq, Absolute Battle 7’s Pokkén Tournament Champion

A great interview with a player of one of my favorite (not Street Fighter) games, who mains one of my favorite fighters! Go R. Pika!

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Sam “Trilby” Foxall, Assistant Editor:

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Super Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Discusses Game Balance and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in His Famitsu Column

Sakurai’s discussion about game balance in relation to Marvel is quite something, especially in light of some of the decisions made in the Smash series. Adapt or die, people!

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ClayFighter Now Up for Grabs as Interplay Sells the Majority of Its Intellectual Property

Bad Mr. Frosty, Earthworm Jim and Taffy could be making their grand return, as companies can now bid on the rights to ClayFighter. We could see Little Girly Combos on the Evo 2018 stage.

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Evo Japan, LLC Now a Registered Legal Entity in Japan, Has Huge Media Conglomerate Backing

Evo Japan officially has some big media backing, with more information coming next week during TGS. Get saving for those tickets to Japan.

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Keegan “Interrobang!?” Spindler, Features Editor:

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The Wind Rises in this Street Fighter V Match Compilation for Takeuchi’s Rashid

Say what you will about r/Kappa, but they sure know how to pick a player. John Takeuchi is hot property at the moment following his win at First Attack. It made him the first Rashid player to pick up victory at a Major, and watching this match compilation, it’s pretty easy to see how he did it.

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Play Pinball with Your Opponents with These Samus Footstool Combos in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Before Smash 4 came out, Masahiro Sakurai said that he was nerfing Samus, the best character in the game. Muramishi finally makes the character look worthy of that sort of talk, thanks to some absolutely filthy setups. 

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HORI Shows Off New Red, White, & Blue Versions of Their Real Arcade Pro 4 Hayabusa Arcade Stick

It should come as no surprise that we love the hardware here at SRK, and these new RAP4 colors are a real treat. You can also get a sneak peak at the Touhou Urban Legends special edition sticks, which have me brushing up on my import regulations.

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Editor’s note: The views expressed in this article and the selected posts are solely those of the writers, and do not reflect Shoryuken.com as a whole.

On this episode of The Jump-In Podcast, top European commentator Logan Sama sat down with Evil Geniuses’ K-Brad to discuss a variety of topics pertaining to Street Fighter and the wider FGC, such as the pro player lifestyle, up and coming players in both Europe and the USA as well as the hot button issues of VIP rooms and player floating at large tournaments.

K-Brad has choice words to say about the amount of options in Street Fighter V compared to Ultra Street Fighter 4, lamenting the sheer lack of options players have to defend against certain situations in SFV when looking back at USF4. He and Logan also discuss the character variety between the US and Europe, with Europe having specialists for characters that are less prevalent in the US, like Laura, Alex and Bison. It’s a great 50 minutes of fighting game chat and definitely worth a listen if you want to hear more about the differences between the US and European meta, from two men with experience from both sides of the Atlantic.

Source: The Jump-In

This Saturday saw Japan’s finest, along with some guests from America, come together in together in Tokyo for the 25th edition of the regular Umebura tournament series for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The result was a day of top level Smash with Kamemushi’s Megaman eventually coming out on top, defeating Abadango’s Mewtwo with a decisive 3-1 victory. For his victory, rather than a cash prize, Kamemushi received a pair of headphones and 30kg bag of rice as his grand prize. At least he won’t go hungry for the next week.

Abadango did come second, defeating players like Kirihara, Rain, Umeki and CLG|VoiD to gain that silver medal. Kirihara, one of Japan’s hidden bosses and widely regarded as their best Rosalina player came in third, racking up wins against KEN, Nietono and Umeki before falling to Abadango in a 3-0 loss.

CLG|VoiD is yet to break the fourth place curse, just missing out on that podium finish after a tough set with Kirihara, but the training in Japan will put him in a prime position to do well at The Big House 6 next month. You can check out the Winners, Losers and Grand Finals matches below, with commentary in English as D1 and Keitaro were also attendees of this event.

Results:

1. Kamemushi (Megaman)
2. Abadango (Mewtwo, Meta Knight)
3. Kirihara (Rosalina)
4. CLG|VoiD (Sheik, Mewtwo)
5. Umeki (Peach)
5. taranito (Ness)
7. Shogun (Fox)
7. Nietono (Diddy Kong, Sheik)

Sources: smash.gg; SHI-G (Twitter)

With the addition of new Art Director Josh Singh to the Wavedash Games team, it was only natural that the art style of their unnamed platform fighter was bound to change. After the reveal of first character Ashani, one of the main criticisms of the character was that her design was a little too generic — it lacked that personality and pop that is needed to make fighters stand out in a fighting game. Under the guidance of Josh and thanks to his years of experience as a character artist for companies like Riot Games, the new design for Ashani is starting to show some real character and flair.

The current look for Ashani does match the Speedy Brawler archetype that she is designed around, with her heavy gauntlets and shoulder armor to convey her power, while her legs and boots are less armored so she can move quickly around the battlefield to deal damage. Her hair is in a tidier ponytail now, similar to a track runner and she has actuators which pop out of her armor as she charges up power. This hints at a possible mechanic for Ashani where over the course of a fight, those actuators slowly extend out of her armor as she collects electricity which will eventually lead her to discharging all of that energy in one massive strike.

The new design is already better than the original and Josh’s character design philosophy is great in assuring each character’s design displays both personality and combat usage. Next week’s dev vlog promises another look at designs coming out of the art pipeline so we’ll hopefully see a new character or some stage designs in the next video.

Source: Wavedash Games