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As we are all saying our farewells to Season One of Street Fighter V, many players and video creators are choosing to remember this year by creating final combo videos ahead of the December 20th switch over. Pepopulo has gone all out with this memorial to Season One, creating a cracking CMV which shows off the crazier combos that the SFV cast could pull off.

While pepopulo chooses to focus on the madness that comes from Urien’s Aegis Reflector and Guile’s Sonic Boom loops, Laura, Birdie, Ken, Ibuki, Juri, Alex and Balrog also get some time to show off some of the wild stuff that was possible in Season One. Let’s just hope Akuma and his cohort of new fighters can create equally as creative combos.

Source: pepopulo

Creators of the Bishoujo line of character figurines, Kotobukiya is returning to the realm of Street Fighter with its new Ibuki figurine. Using her initial design from Street Fighter III and then re-imagined by master illustrator Shunya Yamashita, this Ibuki figurine would suit any Street Fighter collection, joining Poison and Sakura who have also been given the Bishoujo treatment.

Ibuki stands at 9.65 inches tall and can be pre-ordered for $74.99 over on Kotobukiya’s official website. If you do order now, figurines are set to arrive sometime in March 2017. Do note that there will be an alternate release of this Ibuki figurine in the future, which will have her ninja mask included. Check out the shots below to see both a front and back view of this Ibuki figurine.

 

Source: Kotobukiya

Alongside the reveal of Panda, Kuma and Tekken 7’s Online Tournament feature, the King of the Iron Fist Global Finals brought with it another big announcement for fans of both real and virtual fighting. In a collaboration with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Tekken 7 will feature a special outfit for King, based on the wrestling attire of current IWGP Heavyweight champion, Kazuchika Okada.

A new trailer was released showing off this new outfit, and showing Kazuchika Okada talking about this new “Rainmaker” outfit for King. King has even gained the use of Okada’s Rainmaker finisher as one of his new moves in Tekken 7, making this collaboration an absolute dream for wrestling fans.

Source: Fighters Generation

Alongside the reveal of Panda, Kuma and Tekken 7’s Online Tournament feature, the King of the Iron Fist Global Finals brought with it another big announcement for fans of both real and virtual fighting. In a collaboration with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Tekken 7 will feature a special outfit for King, based on the wrestling attire of current IWGP Heavyweight champion, Kazuchika Okada.

A new trailer was released showing off this new outfit, and showing Kazuchika Okada talking about this new “Rainmaker” outfit for King. King has even gained the use of Okada’s Rainmaker finisher as one of his new moves in Tekken 7, making this collaboration an absolute dream for wrestling fans.

Source: Fighters Generation

While every character in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- has the same value of hit points — 420 — calculating exact damage and overall health is much more complicated than that. The RISC gauge scales attacks after blocking, everyone has an individual defense modifier, and there’s also the Guts mechanic, which decreases damage further the closer a player is to defeat.

Reddit user dhamster brought those values under a scope to statistically calculate just how much effective hit points each character has. The first chart, made on Dustloop, has the Guts and defense modifier values for characters (0 being the worst, 5 the best):

Guts Rating	Character	<50% Life	<40% Life	<30% Life	<20% Life	<10% Life
0	Bedman, Elphelt, Faust, Zato	90%	76%	60%	50%	40%
1	Axl, I-No, Ramlethal, Sin, Slayer, Sol, Venom, Dizzy	87%	72%	58%	48%	40%
2	Ky, Haehyun, Jack-O’	84%	68%	56%	46%	38%
3	Johnny, Leo, May, Millia, Potemkin, Jam	81%	66%	54%	44%	38%
4	Chipp	78%	64%	50%	42%	38%
5	Raven	75%	60%	48%	40%	36%

With a few assumptions, dhamster made a formula that incorporates Guts to see an estimation of what a character’s actual health comes out to:

HP	Defense Modifier	Effective HP – No Guts	Guts Rating	EHP – With Guts	EHP (% of median)
Chipp	420	1.3	323	4	480	84%
Millia	420	1.21	347	3	504	88%
Zato	420	1.09	385	0	524	91%
Axl	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
I-No	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Ramlethal	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Dizzy	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Sin	420	1.04	404	1	559	97%
Venom	420	1.03	408	1	565	98%
Elphelt	420	1	420	0	571	99%
Faust	420	1	420	0	571	99%
May	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Jam	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Ky	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Jack-O’	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Sol	420	1	420	1	582	101%
Raven	420	1.1	382	5	587	102%
Slayer	420	0.96	438	1	606	105%
Johnny	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Leo	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Bedman	420	0.93	452	0	614	107%
Haehyun	420	0.96	438	2	624	108%
Potemkin	420	0.93	452	3	655	114%
				MEAN	572.3
				MEDIAN	574.8
				STD DEV	38.2

“Most characters have effective HP that falls within a few percentage points of the median, but some characters are notably more or less resilient than the rest, by up to 15%,” dhamster points out in his post. “That’s not much different than the scale of hit points in Street Fighter IV, where Akuma had 850 HP and Zangief had 1100-1200 HP (depending on the version). Raven’s high Guts rating more or less balances his bad defense rating (1.1), but for the most part, the defense rating seems to be a bigger factor overall. Millia and Chipp have good Guts ratings, but their abysmal defense ratings send them to the bottom of the charts.”

Aside from these detailed numbers, it’s important to keep in mind that Guts doesn’t work on poison and chip damage, and that damage cannot be reduced below one. This was covered in the last Guilty Gear Crash Course.

Source: r/guiltygear

While every character in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- has the same value of hit points — 420 — calculating exact damage and overall health is much more complicated than that. The RISC gauge scales attacks after blocking, everyone has an individual defense modifier, and there’s also the Guts mechanic, which decreases damage further the closer a player is to defeat.

Reddit user dhamster brought those values under a scope to statistically calculate just how much effective hit points each character has. The first chart, made on Dustloop, has the Guts and defense modifier values for characters (0 being the worst, 5 the best):

Guts Rating	Character	<50% Life	<40% Life	<30% Life	<20% Life	<10% Life
0	Bedman, Elphelt, Faust, Zato	90%	76%	60%	50%	40%
1	Axl, I-No, Ramlethal, Sin, Slayer, Sol, Venom, Dizzy	87%	72%	58%	48%	40%
2	Ky, Haehyun, Jack-O’	84%	68%	56%	46%	38%
3	Johnny, Leo, May, Millia, Potemkin, Jam	81%	66%	54%	44%	38%
4	Chipp	78%	64%	50%	42%	38%
5	Raven	75%	60%	48%	40%	36%

With a few assumptions, dhamster made a formula that incorporates Guts to see an estimation of what a character’s actual health comes out to:

HP	Defense Modifier	Effective HP – No Guts	Guts Rating	EHP – With Guts	EHP (% of median)
Chipp	420	1.3	323	4	480	84%
Millia	420	1.21	347	3	504	88%
Zato	420	1.09	385	0	524	91%
Axl	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
I-No	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Ramlethal	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Dizzy	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Sin	420	1.04	404	1	559	97%
Venom	420	1.03	408	1	565	98%
Elphelt	420	1	420	0	571	99%
Faust	420	1	420	0	571	99%
May	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Jam	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Ky	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Jack-O’	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Sol	420	1	420	1	582	101%
Raven	420	1.1	382	5	587	102%
Slayer	420	0.96	438	1	606	105%
Johnny	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Leo	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Bedman	420	0.93	452	0	614	107%
Haehyun	420	0.96	438	2	624	108%
Potemkin	420	0.93	452	3	655	114%
				MEAN	572.3
				MEDIAN	574.8
				STD DEV	38.2

“Most characters have effective HP that falls within a few percentage points of the median, but some characters are notably more or less resilient than the rest, by up to 15%,” dhamster points out in his post. “That’s not much different than the scale of hit points in Street Fighter IV, where Akuma had 850 HP and Zangief had 1100-1200 HP (depending on the version). Raven’s high Guts rating more or less balances his bad defense rating (1.1), but for the most part, the defense rating seems to be a bigger factor overall. Millia and Chipp have good Guts ratings, but their abysmal defense ratings send them to the bottom of the charts.”

Aside from these detailed numbers, it’s important to keep in mind that Guts doesn’t work on poison and chip damage, and that damage cannot be reduced below one. This was covered in the last Guilty Gear Crash Course.

Source: r/guiltygear

Since its inception, animal fighters have been a part of Tekken. As such, it should come as no surprise then that two of the series most iconic animal characters will be coming to Tekken 7.

At the end of the King of Iron Fist Global Championship stream, Bandai Namco dropped a new trailer announcing that Kuma and Panda will be returning to Tekken 7 when it hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC sometime in 2017.

Now while Panda is basically a palette swap of Kuma, she’s occupied her own separate slot in the select screen since Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and even gotten some animations unique to her in that game. Whether or not we’ll see more differentiation between these two in Tekken 7 is unknown.

Tekken 7 is set to release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam in sometime in 2017, with the exact date to be announced sometime next month.

Source: Bandai Namco