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If you’ve spent any time on the internet at all, then you’ve almost certainly seen a video with stick figures fighting each other at some point in your life. A large entity associated with this style is RockHardGladiators, an animation collective with complicated and smoothly-choreographed fight sequences. There’s a whole community that has coalesced around this animation style, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it has bled over into interesting fan projects in the form of fighting games.

One of those projects, the in-development indie fighter Fatal Art, has announced it is ending its development. The announcement comes along with the reveal of its final character, Y.U.P.I.A, and her trailer is below:

You can download the last build of Fatal Art for free here.

Source: Bonehouse

As you may have noticed, we’ve made a more active attempt to cover the tournament scene of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown over in Japan. While we could continue to point out that events like the Tokyo Bay Area Cup — a 3-on-3 team tournament in Japan featuring 30 teams — validate the passion of this game, perhaps there’s no better explanation of the pull of VF than the fact that two-time Evo champion Fuudo found himself in the brackets. If a sponsored player for Street Fighter V could find the time to return to his roots, you know there’s a flame there that will never die.

As always, you can watch the highlights of this event thanks to the efforts of VirtuaFighter.com admin Mike Abdow. He also put together a full breakdown of character usage, which you can check out here.

 

 

If you like what you saw, you can watch the full VF5:FS tournament VOD, too:

Source: Mike Abdow

While team tournaments have long been a fixture of fighting game events, they have often been overshadowed by singles action — where an individual, rather than a group, takes the glory. But with events like Gfinity Series, Tekken Master Cup, and Cooperation Cup all getting a lot of attention lately, this could soon change.

Gerald Lee of Core-A Gaming discusses how he feels that the format creates a different atmosphere than singles competition. He also discusses the camaraderie the format builds in players’ mentalities, when they have to care about everyone else on their team.

Source: Core-A Gaming

The most recent update to Dragon Ball FighterZ made a number of changes to Vegito. These changes generally made pulling off damaging combos with him much easier. As a reaction to this, combo video wizard Final Showdown has returned to Vegito to see if he can create even more complicated combos for him.

The result is the video below, that demonstrates a plethora of combos that are, for the most part, impressive yet highly impractical. In addition to this, he’s also added some comparisons of various vanish setups.

Source: Final Showdown

While it’s obviously still very early in their lifespan, the newly released Tekken 7 DLC characters — Marduk and Armor King — are looking stronger than perhaps any other character has looked upon immediate release. Let’s take a look at the huge damage output and gimmicks these two wrestlers are currently rockin’:

Damage is the major focus of our Marduk submissions today. Here’s some advanced infinite stage combos…

… and here’s about everything you could want to know about Marduk’s wall game, including his re-splats and a disgusting throw mixup.

Lastly, it’s important to know how to approach Marduk, as he has a fairly unique block punishment game. His While Rising options are great, but heaven forbid you ever get your hopkick blocked.

If you’re looking for a nice, long dissertation on Armor King, here’s an hour long breakdown on the character. Class starts now!

And once you have your basics down, what I really expect to see from all you AK’s out there is some cross-up re-splats.

Relatively easy AK resplat wall combo. Instead of 1 df shoulder you still have time to do run up 2 into ground throw mixup if you prefer that. #ArmorKing pic.twitter.com/x6B9VoZ45C

— Rommaler (@Rommaler) December 5, 2018

And closing out today’s post is the casual reminder that King and Armor King share a lot of similar qualities — for example, they both murder you on Forgotten Realm.

Tekken7 Armor king combo.
Trying to find legit death combo..
Any idea required to finish this.@PSN_DIGGS_86 @SavageOgreDG @STL1119 pic.twitter.com/bAP18OzX76

— KillingHawkPK (@FIGHTERS_PK) December 5, 2018

Sources: Tekken // Mellowlink; Scallywag 93; mastermind; Rommaler; FIGHTERS_PK