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There’s a certain set of unwritten rules about parries in Tekken 7. Typically, parries will lose to knees and elbows, most can be reversed, and some have such heavy recovery that whiffing one causes you to get launched for free. Most of this logic, however, goes right out the window once you start talking about Jin’s parry.

Jin’s parry recovers almost instantaneously, and works versus nearly every single attack in the game. This allows Jin to punish things virtually no other character has a true answer for, such as Hwoarang’s safe, mid Rage Art. It might sound like Jin’s parry is broken, but as neptunusequester‘s video details, there’s a little more going on then just being a normal parry on steroids. Check out the video above to see the strengths — and weaknesses — Jin’s parry possesses.

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One character that is curently drawing heavily-polarized opinions in the Street Fighter V meta is Menat. Her spacing abilities have put a twist into a usually offensive game via her heavily-defensive tools. Traditionalists cheer for this, while newer players may find the playstyle boring — even worse, if it’s a mirror match.

Regardless of your opinions of the character, Capcom has made several buffs to the character, including some input changes to prevent overlaps. With many top players having already picked her up, and several others — including Capcom Cup 2017 champion MenaRD — flirting with the possibility, the future looks bright for Rose’s fortune-telling apprentice.

Source: VesperArcade

The Windjammers Flying Power League is bringing back the nineties faster than you can say “Oakley shades,” and their most recent stop at NorCal Regionals 2018 was an amazing display of disc-chucking. With players on the hunt for points, everyone was at the top of their game, and showed off this game’s amazing depth.

With players like Drewchuck, Geordi, and Myname1sjeff in the arena — all of them having strong prowess in this rapid-paced game — this top 8 shaped up to be a stunner.

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When the series was first launched back in the 1990s, one of the things Mortal Kombat was noted for was its use of digitized footage of real people in place of hand-drawn sprites. This eventually made some of these actors familiar names among the hardcore MK fans.

Now, at the 2018 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) the cast of Mortal Kombat 2 got together for a panel to talk about working on the games. The panel features Ho Sung Pak (Liu Kang), Rich Divizio (Baraka), Carlos Pesina (Raiden), Daniel Pesina (Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, and Smoke), John Parrish (Jax), Katalin Rodriguez Ogden (Kitana, Mileena, and Jade), and Dr. Phillip Ahn (Shang Tsung).

For those who missed out on the panel, tabmok99 was able to record the entirety of it and share it onto YouTube. For fans of the series, it’s a great way to learn more about its early days, and about the old-school arcade scene in general.

Check out their video of the panel below.

Source: tabmok99 via Test Your Might

The era of BlazBlue: Central Fiction is far from over, and the community keeps proving that point. XIIIBlades and Tao teamed up to create a new combo video that covers many of the characters on the large cast. Get ready for an eclectic showing with stylish combinations that demonstrate why this game is still worth playing.

Over a catchy remix song, the video starts with the protagonist, Ragna, and turns to a pretty rare character next, Relius, who performs an interesting loop in the corner. XIIIBlades typically plays Jin, so it’s not surprising to see some cool combos with Ice Fang — I had no idea you could follow up the regular Distortion Drive with an Overdrive activation into the stronger version! It feels like the theme of the video is side-switching; there is a lot of good juggling and maneuvering from Relius and Bang, especially when Bang teleports behind Nine. The witch herself also shows off what she can do.

Check out the video below — and if you’re looking for something more individual, check out this BlazBlue Hazama and Terumi combo video.

Source: XIIIBlades

With the initial launch of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and the Season 3 balance patch in mid-January, there was one character who seemed to draw much more attention and scrutiny from the community following the release of the patch notes: the monstrous Mad Gear auto enthusiast Abigail. Receiving easily the largest number of changes of any of the 28 veteran cast members — most notably including faster Light attacks — the giant gearhead appeared to be vroom-vrooming himself straight into the fast lane of competitive play, even if his trophy case at the Metro City Bay Area wasn’t full yet.

With the surprising arrival of the Season 3.5 rebalance, Abi has been given massive lumps on the head by the nerf bat: seeing reduced health, his Light attack speed reverted to Season 2.5, removing his new combos, a massive reduction in his overall damage and stun output across the board, and increased pushback on moves (rendering throw loops and previous oki situations obsolete). Though, he was compensated with an increase in his already high stun value, as well as notable improvements to his V-Trigger II’s additional attack Hybrid Charge.

Taking all of these factors — and a discussion about what made him so powerful previously — into consideration, VesperArcade’s Mir ponders if the gargantuan brawler (who just got third at Brussels Challenge: Major Edition, in the hands of Problem X) is still viable enough to be a contender in SFV’s new climate. You can hear his full arguments in the video below.

You can also check out Vesper’s thoughts on the surprising Cammy buffs, as well as SonicSol’s overiew of Nash’s changes if you’re looking for further character analysis.

What are your thoughts on the current standing of Abigail? Do you believe Capcom went a bit overboard in toning him down, or do you believe his nerfs were completely justified and handled extremely well? Provide your own perspective in the comments section below.

Source: VesperArcade