Rising Up: Blanka bread-and-butter combo guide — Punishes, confirm combos, juggles, & more

The feral World Warrior Blanka has just made his playable debut in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. Like most SFV characters, his moveset has been somewhat streamlined, and he’s a bit more traditional (and less reliant on tricks and gimmicks) than he has been in previous games. I’ve put together this guide of his most essential combo routes so that players can quickly learn the basics and start developing their neutral game. Here are your best bread-and-butter combos that I’ve found for every common scenario. This video features anti-airs, punishes, confirms, counter-hit combos, crush counter combos, juggles, and more.

This Blanka bread-and-butter video is not the full Blanka tutorial I’m working on, but rather simply a guide to his basic optimal combo routes. The combos are all my own findings, alongside a few things I’ve observed from other players. While I’m certain that most of the combos are extremely optimal, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are small improvements that can be made to his V-Trigger routes, especially considering ease of execution and final positioning. Thus, I wholeheartedly encourage anyone watching to point out further damage improvements in the comments, for both me and the other players, so that I can amend them into the final video when I release it.

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Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is getting the Orbonne Monastery stage this March

Aside from additional characters, it seems that Square Enix will be updating Dissidia Final Fantasy NT with new stages as well. The company has announced that the game is getting a new stage, the Orbonne Monastery, in an update this March.

The Orbonne Monastery hails from 1997’s highly-acclaimed turn based strategy spin-off Final Fantasy Tactics. Specifically, it’s where the game’s introductory battle takes place. The Dissidia Final Fantasy NT version faithfully recreates that stage, as the trailer below demonstrates.

As for the arcade version: that’ll be getting the Orbonne Monastery earlier, as part of its February 22nd update.

Source: Square Enix

Watch SoCal’s best players throw down in Super Street Fighter II Turbo at Rewind II

Southern California has been one of the strongest scenes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo in North America for a long time, and it shows in every tournament they hold. Rewind II — a retro tournament held at Esports Arena in Santa Ana, CA — is no exception to this.

Thanks to silentscope88, the replay is now available on YouTube; you can watch the top level play of legends such as Tomo, Killer Miller, Brenttiscool, Alex Valle, and Afro Legends duking it out below.

Source: silentscope88

Watch SoCal’s best players throw down in Super Street Fighter II Turbo at Rewind II

Southern California has been one of the strongest scenes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo in North America for a long time, and it shows in every tournament they hold. Rewind II — a retro tournament held at Esports Arena in Santa Ana, CA — is no exception to this.

Thanks to silentscope88, the replay is now available on YouTube; you can watch the top level play of legends such as Tomo, Killer Miller, Brenttiscool, Alex Valle, and Afro Legends duking it out below.

Source: silentscope88

Watch SoCal’s best players throw down in Super Street Fighter II Turbo at Rewind II

Southern California has been one of the strongest scenes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo in North America for a long time, and it shows in every tournament they hold. Rewind II — a retro tournament held at Esports Arena in Santa Ana, CA — is no exception to this.

Thanks to silentscope88, the replay is now available on YouTube; you can watch the top level play of legends such as Tomo, Killer Miller, Brenttiscool, Alex Valle, and Afro Legends duking it out below.

Source: silentscope88

Watch SoCal’s best players throw down in Super Street Fighter II Turbo at Rewind II

Southern California has been one of the strongest scenes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo in North America for a long time, and it shows in every tournament they hold. Rewind II — a retro tournament held at Esports Arena in Santa Ana, CA — is no exception to this.

Thanks to silentscope88, the replay is now available on YouTube; you can watch the top level play of legends such as Tomo, Killer Miller, Brenttiscool, Alex Valle, and Afro Legends duking it out below.

Source: silentscope88

Watch SoCal’s best players throw down in Super Street Fighter II Turbo at Rewind II

Southern California has been one of the strongest scenes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo in North America for a long time, and it shows in every tournament they hold. Rewind II — a retro tournament held at Esports Arena in Santa Ana, CA — is no exception to this.

Thanks to silentscope88, the replay is now available on YouTube; you can watch the top level play of legends such as Tomo, Killer Miller, Brenttiscool, Alex Valle, and Afro Legends duking it out below.

Source: silentscope88

Koefficient analyzes the assists of all 20 base characters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

The news just keeps coming in for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Today’s breakdown from Koefficient covers nearly all of the assists for the 20 base roster characters. Similar to a project done for Dragon Ball FighterZ, a Google document has been created with GIFs and descriptions of all three assists each character possesses, with the exceptions of BlazBlue’s Iron Tager and Persona 4 Arena‘s Yukiko Amagi — of whom we’ve only seen two assists from so far — with their third attacks still remaining a mystery, for now.

To accompany this, BlazBlue content creator Koefficient has released a video where he runs down the document, providing a bit of analysis of each individual assist one by one. He also speculates how powerful or weak these moves could make each character in the long run. You can see the full video below, and get a link to the full Google document here.

What do you think about the assists in the game so far? Do you like the ones that have been chosen for your favorite characters, or would you have preferred something else? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. You can also find new information about the title’s “Episode Mode” here, as well as checking out some new gameplay footage from GameSpot Gameplay.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle will be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on Thursday, May 31st in Japan, with a North American release for the same platforms following on Tuesday, June 5th.

Sources: Koefficient; Google Docs

Koefficient analyzes the assists of all 20 base characters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

The news just keeps coming in for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Today’s breakdown from Koefficient covers nearly all of the assists for the 20 base roster characters. Similar to a project done for Dragon Ball FighterZ, a Google document has been created with GIFs and descriptions of all three assists each character possesses, with the exceptions of BlazBlue’s Iron Tager and Persona 4 Arena‘s Yukiko Amagi — of whom we’ve only seen two assists from so far — with their third attacks still remaining a mystery, for now.

To accompany this, BlazBlue content creator Koefficient has released a video where he runs down the document, providing a bit of analysis of each individual assist one by one. He also speculates how powerful or weak these moves could make each character in the long run. You can see the full video below, and get a link to the full Google document here.

What do you think about the assists in the game so far? Do you like the ones that have been chosen for your favorite characters, or would you have preferred something else? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. You can also find new information about the title’s “Episode Mode” here, as well as checking out some new gameplay footage from GameSpot Gameplay.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle will be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on Thursday, May 31st in Japan, with a North American release for the same platforms following on Tuesday, June 5th.

Sources: Koefficient; Google Docs