Category: Videos

Soon it will be a month since the announcement of the SoCal Smash League, and so far it looks like the community-lead tournament series is off to a good start. Judging by the highlight videos alone, the league is bringing out worthy Smash competitors from all corners of the SoCal scene.

Speaking of highlights, 2GGaming has got a fresh batch from Week 3 of the aforementioned leagues Super Smash Bros. for Wii U weeklies. Each week of highlights brings in a variety of unique main characters. While you get awesome highlights from characters using mainstays such as Fox, Peach and Sheikh, this week’s montage also includes clutch victories from the likes of Lemmy Koopa, Ryu, and even a gnarly Pac-Man.

Check out SoCal Smash League’s Season 1, Week 3 highlights below — and find out how you can get involved in the weeklies here.

Source: 2GGaming 

Are you all warmed up?

Street Fighter V wasn’t kind to Alex in Season 2 — but Season 3, as part of the Arcade Edition balance changes, sees loyal Alex mains rewarded with a buff to his Lariat. In the variety of setups in this video — including options for both quick and back rise — NurseLee works to maximize the Lariat’s potential frame advantage on hit to as high as +10. Check it out below (and keep an eye out for NurseLee’s next Alex video, promising a look at his new Rage Boost)!

Source: NurseLee

As a new player in Tekken 7, here’s a fact you have to deal with: everyone you play online and in person will throw out something gimmicky at you at least once. Even in the highest level of play, we’ve already seen moves that “aren’t real” win tournaments, such as Saint’s famous tournament-winning DF+1+3 at the 2016 Tekken World Tour.

These players aren’t disrespecting you (…well, maybe some of them are), they are testing you. When the 39 characters currently in Tekken 7 have 100+ moves a piece, it just makes sense to see what your opponent is and isn’t ready for. That’s the focus of many of the moves in Scallywag 93‘s latest video: if you’ve played even a little bit of Tekken 7, you’ve encountered most, if not all, of the moves in this video already. Every single one of them could have been a free launcher for you. If you’ve been passing up free damage on any of these, don’t get mad: get empowered! It’s time to hit the record feature and get to work training your duck reactions.

Source: Scallywag 93

A problem with virtually all of the footage of SoulCalibur VI thus far is that the players behind the controls simply weren’t legacy SoulCalibur competitors. Coverage to this point has given us early and important insight into SCVI’s world; now that we have that insight, it’s time to see the game in the hands of players looking to push its gameplay engine!

And that’s where KayaneTV comes in to save the day. She, and members of the French SoulCalibur community, are over at Evo Japan trying out the current build of SCVI. Since Kayane is a SCII Xianghua player of considerable renown, this video contains some of the best gameplay of Namco’s new sword-slinger yet. This is also some of the first footage to properly utilize the new “Soul Charge” mechanic, whose invisible-hitbox activation is functionally similar to another Namco mechanic: Pokkén Tournament‘s Synergy Burst.

Source: KayaneTV

A problem with virtually all of the footage of SoulCalibur VI thus far is that the players behind the controls simply weren’t legacy SoulCalibur competitors. Coverage to this point has given us early and important insight into SCVI’s world; now that we have that insight, it’s time to see the game in the hands of players looking to push its gameplay engine!

And that’s where KayaneTV comes in to save the day. She, and members of the French SoulCalibur community, are over at Evo Japan trying out the current build of SCVI. Since Kayane is a SCII Xianghua player of considerable renown, this video contains some of the best gameplay of Namco’s new sword-slinger yet. This is also some of the first footage to properly utilize the new “Soul Charge” mechanic, whose invisible-hitbox activation is functionally similar to another Namco mechanic: Pokkén Tournament‘s Synergy Burst.

Source: KayaneTV

This isn’t even BornFree’s final form!

Power levels are reaching well above 9000 — I mean, 8000 — in BornFree’s latest video, in which he discusses why he’s excited for the brand-new Dragon Ball FighterZ (released today)! More so, he’s here to talk about why this title is such a significant release, and how a game in this style, made with the attention to gameplay and love of the source material that DBFZ has been, holds the power to join different parts of the FGC (and other communities) together.

And for those that want to see even more of BornFree’s rage-induced power level spike, check out the extended cut of the “Subpar Saiyan” sequence:

Guys from the future just think they know everything.

Source: BornFree