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Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition just released, and schoolgirl series veteran Sakura Kasugano alongside it. I expect modern players to be most familiar with her SFIV incarnation, but the one in this game plays about halfway between her Street Fighter Alpha and Street Fighter X Tekken versions. Since she’s free to play for a week and because so many people would be trying her out, I worked quickly on this guide of her essential combos, 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 Sakura bread-and-butter video is not the full Sakura tutorial I’m working on, but rather simply a guide to her basic optimal combo routes. The combos are all my own findings, alongside a few things I’ve observed from other players. Sakura’s combo routes seem somewhat straightforward, so I’m fairly certain that most of this footage is fully optimal. Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly encourage anyone watching to point out further damage or setplay 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.

Last balance patch, I made a series of videos explaining the balance changes for each character and how they affected gameplay. Now, Arcade Edition has brought a much bigger change list. I’m going to start making a pair of videos a day for about the next month, each focusing on a different character a day. One video will be an explanation of the character’s 2nd V-trigger, with some basic VT2 combos. The other will summarize and demonstrate the balance changes that character received. I encourage everyone to follow along since it’s important to know what each character can do, even if you don’t play them.

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With everyone digging in to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, we’re bound to be seeing a lot of Sakura during the first week of play, thanks to her free trial. And she also has her own stage in this version: the classic Kasugano Residence stage from Street Fighter Alpha 2.

For those that can’t get enough of everyone’s favorite schoolgirl fighter, or her stage — complete with her brother still playing video games in the background — VesperArcade posted an extended version of her stage theme on YouTube for everyone to enjoy.

Source: VesperArcade

In recent years, we have went from the majority of top players using joysticks to seeing a more diverse amount of controllers on the circuit. This has almost always been the case, however, for Tekken — as the button layout for the game lends itself to a wide array of controllers.

TheMainManSWE just broke down multiple options in one video. He goes over the standard joystick, controller, and keyboard — the latter of which he likens to the Hitbox. He talks about the pros and the cons of each control option, so that players who haven’t figured out which one to use can make an informed choice on their purchases.

Source: TheMainManSWE

One of the most notorious things about The King of Fighters gameplay is getting your opponent into the corner: with all of the movement options and offensive tools afforded you by the game itself, a mark of a great player is being able to make your opponent make the wrong decisions when their back is against the wall.

With Yuri in The King of Fighters XIV, she has all the tools needed to play a pristine corner game, including a dive kick which can stuff many reversals on reset, and several safe jump options that can beat all attempts to get out of the corner. In this video, we see many examples of this, including her blowing up evasion attempts from characters like Kim, Gang-il, and Leona.

Source: NetBattles.Canno

Tekken 7‘s Howard Estate stage has seen its fair share of 100% combos since its release with Geese. Surprisingly, one character that hasn’t been able to do that much has been King. Relying on his grab combo ender, he doesn’t have as much in the way of wall-carry potential, which is necessary to take advantage of the stage’s multiple breakable walls.

However, the key for King is not to carry off of the balcony, but he can optimize all of his damage between the second and third walls of Howard Estate. This video show some of his most optimal combos on this stage.

Source: J King

The focus of the Dragon Ball FighterZ open beta was the game’s online matchmaking, and getting people to try the game out by fighting other people. That said, that hasn’t stopped some folks from testing out the game and looking for combos.

Two of the creators who’ve put out some combo videos for the beta are none other than desk and Final Showdown. Both of these players have found ways — using the game’s limited tutorial mode — to test out some combos, despite the lack of a proper training mode.

While this is his first time actually playing the game, Final Showdown has had an interesting history with it. Prior to the beta, he’s been breaking down footage of older builds in the forums, providing insight and making predictions that have all turned out to be true. This includes a near-infinite for Goku while in Sparking Blast mode, that’s one of the things showcased in the video below.

Another thing that he’s noted is that it’s generally better to use the first two hits of an air autocombo (what would be light to medium in a normal chain) as these have better momentum and tracking than doing a normal chain. This is something to think about when looking at this second batch of combos for Goku.

Of course, the tutorial mode does allow players to use more characters later on, such as teen Gohan who’s featured (alongside Goku) in the video below.

desk’s first combo video for the Dragon Ball FighterZ open beta, on the other hand, focuses on one of the game’s unique mechanics: the Dragon Balls. The highlights of the video below is a combo extension after Shenron is summoned.

His second video is less ambitious, highlighting mostly ways to continue combos after a super.

And as a bonus, here’s some Perfect Cell tech from Georg Shkodo:

Dragon Ball FighterZ hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in the West on January 26, followed by Japan on February 1.

Sources: Final Showdown; desk; Georg Shkodo

I don’t normally like watching match compilation videos; there’s certainly things you can learn from them that you can’t from a tutorial, of course. But if I’m hunting for information, it’s because I’m looking for data, not tricks. This is a personal preference, but in regards to this recent offering from LiangHuBBB, it’s also important to note…

Because Namco’s Yoshmitisu is his tricks, at least to a certain degree. This video illustrates why, pulling some of the most informative and hilarious gameplay together for Yoshimitsu from Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur V.

His smoke-and-mirror knowledge checks are built into nearly every aspect of the character, and designed with such style and humor that he is arguably one of the greatest troll characters in the fighting game genre. Yoshimitsu is the screenshot of popular Korean streamer MBC staring blankly into the void after top Yoshimitsu player “Eyemusician” hits him with a 50 frame, no-setup unblockable.

Source: LiangHuBBB

With SoulCalibur VI on display at the Consumer Electronics Show this last weekend, Sajam and Rip were on the scene to try their hand at the game. Sajam — despite gaining his experience with 3D Fighters through the Tekken series — had positive things to say about the upcoming title.

While the build at CES only featured Mitsurugi and Sophitia, Sajam had good things to say about the game’s movement and mechanics, and even praised the Reversal Edge mechanic for adding another level of complexity to the system.

Source: Sajam