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With the proliferation of emulators, well-made training modes and capture cards, finding accurate data for fighting game mechanics is easier then it ever has been before. This fact is prossibly lost on a newer player in the fighting game community, but definitely not on someone like Mew2King.

As one of the most legendary Super Smash Bros. Melee players in the history of the game’s competitive lifespan, he’s had to do some crazy-looking things to get the information he needed to advance his game. Check out the video below to take a trip to the past:

Mew2King’s demonstration gives small glimpse of the combination of math, ingenuity, and tenacity he employed nearly a decade and a half ago. No motivation from ssports or sponsorship drove him to this: just curiosity and an intense love of his game.

Source: Most Valuable Gaming

With the reveal of Jin Kisaragi of Blazblue, Linne of Under Night In-Birth, and Yosuke Hanamura of Persona 4 Arena, Arc System Works gave us a glimpse of the meters involved in the game’s core mechanics in the latest trailer. Novriltataki delved into what he could see from the trailer, and gave the FGC some useful information to go off of.

In this video, he notes that assists have their own meter, with assists costing one half of the meter. Otherwise, the assists seem to be freeform and operate in a similar style to Tekken Tag Tournament 2‘s assist mechanics. He also discusses the super meter, noting that supers will cost two bars of it, while the bar can hold three stocks of meter. What will this discrepancy mean for gameplay itself? That is yet to be determined.

Source: novriltataki

In Tekken 7, the casual observer might be lead to believe that a list of Claudio’s best 15 moves would just include his hopkick copy-pasted 15 times over. This is because there’s been something of an over-estimation of how good this meme-ified launcher actually is: it crushes highs at the beginning, lows at the end, and has fantastic range. But like all hopkicks, it lacks safety, and even lacks step coverage to one side.

Now that the game has settled and players are punishing hopkicks more consistently, Claudio players have had to learn to calm their hopkick trigger finger a bit. This is where ApocryphicV‘s “Claudio Clinic” comes in. Here, he breaks down and explains critical tools for Claudio, and weak moves to avoid using. Any Claudio player looking to move beyond day-one hopkick strategies should find something useful here in this list.

Source: ApocryphicV

With Black Manta’s recent release into Injustice 2, players are clamoring to figure out all the tech they can before he is made tournament legal next month. His interesting float mechanics are making for some interesting things, and we could see a decent number of players adopt him as one of their characters pretty soon.

This combo video shows some of the capabilities of Black Manta, with some heavy use of his float mechanics to deal out decent amounts of damage. One particular thing of note is that Black Manta can link normals in the air, if you make use of float cancels.

Source: Apolo Loussalier

Street Fighter V‘s Rashid has controlled the air for a long time, but how well does he control the ground? With these meaty setups off of his low V-Skill, Nail Assault, he can control the ground perfectly fine.

NurseLee has concocted several devastating meaty followups to his Nail Assault, which makes his pressure far more difficult to deal with. He particularly finishes with a perfect safe jump that will make Rashid’s air game even more dangerous. This works only on quick rise, but if executed perfectly will make every DP whiff, leading to massive damage.

Source: NurseLee

Jump into the battle against Ultron Sigma!

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is now officially available! For those ready to join the fight for the Infinity Stones, we’ve naturally gathered a bit of the media and tech that’s starting to appear for the new game on day one.

Watch out for that Sigma virus: here’s the official launch trailer!

The Capcom Channel has also released a trailer giving us a closer look at the Time Stone:

Maximilian seeks to answer a big question: how’s the online play? He addresses the performance of the PlayStation 4 version of the game.

Do Ultron and Jedah make good partners in villainy? datHazy offers a day one combo as an example:

marlonlonmilk shows off what Chun-Li can do — with a little help from some Infinity Stones!

xero18 offers up a sample of what combos your friendly neighborhood web-slinger can pull off in his new iteration:

@KreativeMente sent us some early concept combos for Gamora and Thanos:

Xuses has pulled out even more music for your listening enjoyment:

Want some spoilers? You can see all of the game’s story cutscenes here, if you prefer to watch rather than play through. At just over and hour-and-a-half, it’s pretty much literally a movie-length production.

If you just want to enjoy some high-resolution screenshots instead, the PC Master Race has you covered with their 4K screenshot gallery.

Thanks to everyone that sent in tips!

Sources: Marvel Entertainment; CapcomChannel; Maximilian Dood; datHazy; marlonlonmilk; xero18; @KreativeMente; XusesGB; ADAPT Chance; PC Master Race

Guy’s lost master may be found sooner than we expect, thanks to the Tokyo Game Show.

If there was any doubt that the Ed/Abigail/Menat/Zeku roster leak was inaccurate, Abigail’s appearance at Evo 2017’s Street Fighter V finals pretty much sealed the deal. That made Menat no surprise, and as such Zeku, Guy’s Bushinryu master, is all but confirmed. The question is not who, but when?

VesperArcade speculates that the Tokyo Game Show is an ideal venue to give us our first official look at the Bushinryu warrior, as a Japanese event would be a fitting place to reveal a ninja master. That would mean we could be getting some news on Season 2’s final fighter pretty much any time now. In the video below, VesperArcade discusses this likelihood, and goes on to explore how Zeku could potentially play in SFV — based on the moveset of his student, Guy, in former titles.

Source: VesperArcade

For nearly seven years, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 provided its players and fans with a spectacle rarely matched in competitive fighting games. The game brought with it many memorable hype moments from various content creators from over the years.

Now, with the game stepping out of the limelight to make way for its successor, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, one of these content creators — Flying High — has put together a compilation video of some of the most amazing moments that he has captured on his channel. The video is a combination of unexpected tech, glitches, salt, and more. You can check it all out in the video below!

Source: Flying High