Continuing on with their Evo 2017 interview series, Capcom Fighters spent some time with one of the FGC’s favorite sons — Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli.
Over the course of the interview, Joe talked about attending his first Evo at Evo East in 2006, and how the world’s largest fighting game tournament has changed over the years in size and personality. He shares his feelings on the season 2 Urien nerfs and what legacy Street Fighter characters he wants to see return to Street Fighter V.
See more of what Mad Gear’s meaty motorhead is capable of in these videos!
Abi… GAIL! One of the goofiest additions to Street Fighter V‘s roster is proving he has the chops to hold his own in the ring. Here’s another look at what players are doing with his interesting moveset!
Combo virtuoso desk wasn’t done with Abigail yet, naturally:
VesperArcade has been trying Abigail out of course, and has uploaded some collected gimmicks, a combo guide, and online match footage:
Maximilian offers some combos, a look at the gearhead’s Story Mode, and overall impressions:
YogaFlame24 has been gathering the Abigail efforts from a number of different players; here’s match footage from CFN leaderboard front-runner Iwate, and Itabashi Zangief trying out an even bigger-bodied brawler:
RektScrub uploaded these matches of RB’s nasty Abigail:
Xuses has upoaded a face-off between Echo Fox|Momochi’s Abigail and Scarz|Sako, as well as a look at Poongko’s Abigail play:
Daigo Umehara’s BeasTV also tried out Abigail, and you can watch the results here:
If you’ve ever brushed up against competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee, you will have heard about the Gods — five players who had periods as the lord of the Melee mountain. More recently, pundits and players have started using the term ‘demi-god’ to denote the class of players who are just underneath the Gods in skill. You also have Leffen as the ‘Godslayer’, who was the first player to take a set off all of the Gods and the current 5th best player in the world, since EG|PPMD is still on his competitive hiatus.
Well, there is the potential for a sixth God of Melee, with Panda Global’s Plup. Not only has he taken sets of every God besides Armada, his recent victory at DreamHack Atlanta saw him with a tournament where two of the Gods were in attendance. With this landmark win in mind, SaveAsUntitled has created a statistical analysis of Plup’s recent performance, to determine how far he is from becoming one of the Melee Gods.
Has Capcom got a big surprise in store for Street Fighter fans?
The recent appearance of a PlayStation 4/Xbox One listing for Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection — originally released for PlayStation 2, containing the SFII compilation Hyper Street Fighter II and a port of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike — on a German website has started the rumor mill running on the possibility that we’ll be seeing a compilation package of some kind soon for Street Fighter’s 30th anniversary. You can see the listing below in a tweet from Gatoray:
This strange listing has started talk and speculation on this NeoGAF thread. While the listing references something that sounds like the old PS2 compilation, Maximilian discusses in his new video how insiders have stated that Capcom indeed has something more than a port of Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection (which was released for the 15th anniversary) in the works, and we’ll be hearing something more about it soon. It may even include Street Fighter Alpha titles, or a new port of 3rd Strike…
This is all in the wonder/speculation/rumor area right now, but with the actual anniversary date coming up late in August, the time is right for Capcom to show off whatever big release they may have planned, if any, for the 30th year. The PS4 has seen digital versions of many PS2 titles already, especially from SNK; while ports of Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection or Street Fighter Alpha Anthology would be welcome to many fans, there’s an opportunity to do better here that I hope Capcom capitalizes on. We’ll ideally find out soon enough.
Thanks to her strong neutral and versatile pokes, King has always been, at worst, a decent character in The King of Fighters XIV. Decent doesn’t necessarily translate to flashy, though, so when Persona Entertainment was tasked with making a combo video for the Queen King, they had to get creative.
While this is probably one of the most practical combo videos Persona has made in their long running KOF XIV combo video series, there’s still some entertaining gems here. Expect to see plenty of corner juggles, training mode only conversions off full-stage fireballs, and super whiffs mid-combo.
Want to quickly pick up Tekken 7‘s Bruce Lee stand-in, Marshall Law, but don’t know where to begin? YouTuber PepperBeef2Spicy — who you may remember as the creator of Tekken 7‘s ultimate prep guide — has made a great video series for the Dragon that’ll help you get up to speed.
His beginner video lays down the frame work for the character for new Tekken players…
But if you already know your basic Tekken gameplay, this 5-minute examination cuts to the chase.
And lastly, once you know your best moves, you’ll want to know your possible combos from them. PepperBeef has you covered there, too, with these conversions:
The “enthusiastic” motorist Abigail has just made his playable debut in the Street Fighter series this week. While fan reactions to the character’s design were mixed, I don’t think anyone anticipated the technicality and depth of his toolset. This naturally has made Abigail ridiculously difficult to optimize, but I’ve worked hard to compile only the most optimal practical combos, so that players can easily learn his combo routes and start focusing on his unique footsies. In addition to the usual demonsrtations for ideal anti-airs, punishes, confirms, counter-hit combos, crush counter combos, and juggles, this video features two new sections devoted to Abigail’s unique mechanics: Parry Confirms and Guard Crush Combos.
This video is merely centered around Abigail’s optimal combos. Consider this video a precursor to an eventual full Abigail character tutorial. The combos are all my own labwork, alongside a few things I’ve observed from other players. I’m fairly confident that most of these combos are fully ideal, but due to the precise nature of his juggles and abundance of conversion options, I’m sure I’ve missed some optimizations somewhere. For both me and the other players, I ask that those viewers somewhat acquainted with Abigail point out anything I might have missed in the comments, so that I can amend it into the final video when it comes out.
Evo 2017 Street Fighter V champion Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi from team Echo Fox seems to have a lot to be thankful for, in regards to his win. During his post-championship interview, Tokido thanks a lot of folk, including longtime training partner Kenryo “Mago” Hayashi.
However, it seems that there’s one other person that Tokido is thankful to. In this interview with Esports Heaven’s Adam Baugh, Tokido talks about how talking to Echo Fox team owner Rick Fox helped make him a better player. A retired professional basketball player from the NBA, Rick Fox has a reputation for being one of the more hands-on team owners in the industry.
They also talk about Tokido’s performance in top 8, including who was his most difficult match-up, as well as his gameplan going into battle with Panda Global’s Victor “Punk” Woodley in grand finals.
Additionally, they quickly go over his plans to play other games, with Tokido mentioning both Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and Dragon Ball FighterZ.
As you may already know, BlazBlue: Central Fiction‘s version 2.0 update will be hitting arcades in Japan next week, on August 3. The new update brings with it a host of changes, as well as the long awaited playable debut of Jubei.
Ahead of this release, Arc System Works has now released the opening animation for BlazBlue: Central Fiction 2.0. As expected, the animation showcases the the game’s cast and some gameplay, including a glimpse of Jubei.
Check out the new opening animation below:
After hitting arcades, BlazBlue: Central Fiction‘s version 2.0 update is set to arrive on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC sometime later this summer.
The CPT Interview series continued on the floor of Evo 2017 with three knockout interviews: Norwegian pro BX3|Arman “Phenom” Hanjani, Dominican Republican player GAM|Ray “DR RAY” Rosario, and Korean player Sooa Kim.
Phenom’s interview is a rare showing of intense passion from the usually composed Norwegian, as he recaps how he felt slighted by ELEAGUE’s format.
Vega pro DR Ray is all smiles as he gets to sing the praises of his local scene.
Lastly, Sooa shares her personal thoughts on how her main character, Juri, could be easily balanced with the rest of the cast.
Capcom Fighters has been conducting great interviews with top players all along the Capcom Pro Tour, so if you enjoyed any of these, be sure to check out their channel for more interviews!
