Whether you’re looking for a new main, or just to brush up your current combos, JusticeSoulTuna has you covered. If you’ve been eyeing Lars–who’s a fairly good all-around fighter–this practical combo guide serves as a good stepping stone to surprise your competition.
The video has notation for every bread-and-butter sequence from various starters. Other than some regular combos, it also displays a few suggestions for wall combos, either breakable or solid, and for stage sequences. Futhermore, learn to dish out the punishment with a few counter-hit combos. Notation is displayed on the video itself, as well as in the description on YouTube.
If you’re looking for something a little more advanced, learn to work with Lars’ Rage Drive to get even longer combos:
Ryu’s Jodan Nirengeki target combo (st.HP, HK) is not generally considered the strongest option in his move-list. The HK whiffs crouchers, leaving most players to simply use st.HP by itself to crush counter. NurseLee, however, sees potential beyond just the damage output of this string.
After the knockdown, by using Ryu’s Solar Plexus Strike (f.HP) after a dash, you can safely option select nearly every back tech/no tech option your opponent can pull out. NurseLee’s video demonstrates the setup, spacing, and frame data behind these setups to make your Ryu a rushdown monster.
Marcus “The Cool Kid93” Redmond made a recent appearance on Michael Martin’s “Conversations and Fireballs”$$ fresh off his June 3rd win over Brian_F at Mix-up Monthly #4 in Chicago, Redmond shoots on Alex, Red Bull Proving Grounds, his #1 fan, and more.
There’s some interesting insight to his origin: Originally a ragequitter on Xbox Live (his words!), The Cool Kid has remained dedicated to his passions and chilled considerably on his path to professional. He also seems optimistic about the future of his favorite character, Alex, even if the character is not quite as strong as he’d like to see.
A likely candidate for Street Fighter V’s next new brawler.
The arrival of Ed in Street Fighter V, along with the presence of the Fortune Teller in his story mode–believed to be named Menat–has brought a fair amount of believability to the leaked Season 2 character roster that proclaimed the three remaining fighters to be Menat, Abigail, and Zeku.
In the video below, VesperArcade explores what we know about Abigail–a boss character from Final Fight. Multiple characters have already made the jump from Final Fight to Street Fighter in prior games: Guy, Cody, Sodom, Rolento, and Poison are all from the Final Fight franchise, so it’s quite reasonable that another could cross over. However, it’s the combination of the name and how closely Abigail’s big body matches the preview silhouette that lends the most credibility to the leak.
VesperArcade goes on to speculate how the towering Canadian monstrosity that is Abigail might play in Street Fighter V’s system. Check it out:
Additionally, have a look at Vesper’s prior video, where he breaks down what we know about Menat.
We’re in quite the golden age for fighting games, with tons of new titles coming out to suit players of all stripes. But while the market may be dominated by big releases like Tekken 7, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and Injustice 2, there are some equally engaging fighters coming out of the indie scene.
One of these titles is Wishmere, a 2D brawler/fighter hybrid which takes the accessibility of a game like Super Smash Bros., and combines it with the movement and time-bending mechanics of Guilty Gear. Players can move around the screen via airdashes, there is a YRC-esque ability which allows an attacking player to briefly slow time, and there is a Burst mechanic to give you some breathing room if you’re being overwhelmed.
Each character has access to a special ability called an Edge, which drastically changes their playstyle. One character’s Edge may increase the damage and stun of their attacks for a short time, while another may be able to cancel any move into a dash. Using your Edge abilities build up the Fate meter, which can either be used to perform your super, your Burst or your YRC.
If you want to give Wishmere a go, a demo is available on their Steam page, with it planning to leave Steam Early Access later this year. Besides its Versus mode, it has a fully fleshed-out single-player campaign, along with co-op challenge maps and much more. You can check out the video below to see what a typical Wishmere match looks like.
Who will continue to rule Melee? Can a challenger arise?
Red Bull has announced a new Super Smash Bros. Melee event: Smash Gods and Gatekeepers, taking place on September 2-3, in Los Angeles, California. From Red Bull:
Mortals, rejoice! It is time to answer the call. Today, Red Bull announced Red Bull Smash Gods and Gatekeepers, an all-new two-day Super Smash Bros. Melee major where fans have the opportunity to team up and compete with their favorite renowned Super Smash Bros. athletes.
The two day event features two formats, leading up to a final competition: a double-elimination tournament leading into Crew battles, that will culminate in “Judgement Day”–a battle captained by the Gods and Gatekeepers themselves: Cloud 9’s Joseph “Mango” Marquez, PG|Justin “Plup” McGrath, Counter Logic Gaming’s Zac “SFAT” Cordoni, VGBootCamp’s Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez, Justin “Wizzrobe” Hallett, Tempo Storm’s Jeffrey “Axe” Williamson, Echo Fox & MVG’s Jason “Mew2king” Zimmerman and Red Bull’s William “Leffen” Hjelte.
Day 1: a standard double elimination competition for participants to qualify as the Chosen: those who are ranked in the top 32 will be placed in a draft for the final 2 open slots in the Captains’ Crew. Those not chosen from the top 32 will play in a standalone Godforsaken Tournament.
Day 2: the final Judgement Day battles to see which Crew will be victorious, and crowned champions!
Registration is open now on smash.gg. For more information on Red Bull’s Smash Gods and Gatekeepers, head over to the official website. Check out the official announcement trailer:
The third and final round of the first season of NorCal Rivals featuring Street Fighter V took place this past weekend in Campbell, CA. There were quite a few upsets and shakeups in the bracket, which affected placings in the overall standings to determine which three players would advance to the Proving Grounds 3v3 finals in Santa Monica, CA. Placings in the overall top eight standings were also important, since if the region’s team wins the finals, the rest of the players who placed in the top eight will get flown out to Evolution 2017 as well.
With those details out of the way, lets get to what transpired this past Saturday. The first upset was Andrew “Lamerboi” Nguyen besting German “Ultima” Marroquin (who won last month’s event) 2-1 with a surprise Guile counterpick, sending him to losers in the third round of the bracket (with Miky “XSK_Samurai” Chea later eliminating him), finishing in 9th place. A couple of matches later, Kevin “Panoptic” Yates sent Pavo “Pavocado” Miskic to losers with his solid Nash play. Pavo would work his way through losers before finishing in 5th, losing to Rommel “ROM” Macatangay’s Vega in an extremely close 2-1 set that happened off-stream.
Despite these losses, both Ultima and Pavocado managed to secure enough points with their consistent placings from the last two Proving Grounds events to qualify for the 3v3 finals in Santa Monica. Just one more player needed to be found in the rest of the top eight for that evening.
Winners semi-finals was a classic brother-versus-brother match once again with Brian “BJ Unchained” Jeon facing off against Republic of Gamer’s Kelvin Jeon. Interestingly enough, both siblings decided to challenge each other by using their alternate characters in the first match, with BJ’s work-in-progress Karin defeating Kelvin’s strong, but rough around the edges Rashid. Kelvin would them go back to his main, Urien, to put down BJ’s Karin and tying the set 1-1. BJ would follow suit by picking Necalli and taking two quick rounds against his brother to seal the set 2-1 to advance to winners finals against Circa Esports Long “LPN” Nguyen.
LPN breezed through all of the bracket with nobody giving him a real challenge, up until winners finals where he would decisively lose 3-0 against BJ Unchained. After the first two games, not even a surprise pick of LPN’s original main, Alex, in the third game fazed BJ in the slightest and he made his way into the grand finals for the second time in a row, but this time with the safety net of being on the winners side.
With LPN now in losers finals, he would get his runback set from the first NorCal Rivals event against BJ’s brother, Kelvin, who made it into top three after defeating ROM’s 2-1 in a nail-biting set. Both players started the set with their respective mains with LPN taking the first game convincingly with M. Bison. Kelvin would then start a counter-pick war in the second game finally bringing out his Ibuki and taking the second game against LPN in similar fashion. Long would then retort with a counter-pick of his own by picking Birdie to have the advantage in the neutral game with superior normals and higher damage output. Long would out damage Bull Horn his way to a second game victory against Kelvin’s Ibuki who couldn’t really get his offense started with her.
In the third game, Kelvin would return to his original season one main, R. Mika, to hopefully exploit Birdie’s weak defense when he’s knocked down. Unfortunately for Kelvin, almost every attempt to get his offense going was thwarted by LPN’s strong mid-range game and he was able to secure a 3-1 win to advance into grand finals to get his next runback against BJ Unchained.
Every match in the grand finals between BJ’s Necalli and LPN’s Bison was back and forth, but in the end, LPN’s stubborn and overwhelming aggression–as well as some critical mistakes from BJ in the first set–was too much for him to shake off in the long haul. Long would go on to take both sets 3-1 each to win the third and final NorCal Rivals event of the first season.
However, since BJ didn’t place high enough in the first event (25th) and LPN didn’t attend the second event, both players didn’t have enough points to qualify to be on the team for the Santa Monica finals. The third and final player to qualify for the team was Kelvin Jeon, since not only did he attend all three events, but he got first, ninth, and third for each one–which earned him a lot of points in the overall standings. Also, lets not forget that the rest of the players who placed top eight overall still have a chance to go to Evolution 2017 if the NorCal team wins the finals in Santa Monica!
Congratulations to the three players who qualified to be on the team, as well as all the players who participated and placed in the overall standings! You can catch all the matches I talked about–and more–in the footage below.
Long known as one of the most recognizable voices in the New York and East Coast tournament scenes, Team PIE’s “Lee Chung”–Francis Lee Chong–recently got his biggest break by being on the commentary team for Combo Breaker 2017.
In this latest installment of Yahoo! Esports’ “Conversations and Fireballs,” Michael Martin talks to Lee Chung about his experience commentating at Combo Breaker and what this break means for him. Additionally, they also talk about Lee Chung’s plans for the future, commentating more, bigger things, and… basketball?
ARMS’ second Global Testpunch just ended this past weekend; those who weren’t able to participate may still be wondering how the game’s controls work. To address this, Nintendo has released a new “Movement 101” trailer dedicated to this topic.
The trailer–which you can watch below–is all about showing off how the game’s unique motion controls operate. This includes basics, such as the gestures for specific movements such as dashing and jumping. In addition to this, it also goes a bit into how grabs and rush attacks work as well.
This sponsored video is all about a cult hit mobile MMORPG known simply as School of Chaos. From indie developer VNL Entertainment, you’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard of School of Chaos. An Android and iOS MMORPG, it’s probably a known quantity to your kids, but don’t let that keep you away. School of Chaos is a full-on MMORPG in simplistic clothing and has the distinction of being the only school-based mobile MMORPG out there
