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Yogaflame24 is back with more Street Fighter V highlights, courtesy of Episode 6 of his “Top 10 Plays of the Week” series. This week’s showcase includes some fancy Urien sequences, courtesy of Flash and TarksDR, and ZOWIE|Oil King showing impressive corner control against RB|Bonchan at Saigon Cup. OBS_RickWa93 just keeps landing a series of EX Running Bear Grabs on a Laura player, msingha’s Karin shows Jammerz’ Mika the divide in their class, and Chr1st3and0 makes a runaway Vega player pay for an attempt to timer scam, and more.

You can see the full video below–and check out last week’s episode here.

That’s another week of “Top 10 SFV Plays of the Week” on the books! If you’d like to be featured in next week’s episode, contact YogaFlame on Twitter on respond in the YouTube comments. And let us know what your favorite clips were in our comments section!

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The Electric Wind God Fist (EWGF for short) is one of the Tekken community’s most favorite technical tricks. While most players–even pros–will opt for easier and more stable combos during tournaments, doing repeated EWGFs in juggles is something of a execution Holy Grail for Mishima players. It’s theoretically the strongest damage, but almost always just out of reach of mere mortals.

Knee, a Tekken legend among legends, is known for at least somewhat consistently landing four EWGFs in matches post Devil Jin’s WS+2 and Hell Sweep. Now, he’s broken that record off both moves: squeezing out a fifth hit on the small-framed Xiaoyu.

While exciting to see, it’s no surprise that Knee is the one to break it. He was able to demonstrate six EWGFs in a row a few months ago (if you include the initial launcher!).

This’ll likely still be just a party trick for most players, but it’s good to know what the record is! Let’s see if Knee can get this on stream at Evo, now. I hope he can!

Source: 무릎의 철권TV TekkenKnee

With Injustice 2 now fully in the hands of the public, top NRS content creators The Condiment Brothers–PND|Ketchup and Mustard–continue their “Getting Started” series by looking at the game’s final boss, Brainiac.

This guide covers uses for Brainiac’s key strings and specials, as well as his Tendril Swing and Divekick, that afford him tricky aerial mobility and mixups. His Trait, the Beta Barrage, allows the Collector of Worlds to launch a drone: providing him both a zoning tool, as well as covering his approach–though it goes away on hit. The video also covers some of the few ways he can remain safe without spending meter.

You can begin the path to collecting worlds by seeing the video for yourself below–and you can also check out their pre-release coverage of Dr. Fate, Deadshot, Gorilla Grodd and Scarecrow.

Source: PNDK&M

With the buffs that the move has received, we’ve seen a lot more use of Balrog’s Turn Around Punch in Street Fighter V’s second season. With the move doing a hefty chunk of damage while protected by 15 frames of invincibility, TAP is a move that some feel is quite overpowered.

However, it turns out that TAP is beatable. Uncle Wimpy has put out a series of videos via Twitter that demonstrate ways to beat the move. For example, using a perfectly time meaty throw actually beats out the move when used as a reversal.

@jav1ts first, a properly timed meaty throw can recover in time to beat reversal TAP https://t.co/VoPQNEBwVi

— Uncle Wimpy (@8bitBarbarian) May 23, 2017

While TAP on reversal can beat poorly-timed reversals, the fact that its invincibility only applies to Balrog’s upper body means that even poorly-timed low attacks will beat it.

@jav1ts even though rev TAP will beat poorly-timed mid and high meaties, even poorly-timed lows will beat TAP https://t.co/km4LZzAjRq

— Uncle Wimpy (@8bitBarbarian) May 23, 2017

Finally, he points out how TAP only has 2 active frames, but a ton of startup, something that can be used to beat it out.

@jav1ts and also TAP only has 2 active frames so you can challenge like mika's dropkick https://t.co/bmYcnhmDjV

— Uncle Wimpy (@8bitBarbarian) May 23, 2017

Source: Uncle Wimpy

Evo Moment #37 is one of the most iconic moments not just in competitive fighting games, but in all of sports. Daigo Umehara’s epic full parry comeback against Justin Wong in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike at Evo 2004 has likely been seen by more viewers–and inspired more players–than any other moment in the history of competitive video gaming.

In a new installment of their series on iconic esports moments, theScore Esports takes a closer look at Evo Moment #37. Here, they look at the background of the moment building up to the actual match. With insights from the UltraChen duo of David “UltraDavid” Graham and James “jchensor” Chen, they look at how important the moment may have been for the fighting game community, including how the moment captures the community’s spirit in pixel form.

Source: theScore Esports

The most recent CPT interview from Battle Arena Melbourne 9 is up, and its spotlight turns to Rashid pro Zowie|Oil King.

Li-Wei “Oil King” Lin reveals his The King of Fighters origins, though admits it’s Street Fighter V that made him competitive. He also admits the name Oil King has simple origins (“I want people to remember it easily!”) and that Taiwan’s best players live near enough to have weekly offline gatherings. Though he speaks through RZR|Xian’s translations, when asked about why he plays Rashid, his answer was in English, and arguably the most KOF thing he could have responded with: “He can run. Speed.”

Source: Capcom Fighters

I just picked up Injustice 2 the other day and I’ve been enjoying it immensely. In the interest of helping to grow the scene, I thought I’d take a character and make a quick video tutorial emphasizing pick-up-and-play tools, so that people could quickly understand and begin learning the game without having to spend too long learning the character.

Firestorm seems quite simple, and has good capacity to zone and to rush down, so I thought he might be popular with many Capcom players looking to give the game a try. In this video I cover all his strings, the common uses of each special move, and some of his individual normals–plus all his optimal common combos, as well as a brief overview of his keepaway game from afar, and his mixup game up close.

I think one of the bigger weaknesses of Injustice–and other NRS games–is that there weren’t many hubs where guides were collected and distributed, particularly video guides. What guides there were would also sometimes become outdated, without updates from the creators. So, I thought I’d try my hand at creating a single location with video resources on mechanics plus simple guides for all characters, which I plan to update should they ever be affected by a rebalance. Additionally, there seems to be a lot of misinformation in the community about the mechanics of Injustice 2; I’d like to make a video before too long where I attempt to dispel some of the information and drum up interest in the game.

I’ve been caught up enjoying exploring Injustice 2 lately. I’d like to continue making these, possibly until I’ve done one for every character. So if you’d like to see more, remember to to subscribe to the channel!