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One of the primary reasons for Braixen’s status as a top tier character in Pokkén Tournament: her ability to both charge her supports faster than other characters, and then cancel into those supports. These unique abilities coupled with some high level techniques such as Flame Charge Cancel, Sunny Dash, and others give her a terrifying list of powerful, flexible options for every situation. Pokkén player Double has decided to take the arduous task of compiling all of these options into video, one support set at a time.

Both sets show why Braixen’s support cancel ability is so strong–Emolga’s speed debuff is now a threat off any connected hit, and with a fast-charging Snivy, she has both anti-air and constant ground pressure available. The fact that Braixen can also convert into, and out of, the high-damage Lapras is downright silly, but perhaps is more trivia then tournament-worthy. Double has also provided an overlay showing the inputs of the combos. Those that have wanted to get the most efficient Enhanced Sunny Day setups, but are having trouble with the input will find this visual reference quite useful.

Source: Double_FGC

If you’re willing to put the work into it, The King of Fighters XIV’s Hakkyokuseiken master can pump out massive damage and stun. YouTuber playergodaines just made that work easier for all aspiring Kung Fu practitioners with his comprehensive Tung Combo Tutorial.

Practically, learning Air Senpuu Ken (QCB+P) and the loops off of it lead to a large part of the Max Mode damage Tung can dish out. Nowhere is this more clear then in the King of Dinosaurs matchup, where he can dump his meter for a 100% guaranteed stun off of a jump-in.

Source: playergodaines

When you put some of the game’s top players together in a round robin tournament, there are definitely going to be some highlight-worthy moments. Such was the case with week one of ELEAGUE’s inaugural Street Fighter V Invitational. Taking a page out of the Capcom Pro Tour’s playbook, ELEAGUE has compiled a video featuring the five moments they thought were the very best from the preliminaries.

The moments below feature some amazing plays and reads from some of the top players at the event. This includes some expected ones–such as Razer’s Xian’s pulling off some amazing mixups with Ibuki, or Evil Geniuses’s Justin Wong pulling out an amazing comeback–as well as some that caught us off guard, such as Echo Fox’s Julio Fuentes reversing the flow of a match with a well-timed series of jabs, or Ryan Hart scouting RB|Luffy’s attempt to jump out and catching it with Urien’s Dominant Crush.

Source: ELEAGUE

Did you know there’s a tower defense minigame in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-? It plays every time someone selects “Jack-O’” in the character select screen.

Guilty Gear’s Halloween prankster brings out a little army of minions whenever she sets houses. Those houses level up and spew little magicians, knights, and spearmen. That’s not all in Jack-O’s arsenal, however. She has access to an organ that includes a few commands: calling back minions, engaging a projectile shield, powering up minions, and, well… blowing them up after three seconds for massive damage.

This video tutorial from GodPress shows how exactly to employ the detonation command in matches. Not only does this result in extremely powerful (but not flawless) pressure, but the damage tends to be enough to win the round. GodPress found a variety of mixups and strategies that can even counter Bursting.

Check out the Jack-O’ bomb setups video below; the informative graphics and notations make it particularly impressive to watch.

Source: GodPress

Tekken players are no strangers to high damage combos! In a game series where average combo damage can be 30~50% depending on the starter, it’s something you become accustomed to over time. It’s not even surprising when combo videos show off 90-100% combos–because most of them require specific stage positioning and unlikely scenarios that wouldn’t occur in a real match.

None of that can be said here: the Bryan player “begin” was on the verge of sealing a round, when he went for an option perhaps a little to fancy for his own good: a fake taunt cancel into d+4. By cancelling the knee too early, the anticipatory full jump from a Korean player (his tag is 아쿠마, which phonetically is just “Akuma”) connected, then all sixteen hells broke loose.

The combo came from a long set between the two top players, which you can watch below:

It’s worth noting that all of this came from the newly-nerfed Akuma in version 3.8. While this combo still requires incredible stage awareness, meter management, and one hell of a read, it cannot be underlined enough how scary a full meter–and Rage–is for Akuma players in Tekken 7.

Source: GreenTekken