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Smug Takes Justin Wong to Duff City in This Impressive Set from ESL’s Street Fighter V King of the Hill

With his main Balrog being considered one of the stronger characters after the balance changes, Team PIE’s Smug is currently one of the players to look out for in Street Fighter V Season 2. Just how big a threat is Smug this season? Well, his match versus Echo Fox’s Justin Wong at ESL’s weekly King of the Hill should provide the answer: very big.

In this ESL match, Smug and his Balrog went up against Justin Wong and his Karin. Now, while Justin is considered one of the strongest competitors in Street Fighter V (let alone a myriad of other fighting games), you wouldn’t know it based on the match with Smug. Time and time again, Smug is seemingly able to shut down Justin’s footsie game and put him in situations where all the latter can do is block and try to mitigate the damage coming his way.

The end result of this set? Smug takes a convincing ten games to one over Justin.

Source: ESL

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Smug Takes Justin Wong to Duff City in This Impressive Set from ESL’s Street Fighter V King of the Hill

With his main Balrog being considered one of the stronger characters after the balance changes, Team PIE’s Smug is currently one of the players to look out for in Street Fighter V Season 2. Just how big a threat is Smug this season? Well, his match versus Echo Fox’s Justin Wong at ESL’s weekly King of the Hill should provide the answer: very big.

In this ESL match, Smug and his Balrog went up against Justin Wong and his Karin. Now, while Justin is considered one of the strongest competitors in Street Fighter V (let alone a myriad of other fighting games), you wouldn’t know it based on the match with Smug. Time and time again, Smug is seemingly able to shut down Justin’s footsie game and put him in situations where all the latter can do is block and try to mitigate the damage coming his way.

The end result of this set? Smug takes a convincing ten games to one over Justin.

Source: ESL

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Street Fighter V and Various Players Make Guest Appearances in Akiba’s Trip: The Animation

Currently airing in Japan, Akiba’s Trip: The Animation is an anime (based on the video game of the same name) that’s made something of a name for itself for a number of shout-outs and references to other bits of Japanese pop culture. As such, it should come as no surprise then that an episode based on a fighting game tournament would somehow reference Street Fighter V and its competitive scene.

Now “reference” is selling the episode short. The entire premise of Akiba’s Trip: The Animation’s fifth episode is based around a Street Fighter V tournament, and there are a number of top Street Fighter players in attendance. In one shot alone, we see  can clearly see Razer’s Fuudo, GODSGARDEN Pro’s Kazunoko, and Detonation Gaming’s Itazan.

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If their arrangement looks familiar, it is, as Kazunoko himself as mentioned on Twitter, based on a photo of the three of them from their stream.

In addition to this, MOV can can be seen standing to the side on one shot while someone who seems to be Tokido points out something on stage. Both even even have some dialogue pointing out how the current player spends their first match downloading their opponent.

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In addition to this, one of the opponents faced by the main character, Tamotsu,is an African-American Zangief player (wearing a shirt and cap) that’s clearly a shout out to Red Bull’s Snake Eyez.

Of course, Street Fighter itself features a lot in the episode, including an homage to the Evo Moment #37.

Earlier in the episode, we get a glimpse of some old school Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting where Tamotsu first meets his rival Matsuko.

The episode itself ends with a match on stage between the main character and a new character introduced this week. We won’t spoil how that goes down. For anyone interesting in watching episode five of Akiba’s Trip: The Animation, the series is currently simulcast over on CrunchyRoll.

Sources: CrunchyRoll via Kazunoko; Megumin Explosions