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Watch Smash 64’s Combo Kings Do Battle at Super Smash Con

One of the coolest things about Super Smash Con is their willingness to not only embrace some of the black sheep in the Super Smash Bros. series, but be creative with them.

Super Smash Bros. 64 has developed an extremely combo focused style, thanks to lengthy hitstun that means a single hit can lead to a death combo. That means that many games are neutral heavy, with explosions of action and sequences to take your breath away.

But what happens when you give the best players in the world free reign to ignore all that pesky neutral and get right into the coolest combos they can work out? The video below, that’s what. It’s definitely worth a watch all the way through, but if you’ve only got time for one majestic combo, skip to about 23 minutes in to see what Prince–one of the best Japanese Smash 64 players of all time–has up his sleeve.

Source: VGBootCamp

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Yangcheng Cup 2016 Streaming Live from Guangzhou, China

The Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour will be hitting multiple regions this weekend, among them China. The Yangcheng Cup is an event organized by famed King of Fighters and Street Fighter player Dakou. In addition to SFV, the upcoming King of Fighters XIV will be featured.

Quite a few top players from not only China but also Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong will be attending this CPT ranking event. MOV, Bonchan, Humambomb, Gameouttt, QANBA.DouYu|Xiaohai, PandaTV|Dakou, QANBA|Abao and Xiaobao are among the players that will be competing this weekend.

The event will be streamed on Twitch and PandaTV.

Watch live video from yangchengcup on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

Saturday, August 13

Event CST (Local) EDT PDT GMT
SFV 3v3 10:00 AM 10:00 PM (Fri) 7:00 PM (Fri) 2:00 AM
SFV Pools 1:00 PM 1:00 AM 10:00 PM (Fri) 5:00 AM
SFV Top 16-8 7:30 PM 7:30 AM 4:30 AM 11:30 AM

Sunday, August 14

Event CST (Local) EDT PDT GMT
KOF XIV 10:00 AM 10:00 PM (Sat) 7:00 PM (Sat) 2:00 AM
SFV Team Battle 2:00 PM 2:00 AM 11:00 PM (Sat) 6:00 AM
SFV Top 8 7:00 PM 7:00 AM 4:00 AM 11:00 AM

Source: Capcom Pro Tour

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Learn How Using Crossups in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Can Improve Your Shield Pressure

Crossups aren’t really a concept that you tend to think about when you’re playing Super Smash Bros for Wii U. Like most fighting game concepts however, there’s a lot more crossover than you might think at first–and crossups are no exception to that.

Unlike in series like Street Fighter and King of Fighters, crossing an opponent up doesn’t make your moves any more difficult to guard. Instead, they open up a whole host of new problems for your opponent, and opportunities for increased pressure for yourself.

Check out the video below, where 2GG’s BAM goes into much more depth and explores why you should be looking to incorporate crossups into your own game.

Source: 2GGaming

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Notable German Fox Main David “Sodrek” Radobenko Joins Team Prismatic

With regular top 8 placements at big European tournaments including this summer’s PPT and BEAST 6 back in January, David “Sodrek” Radobenko has been signed as Team Prismatic’s latest Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player. He joins fellow German player cvye under Team Prismatic’s banner, and is also acting as Germany’s representative at the Rio eGames event, going up against international threats like Canada’s Ally, Mexico’s MK Leo and the UK’s J Miller.

While Sodrek is mainly known for his lightning fast Fox, Sodrek has a Link and Shulk in his back pocket whenever the time seems right to call upon a blonde-haired swordsman. You can see Sodrek’s Link in action in the montage below for DMG Alliance, of which he is also a member. As Europe gradually levels up in skill to hopefully rival that of the USA and Japan, hopefully more European players will be considered for big teams and organizations interested in getting into the Smash scene.

Sources: Team Prismatic; DMG Alliance