Yes, CYG|Daigo Umehara is still the most recognizable fighting game player in the world, but the strongest at Street Fighter 5? The Beast has a handful of strong showings in Capcom Pro Tour events and is slated to appear at Capcom Cup in less than two weeks, but we could easily rifle off a handful of names with more impressive SF5 resumes.
During a streaming session with RB|Gachikun, Rohto|Tokido (one of the players who certainly is in the discussion for top SF5 competitor on the planet) was asked who he feels is the strongest in SF5. His reply was Daigo, and his explanation explores more than just wins vs. losses.
I'll start this by saying that I'm not exactly convinced that designers of G had this in mind when they constructing the character and his animations, but it's still pretty cool nonetheless.
Twitter user Rhys recently came to a particular realization about the President of the World and his most commonly used freeze-frame.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is seeing the release of its next DLC character this Thursday, December 5. Dragon Ball Super Broly joins the fight and rounds out the second season of additional fighters.
Bandai Namco US held a live stream yesterday during which they showcased the upcoming contender. Not only did we get to see Super Broly in action, but we now have the character's move list to look over.
While most of us have probably been distracted by the shiny new V-Skills (with the most recent ones being Alex, Blanka, and Kage) that are coming to Street Fighter 5, HiFight has apparently been paying extra close attention to the footage for an early look at Season 5 changes. As with any balance patch, we're expecting a number of buffs and nerfs for the entire roster.
Fans of Ryu might be excited to hear this, but it's entirely possible that the range of his crouching medium kick may have been adjusted. Based on footage comparisons, it looks as though its reach has been extended.
We had our suspicions as to what first round matchups at Capcom Cup 2019 would be, but Capcom has posted the official brackets so we can see who will be clashing right out of the gate as well as what potential paths the winners will be taking.
It seems all seeding has been decided according to global points, meaning that the top-ranked REC|Punk will be taking on Zenith (the Latin American regional representative) as the latter has the fewest global points of the 31 qualified competitors.
You might have heard about Victrix|Momochi's Street Fighter 5 tournament victory during the Tokyo Game Show back in September. Although he could've won 50,000,000 Yen ($46,365), he was only eligible to take home 100,000 Yen ($925).
The reason for this? Momochi didn't have his JeSu pro gaming license. In Japan, there's a maximum amount of money that can be earned from gaming events without a license due to gambling concerns.
However, it seems that this situation won't be repeating for Momochi's future wins.
Sindel was released as a DLC fighter in Mortal Kombat 11 quite recently. Players are already beginning to come to an understanding of Sindel's potential in the current meta.
Evidently, Sindel is armed with some rather high and easy damage. Isn't it too early to be calling for nerfs? TrueUnderDawgGaming recently released a video that discusses why Sindel's damage is most likely justified.
Karin's status as a top tier character has already been assured in Season 4 of Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition. Hatred and disgust from the community is usually associated with top tier fighting game characters, and Karin is certainly no exception.
To help the community vent their frustrations, Javits has come up with the "kill Karin challenge." With full resources, clips are to be uploaded that showcase characters defeating Karin's entire life bar (925 life) with essentially two combos.
Between the two combos, Karin shall perform an EX Ressenha, which can be punished with a counter hit or Crush Counter. Ideally, Karin should be stunned in the middle of the second combo.
We're currently on episode 42 of the Beefy Smash Doods' Smash Review series. This time, they have a special guest that's commenting over the clips with them.
Generally seen as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world right now, FOX|MkLeo has joined to showcase his reactions during the course of this video. As always, there's plenty of fun combos, gimmicky setups, and some real eyebrow-raising sequences that occur.
December is upon us which means that there's only one month left in this entire decade that's been the biggest and most important eras in fighting game history. Today, the genre feels larger than ever before following the mostly quiet times of the 2000's before Street Fighter 4's release.
There's been so many fighting games that have come out in the last 10 years that many fans probably either forgot about or thought came out more than 10 years ago, so we've put together a giant poll to ask everyone what they think were the absolute best of the best and most impactful — from (Super) Street Fighter 4 all the way to Mortal Kombat 11 and Samurai Shodown.
Victrix has been in the business of making "high-end" video game accessories for a few years now including their impressive fight sticks. Their products reach far beyond the fighting game community too.
We were recently given the opportunity to review Victrix's new Pro AF headset which is made to be a more streamlined version of their $300 Pro AF active noise cancelling set minus a few bells and whistles.
The new Pro AF headset is still not a cheap or entry-level product with its retail price of $180, so is it worth the price of admission when there are similarly priced options that include more features?
Capcom has been slowly yet steadily uploading new footage of what the V-Skill 2s will contain for characters in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, and today we got to see a popular trio in action.
PlayStation's Twitter account revealed new footage of V-Skill 2 for Alex, Blanka and Kage which seem to give all of the fighters some very handy abilities including bringing back Shout of Earth from previous games.
Bandai Namco has been running successful fighting game world tours now for a number of years with Tekken and more recently Dragon Ball FighterZ, but now it appears as though another pillar will be joining the collection next year for the competitive scene.
Professional Soul Calibur player and community leader Kayane announced today the Soul Calibur 6 World Tour 2020 with the first stop on the brand new circuit beginning with EVO Japan 2020.
A new decade is almost upon us promising at least two new fighting games from Arc System Works once the calendars change over in Granblue Fantasy Versus followed by Guilty Gear Strive.
Western Publisher XSEED Games is continuing to release new English trailers for Granblue Fantasy Versus this time going over the powerful Lord of Flames himself, Percival.
At the same time, Granblue Fantasy Versus' Twitter account also shared some new footage of the weapon skin system which allows players to select different swords, spears, and other weaponry to suit their tastes.
According to Gearnuke, BlazBlue series producer, Toshimichi Mori, is apparently a big fan of the Marvel and D.C. universes. So much so that he would welcome an opportunity to work with either intellectual property.
Gearnuke had the opportunity to ask him some questions during Arc REVO America 2019. This had him talking about which intellectual properties he would be interested in working with.
Update: This story has been updated with final results.
NEC 20 is happening this weekend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Recently, we learned via a new trailer that the Dragon Ball Super version of Broly will be releasing in Dragon Ball FighterZ on December 5, 2019. This is the final known character of Dragon Ball FighterZ's second season.
As is typical with Arc System Works, there were many references spotted by the fans. HiFight recently created a side-by-side comparison of the recent trailer with clips from the Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie.