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5 Things To Do Before A Match
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: September 19, 2009
Do you wonder why the fun zone for VF is so different each time you play? One day you’re having an aweful lot of fun, learned new things, won quite a nice bunch of matches and lived up to your level. Whereas an other day you simply can’t make sense of the game. You’d [...]
Tutorial Video: Escaping Side Throws
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: June 12, 2009
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SuddenDeath and I came up with the idea of making a tutorial video about escaping side throws simply because we never really dug deeper into side throws. Even the VFwiki isn’t a too great help here. Not only is it hard to distinguish which side your opponent is on (left or right). But also, the [...]
Round-Openers: Goh Hinogami
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: February 11, 2009
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How a match begins, the first flurry of strikes, has vehement impact on the outcome of the round. Who will land the first hit? Whose feet will be whipped away first?
Evaluating the personality of your opponent and checking your potential round-openers beforehand can give you the advantage in a match where the first strike, [...]
4 Clever Stepping Maneuvers
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: February 1, 2009
Having a few selected stepping maneuvers at one’s disposal comes in handy to 1. move freely around the battle field 2. bait the opponent into errors 3. turn you into a harder-to-hit, moving target and 4. disguise your true intentions (making you more random to the opponent).
Let’s have a look at my four example maneuvers.
Myke’s OM-Cancel Trick
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: December 28, 2008
If you have ever tried to pull off those fancy Offensive Movement combos, you might have run into a problem: most of the time not your combo but OM- or OM-, dependent on your combo starter, comes out most mistakenly.
I remember having read some post by Myke on VFDC that explained a simple but [...]
Leonard’s Top Ten Moves
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: March 25, 2008
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Goh Hinogami is a throw-emphasized, sabaki-oriented character. And I treat him as that seizing many situation to set up throws.
Back-turned Mix-Up Synopsis
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: February 24, 2008
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Goh is not to be underestimated. Even in back-turned state he can force a lot of pressure and cunning mind games upon the opponent. With his various back-turned options Goh is able to inflict massive damage on his foe. In the following I will present a few thoughts about his possible mix-ups.
10 Videos Guides for Bettering Your Style
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: February 3, 2008
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The undocumented complexity of Virtua Fighter 5 comes at a price: confusion. In order to clear some things up a bit, to get behind the system of VF5, watch the next tutorial videos closely demonstrating the in and outs of Virtua Fighter.
Let yourself be guided by the ten steps to clarity.
Create Your Own Flow Charts
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: January 14, 2008
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Every player has his own fighting style that is unique. One might use this move after that one whereas others might act totally differently. Flow charts can help enriching your fighting style showing different move possibilities that fit into your flow of playing: you build move chains for certain circumstances or possible reactions of your [...]
Escaping Throws (with Quick Reference)
Posted by: Leonard McCoy on: January 9, 2008
Throws have always been the balancing part to strikes in Virtua Fighter. You cannot simply evade to the side for avoiding throws just as you can do it with most normal attacks. You always have to input a specific command for escaping throws. It is possible to escape several throws at the same time, or [...]
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