Essay (essaygg.bsky.social) #BLM 🇺🇦 🧡

A relic's personal "How I got into fighting games" starter pack

This week we're running brackets for SF6, Tekken 8, and GBVSR. Also running a bday kumite for @EssayPlusR and Under Master SF6 bracket. Games played on PC with 144hz+ monitors. $10 venue fee for rent. Parking on-site. Registration ⏬

Late post since I've been sick. Shoutouts to everyone who came to Battle City last Friday. Some events to look forward to this month: @EssayPlusR bday kumite on April 17th. And Cross Canada Revolution held at Brew Revolution to celebrate @Zykles__ bday on April 25th. 🎉🎂🍾

🗓️SAVE THE DATE! ❤️‍🔥#UMAD2026 returns to THE CHURCH in the heart of Montréal in August! 🧐More details to come!

Standing resets are the future for Ahri / Ekko so here is a quick example with Ahri! These resets are true mixups, deny defensive options, build the opponent less resources and still result in 2 touches! #2XKO_Ahri #2XKO_Ekko

Hey, Yohosie from the Balance team. I want to give context to competitors of things to be aware of if you’re going to be competing on this patch. On October 7th, we’ll be including a small balance pass alongside the release of Teemo. We’re going to be including a larger balance patch very soon after. All of the details on what is coming will be in the patch notes, releasing October 6th. The changes below are only for the October 7th balance patch. There will be additional changes to address things we’ve seen on live around balance and consistency. This will be included in the larger balance patch coming soon after. What you’ll read here is only what impacts “your hands”, i.e. combos, neutral, and fuse decision making. We’re letting you know of these now so you can get your hands warm. This is not a full list of all changes and not all champs are included in this post. Fuse Changes - Double Down and 2x Assist are too strong at the moment, so we’re bringing them down in power by reducing damage when using Double Down super and adding assist cooldowns when either fuse is “activated”, similar to Freestyle. Retreating Guard Input Change - We’re removing an OS where it was possible to hold down-back and mash the dash button to get a frame 1 Retreating Guard. You’ll now have to hold directly back. We’re letting you know early so your hands can adjust to the new changes. Break Changes - We’re lowering the advantage of Break and fixing the bug where you can’t take actions after Break. Ahri - We’re removing the ability to spirit rush twice in the air on whiff (still works in combos and you can still IAD/j.S1 after). - We have a lot of quality of life and combo consistency improvements in the larger balance patch. We hear you. Blitzcrank - We've done some work around air blockstun and air throw protection to remove unblockables. Jinx - Jinx Fireworks damage is too high, so we’re toning down its damage. - We’ve also fixed a bug that was causing Double Down scaling to not apply to Fireworks (FYI: we apply a damage nerf to the second super when using Double Down). Jinx fireworks should explode you less often now. Yasuo - Yasuo combo length was too long, so we’re making adjustments. - We’re adjusting j.d.H to not always combo into j.[S1] or j.S2 at extremely high HSDs. You can expect your core Bread ‘n Butter to work, but you’ll need to change your routes very late into combos after really long assist combos. - We’re also adjusting j.S2 to increase combo consistency (we made some changes to collision pills and hurtboxes to help stop weird things from happening, more notes on that later, so we had to change this). You’ll need to adjust your j.S2 routes slightly. —--- I realize just these changes in a silo seem a little strange compared to player pain. These changes are only what may impact how you input moves, as well as major gameplan-altering changes. Please wait till Oct 6th to see our full vision that directly addresses balance and game health. When the patch notes drop with the full changes we’re working on, I hope everyone will be excited about what we’ve been cooking.

Optimal get-up attack punish with Ahri and this does GIGA damage lmao Super fun extension #2XKO_AHRI

#2XKO_AHRI #2XKO_BLITZ #2XKO_BLITZCRANK Ahri gives Blitz double super with her S2 without Double Down Cannot do this if you have routed into 3S2 or S2 before in the combo Proof of concept not optimal routing

Congrats to our UMAD 2025 Champions! #GGACR 🥇clannad burger 🥈@EssayPlusR 🥉GameGear 4. CrispyMunky 5. @Koryuken / Sage 7. Brice / @BagelsMTL #Skullgirls 🥇Cattfish 🥈 @CyAn4010 🥉 @MorinDanick 4. @RicksterLPs 5. Minimatt / FISH | SlushieGoat 7. JM | BeG04T / Larp

Congrats to our UMAD 2025 Champions! #GGXRD 🥇KTP 🥈TheArm 🥉Cole 4. @EssayPlusR 5. TripleTacticsTony / @GlacialReignCA 7. @Koryuken / @BagelsMTL #BBCF 🥇Garanex 🥈@FGc_Remains 🥉Brice 4. TheArm 5. BurningNachos / @gemiplus 7. Gree / @Level5JeepChan

Two first-time games for our brackets this week. That sweltering heat you've been feeling? That's the #summerofnen🌞Shout-outs to all our winners!! HHNI: 🥇@SoraNoMurakumo 🥈SUMMER OF NEN 🥉NGNL VF5: 🥇@EssayPlusR 🥈MemoryDisk 🥉@Arbiter_W See you at casuals night next Tuesday!

Congrats @Piglouxyz for winning #UMVC3 at Capital City Clash 14 🤖 🥇 @Piglouxyz 🥈 @EssayPlusR 🥉 @SoraNoMurakumo 4️⃣ @iRockTheVote 5️⃣ @Willintentions 5️⃣ @jarmesan 7️⃣ @tidjani_70 7️⃣ @Smellerzerker

Congrats to Joker for winning their 1st #UMVC3 bracket at Battle City Weekly 🃏 🥇 Joker 🥈 @Piglouxyz 🥉 NRN | RENEGADE 4️⃣ hashdaddy 5️⃣ @SoraNoMurakumo 5️⃣ @iRockTheVote 7️⃣ Tak 7️⃣ @EssayPlusR

Congrats @Piglouxyz for winning #UMVC3 at Capital City Clash 13 🍃 🥇 @Piglouxyz 🥈 @iRockTheVote 🥉 @Willintentions 4️⃣ @Arbiter_W 5️⃣ @jarmesan 5️⃣ @EssayPlusR 7️⃣ @tidjani_70 7️⃣ @SoraNoMurakumo

"I meant to do that." -Both players

Congrats on your win@TheMomoAri 2: ZeroNMan1 3: Jojolion 4:@VisionKryptic 5: Joke 5:@EssayPlusR 7: KidLegend 7: SexyRancheros Comms: @PA_Sword @eldonmoore91 @SLikelyy Back End Support: @GiveTHawkAGunMD @KhoalaZone

Below is a video guide to installing the contents of the Xrd Modpack. It is very easy to do. youtube.com/watch?v=8u7ncd…

@Myke623 I'm down! We'd probably have sub 30 ms ping 😁

Hey VF friends in North America! I'm over in Montreal for about a week on business and would love to play with as many of you as I can before I head back on Friday 11 April. I might organise a kumite event just to play everyone at least a couple of times before I leave! You keen?

EU vs EC Xrd exhibitions going down tomorrow 👀👀

そんなの実戦レベルじゃないと思うだろうけど、2018年以降ゲーセンに行かなくなってからの7年間はそういう局地的攻防をトレモで詰め続ける日々で、約2500日間1日も欠かさず続けるうちに色んなことをそれなりに実戦レベルに持ち上げられた。誰の目に留まらずとも静かに燃え続ける火もある。

I want smears like this in every fighting game.