Street Fighter 5 news, videos, tournament results, streams and more (2024)

Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 8, 2020 at 11:48 a.m. PDT

Capcom is currently running a costume design contest where fans are able to submit their own ideas for potential costumes in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition. In honor of this, the official Street Fighter Twitter account has been sharing concept artwork from the game's design team that provides insight into the thought process that went into making the characters come to life.

This time, the Twitter page has shared a handful of different concepts for Ibuki's default costume in Street Fighter 5.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 8, 2020 at 6:15 a.m. PDT

Abigail is the largest character in Street Fighter history and is a towering giant in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition. When he gets to running at you with his Nitro Charge special move, it can be pretty intimidating.

With the addition of V-Skill 2, Abigail now has the ability to summon a spare tire that rolls across the stage toward the opponent, and when Abigail runs in behind it the intimidation jumps up to the next level. However, apparently there is nothing scarier than when Abigail is running at you following behind not only a tire, but the opponent's reflected fireball as well.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 7, 2020 at 10:16 a.m. PDT

As video game subscription libraries continue to grow for services like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now, so too does their excellent selection of fighting games to choose from.

Sony announced their July 2020 additions for PlayStation Now this morning which happens to include Street Fighter 5 among its ranks to stream or download.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 7, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. PDT

Du "NuckleDu" Dang announced via his Twitter account last night that he will seemingly retire from competitive gaming effective immediately.

The announcement came four days after the 2016 Capcom Cup champion was reported to have been injured in an accident on July 2.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 7, 2020 at 5:35 a.m. PDT

Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition's meta game has taken an interesting turn in 2020 with the absence of offline events these past months though the players in the trenches are still working to further advance the game and its characters.

EQNX|Brian_F is one of those doing so with Balrog here in Season 5, and he's now released his own tier list detailing how good he thinks the SF5 cast is right now.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 6, 2020 at 9:53 a.m. PDT

It is no secret that Alex has had a difficult life in Street Fighter 5. Often finding himself on the lower end of tier lists, the Alex army is usually made up of a handful of die-hard Alex fans who have studied the character extensively.

One such die-hard fan is iXA|Gunfight, who is easily regarded as one of the best Alex players in the world. Today we have what Gunfight has called an "optimistic" match up chart for the character in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, which is likely referring to these placements being a bit more generous than one might expect.

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Posted by Justin 'AdaptiveTrigger' Gordon — July 5, 2020 at 7:46 p.m. PDT

The Capcom Pro Tour Online 2020 South America 1 was concluded over the weekend. Over 250 players competed in this Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition online tournament.

As a result, we've collected the character usage stats for the top 64 performing players at the event.

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Posted by Nicholas 'MajinTenshinhan' Taylor — July 5, 2020 at 4:24 p.m. PDT

Update: This story has been updated with final results.

This weekend, South America will be having its first entry into this year's Capcom Pro Tour.

Players participating include LVF|DidimoKOF, Pikoro, Dark, The Griffon Mask, ROX|Darlan, Shodown|Chuchu, Paulow3b, TPT|Stunner and more.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 4, 2020 at 9:06 a.m. PDT

RB|Daigo Umehara has earned himself a bit of a funny reputation the last couple of years for accidentally KO-ing himself against Urien's Aegis Reflector in Street Fighter 5, but he's not the only one to fall for the self trick too.

During this week's online Wednesday Night Fight tournament in SF5, PG|Punk entered the event with the goal of only playing Ryu the entire time until he hit a bit of a snag with a a Master-ranked Urien.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 3, 2020 at 8:20 a.m. PDT

Capcom is currently holding a Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition costume content in which fans are given the opportunity to create their own designs for the characters of their choosing and send them in. A handful of designs will be selected by the Capcom staff, then the community will vote on Twitter to decide two winners.

As the contest rages on, Capcom has shared a new look at some design concepts for Street Fighter 5 Season 4 fighter, Lucia. Though we have seen a couple of these in the past, there is also a variation of a past design to check out.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 3, 2020 at 6:23 a.m. PDT

The artistic team behind Capcom's Teppen card game has been knocking it out of the park since day one so we weren't at all surprised to see that the newest additions in the Tiny Hero expansion are absolutely breathtaking.

Though there aren't as many fighting game characters in latest expansion as other figures from Capcom's various intellectual properties, the ones that did make it are well worth examination.

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Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills — July 2, 2020 at 6:12 a.m. PDT

Balrog's trajectory through Street Fighter 5 is one of the most interesting and turbulent cases around since his brief stint as top tier contender in Season 2.

EQNX|Brian_F is and remains one of the most dedicated backers of the boxing school of Balrog, and now he's released his Champion Edition match up chart for the character with a video detailing his picks as he stands in 2020.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 2, 2020 at 4:29 a.m. PDT

Now here's something you don't see everyday. Apparently, if Vega is in the midst of his Flying Barcelona attack, you can meet him in the air and prevent him from ever reaching the wall without hitting him.

If done correctly, Vega will just awkwardly hover in the air, never quite hitting his mark until he ultimately drops back to the ground. MDZ_jimmY found this out during one of his recent Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition live streams, and despite the oddity, the Ryu player didn't get shaken up.

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Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero — July 1, 2020 at 7:12 p.m. PDT

There are two things the fighting game community can't seem to fully wrap their minds around: Street Fighter 5's fifth season tier list and how to talk to people we're interested in without being super creepy.

While Catalyst and I surely don't have all the answers in either field we've got enough research and life experience under our belts to offer some commentary on both that may be worth listening to.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 1, 2020 at 9:45 a.m. PDT

As the community continues to dive deep into Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition we're seeing more and more tier lists and opinions on how strong (or not strong) each character is. Who the definitive best characters in the game currently are is still up in the air as we've seen different takes from different people, but we are starting to be able to narrow down who might be top tier.

The guys over at Frame Advantage put together a new video that discusses who they think are the top five sleeper top tier characters in Champion Edition. Let's put the usual suspects aside for a minute and take a closer look at some of the other potentially top tier contenders.

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Posted by Steven 'Dreamking23' Chavez — July 1, 2020 at 6:20 a.m. PDT

If you're an avid Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition fan, chances are you'll see a lot of great plays this week as you run your own sets, watch pro-level replays, or catch the latest tournament action. However, today we're looking at a clip that is going to be incredibly hard to beat in terms of how impressive it is.

Live streamer PianoDensetsu recently shared a clip featuring his Sagat taking on a Kolin player online, and he was able to make some magic happen. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the best Sagat confirm I've ever seen.

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Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero — June 30, 2020 at 8:11 p.m. PDT

Sagat is one of Street Fighter's most beloved and charismatic figures and while most members of the fighting game community can recount a handful of snapshot moments from The King's canonical history, much of it is tragically hidden behind the inconvenience of non-chronological storytelling spread out over 30 years' worth of Street Fighter games and comics.

We've done a bit of a research project so as to share Sagat's tale as he transforms from a petty bully of relatively weak character to an incredibly respectable, badass master of Muay Thai.

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