New Viral Trend Might be Down Your Alley if You Love Saltybets

We usually don't venture too far from fighting games, but it's hard to ignore when so many people from the FGC seem to be sharing clips of it.

This is about Hamvangolio and their Ham's Ball Battles. Finally, a fighting game that you play by just watching it.

The premise is simple, there are lots of different balls with unique combat styles, and they get plopped down into a tournament where they fight in a best-of-3 match to advance.

There is an extremely wide range of abilities, but one of the matches in particular just feels like a SaltyBet match, just imagine the archetypical grappler going up against Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.

They are seemingly posting new ones non-stop, and between the Windows XP art style, sound effects, and the tasteful amount of hitstop, it is shockingly satisfying to watch there.

There have been a few similar trends in the past, like the dubiously famous Horse Race Tests "game" (what is even the right term for these?), but this is the first time we got something so adjacent to fighting games.