i go on twitter: i see a clip of dany toding from an owa cS shimmy with sol i go on youtube: this is the first video in my recommended page was this intentional?

I dont think this is a hot take, but I *am* glad they added it. Arcsys needed to shake up Guilty Gear with an update to their game thats been out for years. It was cool, it was fun, but it made the game worse. At least we and they know going forward Guilty Gear doesnt need a system mechanic like this.

3 out of 4 of your last videos have just been video essays bitching about the game. This channel used to put way more effort into actually talking to character specialists patch-by-patch and giving them a voice to be heard, and now all it is is tryna play the YT game by stirring up clicks with overdone "why guilty players hate X" videos and liking every comment without engaging in any actual discussion -- or the few times you do, like in the HC video, you're belittling the shit out of anybody that doesn't share your opinion. I understand the YT grind but holy shit brother i've already unsubbed and don't be shocked if others follow.

Glad someone made this vid bc WA is when I dropped this game, I was already sour on the game balance then it just categorically went in the wrong direction and I stopped waiting/hoping for anything better

All the balance issues even aside, this mechanic is straight up boring as hell as it streamlined the already streamlined Strive cast even more. It's annoying to fight against and also boring to see when spectating. Even though I wasn't the biggest fan of Strive since even 2019, it's this mechanic that made me finally leave the game behind for good.

3 out of 4 of your last videos have just been video essays bitching about the game. This channel used to put way more effort into actually talking to character specialists patch-by-patch and giving them a voice to be heard, and now all it is is tryna play the YT game by stirring up clicks with overdone "why guilty players hate X" videos and liking every comment without engaging in any actual discussion -- or the few times you do, like in the HC video, you're belittling the shit out of anybody that doesn't share your opinion. I understand the YT grind but holy shit brother i've already unsubbed and don't be shocked if others follow.

2D BWA my beloved 🫶

love u domi, also, jhonny is cool

I think Wild Assault is a decent _idea._ I understand ASW's rationale in putting it into the game. Without WA you are sitting on Burst until you use it or it refills completely. You can also take Burst away from your opponent with it. There's also how different characters benefit differently from Burst, e.g. Burst is amazing for Asuka, Sol doesn't need the resource as much because he has a meterless reversal, et c. On that line i can understand introducing different variants of WA, but on various levels it's a bad idea to introduce variants into something that's intended to be universal. You can see it in Strive where Red WA is clearly the best one, whereas White and Blue are inconsistent in their effects. White specifically has been changed entirely because of a single character, which is... Yeah. I think at this point WWA should just be removed from the game; not only does it make no sense to have a variant to a universal mechanic for 10% of the cast, it was a horrible idea to do that in order to balance characters. None of them need it anymore so in the end, using it to do that didn't even work. And frankly? WWA is completely unfun, and it feels unfair that those characters just get reversals from universal mechanics while others don't (all of 3 of them have high health and reversal supers too like, c'mon).

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love how you always have the persona music in the back. Good energy

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love the discussion!! although wouldve loved a segment on how to fix it or even be something completely different. Maybe something along the lines of a more passive blazblue overdrive mechanic where people get a character-specific passive buff draining their burst, but is impactful enough to risk use over burst.

Personally, I like the addition of WA than not. Definitely not going to deny the problems it initially had, and while I think it's improved since then, it still needs a few more tweaks.

WHOAx3! that title is super triggering. had strive not added WA this game would be dead. the meter economy was atrocious the first 3 years. You had stripped gatlings and airdash startup, so the only way you were doing any combos/pressuring/mixing up was with tension(unless you were Sol, Nago, HC,or Leo). the problem was everything cost 50% and you were basically doing a whole lot of stray hits until you got that 50%. this made the using the meter creatively very boring, cuz if you spent it and didnt break the wall you were stuck having to stray hit stalling for time until you got another 50%.(i like not having to spend tension to do cool combos, thats proly why the later characters had another resource before WA was added I.E.,goldlewis, nago, jack-o,Sin, A.B.A,HC, etc. ) it reminds me of the meta of fighterz where at a high level players would just jump 30 times back and forth while calling assist and occasionally z dashing. my only criticism of wild assault is the fact theres 3 versions. it'd be better if the entire cast all had 1 type, either everyone gets blue or everyone gets orange but you overhaul the entire game around it because you cant just Do It without "certain characters" breaking the game. HC would be a tumor with Orange WA

I feel like they added it to copy street fighter 6s drive rush or impact. I definitely lost interest when they added wild assault. Strive did not need this to stay intetesting or fun.

drive rush plus drive impact in one hahaha ahh mechanic. Trash to the fullest Xtent.

You'd use 50 burst and get it back on positive bonus. Crazy. Makes it feel like there isnt much of a penalty when it's used in that manner.

You actually remembered Bridget's blue WA for once... amazing... instant like to your vid 🎉

WA doing HKD on wall break with the positive bonus state in Season 3 were truly dark times wew

He does it again. Ky round start FS into Wild Assualt was and still is nasty. Plus the corner carry was insane. Plus the meterless HKD it gave on wall break was insane.

As a Johnny player, I think Johnny did need a nerf to make him not that disgusting, but there should be some compensation to help him fix some neutral issue.

honestly, just nerf his health a bit and he will be way less strong, but no less fun. His meter gain is crazy rn and the utility he gets is insane

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i remember talking to a friend about johnny's 2P mash was pretty alright but realising now how safe he can make it on hit and or block is kinda nuts

arcsys really is getting me down yo

I don’t hate Johnny I’ll hold my L when he wins but please don’t use that alt with the beard it’s awful

tbf sol have 3f normal to hard knockdown before. He also still have 2p hard knowdown current patch.

38:00 Lowkey vault is kinda fine. Just slow down the fastest card so it doesn't smoke 6P as easily and you can let it cook. But he really needs health nerfs. From his current ~590 to more reasonable 550 similar to Baiken. He can be strong midrange mixup character but he shouldn't endure for mashing, back-dashing, and playing like an idiot until he gets super LOL

I have no issues with Johnny being strong conceptually for a few reasons. 1)he was popular and strong in xrd. 2)as a dlc he came out as a weaker character than expected just like what happened with Sin. Both are in their redemption arc and now testament is also seeing some shine and perhaps dizzy will also see some buffs to get her out of the “bottom”. It’s amazing how easily they seem to be able to buff a character into the top 8 or send a character into the bottom 8. Yet can’t find the right balance to “fix” zato and make him worth the trouble lol

Im sad you took the demon Johnny to get that sonic adventure pose. We shall see if arc sys actually nerfs him back to being contestable again.

Ah yes, the suffering matchup - A Bedman player

"Don’t even need to translate yeah I hate slayer too fam"

Holy shit u actually got my goat Uwabami on this video. Nice job and a very entertaining video/discussion

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Im just couting down the days until Venom drops lol

the checkmate incident

I thought johnnys slow buttons were common knowledge, but now that I know its not I'm gonna abuse it

This thumbnail is genuinely peak

I think Johnnny only needs 2 changes: - His defense should be a bit lower - He should get back Mist Finer levels, but have it so that by default he has lv1, but if he delays his Mist Finer by 0.5 or 1 second, he gets lv2 or 3. Lv2 is the same as what he has now, Lv1 does not knock back and keeps the enemy standing, plus does the least damage. Lv3 can wallbounce and does great damage. I think this would discourage spamming fullscreen MF's and encourage juking opponents and delaying your MF. He could still get instant overheads with card, but without it his offense would be a tad more reasonable. Heck, I'd be fine with other buffs to compensate for this.

Domi got connects everywhere. Even got My Goat Johnny Uwabami on. Dude hasn't posted on his channel in months and you decided to fish him out.😂 Appreciate the consistency with the content by the way. Your work isn't going unnoticed man. Much love.

After the patch I left Axl after years of playing him, and there was sooo many johnnys now so I dipped on him too but Sin was my fist DLC purchase and for some reason I never played him but since the patch I picked him up and he’s so strong against so much of the cast and he’s so fun literally feels like he’s on a constant upward trajectory ! Definitely sticking with him Ps, west coast I’m the Violet Fire Sin

A strong consistent character cant exist on strive?

wow I feel really enlightened about his defense now

Not gunna lie, johnny deserves to be cheap. No bias here. but itd be nice if he had coin toss back, his Zweihander was the only war crime. also does anyone else find it weird that sol looks taller than johnny?

His dash is actually absurdly fun. I have fun just moving around with Johnny. Let him rock. Don't nerf him. He deserves it.

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Man I love this uwa guy! his voice is suave just like actual johnny!

Calling Happy Chaos a top tier is a stretch. While he's still capable of denying gameplay to his opponent, many other characters are as well, and unlike those characters (Ram/Gold Lewis/May), he leaves you a lot more chances to escape on top of the risk/reward not being as scewed in his favor. Also, what you have to do with Happy Chaos is a lot more straining on the player. Not only do you have to put in waaaaaaaay more hours on HC than every other character (besides Asuka and Zato who are on a similar lvl, if not even harder), you also gain waaaaaaay less milage out of him. Difficult characters are supposed to be good, but as it stands, why should I invest the time into this character if I can pick someone else and preform better in way less of a time investment? If you lose to HC in his current state, you either have a terrible matchup against him, or the HC is just str8 up better then you period. Too many ppl have been traumatized by season 2 or brainwashed by people traumatized by season 2 to see this character for what he is: simply annoying. I get it, it feels terrible not being able to play the game whlie HC throws 50 mixups at you, but many people don't take into consideration that he has to land 3-4 full combos + 2-3 trades or so to actually win the round x2/3 for the game, while some characters get you with one combo, put you into a similar pressure situation as HC and then kill you if you lose the next mixup (wich is also 10x simpler to pull off). But everybody is still hating on HC, and to those people, I can only recommend you 1 thing. PLAY THE GODDAMN CHARACTER AND SEE HOW PAINFUL IT IS TO PLAY HIM. Additionaly, this video mainly uses clips from season 2 making the entire video not about the current state of HC, it's rather about how broken he was. Thx for reading my Ted... Scrub Talks.

meh