Arcade Edition Abigail - The Most Unreasonable Character in SFV History

We're finally revisiting SFV and once again it's to look at something that you can't play as in the final game, but rather than your typical NPC, today we're breaking down Abigail as he appeared in Season 3, or the initial release of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition!
While this version of the character wasn't in the game for very long, he's a strong contender for the absolute best character the game has ever seen, being incredibly overtuned in Season 3 despite not appearing to be a weak character in his debut season.
In this video, I'll be breaking down what made him so absurd at the time, and then we'll turn to how he was nerfed in the game's later balance patches. This turned out to be much longer than expected, but I hope you enjoy regardless!
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Music Used:
Zero Pressure - Streets of Rage 4
Primal Pummel - Streets of Rage 4: Mr. X Nightmare
On Fire - Streets of Rage 4
Character Select - Streets of Rage 4
Blood For Glory - Streets of Rage 4: Mr. X Nightmare
Nora - Streets of Rage 4
It’s Gotta Be You - Mother 4 OST

[@szymonlewandowski9690]

Do you think Abigail pretends to be a car because he cannot fit inside any vehicle himself?

[@BigYellowSilly]

Oh damn I never thought of that now I feel bad

[@laffy7204]

Abrigail probably rides on the back of a truck someone else drives

[@szymonlewandowski9690]

@@laffy7204 he would have THE BIGGEST SMILE while doing so :)

[@jblue88hoodgamer54]

He does own a Truck do to his Story Mode in Street Fighter 5

[@Creepo_J]

Autobot dysfunction

[@eth102]

Honestly this stuff is basically lost media conservation and I love it.

[@shury4260]

Steam let's you download old version of games so that is absolutely found media

[@keysmash_roa]

@@shury4260 not the found media 😭

[@eth102]

@@shury4260 Thus conservation. Who knows if it's availibillity will stay that way. One of the channels I watch that details competitive histories of Mortal Kombat characters always runs into trouble with MK9 since trying to replicate lost patches that don't have patch notes is near impossible.

[@wishfulranger22]

Abigal Street Fighter is… LOST MEDIA???? 😱😱😱😱😱😱😰😰😰😰😰😰😟😟😟

[@Creepo_J]

It's so cool and makes me feel strange at the same time

[@jimmyoutlaw9384]

Holy shit another hour long video on a character that you can’t play this is frickin sweet

[@21Handguns]

.... You can still play him. SFV didn't drop off the face of the earth and disappear into the void once sf6 was released

[@BigYellowSilly]

I've found my calling I truly have, the 2 hour vid on Basemale from MK9 would go wild

[@jimmyoutlaw9384]

@@21Handguns you literally cannot play arcade edition Abigail in current year without strange trickery. You can play final patch Abigail! But don’t do that

[@21Handguns]

​@@jimmyoutlaw9384You can. Either play arcade edition on console with a disc copy and dont update it, or go find a patch and download that into your game's files on PC

[@MitoNova583]

@@jimmyoutlaw9384the trials have different seasons, though I don't know if the season 3 trials for Abigail reflect initial launch Abigail or a later balance patch between that & season 4

[@scatman1236]

"How big should I make the video discussing a FG character?" "Depends on how big the character is"

[@monosophy691]

Abigail's hair has always looked like a cyllinder clipped into a head with a wavy scalp to me. It is not that

[@monosophy691]

This was not meant to be a reply to your comment

[@neog8029]

Can't wait for the Melee Pichu breakdown then where Big Yellow just says "rat baby stinky" and the video ends.

[@MitoNova583]

do you ever think about how Abigail is a tire whisperer he can just summon spare tires at will & speaks fluent engine

[@BigYellowSilly]

Him being dumb is actually just a front he's spent years mastering the art of tyrebending

[@just-linx8271]

​@@BigYellowSilly Man, he must be really *tired* (laugh track) (Seinfeld theme) (Obama was there)

[@HellecticMojo]

I "recommend" a film called Rubber if anyone in the comment section is interested in a perverted killer tire movie.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@HellecticMojoOh good. Someone got around to mentioning _Rubber_ before me. Such a weird movie that is far better than you think it would be.

[@hambor12]

If abigail learns about how much of the microplastics in our air and water are derived directly from tires (mainly, particles created through friction) He’d be utterly and truly unstoppable

[@NeutralDrow]

2:52 Maybe Abigail got so many initial buffs because the dev team felt bad about making him tall enough to take all 30 hits of Raging Demon directly to the crotch. "Die a thousand deaths," indeed. o_O

[@Someguyonline24]

Oof

[@scorby2]

white boy speaks fluent car, flattens poor cammy player

[@Hitmonchu]

"It's April 1st, 2018" no it aint. it's april 22nd, 2024. you were wrong mx youtuber

[@philiphunt-bull5817]

Smh, I can't believe BigYellow lied to me

[@Lunar_Atronach]

"mx youtuber" is the cool super nintendo version of "youtuber" for the nes

[@pageclayton6850]

​@@Lunar_Atronachhonestly I'm more a fan of Mx KZbinr Advance for the gba

[@bingo2underscores]

all fighting game channels are “mix youtubers” when you think about it

[@tezcanaslan2877]

@@Lunar_Atronach mx youtuber 64

[@giackthedemonandothermadne2863]

The reason Abigail is not in sf6 is because he transformed into the workshop present in the world tour mode. That means you can be inside him

[@indec7073]

"Working on an SFV Abigail vid and I feel like I'm more productive than usual because if I ever tab out and get distracted he starts continuously making his iconic Abigail sounds which is a great incentive to get back in there and stop him from doing that" -big yellow during the making of this video

[@calregretsthis]

Abigail got to feel like he truly was a car with how he simply ran over everyone else, his ultimate victory

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

This Abigail feels like his revenge for that less than stellar reaction to his character.

[@arachnofiend2859]

Do big body enjoyers even like the guy? He feels like the absolute apex of the SF (4 and 5 in particular) trend of making the large men jokes with nothing else going on. Glad they gave Zangief his stage presence in SF6.

[@Qobp]

​@@arachnofiend2859I thought the fact that he fills the entire side of the screen and clips into the health bar is funny, and his crouch makes him just normal height dude IS THE BIG BOY But that's about it, I hated his weird arm proportions and his moveset was eh

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@arachnofiend2859 I generally like "big body" characters, but Abigail is easily my least favorite design in the entire franchise for various reasons. He's basically like if they made Hugo even more dumb and then made said dumbness even more unfunny. (Being better than poor Zangief for almost the entirety of _SFV_ until the last season just rubbed salt in the wound even as someone who never got to touch the game.)

[@Tjerty]

@@arachnofiend2859 I'm not a big body enjoyer but I do love Abigail for how stupidly over the top he is. Like, I got a huge enjoyment beating up people knowing that he just looks atrocious while doing it LOL

[@Tjerty]

like the dude looks like an abomination, screams his own name for his moves, and makes car noises. what's not to love?

[@madeleine-bell]

27:10 watching ryu's fist straight up clip through Abigail's arm and do nothing is incredible

[@aadaaadasda9979]

it's a universal problem with sf5 hitboxes/hurtboxes.even way before abimagail there were many normals that visually connected with a model yet didn't hit because of their actual hitboxes being shorter (like a lot of lows). that's one of the reasons normals felt so stubby.

[@Sean_Bird]

Using Streets of Rage music for a Final Fight character is very thematic, not just because both are beat-em-ups, but because I feel like this version of Abigail probably made a lot of people rage.

[@zapadap1328]

Abigail looks like his Ancestry results would come back with him being part bulldog and part Jeep Wrangler

[@MetroidJr1220]

Abigail was the reason i got back into watching SFV tourneys. In a game full of martial arts and crazy techniques, a giant of a man who throws you up and lets gravity do the rest was funny af to watch.

[@sleepybones5726]

Meeee tooooo

[@DoodleWill]

Abigail looks like he'd have a team of baby Pokémon.

[@BigYellowSilly]

I agree but he wouldn't battle with them he'd just genuinely take good care of them I think

[@hambor12]

5 baby pokemon and a whirlipede (tire friend)

[@rasmusdegn9690]

@@BigYellowSilly And also a Revavroom for him to have deep discussions with.

[@PerilousParadigm]

He says his name alot, are sure Abigail isn't a pokemon? (Normal/fighting?)

[@artofajax7199]

Honestly, the fact that Capcom got Xander Mobus to ham it up to eleven as Abigail is literally what made this character one of my favorites in SFV, balancing issues aside. Dude was *clearly* having a great time recording his lines. I’ll miss his *“BIIIG SMASH! CRUSH YOU LIKE A CAN!”*

[@pageclayton6850]

Now I can't not imagine Joker performing all the moves as i listen to the video lmao

[@-PVL93-]

Sakura and Abi are for sure among my favourite English voice cast for street fighter, those two did a fantastic job. Urien and Karin too.

[@harrylane4]

Damn they got the smash announcer for abigail

[@victorycry8849]

If this guy walked into the Salty Splatoon, they would give him the deed to the building for free.

[@yoisakikanade_]

splatoon

[@spymander7492]

splatoon

[@grillersinstinct]

splatoon

[@zapadap1328]

splatoon

[@oatmeal3013]

anyone else incredibly angered by ryu's gi clipping into his legs

[@BigYellowSilly]

it was genuinely bugging me the whole time I was very tempted to bring it up

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

SFV just did that. Any time Rashid looked down he would give himself an accidental heart surgery with his beard.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Just kind of used to it with _SFV_ sadly, especially give eldritch horror posing as Necalli's dreadocks that ended up being more intimidating than the waste of the character himself.

[@captainnavigator6534]

Can't wait for the "How season 3 Lily was broken in sf6" big yellow video in 2036

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

Her clubs are now one Marisa in size, each.

[@cosmic5665]

​@@user-et3xn2jm1unah they should make them gief sized

[@jonatanp.1976]

Her normals now hit half screen and are +20 on block

[@ChickenMan990]

I remember Abigail's announcement I woke up at 5am, sleepily looked at my phone, saw the announcement trailer on KZbin, and was so disgusted I went back to sleep I think I was actually mad when he didn't look any better when I checked again later

[@kevingriffith6011]

I still love that in the very same month we got Abigail for Street Fighter 5, every other fighting game was dropping hype. Blazblue got Jubei Dragonball FighterZ got Trunks and Tekken got goddamn GEESE HOWARD. And then Abigail trundles on in and expects to get any attention at all. Edit: 5 not 6.

[@MrTBSC]

@@kevingriffith6011you mean sfv

[@kevingriffith6011]

@@MrTBSC Oop. You're right.

[@TealOpal]

It's really cool seeing discussion on now unplayable patch states of games. People forget how much a single bad patch or overpowered character/strategy can mess things up once they've been fixed.

[@aknight7642]

Hi Opal!

[@daltarlibrarian6099]

I love Abigail so much, give me every giant goofball character you can please.

[@NeutralDrow]

Request to Capcom: new Capcom vs. SNK crossover in the style of MvCI, and make sure both Abigail and Earthquake are on the roster.

[@Krakenburgvortex79]

@@NeutralDrow Rufus and Hakan are also acceptable.

[@hambor12]

@@NeutralDrowi was going to say Kusaregedo but he’s not really a “goofball” now that i think about it

[@NeutralDrow]

@@hambor12 I mean, I guess he does have kind of a goofy voice when he...complains he's hungry and tears a chunk of flesh off his arm. 🤢

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@Krakenburgvortex79 As someone who initially disliked Rufus but grew to like him as a goofball character, I definitely wouldn't mind him back even though it would be rubbing salt in Ken's JP-induced wounds at this point story-wise. If anything though, then that would make his return funnier, especially since I could see him somehow confusing JP for Ken given his face blindness is that bad. I wouldn't mind Hakan coming back either, but gods he needs at least a few improvements in his normal, unoiled form if he does. Playing unoiled Hakan feels almost as limited as normal mode A.B.A. in _Accent Core_ given how awkward the guy is, and even A.B.A. doesn't have to choose between "become a better character" or "keep hitting and applying pressure to the opponent" like he always did.

[@quijassajiuq900]

I just checked the wiki out of curiosity. How the fuck is Abigail ONLY 8 feet tall??? He looks like a fucking MOUNTAIN. I wish we got more fighting game characters that are just really big.

[@HellecticMojo]

Manon is only 5' 9 and 129lb in SF6 Nothing makes sense.

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

Potemkin, Big Band, Blitztank, Sentinal have entered the chat

[@quijassajiuq900]

​@@HerMajestyVelvet even then Big Band and Potempkin's profile don't make them out to be nearly as massive as Abigail, even with the latter being even taller. Sentinel and Blitztank absolutely compete in just how ginormous they are though, especially sentinel who had to be massively downscale from it's portrayal in the comics.

[@LiquidRuss]

​@@HellecticMojo Wait I'm taller than Marissa what 😭

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Wait, how tall is Ryu then? Because if Abigail is 8, Ryu can't be more than 5. i stand for Short Kings, so more power to him. Just surprised.

[@luizflavioassismoura6136]

I love how so many of the comments are "one-hour video about a character I don't know for a game I don't play? Yes please", because this is my exact sentiment. There's a subtle storytelling quality to your vids and the way you weave the ins and outs of your video subjects that's just so compelling and enjoyable, and it's what keeps me coming back. Even if I have no idea what you're talking about, like in the Worms 3D videos, I always come out learning obtusely fascinating things. Thanks for doing your schtick, Yellow

[@ShinxBOOM247]

45:50 What's funny is that Abigail DID have an extremely fucked up hard knockdown setup into a VT1 unblockable that went completely unmentioned. If you were able to land a crumple starter with VT1 available, he could do a specific juggle into only the 1st hit of the run flip, which would force a hard knockdown that left Abigail point blank and with enough advantage to land a full charged stand heavy punch Here's a link to Brian F talking about it in one of LordKnight's Unfair attacks video if you want a better explanation kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZKxeZevpbZsbtE

[@BigYellowSilly]

I can't believe I've never seen that that's vile, I dug around for old setups but outside of the 1st hit Abigail Punch with VT2 bug I pretty much just found stuff that hinged on them not quick rising so that's awesome

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

She’s gone back to her roots of talking about insane shit you can’t use in fighting games, and if there’s more on the way I’d love a video on the various secret Nago fights in GGST since that games goes crazy I love Abigail so much, bros barber gave his ass the Canadian leaf

[@theaceofone2610]

The stage 9 nago boss would be a crazy video

[@niceboy5559]

I remember trying to beat that boss as ky in season 1. Couldn't do it so I never tried again lol

[@PhazoGanon]

​@@theaceofone2610 Just to wonder is the only difference with that Nago is that he doesn't lose HP in Blood Rage?

[@kerbonaut2059]

​@@PhazoGanonThere's a dustloop page for Boss Nago if youre interested but TL;DR every single one of his specials is buffed beyond belief, with completely invincible crossup Fukyo, invincible cancellable DP, Beyblade that gave a +112 HKD on hit, insanely sized normals with massive damage all for the no cost. If you spam Fukyo you can be completely invincible for the entire game.

[@wha7does7hefox99]

@@kerbonaut2059 If you go to the hitboxes section of boss Nago, it says “I don't know what you expected to see, he literally has no hitboxes or collision on any frame.” Which is pretty fun

[@klobus3945]

Watching this video is like going into your bitter old neighbor's secret trophy room and finding out he used to be a professional boxer or some shit

[@Jayyemi]

I know literally nothing about fighting games but I enjoy watching the absurdly giant man with a female name do his little dances

[@keysmash_roa]

He really is peak babygirl energy

[@codyxvasco592]

I think it used to be a dudes name. My great grandpa was an Abigail i think.

[@TheGrayAdder]

Haven’t watched this video but Abigail is hilarious to me because he is the epitome of “I’m only playing him because he’s top tier.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many drop a character so quickly after they fell out of favor in the tier lists. Absolutely NO ONE* actually liked this character but he was absolutely everywhere… until he was nowhere. The moment he was no longer top 5 people slammed him into a dumpster and never looked back. *I actually knew a guy who genuinely liked Abagail (he was a huge Final Fight fan who loved playing big bodies) who still played him even after he fell out of favor.

[@HellecticMojo]

What are you talking about? Itazan was on a tear with him after the nerfs because Zangief was still unplayable garbage and like all big bodies, it was a frequent opponent in ranked

[@TheGrayAdder]

@@HellecticMojo Was there anyone else really using him at that point though? I’m sincerely asking, it was years ago so I might be letting my bad memory get the better of me.

[@caldw615]

Android 16 was everywhere in the early Season of Dragon Ball FighterZ and dropped to pretty much nobody using him after he was nerfed.

[@HellecticMojo]

@@TheGrayAdder not really, but overall character diversity of SFV was pretty big until Luke dropped.

[@maikayee246]

If people used him alot then he must be liked…

[@SYFuraigon]

Do you think someone in the SFV team got really angry that people hated Abigail, so they overtuned him to hell just so people could remember him as a legit force instead of a joke? I just find it funny to picture some higher up just fuming that no one respects Abigail. So they patch him to be the dumbest top tier of all time.

[@BigYellowSilly]

I really hope this is actually what happened cause it's very funny to think about

[@user-zq1vh5cc8x]

I am sure this is what happened, myself.

[@smokey3504]

It would be funny, but realistically it was most likely an issue of underestimation. When the dev team looked at Abigail at the end of Season Two they probably saw a dumpster fire that was never going to be relevant regardless of what they did to buff him. You have to think, characters like this had almost always been forgotten bottom tiers (worth noting that all of this happened at the peak of Tekken 7's "buff Gigas" debate). Nobody really played Abigail because of his controversial release either so its not like his results were all over the place. Season 2 Abigail was great, but the design process of season 3 Abigail gives me the vibe that they were saying "It's not like he's ever gonna be tournament viable or anything. We might as well give him some stuff to do so more people atleast try him." I wouldn't be suprised if they had more buffs ready to go if people still weren't playing him

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

I was (and still am) a steadfast Birdie player in SFV, and everyone kept saying "y'know, if you wanted to win more games you should switch over to Abigail!" I'm gonna show them this and have them thank me for not being a monster.

[@noah-ux2cz]

Makes sense how he got so big considering how he’s eating your fucking healthbar so often

[@user-nj1li3pp8i]

“Okay, so, big tough guy? I can do this recording session.” “Sure, but also, we need you to make broom broom noises with your mouth.”

[@wusstunes]

im kind of mesmerized by abigail's incredible size and charisma

[@BigYellowSilly]

Even in the face of nerfs he's just a big bundle of smiles

[@wusstunes]

​@BigYellowSilly the crouch animation is incredible

[@BigYellowSilly]

Forget Jack-O this is a REAL crouch animation

[@InfernoSam1904]

Me about to listen to music on my drive home from school: Big Yellow Upload:

[@BigYellowSilly]

Be careful listening to Abigail while driving he might be a bad influence

[@RadicalJawzFunnyMoments]

1 hour video on a game I never played on a character I never knew existed is always my favourite kinda content 😂

[@SvenSierra104]

Big Yellow, I just want to point out I had no interest in this video, nor Street Fighter V. It came up on my homepage and I ignored it for a while, but then I noticed it was you who posted it and I watched the whole thing. Wild how you can keep me interested in things I know nothing about, nor really care about such as this, or especially your lego videos but thats just a credit to how excellent a creator you are. Thank you very much for the time you dedicate to things like this; your passion makes it levels more engaging.

[@Wizzkidwas]

I appreciate that he's called Abigail Like, there's something always amusing about top tiers having such standard (for English) names

[@Mucmaster]

The name Abigail is a neat little heavy metal reference. Abigail (the street fighter character) wears face paint similar to the face paint King Diamond (the vocalist) wore in the 80s and one of King Diamond's (the band) biggest albums is the 1987 album Abigail.

[@Hieropink]

1:44 The reception wasn't just bad on its own, it also had to stand alongside BBTAG getting announced in general and Geese getting announced for Tekken 7, both of which got very LOUD pops for them. Like the contrast between those 2 and Abigail was almost comically dire.

[@DarkTree]

Abi's VS2 is incredibly important for being the most Bad Manners way to kill a stunned opponent in Street Fighter V

[@Oceanatornowk]

This is what happens when you introduce a Canadian anywhere

[@BigYellowSilly]

going back in time to add a Canadian to 3rd Strike just to see what happens

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Now I'm trying to think of if there's any KOF game where Maxima is top tier. I don't think so?

[@LakituAl]

vsav gave us the beauty that is sasquatch, only matched by the beauty of Lord Raptor, what happens when you introduce an Australian anywhere

[@Micha-Hil]

Man looking back at SF5 you could tell how much they wanted this game to be the FINAL instalment of Street Fighter. Bringing back classics with a sleek, modern design while also respecting their origins, the whole mantra of "RISE UP" which I still love to this day, and the amount of balancing that it went through over the course of its lifespan. Hell, even the V-Gauge looked like it was supposed to fit the "RISE UP" mentality of the game - overcoming hardships, returning to the top, etc. I know SF6 is more well received in terms of it being an actual game, but I just *adore* the aesthetics of SF5.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Yeah, a shame that Capcom rather botched the story overall on that front then, especially when it comes to how Bison was defeat and when it comes to the entire character of Necalli. Such wasted potential.

[@novameowww]

@@MusicoftheDamned they also had ryu's first and only ever character beat happen entirely offscreen too

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@novameowww Yeah. That's only made more aggravating by Capcom still being completely ambiguous on Gouken's situation--unless I missed something--after having him show back up in _SFIV_ only to do...nothing(ness) and then not show up again afterwards. Even now I'm unsure if Gouken is supposed to be actually alive again now via retcon or is just some type of weird ghost given the complete lack of reaction and comment to his "revival" in _SFIV_ during every character's few interactions with him. Just feels absurd that the guy who more or less Ryu's father showing up again was made such a nonevent even to Ryu himself after being thought to be dead. The story of _SFV_ feels like it only had Karin coming out of it positively since so many other people get screwed over or made ineffectual, especially poor Chun-li whom Capcom didn't even let really fight Bison before Ryu stepped in and Deus Ex Machina'd his current body. Meanwhile she ends up stuck dealing with lethal-ish joke villain F.A.N.G. before Rashid steals her thunder there too and gets to see the man she maybe loved, Charlie, die for a second time to no avail again. Sucks to be her in that story.

[@tarkuslee7278]

The production value on the editing in this is much higher than usual. If you're being held hostage by Core-A Gaming say "Gayming" two times quickly.

[@Voobit]

I’m watching an hour long video about a video game I dont play, and a character that you have to go incredibly out of your way to experience. Perfect

[@szymonlewandowski9690]

Gonna be real I keep rewatching this video but not as background noise or something but because of the way Abigail is animated Like his a big grotesque man who slams smaller people around and punches you 15 times in 2 seconds It makes my neurons bounce against eachother, that is how I wanna play if I were in a fighting game

[@FancyMcSchmancy]

One part of me is saying “Jesus fuck this is broken”, but the other part of me is just “hehe big guy go brrrrrr”.

[@rasmusdegn9690]

*...guy go Vroom Vroom!"

[@AntGSuxatYoutube]

Abigail having a two bar Vtrigger was one of the most psychotic decisions capcom ever made. That being said, as much as I hated being on the receiving end of Abi's nonsense, I always got a huge laugh out of watching him absolutely delete players. I love this stupid ass character, hated fighting him, but as long as I wasn't the one dealing with him he was was a great time.

[@samedwards3186]

Over an HOUR of big yellow SF content? Let’s goooooo!!!

[@voltscreamratty]

Gotta say, seeing one of your videos pop up in my feed is always exciting, especially for fighting game videos. I joined SFV very late, so I never really got to see full warcrime Abigail for myself. That Gill video is maybe my favorite you've done, but the competition is pretty fierce.

[@BigYellowSilly]

Really glad you liked the Gill vid! I gotta say I always worry how this style of vid goes down cause of how long they end up being, so I really do appreciate the feedback!

[@voltscreamratty]

@@BigYellowSilly Honestly, I adore longer breakdowns like this, so no complaints here! Though, truth be told, I feel like you could make a video on almost anything and I'd be down, haha.

[@adamdonnelly6470]

Abigail’s design is, in a word, preposterous. His model blocks out his own UI.

[@aadaaadasda9979]

IMO there is certain charm in it. Towering over every other character in the game (including sagit), making gief and birdie look like dwarfs, using ceiling as a part of his super. His height was not a problem, his proportions were. If he was closer to his pre-release art (way less bulky) and had his costume 2 color scheme as a default (white top, blue jeans), i think the reception would've been much better.

[@skyleite]

@@aadaaadasda9979 Abigail using the ceiling is pretty cool, but a character should never block the UI, even if it's charming. When he's walking forward you literally can't see his stun bar. It's ridiculous.

[@skyleite]

And even worse, if you're cornered against him during certain animations you can't even see YOUR OWN stun bar.

[@-PVL93-]

​@@aadaaadasda9979 Abi's default design should've been his premium costume with the red hair and tyre based body armor

[@aadaaadasda9979]

@@skyleite if you're cornered against abimagail (especially season 3) and your stun bar is filled more than half way, you should already start thinking about the next round and not about remaining half that you can't see 😂

[@yams7355]

Ohhhh yeahhhh, time for another installment of "Watching someone passionately rant about a game I don't play"

[@cyruswilson9130]

Big Yellow uploading a fighting game video for the first time in months, not only answering my prayers but making it an hour long and about my favorite fighting game character of all time... thank yuo :)

[@cmac6345]

honestly, I never took this game seriously when I played it, but I found his moves and the fact he pretends to be a car to be hilarious. and I will die on this hill.

[@TheBlueStarGal2]

"Sorry honey, I'll have to cancel plans. A KZbinr just released a movie length video on something I've never heard about nor would have been interested in beforehand, I have to watch it!"

[@Bacchus325]

I could gush all day about how much I love everything about Abigail. I love his big dumb goober personality, I love his giant freakazoid design, I love his simple yet difficult to master gameplay, I love his whole kit and playstyle, I even love his silly maple leaf hair. I love being a big dumb idiot as a playstyle where I get to play mind games and punish mistakes. I love grappling and zoning at the same time. I love how big and meaty his hits feel. I love that he has a parry. His combos are so badass. He's basically the perfect character for me.

[@RicarditoFlores3p]

Definitely your best video so far. This is fucking sick. It's so sad to me that old versions of characters are lost because of balance patches...

[@abicto]

1:17 for someone who has never played any street fighter game after the third, seeing GILL on C TIER got me in shock. what the fuck did they do to him

[@BigYellowSilly]

Basically Gill had some of the highest damage and disgusting mix in the game thanks to his unique retribution system but unfortunately it wasn't something he could always take advantage of and he had serious weaknesses to compensate. His mobility was quite poor, he struggled to open people up, and his buttons weren't fantastic. He was situationally absurd but he struggled a lot outside of that

[@thatguy00271]

Great podcast with Jimothy Cool

[@BigYellowSilly]

Ty it was really fun I'm glad my yapping was well received

[@LazurBeemz]

The funny thing about Abigail is that he has a small guy moveset. Flips and rolls and rapid punches. Except he looks like Ultimate Warrior ate Phil Heath.

[@bigbangbot-SuperSqank]

Even as someone who doesn’t play Street Fighter seriously and never followed SFV super closely, I still remember when AE Abigail was briefly in his vanilla state and destroyed everyone. I look forward to seeing this.

[@raspberryhooligan.6406]

Finally I can eat a full five course meal while watching one big yellow video This is also just so peak, another banger

[@JustFrankEX]

Abby main here and yeah, saying he was something else in S3 would be an understatement I feel like alot of people, including myself, slept on him during S2 and then he got more attention after Coolkid showed what we was capable of against Wolfkrone. Honestly speaking, he didn’t need to be buffed in S3 but it was like someone at Capcom saw how lukewarm he was received at his EVO reveal and was ,”okay, bet”. I was kinda forced to switch to him after they nerfed Gief during that time Absolutely love him, but for me, he’s just almost unplayable in his current state after all the nerfs he got and especially his nitro run. Yeah, I wish he never got buffed in the first place lol. Grateful for the memories tho; I nearly won a tourney with him in S3 and fully expected the crowd to boo me but actually cheered for me cause of his outrageous damage. Meant alot too cause this was like a week after my mom had died so, really appreciated that… I think he’s just too complicated of a character to balance “right’ for him to return SF6 because I know people will complain about him in the end and I’m content with either Hugo or Sodom (long overdue) as the Mad Gear boss to return instead. Still love you Abby, Vroom Vroom!

[@Ashen-Crow]

Idk why but Abigail going vroom vroom just adds insult to injury every time.

[@squeaky1238]

I love how occasionally feet strighter has a fucked up goofy little guy who commits so many crimes that he gets taken out back for the next two decades

[@harrylane4]

Elena I miss you so much

[@lrodshrek6086]

@@harrylane4hmm…

[@MiaxiAuburn]

41:44 gave me a pretty good laugh, nice bit of editing for the punchline :)

[@sola7099]

competing in guilty gear, the whole section on risk reward just reminds me of this seasons goldlewis, where any one mistake and you explode, and even doing well you are building him full resources to skip the screen so you can explode. If you want to do anything at all in neutral, even block - wild assault then start dying as he chips you heavily/eats your gauge and then goes for a high low with prc fuzzy.

[@laffy7204]

A lot of fighting game developers overestimate big body characters. This time, they underestimate them once

[@OmegaExalted]

Dude looks like a Fist of the North Star villain

[@TheAce1183]

I always knew abigail is massive but going from a zangief clip to a abigail clip really puts how gigantic this mf is into perspective. Great video btw! That problem vs punk clip will always be the highlight of how stressful this character was to play vs until the 3.5 patch

[@R0yalBunny]

Me and my friends thought he was oddly endearing, the way he makes little car engine noises like a little boy, hahaha

[@elliephil]

4:17 hey dats me recording that clip Nice video, f Abigail =)

[@BigYellowSilly]

Woah that's awesome thank you for capturing a key moment in throw loop history

[@vidyogamenurd]

Abigail is like if Truck-kun had a face. An ugly, but still somehow beautiful face

[@Pyrax99]

I feel like abigail is the epitome of “a face a mother could love” except its not just the face but just about anything really

[@vidyogamenurd]

@@Pyrax99 It’s me. i am his mother and I love my son

[@arbar9536]

I like to think that there’s a subset of Big Yellow fans who only watch the fighting game content and thus have no idea what Big yellow looks like irl

[@BigYellowSilly]

That or even better they've only watched one of the super early pokemon vids and think I'm still a weird lil gremlin creature

[@Yozzoy]

Hearing about fighting game characters in games I dont play heals my soul for some reason. Another banger video!

[@Xzeihoranth]

The "I just do things and hope, not even pray" archetype.

[@AsBizarrasAventurasdeKlonesias]

please do more video essays on competitive broken characters, i'm already 30 min into the video and loving it, thanks for the content

[@protolad2458]

You said you don't often do "this kind of storytime schtick". But maybe you should, because the intro to this video is seriously well done.

[@sirgideonofnirtheall-knowi1881]

Great video, but more difficult to get through than your other work because of just how unpleasant it is to look at abigail for an hour.

[@piinkhat]

Crouching Light Punch is giving me PTSD

[@LoopZoopler]

She will NEVER draw a comparison between abigails prejump and melee bowsers jumsquat 19:16 :

[@guestguest9051]

41:43 I didn't expect the sudden cut and almost spat out my hot choco

[@Lyoko1309]

55:05 When Capcom drops you to the bottom of the tierlist

[@fabianoyaga8610]

Beautiful video! Another interesting one would be SFV Luke on release.

[@DMSwordsmaster]

Jimothy Cool? It's crazy when two different people you follow who both have similar interests in specific things randomly collab with one another. It's doubly funny since I followed both of you for different reasons (you for your fighting game stuff, Jimothy for his Pokemon content). Also vroom vroom.

[@foxplys520]

Great vid, always heard horror stories but didn't know it was this psychotic. When talking about Abigail having shitty anti-airs now I feel like you should've used Oro as an example. Oro can just spam jump heavy punch on Abigail and he can't really do much about it

[@skyleite]

Ms. Yellow thank you for blessing me with AN HOUR of fighting games

[@AnarchyIsLove]

for purely lore/physical reasons, I'm okay with Abagail being the only character with an anti-air jab. He's beyond tall enough

[@jonathanmaldonado2499]

Playing with release. Abigail was the equivalent of being able to play as minion in in twisted metal 2. Just.... Casually playing with an unapologetic, whole ass boss!

[@Mr.Spongecake]

I'm morbidly curious to find out what that man's skeleton looks like...

[@muffin2221]

God SFV balance decisions were so atrocious back then i wonder what was happening behind the scenes because they really got it together a few patches after this

[@BigYellowSilly]

I think the last few patches were pretty solid but there was always at least some weird stuff like never being willing to give Vega or Gief significant buffs or breaking Urien's knees while Luke was just allowed to be Luke

[@muffin2221]

Oof yeh, Vega, he's like a special case because no matter how long ago super turbo was Capcom is still gonna punish him for being good in that game 😓

[@samwill7259]

Is there a lore reason my man is 17 feet tall and wider than a semi truck or?

[@BigYellowSilly]

If I remember correctly it's just genetics, he apparently used to be very quiet and reserved but everyone bullied him until one day he just killed a couple dudes who were mean to him in an alley and joined Mad Gear

[@samwill7259]

@@BigYellowSilly Genetics of what? An elephant and a meat locker? I've heard of the genetic lottery but jesus H christ

[@joncliffmckinley5868]

he's on mad gear

[@GemmaBee14]

Hugo grew big by eating potatoes apparently I’ll assume Abigail ate cars or something

[@willtactix]

Steaks and weights bro

[@yikes6758]

I seriously always liked Abigail, he's fucking hilarious

[@kidumby7599]

It's honestly so nice of Big Yellow to fill the Bad Balance series-shaped hole in my heart, I love that for her

[@cookie-qb6mu]

i've wanted to know more about this ever since i saw that original set, one of the funniest sets in fgc history what a nightmare

[@gamesandluigifan7152]

Big Yellow listing of technical details while Abigail in the background is just doing his silly little idle animations is peak comedy

[@the_Dragg]

I am going to fall asleep to this video tonight and then start over tomorrow because I only made it 15 minutes in thank you Large Yellow for the cozy content

[@NikkiNighteye]

I discovered this channel through the Pokémon content, but lately I've been really enjoying watching alot of the fighting game content How do you manage to make me get so locked in to videos about games where I understand like less than 1% of the jargon Keep up the incredible content Yellow

[@demonico917]

How could you make an Abigail video and not bring up his EX Giant Flip ground pound in the corner ? Awesome video tho. I do really miss Abigail. He was my ride or die since his release. I had dropped Birdie for the Abi baby. And y'know, despite Abigail being my main and strongest character, I'd say he's my 2nd fav character in the game, with G being 1st, and thats only because I love G's personality and quotes a bit more. I am one of Abigail's strongest soldiers. My KZbin pfp and channel banner are Abigail and have not changed since 2017. Abigail for SF6 !! VROOOOOOOOOM !!

[@danielgaeney192]

Someone has been listening to the streets of rage 4 ost 37 consecutive times