Ballad of the Fifty-Fifty (Loose Fighting Game Combos) | "Will it Kill?" 【𝙓𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚】

[@zacharytyrone4144]

Sajam has found a way to make a game show and react content at the same time. truly a master of the medium

[@jacobw.6744]

Yeah actually, I only recently got into watching these but actually see him reasoning through the stuff in real time is pretty interesting. Plus, this show is hilarious so I'm glad they can come up with new twists and things on occasion to keep everything feelin' fresh.

[@Devonlewis537]

Isn’t that “Laugh you lose”

[@cakekattekoi]

I'm actually commentating in BOTH of the GBVS clips that made it into the show. Surreal to hear my voice on this show, even if I'm getting domed by Toast for being terrible at Will it Kill.

[@sephyrias883]

Heh, I was also like "hold on, I know these clips".

[@brandonbulthuis2740]

Congrats man. You made it.

[@TKVirusman]

My boy Toast is the other guy this was so sick to hear! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@scubasteve7286]

Sajam's not allowed to CALL Tasty Steve for help, however he is allowed to send Tasty Steve an email asking for help.

[@SupermanSajam]

So I get no help

[@durmusaltan8957]

@@SupermanSajam Is it still +999

[@TheNotebookDoodle]

The craziest thing about Kyanta clips is how it's somehow 2 different characters every time

[@chiga3388]

The game has 29 characters and they are all fucked up

[@kyleflournoy7730]

I didn't even know the game Ultra Fight Kyanta had a character named Kyanta until like the 5th time it was on the show lmao

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

@@chiga3388 as a Masked Michelle player that is very accurate

[@orionsong1624]

the moment that clip paused made me think anna was using speed type. NOPE! Demon type strikes again

[@happycamperds9917]

I think the game is getting rollback update soon.

[@shadowmaksim]

Since I'm apparently that person now, time to explain some stuff about the two "Arcana Heart" clips featured here. Cause, yeah, stuff could use some explaining. So first up, that Kamui clip at 22:28. What happened in the clip was that Kamui used her CH (Critical Heart), basically the level 3 ultimate. She has a parry special (623X, A being anti-air, B being anti-ground, C being anti-low) which auto-counters if you do it successfully. If you have 3 meter and manage that parry, you have a somewhat tight window before the auto-counter happens to input 222A+B to do the CH counter for way more damage. To be clear, it's not an Instant Kill. But it is very high damage since it's hard to do so it's just tuned up as compensation. One thing to note is that CHs actually have two different versions. The regular version, and the EF (Extend Force) version which are done when you are in EF and are even stronger. The version of Kamui's CH in the clip is the EF version, you can see her enter a neutral EF to blow away Lieselotte. That itself is crazy because the two mechanics kind of make it impractical to pull off. EF is usually used to extend combos, as an RC, and the mode itself only lasts a couple seconds. Kamui's CH, being a parry, is defensive orientated since you have to react to what your opponent is doing. So the Lieselotte player going in on Kamui in that situation was quite the mistake in general. But even with all of that into account, while Lieselotte is a low health character (roughly 24000-ish health), that still wouldn't have killed normally. Even without guts scaling due to being at full health, Kamui's EF CH would only do about 20000. That's where the chosen Arcana comes in. It's hard to see but Kamui is paired with Sorwat, the Sin Arcana. One of Sin's passives is that when you are in EF, the less health you have, the more damage you do. The damage increase is kind of complicated (Ie, I don't completely understand the calculation) but it's based on the character's guts value at how much remaining health they have. Looking at the wiki, Kamui is tied for 3rd best guts in the game so it's a pretty decent increase. Add in how she's nearly dead and it turns into a big boost. If you look at the final damage value, what was supposed to do around 20000 damage instead did around 26600 damage, enough for the explosive kill. And this is of course not getting into the Arcana Health modifiers but honestly, I don't think that would have made any difference here. Now for the second clip at 37:19, there's not really much to explain. I already talked about the Time Arcana in the previous WIK and really, what it does here is simple enough. A time stop. So I guess I'll explain Dorothy's gimmick instead. As mentioned by a chat, yes, she plays poker. Her specials puts down different face cards and the versions (A, B, C, Super) changes what suit they are. When you put down 5 cards, depending on what your hand is, you get different attacks. In the clip, that was a 4-of-a-kind Ace. So the exact process is that she puts down j.214A, j.214B, and j.214C consecutively for 3 aces. A 214X (I forgot which version that is) to have a 4th card and finishes with j.214A+B for the final ace card. She also dashes into the opponent to push them along the attack trajectory for more damage which I find oddly hilarious. So yeah, hopefully this helped somebody better understand what happened in those clips.

[@wanderingslacker]

I love your in depth explanations dude. I hope you keep it up if we get more AH clips.

[@harb1ng3r82]

4:50 So now he admits that Will it Kill has rules. Finally the mask cracks.

[@Guitar-Dog]

Will it kill would just be 100 of Oro clips if it's just a cool combo vids. I'm sure it has a no combo drop rule aswell

[@BardsOnAHill]

I usually read how Sajam is leading chat in order to influence my bet, this is devastating for me

[@hyonizaki000]

Sajam brought down to the height of man. I love it.

[@VVheeli]

Sajam knowing the meaning of despair

[@71507]

Always good to see a Sol player humbled.

[@borderlinecrazy6444]

@@VVheeli what's the name of that character from Danganronpa?

[@Stryfe52]

@@borderlinecrazy6444 Sephiroth

[@zappelins8942]

Now Sajam knows what he puts chat through in the second half. Just a continuous series of "Oh no"'s.

[@TenNoYaiba]

"You just vote on the character that has the least clothing and say 'I'm fine here'." Welcome to SaltyBet, Sajam, Always Bet Waifu. And Sword.

[@twistedgambit9084]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@servebotfrank4082]

27:01 I saw the jump in fierce and knew that was going to be an infinite. For some reason in Double Dragon if you manage to land combo two fierce attacks back to back it destroys the hitstun scaling and you just get an infinite. Cause reasons.

[@Guitar-Dog]

Double dragon is in this! 😎 No smoilers bro

[@Ramsey276one]

DOUBLE FIERCE XD

[@kingsoo6443]

In this Will it Kill, ye tarnished no longer have the guidance of grace... Are future episodes gonna keep this twist and/or have different twists? This was actually so fun, great show guys

[@myboy_]

Ha! Great comment

[@Infil]

This was too much work to do again any time soon, but maybe we'll try once a year or something like that. If we can think of another fun twist sooner than that, we might try it, but I imagine next month's show will be normal.

[@lilacrain3283]

It wasn’t my idea, but I still think a Will It Kill with exclusively non-fighting game clips would be really fun

[@yosha101]

In the kyanta clip, the second I saw the kusoge divekick I knew it would kill, Capcom couldnt balance divekicks for 20 years, kyanta wont either.

[@thatotherguy6videos141]

Hello, I'm the guy who sent in the Bang clip. I am honored to receive the coveted "Damn, he's good." It's funny, I actually did send in another combo which ends the same way and doesn't kill, but it doesn't look as good and it was technically unoptimal so I made sure to put that in the notes. Also, Sengoku Basara is a sick game and its a shame it got no love outside of Japan. Dynasty Warriors gets all the notoriety but it pales in comparison. Let me tell you, there is a character whose gimmick is special cancels and he can special cancel his DEATH ANIMATION! Music is pretty great too.

[@Pokemaniac88]

I can't believe Bang players actually exist. Amazing clip.

[@thatotherguy6videos141]

@@Pokemaniac88 There are at least 9 of us.

[@ohgodnononowaitwaitwait]

@@thatotherguy6videos141 actually 10 mate.

[@maxspecs]

Bruh I went all in on you and it covered the rest of my terrible calls, thank you for being awesome.

[@thatoneloser9623]

It's pretty humorous to see that when Sajam isn't gaslighting chat into voting one way or the other the voting tends to be much more evenly split.🤔

[@Argennon]

That and the fact that there are no video titles so people can't look up the clip before they vote...

[@ryugalul3414]

this WIK was great, it's way more fun to have Sajam getting smoked with us than when he just watches us getting smoked i went 13-8 i love it here

[@RougeMephilesClone]

Excellent format idea. Watching live was super fun. Also enjoyed the JoJo clips a lot. Also like that Sengoku Basara half-time clip, and it's given me an idea... My losses were only slightly higher than my wins, but I lost over a hundred thousand points. I became a rock thrower in the beginning and died.

[@GenericSoda]

I had the opposite strategy, I threw rock in the first half amd got destroyed, but I started playing more analytically in the second half and made a net total of 2k despite going 11-10.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

@@GenericSoda I meant to say that I opened by throwing rock through the opening salvo of No's. Spent way, waaay too much on votes with strong chat support.

[@VVheeli]

I love how this is the most split chat has been over a WiK, and the first time they get confident with Smash Kazuya they get Merc-ed. Started the game 0-5, went 13-8 by the end of the show and still ended in a net loss. Love this show.

[@matrix3509]

No joke, everything that happens in Yakuza games, no matter if its side content, or the main story, is the wildest shit. You gotta play Yakuza 0 at some point Sajam.

[@ultimatederp5069]

10:20, I love that WIK has become an FGC meme.

[@Pokemaniac88]

Can't believe my scrambly ass Yuel combo made it on Will it Kill, absolutely crazy. For those wondering, yes the combo is suboptimal, and it *probably* would have killed if I had done one less auto combo hit after the EX rush, something I didn't realize when submitting it. This clip is a couple of months old and I was just starting out back then, and didn't really know what I was doing. But the commentary was just too good not to send it in. Glad I made so many people lose channel points tho.

[@spin2winbaybee894]

GIVE ME BACK MY POINTS

[@Pokemaniac88]

@@spin2winbaybee894 I would if I could, because where I live, I'm not even allowed to use them on Will it Kill

[@Battlefoxx98]

Being featured in this show with that Ladiva clip makes me incredibly happy. The reactions are just the icing on the cake as well! That being said, I would've gone poor in this episode of WIK...

[@gamelord12]

This is a lot more fun when Sajam doesn't know what's about to happen.

[@dszk1990]

To be honest, this is actually the very first Will It Kill i've seen (just found out this series). I began going backwards and watching the previous entries, and i gotta say, it's a lot more enjoyable when you don't know the clips/results and you bet together with the chat. I don't really know why, but it's more entertaining.

[@LordBape]

Holy crap, that's me at 38:02! First Will It Kill I went to live and it went about as I expected. First half bodied me, but I got the runback during the second half. I'm like a God when it comes to the Kusoge, lmao. Anyhow, the moral of the story is that if you don't have Sajam's guidance, always go all in on rock at the end of the show. Throw away your fears and follow your instincts, that's how you win.

[@Jameslongstrider]

I really enjoy the new layout. Having Sajam weigh in with his considerable knowledge of fighting game mechanics and able to drop commentary and reacting adds a whole new layer to one of the things I look most forward to at the end of each month. Even if I can never catch em live.

[@b4ttlemast0r]

22:30 yeah he was in level 3 drill meter, so he can get shit like that but if the opponent just barriers it's actually kinda hard to deal damage

[@LumpyCrumpets]

I like the new twist, but i think it should stay a rare thing, like every other/ every third WIK. I feel like the taunting and laughing at the chat is part of what gives the show its character

[@pon3d120]

More JJBA please. The relaxed attitude characters have during their combos is too good.

[@Coliflowerz]

When blue Mary started with the over head I knew she was alive lol. Pro tip; grounded over heads scale harder

[@julianguillermo9112]

When I saw her doing no EX moves, I actually took back saying that it was gonna kill XD

[@Coliflowerz]

@@julianguillermo9112 ex moves usually do less dmg than lvl 1/2 > climax. Though some characters are an exception

[@ott0ma71c]

Agreed, I just wish the extra scaling didn't count on mid combo overhead attacks. Combos where you can end with Liz qcb+C instead of qcb+A generally sac a little damage for HKD, and using Ramon dp+BD into dp+D etc to super is much worse than going to dp+B etc into super.

[@Mario_bland]

This started as will it kill, second half turned into “will sajam die”

[@The4SK02]

Video: *pauses* Sajam: oh good lord!

[@bossanova3494]

WIK: Jab / jump-in starter Sajam: *Cackling*

[@Ithritable]

I'll be honest, the part during halftime where the dog got kicked had me dying. I've never seen that in a fighting game before.

[@alejandrogomez1698]

Holy shit. Being one of the few subscribers of the streamer from the last clip saved me. I was going to vote the contrary to Sajam but I knew that the streamer had been playing Phantom Breaker almost every day for the last month and I couldn't bring myself to vote against them.

[@QuintBlitz]

12-9 , loved how the host didn't know the results, making it much more interesting! On others you can read his tonal inflections and his body language, but here you have no idea, because HE has no idea!

[@SingerOfW]

Man, I might've done worse than average, but I feel like seeing things from a different point of view is going to increase my winrate in the long run. This was incredibly illuminating, almost as if this entire channel has been about teaching people fighting games all along!

[@GenericSoda]

I have an excel sheet of ever WIK from this year so far, and at the end of the year I'll crunch the numbers to figure out just how crippling my gambling addiction is to the channel point economy

[@karue7581]

That was a really a fun twist! Amazing show as always!

[@badyacht]

Cool to see All Star Battle getting shown more in these videos

[@HellecticMojo]

16:14. Fantastic edit and a twist

[@True.Shujin]

Sorry about the window sajam but I just had to get that thumb drive to you I gladly pay for the window but use the clip 😂

[@mrtspence]

This is one of the finest series on the internet. The twist is also hilarious.

[@jmagrippis]

This already was the best show on Twitch, and you participating like this made it even better! Please keep doing it 😄

[@freyzerb.castro9124]

31:26 Sajam with the Dragon Ball weighted clothing logic

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

I love the all star battle clips I can’t wait to see more when r comes out

[@vonflare4709]

i feel like since jojo asb is getting a remaster we'll be getting a lot more jojo clips soon. I'm looking forward to this bright future

[@baines803]

Just have a will it kill segment at combo breaker

[@RougeMephilesClone]

He addressed that in the post-show and noted it would be hard to set up. Also, next WIK might be a week early because of Combo Breaker.

[@davdus212]

This format was amazing. I was also really happy to see my Streets of Fury EX clip getting into the show! Now I only need to actually get good in guessing WiK, I got destroyed.

[@boltdm8238]

Btw, the lead game designer of Streets of Fury was also the lead game designer of Streets of Rage 4

[@forestskilbred9461]

maybe the best will it kill of all time. great twist, was so much fun to play along.

[@sozestone6469]

From the halftime show on I felt like I was sent to fighting game Narnia. I didnt know wtf was going on, but it had me in tears. Funniest show yet imo

[@VaSoapman]

After like 20 of these I had started to try to get a read on Sajam more than the actual clip. Don't know how hard it is to get things set up this way, but I enjoy the twist!

[@boislap]

Chat knew that they could not change anything so instead of reflecting on their betting addiction they made sajam lose his own sajam bucks!

[@NathanPops]

I prefer this format. Your reactions are way funnier.

[@braden_m]

Oh my god can you please do more of these. I love this show to death as it is but somehow it’s even MORE fun when you don’t even know what’s going on haha

[@BujewQ]

I really liked the new format/twist, idk what you guys are planning to do in the future but I think this is a more fun version of WIK

[@arogel1999]

Damn what a good show. Had a bad start with 4 wrong guesses at the start and brought it back with a 15-7 record at the end. Definitely want another Sajam guesses with us again.

[@schitzie]

dam you scored 15-7 on a show with 21 combos?

[@lucaslennan3356]

So glad this was my first live WiK. Went 12-9 and doubled my points.

[@Ultraegehan25]

Sajam not knowing the clips beforehand makes it a little more engaging on the KZbin side I feel

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

The matrix is acting up again. I was literally thinking about the football interview in your thumbnail for the first time in friggen years Then the very... Next... Day... This video drops

[@Mrholysymbol]

I liked the edited pause and rewind but I will admit I missed the banter between you and chat as a result of you having seen the clip already fucking with chat is too funny

[@112clockhead]

13:03 Man, I forgot how good "Our Blood Boils" is, its probably my favorite Sigma theme out of all of them...Well, 8 is up there too. Anyway, great show as always Sajam.

[@CharlotteMimic]

This was very fun! I think it's important for Sajam to know what's going on in the halftime clips so he can explain it to us xD

[@princesssweepzzt5502]

To explain the Arcana Heart 3 clip, that level 3 super already does a lot of damage, and she's also using the Sin Arcana which makes you do more damage the lower your health is, plus Lieselotte has low health anyway

[@devonwinegar9560]

Please make this the format of the show going forward. Freaking hilarious. Regardless, keep up the fantastic work.

[@duchuyedisonvu]

it's so much more fun when sajam has no fucken idea and is giving us genuine reactions, i live for this content

[@googleguy-ft8xh]

I miss Sajam taunting us

[@MrSupedoSpade]

Thank you for continuing to do this show and making it hilariously brutal and interesting every time

[@TheBanimal]

11/10. An amazing show, that second half was amazing

[@elbowpastatime]

9 - 12 I've never been so confident and so wrong at the same time great show

[@FallOnFridays]

Just watned to drop a comment and say that I thought it was actually way more fun having Jamjam blind to the clips as well, I really hope this is the future of Will It Kill

[@splatkirby6056]

I like the "blind Sajam" approach but I hope it doesn't remain the standard going forward. The clip editing is really nice and it's fun to be in the dark with Sajam, but he does such a good job running the show, especially when he knows the answer, that I feel like it's a shame to not let him do that. But again, the clip editing is great this time around and I DO hope that becomes the standard.

[@Cee-looo]

you should do this with a live audience as a game show with contestants

[@XerosenGFX]

Really loved the shakeup in the formula for the show! Definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of that in the future. Went 14-7 going along with the video here, since I couldn't make it live. Best score I've managed so far!

[@Ginsufe]

Woo! 14 wins, 7 losses! Woo This was super fun and having you join in the bets made it even better. Wouldn't mind more will it kills like this. Love this series either way tho.

[@Rokkxl]

I'm pretty sure the votes were also so close because with every video being edited no one can cheat by searching the names of the clips. And the few that cheat obviously impact the voting a lot because they have a lot of channel points to spend. Just my 2cents, would be very easy to fix by just hiding that part of the screen. Show was awesome as always :)

[@Infil]

It's hard to estimate how often people cheat on regular WIK. We often do hide the name of the clip by putting Sajam's camera in the top left (when it doesn't cover up some of the action, which it often does), sometimes the clip is from Twitter and has no title, sometimes the clip is named "WIK submission" and is unlisted, and sometimes the name is a long string of Japanese or Chinese characters and would be very hard to search. And even so, you only have at most 60 seconds to find the clip, find the exact timestamp in the middle, watch the combo and make it back in time to vote. I suspect it might happen sometimes but probably not enough for us to dramatically increase the amount of work that goes into each show.

[@theufua]

YO, I LOVE THAT I LEFT A COMMENT NOT TOO LONG AGO ABOUT SAJAM PLAYING ALONGSIDE US AND THE FIRST MINUTE AND A HALF, MY WISH CAME TRUE I'm pogging

[@KuraiMuin]

Please do this format again some other time, this was simply amazing

[@brettdallman3885]

I have never touched Granblue, but the wrestler dude’s super killing is one of the hypest things ever, ironic because not much is happening visually, but the tension is so well done. It’s like it was made for this show

[@GenericSoda]

My favorite thing about Ladiva's super was that the referee character was originally made for her super by Arcsys, and Cygames liked him so much they did up art for the referee.

[@Ketsuekisan]

Yeah, her super's incredible. I love the ref.

[@fakeigniz13]

That Yakuza clip, I didn't expect murder all of a sudden

[@lptimey]

9:20 the two can be translated to "untouchable" and "good" from top to bottom

[@juanbarb57]

Love the show Sajam! Will watch it later, but already liked and commented to boost the algorithm!

[@jacoboswald5731]

WOOHOO! Will it Kill! I looked at my calendar this morning saw it was the first of May and said YESSSS!

[@jacoboswald5731]

It's like it happens the last Friday of every month or something

[@nethilym]

I think this is probably a good version of the show. Yall should do this every once and a while its fun.

[@tenkovito]

Hoping to see Tatsunoko vs. Capcom one day in WIK

[@oi2elic195]

its honestly really fun to see arcana heart having more and more clips submitted, honestly its one of my favorite fighting games. Sin EFC critical hearts are honestly hilarious to watch

[@Ridlay_]

Was a blast live!

[@magicalgirl1296]

The bang nail to let him keep going after the super was so sick, what the hell

[@trevward5508]

The initial "oh fuck" for the first clip sells this entire episode.

[@bulletcola7890]

Yknow I like how in these "Will it Kill" clips on GBFV, nobody notices that the opponent is already dead based on how the music changes in a characters cinematic super.

[@Wintercat1]

I played from home for the first time and went 9-9. I guess I can't ask for much more than a 50/50 on the 50/50 episode... Also, I needed that last clip to kill so bad.

[@AnthropoidEntity]

Love the clip rewind after voting, and that we how it ends after no.

[@Rembrall]

This was super good and I'd love to see will it kill done like this again in the future!

[@AlociJo]

Thank you Infil and Moss!

[@bigeoof1804]

This is one of the most enjoyable WIKs to watch

[@capellozapellini6074]

“Man I knew that whole time, chat you guys are lost” This man is a legend

[@arachnofiend2859]

Respectable 12-9. I had to pause at the Naomaru clip I was laughing so hard

[@brown3261]

best will it kill so far, I acc watched the whole thing! hope all of them from now on have reverse majas guessing too

[@free_playstation_2]

Soljam finally got to experience the very visceral feeling of "It could kill from THIS?"

[@SharpsPanda]

Damn, that was some hard vortex 50/50 mixups at the end lolol

[@DrGuitarX]

Went 10-11; lost the tie to Sajam on the last clip. Damn he's good. - This format is awesome. Huge kudos to Infilament for making it possible.