Evo 2023: Guilty Gear -Strive- Top 6

[@AceBadguy]

Thank you Guilty Gear Strive and Street Fighter 6 for not having a mirror grand finals this year.

[@deddrz2549]

I'd argue I would have rather seen a mirror match for grands in Gear lol, lame character wins evo twice in a row

[@Lokye54]

coughs in dragon ball fighterz and UMCV3

[@levmyshkin8366]

1:27:50 bangin theme 1:28:32 crowd jumps in its hype

[@weskerend507]

Oh man, so cool! Wonder how it feels to be there.

[@Pherna_1]

When the whole crowd booed when Leffen walked onstage, I felt that in my bones.

[@DANCERcow]

All the people that booed are a bunch of Smash Bros community who hate Leffen because he mocked Zero for being a groomer!

[@GhibliNova]

@@DANCERcow nah just the history of toxic behavior, he's gotten a lot better but the community still has that bad taste in the mouth from it.

[@ΚρανίΩ]

@@DANCERcowzero aint a groomer last time i cheked

[@taylortierney6542]

@@DANCERcow Also people hate HC lol

[@Dytanious]

@@ΚρανίΩ what tf are you checking dude sent porn to an underage person?????

[@erichurtado4938]

I respect Leffen so much for his skill as a player… it’s a shame that I think of him more for his whining than his winning.

[@sanyashaihov2721]

As much as i hate HC, gotta admit it, Leffen played Just as good as it can possibly be.

[@gustavohuehue7460]

I honestly think that strive would be a better game if they removed happy chaos, that's how salty i am about this character

[@shaieresmirnoff]

Is that character broken? He looks like he wipes the floor with everyone damage wise

[@pian-0g445]

@@shaieresmirnoffit’s actually not his damage that’s the broken part, it’s his moves and how many break from the conventions of the game.

[@Xanit]

It's perfectly in character, though, don't you think? After watching story mode -- Happy Chaos being able to do basically whatever he wants with seemingly unfair abilities that break the rules of the world is so on brand. He's truly a villain in the story and in the competitive scene. Someone we can hate watching as he succeeds anyway.

[@juniperrodley9843]

@@shaieresmirnoff Outdated with Season 3, but Season 2 Happy wasn't broken on account of his damage. Almost everyone in Strive has always done silly amounts of damage. The issue was his array of tools. He had the best neutral in the game bar none, his pressure was also some of if not the best (at point-blank, he had access to at least four different ways to open you up at all times, and he was _always_ plus), and those two strengths alongside his combo conversions let him basically always have enough meter for Yellow Roman Cancel. Which would throw you into a 50/50, and if you lost, you lost at least 40% life or burst and promptly entered a horrible situation against Happy. *TL;DR* he was so good at neutral and offense that it also looped around to making him fine at defense, so he pretty much just lacked weaknesses in a game where everyone else is specialized :\

[@tenkovito]

Chipotle ads got more cheering than leffen winning lmao

[@uhoh7545]

Crazy ass episode of Tatakai Tuesday

[@Rivershield]

It's always Nago, HC or Ram that win those big tournaments.

[@Gnull_Gaming]

Sad that HC won Evo for the second time, but happy for Leffen. Ggs to everyone. You all played phenomenally.

[@Maxler5795]

I was rooting for umisho since i main sol and rooting for the defending champion wasnt half bad. But damn if it didnt hurt seeing her fighting the horrid matchup that is sol Vs nago. Its a matchup ive personally had a lot of troubke with and im happy atleast that she had an amazing run. I was aware that she had a pocket sol because long story short, a sort of idol inspiration for me in this game had "umisho (so)" as their highest rated beaten opponent on rating update. Glad she decided to do the entire run with the funny scientist

[@CryoKonk]

@stevenluoma1268She played May and Chipp before HC came out. The Sol only really came about after evo 2022

[@bibigreen6533]

Nago is one of the coolest characters ever. Too badass.

[@zamjackson2331]

IKR

[@mo533]

Fax

[@johngleeman8347]

Man Leffen was a force of nature in this Evo.

[@PAARRAN0lA]

they blame happy chaos but don’t even know who Leffen is

[@jaedenadams6599]

​@@PAARRAN0lAhappy chaos actually plays the game for you

[@XiraZorua]

​@@jaedenadams6599Then you should be at Evo winning then

[@welwoytonight]

@@PAARRAN0lA best party game player of all time

[@xikaryo6735]

@@jaedenadams6599 So every time Leffen wins Evo it’s because a character played the game for him? You said that in DBFZ and Smash too? Other people play Happy Chaos and they aren’t winning Evo, so…?

[@mo533]

Love him or hate him, he did the damn thing; props Leffen.

[@testme242]

Hey all I have no idea about GG mechanics as I mainly watch SF6. To me a complete noob HC seems incredibly OP but I'm sure there has to be some high learning curve. Leffen made it look so easy with all those crazy combos and into his super. Is he that good or is the character broken?

[@andrewbartlesby7958]

happy chaos is a huge high risk high reward pick. you have to balance both a meter and an ammo counter and can easily get caught out doing reloads. he also has an hp pool on the smaller side of the cast. however, he has crazy good mixups and pressure and zoning. hes def a strong char but theres alot of strong chars in gg (zato, nago, ram) so its not that bad.

[@kevinjamesmith]

Character definitely remains broken, even after the nerfs. Two EVO wins in a row should be evidence enough.

[@brandonrule4]

​@kevinjamesmith considering there's only one HC in top 6 he's not as broken as, say, Leroy in tekken when he was released. HC is def high tier but I hesitate to call him broken

[@tomloki6756]

It's not only because of HC that leffen won, he was playing so damn perfectly

[@kevinjamesmith]

@@tomloki6756 That's kind of the point, though. HC played to perfection, for example by a pro player like Leffen, is completely oppressive and broken. The character is just not fun to go against and breaks a lot of fundamental rules and norms of fighting games. Sure he's a glass cannon, but his tools are so ridiculously overpowered you only need 2-3 interactions to overwhelm your opponent and take the round. It's just my opinion but I think it's a terrible design for a game like Strive and it annoys me to no end that the character has now taken 2 Evos in a row.

[@1BigSalad]

I just want to say.. the melee community generally views Leffen as someone that has mostly turned around. I'd say he's well liked or respected by a decent amount of other top level pros and pillars of the community. He can be incredibly confident and his personality is not for everyone. but everyone's bound to find someone they don't vibe with. And when you play a game at a top level, can you blame someone for being confident and exuding that? I say pop off. People should be confident in themselves. I don't really find him over the top in that category, especially recently. I think he's generally likeable and classy now a days.

[@reportimortal]

Wtf are you talking about? He still the same pile of toxic waste as ever.

[@wolfrox777]

Dude put in the work, can't be denied. HC is very good yes, there will always be a top character though for those complaining.

[@cringewyrm]

He is undeniably skilled, but he really deserves to be run out of every community hes in. Hes done a lot of crappy things, and theyve arguably gotten worse since the early 2010s. Didnt he literally get himself banned from his local scene and attempt to cover it up and discredit all the evidence some 10 years ago? And then just a couple years ago, 2020 or 2021, there were 2 cases of him accusing people of sexual harassment and completely lying about it. Even though he lied about it, it literally forced one of them to expose extremely private information that should never have had to be revealed. His fanbase is also a terrible influence on communitys too.

[@reportimortal]

@@cringewyrm 100%. If was the contrair, I would gladly cheer for him, but the ahole is the same as ever. Just a PoS.

[@eirin481]

his incessant bitching about chipp getting "nerfed" and harassing shinkensou was fucking pathetic, no apology for it either

[@bibigreen6533]

Took me 3 games to realise it was Ky 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Jiare-q6k]

I’m new to guilty gear but I’m happy I choose to main happy chaos if I could combo like leffen imma be lit

[@Maxler5795]

If you're new to gg, i wouldnt recommend HC since one of his key techniques, reload cancelling, is very hard

[@amphibious8063]

@@Maxler5795man f that every new character is equally hard when ur new it doesn’t matter as long as you think they’re cool and have the drive to learn

[@superultrathanksmom3845]

@@amphibious8063 100%, thinking they're cool is the most important part for sure

[@yuumizoomies]

​@@Maxler5795likin the character is impawtant to k33p someone playin the game lmew, it k33ps them interested in playin the game, also it doesn meowtter how hard a character is cause all characters r vv hard when ur furst startin a fightin game, k33p playin chaos an eventually ur gonna b jus as good, !!! ♡♡♡,

[@ΚρανίΩ]

@@amphibious8063except hc is like a 100 times harder than zato, which is a 100 times harder then the 3rd hardest character

[@DANCERcow]

Big Left! Let's go!

[@chrishan.ireland]

Happy Chaos destroyed this game

[@kevinjamesmith]

100

[@NerdTribe]

yup

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

please post the pools videos of day 1 and 2

[@madmanmit2618]

Unfortunately, all the pools vids were copyright claimed. So depending we might not ever see them or it'll take a while for them to available to everyone.

[@superultrathanksmom3845]

Notebook guy was so lit

[@bigbroitachi4434]

day 2 pools are up under the Live tab

[@flinten7485]

Reminds me of vanilla MvC3 when players would win tournaments with Dark Phoenix. No one cheered. No one enjoyed watching it.

[@FIashFire]

How is happy chaos allowed to exist in that state? Broken beyond belief

[@curiouscork6302]

Let me guess... may main?

[@maduinargentus5878]

@@curiouscork6302 this is a weird dig since, AFAIK, May has one of the better matchups against HC

[@curiouscork6302]

@@maduinargentus5878 well tru, but most may mains like to complain a lot about hc, at leady from what I've seen

[@dancinginfernal]

​@@curiouscork6302literally everyone complains about HC, every matchup is stacked in his favor.

[@curiouscork6302]

@@dancinginfernal if you complain about a matchup because its "too hard" or "impossible", my only answer is to " get better". Shit, I'm a chipp main, and I'm floor 4, I know im not the best, and you dont see me crying about how pot can take 75% of my health without breaking a sweat, or how rams corner pressure annihilated every match I was on. Same for chaos, just wait for a mistake, then punish. 99% of the "problems" with the game is about a fucking dlc character. Jesus these comment sections will explode when johnny comes out on strive. If you are having difficulty with a character, instead of complaining, try to figure them out.

[@ausreir]

All these guys playing for a spot in Tatakai Tuesday.

[@TuMadre8000]

umisho's sol is so fucking cool

[@heyitsmort7744]

Holy cow Umisho played nice in that first set. She SCHMIXED him

[@AW-ci9yn]

?

[@paletapayasofan]

@@AW-ci9yn vs tyurara

[@tbc1880]

He was whiffing laggy pokes non stop and his main means of offense was run up half screen to point blank with no set up. The one time he set up was after wall break which given his habits made pushing there premptively the obvious choice and if it wasn't reacting to that move point blank isn't hard. He played like many players in other games do when I just let them hang themselves with their choices. It honestly made me wonder if this really was top 8 given how many fundamental flaws in his neutral he had and wasn't adjusting.

[@reportimortal]

We finally get Jiyuna to commentate and freaking Leffen wins... that's so depressing.

[@claudijatzandrapova3347]

are Dizzy and the Valentines joining Strive or are they remaining in XX and Xrd?

[@xikaryo6735]

Leffen looked like he was gonna cry. Not sure if he still is but he used to be a really toxic dude which is why he gets a bad rep.

[@superultrathanksmom3845]

His latest pinned tweet: *❝I'm one of the best fucking fighting game players ever and don't you fucking forget that.❞* Idk I can't vibe with his energy man lol

[@freshlymemed5680]

Hope he actually has reformed himself bro really shouldn't be picking fights and being toxic when he's this good, nobody wants to cheer for him.

[@Secondhandtermite]

I’m just mad he took out daru but thats one of i-no’s worst matchups and leffen took full advantage of it

[@RackSimons]

@@superultrathanksmom3845people have done nothing but downplay his achievements in the fgc, he has every right to tweet that. Dude has been dominant in melee, fighterz and now guilty gear.

[@sandycrash8868]

@@RackSimonsit’s because he’s a cocky tier whore who brags about it and says I’m better then you when he also admits tiers matter so basically it’s like saying hey look at me I beat up a guy with 1 arm tied behind his back. If he wouldn’t be so openly cocky about tier whoring I think people would like him. But cocky ness is bad enough to be hated now throw in the fact that your a BRAGGING tier whore and your bound to be hated for the rest of your life. The only way people will like him is if some one throws a crab at him on stage

[@kazz6678]

Gobou? Where isssss?

[@ofam1587]

Tell me if they announce bt4

[@AntLeonardi01]

Wow a KY in top 6 is impressive. Every ridiculous DLC char to come out just makes him look weaker and weaker. I mean how does he win besides spamming throw?

[@SophistictaedDevil]

??? more years of HC.... Can't wait

[@BooAxe]

Leffen tried HC last year and it didn't work out, not like an HC won last year either. With the new update coming the tier list will get shaken up

[@lukelmaooooo]

next gen kusoge 😂

[@johnniewolf133]

Evo...please...can you change stages each match? It really isn't hard. Watching esports is as much about the visuals as it is watching players skills. It gets very visually boring when every single match keeps happening on the same stage, it becomes too repetitive over the course of two hours especially when you start getting into Losers and watching the same people you just watched compete with the same characters on the same stage. Other tournaments allow for stage changes, it's a shamr when fighting games do put effort into their stages that you don't at least showcase them in your esports.

[@emergence109]

really late but usually stages are picked based on their readability/performance. which is why games like street fighter used the training room often. this stage is simply the “best” performance and visual-clarity wise (do wish other stages would get picked though)

[@slashmandor]

Am i only who think that evo must be at Japan? Its not a same level of game here in USA....

[@sleepfgc]

Say what you want about Leffen, but the dude delivers.

[@spartandevineagles]

Always overjoyed to see a neurodivergent sister on the big stage. Your star shines bright, Umisho.

[@ntwrk56]

Where's the top 6 for sf6

[@jedgrahek1426]

💚💚💚 Umisho Hope to see much more of her in the future. She's what the FGC needs.

[@shadowninjaa13]

why top 6 and not top 8?

[@SodaQuasar]

No doubt Leffen is a great player. But Happy Chaos game is just frustrating to watch

[@dr.castoross]

hotashi ?

[@finch3037]

i think he got close to top 24 but didnt make it past

[@madmanmit2618]

Hotashi lost in 17th place. Lost to Tyurara and then Jonathan Tene.

[@RasecFGC]

People shit talking Ram and HC and Nago has been in every top 6 in every tournament... So many characters and seeing those 2 over and over is beyond boring.

[@astashasta1]

lol happy chaos is so busted watching it is comical

[@mattneale1333]

Bring back Melee to evo

[@madmanmit2618]

Nintendo might have something to say about that.

[@curiouscork6302]

Dude, i respect melee players for their allegiance to their game, but good god, you don't need melee in evo.

[@trevorpearlharbor5171]

He deserved the crowd booing him. Not because of HC winning EVO for him, but because he's a crap human being.

[@moomaBH]

Leffens the goat

[@Yousanzen]

>happy chaos main

[@dividendfire365]

해피 케이오스때문에 길티기어 게임 자체가 조잡하게 느껴짐

[@michaelgregg2577]

That anouncing was so awkward dawg😂

[@browngorilla9468]

my god this is sooo booring essipecially the grand finals

[@upsidedownhorror]

#NERFCHAOS

[@juliansalamanca9989]

Until GG XRD this game was wonderful... This strive just sucks

[@OGamelon]

Ban leffen

[@fabiangardon3773]

Why?

[@NerdTribe]

Ban HC

[@romacalor]

@@fabiangardon3773 tocix pos

[@juniperrodley9843]

Ban me I wanna know what it's like

[@kazz6678]

HC sucks, play a totally different game , a game you can only adapt to. Nerf HC please.

[@singwinner13]

Haha, pew pew on the corner and win

[@casualcaucasianheterosexua2920]

Big league copage

[@kevinjamesmith]

Deletion is the only answer. Fundamentally trash design.

[@juancarlostigerlyon5841]

with: happy chaos, only the little girls play. You shoot from afar, you make combos and you finish off up close. What's the point of such a depressing dynamic. No wonder the toxic second time winner in this game in EVO was not happy. So winning with a character that is easy to manage and easy to make combos does not feel like a worthy victory. The winner was already known before the event began. He takes the recognition and can boast of it, but he will never be able to erase that what he achieved was not meritorious. And as a person he is a disaster raised to infinity.

[@shaieresmirnoff]

Geez

[@mushihimesarna728]

I'm happy the umisho thing lost.

[@eirin481]

she got top 8 at evo meanwhile you're floor 7 bitching about trans people at the chagrin of all medical professionals who disagree with you on the subject matter stay small

[@johnsuex360]

why?

[@eirin481]

@@johnsuex360 blatant transphobia is the reason

[@SUREIYA-01]

based

[@eirin481]

@@SUREIYA-01 sacrifice yourself