Guilty gear strive Arcade mode level 9 Nagoriyuki boss fight

[@amethystemperor643]

I want Ramlethal to hug me... Not cause i love her (Which i do) but because i need some comfort after dealing with this monstrosity of a boss fight.

[@a-train8636]

@@Omorcego1 its a gold trophy called "messiah will not come"

[@ramkindalethal732]

I did beat him with ram today and it was rough took me around 75 tries

[@InfectedElite]

42 losses on my end. ooof. but i did it

[@YukonJack]

I'm a Ram main too and I can tell you, some of the stuff your Nago sat around for definitely is different than my experience. Easily the hardest boss fight in a fighting game I've come across.

[@Kopie0830]

Ramlethal is the dalshim of GG. Justice OG will always be my best final boss of all time.

[@danielgoma8907]

"He's weak to grabs" Me a Pot main: Interesting

[@PigMac2083]

There is the part of getting even close to him, alive, that probably will make you take another char just for that horrible fight :)

[@pekorisa]

Just did it with Pot, you gotta play it safe and connect a slide head to then approach with a hammer fall break and then time your potbusters perfectly to hit him during the startup frames of his dp

[@felipebelmar2337]

@@pekorisa I managed to do it by: Do pot buster at the beginning Go back Wait till he dashes and grab Jump and butt in face Do dust combo Wait for his super Do an rc pot buster Go back repeat from step 3

[@tacocell4542]

@@PigMac2083 haha axl go BRRRRRRRRR

[@Grilldude]

It takes 13 pot busters to kill him

[@noh_mercy3473]

5:53 narrator said pogger

[@leoscar9816]

Kidna neat that after all this time, ridiculous bosses are still a thing in fighting games.

[@Aazdremzul]

Originally meant to absorb quarters, now around to piss people off.

[@elcomemierda2624]

@@Aazdremzul og i-no gave me nightmares

[@ungeekfurioso4802]

@@elcomemierda2624 Dont even get me started with Dizzy

[@itzsanchez93]

@@ungeekfurioso4802 JUSTICE says hello

[@unknownguy8687]

Man, I'm glad people like them and I know they're a neat little callback to the arcade days. But come on... Instead of making a boss with interesting mechanics or fun gameplay elements they just give them invincibility frames, stupidly high defense and absurd damage. If the only thing a boss can brag about is being the better version of a character, why should people even bother? I'm sorry man, that was just a rant. I beat the fucker not 2 hours earlier and I needed to blow off some steam.

[@abrahamlupis9354]

ah, so that's why Arc System Works didn't put Instant Kills

[@EtherDrip]

This boss is so painful. Who play tested this and was like “yeah this is fine let’s release it and make it a trophy”. (I eventually beat stage 9 after like 270 losses)

[@PigMac2083]

Kinda ruins the little single player there is too, as I will never try to even get close to him, after a full day of trying to out-cheap him. Once it were done he overstayed his welcome (his stage 8 on extreme without losing a round were almost as painful in 32c heat)

[@Kurumisama]

@@PigMac2083 Please take a look at previous Guilty Gear hidden bosses like Baiken and specially Order Sol and you will realize how easy it is in comparison. and yes, he's a hidden boss, not meant to be casually fought, the fact that you have to do Arcade mode twice with the same character is a pretty straight forward way to keep someone who just picked up the game to "accidentally" face him.

[@RobbertRobbert12345]

It seems like you basically have to cheese him with tick throws. That is if you can prevent him from getting his offense going and you don't miss time the throw even a little bit and lose half your health from a full body invincible reversal.

[@ВладимирКолесников-п5м]

@@Kurumisama * cough cough* I-no

[@DShy96]

I just beat it using Sol. You have to cheese it. Fuck beating it legitimately.

[@cctz_1]

The song is so sick tho

[@shakefan1484]

“I don’t recommend trying this...” Well, I hate myself so I’m going to do it anyway.

[@KrimbleTiltSkin]

doing this fight while playing as Nagoriyuki is absolutely fucking miserable. he is just you but better. lost 170 times and eventually had to just call it for the day. will try again another time

[@rakaneko4229]

Did you win?

[@steelsymen5529]

hi, how did it go

[@guiltygamer8343]

Wow, she literally fought Nagoriyuki without any signs of fatigue.

[@5eus]

Because she's not real?

[@peelingfullchub9755]

@@5eus Nigga... YOU'RE not real

[@zero123alpha6]

@@5eus well still, they could've added dialogue about how hard the fight was.

[@benjamin-papa]

You think that's good? I beat him sitting down

[@guiltygamer8343]

@@benjamin-papa I'm talking about the story and dialogue of Ramlethal and Nagoriyuki, dude. She hardly even seemed phased by Nagoriyuki to the where the latter acknowledges her strength.

[@ThePlasticBowl]

This would actually be fun if he had normal health but the extra health really just makes this fuckin horrible.

[@RobbertRobbert12345]

It's so annoying to kick his ass with multiple high damage combos and wall breaks and then he supers you in blood mode and you're a flick away from death.

[@113Kyote]

This boss is an absolute monster. You might think you can tick throw him on wake up, but his DP will just ignore your throw if he uses it on wake up. If you delay blockstrings sometimes he'll just throw in the dp to counter you. Let's say you respect his dp on wakeup and go for a safe jump. Well, that can work, but he can also use his teleport on wake up and immediately go for a crossup on you. Or like the delayed blockstrings, he can block your overhead and then immediately use his do if you try to continue the pressure. Can't knock him out of his teleport like normal nagoriyuki. He can also block immediately after he uses it so you can't even punish him if you correctly figure out which side he's coming from. All of the above is made so so so much worse when you add in the fact that he can use all of these specials while in blood mode during the fight. The stun he gets from running out of blood gauge is the only saving grace. This is one of the most unfair fighting game bosses I've had to fight.

[@gingerqueer22]

I'm shocked no one has pointed out that the Level 9 Nago RRC'd a goddamn super to create a mixup. What the fuck.

[@Silverado-pq6xe]

He does that literally every time he has enough meter to rc it

[@Zivhayr]

I would recommend using a fully charged dust when he's stunned and do a high damage dust combo. You can do the same as a punish after blocking his super. The focus on the fight is getting those stuns into dust.

[@sigmafun3880]

Oh... so there's another one after the Stage 8 Extreme Nagoriyuki? Interesting. *proceeds to uninstall the game*

[@ryphereon1153]

I found this video after losing to Nago over and over and looking up something like "GG Strive Arcade Nago is bullshit" And THE ONE I'M FIGHTING ISN'T EVEN THE FINAL ONE???

[@ryphereon1153]

That teleport is the most broken thing I've ever seen. He can just teleport behind you instantly and I swear that thing has zero recovery frames so you can't even punish it.

[@ryphereon1153]

I'm at 43 losses now and can say with confidence that this is one of the worst designed bosses I've ever seen.

[@ryphereon1153]

why the FUCK does he have a DP move

[@ryphereon1153]

So we're 3 months later now, I've gotten better at the game and used an easier character for this fight (Sol instead of Milia) Stage 8 Nago took me only 2 attempts to beat. Stage 9 took 14. I'm super happy to have beaten this, and this video helped me a lot. I still stand by my rageposts from 3 months ago though: this fight is bullshit. Floor 9 Nago's health is absolutely ridiculous too. If you're trying this as Sol: You can very much abuse his Bandit Bringer (only first hit) into a grab. Nago will get hit by that most of the time. When he gets up, hit him with Close Slash -> bandit bringer -> grab again. Just keep doing that, and once you have half a meter use it to RRC your grab into a wallbreak combo.

[@fortisch]

lol when i run up and try to grab him, he just does a grabimmune DP. guess they buffed him more or something but most of the behaviour hes showing here, is not shown anymore. :(

[@TheReapergod36]

Yeah... for me he mostly DP's and shadow clones.

[@RobbertRobbert12345]

You can grab him pretty easily if you do tick throws instead of raw throws. He can still dp out of it if your timing isn't on point.

[@jcminer8466]

@@RobbertRobbert12345 what's this tick throw

[@flamaniax5728]

@@jcminer8466 By Dustloop's definition "A Tick Throw is a specific technique where a player does an attack with little blockstun (like a 2A or 5P), and immediately throwing the opponent afterwards."

[@jcminer8466]

@@flamaniax5728 ah so it has a name. Thank you

[@Impopolis]

This fight is absolutely miserable

[@Essu_]

This type of shit is genuinely god damn archaic in fighting games. Characters with double health, double damage, reading inputs, etc. That shit could fly in arcades because it was designed to take your money. But you have my fucking money already. I bought the game. You can fucking stop.

[@ElCuadernoDeJavi]

They just can't design a decent hard boss without making him overpowered, its really a shame

[@XXSAD11XX]

i played the arcade just for fun i reached stage 8 and boom he is overpowered and i was like damn didn't know u could do that with him but nah he just got buff and it's annoying

[@KuroNoTenno]

Now that's a good motivation for me to get good at this game.

[@MeGaDwarf2008]

I've just spent 280 attempts to beat only stage 8, just to learn that there's a stage 9 after that. And that you have to beat stage 8 without loosing????

[@MeGaDwarf2008]

So, my questions for you: why didn't the boss block your Mortar Blasts? In my attempt, he perfect blocks it every time. Why doesn't he teleport behind you all the time, and counters whatever attack chain you're hitting? And finally, he never used the invul blood slash when you were pushing him in the initial rush to the wall.

[@The_UltimateL1feform]

I’m on stage 8 RN and I’ve had 59 losses now

[@justinx.8949]

The sync at 2:19 is utterly gorgeous.

[@RobbertRobbert12345]

I pretty much only managed to beat the level 8 version by cheesing him with tick throws as Giovanna in the corner. I have no clue what they were thinking giving him so much health and damage on top of the fact that he reads your inputs like a maniac. Fighting an infinite blood mode version of him with even more health sounds ridiculous. He already takes forever to put down even in the 2v1 version.

[@tryhardmcgee6228]

I like how in the last fight he just lost all his AI brain cells Doing the most easily countered thrust and just standing there begging to be hit I think he wanted it to be over more than you

[@FlackBackTV]

No, when he gets low he begins READING your inputs. If you go in, he does his invincible double slash.

[@Sune]

Good job. I tried playing arcade mode for the first time today, and at first I was kinda bummed at not being able to reach this boss...but now I'm not sure if I would've been ready for it anyways LOL

[@TheChrome2YourDome]

Just got the game yesterday and thought “heck I’ll just do this first”. Literally breezed through till I got to this guy and GOD DAMN am I getting spanked right now. Lol Had to take a break and figured I’d see how other approached this fight.

[@Gale-]

I found that doing charged dusts were my best punishes for his dizzy

[@JnGArtimation]

Yea. This is something I would've expected within a Mission mode. Not an Arcade run.

[@oiopquatro4846]

Ohh, now I get it, I lost a round to millia, this is why it was easy

[@kamezard3131]

Lmao I just turtled as Potemkin and grabbed him out of his dash when he tries to approach because he usually doesn't immediately act out of it. Then just dust attack/simple wallbreak combo him when he's stunned since I'm a noob. Took me about 85ish tries on level 8 and 9 together of which surprisingly like 60 were on level 8.

[@UncleMerlin]

Arcade Nagoriyuki was my inspiration for learning Happy Chaos loops

[@khoron4452]

Impressive, most impressive

[@Dr_Confucius]

I finally beat it today after countless attempts over the course of however many months since I found it Its soul crushing and I fucking hate it I would love it as a challenge... IF and ONLY IF an achievement wasn't locked behind it Because as it stands the majority of people dont even have a chance at platinuming the game

[@imskar3441]

I don’t think anyone is saying it’s impossible to get this now :(

[@wolfnews1788]

I'm 2 trophies away from the platinum, why must you hurt me like this Arc?

[@daeryk6424]

1:09 lol didn't know Ram goes ass up when KOed.

[@sheipi9978]

this is a message to all faust mains: don't try this if you play faust, it's not possible

[@Flashlegz]

Just beat him after like 75 tries with Ram, I'm glad that's over

[@twl148]

brotip: when stage 9 nago gets stunned use charged 5d and optimal homing jump combo, does more than a wallbreak

[@ninjahedgehog5]

Found this after having my own 3 hour battle with extreme nagoryuki. around 111 losses. 2nd phase took me only an hour thanks to an A.I exploit i found (I was also using ramlethal) When you get the initial throw, dash jump over him to throw him 2 more times. Most of the time he'll either do a mid slash move that will miss or wait for an attack input. There will be times that he'll do a high slash so keep your guard up. after the third throw follow it up with the 214 HS heavy slam. 3 grabs and that is enough to stun him. follow up with S HS and the overdrive. at this point he'll be at half health. unfortunately his defense seems to go up as he takes damage so after repeating this twice there was always a bit of a scramble to take the last bit of health. If he allows you some room, big beam should be enough to chip him.

[@Tealmaker]

OMG THE 106 LOSSES I CAN RELATE MY DUDE rippppp , you're awesome

[@MrShisuto]

Because I'm extremely persistent(stubborn), I was finally able to beat him using Baiken after 2 hours of nonstop trying.

[@spiritocombattivo2619]

Odd, i got Boss nago at Stage 8 using Leo skipping the tag fight entirely. At stage 7 i got "Here comes Daredevil" and fought my partner char (Potemkin) and then he wasn't here with me VS Nago. Is that normal?

[@amethystemperor643]

Yes, on extreme difficulty you don't get a partner to help you. for example, if i lost one round against Faust just before the Nago fight he would help me fight Nago since the difficulty would then be set to hard. You fight Nago alone only on extreme difficulty.

[@spiritocombattivo2619]

@@amethystemperor643 But you are on stage 9, i was on stage 8 :c

[@solismax65]

@@spiritocombattivo2619 yeah that’s what I don’t get? So stage 9 is harder than extreme?

[@spiritocombattivo2619]

@@solismax65 It took me 2 hours to beat extreme Nago and it seemed to be even more bullshit than this one, so i think that's the harder one.

[@solismax65]

@@spiritocombattivo2619 I see. I Only tried the arcade mode once and I got to that extreme nago. I didn’t know there was a 9th stage

[@duvanislas3669]

I’m here 9 months later to say I finally beat it with may after I remember quitting around when it dropped,then today i tried with ram but honestly not good for it, then I thought may would be better and if it and i cheesed it till the end

[@LightningCayo]

Bedman?’s stage 9 boss is Ramlethal. She’s a bit easier than Nago from my experience.

[@dpPepperWasTaken]

thank you man, helped me a ton

[@_peak_fiction]

🗣️🔥 I WANT THE FREEDOM OF THE CALM 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@crppledizzle9374]

4:43 where is bro looking 🤨

[@hollowknight4630]

This is the kinda fight that I set up a hot in injustice 2 to do, can’t wait to try this with Faust :/

[@nargaman261]

This is so painfull as zato. Eddie effectively does not exist for this fight. I can sometimes bait him to attack with oppose and go command grab him like i would with a real human beeing. But it's pretty unrelieable since he can just teleport for 5 hours straight and oppose runs out again.

[@jacoba636]

Its a sad thing that instant kill is not in strive.

[@darkmeme2289]

Good

[@ii9368]

I love how final bosses in fighting games are still busted as shit

[@divinegod5330]

All of them is not unfair like this one

[@cadufraga6851]

congrats! beaten it today, took arround 80~ tries but i did it with gio!

[@theepheonix1700]

Ok, was I the only person who enjoys the 2 boss fights? Like, I would do level nine for fun if I didn’t have to get all the way there. This is a fun challenge

[@KingMatthewx]

Do you think we might potentially get an update in the future to lower the difficulty of this fight ?

[@raulmiranda2478]

instead of just wall splatting and hitting him to get an area shift, you should do a super since you'll usually get a bar back from area shifting him again

[@erdtroll7010]

Inb4 you have to battle Nago tag teaming with happy chaos once he comes out (probably)

[@belosm6629]

I use the zato to beat this, give some tips for zato player. Try use the Latent shadow(214d) and let him attack or dp first after then you can grap him until he stun,input the high damage combo,then loop the step

[@stinky8677]

So I can’t lose a single round when fighting level 9 nago to unlock the achievement?

[@amethystemperor643]

No you can lose a round on level 9 and still get the trophy. you just need to win. you cant lose a round on stage 8.

[@stinky8677]

@@amethystemperor643 took me 25 and beat him with 2 hearts cause I kept letting him kill me whenever I lost a round. 😓thanks for letting me know that wallbreaks are my best friend in this fight.

[@cleantosaraiva4427]

Nice job!!!

[@tsunamiwave170]

I gave up on beating stage 9 with chipp for a bit. Everything hurts too much

[@Sapizanza]

3:15 Ooff... I felt that

[@HunterForHire422]

So i beat this myself finally. Just tried like 50 times to grab him over and over again cause im still bad. Honestly I swear he would let me nearly win a round then just nuke me so many times

[@uncannyzealotworldsmostepi5901]

This fight is so stupid because u HAVE to follow wall break and grab rules just to get by. And it's RNG as well because u can't replicate everything that happened here by using "skill."

[@RasenRendanX]

Holy fuck my guy had over 100 Ls. I stand no chance at this. I rather lose to ppl online cuz i can at least get some Wins.

[@Jrocke07]

i need this for my plaitinun throphy......ill let you know how it went

[@notredboi]

So they made a dbfz arcade 2.0?

[@justsomeguywithshades2318]

Doing this with leo is suicide. I completed it, but lawd

[@RIzzlessMF]

Wow, I'm learning

[@FirerSpartan]

this change the final for ramlethal?

[@itsamyles5227]

I’m try to beat him with Giovanna nothing but pain

[@karisasani7006]

Least its not order sol

[@jojogacha974]

Ok so here’s a stupid thing. The a.I just hates me. No joke I will be doing arcade and the a.I will do bullshit but the moment I lose 1 round boom just stops doing bullshit for the rest of the run. The only time I’m able to do it was using a mod to play as boss mode ky.

[@VictorHernandez-vc5zo]

I'm using ino and I can't get past 8. Like an I ass or what the fuck

[@KodieRussell]

lol makes me wish I play Ram. I'm attempting this with I-no

[@FusionAlchemist]

I gave up at stage 8 as the fight just isn't fun to play at all. I hate when companies lock trophies behind impossible things.

[@heartman1486]

Use may and combo dolphin into dolphin 👍

[@kaikiske7436]

Gave up after 35 losses It’s absurd and not fun.

[@xTHEARBITER117]

You got lucky

[@piiman21]

soooooo you dont unlock anything out of it?

[@Kurumisama]

A Gold Trophy

[@Nero_DMC666]

Im just going to point out your nago literally went stupid for you to win. Your method barely even works. Everytime i get hime super low on the last round he reads every single input countering me at the very end.

[@MattoUchiha]

Man I truly hate this boss. Sure I could just be better at the game lol but the fact that they had to literally break the character and make him do shit the game doesn't allow normally is just lame as hell from ArcSys. I guess they really wanted to stop 99% of people getting that platinum huh 😂

[@espurrseyes42]

Making boss characters break the rules is nothing new. Gill in SF3 has 3 Supers, one of which covers the whole screen and deal stupid amounts of damage (or chip damage if you block) while being unparriable, and the other auto activates on death if his meter is full, reviving him and healing back his HP while pushing you back so you have a hard time stopping the regen.

[@osricen]

This is the most bullshit I've ever experienced. I hate Strive's single player modes. They're either uninspired, boring or plain, again, bullshit. If it weren't for the graphics and music, this game wouldn't have absolutely nothing superior to Rev 2. Also, imagine beating the helm out of this boss and getting 3 seconds of dialogue. No arcade intros nor endings, no way to know which characters you have completed arcade mode with, no gallery counters to know how much you have to unlock, no single player mode gives you enough money to fish enough to feel progress... Man...

[@OGMudbum]

So wait, you're telling me that you lost countless hours of sleep and whatnot fighting an extremely hard boss fight that ONLY GETS HARDER THE MORE YOU LOSE--just to have like 10 seconds of dialogue? Plus, they finally add the concept of multiple endings for each character, akin to Guilty Gear XX/Accent Core series. A series of episodes that you can interact with that awarded you different secret features (gold/black character mode)...But in Strive, they half-assed the entire experience with fetus-sized cutscenes, measly World Dollars, and little to no interaction between the characters throughout the game. Holy shit, this game has no payoff and replay value. I will applaud your efforts, since Strive and Arcsys won't.

Vanilla Guilty Gear always are like this, its not new

[@OGMudbum]

@ Xrd SIGN had at least full cutscenes for arcade mode, and they lasted longer than 10 seconds. And characters interacted with one another after they win/lose And instant kills.

[@Kurumisama]

So tell me, what do you get from defeating Baiken in GG and Order Sol in XX? Aren't you confusing Story Mode with Arcade btw?

[@ItsLynch1]

Considering story mode is a full 4 hours of straight cinematic and no gameplay I would say it’s a fair trade off, and no reply value? What the fuck are you on about lmao.

[@Kurumisama]

@@ItsLynch1 I was talking about XX and Accent Core Story Mode lmao, since that's were you unlock the Shadow and Gold characters, that or defeating them in Survival, something I truly doubt you know what I'm even talking about.

[@ScroogeMcToilet]

Bro I managed to beat Stage 8 no problem, but then I meet Stage 9 Nago and I swear to almighty ive never been more angry at a video game until I met him

[@Clockwithhands829]

I can’t even reach this dude