How can Sol be mid-tier after THIS?

The Arc World Tour Finals just wrapped up! And all you Sol doubters better start taking back your word, because this character is DEFINITELY not as mid-tier as we all think he is. Here is my reaction to the top 8's best moments with players like Ty, Mocchi, NMBMHR, TempestNYC, Umisho, and more!
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Arc System Works (Arcsys) has recently made Guilty Gear Strive, the latest entry in the Guilty Gear franchise! This fighting game is heralded for its use of Rollback Netcode, included on all platforms Playstation 4 (PS4), Playstation 5 (PS5), and PC (Steam). Recently Arcsys has released it's latest season pass character, Sin Kiske!
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[@ADxTygon]

Mocchi closing out the final game after a bracket reset with 3 wild throws is the most main character protagonist shit ive seen in my life

[@TheyNay]

"No one talked about Skyll except for everybody who lives near Skyll" So Fucking True bro For 2 days straight all french community was talking about was how Skyll would perform at ArcRevo lmao

[@magmaspacer1967]

I feel like it’s kind of dangerous and wild to think only high tier characters can win. Sol and Gio can theoretically be mid tier, but that doesn’t make them bad and you can still succeed with them.

[@uniquename6925]

Sol was technically the most popular character right? All things being equal, 2x more sols in top 8 mean 2x the chance for the character to win.

[@coffeebreak7978]

That or sol isn't mid there just hasn't been someone with enough skill to use them to thee fullest

[@Gamma0_0]

​@@coffeebreak7978Wait, so... you're saying he's not mid _because_ no one uses him better than Mochi...? What?

[@SylemGistoe]

​@Cap0 nah, he's saying he's not Mid- because Sol's got great tools, and clearly, someone skilled with him can do amazing like Skyll and go all the way and dominate like Mocchi.

[@Gamma0_0]

​@@SylemGistoeWell that sounds like people _are_ using him to the fullest. I don't see how Mocchi or Skyll weren't doing their best.

[@pseudowraith]

Sol is incredible, it's just that so many people can't block and swing wild with him. Sol unironically requires a bit more big brain moves to play well compared to the upper tiers. I say this as a Nago main where my main objective against Sol is to FD and stay outside of his range with my big stupid normals. Meanwhile the Sol on the other end of that has to know how to punish or he's just eating mix and oki the whole set.

[@R0kushi]

Legit I only really started really playing neutral in strive playing sol, also he is a character that depends everytime to interact with your opponent, great character to teach this things

[@Assassin21BEKA]

Yea, agree. I wish his inputs were different thou, i just can't get used to them. Keep getting wild throw when it is not needed, have hard time using bandit revolver as well because it overlaps withother buttons. At least Baiken, Ky and Sin work perfectly for me, so im fine with just watching good Sol players.

[@dibujador9458]

20:40 Best part, what a comeback

[@StringKiller]

Sol is quite a good character but Mocchi played out of his mind. I stayed up all night to watch this live from Spain and it was the best tournament I've ever seen for strive.

[@Bonemannes]

Sol is a good character but Mocchi is a god player and he can push it to the limit for sure. That said I still have been playing Sol since release and it's still fun, I do kinda miss the extra tools like 6P wallbounce for routing, lost a little bit of extra fun with that.

[@Darklke]

yep i agree

[@radiantphoenix6447]

I don’t even mind most of the nerfs, but I wish they gave him more routing options to compensate taking them away. Like the 6S nerf was kind of unnecessary imo. Edit: also, it’s wishful thinking and wouldn’t help the character at all, but I want dragon install back, for the funny.

[@jAm14328]

Please don't nerf sol because of mocchi. He's the only reason I play ggs sol main for life

[@mattb6616]

I miss May's 6p wallbounce too.

[@SharpsPanda]

lol I love it when a character wins a tournament and people pop off. I think Sajam is right with people who change their opinions after this tournament.

[@null-wq5cp]

The only bad thing from this Sol win is everyone playing him LOL. And the absolute “tier” meltdown. Sucks this what happens after such an amazing tournament!

[@henryhenjum6030]

Why is people playing the char bad

[@null-wq5cp]

@@henryhenjum6030 Oops my wording, but the “LOL” obviously meant it as a joke. That was only intended for the tier meltdown. But every sol thinks he’s “him”. I always felt sol was more of the fun characters to face against in strive. (Plus running into the mirror for most of my session now is pretty lamee.)

[@idkwhatimdoin2298]

ik Sol has been consistent through the patches, but srsly give my boi some love ArcSys

[@FuzionOki]

21:23 that triple command grab was nasty

[@gunbladesniper]

Sol and Gio are the two characters I have put the moat time into. Inspiring event. If the bed doesn't pull me away, it is time to rededicate to the mid strike throw life!

[@aganaom1712]

patience and a cool head won this tournament. nbnhmr's a great player but he fumbled mocchi's runback super hard and mocchi just has way more experience managing tournament stress than nbnhmr does. you can literally see the panic and fatigue growing in nbnhmr as the tournament goes on. funnily enough, i think umisho got the worst seed in this tournament. out of the characters to get put up against, leo and ram probably have the easiest time dealing with chaos than any other character that was present in this tournament 11:00 not only that but europe has a better argument for balancing sway than na has now 13:23 bro, that is 40% on a blood level 2 nago wtfdym "that's off of a volcanic viper rc" ky gets the same damage off of his dp and 50 meter in that situation 14:45 that is probably a clean hit moment right there so i don't think i can defend that. unless it wasn't actually clean hit in which case most other character's supers would have killed there. 15:24 mocchi is actually built different. it wasn't actually frame perfect cuz br2 isn't very active but since br is a manual rekka, mocchi may as well have. 18:22 a more blatant disinformation campaign i have yet to see 18:34 the only argument you have here is that clean hit is next to get the axe. which i would frankly be surprised if that doesn't end up being the case

[@GriFFonRec4]

Patience, cool head and a great character.

[@TheJbrown60]

sol was never ever bad and he never will be but i have to say he is less fun bc they just keep taking things

[@taylorbee4010]

This

[@Jack_Horner_is_a_hero]

The online in this game honestly holds back a lot of characters who would be good other wise

[@uncommonsense996]

Let me see if I understand. Flash Metroid’s Ky takes 9th at Evo; but Ky is mid-tier?Mocchi’s Sol wins Arc and now Sol is high-tier?

[@ezraho8449]

Ky players still downplaying their character.

[@FlyXcur]

The Ky players want buffs shhhhh let em have it. I wanna see some degenerate Ky tops in the future.

[@jessefanshaw8948]

If churara wins a tourney it’s over for us

[@NoteVST]

Greatest moment of the tourney was when umisho looney tunes the chair

[@mattb6616]

umisho really left so fast that shit said WOOPWOOPWOOP

[@cyanide1542]

This makes wanna get good at strive again.👌

[@LoLiTRiNX]

After years of ^core+R i wasn't into Strive at release but it feels right to main Sol again atm. Best VS fighter around.

[@WantSomeWhiskey818]

I think that the reason people say Sol is bad is because we saw how he used to be but that doesnt mean he's unplayable or anything, mans got some juice I stg

[@horacionivar2869]

that man ty at the end just went "fuck it i gotta give it to ya"😂😂

[@mistah3687]

I suspect the main reason people think he's mid tier now is that everyone got used to him. He's still nutty and can deal with pretty much the entire roster, but people have seen him enough to know what he does. He was public enemy #1 for a while for a reason. Edit: He has been nerfed a fair few times, but from what I've seen it didn't drastically change how good he was, just made him more balanced. Other characters got buffed to high heaven, so there's also that.

[@leonidasgone9218]

It isn't really a nerf since he got buff in other department so it balances out.

[@soren1803]

@@leonidasgone9218several of his buffs have been nerfs in disguise, lol

[@fngerg7034]

sajam on the mic real shit

[@Nether2342]

Gio dash 5k is like magneto plink dash 5a in umvc3 lol

[@arthurroger9646]

My boy kizzie almost hitting 100k

[@navidtahmasbi2870]

Hs volcanic viper is the best dp

[@matheusgomespinto4915]

Nerf Mocchi. Regardless of the charcter, he will anti-air you in time.

[@Cosmic_K13]

Ngl, I've mostly stayed to Nago, chaos, and gl, but sol is looking kind crispy rn. It definitely helps that no one is talking about him.

[@elcomemierda2624]

21:22 TBE CLASSIC 3 WILD THROWS IN A ROW

[@griss295]

What kind of lunatic uses 6p against burst!?

[@Dr3am9553]

4:49 don't worry i had the same reaction the first time i saw that shit as well

[@SylemGistoe]

I just think it's funny because I'm tired of Sol players dooming and glooming about Sol being bad and arcsys having no clue what they're doing... and then two Sols and a Gio dominate. It's really funny. Honestly, I just love what it shows about what people think they know about this game, and what they think can and can't be done. I see it best as saying anything is possible.

[@soren1803]

Dominate is a bit of a strong term, lol. When you win a tournament with triple raw command grab that speaks more of the player being amazing than anything about the character.

[@weebtrash3376]

@@soren1803 except Mochi went to the finals with only Sol. Skyll also did pretty damn well with Sol and Gio. There’s weaker characters but there’s no one bad and Sol players like to downplay their character like they’ve been murdered or something

[@soren1803]

@@weebtrash3376 turns out the person who’s played Sol for like 20 years is pretty good with him, lol. That said he DID also dodge all of Sol’s bad matchups in this bracket. Honestly this whole bracket was really weird. All the midrange characters knocked each other out and then that just left the rushdowns. Nago sol was the hardest matchup mochi played and it isn’t THAT bad + he had the losers bracket revenge energy for the second set. Note the 3-0 that happened the first set. Overall Sol is fine, but in a game where we’re buffing HC, ram, and baiken, NERFING sol is just insane. He’s fine, but after the top five sol’s the falloff is HARD.

[@SylemGistoe]

@Soren 180 Sol vs Nagoriyuki has long been held as not very good for Sol, though. Skyll sent NBNHMR to losers, and Mocchi lost the first fight, but then kind of tore through losers bracket, reverse 3-0 against NBNHMR. TY I believe didn't drop a set till Mocchi reset the bracket. Maybe dominate is a strong word, but I'd call their performance clinical for the most part. Also, yeah, the random draw screwed me out of matches I'd have liked to see. Happy Chaos and Ramlethal (and maybe Leo to a lesser degree) are characters people think are game defining in the west, but aren't seen as being on that level in Japan. I would have loved to see more matches between the western players and the Japanese ones, but they all ate each other on the same side of the bracket. Well, there's still EVO Japan, at least.

[@MrSupedoSpade]

The only downplayers on the level of Sol's are Zato's and Nago's. The gaslighting be so real. Source: am Nago main

[@SkitZiee]

Nah ky downplayers are real

[@khaosleigon504]

Lol I do remember you saying that Gio was godlike awhile back and you're right people did doubt you but I kept a open mind and now because of your prediction I can't stand Gio lmao 😂😂

[@mattb6616]

now make a video about Dany's Ky winning TNS

[@anarchy5partan662]

Nah, we gotta stay downplaying Ky.

[@theonetheycallheadspace2899]

I don't get how people can say sol is a bad character He's not like obscenely broken but he's good His tools and explosive damage is amazing A super privileged 3f normal, a great pair of reversals, a high damage command grab, good mixups, etc

[@joshnoritake3167]

I really think everyone else hasn’t figured this out their characters yet. Like nobody is optimizing their characters like mocchi is, especially in regards to backing off and optimizing opportunities. Sol is high tier, but not top tier at all.

[@rezonance4937]

That B tier joke a the beginning is hilarious

[@tntxgoodin]

The character is mid tier, it's just that Mocchi is a god

[@soren1803]

Pretty much. My man literally won the tournament with triple raw wild throw

[@TheFlyingSailorYT]

Nago learned about Protag Privilege that day.

[@DerpHerper]

You don't understand Kizzie. He's gotta be mid tier so I can make excuses for not cleaning up my play.

[@kamachunoFGC]

SOL DOWNPLAYING ENDS ???!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 SOL ISNT LOWTIER LMAO

[@soren1803]

My man finished the tournament with three raw command grabs. When you’re that deep in someone’s head you could have won with a pool noodle, lol

[@Sorioku]

The mic can't even take the hype. That was pretty sick.

[@ego3162]

even if Skyll didn't win he was still the MVP

[@xthechroniclesof.5554]

Yo as long as sol has a 3 frame punish anyone can get it

[@alienbagtoys2439]

Oh man I have such a bad time playing against sol using nago :(

[@WoahItsGurenge]

Mocchi did say that it's one of Sol's worst MUs and I can see why

[@404Yaiba]

Nago is one of Sol's worst MU's iirc. He definitely struggles, but it also depends on the player too and their knowledge of the MU.

[@heromedley]

the reason is that sol has no real combos now lmao every combo tool he had on launch is now gutted now you have to make up stupid links to even create a semblance of a combo

[@josephperez6167]

Sol is literally mid tier we aren’t all mocchi

[@cylondorado4582]

The game is never going to be perfect, but I think this version is pretty good. And these were some nice matches.

[@adamthrasher3575]

As a soul mayn seeing this makes me proud

[@Gamma0_0]

soul mayn

[@warangelcpgamebreak]

After the game isdone, I'll pick it up. I always thought Gio was missing. I know Sol won, but Gio's still good. It's Mocchi playing Sol, so...

[@handso5395]

true

[@CHEYMIX]

not showing the mocchi v tempest match is crazy

[@612minigun]

I'm very confused why everyone says that no one plays Sol lol, like, I run into so many Sols in the tower it's kinda nutty

[@ShikiRyougi05]

Because he is😈

[@omniblad-]

A- in my book just do to the neutral game but leo hc ram can kick hit stuff in ky can deal with him pretty well

[@holydiver3000]

The fact is, imo, na looks only at na. In the last year they looked simply at their meta and on how they value the characters. If we look at jp and emea tournaments we can see tons of different characters. My point is that atm, practically any character (except for Sin cos his moves are undertuned and even so he can be dangerous nonetheless imo) can cook.

[@ethanleino9926]

Sol down players all over this comment section like "it's because mocchi is so good 🥺"

[@soren1803]

Name 5 sol players without looking anything up

[@ethanleino9926]

@@soren1803 Gunflame, Fafnir, Bandit Revolver, Bandit Bringer and Volcanic Viper. 🥱

[@soren1803]

@@ethanleino9926 lmao

[@ethanleino9926]

@@soren1803 lol yeah man it's just jokes

[@soren1803]

@@ethanleino9926 I got that

[@lee.h7388]

Sol is O.D🤘💪

[@Naruyami4]

Kizzie if you see this, just know I kept calling everyone who lost to Skyll, SKYLL CHECKED

[@jj-oo6oi]

Wish if this game designed characters like pot or axl.

[@null-wq5cp]

Is there a reason why NBHMR tried so many times to air throw sol?

[@TheJbrown60]

hes a sicko

[@WillCipher]

Guess you'll have to ask NBHMR himself if you wish to know

[@404Yaiba]

I think Sol isn’t the best character and I main him. I think he’s really high A tier at most but he’s not busted. Sol players down play Sol because of a few nerfs but he’s still giving most of the cast a hard time. He does have some bad matchups but that doesn’t mean he’s not gonna go down without a fight.

[@TheJbrown60]

skill issue- mocchi

[@404Yaiba]

@@TheJbrown60 Thats literally what it boils down to. Mocchi proved that Sol (as if he needed to anyway lol) is a very strong character. People keep thinking because of the 6S nerf that Sol is B tier when hes not. Hes probably to me and high A tier close to S. Im putting him there because obviously other characters at the top have crazy strengths and some better tools than he does.

[@FlyXcur]

It's kinda weird cause I'm a Xbox player coming into strive now that it's finally on my platform, I never got to experience Sol in any other patch than this current one and the character feels absolutely awesome great pokes, pressure tools, frames, combos, mix ups, reversals and a good super. This guy got it all and I love it. So the different perspectives on how long you've had the character in your hands and how long I've had it is interesting.

[@ghostface_d3607]

This isn't me claiming to be the most elite player in the world, and the stress/pressure of the moment may definitely be getting to these competitors but I swear a lot of these matches came down to just flat out bad decisions being made. Grabbing instead of jabbing, getting greedy near the wall, jumping for no reason, panic swings with long recovery moves whiffing, etc. But again, being in the moment itself is definitely a different beast than watching afterwards

[@aganaom1712]

or doing the same beyblade gimmick 3 times in a row

[@ecstaticafter4644]

everyone loses to bad decisions lol

[@DukeApples]

Its all conditioning, these are monment to monment decisions that you are trying to learn and predict, they are not poor choices made in that monment, they were wrong, but not bad. Look at how sol plays, he is teaching you that jumping against him is bad, if you jump, he will get ya, so youre being trained that you cannot jump against this boi, and when youre scared to jump, and youre scared to wiff, then you just get chain ground grabbed.

[@lagc5103]

hopefully we can all agree now that tierlists are bullshit right

[@bluemajiic1979]

The mid tiers are just better than most of us thought... That is all

[@tonio9672]

Solbros...

[@RapunzelRed]

NA sols suck lmao

[@bluemajiic1979]

This rd broke TY and Mocchi knew it and apply pressure excellent grand finals 20:28

[@UnlimitedSithLordTCG]

Stay Healthy Kiz ❤

[@seannomoney20]

a mid tier doesn't mean hes bad character. it just means characters like ramlethal, leo, happy chaos ect are just better than him

[@heracrossz7701]

He never was.

[@Onewolf101]

Community say Sol get a little tap on the wrist and act like ky is better 💀 Sol kit too damn good and damage ky could never

[@Hazzzyyyyyy]

Sol never been Mid tier to begin with 🙄 he’s always been incredibly solid and strong.

[@BrowneVisuals]

Sol solid but not too 5. Mocchi and TY just levels above everyone else

[@lehmanclan3610]

Damn, Sol Downplayers dont know what to do anymore

[@TeacherLegendary]

Gio isnt godlike. TY is

[@jackalknight8540]

hopefully this ends the nago OVERplay. mans got gutted.

[@illgeteverythingback]

yeah he's overplayed as fuck because of his rep, the blood nerfs actually make you not wanna get blood now which is how it was supposed to work to begin with but my point still stands, 2s nerf, and beyblade nerf are also very notable as those are really his main neutral moves