MAX REACTS: Slayer Gameplay Breakdown

[@mikerelf]

That damage from his 100% tension ult is on non-blooded Nago.. Chipp is going to have a heart attack just from seeing the ult activate lmao

[@blummie1215]

That demon is RAGING

[@leithaziz2716]

Raging Dandy. People joke about Akuma having low health, I want to see this Super RAW just kill Chipp with full health.

[@glacierwolf2155]

I've seen someone do the math on Last Horizon. Chipp does take ~89% HP of damage from LH, but it doesn't kill him in one go. _Asuka without mana, however,_ does die in one hit of LH.

[@shadowdragon7347]

As a former chipp main, yes.

[@nahuel3433]

A big chunk of the cast breathing a sigh of relief that the game resets tension between rounds.

[@Cam_101]

The announcer sounds like he's narrating for the show "how it's made"

[@Gartonis]

I thought the same thing

[@TheGraveKnight]

In this case it'd be How It's Played

[@allmightybison5629]

Huggsbee the GOAT

[@jeffreymontero8625]

If narrator speaks slow this kind of video set your KZbin playback speed, to 1.25 its much better listening narrator's voice talking make it more human listen to not AI.

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

He sounds like the Fallout 4 infomercial guy.

[@Gunzerkingidiot]

People edited the Counter text and audio forever ago. Just hearing "BITCH" on counter is gold.

[@MeatOfJustice]

Mine is "SUBALUWA" from Ed, Edd n' Eddy.

[@valentds]

goldlewis canon english "eat shit" when burst is unmatchable

[@megablueflash1816]

The Steamed Hams one is pretty funny too. "GOOD LORD!"

[@OurJynx]

My working theory as to why the Strive Breakdown voiceover is so slow and deliberately annunciates is so that automatic captions can pick up on what he says very clearly. Why they didn't just do what CyGames did for the Granblue Fantasy Versus breakdowns and just bake in subtitles? I'll never know. However, I do appreciate how deliberate Strive Narrator's reading is for keeping very clear and annunciated.

[@robertapetroaie2766]

That and probably the whole meme that was "In this Behemoth Typhoon".

[@latrodectahespara2728]

At this point I'd be sad if they changed it, he's such a defining part of the videos to me

[@Alacaelum]

After getting accustomed to him... I kinda like it, I even find the dissonance an interesting contrast. This balls-to-walls ultra hype game with such large-than-life punk incarnate characters... and the announcer for the characters' abilities video has this monotone and almost mechanical voice... it cant have not been on purpose. It helps that like you said... the explanation is very good, so you follow it, get accustomed and then when you least expect... you just accept the "bored" tone XD.

[@Honey1essBee]

It makes me feel confident that I can learn how to play these characters

[@MichaelHill-sg8ks]

Ngl, the narrator's kind of iconic to me at this point.

[@cashordeals3672]

ARE YOU OKAY?! SUPER MAPPA PUNCH!

[@leithaziz2716]

Which is funny cause Faust and Potemkin are voiced by the same person who voices Terry in KOF.

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

This move was animated by Mappa (tm)

[@ignaciojohnjoy]

This is Terry's final form

[@KaminariHouse]

Very awful coincidence with that name lol. Then again it's accurately describing the JP Anime industry atm...

[@Twilight_S_and_Woolfy_310]

If Terry start learning Kyokuken.

[@leithaziz2716]

12:35 Max, this was a new mechanic added alongside Wild Assault when Season 3 started. It's called Deflect Shield. For 50% of your Burst, you push the opponent a set distance away and can use it to whiff punish. It blocks both lows and overheads, so you can protect yourself from a mixup. At the start it had some hickups but thanks to some buffs it's used frequently in tournaments. For an example, it's very useful against Elphelt and preventing her Rekka offense.

[@The_WIll_OF_D99]

its not that great to use for "whiff punishing" since the player can still act while you use the orange shield

[@eduardoserpa1682]

​​@@The_WIll_OF_D99 the pushblock creates whiffs, which allows you to whiff-punish.

[@The_WIll_OF_D99]

@@eduardoserpa1682 Not great enough. Because it's still extremely weak. No one even at a high level uses it much. Since they are not stuck in a committed animation "whiff punishment" isn't as great as you think it should be. Especially in Guilty Gear with RC. But don't think past 2+2 I guess. Especially the fact every character always has something to throw back at you regardless of Deflect shield.

[@yushakader4991]

Please don’t prevent my Rekka offense, chain lollipop is all I have

[@raekwonchambers2297]

@@The_WIll_OF_D99facts if they want it to be good it needs to act like a true whiff it should push them back but make it act like they didn’t hit anything at all so they can’t cancel into anything. Too many times I have deflect shield my opponent or they try to deflect shield me and I can keep on swinging which is pretty niche to the situation cuz if they have any advancing moves or any ranged moves or anything like that they can still keep up the pressure so you can use deflect shield correctly but still get fuked over

[@mas8705]

8:09- “Can we edit that?” Ok modders, your mission is to change Universe! to “Vegan Water!”

[@Ramsey276one]

Vegan WATER???

[@summerloverelectricboogaloo]

@@Ramsey276one its in the dood lore

[@Haka-f3k-u]

@@summerloverelectricboogaloo Parasocial simping is a mental illness

[@glacierwolf2155]

It should be changed from "UNIVERSE!" to "DANDY!".

[@instinctfan23]

​@@glacierwolf2155I know a Gekko Squirrel fan when I see one 🤣 (not me coming from his video over here)

[@cybercobra2]

i loved how many people in the twitch that were like "oh this is absolutely 100% a AI voice." like this dude hasnt been talking like this in these video's for years now. before that AI tech even existed.

[@K_Obradinn]

Slayer on his way to casually dandy demon his opponents and instant kill a Chipp main

[@korpsmaninfantry7238]

@@JohnnyFish971 because that leads to even trickier balancing issues, best example of this is how shit soul caliber’s balancing is

[@monk3110]

@@JohnnyFish971I mean akuma is known for being a potent character with low health as his drawback so I don’t think it’s an anime fighter thing. Fighterz has universal health bars

[@nisnast]

I love the implication that it would instant kill the Chipp PLAYER, not the CHARACTER

[@RobertEspinosa-c8f]

Slayer isn’t weak on wake up in past GG’s. He could cancel his back dash by jumping, but that also means he could back dash and TK a special to transfer the back dash’s i-frames. So on wake up if you went for a meaty, you risked getting hit by a back dash that got cancelled into a command grab

[@AudreyII970]

Yeah, I'd say Slayer's weak on wake up only if he was dealing with like, Venom or Gunflame and other such types of projectile oki. In earlier games I'd say his big weakness were just a lack of great approach options and a very linear kit compared to the other characters.

[@gamerkingdom1442]

Max enjoying the Narrator’s unique way of speaking more than the video itself is something I didn’t expect to see…. 😅

[@johngleeman8347]

The narrator's cadence is so dry and disinterested when talking about such a wacky game and larger than life characters. It causes a delightful and mesmerizing dissonance every time. XD

[@Mene0]

This has pretty much always been the case with these videos, dunno why this was somehow funnier to him

[@AziDoesQuestionableThings]

it reminds of those training videos you'd used to get at a new job, almost cozy despite how cold the voice sounds

[@alexknight81]

@@johngleeman8347 its the best thing lol

[@KaminariHouse]

@@Mene0 I guess it's just been a while😅

[@AceZero777]

So early the butt bots are in full force , on-topic Slayer looks so cool his Overdrive is basically an instakill like in the older games

[@gatr2897]

Apparently if the computer uses deflect shield on some multihits it will input it twice which is why that Chipp CPU just dumped their burst gauge lol. Some ppl on Twitter were confused by that part too so they labbed it and yeah that's what happened

[@viniciusg.5519]

Announcer is translating japanese to english at 100% accuracy, its crazy is so accurate that sounds robotic

[@takuchinowona9554]

Can't believe Max killed Xrd in broad daylight with his handgun and gor away with it😢

[@tomwatts9822]

the narrator talks slowly so it can be translated without people speed reading. this is apparently how it works in reverse as well from JP to English

[@KHChaosrules]

He's a vampire, that's obviously Midnight Bliss

[@latrodectahespara2728]

This is what I've been saying. Vampire slides across the screen to grab + feed from the opponent, with someone getting prettier in the process? That's a Midnight Bliss, baby

[@kitestar]

Reverse midnight bliss is more like it

[@avestrustheone6349]

Casually mesatsu chipp

[@tristankadow3756]

Manaless Asuka

[@avestrustheone6349]

@@tristankadow3756 rip the twink magician

[@tristankadow3756]

@@avestrustheone6349 according to another commenter, LH just one-shots him(manaless), even without Universe

[@avestrustheone6349]

@@tristankadow3756 Good God, that’s some meaty damage there

[@Kasaaz]

The Narrator for these is the best.

[@lucasragbeer7378]

Is this another "Don't Get Hit" character like Makoto?!

[@drftr6073]

it is

[@rayoscrost]

always has been

[@senounatsuru6453]

Slayer has always been a "Don't get hit" character. Man's has always run roughshod all over people the moment he starts rolling.

[@SirTriton]

Yea, pretty much the same with goldlewis. You get hit, you loose a ton of health. Although goldlewis has way less defensive capabilities since he’s slow and doesn’t have the invincible dash that slayer has

[@hammy_007]

Narrator sounds like those test you take in 5th grade.

[@MeatbagSlayer]

Grand Pacer Test ass voice

[@coomcharger6105]

The fitness gr-

[@conradmurraytv]

the "universe" counter is just slayer hitting you so hard you see god

[@Modeus.]

Slayer's so strong, he made the announcer come back to record a line for him.

[@WolfFury07]

The guy doing the breakdown has the same vibe as "The missle knows where it is going, because it knows where it is and where it isn't-"

[@emikox]

Chip: (Chuckles)I'm in Danger

[@EmeraldGodBoi]

I literally told my friend that Slayer does a RAGING DEMON, Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks so

[@volktol4432]

12:33 that is the deflect bubble, it released with the wild assault, what it does it that it pushes people back if they attack during it. The input being QCB Dust

[@michaelmccoy1794]

Hand of Doom is a Black Sabbath reference. Great tune. 😊

[@CosmicRPG]

The Pilebunker nightmares are back once again.

[@biorobot2]

Dmn, the Chipp meme song is even more true now …

[@KWCHope]

This video made me realize how slow Max is when he is watching reveals

[@NinF37]

I love the narrator so much. Get him as an announcer in SF6 pronto!

[@TacDonut]

Max cracking up from the announcer gets me every time 😂

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

My boi Slayer is back. The suave vampire of the guilty gear series is back and looking better than ever.

[@mintyfresh2281]

Need a mod that turns "universe" into "get fucked" or something lol

[@ShikiRyougi05]

It's so funny how Slayer is basically just copy and pasted from XRD. This man has ALWAYS been a Strive character!

[@tugitbrothers3699]

You could say even from Accent Core

[@webbowser8834]

They nerfed his 6P pretty badly though, which makes me slightly sad. But yeah, he was always a Strive character.

[@Aisoreta]

11:40 a mix of a couple of things honestly. He's a VERY close-range character, his damage unless you get that 1 good hit/have meter is low, and if you dont have meter to RC his moves you're dead since most of what he does is extremely committal

[@TonyLvsUp]

I need there to be a mod that changes "UNIVERSE' to "BALLS ROCKED"

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

Slayer always did a ton of damage for very little, he's never been a long combo character. The tradeoff in previous games was that he lacked the lengthy Gatling chains and easy confirms other characters had. To keep his design and balancing consistent with tradition, he's got to do even more per-hit damage in Strive, where everyone has shorter combos and bigger damage. Hence the absolutely bonkers damage on 2-4 hit combos seen here.

[@ZachStarAttack]

honestly I like the slow narration just because like... it probably helps people that aren't too familiar with fighting games and stuff. I mean besides I don't mind stretching it out like they aren't that long anyway

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

His super knocking you around the screen is so cool I love things that play around with the screen like that

[@Justoutcazt]

bro sounds like the pacer test announcer😂😂

[@SatoruMasamune]

As someone who got into Guilty Gear in the XX days, and rotated between Ky, Jam, Chip, and Slayer as opponents necessitated, I enjoy it every time Slayer shows up and is totally lore accurate.

[@TheMilkManSL]

14:30 that looks like the meme of jin kazama with the 12ft long boot attack

[@jerlbays7412]

i really wanna see maximillian do one of these guilty gear character dlc videos some day where he doesnt talk shit on the narrator the whole time and just talks about the character

[@meteor22]

Glad we finally got my vampire boi back. Only one left is Dizzy and all my characters will have made it into Strive.

[@JudgeNicodemus]

Chip mains, the darkness is coming. Start labbing boys.

[@MyTomServo]

Look at this behemoth typhoon

[@midnight4956]

Holy shit Last Horizon implies that he sucks your blood, hits that one punch, and then you fly around the world and then he back fists you into the ground nonchalantly.

[@senopheria]

I kept whispering "Dandybros we're so back..." throughout this whole video

[@cylondorado4582]

“You’re killin’ em! You’re slayin’ em!” -Roger Rabbit

[@captainstrangiato961]

I feel like the narrator is about to tell me to do pushups for a Fitness Program.

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

I like how Max said he's not there. That's the funny thing about Slayers dash lol

[@squand3r]

Can we please appreciate how casually Slayer lays on a bed of bats that are carrying him - these extraordinary design choices and his theme Ups and Downs… peak Guilty Gear

[@DeathsPit00]

Bro I had youtube on autoplay in the background and was like, " How tf did I wind up on a corporate orientation video?" for a minute. lmao

[@MasterKcoop]

He sounds like how old people get when talking on the phone with an automated answering system.

[@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz]

the strive breakdown voice is NOT a tts???

[@alterreb4775]

Ye, he just talks like that

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

​These are one of those voice they would hire for tts tho lol

[@chaoticstarfish3401]

Considering the game is Japanese, I imagine they got the guy to talk as clearly as possible so that non‐native speakers can understand easily.

[@sporetv57]

The person narrating the starter guides is Ryan Drees btw.

[@leonardouau]

max never fails to joke about the narrator for the 30th time 💕

[@UltimaLuminaire]

You know, the voice direction for the narration reminds me of language classes and listening to a speaker as part of a workbook program. Maybe Arcsys is actually brushing up on their English with pop-quizzes at work?

[@Caskui]

“Bye bye 🗣️🔥🔥” ahh ultimate move.

[@NoGraveHoldsMe]

The FitnessGram PACER Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues.

[@neoyaku]

Instead of a cape, it’s an unbuttoned, shoulder-worn suit jacket - that flows like a cape. 😘

[@VantasticJackson]

I didn't know they got the Fitness Graham Pacer Test announcer to cover Slayer

[@fearanger1]

Is the implication for Last Horizon that the opponent gets punched ALL AROUND THE PLANET AND BACK???

[@ListlessWither]

Max calling Slayer Akuma when its clear he's a Demitri reference, smh

[@dabber8622]

he called him Akuma bc of his super resembling the raging demon

[@ListlessWither]

@@dabber8622 Demitri has a raging demon the infamous Midnight Bliss super

[@brayenmorrison3199]

First. Bloodsucking universe giving back HP and a fatal counter is insane.

[@alittlebirdi]

Is the animation on Last Horizon implying that Slayer's punch sends you flying around the planet?

[@GuitarSlayer136]

Love that Arcsys subscribes to the Oblivion school of line recording for character showcases.

[@Nishalaby]

i will never not laugh at max laughing at the announcer lmao

[@Eclosion5]

Best announcer ever. Never change

[@jeffshittles3664]

Narrator: explaining that hand of doom is off of backdash Max: He's not there?!?!?!?

[@Ramsey276one]

10:07 You ever wondered what it feels like to be a pinball? 10:35 Well *YOU'RE GOING TO!*

[@Kasaaz]

14:28 - Everlong!

[@IntertwiningRoses]

7:50 It's cause it's not a counter, it's its own on hit effect. Universe.

[@SirTriton]

The only reason i think the 100% meter move is going to be a problem is because it’s going to be so incredibly easy for him to wallbreak. If the opponent messes up once and gets hit through the wall the positive kicks in. That’s already 50% meter so that 100% isn’t far. Although i have a feeling that to do long combo’s with him your gonna need romans seeing as he has blue wild assault which isn’t exactly the best one. I wonder how he will fit in the game but one thing is for sure, I’m going to main the hell out of him. Goldlewis, you are going to second main, slayer is back.

[@Ai_M3talloidX7]

I CANT with the *_U N I V E R S E !_*

[@MagumoKawasaki]

Midnight Bliss.

[@Zoltri]

I wonder since it seems Universe hits are just, I hit you with my bite buff up, if a Counter-Universe hit is possible, and if it is, would that path open new options somehow then either of the other hit effects.

[@kaielgonzalez9158]

They uploaded some gameplay of him on GameSpot!!

[@willsword8100]

Narrator sounds like the pacer test from P.E. classes.

[@lokomo]

It's easy as a native English speaker to joke about the announcer but for a non English speaker like me I really appreciate that he talks slow and clear. And they only make this guide in English.

deflect shield is supposed to be a 50% burst usage parry that blocks all high/lows and all sides, but I think the Chipp in the game used it twice in a row to get Slayer the fuck away from him.

[@paubalid7897]

slayer in earlier titles was scary not just because of damage but because of backdash jump or skill cancelling making the jump or moves gain the backdash invincibility.

[@arthurpprado]

Oh, thank you. I thought I was insane for seeing a Raging Demon in Slayer's 100% super

[@Creepo_J]

"Imma block this wack ass UNIVERSE"

[@RomnysGonzalez]

Ain't no way. Dude punched so hard and fast he lose his clothes LMAO

[@AyaGumede]

So he basically punches you into a DVD Screensaver

[@evilded2]

15:07 Elphelt? Lol that character does no damage.

[@djukor]

Slayer seams to have survived the conversion in to Strive whit most of hos kit. He is missing his Gimmick unblockable that one used and his aerial special although he has a new back dash special i guess to make up for it.

[@xXBoogiepopXx]

I thought he was always saying "mach paunch"

[@alloutofgum1]

"Everything is supposed to be two touch" if anyone reading this still thinks this is all strive is you really should give the game another shot. SF6 and T8 have just as many 2 touch situations if not more. The game has become a lot less volatile and damage has been scaled a lot.

[@brodokamen]

I find it odd that they changed the name of his _Mach Punch_ to *Mappa Hunch* Engrish.

[@AziDoesQuestionableThings]

it was literally always mappa hunch what

[@Plasmaghost1305]

I forgot that Slayer was the reason why he stopped playing xrd I might be wrong on that

[@Ake-TL]

Hand of Doom looks like Hip Thrust

[@mrcwillis6970]

Love his design, good old fancy looking chap ☕️ His moves look really fun and interesting 🖤

[@MrBakku]

10:16 Thats not a raging demon... its midnight bliss but slayer turns sexy

[@SolrAU]

Raging Dandy

[@ignaciojohnjoy]

Now we wait for Gabriel, the only character with 200% tension gauge 😂

[@zacharya1669]

Slayers clothes disappear at 9:43

[@The_WIll_OF_D99]

this will likely be the best Slayer has ever been since +R.

[@matthew83walker]

Really does sound like it was translated, rather than narrated, as if english was a second though 😂