OPTIMAL S4 SOL BADGUY COMBOS [GUILTY GEAR STRIVE 1.40]

[@garou_fgc]

I'm tired boss...

[@Maxler5795]

Rest. Youve done enough.

[@Tron1110]

Another great upload from the goat

[@thetruerepairman7495]

Thanks for all your work

[@MrTonyp879]

Thank you boss, Did you upload these to the combo creator? Or does nobody use that anymore?

[@Noname-sy3du]

You can rest now.

[@KillaCheeto56]

In Fafnir we trust.

[@Zotluffy]

Thank you for making these. They have restored my faith in sol badguy

[@The_Gooms]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have sidewinder combos in 2024

[@ЯрославЛукьянченко-д5й]

This is some Accent Core shit ngl.

[@ERRandDEL]

We're kind of lacking the unique opponent CL hurtboxes but this is definitely closer. Love the cleanhit minigame you get to play with yourself now, it's so cool, and I hope we get more.

[@dlayed9903]

Bro I literally was waiting for you to post everyday and I check and its here GODBLESS

[@AsterothRayet]

time to spend 3 weeks getting half of these down, mad respect for this

[@HadesHatredEdge]

I love you FAFNIR.

[@Noname-sy3du]

Peak, just as I expected

[@Maxler5795]

Time to troll some friends with my newly found sol know how

[@Yungsubz]

King of sols

[@WaLKa767]

Very enthusiastic game of ping pong.

[@Creative_Joke]

at 0:12 you get more damage via f.S>5H>41236HS>RC>charge dust>c.S>j.S>dl j.D>CL 623HS WS>41236HS

[@TheUbernuck]

I keep getting wall splat on dl j.D do you have any tips? I'm delaying j.D a lot so not sure what else I can try.

[@JAYTON1116]

Honey Garou posted!!!!!

[@insertcleverjoke8383]

Gonna be honest, I wasn't expecting to see q gunflame in here. That was a oleasant surprise

[@patcoen92]

Great vid, love the combos. I just don't know how the fuck to get into an advantage state anymore to utilize any of them LMAO

[@Kathanay]

Haven't played the new patch yet, but how about ye olde run up far slash/2s or careful jump-in with jS?

[@En.GergerRacc]

@@Kathanay iad j.s is +2 on block. Before, Sol could use 5k after his jump-in was blocked to beat throws. Now, he has no normal fast enough to be airtight. He can always be thrown out of it. You have to delay the j.s, which makes it less likely to punish something if you did get a good jump timing, or accept that you might get mixed because THEY blocked YOUR jump-in.

[@FriedKetchup]

@@En.GergerRacc You still have IAD j. HS which is around +7 on block. Otherwise, though a bit harder, you can do IAD FD j. S which is around +8~+10 and IAD FD j. K which can be around +2~+8. Aside from jump-ins, he still has Bandit Revolver RC to force his way in

[@En.GergerRacc]

@@FriedKetchup Bandit Revolver rc is good, but sometimes you have to jump. In my mind, the character that ArcSys wants to be weak at long and mid range should not also have such an ambiguous situation after an opponent blocks a jump-in. Yes, there are still options, but they are less consistent. They said their objective was to emphasize character strengths and weaknesses, yet they have made it so that a character who they want to be exclusively a close range specialist can occasionally be backthrown into the corner and lose, even after taking a risk and being correct.

[@FriedKetchup]

@@En.GergerRacc I think that's being a bit dramatic. Come on, I don't think j. HS is that much worse than j. S, if even at all. And like I mentioned, you can use FD to make IAD j. S hit lower, being more advantageous and even beating 6Ps where a normal jump in wouldn't.

[@seanlafferty6683]

goat

[@junker_boy366]

Il bro ha spadellato...

[@ERRandDEL]

Corner to corner fafnir is so cool. I love that they finally added more tiny skill checks with an additional clean hit. Hope we get more in future updates.

[@hakunam.r.8880]

Can you do season 4 neutral guide chief

[@BolSadguy]

yo champ, what do we do off of CH 2D now, im lost in the sauce, give me old revolver back :(

[@a_shrxydud]

yippee

[@burito3130]

watching the village idiot struggle while i hit cs hvv into super for 80%

[@pablogarcia4911]

Not a single 5k lol. Also I used to implement wild assault after 6S, now that Fafnir can fulfill that role I don't know where to use it lol.

[@technodry3216]

Honestly saving it for burst is just always better now

[@rickberny1424]

Also 6s - vortex gives combos from like roundstar from pretty nuts ranges

[@ProlificGlueEnjoyer]

sol guy

[@FillipeR002]

how this autotimed thing works ? i cant get the bounce

[@tokitoki9156]

ARE THERE CODES FOR THIS COMOBOS?!?!?! PLEASE UPLOAD THEM IN THE GAME BEFORE I SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST

[@rolofmeister9660]

Goated upload, thank you garou P.S: song name in the second part of the video please?

[@AidenR19]

Pillars of the underworld

[@rolofmeister9660]

@@AidenR19cheers boss!

[@zachstarattack7320]

So the verdict is that sol is definitely nerfed right? because like all the special moves are worse when you're not using them in a combo? So basically his combos kind of do the same crazy damage but now the specials aren't as good for neutral

[@harve2321]

Yea, pretty much. Now i cant just spam 214k all the time without getting punished and my favorite combo is gone.

[@ilegitcookie]

Gorilla gameplay nerfed for sure. However there's a lot more you can do with blockstring pressure now (since before it was literally mindgames with stealing turns using BR after 5HS or just gunflame to end pressure). Since you can blockstring 5hs -> fafnir (2 frame gap, grab punishable but they need to react very quickly since fafnir is faster as well, nor is it 6p-able) leading to a big counterhit confirm, 5HS no longer "ends" sol's pressure string. You can also do a delayed vortex to go under any reversal poke (if the enemy likes to fS after your pressure, this applies), risky but can be made safe with meter. After playing for a bit, I actually think bandit bringer changes were net buffs unless all you did was run in bandit bringer all the time. Air bandit bringer isn't punishable anymore (the landing lag was reverted this patch when they removed the ability to charge it), and it floats you higher on startup which means you can bait out antiairs a bit better. Outside of using bandit bringer point blank (pushes back less, its easier for them to hit a button and force you to block), it feels a lot better to use. Just have to space it a bit (which isn't hard, Sol gets pushed back so far during his own blockstrings that it's practically automatically spaced at the end of a blockstring, just don't keep spamming it because you can get 6Ped if you're too obvious). 5K is definitely a nerf, but they did bring back 5K -> 6S as a true combo on grounded enemies, which means 5K -> 2D isn't the only route anymore, so... take what we can get. 6S is a nerf if you whiff, but we do have more cancel options now to keep some variety so that they still have to guess a little. I like the state Sol is in right now, it rewards basically every counterhit you get with a launcher into clean hit VV (which was impossible without meter on 6S or 2S counterhit, but vortex lets us combo into it now), and his combos have become a lot more fun to route into (personally, I thought his combo structure after the bandit revolver changes was really lame, looping 5K -> 6S into bandit revolver 1 on juggle was strong, but it was really autopilot-ey). Nerfed yes, but the changes they gave us are fun and interesting, which.. I can't say for some other characters that got changed (buffed but less fun or changed and less fun... cough potemkin).

[@zachstarattack7320]

@@ilegitcookie wow I had no idea that this was actually a change people like. thanks for the long response. if only ZATO got this level of love

[@harve2321]

@@ilegitcookie damn, thanks. My comment was kinda just a joke, but im happy that it got such a helpful and well written response. My fav combo was cs-dc-hvv-frc-jd-214k-5k-6s-214k just because it looked cool as hell.

[@scottyj8655]

Damn I thought I was the only one who liked the new sol.​@@ilegitcookie

[@AndrewBoss-o8f]

First combo isnt fully practical/optimized. (IMO) It is better to do it with the same combo you can wallbreak on round start with. fs vortex 2k 6s small delay fafnir for true hit 5s dp. get 7 additional damage and you can also do it on round start, or off corner. And you dont EVEN NEED to counter hit, but it works with it also. Without counter strike combo is auto timed also!

[@eliteal2188]

do you have combo codes for these?

[@Kneeko80008]

what is the first song in the video?

[@NotFortheMoonay]

The new Ky vs. Sin song "Get Over Nightmares"

[@Kneeko80008]

@@NotFortheMoonay thanks

[@gosugosu1280]

Am I the only one who thinks it's stupid that HMC does like 70% damage now, but by the time you get to 100% tension, the opponent never has more than half or even a third of his life left? The damage buff never applies this way.

[@harve2321]

U can gold burst round start, just sayn

[@pian-0g445]

Also is a really good round ender since it does enough more damage for some combos to kill

[@gosugosu1280]

@@pian-0g445 I guess you're right. But you also sacrifice 2 RCs/overdrives for it. It's a very niche move. Almost makes me think he might need a 3rd overdrive - one with his sword perhaps :-)

[@_MEGGIDO]

I’m sorry i prefer his old DP’s combos route than fafnir combos. Less beautiful to look at for me.

[@yagami999913]

Does he still have/need his karas ?

[@sleepfgc]

He still has his 6s kara, and he used it a lot after 2k in this video.

[@yagami999913]

@sleepfgc I noticed he kinda slides forward after 2K but i wanted to make sure since they took away kara from characters like Potemkin

[@sinshenlong]

5k kara hvv is also good to get lower wall splats in case you want to guarantee the tyrant rave doesnt whiff.

[@Sporkyz74]

​@@yagami999913it's not characters like potemkin, it's just potemkin, nobody else.

[@yagami999913]

@@Sporkyz74 Because he was clearly a problematic character ...

[@zionjackson7617]

How is he getting the wall bounce on fafnir because every time I try it like normally it doesn't work and I'm kind of confused they've completely changed soul and I realize I keep doing the same combo over and over because I don't know how to play this character anymore and I want to understand this video but I need more help on understanding and I keep seeing CL and I'm not sure what that is

[@TheUbernuck]

Fafnir only wall bounces on clean hit (CL). That means there is a sweetspot that you are trying to hit. If you aren't getting wallbounce in the combos try delaying fafnir or doing it sooner.

[@zionjackson7617]

@TheUbernuck ok thanks because no matter how much I did fafnir I wasn't able to get the wall balance and I was so confused I'm trying to figure out the sweet spot but I don't really know what it is and it seems like it's very important to learn that sweet spot to combo the way that this guy comboed with soul I'm doing really bad with the character even when he wasn't bad like in season 3 and I still wasn't super good with them but I was okay and now they just took everything I know about the character and did a 180 so now I feel like I don't know how to play this character at all and soul and aba ever like the only two characters I love to play

[@Xanthan4711]

@@zionjackson7617 Just do the combos that he listed as "auto CL fafnir" and you won't have to worry about learning delayed or manually timed CL fafnir.

[@TheUbernuck]

Anybody have a meterless CH c.S corner combo that autotimes the fafnir?

[@norinori6414]

Guess I'm practicing karas

[@bloodyidit4506]

Fafnir was useless before this so good

[@pablogarcia4911]

I prefered it the way it was before, you could use it safely using certain setups and it was a crazy presure tool. But well, times change and so must we do.