the_art_of_mashing.mp4

potemkin is very technical, trust me, i would know.

[@teddysadcat]

>random mashing >somehow translates to competent air smash what sorcery

[@UncleMerlin]

Air smash

[@richardvlasek2445]

what the fuck is an air smash

[@mariocraft3067]

@@richardvlasek2445 You don’t know? It’s Potemkin’s classic qcf + medium slash move

[@hhuwu-cp4hp]

@@mariocraft3067 What is a medium slash??

[@LoraLoibu]

@@hhuwu-cp4hp they probably mean 5S or something

[@Tjura3]

each screenshot is a secure pattern password bruh

[@hecccatto]

Lmao

[@reborn9641]

LOL

[@firud468]

both against everybody else and yourself

[@nyangko]

Why here is nyanko

[@hecccatto]

15 likes ??? Business boomin

[@Scatmanseth]

This is proof that Twitch Chat is a feasible contender in a tournament

[@cringerfilmmaker]

new dougdoug vid incoming

[@TheSpog]

​@@cringerfilmmaker "Can My chat beat one contender at A GGST Tournament"

[@FunnyValentineRE4L]

twich plays guilty gear sounds like chaos. what move would be the lord helix of this?

[@coomcharger6105]

​@@cringerfilmmakerI mean, he already listens to the sound track

[@GrayD_Fox]

That would be so funny if at Evo they set up Twitch Chat as a contender, and it would be even funnier if they won.

[@MrVibe-tx4rn]

mf trying to draw a pentagram on his controller

[@malacara1335]

This ain't arcana hearts bro.

[@duckthemightyknight364]

The previous guy drew a house at the end lmao

[@humble1107]

For a solid sixty seconds I thought the fucking chipp was the one mashing

[@holy2685]

Bro same

[@CrazyShui]

Same here

[@chillmadude]

wait, the chipp isn't the one mashing?

[@Zlowuj]

Hoooooly, you're right XDDDDD

[@turbotrup96]

Same. Bad editing - video started with Chipp on the left...

[@ryanhernandez8324]

As a 1-month Sol player: This video is like looking in a mirror.

[@laku-tikku554]

this guy was like in the top 150 of all potemkins in the world. I shit you not.

[@levelynn3853]

ChilliLion is currently top 10, was top 1, top 150 is an understatement

[@БруноБуччелати-н6б]

​@@levelynn3853 I weep.

[@Bolt451]

@@levelynn3853He’s actually the most intelligent pote player no way

[@ShaneBarton2005]

@@Bolt451I figured he was probably just doing this for the lulz.

[@OliverRossiXIII]

you cant be fucking serious, i REFUSE to believe it

[@mythcat1273]

This is what it looks like when I try to do that stupid ass zigzag input

[@chariotrequiem5465]

Hold forward and do a quarter circle forward, easy!

[@Perdix64]

If you’re on keyboard, do forward, down, then down forward, on controller, do what the other guy said, do forward then quarter circle.

[@pichanao1069]

That Z input with keyboard 💀

[@Perdix64]

@@pichanao1069 it’s easier on keyboard for me ngl.

[@UnhelpfulEngineer]

@@chariotrequiem5465”sir, you mind telling me what you’re doing there?” “Quarter circles”

[@arcktangent7947]

Potemkin tech will never be the same

[@metathetrashcan365]

Hitting mixups via hitting every button at the same time and letting God do all the work. What a game.

[@TerranceDavis-lu3yr]

Mashing and praying ,🙏

[@Peachy232]

"Good luck guessing what I'm going to do if even *I* have no clue what I'm going to do"

[@XE4KO]

Can't be read if you can't read yourself either lol

[@pixelmace1423]

“You won’t know anything I'm going to do because I ALSO know nothing of what I’m going to do! STRANGE, ISN'T IT?!”

[@haywirewindgod]

That was my thoughts exactly.

[@Micha-Hil]

"Mashing doesn't work in fighting games because your opponent can just figure out what you're doing" No they can't because not even I can.

[@mylles1112]

Literally, i never understood this mindset, It's random buttons that i'm pushing so you can't understand what is my next steps

[@ryanhernandez8324]

​@@mylles1112 Certain buttons are more mashable than others, so they look for those more. Just, not on Potemkin, I guess?

[@lojika1majik]

The general idea behind that is eventually you’re gonna use a high recovery move, or something akin to that, and just get nuked. So the opponent can figure out ‘you’re mashing’ and wait for you to fuck up.

[@audioshake6366]

one of the funniest strive videos in existence give it up for potemkin gaming

[@TheEpicPancake]

I genuinely don't think people would notice you were doing this without the input display. That Chipp could have done literally anything but mash his face into you all game and won. I'm... speechless, truly. 10/10.

[@brinecrab]

there were some moves that got thrown out that are clearly mashing but few and far between when everything else is just connecting

[@ado-]

still mashing during the screen break is so real actually

[@Jordan_F]

You have peaked. The fgc has peaked. This is the greatest fighting game video made. Possibly ever. Better than justin wong's marvel 2 match. Better than infiltration vs pr balrog. Better than evo moment 37. You've done it. The perfect fighting game clip is here. Godspeed.

[@chaselowell4567]

This is the biggest moment in the fgc. This is bigger than moment 37, the discovery of the Korean backdash, the invention of modern controls and the innovation that is rollback, there is nothing more important in all of fighting games than this very moment.

[@jt6356]

This just absolutely flabberghasted me, how is it even humanly possible to mash this fast fit this long????

[@Weeaboogod_]

Spite is a powerful thing

[@jt6356]

​@Weeaboogod_ dude that isn't spite that's more like crack

[@pendingchange3776]

I figured it was randomly generated spam macro

[@Shmityorshen]

You're right you can't, it is a macro! I have 4k hrs across 7 years using leverless before it was even called that, this is programmed

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

Leaked footage of me trying to input a DP motion.

[@mrcaffeine6149]

How this doesn't have thousands of views yet is beyond me

[@Shmityorshen]

The Raspberry Pi inside of his controller is absolutely smoldering at this point, doesn't even need to pick up the controller to win

[@sethbryant7894]

this guy is making gang signs with the fight stick

[@marcodragon4995]

"My opponent can't read my buttons presses if not even I know what buttons I'm pressing"

[@shadowsonshadowson3929]

What’s worse, losing to someone who spams, or losing to someone who mashes..?

[@virgo113]

Losing to someone who spams mashing while sniffing glue.

[@TerranceDavis-lu3yr]

Mashers aren't good at the game and it can be considered ignorance. Spammers are fully aware of what they're doing

[@goodsirsepsis8152]

Glad I found this video again I have searched high and low for the pure technique presented in this masterpiece

[@comeonandslamandwelcometot2418]

Potemkin gaming

[@Cactuardude]

This is beyond gaming.

[@Maxler5795]

The fact that sometimes the mashing somehow gets FASTER

[@ImfrAfreak]

This only works against chipp, because chipp players do the same

[@artisan2906]

also a freak

[@V3LV3L4]

This is the greatest Potemkin Clip ever recorded

[@sylvechevet9108]

I've been looking for that video for over a year what a blessing

[@NighstarLayla]

You will never know my next move BECAUSE NOT EVEN I KNOW MY NEXT MOVE!

[@sodiumfluoridel]

that pot busters gotta be the most satisfying drop of all time

[@trolltoad232]

As a Tekken player, this is beautiful and fucking terrifying. The mashing on the attack cutscenes is too real. I know for a fact you could rank up like this in Tekken. Wish we had that controller display, it would be so funny.

[@mrosskne]

the controller display is on the side of the screen

[@remigusker6024]

Honestly man I see people with inputs looking like this up to Bushin and I just can't deal with that shit. XD Give me a technical TG any day of the week at least I can try to anticipate that.

[@plateofwisenoodlesmcnoodle4551]

This is comparable to just taking your hands off the driving wheel in a car and saying "Let God take the wheel." and he actually DOES

[@TheLoaf1743]

The best part is that he’s somehow making it look normal

[@wcdream]

dude, watching both of them play is killing me. Like as a chipp main I put my soul into trying to play decently and seeing a potemkin mash and WIN. AND WIN. I HATE IT SO MUCH

[@oceanman3676]

i thank God, for guiding me to this video, for I have been enlightened to what could possibly be the FGC equivalent of W gaming

[@Atmos_Glitch]

0:56 *_"God Take The Wheel"_*

[@TerranceDavis-lu3yr]

Mashers stay blessed 🙏

[@JombiWombi]

This is the neutral footsies that guilty gear is known for

[@robtheone2689]

I think the part that gets me that no one else is taking about is the squeaky noises

[@markkimuszer0]

This is a strat from the old days of fighting games that is actually next to impossible to counter, it allows you to be unreadable by your opponent and thus always keep them on their toes which can be powerful for planning your attack. It is banned in every tournament however and it is stated in the rules of every tournament that assasins will come after you if you try this so you don't usually see it happen.

[@prophetcarason]

this video goes so hard

[@locallyhated364]

This is what your gameplay looks like

[@Jordan_F]

@@locallyhated364 This is what OUR gameplay looks like.

[@mythcat1273]

He was still mashing when he was in the middle of the fuckin chipp super this is fucked

[@Jurarigo]

If you input every move at the same time you can do anything! All the time! At once!

[@luuc4sflp]

This is proof that anyone can cook

[@Eleagid]

most sane potemkin player ladies and gentlemen

[@dr_doritotf2305]

Can’t wait to show this to my friend who is partially a pot main and just as shit as I am

[@dravendfr]

I’m pretty sure chat just summoned at least two pantheons of demons with those inputs, goodness.

[@ShadowJonathan]

I only have 3 days on strive and this video is already making me cry laughing

[@Ratscallion_exe]

My man is playing Dance Dance Revolution with a joystick mounted on a Titanic cruiser...

[@funniloneliboi]

This is literally just how I play Ky half the time.

[@dabiga2315]

pot players aint never beating the glue allegations

[@SHORYUKIN-SF6]

As a nago main i can confirm this is precisely how we play the game

[@Herra_K]

This is how fighting games were truly meant to be played

[@ianweckhorst3200]

This is the perfection we must all strive (pun intended) to achieve in our own gameplay

[@oldmanestimanjr.3847]

epitome of "if I don't know what I'm doing, neither will my opponent!"

[@sigil8784]

I think I've watched this at least 5 times and will continue to do so

[@eden3669]

"dont mind me, just getting my APM up"

[@dry90125]

Visualizing the man I want to become

[@adamkampen]

The mashing during Chip's special animation is sending me

[@eeluim7201]

Ive seen this video circulating for 2 years. Ive lost friends. Ive met new friends. Ive experienced so much and just seeing the fact two years have passed since posting this video to my vc friend group which im no longer in contact with. Its nostalgic. Thank you, for the laughs and memories this goofy video brought to me. It might be a silly video of you mashing, but to me it was the light that made some old friends laugh. It means a ton. Ill keep using this video, it means a lot to me. It gives me a sense of community even if my life is rough.

[@StoryTeller796]

"This, is random mashing Dear God There's more No!"

[@KolMan2000]

Mashing during a cutscene grab is peak brain rot and I love it

[@jackawaka]

I physically cannot take in the information I have been provided with here

[@melmelmelbow]

Once someone said: movement is life. I guess it was potemkin

[@duvan-solis]

He plays out his inconsistency.

[@doridori6207]

Beside the absolutely legendary pot gameplay , the chipp player's zero desire to block is astounding.

[@Isru709]

He made every stick imput in history of fighting games with the exception of those that have a star in tekken

[@GrayD_Fox]

"SOMETHING HAS TO WORK!"

[@_cereal_5130]

In all fairness playing against potemkin as chipp is like running directly into a brick wall with cannons behind it

[@Benito675]

"to confuse the enemy you must first confuse yourself" -Sun Tzu, The art of War

[@GrapeCalc]

“Better to have and not need then to need and not have.”

[@lordsmorgasbord2646]

this is the equivalent of having a custom controller that's just a single big red button which says "attack"

[@Stefinater]

“If YOU don’t know what you’re doing, THEY don’t know what you’re doing.”

[@alex_oiman]

average figthing game fan vs a random input enjoyer i payed for all the those buttons, i'm using them all

[@lemonarque1505]

He would have been one of those 100 armed indian gods if even 20% of his inputs actually went off

[@bunnyninjaface]

dude holy shit this video is golden i’m crying

[@DDismas]

i was legitimately cackling by the end of this, and it hadn't happened to me in MONTHS. thank you so much for this vid man

[@gamerx112]

Im dying. what foul shit did I just witness?

[@miguelmarinspereiranunes4078]

i'm fascinated that he make a combo with roman cancel that i can't even make using all my neurons

[@MrDratik]

So, I'm also kind of a professional cyber sportsmen

[@rog.140]

The youtube recomended a Stop mashing video

[@saberknight2474]

“The opponent cannot read your movements if your movements are written in keyboard smash.” -Sun Tzu

[@pixelmace1423]

To be a true Potemkin player, one must consume the requisite amount of library paste orally

[@Akira__Power]

One of my favorite FGC videos ever made

[@saberknight2474]

I had a similar experience like that once during winter break. I had only first touched Strive the day before (I don’t really play fighting games), and my friends and I, one of which played Strive with the goal of being competitive, went to an overnight lock-in at a lan arcade They had a custom made cabinet playing Strive, so I took the controls, Sol Badguy, and started mashing. I won, then kept winning. I had no idea what I was doing; between the bewildering victories and the sleep deprivation, I started laughing like a maniac. I was asked how I knew to perform the combos that I was pulling off, I could only force out, “I don’t know!” between bouts of laughter. Eventually, my mash mania wore off, and I had my ass summarily handed to me by my experienced friend (playing Happy Chaos), but those thirty minutes of mashed potatoes made my night.

[@Mike-official]

What the game see's my inputs as whenever I try a super

[@Ema_Not_Emma]

Millia mains when they're one inch off the ground

[@yami_yomiel]

'Playing competitively without knowing how to even play'

[@thatdaveguy8895]

Faith in itself is a playstyle.

[@maverickhunterstupidiocy7779]

This is me in arcade mode Not even goofin’

[@kur0star]

This is such a beautiful video, it inspires me

[@misamagica]

Bro is playing OSU with those inputs

[@joshuajackson8120]

As a fish with legs once said: "You can win this... By the power of BUTTON MASHIIING!"

[@dragocrafterr8286]

how have i never commented on this vid saw it on release, Modern Art

[@SovalleFGC]

this is art

[@dsaman123]

the grounded footsies guilty gear is known for

[@aidenzorn8322]

Send this to anyone that says fighting games are hard

[@expman1288]

You can’t get read if what you are doing is completely random

[@turbotrup96]

Dude is tired after, like, 2 matches.