Week of Skullgirls *Noob Adventures!* Day 1

[@cjcard214]

Watching you kick utter ass at this and all fighting games is one of the things that keeps me motivated in learning how to be actually good at these. Keep making these glorious videos, all mighty Max.

[@deathVIAavatar]

The first fighting game I've enjoyed playing as much as MvC2, and won't mind investing time in. Thanks for covering it for a whole week!

[@firstcooommment3675]

I just bought the game! :')

[@chardrive]

"Wow! Look at Parasouls assist!" Welcom to Skullgirls Max.

[@Froboywest]

Am I the only one that gets a totally nostalgic feeling from these vids? It's a great feeling, like hitting up the arcades to learn some knew MK tech. Or watch that one person destroy at SF all day lol

[@KaitouKaiju]

That is some of the smoothest 2D animation I have ever seen.

[@NitghVision]

I main a Cerebella/Peacock team, and here's a tip for fighting the Cock: Stay in the middle of the screen. The air is Peacock's weak point as not even her super hits there. All she can hit you with is with the airplane and with the falling stuff, but as long as you keep moving, the falling stuff will always miss. If you have invincinibity frames, use them to tank some stuff and jump a lot. As long as you keep the pressure on, Peacock can't do much.

[@Arkteren]

9:35 "Wow, that is the same attack over and over again.", said while in the same match Max jumps, air dashes and attacks at least 50 times.

[@meeachael627]

can my man not move? i know this is 8 years later but there's a difference between spamming and relying on certain movement options.

[@KaguyaKinamaru]

@Miles923 That Parasoul assist is Charge Down, Up Roundhouse. It's equivilent to Guile's Flash Kick in ranged and use

[@J13HANKS]

Skullgirls encore is gonna be free on Ps plus this month... Revisit hype?

[@LittleTownInNorway]

You are awesome Max! You will now be knows as a Viking!

[@Raurik]

I just looked up a couple pics to verify. MVC and MVC2 were both 6 button machines. MVC used the 6 attack format like SF and tagged using 2M or 2H keys. MVC2 has the light/heavy/tag format where the usual heavy keys are replaced with assist 1 and 2 respectively.

[@mehatestuesdays]

I think it's very good that you support this game, i think you will confince a lot of people to purchase it for themselves and the more people support these indie games, the more we may see in the future

[@The_OGB13]

That freak out at the end was hilarious. And of course I'm always glad to see someone also using Fillia to test the waters, heh. I think I'm gonna try teaming her up with either Ms. Fortune or Valentine.

[@TheFlamingPC]

Thanks for the help and yea I know, I love the cartoony animation and the old new york "showtime" look it has.

[@apama2000]

Holy shit YES!!!!! Im so happy you decided to do this!!!!

[@Slowestofbros]

Oh, for those wanting more characters. Two characters are confirmed and on the way! (Squigly and Umbrella). Also, This is also guaranteed, but later down the line. There WILL be playable Male characters. yay! Movelist in the game will come for those who were worried about that.

[@Olmec92]

When I first started, I first looked up the movelists, which you can download the PDFs of off the website. Then, I went into training mode and tried out every character, which is even more important in this game since each of the 8 characters is unique. I would recommend starting with Filia or Cerebella, who are considered beginner characters, but are two of the most FEARED characters in the entire game in good hands. However, this game has a pretty concise tutorial so be sure to do that first.

[@Chainsawsb]

That thing when you smack them back mid combo with the frizzy hair is the infinite protection system. If they reuse the same combo string too many times the opponent can hit any button to break out of it.

[@DivingLancer]

2 things 1. The move Parasol was doing is basically flash kick is pretty invulnerable (think it is performed with the same motion I don't recall the input off-hand) 2. Any assist is vulnerable at the beginning when they are called out so there are no perfect assists that are completely invulnerable, if memory serves its only something like a few frames or so but I don't remember exactly how many, been too long since some of those mike z demos.

[@mrharvy100]

yeah np, This vid made the gameplay look hella fun lol. If your not sure you can always try the free demo which comes with Felia and Cerbella and limited features/modes to get a feel for the game

[@drzero7]

Well, Parasoul is the solo S Tier of this game, having the best assist in the game, real good normal, good long chain damaging combo and insanely useful supers. The abusive Parasoul assist is charge down, the up HK. Invincible pillar that free for combo and safe on block, it's CapCom and Psylock assist from MvC2 at the same time.

[@Chainsawsb]

Also Valentine has 3 different poisons. The purple one does damage over time, the green one gives massive hitstun, and the orange gives you input lag. She has to load them up and then throw them with a different ability.

[@PsychComposer]

There's giant fish and sharkmen in the background!I can't concentrate! New favorite Maximilian quote.

[@LazyReaper808]

Best tactic vs the infinite prevention system is down an infinite on purpose and using an invincible move to punish the burst. Cerebella's run has armor and can absorb the hit/go through it to punish.

[@sosbaker3382]

Miles: Wow. That is the same attack over and over again. Me: And you fell for it over and over again!

[@Boodendorf]

Skullgirls week? "OH MY GOD IT'S CHRISTMAS!" -Ellis.

[@Icipall]

Keep it coming man, this is very entertaining.

[@magictoaster9000]

This game has an infinite combo detector, so if you are stuck in an infinite combo, the hits will change color and you can press any button to burst out of that combo. Also, you can use almost any move a character has as an assist.

[@DescendantDroog]

Its time for a tl:dr comment. Max I seriously am hyped for you to do some skullgirls videos. While its really hard for me to get good at marvel let alone try to get good with skullgirls but its still so fun and I feels great to be on the ground floor of a fighting game and not just coming in on the 3rd or 4th installment like I always have. This game really deserves the exposure and I'm glad your giving it just that. color me inspired btw try peacock she is fun to play

[@ZidaTheBlazing]

Max: That Parasoul assist is flash kick H.K. The other best assist is Double's DP H.K. Avoid jump-ins against a flash kick happy parasoul. Use something like your qcf punches to punish randomness and look for openings.

[@RGStoner]

Just bought this on PS3 because of these videos. Thanks for showing this

[@kuno358]

So glad this is the 'week of' game!

[@MrGuy84]

The color options in this game are so good. Living dead girl Valentine and Steamboat Peacock all the way. That black leather Miss Fortune looked pretty good too.

[@nemesis908]

I also main Filia, thanks for opening up my eyes to her combos a bit more. Struggling with air-dashing using a pad though.

[@GreenOpurge]

@irobbyyy well you want to start off knowing all your moves how to move around with them evade attacks what are they're strengths and weaknesses. If you JUST started playing fighting games it'll probably take you a little longer to learn combos because you're probably not sure what you can and cannot combo with. I slowly learned by doing simple combos and what I can follow up with them. The best thing to do is find how you can extend your basic combos moving up to the advanced stuff.

[@NitghVision]

If she starts spamming j.HK, that could be annoying, but she's vulnerable after she does it, so hit her and the projectile will go away. Teleports can catch you off guard, but just remind yourself to look at her more than yourself and you'll catch her more often than not. Also note that j.HP can trade hits with you AND will push herself away from you, so that will create more distance you don't want. It takes a while, but she isn't as annoying as people make her sound once you understand her.

[@Ice-Climber]

The burst you did was part of the anti infnate system. When hit sparks go red you burst with any button.

[@lijnat]

Dealing with Parasol's Napalm Strike is kinda easy. It's a charge down press up HK move so you just bait it with an empty jump, jump in then block, then attack

[@WoodlandBeef]

Max! Kickass to see a week of Skullgirls! I'm really excited and I'll be damned if I don't try to get a ranked match two against you despite being east coast. Half tempted to say that last Ms. Fortune was me, but then I realized she didn't take off her head once. And I don't think I've played online in the past 4 days either so....hah! Anyways, I really have to thank you again for showing me this game. I own UMvC3, SCV, and SFxT, but Skullgirls is probably my favorite. Can't wait to see day 2!

[@mrharvy100]

Cool opinion, all honesty i consider this underated due to the amount of potential this game still has after they smooth out some issues

[@rodrigo_unk]

MAX, you gotta change your combos, when the character bounces more than once ( you can see during the first bounce, a purple ring on the ground, and at the second one, a teal ring on the ground ) it means that the player can tech out of it ( you can see the blueish ring, that is when you know you are not doing your combos right ) and in the first match we can see that the peacock could have teche'd out of your combo but He didn't, that is why you were able to continue with the combo.

[@ubermaster1]

Week of Skullgirls. My day is complete.

[@chwenhoou]

Awesome job so far, Max. I would recommend learning a secondary character to handle the assist attacks like the Valentine/Parasol team you ran into. Aside from that, you did great and I can't wait for the next video. =)

[@Conmystro]

I myself was not Apart of the marvel 2 community, but if it's anything like this I wants it NAO keep up zee awesome work max

[@Alucula]

An invincible assist isn't entirely a get out of jail free card in Skullgirls, though, since assists don't attack when you get hit, and there aren't any assists that are fully invincible. Although since it's drawing a lot of it's inspiration from MvC2, it's not unlikely most people will be using invincible assists. They're probably intended to be a big part of the game.

[@pfoster7719]

A week of skullgirls? To quote Samson, "hell yeah!"

[@groudon2006]

max during your fight with valentine and parasoul when the hit sparks turn red and make a weird noise that means the enemy is trying to do an infinite combo so you can press any button to escape

[@Roohah913]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but the makers of the game put in an infinite combo blocker or whatever you would call it. so in your second match when you kept breaking their combo, you weren't actually doing anything. The game was doing as the makers intended

[@SourPatchKun]

Max the combo you been doing is techable since there is a blue spark when they land. Red sparks though are guaranteed otgs. Also the teching is like mvc2 where you have to tech before you land the ground.

[@wwecrazy]

The thing is that all of her grabs (and all grabs in the game) do no red life damage. Which means that if she brings you done to 1 pixel of health with only her command grabs, then you can switch them out and get back to 100% (given time). I see so many people lose out on massive amounts of red life because they dont switch out.

[@DrRyan82994]

Lol gotta agree with what max said at the end about Ms. Fortune. Took me a while to get used to all of her stretching and detaching of limbs and crap.

[@Kytseo]

It is, it costs $15, and it's coming to PC soon (as a Steamworks title).

[@hyperviper90]

Push any two attack buttons when you block an attack, and it'll cause an advancing guard.

[@GuyShishioh]

Great stuff, laughed at you going up against the Parasoul assist. Keep the Skullgirls content coming. ^^

[@proxyaskew]

honestly, her damage output isn't as bad as it seems. i'll admit it appears crazy because her individual hits do so much, but i've seen full combos with filla, parasoul, and ms. forture that do more then cerebella can do, at least with what people have found so far. the super grab is very good, but if you're watching out for it, its pretty difficult to actually hit someone with it. she is a very good character, but i really think the entire cast can keep up with her.

[@thecarefulaimer]

Love the video Max. Keep up the great work!

[@xdream000]

The only way to know who you're playing is to press the guide buttons and look at "recently met" you can do this from the character select screen. That's how I knew it was Max playing. I won't deny that Parasoul assist is really awesome, very reminicent of Psylocke from MVC2. Combine that with Valentine's effective pick up and air dash/double jump combos make the team very effective. Though the "cheapest" combo would have to be Peacock and Double using the Cerebela assist... evil stuff.

[@MondayWithDrew]

Oh Max! I love you for this

[@loopin123]

Ask and we shall recieve. Thank you Max and keep up the great work.

[@wavenlights6096]

yay hope to meet you online max! and maybe more after the week is done!

[@Turbulance16]

Hey Max when you grab people do medium hair drill into special thats more or less her best grab follow up I have found

[@sosbaker3382]

then again, at the end his first opponent overused the teleporting, which was surprisingly unhelpful for peacock

[@Daggerz2]

Not sure how you feel bout zoning characters but since you liked Deadpool from MvC3 I think you'd have a fun time learning Peacock if you decide to go for a different approach from rushdown characters

[@Gorionward]

I love watching this game. So much more entertaining than SF vs TK

[@flippypwns]

praise the gods, week of skullgals!

[@eddiekewl7334]

This isn't noob at all... I've played for a while and this is 100x better than I am.

[@ThndrMge]

Lovin the Skullgirls, Max! It's fun to watch you get into a new fighter. Watching you learn and go through the same troubles I did really lets me relate! Hope you are having tons of fun! I'd offer to roll some matches with you but I only got PSN, hopefully I'll see you around on there though!

[@tyrone6]

9 years later👍🏽

[@attilathepun32]

One of the co-creators didn't want any duplicate or similar characters, like how Street Fighter has Ken, Ryu, and Akuma, who all play relatively similarly. Skullgirls has few characters, but each plays massively different for the others. Also, they are going to slowly release about four characters over the course of this year and the next.

[@notawiiu]

And then Fukua popped into existence

[@Korogunso8]

Not A WiiU Fukua looks like fillia but the combos and play style are vastly different.

[@Rychu_Otaku]

Honestly Max you should give a second character a shot, having an assist like Parasoul's Napalm Pillar can really save you from pressure situations like you saw here and can lead to free combos! Even though you lose damage and health from switching over to 2 or 3 characters, you cover up their weaknesses with assists and can make team synergy like MvC style games.

[@Jude_Zilla]

if you have a fight stick, (my personal preference) press down up (or super jump) then press two buttons.

[@yoghurtmingvase]

Yeah, I know. I said 'weekly'. As in, I hope he takes a liking to the game and starts making regular Online Warrior episodes on a regular basis.

[@isaiahwaardSP]

Do more skullgirls!

[@CGScrewman]

This might have been said already, but Ms. Fortune actually says "Purr-serker Fur-rage" when she does her hyper. Which is still pretty awesome.

[@chameleon0817]

that game with the "lariat" assist really made me think of what happened with kusoru at final round

[@JoJoMadara]

Not necessarily. In the original Arcade Version there were a total of 8 buttons. 6 attack and 2 assists. I hope I remember that correctly considering that I've been to an arcade recently. I believe it was both MvC 1 and 2

[@specdotsign]

The game is also out on PSN. Just a heads up for people who think its XBLA only.

[@vietleis]

it's a reference to the size of the dev team. Reverge has 12 employees total even with external contracting work that's a tremendously small dev team.

[@Giggitygiggityglock]

Additionally, if you're a really fan of fighting games, a TRUE fan, you'd realize the only thing a fighting game needs is-Arcade, Versus, Training, Options. All other games modes are just their to make the game look bigger.

[@isbilen1000]

Pretty sure someone already have made note of this, but Skullgirls is being taken down from XBLA and PSN, because of "unauthorized use of Namco properties" or something like that. It's still up on Steam, and will be, but PSN and XBLA is gonna be unavailable.

[@MrStrangeCrow]

It's because Lab Zero is changing publishers. Skullgirls will be re-released under the name of 'Skullgirls: Encore'

[@Gailim]

I really liked this. hope to see more and more SG

[@JoJoMadara]

Hmmm I stand corrected. Glad to know

[@todzilla26]

soo excited! need more skullgirls content

[@proxyaskew]

he's not talking about cerebella's ram horns, he's talking about double's hornet bomber, where she turns into cerebella, which is an invincible assist.

[@marcin25893]

Yes he is. Max you should learn 1 more character to have an assist. It really helps in this game.Duo teams are the best imo.

[@namelessblade6]

ah i understand now got used to good ol' marvel 3 i used to get a little mixed up too when i was going back in forth between marvel and ae but it doesnt take long to get used to

[@Kasafeara]

Awersome video as always, I find your videos on fighter games very helpful and I've almost beaten arcade mode with Filia i was one point away on normal, I am playing a whole lot better now knowing the basics of the controls on Skull girls and fighter games in general. Are you planning on going through the other stories and arcade mode?

[@ataconazi]

Max needs to pick Valentine, similar simplicity, magnetoesque resets

[@mrharvy100]

yeah, but so far its more interesting to see his felia gameplay and how he adjusts to the game without having assists at his disposal. Hopefully he does eventually consider assists

[@DeGlitch01]

Parasouls Napalm pillar is invincible during start up and is awesome.

[@Ultrox007]

It's no problem, and no need to feel like an idiot, I remember asking how to super jump in it because I didn't notice that the super jumps were so much shorter in this than in marvel.

[@armormodekeeg]

Air throws? More like *puts on sunglasses* Hair throws. YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[@key495]

Please post more of these please. These are awesome.

[@TheRealStewman]

are there a lot of quater circle moves in this game? or is it more like tekken?

[@aznminh92]

I hope they come out with more characters!

[@Wizardcat4]

You still have to hit a button to activate the anti-infinite burst; the game just alters the hitsparks/hitsounds so you know you can burst.

[@Cryptosporidium_]

this was unexpected... ...AND I LOVE IT

[@reddevilyi]

You should use Gregor Samson early in Filia's combos so it isn't scaled so bad and it's easy to combo after the giant wall bounce. Supers also reset damage scaling some so the earlier you use them, the better.

[@VonKunlunBOOF]

9:35 "Wow, that is the same attack over and over again." Well Max, two things: 1. Parasoul's j.HP is a great air to air and beats a lot of things and 2. When you keep doing air dash > MP/HP it kinda makes you wonder why your opponent kept using the same move.