"The scrub is quick to anger, has violent outbursts, is extremely rude and hurtful to everyone around them and always manages to find a way to dodge accountability for their actions." So LTG then?

i do not condone beating up newer players as an experienced player. i almost never picked up a fighting game before after my first time because of that experience,. and i feel awful because ive done that to my own friends when they first started playing. and now, they wont touch a fighting game with a 20 meter stick. please be nice to new players everyone.

LMAO The DP joke went over my head for like 6 frames then hit me like a truck

The baby crisis is all dependant upon the context of the game. Are you in tournament? Show them the real world, break their spirit and test them to see if they get the bug. Are you fucking around in friendlies? Show them the cool shit you can do in the game, show them how awesome you can get through practice and grinding. It's all context, choosing either one all the time is just wrong.

The fact that you picked testament for the nerd is hilarious. The romolla reference is glorious

I’ve never been more happy to have a title of “Greg”. I love this community so much. I care about growing rather than winning. A bit of a laugh is needed every now and then, and I’m so happy that I have been able to provide at least somewhat

As a person who has introduced people to fighting games, i also try to stay just a little above their level at all times so it doesn't feel impossible but so they don't develop an ego

My favorite recent online FGC guy has been “the grappler complainer”. Basically just bitches if they ever get command grabbed, and probably the kind of person who thought (and possibly still thinks) Potemkin needs nerfs

I was legitimately hoping you would smash cut to LTG getting smoked since the guy is literally The Ego incarnate.

I’m in my own little category I like to call “ape brain” I don’t know if there are enough people to call it a full fledged stereotype but basically my days off consist of me taking bong rips and command grabbing people. Popping off when I hit the funny move and showboating like I’m hot shit while also praising someone after putting me in a hype combo. So almost like a cross between chill and ego with a hint of weeb because my high ass is always commentating ☠️

Im a proud self aware scrub who recognizes my own weaknesses AND tells the opponent to throw rocks wrapped in wire at electrical poles

You talk about pattern recognition and I’m immediately reminded of | || || |_

Chill player so perfectly describes me. So many times my opponents have messaged me after the match at something I did, I’ll just be like “..what? what happened?” I also only ever practice if I’m bored or feel like it, and if I lose I’ll just think, “I’m not at that skill yet.”

And then you have the Casual, who spends far more time watching gameplay, tournaments, tutorials, and other videos on the game than actually playing it. When they finally do play, it's usually against the AI or in training mode... because PvP is terrifying. The few times they do go online, they don't stay for long. Their nerves quickly get to them, and suddenly they're fumbling motion inputs that were once muscle memory. Even when they win, they're left feeling exhausted. So they close the game, go relax, and then watch another tournament. Myself included lol.

What you said about the scrub reminds me of "the bro gamer", young male players who want to feel powerful immediately and have a very low tolerance for suffering. They make up such a big portion of the console market that AAA games usually can't afford to ignore them. Some games lean hard into appealing to them - the term itself was coined by the Arkham devs to describe their main demographic. As a side note, there's a phrase in Smash used to deter these players: "No Johns." A John is an excuse for poor play. The sun was in my eyes/my controller wasn't working/whatever. When someone says "No Johns", they're telling you to own up to your play and learn from your mistakes.

When introducing a new player I would introduce slowly but try to respect their intelligence. My experience teaching a new player to be around my same level was a mixture of giving resources, basic concepts, how to utilize training mode, problem solving.

When the video was winding down half way through the living legend section and I thought it was coming to a close, I was already thinking about the "Greg" and how much they deserved to have their own section... And then it happened and I fistpumped the air! I called them *_"The Hype Man"_* and used Anji for the character pick, but other than that were pretty identical. The kind of person to gush about everything which happens.. The weeb's energy, the chill's mindset, the Ego's self love but it also extends to the opponent and what they're doing too, maybe the one thing which sets the hype man apart from the Greg is that they also have the nerd's knowledge and read Dustloop like they're reading their favorite novel.. But still play too casually to fall close to the living legend. They know what's optimal, but don't wanna do it ether because they think it'd be beyond their skill level, or straight up boring. The kind of person to land a combo in training mode made entirely out of 10+ kara-back-Megafists and post it on Reddit. The kind to mentally (and sometimes verbally) add Ed, Edd, n Eddy sfx to combos. And the sort to introduce a new friend to the genre, correctly read their jump, and decide to grab just so that they get to exclaim how sick it was that they jumped the grab. Although if it sounds like I'm being too generous with their description.. They have the faults of the Weeb and the Nerd combined.. Asking ether of those a question will get a several paragraph answer to it. While the Hype man will give a university thesis.

As someone who has had and still sometimes has problems with salt. I think it’s important to note that it’s ok to feel angry sometimes, playing fighting games can be stressful while being fun at the same time. It’s just about how you express those emotions in real time. When the salt hits you hard, it’s good to try and take losses as learning experiences, enjoy small victories, And realize that at the end of the day it’s on you to figure your shit out I honestly get a pretty annoyed when people say things like “just touch grass scrub”. Salt is natural, so is complaining, humans are emotional and the best way to deal with the negativity is to feel your feelings and act on them appropriately.

10:25 THE SCURB

There is one more you missed. The STRIVERS: These are the people who are desperately trying to improve. They look back on EVERY SINGLE match they do and pin point the exact moments they messed up. They look up optimized combos, they lab like mad. Most people start out this way but lose the want to improve, while others, others turn into legends.

I'm a Greg ig, I keep trying to get my friends into Guilty Gear and show them that they can be bad like me and still have fun.

1:32 The Baby 6:36 The Ego 10:26 The Scurb (Whoops! Scrub) 14:40 The "Chill" 18:14 The Weeb 22:23 The Nerd 26:11 The Living Legend ...aaaand 29:41 greg

"Give them the real fighting game experience" >Potemkin menacingly Busters a Sin

Chaos being the scrub is too good

Never heard of a Greg only to now realize I'm literally one. Except I'm generally garbage but that's because I'm just in it for the fun, grinding a glorious placement just causes headache

Stereotypes in order 1:26 The Baby 6:34 The Ego 10:26 The Scrub 14:41 The “Chill” 18:15 The Weeb 22:25 The Nerd 26:12 The Living Legend 29:40 Ya Mate Greg

Quick tips to help you if you struggle with introducing friends to fighting games. - pick characters you struggle with or have difficulty executing with. It may not be fun at first but it helps combat muscle memory. Trust me, it's more valuable than you think. - Gorillas or button forward characters make excellent introduction options. Cassandra in SC6, Sol in GG, etc. Characters with lots of plus frames that aren't locked behind anything more complex than forward and attack -Use tangential titles. Dark Souls, Devil May Cry, most character action games or titles with solid melee pvp combat are excellent starting points to open them up to fighting games as a sort of shallow end - BE PATIENT. Fighting games take time and effort. More effort than time. But that's a subject for another time. -Be open to criticism. Trust me. It helps.

I proudly fall under the "Greg" category. I've been playing fighting games since the original SF2. Never bothered to go pro because I find it too stressful. I play to have fun, if i lose i lose, I just try to learn from my mistakes. Best feeling is when you're even with your opponent and both of you can appreciate the match. Especially when you get a double KO.

I like to categorize myself as "The Guy That Tries to Do Funny Moves, Loses, and Gets Tilted"

10:26 Ah, yes, The Scurb. Twin brother of The Scrub. Just as bad at the game, but he can't spell.

For the scrub section, you just described Low Tier God.

There is an older name for the Nerd. The Anorak. Because that's what that type was known to wear in the UK. They exist in fandoms too. Trekkies, Star Wars nerds, Neckbeards (for DnD and other TTRPG/Tabletop Strategy games), Comic Books... whatever. Also Greg is also known as the Casual.

I`m like a combination of the baby, the chill and maybe a bit of greg. I am not very good at fighting games just yet but always had my eyes on them. Now with Strive and BlazBlue Central Fiction i genuinely feel the want to get at least somewhere instead of just mashing. Maybe it helps that i now have a few friends who also have interest in these games. Its a shame i can get a bit angry with myself pretty easily no matter what game i play (or even with other stuff) otherwise the chill would really be me.

I think the “Greg” fits me the best, but I’m also pretty chill most of the time. So I guess “chill Greg” is the stereotype I fall under.

"THE *SCURB* " Time for the Internet to do what they do best, and never let you forget that *one* time you made a typo/misspelling.

"now here's a word we are familiar with" THE SCURB I know it was a typo but it made me laugh so hard

This is facts . I always felt satisfaction pulling off Vega's Ultra 2 input in sf4 . Now it's something I hardly think of

4:30 bro got that dumpy good lord

10:29 I like to call these people the “Low Tier Gods”

Not gonna lie they did my boy Scrimblo Blimblow dirty.

As a Greg of a friend group, I appreciate y'all who gives my favorite fighting game a chance

12:55 you've just gotta hit 'em with unblockable insults. "players like you smell like deli meat and cheese." "wipe the crust off of your keyboard and rematch me." "you play better than you insult." etc.

We all know that KOF is a religion in some parts of the word

Holy crap. Am I Greg? I've never really gone to any tournaments or even joined online ones, but I LOVE teaching people about fighting games, getting them hyped, having fun with them and LOSING to them. I started a sort of fighting game club at my college where I'd bring a modded ps3 with a buncha fighting games every Friday and we'd just play all day as we really didn't have any classes. I made my best friends ever at that club and even though we're all working now, we still get together every now and then to throw some matches.

As a resident Baby, I can say that I have been given a mixture of both experiences My friend absolutely stomps me, yet is also very supportive

I had a real long babyphase on kof 13, yeah i started my fg journey with this execution hell(i played a lot of fg before, but it was the one i started to train), and 6 months afterward i lost my kensou inputs already...years laters i learned that the steam version is 15% faster than the normal game...at least now i have some legacy skills for life that translate to any fg. I would actually fit,"the weeb" now just because of the all or nothing mentallity with low life, NEVER GIVE UP! the self hatred is also true, but then you watch the replay and learn what you did wrong, and then do it again next match. Great video, i could see myself in more than one of those stereotypes.

I cant believe Gekko made an entire video to prove that the one pattern recognition observation he made that one time wasnt racist

18:27 As a Chipp main, I feel called out !!!

3:27 i remember when i got blazblue on a sale and the first thing i did was ask a dude to play his best characther agaisnt me I lost, but i had fun

"Humans are hard-wired in order to recognize patterns pretty easily. It partly why why evrybody you talk to says they have OCD."

The complainer: "OMG that's sooooooo broken" "Brooooooooo, that character takes no skill" "Quit spamming!" "Quit mashing" "Quit doing combos" "Quit lagging"

2:26 dude i remember being like that when i started few months ago, its one of the best starting fg experiences ever (beside doing ur first perfect)

It's an interesting choice to name the archetype "The Ego" instead of just calling him Leffen

The monke: They do things because they can, it doesn’t matter if it yields positive or negative results within a match. Coherency hardly exists with the monke play style. They’ll throw 5 dps back to back and then throw an addition 6th one just because they can

I like your unique approach to games. It feels from the heart.

I think unga fits in any of these catagories too. Someone who's sorta like the "chill" player, but is also just having a good time in general. They know they can put more effort or think more about the game and what they are doing, but they choose to live in bliss and just do dumb shit, putting only the effort they deem worthy for a good time.

2:11 hey das me! Gekko, you got me into guilty gear and so far I love it, thank you.

I am 100% the Nerd, even irl people always tell me I need to shut up that I go on for too long. But I like never lab, I just learn from dustloop and playing the game.

The 'Scurb' is crazy fr

Call me an Italian chef because all I make is spaghetti but I'm having a great time.

Nooooooo I misclicked came back and it was gone

I aspire to be a "Chill". I wouldn't call myself zen, but I hope to reach that level.

hello, am greg, do not have friends and enjoy playing alone, but being competitive removes all the fun from any game i play. hope youre all enjoying whatever game youre playing rn and hope you have a good year ❤

It's me. I'm Greg. my friend group usually says "you're really good" at every game I play but I just dont stick to any game. I just want to have fun

I can relate to a lot of these at least to some degree, I'm like... 20% Ego 30% Rage/ "Scrub" 30% Chill 5% Weeb 15% Nerd I would generally argue that a lot of ways in which you summarize scrubs/ragers is a total misunderstanding. At least for myself as an admitted rager, I know that my rage or salt comments dont come from the places or beliefs that you ascribe to them.

HC being the scrub must've been talkin 'bout Leffen lmaoo

I was thinking you’d have what id like to call “The Gremlin”. Someone who isn’t too concerned about winning or losing but lives for the chaos and mischief. Basically a greg but if they were more of a lil shit

23:35 I feel so called out right now. I say shit like this and then IAD into a 6P 4 times anyways.

I think I’m the baby … I started playing like 3 weeks ago and every time I win or figure out a cool combo, or even get stuck in a combo from someone else I get so hyped and amazed . This game is just so cool … I also main Sin LOL

Lol “every 3 hit combo” “there’s moves that are invincible” I remember feeling that, and those combos of light medium heavy were really satisfying

Coddling new players is how you get the "overwhelming ego" types in the first place.

It's kinda funny. Watching this pointed out I turn into an anti ego. Instead of others I call out my lack of performance or learning. Takes a while but once I get there we'll it's not good for anyone.

When he listed off the names of the living legends. He listed off every single person I was thinking of. In the exact same order. That's was kind of scary lol

I think another category would be the impulse fighter, everything they do is based of of instinct and what they feel like doing it like their mind is on autopilot and can somehow combo from random interactions easily because they feel something will work and 90% of the time it does

i dont play fighting games but i have a friend who is deep into the genre and sometimes when i check in to the chat i would see a dozen screens worth of text of him explaining how a single move works

Amazing video as always!!!!

The video missed one stereotype, which I was waiting for. The "braindead". We ALL know that guy, the man to just do a bunch of stuff, throw out random moves, etc, and it WORKS. If you ask "How did you do that", they'd probably reply "I don't even know". They go for the "funny'' moves and do stupid things NO ONE else does. Usually have sauce, but when you least expect it. You know the guy.

Me smiling at the end realizing I am greg

"The Scrub" *Looks inside* THE SCURB

The Greg type completely sums up why I’m watching this video and how I see them

"I shouldn't switch, because it will bring down my performance" hahahaha.. perfect.. you got me bro.. peace yo :3 ♥ and shoutouts to "greg"

i'm so obsessed with gekkos lil hula dance

Ima hafta start integrating “SCRIMBLO BLIMBLO” into my irl vernacular 😂

"They're not toxic, just self-obsessed to an obnoxious and destructive degree" You do not know what toxic means.

The baller: There is no such thing as disadvantage to them. Fear is but a social construct. Wether they are -1 or -100, one phrase will echo in their mind. "Fuck it, we ball." Win or lose, they will keep ob ballin

How shoukd i feel about being a little of everything except living legend? Like, im a baby, of course i am. I sometimes watch matches and go "i wouldve done X" but instead of "but thats just me" i say "but what do i know im a scrub" im a scrub, sometimes ill blame something else, mainly lag, and i only do when its "the game is literally slowing down" lag, im chill, once i when 0-20 against a ky player who the next day had the "most wins today" award, and he helped me understand the game and im very thankful for him. I wouldnt actively call myself a weeb, but hey i like anime, manga, jp videogames and the actual japanese culture and history to the point i devided to learn the language, im a nerd, i like learning about games when il not actively playing, and im greg because i want to have fun and friends having fun too.

the Egoist is how my friends are with fighting games... except they all are also huge fuckin rage monsters

As a player whos only been playing for under a 100 hrs, decided to pick up sin and went from floor 6 to floor 3 in the span of 2 days, the part where Crawl plays and Sin gets his shit rocked hit a certain chord

I'd like to believe that i'm Greg. I have abandoned Strive for months after the honeymoon period, because PS4 SEA lobbies are so dead that graveyard looks like a festival compared to it. But now that i have one friend who really want to play Strive, i reinstall Strive and i have been having a lot of fun playing with him. Same thing with GBVS, the game is dead but god damn it was really fun playing few matches with my friend. Now i really believe that Fighting Games will never die as long as the online is at least good, and you have that one enthusiastic friend who'd love to spar with you.

Hey, I just wanted to stop by and say that this video was SUPER entertaining. The first 3 groups in the first part of my watching were nice but watching the rest really made me see myself and the people around me in different degrees of these stereotypes. As someone who was a MEGA weeb for GG (and still is, to some extent), but got too much of an ego and failed miserably to become a living legend, I now find a lot of joy in just being "the greg" with a touch of lore 🤓 to get the true feeling of emotion in those around me. Something about "No need for a grand purpose in life to be enjoyable" or something.

Dude, I literally knew a guy in Tekken who whole lose a match, say "I'll be back for u later", and come back the next day after a "training arc" (button mashing in training mode) and have the same result. This was an infinite loop and it is as stupid as it sound. He literally thought that punching trees made u a better fighter IRL!

Honestly, it's been a while since I've opened any windows in my house. It's not like I'm a pseudo vampire or anything, I do indeed touch grass fairly often. But my windows seem to just be off limits. I guess months worth of insects will do that to you, won't it.

I'm definitely the Nerd. I have more time in lab than in actual matches.

Bst FGC video ive seen in a WHILE

Some may categorize me as an ego player, but I like to see myself as the living legend player

Im currently a new player to guilty gear and every single opponent in "casual" mode is floor 10 and wipe the floor out of me 20 times then i win one round and get beaten the shit out of again. It made me learn the game faster than i think i would ever do in training mode/people in the same level as me

This is off topic ASL but I didn't expect to see eternal return in a gekko vid

I did not expect to see De Blob today

I always referred to Living Legends as "The Gods" but your description is exactly what I mean.

I think I'm somewhere between the baby and the chill