As an I-no player myself, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm not playing Strive, I'm playing Ace Combat, and they will never expect the 5th overhead

"Are we negative? No the fuck we aren't, we're ballin'!" is the same energy as "you're only negative if you're a bitch"

wait... accurately sized body pillow of Faust?? That's like 40% more pillow than most other characters!! I see this as an absolute win

17:17 We Leo players aren’t being risky we’re being canonically accurate

My brother got me into this game a few months ago and just plain out asked me who I wanted to play on the character select screen, I picked happy chaos and he said "not him, anybody but" and thats how I started to main happy chaos

"You're only minus if you're a bitch" -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

As a Faust main I think I speak on behalf of my fellow doktors that it's not about winning, we just want to see how much chaos we can cause and it's incredibly fun

Potemkin part is very accurate, every time I hit a HPB I shout HEAVENLY POTEMKIN BUSTER out loud from excited, so yes, basically a cult

You are kinda wrong about Potemkin, we are not trying to convert you to the order of Grab... We already succeeded

As a faust main i can say you left the most important part of the character out, we are a hivemind with no mind, we all fight with no idea of what we are going to do next but when put one faust main against another we will proceed to make a weird kinda dance that is completely incomprehensible to anyone else.

May main here Anyway, do you guys think agressive panting or screaming is the more fun expression of terror? Screaming is the classic, and I do agree it has it's charms. Due to screaming bringing out the individual's voice much more, you really get that sense of uniqueness every time you hear it. It's like a classical symphony, and every scream you hear is like a new interpretation. On the other hand, I've really started to appreciate panting lately. It conveys this sense of being weak, like you don't even have the energy left to scream, so you let your breathing do all the work. It really says a lot about how terrified someone is when they focus more on getting away from you than on expressing said terror. So honestly, I can't decide which one I prefer. Oh sorry, we were talking about Strive mains, right? Yeah, I think the shoes are an important part of the outfit.

8:30 he doesn’t just say the names of his moves, he’ll just say random Japanese words during his rekka sometimes. He’ll just say “sushi” “sukiyaki” (another Japanese food) “banzai” Sometimes it makes more sense, and he’ll say “mune” and “ashimoto” which means chest and feet respectively, since that’s where he’s hitting. Still hilarious, and I love the victory line “go be a ninja”

"Soundsmith series" i love how TF2 YTbers and FGC crosses over all the time!

I'd like to say as a Nago player you are 100% correct. I've actually said "What the fuck is a plus on block" unironically before.

As a Faust (and somehow almost always low-to-mid tier in every fighting game) main, it feels refreshing to know that people know how much effort we put in to be un unpredictable little gremlin. I live for those games where the opponents just have no idea to deal with the funny doctor man, so they get surgically sliced to ribbons by a character that almost looks like he doesn't know what he's doing himself.

I love how all of these descriptions are literally just the characters themselves: Sol just slaps shit until things die, Leo is literally Unga Bunga, and Faust is literally held together with string and prayers

You have to remember the thing about us Potemkin mains, we all share the same brain cell. We've accepted that this one brain cell is the only one all of us will ever have and it will only ever tell us the answer to the only question we all have: Can I Buster this? and the answer is always yes

And then there's the third kind of Testament: **HORNIER THAN I-NO MAINS**

A quick Bridget stereotype, since she's been out for a bit now: You're either transfem, think she's cute or want someone who looks like may but don't want to get screamed at for playing may

Having played Ram since Rev, I was happy she was high tier in this game. Then I remembered how much bitching came with that and I was no longer happy. If I'm gonna be a villain because I like Ram, I might as well play a damn good one. Also I'm fighting for my fucking life to beat these slanderous foot fetish accusations.

Anji main here to say he's absolutely right. We're well aware we're playing a bad character, but it still works, and a core part of that is believing that you're better than anyone else at your level. You have to believe, or else you lose. The fuujin machine is powered by hype

I'm a Baiken main and I've never used a Roman Cancel on purpose in my life. Not even once.

As a Nagoriyuki main, you hit the nail on the head. I just do things, and they just work, and I like that. I don't necessarily know how or why it works, and I frankly just don't care enough to try and do research on stuff I'm actually "supposed" to do, because thinking is hard.

The Anji player experience, summarized by a Simpsons meme. “Anji is a Jack of all trades, allowing him to quickly adapt to many situations.” *Thats Good!* “Literally every other character in the game has better options for any situation.” *Thats bad* “His autoguard ability allows you to advance and apply pressure on your opponents while dodging attacks.” *Thats Good!* “Most of the time the enemy has already recovered by the time you’re close enough to attack.” *Thats bad* “His counter super is almost instant, making it a good option when at a disadvantage or in blockstun.” *Thats Good!* “You will almost never land it, and even if you do, there is a chance it will activate the ranged version, which is not as good.” *Thats bad* “Most of Anji’s toolkit revolves around rekka, but on launch he could not follow up any of his tools on whiff, meaning that half of his already limited moveset will be non-existent if the opponent simply presses up.” …………. “That is bad.”

As a Millia player I solemnly swore to dedicate my life to the mix, the whole mix and nothing but the mix. It doesn't count as a win if the H-disk is not out!

I-no players tell you to 6P the overhead and then frametrap you into a repeating wallslump

"Finishing combo with a super into a wallbreak would definately kill" Foolish mistake, clearly you dont actually play Millia if you think anything like that would kill

As a Millia main, you don't actually want to base your spring farm around turnips. They are pretty low cost, but they have much worse profit margin compared to other plants. At the start of your farm, you actually want either potato or green bean for best profit.

As a Faust main I pretty much agree with all that you said about the character and it's refreshing to see someone not just view him as the bad pick.

From reddit, I've learnt many Anji-mains cope by saying "they win in the lore" cos their main would - eventually - get to be with GG's best waifu.

The Goldlewis section made me laugh. I'm a Goldlewis main who actually believed the propaganda at first but as I got better I was like wait a fucking second...

As a Faust main, you forgot one crucial detail; Most player would say we are on massive copium support, when in reality, us losing so many match-up so hard our life force get sapped away and we are all on life support to not just instantly die on the spot when our big brain combo does as much, if not less than most characters bread and butter combo

1:45 Sol 3:04 Ky 4:43 May 6:42 Axl 8:16 Chipp 9:52 Potemkin 11:24 Faust 12:53 Millia 14:15 Zato 15:51 Ramlethal 17:18 Leo 18:48 Nagoriyuki 20:16 Giovanna 22:00 Anji 23:32 I-No 24:58 Goldlewis 26:37 Jack-o 28:04 Happy chaos 29:30 Baiken 31:06 Testament

"You have a foot fetish" Actually i have a thigh fetish!

The assessment on Nago is too true. As a Nago main, i can attest that I dont care about your frames, i just wanna play the game lol

"You're either an asshole or a cow, pick your poison" Alternatively, you're a shitposter who's favorite BlazBlue character is Yuki Terumi or Hazama, and your favorite Persona 4 Arena character is Adachi. "Sarcastic chaotic villain" is your spirit animal.

As a Leo main, the gambling part is true, but its more of the testosterone he makes you let out. When you play him the goal is to assert dominance, become the alpha and earn the right to mate. Makes you feel like a spartan from 300.

Nago players being "Hearts" is fitting considering the kanji on his mask and jacket

As a Ky main I have to say that you forgot that all of us become gorillas when the main chorus of his theme starts playing

as an axl main I'm scared with how accurately you described my life in detail. Including the Mai dakimakura.

I used to be a May main, but I switched to Faust to repent for my sins. Jokes aside Faust just feels amazing to play with for me and I love how he has so much random tech. I don't care that he's not that good in this game I just want to have fun and do the best I can do with this character, talking with people who also play Faust is fun as well.

"What kind of person would make their fellow humans deal with disjointed hitboxes" Coming from a Giovanna player and her magic feet that hits you with their aura

As a certified player of most of the DK crew I can confirm that yeah we'll use our worst option every time because it's funny when it works. I want them to add Johnny to strive so I can stray away from the gorilla gang. Cause being a good Johnny (even though he was definitely the best character in xrd) does actually take character knowledge, he's not an easy character to pick up but he is strong when he's learned well and I miss that.

8:24 And chipp, canonically, is both of those things. Fitting

Us Faust players pride ourselves in the fact that our character is objectively the best written and the best design wise Besides zato maybe he cool

I wasn't too sure about what you were saying for Anji, but the "telling your opponent how to punish Anji and immediately counterplaying it" bit is the most spot on thing ever. The biggest Anji meme is letting everyone believe he's gorilla.

Dirty Axl main here is concerned how you knew about my diet and my maiden situation... Fun fact, I picked up Axl specifically to annoy my friend, and the rest is history. I concur that confrontation is scary.

man, it’s rough being the only gay I-no main in the world who picked her because her guitar looked cool

Wake up babe, new Gekko video just dropped.

Goldlewis main here, and I thoroughly believe the tendency to downplay Goldlewis is because three of his hardest Matchups, those being Gio, Chaos and Sol, Are INCREDIBLY common characters online

I feel like there is a separate type of Happy Chaos main that play him because of his character in the story. I picked him up day 1 as a secondary because he's just such a goofy and lovable guy

Two ends of the Ky Spectrum 1. Thought Roar of the Spark was a pretty neat song. 2. GO FORTH, DONT LOOK BACK

I appreciate that you actually tried with potemkin's stereotype instead of just "clown"

8:44 this is literally gameplay footage of me and my friends, they'll be like "Damn he good" and in my brain is just neco arc gio

me, an Axl player; "what, that's not true, my desk isn't-" then the three empty pop tart wrappers caught my eye

Axl is pretty much my entire personality ever since I was born. And time control is one of the only powers I've liked in any piece of media.

Ok I had to laugh at the Faust section. I'm a believer hook line, and golfclub. only thing it's missing is no mention of the people who play strictly for TEH FUNNIEZ

Gonna be honest, I'm usually super iffy on these stereotype videos. A lot of them just devolve into the creator being really toxic over the charatcers they don't like. This video genuinely has heart to it and feels more like a fine roast rather than burnt charcoal black. Also i'd like to give a shoutout to the massive Bi/Pan awakening Testament caused in Strive.

I've talked to NotPichu, one of the best Jack'O's in the world, and almost word for word they were like that, just a depressed guy trying his best to speed through inputs until he gets slapped by Hotashi

I have found that Axl mains are easily fascinated with lemons.

As a Ram player I have to say, the reasons I play Ram is: 1- She’s cute 2- She’s cool 3- Big Sword no. 1 4- Big Sword no. 2 5- She’s fun af to play 6- Hamburger

Testament makes sense TBH. Them in Strive is just vibing in life, and so are the players, just going about their FG journey

The potemkin section made me realize a few things about how I became a Potemkin main

As a Ram main, I can confirm I hate every single person I fight by default

Me as a Ramlethal main: Yeah, sounds about right.

As a Zato main, I was confused why people always run away from me. Now I know. Also explains why I was surprised when you claimed Faust is the worst character.

I once finished a game by doing beyblade 3 times. They blocked the first two, but they didnt expect the third. So yes, the Nago stereotype is correct as far as I am concerned

bridget main stereotypes: you're trans and have never touched a fighting game in your life, have no clue what anything means and are just here to support the cute yo-yo girl.

"Oi, did you see that command grab?? I love command grabs, they're my FAVOURITE!!" ..."Oi, did you get the broom closet ending?? The broom closet ending was my FAVOURITE!!" If this was an intentional reference, I hereby offer you oral.

I felt attacked with the chipp one, I do have those monologues 😔😔

Where’s is Bridget 😢

Goldlewis mains are like bbtag neo mains, “she don’t got damage oh help me” _sets up an unreactable 50/50 that’s safe on block coz why not_

As an Anji player I can confidently say... you didn't have to be so raw ;_;

As a nago main, I was watching that nago gameplay and kept thinking "Kamuriyuki after the second hit of far slash, then fukyo backwards, DO IT ITLL WORK", so yes, we definitely like making up ways to mix people up and put them back under pressure. It's why I still love playing Nago.

The amount of times I've had a Millia not end a combo with the super that could have won them the round is absolutely absurd.

As a Potemkin main, I only have one thing to say: we know where you are again. start running.

"Are we negative? No the fuck we're not we're BALLIN'" is my new life philosophy

As a Nago main, I appreciate you for acknowledging our collective galaxy brain

The reason I play ky is because he seems like the "sword in one hand, spell in the other" Architype. And I'm a big fan of that. Plus I'm pretty much brand new to fighting games, so he looks like a good all-rounder learning tool.

I was a Faust believer until I started playing Testament. Now I'm just depressed I spent so much time trying to make my boi work just for the rug to be swept out from under him by GENDER NEUTRAL. I'll still main him though. I can't give up on paper bag man!

Sol: SLASHSLASHSLASHSLASH- Ky: STUNEDGEFONDUARCSTUNEDEG- May: TOTSUGEKITOTSUGEKITOT- Chipp: WOAHSPEEDBETABLADEGAMMA-oh I died… Milla: THEFLOORISLAVAANDIAMQUEEN Potemkin: Excuse me sir/ma’am I would like to give you a hug if you don’t mind just let me get close thank you. Axl: SOCIALDISTANCINGSOCIALDISTANCING- Leo: *actual gorilla sounds* Ramlethal: Gun, and if that don’t work, use more dp. Faust: Many consider him low tier but you don’t care and I respect that, also square one. Nagoriyuki: Holy fuck how the hell did you kill that fast?! Anji: FUJINFUJINFUJIN- Zato: Actually no joke they scary. Giovanni: idk, I guess you use the cross up a lot? I-no: you mix people more than a mixer. Goldlewis: you looked at his character guide and probably thought he’s op. Jack-o: You crouch at any opportunity, you firmly believe that if you have no idea what you’re doing, your opponent won’t. Happy chaos: either you’re a ballsy chaos who gets in there, or you’re one of those who stays far away and spam the steady aim move. Baiken: You spam gun whenever the opponent does anything, and you like huge melons, I don’t blame you tbh. Testament: honestly I have nothing for them.

Great FGC content love to see it!!

All the characters I’ve considered and why Faust: gambling. Item toss is dope Giovanna: aww doggo Jacko: I like pumpkins Baiken: that grapple looks dope

Couldn't agree more with the nagoriyuki. I hit floor 8 faster than I realized something such as super jump exists.

Sajam “ah sick pot buster make some noise!”

as a ky player i really love stagger pressure and stun dipper RC but i also enjoy working on a really clean defense. Idk i just think good defense is sick af

As someone who switched from Day 1 Chaos to Jack-O. I would say the feeling of control is easily the best feeling ever. I really like breaking my wrists when doing pressure and get pissed when pot PBs me mid pressure because I destroyed my hands so badly.

I played Faust and I'm proud to say I held off f dropping Mai for Billy in kof this week, which would have been going from high tier to low (Billy is new but looks pretty rough). Maybe I've gotten over getting overly attached to characters based on non gameplay things... Faust just has such a cool EVERYTHING!

I just got into strive and I play chaos because of his personality and the fact that his play style is so unique and fun (also I’m scared of people and frame one full screen panic damage is great for my level) and it’s so weird that this goofy theatre god has such a toxic main base. When he’s god tier for memey bullshit how do you sweat swamp funny theatre homie

*Plays Axl in Strive* *Plays Mai on BBCF* Errrr... I can explain

Zato is one of those hard characters that gets to be busted because he's hard to play.

as a person who has no knowledge about guily gear, what you said about sol players was 100% accurate

As someone who switched from testament to May because I was tired of getting "oooops'd" to death. This is completely true. I want everyone else to feel my pain

You described Nago so accurately it pushed me to switch mains

Also noticing..... Woman's bare feet = "You PERV!!!" Man's bare feet = "Just another day in fighting games, have at it!" Lollerskates

1:36 let’s just hope it doesn’t crush your soul like it did his! 😅

Chipp and Potemkin mains gonna have hilarious relationships

Edit: After watching Baccpack explain his thoughts on Goldlewis matchups, I can see where people get the idea that Goldlewis players are downplayers. But I think that's just his thing. I think you mixed up Goldlewis with jack-o tbh, any Goldlewis main (and me) I talked to over the months said that he's a good character who doesn't require any particular buffs. It's usually the people whod on't play Goldlewis beyond the firsat 20 minutes when he came out that will tell you that the character sucks. Meanwhile I go to any major Jack-O players stream and they will tell me about how Jack-O can't win majors, they have to work so hard, the character doesn't function, and why can't their character be more like Ram and Zato?

Leo main here and I'll have you know that after this video I had to open 100 loot boxes to make myself feel better

While I don’t play Strive specifically, I’ve dabbled in Xrd and *love* GG to death. Probably my favorite fighting game series ever. GG is what got me out of my small world of smash and into the FGC. That said, I have a couple mains or characters I’d like to explain. Faust: Your explanation was pretty much on the dot. Wouldn’t drop him for the world. Ever. I love ‘em so much, you have no idea. Like him, I also just wanna help everyone despite my mental state being awful. That and I like characters with weapons, but I only tend to go for two handed ones for style and style alone, sorry Ky, swords are boring. Potemkin: Oh yeah, baby. You know it. Out of the four main archetypes,(shoto, rushdown, zoner, grappler) grappler is by far my favorite. Am I a slut for command grabs? You bet you’re sweet fucking bippy I am. Mr. Squirrel was spot on. Pot is who I’d play for game purposes, play style and all that, while Faust is more of a heart character for me. Goldlewis: So hear me out. I’m a “heavy main” in smash, so that transfers over to traditional fighters and anime fighters the same. I like grapplers *and* big bodies. I like ‘em thicc, what can I say. That and Goldlewis vaguely resembles my main in smash, Dedede. That and it’s the closest thing to a hammer I’m getting in Strive so I’ll take what I can get. Since I don’t play Strive, the explanation in the video doesn’t technically add up, but I admit I’ve used the “I’m playing a low tier” card before in smash, so I suppose it counts. Testament: But I don’t play the game? How does this add up? It doesn’t. Gottem. But anyways, Testament is a lot of things. For one, I love the scythe. Big yes. I love the design. Bigger yes. Two big reasons though. The first is that he’s got the he/she shtick going on, which is also prevalent in their theme. To keep it simple, it’s just nice to have a character to relate to in that regard. Reason number two is actually funny. Testament is my horny character. There, I said it. I’m not even down bad anymore, I’m down despicable. ‘Nough said. *Anyways*, what he said in the video was true. Fighting game characters max to me at least, feel like an extension of ourselves onto the game. That’s why people love them, or that’s a least a part of the reason. I’m just happy that such an amazing game exists. Thanks for making this video, Squirrel. And thanks for reading my comment, stranger.