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character loyalty is real because if you play your main enough they'll become real and have lunch with you

My criteria for a main character: First name must be Sol Last name must be Badguy

"sometimes people will buy a game entirely for one character" started evil music in my head. Long cold side eye to bridget

Strive's mission mode is great when trying to learn the game mechanics and learning the cast's quirks and features (I saw that happy chaos chair spin gif and THAT'S why i main him. I wanted to be kidding about this.)

I main Nagoriyuki for one simple reason: We share the same birthday and I like sword characters.

Here's my advice: Don't stress yourself out about finding a main when first starting out. If you're just playing casually there's no stress trying to pick that character immediately, having a main is necesary to improve once you want to do that, but if you just want to get the grip of things and dunno who to pick just pick whoever you want and eventually somebody will click naturally. Several times I've found a main in a game that I didn't even decide "Aight, imma main them", I just enjoyed them at first and they naturally clicked in that position.

WTF, I DID have chicken dinner.

3:30 this is why I’m so thankful Bridget is possibly one of the best characters for new players, and still holds together at high level. I went from loving her character, to loving both her gameplay and character.

Every fighting game gives me an immediate character crisis cause I'm one of those weirdos that likes most archetypes, Zoner, Rushdown, Grappler I've played them all. Picking a character is usually one of the hardest parts for me.

GekkoSquirrel: take a SIMPLE character. Me: Systematically picking some of the hardest character.

What i did for picking up Potemkin as my main: first got strive, which is my first real fighting game, and then messed around for 1 to 2 days in training mode and with my friend. After playing half the cast and playing one match with pot, i knew he was the one. Then i looked up an in depth guide for him (1 hour and 16 minutes, thanks roofelmonger) and played around in training mode for about 3 to 4 hours while following the guide and trying out new things. Here i am 9 months later doing kara cancels and watching top level players to find new combos for different situations. Man fighting games are fun.

"you're not gonna die because you switched off your main for 1 or 2 matches." Tell that to the Potemkin that rocked my shit 3 games in a row when I tried to pick up May.

Hot take I understand not wanting to feel carried But a good character doesn't stop a bad player being bad You still have to put in a lot of work no matter who you play, and if anything higher end characters tend to get matched against other high end characters, especially mirrors

It's usually immediately obvious to me who I am going to like. Big? Armored? Vaguely comedic? Winner. Potemkin, Tager, Big Band, Goldlewis, it helps to have a type of character you connect with. In my opinion, whoever you think looks the coolest is the best place to start. Your enthusiasm will carry you until you figure out if it isn't for you.

Good Point, However... Potemkin does indeed need a buff

My method for picking my main in GBVR was looking at the roster, seeing that Zooey has dustloops and picking her. It is quite simple, but effecive

The solution is to pick Giovanna because she's adorable and never switch!

8:17 this part hit me hard. I’ve been playing granblue recently and absolutely love Seox but felt bad playing him because he’s so strong and have been going back and forth in the roster ever since trying to figure out who to play when I should’ve just played who I wanted to play (‘:

I picked up fighting games with Strive because I liked Anji's theme and ended up getting an even cooler character in the process. His combos were pretty easy to get down, but that spin threw me through a loop. I loved the challenge of it! Now I'm taking some downtime and playing some simpler characters, like Elphelt and Sin. Maybe I'll pick up Ram so that I can make the Birthday Train trio when 3v3 comes out

Gotta say, I started playing Strive as my first real fighting game, I KNEW the moment I saw him, Axl looked and felt for me. I am one of those rare cases of I find main and more I play them I just keep liking them more and more. All from lore to character type to voice acting (Octo is fucking awesome) to what they actually stand for (you know, war crimes, I am doing war crimes and loving it).

Anji's whole style is what made me main him. The guy is a big muscular traditional dancer that just spins around his opponents. I fucking love that

Gekko: I don't play zoners. Also Gekko: *Plays Johnny*

This was me with Guile when I started SF2. The dumb hair, me liking charge motions and footsies, didn't have a absurd number of different moves to remember, everything pretty much just connected then and there. My nephew decided to pick Zangief which was a bit odd to me since he was new, but then he game 1 figured out how to consistently do the full circle motion grapples so I didn't say anything after that lmao.

Main criteria 1 Must have a big sword. 2. Must be a vampire

I always enjoy rushdowns the most. Then I saw BIG CHUNGUS POTEMKIN and was just forced to main him

My introduction to fighting games was learning how to play Voldo in SC6 despite being told he's among the most complex characters to pick up for a beginner. His animations and movements were just so rad. Turns out I dig a trial by fire if the character jives with me, because every single game I end up gravitating to whoever has some cryptic ass mechanics or weird execution. Strange gameplans are what screw me up when I'm starting out. Voldo may have 4 or 5 stances with various moves putting you in or out of them, but his basic idea of FS = pokes and whiff punishes, BS = better, stubby buttons, and MC = mixups was easy to grasp despite the surrounding complexity. Compare that to Yuzu in UNI, and I had a lot more trouble figuring out *how* to play until I figured out how to boil her down a bit, despite happily getting used to her mechanical side.

Sometimes, first impressions matters. When I started playing GGST (my first FG) I started with Gio, because she looks cool and easy, but as I began to play regularly, I told myself "she'll quickly be redundant", so I picked I-no, absolutely hated her hoverdash, and swapped to Anji. I learned a lot playing Anji, I like his gameplay, but I didn't get the same feeling as some other characters, like I wasn't that comfortable in calling myself an Anji main despite loving the gameplay, because I wasn't that fond of the character itself. So after a long break, I picked Jack-O because I love her design, personnality, and near limitless possibilities. But I'm not great with hard characters, and even while loving her gameplay, having the best step up of overall knowledge of the game, etc... I still had this hunch that it wasn't right. And guess what, I came back to Giovanna. And God do I love her. And even after all that, I still had fun with Anji and Jack-O, and I learned a lot of things with them I probably wouldn't have if I never dropped Gio, so don't be afraid if you struggle to find a main quickly, it's never lost if you're learning/having fun !

The Chicken dinner joke caught me off guard cause I was actively eating fried chicken during my work lunch break.

After a while, you kinda get a sense of what you like. Typically, I like grinding setups and combos so most of my characters tend to be gimmicky setplay characters or zoners. Like in strive I use Jack o and Bridget, sf6 I use Kimberly, idol showdown I use sora. Which is why in gbvr I use Nier. Its's almost like I'm playing Jack o in another game 😂

this is why I really love asuka r kreutz from ggs. you are quite literally fighting your character more than you're fighting your opponent and that's how you win.

my issue is i end up liking most of the casts as i like all archetypes so sticking to one is the hardest thing for me

My strategy that I've used since SF:3S is just: Looking at the roster, then picking whoever looks the coolest to me. It's worked out great so far, playing Twelve in my first fighter, to Noob Saibot, Nagoriyuki and now Avatar/Belial. It's always such a blast seeing someone decide on their main, it says a lot about them and in reality is usually a very deep rooted choice :)

How I found my main: - Name myself JohnnyTudix in game - See character named Johnny - Never touch another character

How I picked my main: 1. YT recommended Strive 2. YT recommended potemkin funny clips 3. Buy Strive for potemkin 4. Main potemkin

I recently picked up Strive, with my only other fighting game adjacent experiences being an unhealthy amount of smash ultimate and goofing around in Skullgirls Mobile. I immediately gravitated towards Ram because she looked cool and when I saw the puppy on the win screen I knew she was who I was gojng to main. I've had a lot of fun over this first week and have began experimenting with Baiken aswell and thats been a lot of fun too, so I'm probably gonna stick with those two. Great video btw

This is a great video. I've recently gotten quite into Guilty Gear XX Accent Core and I really want to play A.B.A. I love her design, her voice, and her personality a lot. The problem is she doesn't really play how I really like and I find her too complicated. Although I'd love to try her later when I can actually do a GG input, for now I'm sticking with Sol, May, and Jam and I keep experimenting until I find a character I like. Although I'd like to find a main, I'm just gonna keep trying things out until I find something.

my first fg was strive, i legit just tried ky at first for reasons I don't remember, ever since that day i main nothing but shotos

I remember falling in love with Dizzy from Guilty Gear, but being completely unable to handle her. I played Ky because he was easy. Then, I played Jam and got really familiar with how the game worked (even though every character is a world apart) and was not intimidated by speed eventually. Then it was Millia, for a bit, and then back to Jam (I was able to do brutal combos now!) Once I got confident enough, I got back to Dizzy and, slowly, learned how to handle her. I was destroying everyone with her in a matter of days. It was her mojo that kept me trying and the experience I gained that let me try again. Sometimes you like a character's design so much you want to make them do cool stuff. So, yeah. ❤ Every character has a specialty and sometimes there are transitory characters that show you the way...

I did the same thing with Ken, I recently switched to Juri and it made a world of difference lol

Earlier this year, I had a character crisis in Strive. When the game just came out, my first main was Ky. I liked his design and his gameplay. He's extremely easy to play, his combos are simple and intuitive, his damage is high, and he has options for every situation. I was a beginner in Guilty Gear, since Strive is my first serious dive into the series (I played a bit of the previous games when I was a kid, but it was never hardcore), so he was perfect for me. Plus, I don't like very technical and execution-heavy characters in general. However, playing a lot of him ended up being very boring for me, just as it was with SF6 Ken for Gekko here. I still like to play him, but now I only occasionally do that in casual sets against my friend. My second main was Bridget. I liked her for... the wrong reasons, but her gameplay was interesting and fun too. However, she ended up being not for me. Too much risk and execution for not enough reward. Even though I got into Celestial with her many times, at some point I just stopped having fun with the character. It was just pure sweat, and when I play like that, I get tilted easily when I lose. So, I was kinda stuck. Then, just as I was about to almost drop the game, Johnny came out and dragged me back into it. I'll never have a character crisis again. This character is just too good. Ever since the game came out, he was my most expected DLC character because I really like his looks and personality. I like characters who are like that in any fighting game and, if there are any, I tend to pick them as my mains. Johnny Cage is my favorite MK character, for example. I mained him in MK11, and would've mained him in MK1, if I had bought the game. So, when ArcSys announced Johnny at EVO this year, I was ecstatic. After hearing about what he was like in Xrd, I was a bit afraid he'd be too execution-heavy and complicated in Strive, but I was determined to overcome that. I didn't have to. He ended up being just perfect for me. I've been playing him non-stop for almost four months already, and I'm still having so much fun.

I like to play simple characters, I quite enjoy seeing people do fancy ass combos with 50/50's, cross ups, resets and a bunch of other stuff, but I'm over here thinking that I only need to hug you once.

5:54 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

As soon as I first got the game, I immediately picked Nago because I liked how he looked. I then decided to play him a bit and immediately fell in love with his gameplay too (I like characters with long swords that can hit across the stage). I tried out Sin when I got the season 2 pass and liked him too (he talks a lot about eating food and I love food) so now I largely play Nago and Sin. I'll have to figure out which one of them is going to be my true main though.

I often have one or several characters I'm interested in before trying the game, I try them, and if I like how they play, I main them. That was Makoto in Street Fighter, King and Iori in Kof... So far the game where it took me the most time to pick a main was Blazblue. At first I tried Valkenhayn, since I liked the "gentleman werewolf" concept, but it didn't click. The other characters that interested me was Hakumen, but as a newbie casual, I didn't quite grasp how he worked, most of the other characters didn't quite attract me so for a while I played Tagger because I liked how playing him felt, and Ragna (since he is easy). Then finally, after I was familiar with the game, I read Hakumen tutorial, and tried him again, finally settling on him as my main.

I love Johnny, I will never not love Johnny. But the addition of Elphelt to strive made me play her in order to understand how to counter it.

How I found my main: Played Jack o gooning ensues Mains Jack o

Can't wait to watch this and jump on strive and still be like damn who am I gonna play

That May scream is gold

I've been thinking of getting this game so this is great timing

The reason I became a Chun Li player is because I got bopped by a Chun on 3rd Strike, went into training mode and went, "Damn this 2MK goes real far" and thats how 7 years down the line I have Chun Li artwork on my fightstick and have her as my laptop wallpaper.

5:50 2b just got announced as a character in Rising and I will be buying the game purely to play her

Don't you love it when the stars align and your favorite character (Sin Kiske) also has your favorite archetype (rushdown)? Though my first (non-platform) fighting game was actually BlazBlue CF. I don't know how I immediately knew that I'd like playing Mai, but I remember it not taking long to find my main there (she's actually the reason why I learned that I like rushdowns!! :D) Which is ALSO funny, because of BBCF I learned that I hated zoners. I "mained" Absa in Rivals of Aether before this (I've now switched to Clairen and I based my custom skin of her off my cat)

When I was introducing my friend to ggst, I thought him to mark 3-5 characters they find interesting in design because why do you play the character if you dont like the whole design. I told him not to care about difficulty. Just to pick 3-5 characters. After that, I thought him everything unique with the character. I dont remember what exactly he picked but I remember explaining zato and why is he really hard and he dropped him after telling him about the puppet mechanics. Then we got into the training mode and started doing basic atks, air atks, and so on, then specials and supers. Then he tries to do a combo, doesnt matter how shiny it isx it just needs to be a combo. Then, after that, I tell him noob friendly optimal combos, I know. We did this for all 5 characters, and he chose to play with anji, and to this date, he still mains with him.

I don't why but it feels like Gekko made an video on this topic for the third time

I'm pretty new to fighting games, I starded with strive and when i saw I-NO i instantly feel in love with the design, and it happent that her gameplay it was perfect for the reckless unga bunga in your face type of play that I have, even if she is a little hard and not a high tier right now i still enjoy play with her.

I still remember how I ended up being a Robo-Fortune main in Skullgirls. Picked up because I have a love for cats and robots, stayed because she can do some really fun stuff all around. Bonus is that she also has some nice color references that make me use more than one or two (though Gravity Suit Samus is still a big go to) Either way finding a main in a fighting game is always a fun experience for me. There's a sense of wonder just toying with those characters and once you find the one it just clicks yo.

to be honest, i am one of the people that got into strive because of one character; that being baiken. something about the combo routes, instant overhead, tether mechanic and supers just kinda sold me and i havent played any other character after picking up the game. there are other two HUGE reasons why i play her but i dont think i need to elaborate.

i used to be a happy chaos main in ggst but i got so bored of just stomping ppl that i couldn’t play him anymore. and i loved almost everything else about him

Another way to pick a main that I wanted to list is liking the voice actor for the character. I've been maining Luke in Street Fighter 6 solely because of how much Aleks Le adds to his character by being a goofball online through voicing memes and making his own memes. It made me like the character way more, and I've mained him since the game launched.

Remember back in the day (pre MTX bullshit) my drive to collect every single outfit and skin made narrowing my main down REAL easy xD...

2:10 homie that was intrusive interrupted my zaxby's for dinner

My problem is that whenever I switch off my main character it feels like I cant do anything. I dont know the neutral tools or combos so it just ends up feeling unplayable. So I end up never trying out different characters

6:01 is so real cause I picked up Lucina in SSBU and legit went and played 4 Fire Emblem games.

I just try characters until one clicks with me enough to try to master it. I often just try them all at least once out of curiosity.

Just bought the game last week. Still deciding between may and ramlethal. Both is easy to play and kinda fun.

Never played a proper fighting game before. Got Strive after being bugged into it by a friend, and the moment I saw Faust I knew that I must use him until the day I die. I have not, and will not regret this decision.

I’m still new to guilty gear strive and fighting games as a whole and the 2 characters that I seem to be enjoying are Johnny and sin do you have any tips for playing them?

I learnt my characters key moves, general neutral, game plan, pressure, VERY noob combos. None of it mattered, everyone just knowledge checks me and cheeses out rounds the moment I start getting momentum...

anyone know if you can desactive the technical commands on this game like in grandblue versus rising?

The grappler or the gimmick. It’s no competition

I like being fast and alot of mix up potential so i wanted to play bucket but she was a dlc so i went full circle and now i play nagasaki

I’ve found if you like a character and can learn their gameplay then you’ll be fine. In Tekken I started out a king main until I could learn how to kbd properly then I would switch to Bryan who I always thought was the coolest character in game. After a few months of playing Bryan it eventually clicked and I haven’t looked back since. However I tend to stray away from other technical characters. I’m not really one to go to the lab for half an hour before going online.

8:15 (rant about people not playing characters because too strong) - Okay, but I mained Raven in Xrd, then I saw a whole-ass documentary about how he was an obnoxious character to play against who had fans up in arms, and then I saw a similar thing about Happy Chaos and I thought... damn he looks fun to play though The thing is that when I play games, I like to win, but I don't want that to be at the cost of my opponent's good time. I'm willing to reduce my winrate a bit if the net quantity of _fun_ is increased across both players. This helps me differentiate myself from my younger brother, who mains Ice Climbers in Melee

Whenever I start a new fighting game, I just pick any character purely based on looks/vibe. Then I discover their moveset and playstyle. After spending a couple hours with that character I don't feel like switching mains and just stick to them. For example my mains in different games are: Mk11: Joker - a midrange setup character. Mk1: Johnny - rushdown mixup character. Sf6: Cammy - goddess of footsies. GGST: Testament - full on zoner. And now GBVR: Katalina - basic ass shoto.

I swear "I like his jacket" must be a valid reason to pick a Kof character.

How I decide my main in Fighting games is... - go to training room, arcade, story or whatever "safe" environment the game has. - start picking characters and just mash buttons to see what characters I jell with at least at a first impression level - pick my favorite among these as my first main. - over time I play other characters cause I don't like doing the same thing over and over. I switch up characters after some rounds cause I get bored. - this leads into potentially switching mains as I find either more fun or more success in another character. This is what happened in Strive. I picked up Ram at the start cause waifu, big strong buttons, and among the base roster she was my favorite. But she dropped to secondary once I started playing Testament who I perform much better with. In GBVS I am deciding between Vira and Cagliostro rn. Both are really fun and I will definitely play both but it remains to be seen which one I'll end up playing more. Characters/things I avoid: - grapplers. Don't like em - big slow characters. Not a deal breaker. I like Nogoriyuki. But I often stand clear from them. - complex buttons/motions/combos/other mechanics. I strong reason I switched to Test in Strive is the fact she is the ONLY character that doesn't a half circle input. I can handle charge motions, quarter and DP, but I hate half circles and dread full circles. I also suck at combos so any way I can circumvent that even a little and that's good. So basically I gravitate to big normals and zoners. Tho rushdown isn't off the table.

When I picked up GGST, I picked up Potemkin because Grab. Now I gravitate towards Bedman? because lore reasons and it just feels right.

Literally my brother when we got guilty gear strive, he started maiming Zato because of how he looked like. I chose Ramlethal before we got DLC I started maining Testament and he chose Potemkin.

I mean I got Guilty Gear Strive on launch bc I was absolutely ENAMORED with Ramlethal, and now I play Baiken and Elphelt. I had to learn to love a character's design, but play someone else bc their moveset vibes with me more

This was not the video I should have watched after an early Christmas turkey dinner.

The most perfect timing whilst im in a character crisis 💀

Legit just find someone that looks cool. When you learn them, if they feel weird when controlling them, or are literally uncomfortable, pick the 2nd coolest character.

You mean there's more to it than seeing that a character has a big witch hat and an electrig guitar? That doesn't sound right.

In GGST, I basically picked 3 characters from the beginning. Axl low, happy chaos and ky kiske. I like to play guys with swag. I wanted my main to be happy chaos but I could NOT play him when I started.😂 I focused on ky but found him a little dull and then moved to axl but didn't entirely like zoning. I switched between them fairly often while practising happy chaos. Now I'm a proud happy chaos main. And no, I've never guard crush looped in my life, I'm honest Please believe me.

Awesome video, but my tactic shall remain ✨she looks cool✨

I picked I-no in GG:S because she has a guitar. I picked Dee Jay in SF6 because he literally just vibes. Stick a music-focus on a character and I am *instantly* interested.

"I know player who started playing games because of 1 character". Me, who sees 2B in granblue rising. U don't know me, gekko😐

Before I even bought "Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising" I KNEW I was gonna main Zeta - she just fitted my playstyle perfectly. Now, I've used all the characters and Zeta was indeed really fun... But Zooey just spoke to me and became my main - which surprised even me, since generally I don't gravitate towards characters like her (for example, with additional meter to manage). By the way... The game itself is OUTSTANDING.

6:0 that's me and baiken from guilty gear x2 i just heard her theme one time.... and now if bought strive plus her dlc and still launching tatami after tatami though it's sad they removed her counter ults

My way of choosing a main is simple, find someone who looks appealing, try their moveset and lab with it, if the character doesn't feel like you can manage it as a non-competitive fighting game character then try another one. I myself thought i could use Nagoriyuki as a competitive character only to get folded multiple times, now as baiken i am a 10F player that understands how every matchup works with her

i can't escape the snail, im going insane

The first non-smash fighting game i played was bbtag because id just played persona 4 and wanted to try out narukami. I am now stuck with the white bread character archetype and am very very happy with it. I main Ky, Katalina, Jin and Marth. I definitely have a type: pretty sword character

I picked Faust because I have a lot of previous experience with slot machines

I was a sole rushdown player may in guilty gear cammy in sf6 but then mu-12 in BlazBlue made me a loyal zoner

When trying to find a main, I have a 5-Step process: 1) What kind of game am I playing? 2D Grounded, 2D Anime, Platform Fighter, Team Fighter? Because I will often have different preferences for each. 2) Who aesthetically appeals to me? As you stated, we're be looking & hearing this character for awhile, might as well enjoy it. 3) Does their gameplay appeal to me? Easily the most important factor. 4) Is this character in my skill range? If a character is too simple, they'll often not appeal to me. Conversely, if a character is too difficult, I'll try to work up to them. 5) Does it feel good to win with them? Easily the most subjective, but I want too feel like I earned my victory in a fight, or achieved a personal victory with them even If I don't end up winning the match. My Mains: - Phoenix Wright in UMVC3 alongside Amaterasu & Sentinel. Win or lose, if I make it to Turnabout Mode, I won in my heart. My assists aim to help achieve that goal while being backup plans in my skill range. - Manon in SFVI: if I get to 5 Medals, I feel I've won. It feels good to KO someone with Manège Doré. - Isabelle in Smash Ultimate: It feels good to take stocks with Fishing Rod, Gyroid Rocket, and Back-Air Slingshot.

On the topic of picking a character that's strong, it's not always fun to play them, I mained C-Roa in MBAACC as my first character due to this playstyle, but ultimately found him extremely boring to play the more I got better with him because he has almost has no weaknesses, It's so boring when you're not even playing him properly in a match and you still win either way due to how insanely strong he is. Take for example Kazuya from Tekken, he's a highly-commital mixup character that requires reads in order to effectively punish players, or ABA from GGAC+R that has players try to manage their meter in Moroha mode, or F-Kouma from MBAACC that has the hardest bnb's I've ever seen. All of these characters I've managed to have found fun by working around what they suck at. A character is not defined just by their strengths but also their weaknesses. Which is why I tend to play 'harder' characters because they can provide so much fun just by learning and playing them exclusively.

I always struggle picking a main but with ggst it was easy. I logged on for the first time, picked Giovanna and never looked back. I'm interested in learning ramlethal and elphelt but I can't afford dlc characters and whenever I switch of gio the game becomes less fun. I guess what I'm saving is, don't stress about picking a main, play whoever feels best

A really good video

Used to be super hard for me until i figured out my perfered playstyle at last so it's much easier now. Oh, but i still sometimes pick my character based on those "wrong" reasons