Hey guys, sorry if I sound a bit haggard here. Got a bit of a cold. Also I bit my tongue like an hour before recording lol. Not my week

Johnny was such a monster in xrd that people forgot how FOUL elphelt was

izanami cons: can't block izanami pros: can't not block

As a Blazblue beginner, even playing Izanami's character guide was like "...wait, what?!" I laughed as they were like "oh, she can't block!" And then immediately are like "Plus, here's Broly armor"

Finally more people exposing izanami players

I swear to god Mori was high on crack while making BlazBlue. Like look at the top tier of this game, it's enough to leave a scar for 3 generations just from that floating T-Pose Ribcage

KARNOV'S REVENGE MENTIONED the tier list for Karnov's has been really interesting as of late, people mostly think that Zazie is top one, but Mizoguchi has gotten a lot of reevaluation in the past few years with his high damage and frankly absurd DP.

I think with GT Goku it should have been noted how comical the plus frames on spirit bomb are. It wasn’t just standard 4 way mix, he had unironically like 6 seconds of plus frames for some godforsaken reason

Funniest part about ARIA is that over the course of KIs lifespan- she isn't even the most nutty top tier. Not by a long shot. We are blessed that KIs competitive lifecycle ended before Eagle became absolutely insane, and got nerfed recently. But oh boy, there are things to be said about him. Or Season 2 TJ. Or season 2 Maya. Or Fulgore in any season. ARIA is strong, sure- but on KI standards, she is relatively "fair" top tier.

Looks like Roa's biggest nerf in Lumina was a haircut.

Blazblue top tiers are a different breed from other fighting games. Some of the most vile top tiers you will ever see but the idea behind Blazblue top tiers is that in theory they are almost all really difficult to play. Carl is hard, Iza is hard, Arakune is hard, Rachel is very hard etc it’s not like strive where sol is just brain dead and top tier

Surprised a Mid Tier video hasn't been made yet. It's probably hard to do, but feels weird not having it out. Mid Tiers are actually my preferred character choice as I don't feel carried as playing a Top Tier would feel like but won't struggle like playing with a Low Tier. Best of both worlds.

Now I wait for the inevitable sequel when you learn the mechanic exploiting degeneracy that is Kevin Ryan in Mark of the Wolves

As an Izanami player, she’s fun and easily top 3 in the game. She requires a decent amount of practice to get down and is fairly punishing as her defensive kit is fairly poor with no meterless reversals. But she is probably the best character in the game at winning after a single hit

important to note that burst goes through ribcage

I'm a dirty jenet main in garou and I make absolutely no apologies for the life choices that led me to that Great video as always

I was surprised at the Ray mention, thank you for covering my favorite fighter! A sneaky strategy you can do with Ray is being able to hit behind a cornered opponent as they wake up with Hard Electric Tackle, its a good finisher and you can keep them guessing if you're doing the hard or light version.

I LOVE THESE VIDS PLS NEVER STOP

always makes me happy to see another video explaining cool fg characters in my inbox

I'm glad GT Goku is back and is on a rampage. The Rat won't stay down forever. GT Goku was nerfed in season 3 and stayed nerfed until the changes for him last year undid his nerfs, except assist A with the beam.

Johnny went from the most fun to the most cracked to actually honest in the span of three games. I think a combination of making coins more advantageous, making lvl3 MF much more potent than its’ XX iterations and combine killer joker divine blade and ensega into zwei to name a few made Johnny much more dangerous in pressure and combos Also, Izanami is mad fun despite the heat. One of the few top tiers where you need to pilot her well. Knowledge checking w/ ribcage can only get do far

I thought in Garou business, Kevin was our guy

Love the background footage in the karnov section showing off how wack the AI in that game is. Samchays hold forward and frame perfect button technique lol. Sick video!

Random historical Johnny info: the coin powerups and Bacchus worked somewhat differently in Guilty Gear X2 and its iterations. They still went up to Level 3, but IIRC Level 2 Mist Finer would always cause wallbounce, and Level 3 turned Mist Finer into a six-hit combo. Meanwhile, Bacchus in Xrd makes it so the opponent staggers on block. Bacchus in X2 makes it so the opponent _can't_ block.

loved ur zato coverage! nic3 to see dis

can't believe you didn't mention izanami having cracked mobility (the best backdash in the game, really high superjump, can airdash>float>airdash again) so she can actually twerk on lots of characters by just jumping and shooting bits. or her normals (6A anti air that hits all around, low profile 2B that moves forward) being so good. OR that using EA basically gives her a plus on block reversal super, even if it's expensive. that character just does not give a fuck

Love these videos, keep up the good work!

HA, TATATA! HUYAH! POWER POLE! here goes! HURRRAAGH!

It's worth noting for 236C in your roa section that it's also plus on block for some reason and lets him get a very stable knockdown that gives him orbs pretty much anywhere on screen (236C into dash 2C always lets you tk 3 air orbs) and you can fit it into pretty much any of his routes. Because you always get an orb setup you pretty much build the meter back too and it can loop a stupid amount of times

Another character in KI worth talking about if you're planning to do another one in the future would be Rash. He's definitely the most hated character that's for sure!

Might I suggest grabbing footage of characters in their prime for those in patchable fighting games? Even if it's just grabbing clips of tournament play demonstrating the points you bring up.

GT Goku's autocombo being a long distance wasn't touched on enough. Two of the biggest escape options in DBFZ are backdash and reflect. Both are intended to make space with the opponent in different ways. The problem is that GT Goku's autocombo moving SO far forward meant it could reliably punish backdash, and maintain pressure on reflect, making it very difficult to escape, especially combined with his strong stagger pressure.

Hi! I loved the video and I'd love to see more. Do you plan on making a sequel and possibly covering 3D fighting games such as Tekken, DOA, and soul Calibur?

Goated vid as usual homie 🔥🔥🔥

id love to hear you talk about happy chaos especially from his past season where he was basically uncontested as the best

Breaks in Garou also unlock new combo routs on hit. Some characters get more use out of it more than others.

Honey, come quick, new MrMixtape video just dropped

Not to mention that GT Goku was the only character post season 1 patch that still had the unscaled double super damage when using spirit bomb into level 1 that character like bardock ssj goku got nerfed for their double level 1 supers

holy shit, i never thought i'd hear about aria again! i didn't even know KI was still getting balance patches! fighting games are so sick

babe new mr mixtape dropped!

Izanami is head and shoulders above the rest, as a long time player of BBCF I'll never understand why she wasn't banned for just being soul crushingly unfun to fight. Yes, the other top tiers like Mai/Es/Rachel/Carl/Litchi are oppressive with foul mixups/crazy oki/amazing neutral but at least they have to learn to do more precise manuvers and actually have to block if you DP some mixups or win neutral (easier said then done for sure). Izanami just does ribcage after burst and is essentially guaranteed to get in after bursting while you can do nothing about it with the vast vast majority of the cast. You know she's busted when top level Izanami players allow themselves to go into danger state instead of cancelling ribcage because they know you aren't going to be able to hit them during danger state anyway.

just a suggestion, but have you ever considered replacing some of the background footage with some tournament footage from the games, like when youre discussing the top players/character representatives? either way great video 👍

I literally came to watch KZfaq videos because Kogasa was beating my ass in the UFO extra stage and I got too frustrated to keep going. Only to be jumpscared by her theme in the Roa section. I know her thing is surprising people but this is just cruel.

i think the funniest part of Johnny not being great in strive is the fact that it isn't like his buttons or pressure are bad, those are both pretty great, he just can't dash block, which is a much more important part of neutral in strive than it was in xrd.

GT’s spirt bomb also teleported the little rat out of all pressure and had low enough end lag to get out of the corner for just -3 bars

Unrelated I saw the anarchy reigns thing and got very excited cause you know ball

MrMixtape, you probably won't see this, but if you want some more top/bottom tiers to talk about, I'd be more than willing to show you around Lethal League Blaze.

I feel like tournament or combo footage would be great for these style of videos

B Jenet can backdash cancel like Slayer?? BDC glide kick looks so gross, I wanna try her out now lmao. Cool vid!

these videos are so entertaining. thanks.

Triad Thunder is a pretty cool weapon, more characters should have moves like it. If you do another part, I heard that Noob-Smoke were pretty cracked in MK Deception, there's also Jin/Steve in Tekken 4 or Kabal in a few MK games.

btw you forgot another thing you can do with johnny that is completely bonkers. if you SOMEHOW like an ABSOLUTE GOD, manage to do a treasure hunt in the middle of mist finer dash, treasure hunt won't JUST give you two coins, it will also LAUNCH THE OPONENT TO THE UPPER LIMIT OF THE STAGE.

Goated video. By the way, what's the intro music?

I'm an Izanami main. She's so utterly disgusting on offense, but man her combos are so sick to hit, float cancelling mid combo is something that you really cannot beat in satisfaction

Ray looks like a later SNK character time-displaced into SF2. What the hell.

I’m convinced Jenet was the inspiration for Ino and Ruby Heart

You should have put Carl Clover here. He has everything and actually is a contender for Top 1. I personally think he's tied with Izanami due to them having an actually even matchup

Aria was so much fun to play. I still THINK RAMM was the most broken though with his command grab vortex

If Johnny could dash block in strive he would be top tier he is in fact NOT whack

Glad to see a Dokkan fan

Watching MooMaster play Ray is always a treat

Mixtape talking about BlazBlue? Holy shit! Edit: BB has some very crazy and creative characters in general, would it be possible to see some more videos on it in the future?

Didn't expect to see Roa tbh In the game he is the best for being better than everyone tbh while there fullmoon Archetype Earth which is the best for playing a different game entirely

What I understand from what people have said about Johnny is that while he is busted, he is also extraordinarily hard to actually play due to extremely demanding execution.

Absolute husband (of May)

i play with Kurodyne in fortnite and hes so carried in that too

Short vid on Ivan Ooze please

I wish you featured Jojo HftF again in this video. More people need to know how good Khan is

Zero/Doom/Virgil

i remember getting bullied by goku black, ui, and bardock

Babe wake up new MrMixtape

I'm happy to hear that there is a top tier that shares my unserious last name.

Ray: One of the very few characters in the game with an air grab. And he can air grab Karnov out of balloon.

Top tiers i like as a tekken player, T5 heihachi T3 jin T4 jin TT2 mishimas T7 jin Most interesting one for me is T7 leroy top tier T8 leroy bottom tier Also bryan in general is a very interesting top tier, steve as well

Talking about newer fighting games getting consistent patches, while Ultimate stays the way it is forever... new video with Steve included incoming?

Please talk more about Killer Instinct

I know you're just making brief summaries so u can't cover everything a character has but I feel like u didn't understand what u were looking at with zwei yrc. What you showed was transport yrc, not zwei yrc. with zwei yrc the zwei projectile still comes out and you keep your momentum from whichever point of transport you were at, it's not just a movement tool. This is the version people actually complain about, not the transport yrc you showed in the video.

My main gripe with GT goku wasn't even mentioned here. He invalidates big characters in a game where ZBroly was already struggling. His stature lets him low profile so many normals and makes characters like Nappa significantly harder to combo with.

oh man I miss killer instinct and doing weekly tournies... Imo Rash is just THE MOST. i hate dealing with him smh

Someone talking about GAROU Mark of the Wolves

Like i said on the community post johnny is allowed because he is ~cool~ and *sexy*

26:07 is that uncle joel

Labcoat 21 seriously needs to be studied because I have never lost interest in a game so fucking much like when she got released

Honest mids mentioned!!!

I love the word Stancels

am i ready to be topped? always (glad youre feeling a bit better ^_^)

I always prefer playing characters that are more weaker. Though a character that doesn't rely entirely upon one move also tends to be a preference.

Seeing as you talked about DNF in the last vid, I wanna share one of my favorite top tiers from that game: Ranger (warning: massive wall of text ahead). You may be surprised to hear that he was top tier since on release he was considered upper mid tier, but over time his strengths became apparent, even before the grand balance patch he was sitting comfortably with many other absurd characters like berzerker, striker, and hitman, and I think what makes him cool is the reasons for why he was top tier. Lets get the broken stuff out of the way first. Grenade oki was absurd. He could easily route into it from any close-midscreen hit and it have him a 50-50 where he could either go strike or use grenade to combo off throw. This mix is important as ranger hilariously doesn't have a single overhead. Not that he necessarily needs the oki, because he also has could fully guard break someone from grenade oki. If they didn't dp or use guard cancel at the right time, ranger had a TRUE BLOCKSTRING that broke your guard with only 150 mana. This is mostly thanks to 4ms (gun hawk), a special move that locked the opponent down and did ridiculous guard damage. It should be noted, however, that guard breaks are not limited to just ranger, striker also had the same thing without needing a grenade setup (though it did lose more easily to guard cancel). Ranger had many other smaller strengths like good neutral (duh, he's a zoner), mana-efficient combos, and good guard damage in general, but also some big weaknesses you would think would kill the character in a game as absurd as DNF, like a poor reversal, specific anti-airs, below average health, low damage, and all but 2 moves being projectiles. Compared to the tip tiers, it looks like he should be able to maybe compete but lose overall (because the top tiers were all even more absurd). Yet he seemed to have the RIGHT tools for every situation, which is what carried him into S tier. While he had a bad DP, his guard cancel was best in class, with a very large hitbox. His two non-projectile artacks, 2a and 5s, also were great at stuffing projectile invincible attacks. But most of all, he always seemed to have some way around the most stupid tools the other top tiers had. Berserker could get in if he installed, but ranger 5a could snipe the install on reaction, removing the install, on top of the fact that the grenade in grenade oki could punish berserker dp ON HIT. Crusader had some tools to deal with ranger but struggled to set up his own zoning game against rangers much faster projectiles. Hitman struggled a lot to deal with zoning in general, and when in awakening, couldn't dp for free against grenade oki or he would get hit by the grenade (hitman in awakening was able to cancel any mana move into a -5, combos- into- at- least- 50%- of- your- health move, including dp). Even striker and swift master, both of which had excellent projectile invincible attacks, could get stuffed pretty reliable by 2a. There were characters kower on the tier list ranger struggled with, but against the top tiers Ranger just happened to have the right tools that let him become one of the best characters in the game.

C roa is why I don't play melty. not because I don't want to fight him but because i will absolutely play him.

Love me some melty blood

Got a feeling Jenet will be top tier again in CotW

Izanami my beloved

I don’t know which iteration and what tier he’d be in, but I need a Faust video/segment 🙏

"OH GOD, HELP ITS A CHILD"

Johnny was top tier in xrd and hes a bottom tier in strive, but you see, this doesn't matter, because, h e s c o o l.

0:16 why was Hsien-Ko tweaking so bad 😭

fighting

You know b janet is not a broken top tier in garou that honor goes too kevin

good ass vid

for a moment i thought he was talking about strive johnny and i was legit aboutta say aint no way bro is calling a character that can't dashblock a broken top tier lmaooo