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I think the most important thing to keep in mind when trying to pick a main is to not be afraid of experimenting. I ended up “maining” 3-4 characters in Strive before I eventually arrived on Chipp, but I don’t regret trying the others out and learning their combos. Don’t limit yourself because you’re worried all the time you put into one character will be wasted if you switch - that knowledge will still be useful at some point down the line

Man, GG Strive has been rough as someone who loves big body characters. I was always a Potemkin main in AC and Xrd, and think his iteration in Strive is the best of all of them. Buut... I tried out Nago and absolutely fell in love with the character, so I switched to him. And now, Goldlewis, who looks super fun to play, is gonna get released soon. Well, better than not wanting to play anyone, but still, wish me luck, fellas

There's a particular character crisis I have experienced which I call "low tier anxiety". You pick a character knowing they're not very good but do well with them anyway. You're initially comfortable with them as you don't play at a level where their weaknesses become insurmountable, but you fear for the day you get high enough in bracket where those weaknesses become very exploitable. You feel like you need to preemptively switch mains now to avoid that future problem or risk progress stagnation (as by the time you hit that snag, you will have invested too much time into your low tier main to make switching easy). It creates this sense of "wastefulness" when you play and do well with the character you enjoy.

me trying to main every character and sucking at the game for the entire time i play that game

"Just pick a top tier!" - Sanford Kelly

reason #3 to be thankful to be a grappler main: you never have to feel this way

I think you just cured my character crisis. I may never get to talk to you, but thank you, Eddventure.

My natural solution to the character crisis is just "Oh man that guy looks cool too. Guess Im playing them too" repeat until Im learning the whole game.

To find my character, just find someone who is an unga bunga non charge character. That or just pick Akuma

I have a variation of this problem where I just like to play every character in every game. This stops me from getting better at my main.

I dealt with a character crisis in SFV for such a long time, going from character to character, and I've ultimately landed on maining Kolin with Rashid as a secondary, and I've been actually enjoying SFV now because of it.

New video essay, and you know what that means. First person to find Jimbulus gets their comment pinned. Happy Hunting!

Me who mains random select: Interesting

I've always exclusively picked my characters based on appearance and backstory. The level of coolness I feel doing Gordeau combos almost makes my failures in real life go away

I swear, every single fighting game I get into I have a character crisis. I can't settle on one or two characters for my life. For example, in Strive, I'm interested in Anji, Nago, Ky, Axl, Leo, and Zato. The games aesthetic is too good! And I love all the characters personalities. I'm not too bad at execution, so that's never really an issue.

I've used to love faust, but strive did my man dirty, the redesing is really cool dont get me wrong, but the gameplay... I miss pogo stance. So i switched over to i-no and lived happily ever after (at least until jack-o dlc gets released)

i usually end up on those "tricky" unique gimmicky type characters like Hazama, Lei Wulong, Dan Hibiki, but that caused me problems due to those characters struggling a lot in certain situations. so i started playing characters like Hakumen and Jin Kazama to broaden my character options and then we got Nagoriyuki who is basically my dream main.

I remember in +r I migrated from Robo-Ky to Ky to Jam to Anji before I literally had a dream I was playing May, who i never played before, and was playing sick af with her. I tried her out, fell in love and haven’t looked back since lol In Strive i messed with Zato for a few rounds, but I know my girl always got my back lol

And then there's me, who picks up a new game, and immediately mains the grappler

Me, who mains everyone: buy why can't you have all. You don't actually have to sink hours and hours into one character to play at surface level. I managed to get everyone in Strive (aside from Faust and Millia, but it's not because I can't, but because it's still WIP, I'm gonna do it in few days) to level 100 at celestial. My winrate was terrible, but it's a fucking celestial. On lower floors you can easily play more than 1 character, if not all of them.

Awesome vid. When UMvC3 was still popular and my group of friends or random acquaintances new to the game would ask for recommended characters for a team I would tell them to pick; 1. A character they like. 2. A character they want to learn. 3. A character that is considered "good". Almost all of them wound up keeping at least one of those characters by choosing that way and either formed a new team around that one character or just found others that vibed with them eventually.

something I deal with a lot of times. At the same time, I have a a set of mains that I always rock with so it's only when I want to learn someone else

My mental loophole for character loyalty is to tell myself im just getting a secondarym, and eventually if it really ends up being overall better for me, that secondary will just kinda become my main and by that point my brain has already rewired my character loyalty to thos new one while my old main becomes the secondary.

I feel some sort of loyalty towards Potemkin. I have tried Anji, I-No, and I’m excited for Goldlewis. I played Kotal Kahn In MK, Grundy and Bane in Injustice, and Abigail/Alex in SF. I just like big boys with grabs.

The mindset I go into trying out different characters and not really knowing who to main is that it's a learning experience. You pick up different skills by playing different types of characters, and more specifically when you're playing as someone you can both find out what rattles your character when it happens and how other people are responding to the character's options so you learn how to better counter them even if you switch.

i think you cover this topic really well and add some pretty nice and objective insight, gotta subscribe

Really well made video. Props for adding Dengeki footage, brings a tear to my eye whenever it see people know that the game exist. Even though the game itself is far from dead and has a pretty healthy player base playing it via Discord.

Amazing topic to speak of 💯

For me I often have the opposite problem when starting the game. I usually never have trouble finding a character I like both visually and gameplay wise immediately. And then I find another. And another. And another. And then I attempt to juggle 5 mains, try and learn too many characters, suck with all of them, and I almost always end up trying to do one characters moves with a different character. (the amount of times I ended up so confused because my counter super didn't come out) It takes me a long time to narrow it down to one or two characters I main. In Blazblue I was absolutely certain that Tager was my favorite, and in the span of a literal week it went to Azrael, and then Relius, and then Terumi, and finally I was satisfied with Hakumen. This happens to me on basically every fighting game lol

I enjoy your clever video editing skills!

my go-to character usually falls in one of these categories -red

Dude, team games are 10 times worse for me. 3 whole characters I’ve got pick.

Banger video as always, Essventure.

i have a character crisis with every game i play but finally solved two for games i like; love zeku in sfv no one quite feels the same, and yuzu in uni is so fun i just can't stop playing her

I like how the three characters you put in the thumbnail are exactly the ones I am having this problem with

Such a good video to clear my uncertainty and cure my disease. As a charge main I have no hesitation anymore. Thank you and see you in the sea world.

Just found your youtube channel! Nice content! I often get character crisis. I had fun looking for characters in smash and dbfz by watching tournaments.

I don’t know if I just have insane luck or if I adapt to my character, but every single first pick for me has been the character I loved the most, in any game genre. Ridley in Smash (He got replaced later, but that took time and a DLC), Faust in Guilty Gear, and anybody else always end up feeling tailor-made for me. It’s great, honestly.

Never had trouble picking characters but the video was very informing and fun to watch, especially that I play both fighting games and r6s which made it even more relevant

One thing to also take into account that falls just outside of aesthetic is character lore for beginner players. You can like the look and even gameplay of a character like, say, May, but be turned off by *something* in their lore that just makes you wanna stay away from them, even if it’s as simple as “they’re just not important at all to the lore.”

In Blazblue I'd mained Nu (or her equivalent iteration) since Calamity Trigger, so she was the obvious pick when Central Fiction rolled around. Except... I hated the changes she'd had. Some of her core functions I'd grown accustomed to had been shifted over to Lambda now that they were completely separate characters, and I genuinely enjoyed playing Lambda exclusively over her prior counterpart. But I had to spend about a week struggling to "enjoy" playing Nu before I just devoted myself to dropping her as my Main. I know that's nothing in the grand scheme of fighting-game careers, but the character devotion was real, and the internal debate was seriously stressful. I'm happy I made the switch now, and I think that this video covers an important topic for people at any point in their FG career. Sometimes you just need to ask yourself "Would it be better if I switched?"

Im new to fighting games and i got lucky enough to find your channel 👍

I can't say I've experienced this, but you do make great points. At least in the beginning stages pick who looks cool or is fun to you.

Lmao, Blazblue CF just got rollback and i have been experienced same character crisis as you lately, it's been 20 hours and i still cant decided yet This video help alots, thank you

I'm liking before the add is over cos I know it's going to be good

Even when people talk about the character crisis I never hear advice on the dlc crisis! Great vid

Picking a character is so hard. Love May, just couldn't get used to charge inputs. Chipp and Millia are cool, too complicated as a new player. Jack-O has some sick stuff, hands cannot physically perform sick stuff. End up playing Gio and having a blast.

Love to see fighting game lovers creating great content here! Thanks for the info. :>

The more characters you know, the better your knowledge of match ups is as well, worth bearing in mind.

Randomly saw this video but at the perfect time, thanks

I feel that as players become more experienced with fighting games the crisis start decreasing as they become more aware of what kind of characters they prefer aesthetically and function-wise.

This happened with me in injustice 2. I played Batman since day 1 and then when he got heavily nerfed to the extent in where his bnb combos completely changed and I was forced to play him differently. This killed my experience with injustice 2 entirely. To the extent in where I wouldn’t pick it up again until a year later and I fell back into a character crisis in where I was stuck between atom, hellboy, and scarecrow.

This vid came out at the perfect timing for me. I played Pot in Strive since day 1 and wanna try out other characters but nobody else gives me the same satisfaction of landing a HPB or PB

I had no idea Durarara had a character in a fighting game! Edit: This a really great video. Glad you mentioned Daigo at the end too

My only character crisis came from the need to find one with enough tools and flexibility to allow for player expression even if it was a suboptimal game plan.

Sometimes I feel like I’m trying to play too many characters, but I get bored easily, (I play Giovanna, Leo, Nagoriyuki, and Zato) I’m about level 100 with all 4.

This was a fun one for me, I’d sunk hundreds of hours into Ridley in smash ultimate, I was certain I was never going to switch because my never-ever wish was a new FF rep. Lo and behold, Sephiroth not only came, but he swiftly became one of my favourite characters to play. Not the first time DLC Character Crisis has crept up on me too..

i'm always in character crisis, aside from the "oh geez who do i pick now" part i enjoy it

The best way to solve a character crisis is to pick characters that teach and emphasize different things. Character mastery is important, however different characters can teach the game at a more accelerated pace than one would expect.

My friend was a Wario main in smash ultimate, after Wario got a nerf to his combo game and strongest move, he drop the day after the patch and swapped to Terry. Terry was one of his secondaries and he just swapped to his because he knew he was better. Secondaries are really good with this.

Switchin to goldlouie now thanks for the advice brohan

Appropriate that you'd use Skullgirls music in the background. I used to have that issue with the game. I liked it, but once Annie came out, and she clicked with me, I truly started loving the game

Another thing to note is that you might experience a character crisis when switching between games in the same series. I started with Xrd, and when I started playing +R and Strive I decided to switch mains since my Xrd main, Faust, didn't give me the same amount of enjoyment in those games that I got in Xrd.

This has been on my mind a lot recently, can't stick to a character to save my life

I'm currently going through a character crisis in Strive. When the game released, I mained Gio for the first two months. Eventually managed to reach celestial with her, and then shortly after that Jack-O was released. I decided with strive I wanted to learn how to play every character before settling on a main, since this is the first time I've ever managed to make it this high up in competitive play in a fighting game before. It's not my first fighting game mind you, but up until now any fighting game I've ever owned had either been me messing around with the characters in training mode, challenge combo mode, or story mode. Never really played online and didn't meet a group of fg players I could play with until recently. So, since I'm still inexperienced and trying out multiple characters, I picked up Jack-O since she looked like she'd be fun. Have had a blast playing her, eventually made it back into celestial with her this time instead of Gio. But, I've had mixed results with her which I am almost certain could be overcome if I invested more time into learning her. So now I've hit a bit of a dilemma. Currently, I've been jumping back and forth between I-no, May, and Ram trying to decide who I should pick up and learn next. But the more I play other characters, the rustier I feel on both Gio and Jack-O. Jack-O, especially, is a character I want to play more and compete with more. But I don't want to become super rusty playing her at the competitive level while I'm trying to pick up and learn someone else. On the flip side to that, I also don't want to overcommit to her since I still don't know if I'd enjoy competing with another character in the roster more.

My problem is that I can only for some odd reason play a character well if they have some kinda resource to manage or some chores to do (ex: G for a chores character and order sol with a resource to manage) and the soul exception being xrd baiken

I gotta say, frame one, I know this is gonna be a good video.

I have pretty much the opposite situation where I tend to want to learn as many characters as possible and spend my time around all of them. It probably helps that I don't enter tournaments so I don't have to worry about perfecting one or two characters to a competitive level.

Having a second character helps to belay a lot of this stuff. It's good to have your brain use new tools while it remaps your brain for the older ones.

Another character crisis, I call this one the Daru crisis. When you're fully convinced dropping the character would be your best option since they are considered weak, but then a high ranking player comes out and has a very good performance, and gives you some hope that maybe the character isn't trash.

Going through it in Strive right now. Anji Mito was my secondary character in Accent Core and was really the only character I had my eye on playing once Strive dropped. I still main Anji, but I also picked up Nagoriyuki to try and cover Anji's bad match ups. I figured with his range and pressure, it'd help, and it kind of does with characters like Ramlethal a little bit, but I still struggle with characters like Axl and May since Anji and Nago both have slow buttons that are easily abused. I still find them both to be very fun and rewarding to play as, and even though I *could* switch to Sol, Ram, or Leo, I don't want to because those characters just don't feel fulfilling to play as for me. Though Nagoriyuki's inputs are difficult to consistently execute at times, and the blood gauge can make him predictable. Depending on how the DLC characters turn out, I may end up dropping him for one of them. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime, I'm going to keep putting time into both characters, I really enjoy them both still (though I'm going to keep praying for Anji buffs).

My character crisis in strive is that I think too many of the characters are cool.

As it’s my first fighting game ever competitively at least, I’m definitely at the beginner stage crisis and it’s definitely rough to just break through that beginner stage crisis.

I think my mains generally land into 2 categories: Unga Bunga rushdown with limited projectiles for primary play, and the "annoying" characters for messing around.

My issue with season passes blocking new characters is that u still need to lab ur main against a new dlc character so even if u don’t want to switch, u still need to either find a friend who did buy the pass, or purchase it yourself to practice against the match up.

Life can really teach us a lot when you try out everything (like trying out different characters).

I don't think I've really hit that point in any fighting game I've played yet... but I've been put off of at least two fighting games now before I even picked my first character to play. Fantasy Strike because not a single member of the cast appealed to me, and Blazeblue: Chronophantasma Extend because I thought "I'll just try the story mode to get a taste of all the characters."... Took me 30 minutes to realize it was just a visual novel and never bothered to pick the game up again. I really should give it another shot though.

There's no character crisis if you main Random

Great video, but, imo, you've forgot about one pretty common type of character crisis. Some players are extremely used to their main, so they get upset it they can't find somthing similar enouth in other games.

I had this issue in Fantasy Strike when it came to finding a third character to play along with Val and Jania. It took some doing but I finally settle on DeGrey.

ive been having character crisises in nearly every game ive played for a year or 2 now and never recovered. ive played all of those games more than 1 year

I always try to main the random button in casual play after a certain point

I'm having this problem right now with Strive and it's amazing characters design. I started with I-no but I love watching Millia Gameplay. I like Chipps voice acting and May is so simple and fun to just do dolphins.

I only mained Jigglypuff, K. Rool and Inkling, but just some weeks ago, I decided to try Captain Falcon. While not the best one out there, ZaWarudo's meme compilations helped me remember D-throw --> N-Air. Good experience changing characters

I have character crisis with every game I play, whether it's fighting game or mmorpg or moba. But unlike some people, I don't fret over it. I welcome it. I see it as an opportunity to understand each individual character. To learn the matchups

the youtube algorithm is weird and scary on the same day I got character crisis this viedeo poped up in my recomendend

I have never learned a combo in my life. I just mess around. Makes that half of the character crisis easy.

Great vid : ) Honestly i mostly play with friends, so most of my character crisis comes actually from being bored of fighting the exact same match-up all the time XD Before Strive came out i picked up Slayer again in Xrd and had a blast fighting my friends Leo as opposed to playing the now stale I-No vs Leo which we had fought a million times before. Tibazz

Is this the same Eddventure who tweeted about their Jacko character crisis before absolutely CLEANING HOUSE at CEO?

Lunalu mirrors in Granblue have shown me how myopic character loyalty can make you as I clean 6-0 players who I can't even scratch when playing our mains, with characters I've done nothing but arcade mode and rpg mode missions with. Don't be afraid to experiment a bit with every character that catches your eye, it's not wasted time, even if you never pick that character as a secondary or counter you'll still learn their weaknesses and how they try to overcome them, which you can put to good use when you face against them. Also, it's a game, you don't have to spend 100% of your play time training.

I main a character cuz it looks cool and that's it lol If it's gameplay is hard I would force my self to learn it

I’m in one right now with gg strive. I play pot but would like a secondary for the impossible match ups (Axl, Nago, etc). Waiting for a character that will inspire me to learn them... maybe DLC?

This is interesting, because coming from a background where I have experience with tag fighters, a lot of the things you mention in this video feel foreign, and even counterintuitive. People who play tag fighters frequently almost always decide on their characters from a gameplay standpoint. Your characters are pieces of a team, and making sure they work effectively is much more important than aesthetics, character loyalty, etc. When you already play three characters, there’s a lot less hesitation to drop one for DLC, flavor of the month top tiers, or characters that have better synergy with your team. DBZF players are quick to pick up and drop characters as soon as the winds change. In Marvel, sticking with a character you like, rather than go with some effective top tier comp, makes you actually somewhat unique outside of the beginner level, and even then, it often requires very specific team composition to make said character actually work. My philosophy is like that no matter what the game: you’re going to spend a long time playing as a character, so pick one who you enjoy playing as, and can win with. Life is too short to play a low tier you can’t wrap your head around just because they look cool or used to be strong, when you could have picked a top tier or a character who makes more sense to your play style.

I usually can get a good feel if I'll enjoy a character after around five matches, it gives me enough time to experiment on already built knowledge from similar characters. Like, for me I really enjoy weaker characters but compensated with brutal block pressure and mixup options. The longer my opponent is blocking, the less time they have to try and hit me, plus there's the psychological pressure of having to maintain blockstrings and mixups

I'm a super beginner at strive and this just hits the spot on what I am experiencing. I am hesitating on which characters I want to play from the characters I think are cool which are Zato, Axl and Chipp but right now I'm liking the fast buttons of Chipp so I think I'll stick with him, maybe make Axl as my sub.

I didnt even know this had a name, Im literally going through it without knowing I wanna play May Anji and Leo in guilty gear and tbh Goldlewis Dickinson is probably joining them

Daigo also dropped Ryu in SF3 when he took the game seriously. This is why in 3S he competed with Ken and, as mentioned, he’s stayed with Guile in V. I would say in USIV he kind of did the same with E.Ryu when it was obvious how strong he was too.

2:18 i’m sorry there’s a bungo stray dogs fighting game? how do I play it?

Imo if your gonna compete you need a pocket character for your mains weak MUs & also Counter-picking opportunities. Glad someone brought the topic up of character crisis though, bc I think this is even more a thing for non-competitors. If you can’t find a character you mesh with then don’t force yourself to play said game bc it’s popular or you think you need to, video games are entertainment which means you’re supposed to be having fun when playing a game. This isn’t always talked about in the FGC, it’s always “this character is trash, cheap, good, top tier etc. so you should or shouldn’t play them”, just do what brings fun for you. There’s a weird emphasis on the competitor/tournament side of things but not enough on the fun/entertainment value side of things. I’ve gone through so many SF characters over the years bc I listened to _____ tournament player, which is dumb bc I will never compete on a high level. The casual and average player has a finite time they can sink into video games anyways, so the last thing on your mind should be worrying about is if your character is top tier. Most fighting games are balanced enough that even low tier characters can win online, where 99% of people will only play anyways