The Most Complicated Fighting Game Match I've Ever Commentated

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streamed Mar. 25, 2024
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@arbyw.1889 Ай бұрын

There's something truly inspired about putting one of the most complicated fighting game characters ever made into the "simplified" Guilty Gear.

@Budzabit Ай бұрын

Can *imagine* asuka in xrd? Would be a dictionary list of moves

@percocetthirty Ай бұрын

strive players deluding theirselves into thinking asuka is one of the most complicated fg characters now

@arbyw.1889 Ай бұрын

@@percocetthirty lol

@DrGamersEmporium Ай бұрын

@@percocetthirtynot interested in arguing but what are some more complicated ones, so I can look up match footage to enjoi

@Sorrelhas Ай бұрын

@@DrGamersEmporiumI guess Menat VT2, Carl from Blazblue and characters from older games where the difficulty doesn't come from the character's kit, but from some bs glitch in the engine or whatever

@DoggyP00 Ай бұрын

Asuka doing a 5 minute block string only to end up with less health than his opponent at the end of it is the weirdest thing as a viewer

@shl6367 Ай бұрын

Av Belial moment

@hideharu-xiii8852 Ай бұрын

Yeah this is literally Av Belial on a daily basis. Strangely enough, Carmine actually rarely has this happen in my viewing experience

@imtx_xmti Ай бұрын

@@hideharu-xiii8852because he has insane mix and very high damage, so if you can get just one or two openings the opponent is just dead

@Azmodeus87 Ай бұрын

Mana draught, it kills even the best players.

@MimebladeGMail Ай бұрын

This is why I prefer to drain my Tension over my Health. Positive Bonus can always get back that loss... Life loss can't come back.

@idonthaveaname7769 Ай бұрын

It might be easier to become a real wizard than it is to learn asuka

@autumnwitchmaple Ай бұрын

as a real wizard, I'm kind of 50/50 on it. Learning to do magick in real life is not precisely complex, but it is not easy, either. Takes a lot of time and effort. Much like learning asuka, I guess.

@brad_soup Ай бұрын

As someone who has tried playing Asuka, it can't be overstated how hard it is to keep track of all this stuff *while also playing a fighting game*

@matrix3509 Ай бұрын

An MMA match but they are also playing Yugioh at the same time.

@elrapido5150 Ай бұрын

@@matrix3509Someone get Ludwig on this.

@carbide4458 Ай бұрын

@@matrix3509"You activated my trap card, SPIDER LOCK"

@eijiro-gz2ik Ай бұрын

He’s not as difficult as Jack’O though

@brad_soup Ай бұрын

@@eijiro-gz2ik Hard disagree

@luciddre4m Ай бұрын

3:44 "The cool thing about this character is that he has a lot of win conditions where you see him winning really hard, but he also has conditions where his hand is legit terrible and he just dies." ArcSys totally nailed the experience of playing a card game.

@mad-dash6448 Ай бұрын

So Asuka literally plays Yugioh 1. Health is a resource and the only LP that matters is the last one 2. He bricks

@DuwoYGO Ай бұрын

yugioh mentioned. POG

@plabcentral630 Ай бұрын

But which move is access code talker and when is he branded?

@mad-dash6448 Ай бұрын

@@plabcentral630 you use staff and red orb wave as link material to create him

@shucklecopter8271 Ай бұрын

@@plabcentral630none/never, asuka is clearly playing punk: -pays lp -best starter is emergency teleport -deck thins for constant generic draws -loses if going second :c

@plabcentral630 Ай бұрын

@@shucklecopter8271 is the end board pep + de fleur

@TenchiKinjin Ай бұрын

I can't even imagine playing this character. My smooth brain would break trying to quickly figure out my cards and the correct play with them. Imagine you're trying to sacrifice 2 creatures for your Blue Eyes White Dragon and set Trap Hole but Gio just fuckin kicks you in the face.

@Iwatoda_Dorm Ай бұрын

Probably one of the more knowledge check characters. You can get into the flow of loading, reloading if you give it time but where the _fun_ part comes in is trying to create a consistent flow with auto bookmark while also creating pressure all the while managing your cards.

@eduardoserpa1682 Ай бұрын

Deck 1 cards are almost interchangeable, so it gives you a pretty smooth ramp up towards Decks 2 and then 3, if you're willing to wait. He's insanely well-designed.

@Flubbadon Ай бұрын

@@eduardoserpa1682 literally played Magic the Gathering, ramping up to play bigger cards, it’s wild.

@Inojin67 Ай бұрын

If the UI for his cards wasn't so goddamned tiny I'd give him a try (yeah you can rescale the UI, but tournaments won't let you do that)

@syrelian Ай бұрын

@@Inojin67 Pre'sure most tournaments will actually let you ask for UI adjustments for accessibility

@Kibotsu Ай бұрын

If I were playing Asuka I would simply side deck Ash Blossom just in case I have to play the mirror.

@zanpakutoman4225 Ай бұрын

Ash Blossom gets baited with the guard crush. Now take this big cube and eat this mix.

@TheDeahon Ай бұрын

@@zanpakutoman4225I’d had my called by the grave the grave

@FlyXcur Ай бұрын

It's a mirror you know exactly what's in their deck therefore Crossout Designator is mandatory

@igkewg Ай бұрын

Gotta get that droll with that much cards draw

@UncleMerlin 21 күн бұрын

@@igkewg TD Colossus has been unbanned

@Christian_Crab Ай бұрын

Can you believe auto import time used to be 10 seconds and auto mana regen uses to last 15 seconds and cubes used to be way faster with smaller hurtboxes? Crazy times.

@Zedzilliot Ай бұрын

Those were the days

@blueeggs Ай бұрын

@alyosha2220 Ай бұрын

at 20:20 Zando did a play here. He deliberately ran into the cubes, so that Gobou gains the least amount of burst as possible. This led to a huge combo next round.

@hideharu-xiii8852 Ай бұрын

The insane thing about Asuka is that it’s shockingly not the amount of cards to memorize that’s the hardest part, but it’s the fact you got to look and analyze what you got on the fly in a game where your health can get taken to the back of a shed with a shotgun. I’d love to meet Gobou and Zando to see how their minds work.

@BlinJe Ай бұрын

I have switched to asuka.. I lose 20 matches to 1 vs my pals now 😂

@xzalldon2475 Ай бұрын

I can't believe that they put a Touhou Hisoutensoku character in Guilty Gear Strive in the first place.

@finnmarr-heenan2397 Ай бұрын

Why they did it with Phoenix in mvc3, morrigan in umvc3 , all the nu models in blazblue.

@mrpaniniqc Ай бұрын

soku mentionned lets gooo

@Ketania Ай бұрын

I have a thousand hours in this game and I felt smoke coming out of my head watching this live, Like I know how this character works pretty well but it's legit exhausting trying to keep up on 2 asukas at the same time, also I was so happy to see you commentate strive again it's by far my favorite FG and I love hearing you on the mic, this event was so god damn good, really hope for more to come for strive

@Chaos2Frozen Ай бұрын

"He manipulates the gravity of the cubes." bruh

@UselessBot Ай бұрын

that is what he does

@walkingglasses6264 Ай бұрын

THE GRAVITY 🗣️🗣️🔥

@Hac-dieu Ай бұрын

Asuka is a guy in MMA fight with a duel disc strapped to his arm.

@joshireyn Ай бұрын

That asuka mirror was fire, but my favourite moment was in the pepperysplash vs apologyman match. When you said he needs to bait an anti air or whiff punish, and then he did just that, it was insane.

@ursmarrings27 Ай бұрын

For the hypothetical Jump Versus game by ArcSys, I’m very glad they got the idea down for how to execute a literal Yu-Gi-Oh character to play.

@alterreb4775 Ай бұрын

He's literally the perfect blueprint for universal mechanics in a Yugioh fighting game, it's not even a joke

@megatenshi Ай бұрын

I love that despite having an absurd ceiling and rediculous complexity to master, Asuka is also really well designed to be pretty player-friendly. His inputs are quick and snappy, everything is organized well, and the card images are pretty well designed to at least tell you their general use at a glance(ie cubes, teleports, buffs, etc are all distinct, even if identifying a specific card takes a moment.) Not my kind of character, but I think he was really well done, and it was sad that his launch got a bit overshadowed at the time.

@cycy8699 Ай бұрын

overshadowed by wut?

@acaracaraorange7685 Ай бұрын

@@cycy8699probably Street Fighter 6 releasing

@MenaceLendil Ай бұрын

Yeah i tried him a bit and he was suprisingly playable. Having the shortcuts helps a lot. Not easy to be good at, but throwing some cubes at friends isn't that hard.

@VerbalLearning Ай бұрын

I know the general fighting game audience tends to hate or dislike zoners and therefore by extension Asuka but i personally find him really entertaining to watch just because he plays like a Marvel 3 team by himself when he gets going and the opponent barely gets to play if at all. The sheer amount of BS he puts on the screen just makes me laugh. I think it's the audacity of it all.

@bustoo Ай бұрын

I hate zoners but for some reason Asuka feels different. Maybe because he actually needs a second to get going, or that you can hit the cubes. And you actually have to think to play him. Not like majority of other zoners that throw out attacks over and over and react to jump ins.

@anghainguyen9951 Ай бұрын

@@bustoo well Guilty gear zoner are just rushdown in disguise. The momment they get a hit comfirm the gona jump in you face and stat do mix up...

@android19willpwn Ай бұрын

most authentic wizard dual you'll ever find in gaming outside of Magicka. Such a wild character. Also I like that round where Gobou was dominating basically the entire time and won with 1 HP left because he just kept chewing through it for mana.

@DRaGZ141 Ай бұрын

I didn't understand until you said Exodia, now I understand the full heart of their cards.

@Ukyoprime Ай бұрын

You will never convince me that this Asuka design isn't an escaped BlazBlue character.

@axis8396 Ай бұрын

It's a lot like 9 with the spell combinations but they said "but what if card game, and multiple decks, and a resource?" Definitely a character that wouldn't be too far out of place in BB tbh

@YouCanCallMeIz Ай бұрын

I know the Nine comparison is obvious, but I think he's moreso along the lines of Mu where you have to be doing way more set-up than anyone else at any given time for slightly more/less reward depending on who you're fighting.

@Ukyoprime Ай бұрын

The difference in my mind between GG and BB is that GG places the emphasis on global mechanics, and characters tend to have 0-1 extra UI elements worth of gimmicks. BB places its emphasis on each character being their own whole-ass minigame unique to them, with 1-3 special UI elements. Asuka is hardcore in the latter camp, WAY more so than any other character in Strive.

@user-et3xn2jm1u Ай бұрын

See if I was commentating this match I woulda said "One of these players is winning... they both played a card!... oooh but they might run out of mana, who's going to get the cube? It looks like one Asuka's life is lower -- nope, the other is lower now, he must have drained it somehow, but don't worry he's still blue" and so on.

@Voicelet Ай бұрын

I can see why Gobou thinks Asuka is the best character. Asuka's ceiling is so high that he surpasses even the S tier, but to get there you'd have to be at Gobou's or Zando's level plus more (imo, utilizing all decks and card counting to capitalize on the situation.) But until some amazing prodigy shows up, that height won't be reached, and consistency will win most of the time.

@alexandersze49 Ай бұрын

We are blessed by such a talented fg commentator to be able to give in-depth matchup/character/player analysis on a wide variety of games. And entertaining to watch, I think that’s the true top tier

@AJAlkaline Ай бұрын

Wizard fighting against an evenly matched Asuka is probably my favorite experience in fighting games.

@quarterscarlet Ай бұрын

I’m surprised how much u were able to catch, Sajam, whenever an asuka was on play. The fact u were able to see players skipping auto draw and mana regen by accident for a split second during mulligan was crazy.

@yaboy804 Ай бұрын

I’ll just keep playing Ky thanks lmao

@nkirmath8621 Ай бұрын

Playing asuka has to be one of the most stressful things I ever decided to do, I used to play mtg with friends when I was younger so when asuka dropped I couldn't help but feel like he's like a card type from that tcg series and was immediately motivated to learn him.

@leemcgee5164 Ай бұрын

New season of Yu-Gi-Oh looks tight

@GrayFox_74 Ай бұрын

How the hell did the creators come up with this system and get it to work

@latch_official Ай бұрын

this matchup is so funny when im potemkin because rocket pack jump goes through cubes the entire time its active

@nkirmath8621 Ай бұрын

Gobou just believes in the heart of the cards

@jeremiahsayainprophet678 Ай бұрын

Shadow Wizard Money Gang “We love casting spells…”

@edavidbruce Ай бұрын

My tekken-pilled brain itched when he said “Asuka” and “complicated” within two sentences.

@Kool212 Ай бұрын

Complicated doesn't mean hardest to play.

@jahimalnar7978 Ай бұрын

My KoF brain fritzes every time I hear "King" and "Grappler" referring to the same character

@Mene0 Ай бұрын

@Kool212 I think he means that Asuka in Tekken isn't complicated.

@PsychicJaguar19 Ай бұрын

Tekken being a hard game doesn't invalidate the difficulty of other characters/games.

@sosman747 Ай бұрын

@@PsychicJaguar19 You didn't understand a thing he said lmao

@FortunePayback Ай бұрын

I wanted to play this character when he came out so much...and then I booted him up in practice. Couldn't figure him out, went to watch the breakdown video so to learn, and I just stopped there. This character is crazy and I give mad respect to anyone who put in the work to play him. I love this game and have a ton of fun, but I just don't have the time to learn everything about Askua's mechanics, let alone get good at it.

@eduardoserpa1682 Ай бұрын

This whole tournament was a treat, but seeing my character played at this level always gets me so hyped.

@SaltiestSalem Ай бұрын

It can get exhausting playing Asuka because of how much time I spend just watching my hand rather than focusing on what's going on lol

@dewpliss Ай бұрын

this match was so cool to watch

@fortidogi8620 Ай бұрын

every round start in this set is a comedy sketch i s2g

@TheAmberFang Ай бұрын

13:11 Sajam explaining this brought me back to bullshit being explained in early Yugioh: Giant Soldier of Stone stabbing the moon type of shit. I play this staff card and equip it to your Monster, and it manipulates gravity so that all of my cubes hit your lifepoints directly!

@GrayFox_74 Ай бұрын

Then I pull pot of greed to gain 2 additional cards

@collin9871 Ай бұрын

two wizzards scraping through the dirt and mud, coolest ditto of all time bar NONEEEE

@leekotvfilms5236 Ай бұрын

It’s like you playing rock paper scissors with yourself While you’re in the middle of a fight with another person And yall both on acid😂

@Regis_Philbin Ай бұрын

You are such a pro its actually insane, this was a treat to watch

@AchedSphinx Ай бұрын

this was the match up i was looking forward to in the group stages. it's unfortunate we didn't get more of it for top 8. asuka vs asuka is insane and great job commentating it.

@forestskilbred9461 Ай бұрын

Brilliant analysis, such a cool breakdown of this character. it's almost like it's going for a record for most in depth fighting game mechanic.

@stevedaguy9639 Ай бұрын

This character has the vibe of a man who dreams of hosting a podcast on the moon

@SpicyChedderJack Ай бұрын

I feel like that one video of danny devito going "I get it now" after hearing this explanation of Asuka

@SurgingStormGG Ай бұрын

Watching sajam analysis on his commentary for this makes me want to play the game and commentate it again.

@arisonaicedout4357 Ай бұрын

I was so happy we got that match - it's what I wanted since the character debuted. You did great navigating us through the madness!

@SkewtLilbttm Ай бұрын

With this guy's insanely good card capabilities I'm surprised Tom Cruise hasn't kidnapped him and made a break for Vegas those sweet, sweet stacks o' cash.

@frankpennachio2901 Ай бұрын

Just imaging trying to commentate that mirror match is melting my brain. I fully understood what you were explaining but in real time, it happens SO fucking fast! lol. Good stuff man. I couldn't do that shit.

@Milos.33 Ай бұрын

Amazing thumbnail lmao

@fezthedracky8468 Ай бұрын

Watching the PepperySlash vs Zando match made me hate Asuka, I saw him just playing a shit ton of cubes and that was really all I could see to it. This video has opened my eyes to how insanely fast Zando actually was that set, mad respect for anyone who plays this char competently

@Rose-85 Ай бұрын

feels so weird learning about this character as a yugioh player

@calfriedman6981 Ай бұрын

13:05 this bit is sick. some real anime/wizard/anime wizard shit

@rockbsaul Ай бұрын

This was so sick

@lockheartmac Ай бұрын

This look so fucking cool, they way he plays sounds hard AF but so interesting.

@Arkhanno Ай бұрын

I believe in the heart of the cards.

@cycy8699 Ай бұрын

asuka's only intended matchup was versus himself

@Christian_Crab Ай бұрын

6:38 cubestun

@DANCERcow Ай бұрын

Bro got a taste of what commentating a Yu-Gi-Oh match is like lol

@somethinganything9170 Ай бұрын

I wish Asukas decks were more balanced and/or that each had one of the special cards (autorefill, mana regen, gravity staff) so that his gameplay wasn't so linear and they had to adjust their decks depending on the situation

@jellophant9716 Ай бұрын

I feel like no matter what people will always "metadeck". Users make the character linear, and asuka already has so many options.

@oliviawallace3636 Ай бұрын

JOHN SILVER AS ASUKA ITS PEAK

@PerpetuallyTiredMillennial Ай бұрын

5 minutes in and we're finally through the pre-match systems explanation for Asuka. Seems about right.

@MenaceLendil Ай бұрын

One think that i found interesting is how differently Peppery splash played Asuka, he wasn't really spamming the cubes and i think that also works since all in all the projectiles have some amazing framedata, even the basic cube is +5 on block. So he can do some really good strike throw mixups with them.

@Putlats Ай бұрын

I as a lover of overly complicated mechanics, LOVE and can normally keep up with asuka. 2 of them is so difficult to keep track of but omg they’re so fun to breakdown!

@mimic_ssb Ай бұрын

Amazing video

@cFrogjar Ай бұрын

Great video

@johncrq3594 Ай бұрын

That match was eye candy for asuka mains who recognize every little trick that happens. Insane plays from both sides

@absolute0pygmy Ай бұрын

I always enjoy playing against Asuka, I onetrick I-No and it's a been a fairly even matchup for me on F10. But you really do see a lot of player expression with his kit, so on top of that it's a unique experience every time. Watching this mirror is just eye opening and explains a lot of what happens in these games :D

@kitestar 20 күн бұрын

That is no man, that’s a _literal_ lexicon of some completely different game that isn’t the one that’s being played, and it’s real scary complicated

@DeertickDaniel 24 күн бұрын

I don’t play for a year and this is what I come back to

@gomelo6787 Ай бұрын

People told me to start playing strive with simpler characters like Sol or Ky to learn the fundamentals I started this game with Asuka...

@sp1r1t_d1tch Ай бұрын

I came back and fell in love with GG Strive this week JUST because of this character, I'd take one deep as hell character over a dozen simpler to learn fighters any day. I was a huge rubick & Invoker fan when I played dota 2 so this is just perfect for me.

@blargh559 Ай бұрын

5 minutes in to the video and I'm reminded why I'm more of a funny dolphin anchor go bonk kinda guy

@skrypto2652 Ай бұрын

It’s like Steve tryna get diamonds

@blizz_ny5167 Ай бұрын

Always wondered why test case 2 is under used. There are 2 gem cards in there. One card swaps all currently stocked cards for a random one yes if you switch test cases it will pull cards from that test case. Also mana replenish (instant) is really good because you can get all mana back + cards with mugen super (sets up advantage since you can stock cards of your choosing)

@AustyLaVista Ай бұрын

my brain has melted

@conradmurraytv Ай бұрын

most asukas refer to auto-import + regen as the exodia combo lol

@Iwatoda_Dorm Ай бұрын

This is definitely gonna a character where in 10 years time, i’m gonna want to learn how to play him.

@aceDOZA Ай бұрын

Instructions unclear. Picks Sol Bad guy to unga instead

@Scuddi Ай бұрын

asuka plays phantom dust.

@basalt8151 Ай бұрын

I wish anybody else I know plays phantom dust

@vanakis Ай бұрын

Watching this video I feel like Max, when he was watching that 0.5 A press Mario 64 parallel universes video

@TylerGambino Ай бұрын

What a great thumbnail

@treezy7593 Ай бұрын

Bro im 4 minutes in the explanation and my brain is fried.

@Mene0 Ай бұрын

Moste with the thumbnails man

@GrayFox_74 Ай бұрын

I Wonder if he meant to wall break to get the positive meter gain to redo his hand but Zando was too fast to attack

@therealgunksucker Ай бұрын

asuka main here commenting that there is a rebel contingent of hipster deck 2 users who try and focus on stagger pressure and mixups and honestly it works almost as well

@therealgunksucker Ай бұрын

thank you so much also for explaining this character in sort of an "outsider's perspective here's-why-he's-so-cool" type of way instead of a didactic guide way or a maldful tier list video way

@eduardoserpa1682 Ай бұрын

Good usage of decks 1 and 2 might be the key to endure long tournaments with Asuka. You need a lot less awareness and execution to navigate those hands just from how interchangeable most cards are, and they still give you Sol levels of frame advantage to work with. And then you bring out deck 3 against people that are hard to open up.

@acaracaraorange7685 Ай бұрын

I picked him up recently & was hoping this was the case since he clearly has a lot of flexibility

@therealgunksucker Ай бұрын

@@eduardoserpa1682yeah the main benefit is that all of the overhead and low spells are good in neutral because you can't break them which really gives stability to his worst matchups like sin and testament

@BudewFan_ Ай бұрын

I love the idea of a group of dark evil fucked up wizards who just teleport around and punch you in the face rather than throwing cubes

@SimplicityAchieved Ай бұрын

You know its spice when 10 minutes into the video its only the 3rd round

@BionisGuy Ай бұрын

So Asukas is basically the impersonation of "YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!"

@twixtwix2915 Ай бұрын

19:49 the god hand

@Sem-ifinalist Ай бұрын

Havent watched yet but is that John Silver in the thumbnail?! Real happy for some AEW rep

@Holidoll Ай бұрын

17:51 DOORS STUCK

@Bobio Ай бұрын

Bro that thumbnail is hilarious lol

@demiurge2501 Ай бұрын

i've been playing less fighting games recently to start playing magic: the gathering more competitively. It's to the point where I'll look at data for every deck to decide which one card i should put in the last free slot in my deck. all of that to say i have no idea what's happening here, and I think that's beautiful