Keeping with our series of guides here in Guilty Gear Strive during the launch period, heres a vid to help you understand how damage works! Its hardly as simply as X move does Y damage in guilty gear, so lets learn about damage reduction values, GUTS, and all that!

also worth noting that positive bonus comes with a 10% damage buff

I think there might be a mistake in the vid. Having a guts value of 0 doesn’t mean you have *no* guts, just that it’s the lowest possible rating. That’s how it worked in other games, and I assume that’s how it works now, since there’s no concrete values yet, plus the fact that if Faust and Zato had no guts they would actually get killed in less hits than Chipp lol

2:11 Chipp's right arm is breathing lol

11:41 If my math checks out, this should actually kill. If Nagoriyuki's max health is 420 like everyone else, then 48 damage is greater than the 10% of his remaining health. Only reason he lived is because you can't die in training mode, though I'm pretty sure there's a switch you can toggle to change that.

Wait, for real? Everyone has 420 health? ... nice.

Interesting that in this game, Guts kicks in at 70% vs. Xrd's 50%. Didn't know this fact, thanks for the info!

Alright every video I say more coming and.... well more is coming! I wanna make sure to cover as many bases as I can so people understand as much as possible with Strives core systems and once thats done, we are starting to go into the character specific stuff, and ending in combos and the big longform guides you all are used to! Tomorrow ill probably be doing a stream along with the Xbox/Square e3 conferences, and also starting next week begins regular Strive streams! For now it will be Tues/Wed/Thurs (until aew moves back to wednesdays then it will change again lol)

Absolutely loving these in-depth guides that you are pumping out. I had no idea GGS was this deep.

I'm guessing Nago is so hard to kill to balance out the fact that he kills himself.

I think one thing these videos have shown why a lot of people may be opposed to diving into fighting games is just how so many fighting games DON'T tell you these invisible systems even exist. Things just happen. Im not saying that all the statistic values need to be shown, it would just be nice for the actual games to let you know these things are at work.

"Understanding how Damage, Health, Guts & more work in Guilty Gear Strive " Potemkin Buster hurts. *Fade To Black*

so this actually solves a minor mystery for me: all week i feel like i have been winning a weirdly high percentage of comeback wins and very close wins. funny part is the bulk of my competive/ranked experience has been SFV/MK11/DBFZ, games with famously strong comeback mechanics, so i feel like i know how/why i get comeback wins, but strive doesnt have that "loose hit into VT activation, combo into CA" so it's puzzling me. well, the twist to my little story is im an anji main. ive known about the guts system for years cause i think every Xrd commentor had some sort of moral obligation to mention it once per match, but i never knew i would be a serious beneficiary of it one day. thank you ASW game balance team: fair game, honest game, good game

This is why we need character guides. Roof did the Leo combo and I was like wtf. I play Leo I had no idea.

Thank you for making this info so clear and easy to understand! As a Street Fighter player, these mechanics seem kind of unnecessarily complicated, but I do feel like it helps balance the game overall.

Really appreciate your vids. Crazy how you find topics no other YT channel really go over. The defensive modifications is something I never would have noticed lol

so it's true: the first half of the health bar in the guilty gear series is just an illusion, cause the closer you are to dying the higher your defense goes

thank you and thank the guys at dust loop! I knew this video was coming soon!

Thank you for the awesome Strive videos! Very informative! Also a big thumbs up and then down for the Batista Bomb reference!

My favourite part about damage info on the dustloop xrd table was the effective health total, there's just something so beautiful about pure numbers and basic multiplication making such an interesting mechanic

Dude, I just need to sit here and binge watch rooflemonger tutorials. Why am I only now seeing this KZfaq algorithm?

I really enjoy how you break games mechanics and characters

Thanks to you and dustloop. Appreciate the info.

The guts in Xrd was insane. 80% of the health seemed to be at the final 20%

Thanks dust loops. Really enjoyed the video. Easy to digest.

Great to see these guides thank you

really appreciate the section labels on the progress bar

Roofle goated, congrats on 100k

Great video man very informative

Nago is beefy as hell, bruh.

This topic always confused me, even in previous games. Reading the wiki didn't really help. However, this did. Can not thank you enough for this guide.

That was great! I never knew how damaged worked in GG.

Good info. Glad I finally watched it. Bonus is that I main Leo. Good to know on the Guts differences. Thanks.

As a Chipp main, this thumbnail physically hurts me.

Super informative. Thank you

Love your videos man

Did I just hear "SHREK INSTALL"??? Im using this forever.

I knew about the system but never understood this high level depp about thenguts system thumps up man good job

Much appreciated for breaking down how all these unfamiliar mechanics actually work.

Hoping roof finds it worth his time to do Individual character guides cuz I need it.

And this whole complicated thing is actually made for hype factor. They engineered this system to make damage, lifeleads and comebacks more dramatic.It's intentional.It's also why if you watch old guilty gear, when players try to kill, they do very weird combos with a lot of small attacks. Try looking up Chipp guts crush combos in Xrd, he does like a million jK / jP at the end.

My boi Anji out here with a *chef's kiss* guts modifier of 5

I wish this kind of information is included in the game

Thank you again!

It must've been complex to manually calculate the guts values on top of the defense modifiers! Also, it's does seem fitting that Nagoriyuki has a high guts value on top of being 2nd to Potemkin's defense, since he can lose health quickly in berserk state.

So Nago is in the top bracket for durability, damage, and reach - not to mention speed with all those dashes. Thank Daisuke that Nago mains have to deal with blood rage...

very educational!

Yo roof could you please do a video explaining how the combo system works now and how you go about working out combos for all the different characters? God bless you.

In some cases, the last hit-point stays regardless. But in other cases, it can go away. Grabs and supers will take the opponent out regardless, I think

Poor Chipp

Unrelated to the video but I've been watching story mode and yes, Goldlewis is magnificent

11:19 don't pay attention to it and play the game as u should. Let's be real in the heat of the battle NONE going to be paying attention to the health exact % when landing hits and / or combos... if u get a hit u wont goin to make your most strong attack alone and that's it, no, ur goin to land ur most stronger and optimal combo regardless and that's what you should do, not only because of the damage but because most combos corner carry towards the corner which is the worst situation possible you can put your opponent in. The video is very informative and awesome to have and really enjoyed it just wanted to leave that side note there to anyone who just starting the game and could be "overthinking" it for lack of lack of a better word.

I am wondering about the comments on how to adjust your play based on how guts works. For instance you mention big hits earlier on etc. It seems to me that if all hits across the board are scaled that probably the best move is just to always play your normal style. For instance once folks are at max guts, the optimal moves for damaging should always just be whatever your max damage combo would be the time, right? (which would be what you would want to go for anyways at any point in time). Maybe there are a few very niche situations where you could somehow figure out how to change a combo halfway through to maximize the damage because of guts, but even then since guts is always working in the same way (shrinking damage as the combo continues) then also every combo you know should always just be the same to maximize damage I would think. And its not like you have a choice when playing as to which move is going to hit your opponent, so I would think the best is just to play your usual style at all times of what you think will open them up and then whatever the highest damage combo is that you know. I have lots more thoughts on this but will stop there xD in conclusion I would think guts would never actually alter someones actual decision making processes in a real match.

Funnily enough, Chip's weak constitution may be literally because of speed because before he was a ninja he was a drug-dealer turned addict which I'd imagine would make you much less sturdy in combat

hi rooflemonger I love your videos on strive and they've helped me understand the game. I am thinking about strive but I've never played a fighting game in my life and I'm not sure if I even have the stuff I need. Would you recommend strive to someone completely new to the fighting game genre?

lower the health the more you totsugeki, got it.

Been meaning to up my game😎

Its like the Gauge they added in season 3 for Fighterz

I always wondered why my health would be 2/3rds gone at the end of every round I won as Anji

they did chip dirty. they took away a lot of his mobility, didn't give him damage, and kept his horrible defense.

Damage and health being variable with guts has always added some great tension and drama throughout the match. Unless you're Chipp. Then it matters not.

I haven't found anywhere what sort of bonus Chipp gets with max burst. Anyone that can answer that please?

Damn this is like pre damage numbers monster hunter levels of trying to predict power/kill time.

You didn’t have to count all the way up there for the I no damage bro lol. It’s good we get it. Good shit though. Love the videos.

Okay, but what do the little letter next to every character on the character selection screen mean?

Seeing Nagoriyuki suddenly take less than half that damage under Guts... oh man, online against him is going to be tough. As a Ramlethal player I should be okay, but characters with weaker damage will be in for a tough time,

guess that makes Faust the best training dummy for universal combos, well for knowing what the no defense + guts modifier is. You either count the 1% as negligible or you just take the damage/1.01

Is it possible to still get that black and neon blue colors?

Bruh no wonder whenever I raw super as a desperate last resort near the end of matches online, it hardly does anything to damage them compared to when I do it in training mode

Wouldn’t be wise to just go for normal grabs then? I get rounds/wins just by throws when they health is low or does that scale as well?

Wait. If everyone has 420 HP, 10% is 42. How did that Combo not kill Nago when he was at 10% and it did 48 damage?

Thank you for all your help strive is my first proper gg game i dont think sign counts

So does nagoriyuki in blood rage lose less health when he is at lower health

I have unlocked the mystery of Nago. He lacks good + frames and normals and no invulnerable attack which makes him susceptible to high R.I.S.C which negates his higher defense and guts. Boom! Buff Nago!

You are the real mvp

Amazing thanks How do Counter hits relate to all of this?

Can you make an in depth vid on combos and general conversions from neutral to combos? I really had a trouble with that during the beta and it keeps me from buying the game

Can we start calling half circle back forward just watermelon forward, or melon forward for short

Makes matchups differ more

Thank you for this vid I was wondering why I’d get 200 on a combo one day then I’d get 220 the next lol I was labbing against ky and chipp

I need more videos for Virtual fighter ultimate I need videos on wolf a full detailed guide.

“ every one has 420 health “ Guilty gear devs: hehe nice People who play guilty gear: hehe nice Me: hehe nice

Let me know if I'm wrong, but does that means(in summary) that the most vulnerable character in GG is Millia? 2nd place for taking damage and third from the end for GUTS

Defence modifier just sounds like an overly complicated way of doing health differences. Guts just sound like a lazy way to make the health gauge go down slower the less health you have. And because of this we have to talk about combos doing "about 30%" instead of _knowing_ it is a 120 damage combo.

Guts applies at damage dealt, not combo start right? As in if I start a combo at 70%, and there's a hit at 60% does it get the 60% guts value at that hit, or does it stick with the guts value from the initiation?

Just got my copy of the game :D

Does Nagoriyuki's health draining from max blood gauge bypass guts?

I love you Roofle…but your “hallllooo” gives me nightmares lol

I prefer simple and wish everyone had equal health, I think it makes devs have more creative balancing than just numbers.

5:21 This is odd, Dustloop has her at 116%. 116% of 50 should show us 58 exactly on that hit, but here you're doing 59, which is either 118% (or 119% if it's 59.5 being rounded down). Am I missing something or is the wiki off?

is chipp really bad? hes the character ive picked up first and been enjoying him but everyone seems to say he's bad because of the damage he takes

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX PERCENT Chipp: that all?

That is indeed some math.

This is my first GG game and these vids are invaluable. Thanks! I had no idea about these damages systems. TBH they seem utterly gratuitous. Has Arcsys ever explained why they made the damage system so complex and opaque when they could have just had high health and low health characters? Is there some benefit to doing it this way that I’m missing?

that blue leo skin looks sooo cool. How do I get it?

This is unrelated to damage, but isn't there a way to go straight to training mode with the same characters and stage after an online match?

Nago basically represents his lore well by being the absolute biggest bastard to k.o.

Someone at the dev team must have been having a 420 life when they thought of this mechanic

What about max guts full meter Giovanna?

People say guts is a comeback mechanic so I always assumed it only applied at the start of each combo but now I know it checks for every hit it doesn’t seem like much of a comeback mechanic since both players have to deal with it. Not like X factor. Even then I think it would be an interesting discussion video since for things like X factor both players do get it even the one in the lead so does that make it fair.