I feel like everyone forgot about the 3v3 thing arcsys promised.

They should change absolutely nothing except making Bed top tier

"Sol Badguy just kills you" is a quote I associafe with Gekko now

you were mostly right about zato but you missed out on the number 1 problem zato players are dealing with, which is being cucked by system mechanics. Eddie has always been really vulnerable to yrc or burst, and now the cooldown is longer and burst is fullscreen. And he cant bait bursts like he used to with break the law which makes the situation worse.

Season 4 predictions in order. Dizzy, Venom, Zappa, New character/ crossover.

Incoming zato player take: I agree that zato needed to be detuned a bit, but I don't think the way arksys did it is healthy for the character. Everyone got Wild Assault and Deflect Shield, and everyone had a flat damage nerf so games would go on longer, which is great. However, with the removal of Break The Law Burst/YRC/RRC bait, and fullscreen burst buff, it's super easy to kill Eddie now, and it takes twice as long for him to come back. That alone would have been "okay" for a zato rework, but the proxy nerfs to zato's ability to stall for Eddie (reduced flight time, everyone getting more pressure extension with WA, 3rd lowest health in the game, etc.) is what really made zato "bottom tier", at least in my opinion. I'm hoping they either bring back BTL full invincibility, or reduce the time it takes for Eddie to recover by some amount. At the end of the day, I think that characters who are inherently difficult to play should have a decent payoff for learning their toolkit, which zato is certainly lacking at the moment. TLDR: I once had some sweet memories

I mean tbh zatos timer isn't the issue, the issue is his relationship to the system mechanics. Burst being so accessible AND being punished for still blocking the burst is an exclusive zato problem.

talking about the eddie change without mentioning that burst now goes FULL SCREEN is insane

The problem with Zato isn't the fact that Eddie cooldown is longer. It's that layered on top of the changes they made to how burst works which was already a MASSIVE nerf to him. Because burst is now fullscreen, it's possible to kill Eddie for free with zero risk. Even if Zato baits the burst, Eddie is gone and Zato is completely unable to do anything productive for 7 seconds. Is he LITERALLY unplayable? No. But Zato players didn't drop him or the game because he's bad, it's because he's not fun to play anymore. At this point when the game simply punishes you for trying to run your gameplan, while other characters effectively get it for free (insert character that pops up in your mind here), that's when the balance has been fucked up in some way. Also this isn't directed at anyone in particular, (I mean it, please don't take this the wrong way, commenters), but I find it incredibly immature to say "but this character deserved to be gutted" for the reason of you simply don't enjoy fighting them. I fucking despise playing against Bridget, but I don't spend every waking day of my life hoping she gets removed from the game, because so many people enjoy playing her and that's fine. This game is absolutely full of bullshit, and the fact that people still play this game means that we're mostly ok with the bullshit. It's sort of what defines Guilty Gear as a game. So please try to be self aware when you complain about a certain character, because chances are there are people who hate your character for frankly understandable reasons.

Punishing pot and bed for the fact that nago and gold are top 5, with the former being so even without WA, is rough imo

With the return of Slayer upon us soon, I need Instant Kills back, need my Slayer to give out some haikus as I land the IK as a final hit for full soul breaking shinanigans

Yeah, the diff between a strive top tier and a mid tier is moderate, but not unplayable Like imagine if a games top tiers were so unbelievably strong that it feels like a damn old school arcade boss fight to go up against them *insert kazuya in smash here*

There's something beautiful lore wise that asuka and sol are both the two faces of different kinds of top their characters

the top of their list needs to be a zato buff for god sake man. no way they allow zato to be this shit for so long with zero explanation as to why.

all I want is for still growing or "sin eat" to actually do something and for Johnny to be able to cancel his dash into block. I don't care about really anything else these would just be nice quality of life stuff.

One of the greatest gentlemen in media is hear and I'm surprised you aren't talking about him. Only Speedwagon could have a chance to top him.

FYI to Gekko, as a member of the faustcord, Baiken is agreed to be one of the 3 good MU's faust has so your hate is warranted Althought having exactly 3 MU that aren't a some form of "Please let me use my signature move" to "meant to be good on paper but this is faust so you lose" kinda sucks, so take solace in knowing we don't get to do crazy shit often (if ever)

11:58 I've been saying put Force Breaks(/FRCs possibly) into Strive for YEARS and all the local guys are annoyed about it at this point. I'm so glad I'm not the only person that wants this and it's not just an echo chamber.

Ofc the people who dont play asuka + dont know the matchup complain the most about the character 💀. Same thing with Zato. If you think they are unfair, try them for a week. You will find just how quickly you get dismantled and where the holes in their kit are

3:50 - 4:00 in Magic The Gathering we have a term for this, its called "The Thing" where once we get our main gameplan moving it just gives you alot of value or makes it very difficult to get out of for the other players unless something is done (ie Boardwipe) or that player just wins. Just wanted to mention this because thought it was interesting that he says something somewhat similar lol.

"Sol Badguy just kills you" is peak Sol Badguy

As a bed player, either they buff Bed more or WWA better stay the way it is cause we don't have much man...

Ok Gekko I love you and im no professional zato but eddie gauge is not the only reason zato feels like shit now. I do agree hes not unplayable and some people Jonathan Tene are massively overeacting and also the zato bros are unloyal as shit, but zato did experience quite a bit of pain. What really hurt him is that they shot him in three major ways: eddie gauge refills slower, flight is much worse, and the rework of blue burst means that Break The Law can no longer burst bait. Now any of these blows in isolation would be understandable, but with them all at once it makes zato's neutral and defense petrifying as youre so, so much weaker. I genuinely don't know what I would do to buff him or how I would have gone about nerfing him, but i do feel like a character that complex deserves to be very strong, and right now hes putting up a lot of fight to get really good damage in a game where sol badguy and goldick dickindick just completely deletes you because you decided to block.

Oh he's hurting after the patch, stay sane brother, this too shall pass

I think you’re forgetting the part where resources are tosses out like candy so Zatos gameplay is constantly interrupted by burst and YRC, which kills Eddie leaving him in a position to lose. They also nerfed other shit that wasn’t even necessary. I don’t even love Zato or anything, but it’s kind of disheartening for a character who was considered “good” in season 2 get mauled while characters like Ram, Leo, and Nago all get buffs for some ungodly reason (new special moves coming for those last two btw lol, as if they need it) These characters have been at the top since fucking launch, and have only ever gotten slaps on the wrist, if anything, and yet Zato is character they bring out the femur breaker for? I do think Eddie coming back so fast was bad and it should’ve been changed, but the way they went about it was very ungraceful. It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t patch this game at a snail’s fucking pace

On my opinion, I believe White WA is pretty much balanced if you're playing a character with low mobility, like Potemkin (he's the only character with White WA that I play, I honestly don't know about the others). It actually helps to deal with lots of situations, like baiting supers and getting through Axl's tornado and other multi-hit "barrier" attacks (God, do I hate dealing with this in neutral). This is just my opinion though, I'm just a silly clown

Hopefully they throw Zato some buffs I'm hoping that they make eddie just a tad less frail. It feels awful when I get going but they RC and kill Eddie.

I think a ranked mode like a street fighters 5 it can be cool or a tournament mode like smash últimate and 4 is a Nice thing to have

You didn't mention that Zato can't BTL YRC and Burst anymore. And that's massive.

NEED INSTANT KILLS itd also be nice if they gave the whole cast a 100% Tension super similar to gamma ray, sometimes you just wanna blow it all to send a message

White wild assault should be neutral on block so it stays as a get in tool but doesn’t give them free advantage while it does it

Your editing skills are amazing and super hilarious. All videos 😂😂😂❤

Can we get instant kills back? Pleas ArcSys, they're too cool to not bring back.

they should make it so faultless defense can do a roll back if you get hit on the counterhit plink frame. they should make it so there is no damage when the wall is broken. they should make it so wild assault doesn't hard knock down

With the full screen burst killing almost every burst safe route we need ways to burst bait, give us more jump cancellable normals and I’m good (maybe buff wall slump stuff in some way to make it useful would be nice too)

I recently got into Strive through playing with friends and while I dont think Im entirely ready to try to real online scene, its been a blast learning how to actually maneuver my characters. So far my main has been Giovanna and thats been especially fun for me tripping up people with Wild Assault out the gate to put pressure down. That said, I am interested to see where things go for Season 4 and also new characters to pick up as well. I got Season 1 on discount and plan to pick up Testament from that and eventually when I get the other Seasons, I'll probably try to learn Bedman and especially Slayer. Now if only my friend wouldnt knock me down a peg every time he picks Sol 😅

Doesn't eddie always die if you burst? Even if Zato blocks it? Then he fucking sucks. Just wait for your win bar to refill and hit him once fool.

You know what the game doesn't have yet mechanic wise compared to the other Guiltygear ? Something mapped to the S+HS input. In XX, there's slashback, in Xrd, there's Blitz Shield. Strive has room to put a mechanic on this input.

I expected a reaction video to how goddamn cool Slayer looks :( Also, zoners are why I just play Tekken now also also, you're right about Zato

I hope we get a 3v3 mode where you choose 3 characters and control them all. Calling in assists and swapping characters are all I want.

1:05 missed opportunity for a visual gag of Bedman when saying “this character’s bed”

Bake wabe up gekkosquirrel posted

What I’m hoping for is a new story, not much to I want to change gameplay wise ngl

force break can just follow the rules ex/od-moves in street fight are, press two buttons + the motion input

you want the guard crush from white assault fine, but if you take away my ability to not lose oki as pot literally any time 90% of the cast has half meter for a frame one invincible super I'm rioting.

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All I want is for Happy Chaos to maybe not give the opponent 80% their burst gauge back on his basic wall to wall combo. His damage is fine and makes sense but come on, is it necessary after all his nerfs? You could justify maybe 60% but I've legit had games were to opponent burst 5 times...It's that bad. Especially with Deus Ex Machina which alone lends about 40%.

Anyone know the song starting from 9:09 ? Been looking for it for a while now and still cant find it.

Can you talk about the 3v3 mode, what some asists could be, if it's ever going to come out, how it can compare to other 3v3s which are out or are coming out soon.

I don’t really play st much rn but like season 4 might very well be cool as heck and I’m looking forward to messing around with it

MAH GOAT GEKKOOOOOOOO ❤️‍🔥

I do want a scaling rework for HC. Something along the lines of, the higher your beat, the more your scaling increases but this only applies to gunshots not normals.(this could be changed to the lower you are on concentration the more damage you gunshots do)

my issue with removing WWA is while it's in a lot of areas absurd, it's bedman's BIGGEST redeeming quality imo and it puts him from like D- tier to D+, bedman's neutral is... eh, and his defense is notoriously one of the worst in the game, especially given his mad low HP for a heavyweight bigbody. being able to threaten a jumpscare neutral skip is like unanimously in most situations his best roundstart and is one of his only roundstart options that actually allows him to start working his magic, which is hard to get up usually.

omg little geko dancing

I play zato occasionally and he is now my second best as to bed man being my top

Daisuke, can you please fix Elphelt's Super? Can you hear me Daisuke? Did I forget my medicine Daisuke?

I main Baiken but personally the Faust matchup is my easiest one. I really struggle with Giovanna tho.

That Asuka analysis is quite skewed. He does have problems and they aren't small. He's basically the zoner equivalent of ABA. His weaknesses include: - No meterless reversal outside of a 1/30 chance on their starting Test Case 1 - The deck Asuka players do not mill. Asuka using Overdrive Reversal = Losing a Test Case 3 mill - Asuka's mill Test Case 3 for Mana Regen and Auto Card Import - Test Case 3 has least amount of fast cube shots overall. meaning less neutral presence unless setup. Metatron and Portal are easily to counterhit due to slow startup speed. You can use this to your advantage. Once they switch to TC3, your top priority should be to stop Mana Regen draw. If they get a cube heavy first draw in TC3, they are guaranteed to struggle in neutral as they try to mill or build meter to activate mill. They only have 2/30 chance to draw mana, auto import on the first TC3 draw. In fact, all hand manipulation cards have 2/30 chance. - If you get in on an Asuka without Mana Regen or Tension, it's pretty much GGs. You can widdle away their mana bar on block, which forces defensive burst usage. Even if they do use meter reversal or burst, they are now likely operating under very limited resources. You see this at all levels of play, and it's the primary reason why Zando and Gobou lose matches. - He trades health for quick mana refill, which means if you deplete his mana bar is zero, he's basically 1 shot by all top tiers. It also means you can pay attention to his mana bar to predict gaps in pressure. - He only has one staff type per deck - If you see low grav (TC2) or vortex staff (TC3), you will not see it again until they draw through the entire deck to refresh. - You are not forced to block cubes. They are easily hit with jabs, which is extremely low risk, and you can even counter hit Asuka through cube shots with long range normals. For example, you play Baiken - You can literally j.S cubes, f.S cubes, kabari cubes, 2D under and through cubes into counter hit, and Asuka has to respect that.

honestly i think zato just needs to be able to keep eddy alive easier. most matchups just dont allow his offense to get going at all outside of niche and difficult mixups without eddy

A way to que into matches without going onto a spesific tower floor/Park lobby considering the 32/64 player limit

As an Asuka main, yeah some things you say are true, but his combos barely do any damage, and once he’s out of mana, every character can do a TOD

They need to make Bedman? (bottom 1) a bedder character (give him a teleport)

I wish Strive would have a complete upgrade to get things to imagine for Xrd Rev 3, I would pay 70€ just to have more moves, more combo freedom, turning off wallbreaks or at least the possibility to extrend combo after a break like in tekken,but maybe danger time reduced to 5 seconds. Instant kills would be cool.

Everyone should be able to gatling from their crouch p but you can only go into slash. So it not too much to worry about. If you're ready you can at least get a baby combo. For funise just put instant death back or give everyone a max out slayer super.

I think they should just revert the Eddie respawn timer change but keep it at 6 seconds if Eddie gets hit. That way if Zato runs out of Eddie gauge while doing optimal combo routes he isn’t then punished for playing well but also if Eddie gets caught out the enemy gets a bigger reward. That and bring back old BTL burst and YRC baits because currently it has almost no uses.

Gekko Squirrel what about the 3 versus 3 game mod they anounced during the game awards? Won't they add that in season 4?

I was at an event where a 14 year old playing zato on pad went 3-0 on every single person he played. So I will never believe the ‘zato-1 is unplayable’ people

Ranking system. I just picked up GG about a month ago after not playing a FG for over a decade. I made it to celestial floor and floors 9-celestial seems to have a massive skill range more so 10 and celestial.

Just like, give Zato-1 a special move he can use without Eddie, or a way to refill eddie faster. Either one would make him more fun to try and play

As a healer main, im here to tell you your opinion is valid.

11:53 so u want a blaze blue game with short combos? It’s called guilty gear.

There's only one system change i could think of that would be nice. Yes, i think it's time now. The time for instant kills to be brought back!

Make the 1st part of Wasuriyuki invincible for Nago, that is all.

I kind of want to go a bit weird for season 4 characters. So I’d say Izuna from the Overture entry and Leopaldon from Isuka for the returning characters, and for the completely new to the fight; either Gabriel and one new character new to the story entirely or 2 new characters unique to strive.

I do hope season 1 dlc characters could get new moves in season 4. (maybe in the ladder half of the season).

I just want 3v3 at this point. I'm stoked for that! I just hope they let solo people build out a trio of characters to fight 3 stacks. I'm going to have a hard time aligning my friends and I's schedules to play otherwise

I have no idea. But I want ranked to become elo based, with different rank per character. That's the only proper way.

I've had this thought for a while, but i don't know how good it is. It sounds good in my head but i need someone else's opinion on it. That is orange Wild Assault doesn't hard knock down on wall break, and white Wild Assault doesn't take any brust away on hit or block. The characters that have OWA i think snowball the hardest and it's the most frustrating thing for me with the game right now. WWA doesn't bother me that much, but it does need to be nerfed in some way and taking brust with what it all does, i think is too much.

As a sol main, the only thing i want is dragon install to come back. Thats it. Make it dogshit if you want, make it do literally nothing if you want. Just bring it back

We need more PVE content.

With everything said in this video, 1 thing still remains. Please god arcsys let Johnny dashblock

I feel like you misunderstand what makes zato so bad. I was willing to hear you out but you did not mention his main weakness. Its fine that he gets punished for fucking up, thats good. The problem is he gets punished even when playing perfectly because of yrc and burst. Zatos opponent can misplay a ton of interactions, yrc, and then they have 6.5 seconds (which is an eternity in fighting games) where they fight a character with bad neutral and awful defense. You can now run him down and if you fuck up, hey, you built 50 meter again from being on the offensive, just yrc.

To be honest I started playing zato and guilty gear this season I like him even though people think he is weak

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The persona bgm is awesome I love GGS and the Persona series that’s be an awesome crossover.

Zato question If Burst made Eddie dissappear but didn't kill him (so Zato would still have to get in with Eddie but wouldn't have to wait a year for Eddie to come back) would that be a viable solution to his problem?

3:49 thats just a win condition dude

They need to just get the guy who made the Strive - Plus mod, and ask him if they could just use the Strive - Plus mod but for the whole game.

make every faust move + on block

4:50 O M G XD

I hope they give Sol the Zato treatment

Is it bad that I approve of tanking in FF as an anology for taking the aggro for Zato, cause I fully understand it as a tank myself?

If we don’t get IKs in season 4 I’m going to lose it

Okay, I can't reasonably agree with the Zato take. The Eddie cooldown got doubled + burst is now full screen (easy Eddie kill) + Breaking The Law is no longer a burst bait + Zato got the worst Wild Assault. Add the fact that Red Roman kills Eddie too, and Zato can never play against a skilled opponent. That being said - nerf Zato.

The ONE AND ONLY thing we need for season 4 is Faust bikini plz

There should give Faust and bed guts

I just want Jam, Dizzy, and Raven to be playable.

All i'm saying is Yo Johnson is a high so why isn't Axl Bomber a high (when TK'd)

They shouldn’t change anything except changing pot to be less distractingly hot

i play gio. faust is indeed annoying with the crawl. pretty much negates me doing 5h, 214k, 236k, 214s, meaty en236k. the trick is to remember if he's doing crawl, he ain't blocking. so i'll often go for fakes and whatnot into 2S or just throw him.