If you're new to the game come join the discord: discord.com/invite/raynfgc loads of friendly people willing to help and give tips Veterans, what are some other things you wish you knew before you started?

As a wise man once said: "The enemy cant read your mind, if you dont know what you're doing"

the biggest thing for me, is relinquishing the conept that I can control whether i win or lose, i can only tip the balance. the absolute truth is: there are two people playing and sometimes when i lose it has fuck all to do with me and everything to do with the power of my opponent, internalising that one concept has changed my mindset entirely. pattheflip has a lesson on it somewhere

two tips for new players: -hold block when you're getting off of the ground, when you're about to get hit, basically most bad situations. preferably while crouching, since low moves are much faster than high (overhead) ones. blocking is incredibly important, but when i played Ky a lot of new players i fought wouldn't block low or at all when i attacked them when they got off the ground -if someone does a super (aka overdrive) out of nowhere, but you're doing a move so you can't block it, you can roman cancel and hold back to block the move and punish it. it should make dealing with "wakeup supers" (which is someone doing a super when getting off of the ground) way easier also ky's foundre arc isnt an overhead for some reason if you play him lmao

4:23 on my hands and knees crying screaming throwing up

The biggest thing i wish i knew when i start playing ggst was that the character i wanted to learn was a dlc

Completely disregarding tower ranking is probably the most influential tip for any player.

As a person with no friends, Im scared of the friend rival point, that word is my worst enemy

My main tip for a new player is to learn the concept of turns and learning how to take back your turn when the enemy uses certain moves that make it your turn, also just defense as a whole

Also just remember to get that Roman cancel macro and dash macro on your control scheme asap. You will save your fingers especially on controller.

Very good tips for brand new players. You formulated so well what I had trouble teaching my newer friends because I kinda forgot how I learned. One more thing I wish I'd knew when I started was to find ways to make the grind fun. For example focusing only on a specific mixup/setup/combo to land during a tower session. Doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you land that shit, you did your job and just added a new weapon to your arsenal.

The hardest part of playing a fighting game is to pick a character from the select screen, second hardest part is to keep having fun It is incredible hard to learn strive in my opinion as your first fighter, the regular moves aren't as flashy and aren't as many command normals as street fighter or tekken were you press a button and something comes out. I think there's a huge difference between the idea of " i want to have fun" vs " i want to improve" and i think we asa community need to provide a opportunity for new players to both have fun and improve at the same time when teaching people how to play the game

the biggest problem of combo creator is that a lot of the combo starters are unreasonable, slow or just bad and usually gets you killed

You lost me at having friends

As a new player i also picked up hc, and i dont regret it one bit. Hes fun asf! And doing his combos are hard but feel so cool to do. And you made me change my mindset on the tower system, because i felt really bad when i went to floor 4 from floor 2, then dropped to 3, but i changed my mindset. I now play to improve rather than to win, because a win doesnt = improvement. Great video man!

Anji is a great first pick, very easy to understand and even easier to troll people with. Another important tip I wanna add is to learn what frame traps are (so you know why you get COUNTER-ed all the time and how to do that to other players). I agree with everything you said but the "needing to know framedata", it just doesn't matter until you're on floor 10.5. Just know what the mega-punishable moves are (ky/millia/sol slides, sol's knee jump, all the DPs, ect) and simply press stuff after blocking.

i never expected to see a warcraft refrence in a guilty gear strive video wtf

Hey man you're fun. I'm a fighting game fan and Bridget cosplayer. I don't play in locals but my aim is to win with Bridget more than I lose online and I'm glad I found your channel during my current grind

Amazing video! I had the exact same experience with happy chaos haha, and i felt like shit then i ended up playing nago but then i felt stuck and now i am just an Anji main, love the man, even yesterday i got for the first time to celestial after abt 300 hours, nice video and thanks for giving advise for new players! 🔥

I'm going to buy the game soon as my first fighting game. I like Jack O a lot but I may try someone easy to get into the groove of things before I transition to her. Thanks for the tips, will try them out asap

This game was always a dark house criminally underrated game in the PS2 era. I remember when my friends would get together to chill on a Friday night we would set up 3 tvs and play all these different games in one room to make like a home arcade experience, I remember I rented the first PS2 GG game simply because of the cover, Ky and Sol looking like they're about to get into a fight and since then I was hooked. Man I love this series

"""ram isnt good for new players"""

I started playing January 2023, got better by constantly playing with my celestial friends while I was like F8, now I'm a top 100 ram and mentally broken...

One thing that really helped me with Fighting Games is learning not to worry too much about being perfect. When I first started, I would spend hours in training mode trying to absorb every piece of information I could about the game, a character, their moves, everything. But it meant I got really, really bored and would give up before I actually started playing. Eventually, I decided "fuck it, we ball" and just hopped straight into ranked. And you know what? I had a great time. Was I worse than if I had spent more time labbing? Most definitely. But at the end of the day, it's a game, and game's are supposed to be fun. It doesn't matter how good you are at the game if you don't actually play. Nowadays, if I wanna learn a fighting game, I play the tutorial, find my main, mess around in training mode til I get the basic idea, learn a few B&B combos, and then hop in. And I have a much better time.

Great video! Really helpful for newcomers like me to focus on the right things. Keep it up, love your content style! :D

Awesome. So just be unpredictable. Thanks for this video👍🏽

I agree with most of what you say but the combo tool is really good if you know how to make use of it, because instead of learning the comboes there you can learn how the moves of your character interact with each other, so basically what comboes into what and if i can throw that after this.

My friend had been playing abour 4 months more than me, but he was already pretty good. He taught me so much and was essentially my teacher to the entire genre. I used everything he taught me in other games like melty, rising, undernight, etc. Having a teacher to criticise what you do is amazingly beneficial. He also gave me a pure hatrid for chipp.

I also recommend looking for mirror matches i'm a relatively new player myself and I fought a Millia-Millia match yesterdsy, the guy opened my eyes on the use of a couple of moves. It was also really intersting to see how different our mixups are. I lost 2-1 but I hope I taught him something too lol

One of the biggest things I found was I was focusing on just learning straight up combos on a character I wanted to learn (Ky kiske) without really realising what any other character can do and just kept spamming my opening without really knowing how to block or the idea of taking turns attacking and defending, so I ended up feeling frustrated that my combo training was useless. Much better to get a feel for the character and just play online in parks or your tower ranking to get a feel of the basics and to not worry about hitting these insane combos at the beginning.

You're output is ludicrous!

discord channel are very important for improving, have tournaments going, ask tech and more

best video for beginners by far

Just discovered this channel as I'm new to the game , and I'm crying in laughter, instasubscribe

I started with xrd and I have a couple hundred hours on strive. I'll say, don't be afraid to play other characters, it can actually give insight on matchups for you. Don't be afraid to ask other players for help as well, character discords are a huge help

I kinda disagree on the character part, I feel like playing the character that you like is integral to the starting off process. Personally I'd rather get my ass kicked playing/learning a character I love vs the double wammy of getting it kicked while playing a character I was told to play. I literally got strive because of Bridget cause I liked her design but I didn't like how she played so I moved on to May and now strive is literally my favorite fighting game. Getting your ass kicked and learning is way easier when you actually like the character you're playing.

I have been out of this game for a while (I'm originally a Street Fighter player, so when SF6 came out I stopped Strive) But with this video in my recommended to me, I might come back and learn more about the Season 3 changes, though tbh I did lose a few people to play with over time. It's also nice to see someone else who's an I-No player like me too, that's a plus.

"Penultimate" implies there is one last thing which was not spoken of, perhaps held back in a "I will teach you n-1 ways to defeat your opponents; the nth way is how I shall defeat you" kind of situation.

YO GIMME THE THUMBNAIL SAUCE

i joined gg last year, its so damn fun

lmao the new player happy chaos experience is real, I pick him up when he was released and now, after not playing ggst for a while, been having soooo much fun using sol and being the bully instead of suffering from him

Bro I just felt that first tip, I have 41 hours play time on GGST and I have only played HC for the whole time because he was cool, and the only one I wanted to play. Godamn it was hard but also fun but HARD, still is really HARD!!!! you got my sub bro, keep it up! 😉

Honestly great video!! I would like to add some things I learned from starting the game some months ago too ( I started around august I believe.) Like you said, the Combo Tool feature in my opinion is only really useful if you're more experienced in the character and want to understand FAR FAR more niche things of the character's toolbox. It is also nice to see how internalized the character's moves are in your head. Roman Canceling is so important! Adding to the tip of "dying with meter is bad", I think the most brainless way to use roman cancels is, during your turn, using it to reset a blockstring so you don't get punished. Lastly a very specific tip for anyone who is on South America, that I wish I also knew, is that as counter-intuitive as it sounds for some reason almost everyone who's from South America plays on a US Server. When I started playing I almost never could match with people in South America, and when I swapped to the US Server I constantly meet people with 40/30ms ping. No I have no idea why the South America community decided to migrate to there.

If you are new remember that tierlists are made from tournament players for tournament players. They don´t (have to) apply at other levels. You won´t be able to abuse the stuff that makes a char top tier and neither can your opponent so pick something that is fun for you, your charackter is most likely not holding you back atm.

I started playing as ramlethal and did very well, keep in mind it wasn’t my first game of the genre, but she was still easy to pick up for me

that tip of being willing to switch characters is so true. As someone who started in Xrd who's old main STILL isn't in the roster, I was a Nago main since launch (blood meter rushdown go BRRR plus he's a VAMPIRE SAMURAI THAT IS JUST COOL AS FUCK) but switched to Testament after trying them out (the goth aesthetic mixed with the mixup setplays is FUN)... then I ended up an Asuka main after he came out because oh look at that I was a Phoenix Wright main in Marvel 3 & he's basically that on Smash Ultimate Hero crack.

This video is so amazing, the depth and detail of the dustloop and framedata was honsenestly eye opening as I've been playing this game for almost a year now and had no idea this existed. Also, for anyone having trouble with fighting ky, here's a great tip for you, from a ky main themself: foudre arc, the flip kick, is incredibly plus, so dont try to punish it, in fact, just sit down and let them mix you up. Oh, also, stun dipper, the slide, is also like this, so be careful and play defensively if you block it. As a last piece of parting advice, be careful as to not press any buttons when playing against ky and let him attack you. You'll, uhh, get a secret ending. Thanks for reading and remember my advice guys!

Blueberry man is love blueberry man is life. Definitely don’t start with HC but if you take the time to figure him out and really nail down good times to reload or focus in a fight. It’s a blast playing him, though he’s not for everyone.

Honestly, I'm pretty new at strive. spent 100 hours total, with most of the time being spent playing against npcs when I had no internet. I reached floor 10 within about 40 hours or so thinking I was pretty good until I got spanked by a floor 10 GOAT in casuals. Now I got his contacts and hopefully we going to play often so I can get better.

Just bought the daredevil edition and hoping dropping that much money will motivate me enough to lock tf in 😳

i want to play ggst again but im currently playing tekken 8 and recently picked up GBVR for 2b. i also can't wait to play Ed in sf6. bouncing around multiple fgs is so hard wtf

Yo, could you do a guide that explains how to use the d-pad/joystick properly. I always seem to try to do a move and end up doing a different move because idk how the d-pad works. I guess it comes with experience, but I've played for a few weeks now with some friends and can never pull off the right move. Thanks and good video

I'm planning on buying the game purely because Slayer and my experience with online fighters is like 5 fights in Injustice 2 back in 2017 so imma need to watch a lot of these videos

I used to play reload, slash and AC. Have just bought strive. Boy oh boy this game plays different 😂

Something I learned very early is simple repeatable confirms can help carry your list of knowledge on a character I started on ky and I would spam the same little 3 hit combo I knew and learned little by little how to actually play ky and use his fireball. I also would rc towards the end of the 3 hit and I would mash for a bit more damage

1:36 if you mess up you can always just jump in and pressure until they go boom and return to you OR mash considering all her combos can be thrown with no thought at all

Johnny mentioned. Heck yea.

i wish i knew sol was the badguy. he seemed alright but i didnt know he was guilty like that

The amount of times I threw my sword away trying to mortobato as a new Ram player. Extremely frustrating not only messing up the reversal but leaving yourself crippled -_-

I have been using the way of the rat before I knew of the way of the rat

this vid was uploaded a while ago but I want to throw my hat in the ring: I picked up GGS as my first fighting game a few days ago, being coached by my very skilled friends who have been in the FGC for years. I think, as a new player who has applied a lot of advice I've found online, ultimately what you do is up to you, and whatever works for you, works. Quite literally fuck around and find out. When I play games, I follow a belief that the difficulty of a character doesn't matter if you like how they play or their aesthetic. Finding a character you like is WAY more important for enjoying the game than a character who is "easy to learn" (or if they happen to meet both criteria- big W). If Asuka is EXACTLY what you like in a character and you know you want to play them when you improve, play them. You will have a far more difficult learning curve to the game, yes, but the learning curve doesn't matter if you don't want to play in the first place. Just know what you're getting into. The combo creator is a great tool if you make it one. Yes, most of the combos probably won't ever be used, but don't go into it with the mindset you're actually learning combos- go into it to find the relationship between different attacks and how they string together, to learn timings on gatlings, stuff like that. This will teach you how to lab your own combos in the future, because you aren't copy pasting what somebody else told you to do, you're learning how the formula works. Also, numpad notation is OP lol please learn it love y'all and have fun! the journey is the fun part, so have fun when you learn. turn it into a game of itself, set believable goals if you want to rapidly improve, vod review, etc. remember you can't learn if you don't get shit on, so don't be afraid to lose.

THUMBNAIL SAUCE???

Advice I wish I'd had when I played Blazblue CT for the first time yeeaaars ago and decided I'd start with Carl... it definitely did make me learn... nothing, cuz im starting with Asuka and Bridget here. whoops

lethal league music 🔥

There is also anime related to whole granblue and I think pretty well made one. Well its a mostly made for advertising the mobile game but still really good anime and I recommend to watch if someone is interested in bare bone lore of the granblue fantasy. (the lore in granblue is really huge and pretty long well its a 10 year old mobile game with over 400+ characters if we dont count duplicates (lore thing) so yeah...) Also there is this game called granblue fantasy relink that also explains some of the lore aspects (not much but still something)

solid video mate! was not that useful for me personally, since I'm at the amateur stage and all of this is common knowledge to me. However, the last tip is so valid like crazy, cuz being good and being unpredictable is so fucking op. Like ill use the terms from the other game thats why radiants lose to silvers since their random as faust. Lossing is ok, since a sword cant get sharper without stone. so take fun at losing and learn why you lost bad spacing? wrong BnB? actual matchup issue? and so on so forth. Then take one tip/advise/strat/info at a time dont overwhelm yourself, think of it like a pyramid, it was not build under one night was it? it was meticulously risen block by block to soar higher or at par with the others. ad finally, Godspeed arising gearsters! also nice pfp!

I just now bought it :3

I would agree with the assertion that you should choose a less technical or niche character if you're completely new to the genre. For me personally picking up axl but coming from other fighting games,he is definitely easily punished and requires commitment to moves and skills that aren't necessarily transferrable, but I also knew what I was getting into and you learn a lot about fundamental character elements and matchups just by playing your enemies and paying attention to them. I would've dropped the game if I went for a more standard character, and that's because axl's gameplan and matchups showcase what's appealing to me about the game itself and my style generally.

As a day one Nago main, I can confirm i've mastered the rat strat up to but not limited to wake up blood rage super

Okay fuck it, you’ve convinced me to try to pick up guilty gear again. I just remember the floors from bottom till about third or something being empty and only being able to play against higher level players..

Thank you for the vid great, it’s super helpful! I’m pretty new and still learning but have my eye on playing either Anji, Baiken, or Sin. Who would you suggest out of the three for a new player?

ah yes having a friend to play with

i just wish i knew the universal gatlings in strive starting out

Strive was my first fighting game too, and I want to convey that if you’re new, then feeling powerless is part of the experience. Yes, you’re gonna mess up the dp input a lot. Yeah, you’re gonna accidentally jump a lot. Yup, you’re gonna feel awkward having to do those inputs you’ve been practicing in one direction flipped once you play online and end up on the right side. That’s all okay. Don’t give up. Even if you aren’t playing a character you really enjoy because you don’t know your tastes yet, just take your time. There’ll be a moment where things *click.* And then there’ll be another, and another after that. They’ll just keep happening, and they’ll each feel indescribable. Just trust the process and believe in yourself.

Me who went for Goldlewis immediately...

I'm gonna need that thumbnail picture for various reasons.

I wish i knew, i wish i knew there was a easy way

4:26 i'm lucky that my best friend decided to buy it today, the same day that i downloaded it on xbox 😮‍💨 i can't wait to unlock bridget, she's my motive for downloading the game

5:20 I think it helps with like knowing who the guy your playing is

1:11 me being a person who just picked up the game like a week ago and plays Baiken obsessively

As soon as you said to have a friend I knew it was hopeless for me. I haven't had a friend to play with since I was in my 20's, i'm 38 now

I had Asuka as my first character because I thought his design was so cool and man 😭 was I having a hard time to get used to him, later I switched to playing Ky and working my way down (?) to 1 star difficulty characters lol

I wanted to play pot, played only pot (and some nago), now i love pot, and now I love grappers and it feels too weird to play any other character. Games Fun but it’s still a learner experience.

I just got this game and I'm already taking notes -Need.... to.... get... friends! 😂

Funny u picked the song from the first gg video I watched where potemkin did the jacko pose (I was confused as that's was my intro to gg)

My headass picked Asuka I don’t regret my decision

Bikini Elphelt thumbnail. You got me.

meanwhile me: Starts maining nago and asuka right from the start

Im buying guilty gear strive this weekend! Never really touched a fighting game besides mk11 like... once in my life, wish me luck!

My first two mains were happy chaos and asuka r 😔

I love the combo tool but I am a noob. It helps me figure out what moves I can use with other moves a lot faster than I can on my own. Getting even a fraction of a BnB is a huge boost over full yolo of a new character. I should try one with Slayer sometime because whatever I came up with is no good.

Bro I'm a new player and main Faust, he's a silly billy

4:38 nah bro that's crazy

4:20 this is true, but I do little teaching, and just fight until he just beats me.

Man this would be very helpful if I wasn’t too broke to afford the game

1:15 or Axl,He's a relatively easier zoner to understand even his more intensive tech (Axl bomber combos) have been made easier and can be done with only a little extra effort.

my friends have been trying to get me into fighting games even though ive only played shooters. I suck and just get bored and find myself watching them fight then they get mad at me and say im not trying

Yeaaaa going for a character because they looked cool was probably my biggest mistake. I bought GGST for the songs, gameplay, visuals and characters. Got Jack-o's DLC too. I am still new, having only bought the game yesterday. So playing Jack-o just because... you know... was punishing as hell. Currently I am maining May and seeing about practicing moves.

ayo that thumbnail

I wish i knew to not sniff glue and pick up my busting boy