This is the first proper fighting game I've ever bought. The last time I played a fighting game is smash bros and that shit is practically Mario party compared to any proper fighting game.So I just picked may as my main since she has a hyper aggressive+hard hitting charge moves based moveset like my smash main roy.However, when I actually try her in training(I am smart enough to not just got in actual matches instantly), I am struggling to even pull off TOTSU FUCKING GEKIS consistently. Online resources doesn't really work since they are using a lot of weird lingos and I have no idea wtf are they saying.Button layout is a mess too, I dont know which button should be mapped to which so I just uses the default and the dash at q is kind of pissing me offDo you guys have any proper guides on the games terminologies and may combos?
>>722317587If you want an actual unga bunga masher character like roy then just play sol.
use totsugeki and/or brap on your enemies
>>722317647I dont like soul cuckguy
Fighting games are really not pick up and play friendly, and you are in more disadvantage than usual because you are lacking muscle memory these games consider to be basic things.I'm not going to spoonfeed you, but I'm sure there are plenty of youtube videos or google is your friend to find info about fighting game basics. Using that, the online resources should be decypherable now. If you are not prepared to put in the effort to get into fighting games, save yourself the trouble and drop them now.
>>722317587feet
>>722317587DIESHRINKFAG*steps on you*Male, duh.
>>722317587>dash at qNigga you already fucking probably have a controller for smash, just plug in your pro controller or whatever. Yes people can use keyboard but it's not exactly the most intuitive thing and if you're struggling you might as well just switch.
>>722318051Arent hitboxes/keyboards like stronger then pad
>>722318051>>722318186Oh yeah and I just found out the controller brokeHaven't played smash in ages because of college. Heh.
>>722318186It's a top 1% of players thing and pad players still win tourneys.Take a look here:https://www.reddit.com/r/fightsticks/comments/1mh5yvs/the_controllers_used_for_top_8s_at_evo_2025/A ps5 controller won EVO for SF6 and Strive
>>722317587>weird lingosJust look at your numpad, 5 is the center and numbers are the direction. The default layout is fine.Go in practice mode and do 10 totsugeki in a row without missing. Learn one easy combo. Go in ranked and try to apply what you learn even if you lose the match. Rinse and repeat with other stuff.
How is a totsugeki even supposed to work in this situation?
>>722319189
Use 5hs in neutral if your opponent is rushing at youUse totsugeki when he is not, and mix your approach by using the cancel or jump follow-upWhen you have meter, use your slide into rrc When you are pressuring your opponent, just do a basic blockstring into heavy totsugeki, or up totsugeki, or totsugeki cancel to reset your pressure. Only use command grab once they are conditioned to block.Do all this and you can graduate from being a beginner.
first of all stop playing striveit's a terrible game
>>722319621why
>hands too slow for combos to be performed consistently
>>722319327When you sweep don't hold down, hold down back, this will start your horizontal (and vertical) totsugeki charge during the sweep. Then cancel the sweep when it connects with forward+slash. In fact, you should be holding down back during the close slash too.Basically during any move you want to be holding down back during the animation (ABC: Always Be Charging).Protip: watch the demo video and look at their inputs.Protip 2: watch a video that explains how to actually play
>>722317587glossary.infil.net explains the lingo
old hag
>>722317587You hold down back for like a second Then you press forward and slash or heavy slash releasing downback with the greatest of ease
>>722321149:(
>>722319621To be honest strive is perfect game for smashbabs
>>722322385I'm a smashfag and I went to 3rd strikethen again I'm not a fucking bitch
>>722317587>she has a hyper aggressive+hard hitting charge moves based moveset like my smash main royMay isn't hyper aggressive, she plays more defensive RPS with totsugeki, then goes for strike/throw in the corner with her command grab, where she depletes half of your life with one interaction. She also has a really good J.HS that is hard to anti air
>>722319327holding down+back charges both your vertical and horizontal dolphin.Close slash is plus on block, so if you delay your sweep, you will catch them mashing and frametrap them, which will allow you to combo them with mr.dolphin
>>722322654also 5HS is an amazing counterpoke/whiff punish option that leads to massive damage, which is why playing defensive is also rewarding for her too, although she can be played aggressively too
Good combos?
>>722323425totsugeki
>>722323607To what
>>722323741totsugeki
>>722317587>dash on Qso if you've got the movement on WASD you don't want dash to be on something that uses the same fingers since you need to be able to comfortably hit it at the same time as A or D, so you should rebind it to either Spacebar or to something near your attack buttons.
ERM...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING STRIVER??? PLAYING THIS BABY SHIT GAME INSTEAD OF MY GLORIOUS ANIME AIRDASHER WHERE YOU GET COMBO FOR 12 SECONDS AND THEN YOU ARE STUCK 12 SECONDS IN CORNER BLOCKING AND THEN YOU EAT UNBLOCKABLE FUZZY IAD OVERHEAD AND THEN I DO 12 SECOND LONG COMBO IN CORNER (I NOW HAVE METER FOR EXTRA DMG!!!) AND END THE ROUND IN 2 INTERACTIONS YOU ARE FUCKING CASUUUUUUUUUUUUL
>>722321149still would
>>722324134You forgot the gigachad image.
>>722317587The game itself and its tutorials are already made for turbo casuals like you and you still don't have a clue how to play it. God I hate zoomers so much it's unreal.
>>722322654>May isn't hyper aggressiveThis is some real bullshitShe's got good dash speed and a 16f backdash that lets her shimmy in neutral with easeS Dolphin is an unreactable move that will start her on block RPS (Backdash and steal a turn, Mash and catch a backdash punish, Block and sit at a favorable range), but also can be hopped off to start mixing peopleS Dolphin also means she's never really punishable, but she still has some moves with good frame data like 5H being only -4 on block3K is a better Stun Dipper that pairs extremely well with Dolphin since it will beat pre-emptive 6P/5KsHer jump arc is obnoxious, her air buttons good and she can make it even more annoying to intercept with j2H and jDShe also has higher than average health which lets her be extremely belligerent
>>722321149Who gets crow's feet at thirty?
>>722317587>>722321149How terrible being shrinked to ant size and be stuck to her hag feet! Hahaha...
>>722317587giantess website thoughshrinkfags keep moving
>>722319189>>722319327This is only good as a blockstring as it makes you impossible to punishDon't actually do this as a combo, Dolphin will hit them "Off the ground" (OTG) and push them out of range for you to continue doing good pressureStrive has two types of knockdownsHard Knockdown, which knocks people down in place and always gives the same frame advantage. On HKD, you can also hit people with certain moves, which adds a little bit of damage, and changes your knockdown to a Soft KnockdownSome moves universally give HKD, like Sweep (2D) and Throw (4/6D)Soft Knockdown will make the opponent tumble backwards and you'll hear a sound cue. You can't hit people OTG off of it, and the longer a combo goes for, the less time that knockdown will last.Instead of doing random combo trials, go on Dustloop and read about May's Strategy and Combo pages, they'll give you a better understanding of the character
>>722323961To what
>>722325154run up command grab
>>722325326To what
play bedman instead
>>722317587>ywn be used as a cute girl’s insole>ywn attend your own funeral from inside her shoe after you’ve been missing for monthsWhy even live
>>722317587Practice doing her charge inputs. You have to hold back/down for at least 29 frames (half a second)Like you, Guilty Gear was my first fighting game I got into after Smash, and I picked May just cause I jerked it to her like 10 years prior, and she instantly clicked for me, and I love playing as her in any game.If she's not working for you, pick someone who appeals to you as a character and not for their play style. You didn't just play Roy cause he's a high tier rush down, right? It was cause he's really cool, RIGHT?
>>722326313>just cause I jerked it to her years agoHoly fucking shit are all May mains the same guy
>>722326451Idk, I also found my Tekken main by going off my first fap of any girl in that series (Lili)My dick just knows how to pick characters, its my most reliable method in finding a main outside of Smash Bros.
>>722326451to be fair that's the prefered method for picking your main in a Guilty Gear game
I want to play strive but im not gay enough :/
>>722326826ill smuggle you to strive down the underbrown tranny road
>>722324516Life of a Cuckquean Pirate is rough.
>>722326826Aside from Bridget strive is NOT pozzed at all
>>722327774>apart from BridgetYou cannot separate Bridget from Strive.
>>722327774>turn bridget straight by making her a girl>turn bridget (girl) gay again by shipping her with unikamasterful gambit
>>722328950they need to put bridget in wheelchair and give xher viltigo next desu
>>722329151you already had your wheelchair rep in xrd
>>722325626bedman is based but the errors are not beginner-friendlyspamming j.S only gets you so far
>>722317587not sure if they changed her in the newest games but she had always been ez to play>forward + circle for heavy anchor hammerr>charge backwards then forward + circle for dolphin stinger>repeat until enemy is staggered
>>722327774
>>722318186A ps1 controller with a million adapters won street fighter at evo a while back.Anything you can do on a leverless (a hitbox) you can do on a controller. It's a question of preference and buget.
>>722329503>why isn't this royal figure dressed like a turbo slut anymorenigger
>>722329660>no slut queensHistorically queens are the biggest harlots of them all
>>722327774VenomPot
>>722329660well...why not?
>>722329785>coloured people bad?
>>722329445I thought about arguing about this in a dismissive fashion but I've been playing fighting games for so long that I no longer have any idea how beginners feelstill, I insist that you play bedman now
>>722330327No they're gay you dingus. Nothing wrong with being a nigger.
>>722330637Venom and pot are gay?
>>722330782Yes. Not together tho.
>lets rock >jpop starts playing
>>722331069THE TOOOOOOOOOOOOWN INSIDE ME AND EVERYONE'S VOICE
I guess I could buy this game now that it is on sale, I like May but I have never played a charge character.
>>722330845I mean its Zato, thats like xrd Bridget level so
>>722331191make one button macro on your controller for special moves
>>722324134>WHERE YOU GET COMBO FOR 12 SECONDS AND THEN YOU ARE STUCK 12 SECONDS IN CORNER BLOCKING AND THEN YOU EAT UNBLOCKABLE FUZZY IAD OVERHEAD AND THEN I DO 12 SECOND LONG COMBO IN CORNERstrive has like 2-3 interactions per match while xrd has like 8-15 so you actually get to play the game a lot more with xrd
>>722331221It's heavily implied to obvious levels. If you lack media literacy and your robot doesn't know better it's not on me.
guys i just boughteded strive gonna play asuka or bedman
>>722332096>he doesn't knowKek
>>722317587>I played a fighting game is smash brosYou don't know what a fighting game is.
Sell me on the concept of wall breaking. I really like my corner control in fighting games.
>>722332404The idea behind it was it would reset rounds to neutral so it wasn't just whoever got sent to the corner first getting pressured and mixed to death, but because breaking the wall gives positive bonus which makes you build meter insanely well it doesn't really return to neutral so much as give you corner control in the midscreen.
>>722332858>give you corner control in the midscreen.Care to elaborate?
>>722332858not to mention it gives every character a safejump from which they'll get unavoidable pressure while building a full bar of meter and likely just pushing you back into the corner
>>722332096>gonna play asukaNUH UH
>>722332960Like what >>722332982 said, you get sent back to the middle of the screen but you usually get a safejump so you can just safely launch into the same pressure that you would have done if they'd stayed in the corner but with extra meter so you either get a hit and probably kill or just do a long ass blockstring with Roman Cancels and Wild Assaults to push them into the corner and get your traditional corner pressure.
Wheres the lobby
>>722332960You get insane meter buildup. You can play braindead offense with overdrives/RC and you get a safejump if you wallbreak with a super.Returning to neutral after wallbreak would suck tho. It would lead to wallsplat reset pressure cause you wouldn't want to throw away that position
>>722333305What a truly baffling mechanic. How does the wall splat play into the gameplay? Does it enable cool combos or setups?I'd play Dizzy if that matters
tokon solved wallsplat doe making it just return to neutral with no bonuses
>>722317587Can you post the full image
>>722333539Wallbreaking is how you get your assists
>>722333460Ironically they seem to have painted themselves into a proverbial corner with the mechanic. You have to give the not-cornered player an advantage from breaking the wall or they will just take the advantage that cornering the other player gives.
>>722333463No, aside from a couple of specific setups on specific characters that give you a grounded wall splat which can turn into a wall slump there's nothing interesting you can do with splats. They exist only to give you a clear thing to react to in order to super (for the hard knockdown after the break) or to punish you for fucking up your combo by giving the defender a launch off the wall to actually go back to neutral.
>>722332404You can opt out of wallbreaks by just boxing in your opponent and cutting your combos short You can also further opt out of it with wall slumps if your combo was entirely grounded, or if you can restand. Wall slumps don't let you tech out of the corner.Super wallbreak gives you a knockdown, letting you continue some pressureNormal wallbreak is a return to neutral, in some matchups this can be really unfavorableFor example here after the RC, I could combo into super and get wallbreak + HKDHowever, I'm not sure it would kill. My pressure after super wallbreak isn't great. He's going to have burst and 50 meter and it's probable I'll lose in neutralSo I just box him in, force him into a much worse spot than he'd be after super wallbreak, and that also let me get him to waste a burst on nothing for an easier 3rd round>>722332982>it gives every character a safejump from which they'll get unavoidable pressure while building a full bar of meter and likely just pushing you back into the cornerThis is kinda worthless with certain characters imo>>722333463You only have corner specific combos, none that involve wallsplatSome specials also force a wallsplat, like H Volcanic Viper or Pilebunker, and some others force a wallbreak like Bridget's air command grab or Heat KnuckleThis lets you do burst safe routes
>>722318186Not really, most tournaments are won on pad nowadays
>>722331459>wow I gotta hold down back when kum hits me with charged fireball or dizzy hits me with fish or may setups dolphin on top of me for billionth time or enemy does fireball into yrc Xturd is worst gg game
>>722333952>wallbreak explanationLaying it out like that makes it sound way more bearable. Thanks anon! Maybe I'll install the game again and give Dizzy a go. I liked her gameplay in the earlier games.
>>722334240>I liked her gameplay in the earlier games.She plays differently from previous gamesShe doesn't have double air dashes although she does have extremely good grounded dash speedHer setplay also has less options since you don't get to cheat it in with 25 meter YRC/FRCTo compensate, she has an install that drains people's HP in proximity as unscaled damage (provided she doesn't get hit for 10s), and she gets to make herself really plus with certain optionsShe got buffed in the last patch and she's kind of underrated imo, apart from having kinda wonky combos
>>722317587May is pretty straightforward assuming you're playing Strive. You bully people with her big buttons and dolphin leaving her safe until you get in and force them to guess between command grab or dying to her counterhit buttons that kill you in 2 combos.The problem you're having is not may it's just charge characters in general. Always be charging in the direction of a charge, when you throw out an attack immediately start holding back, when you jump at them immediately start holding back. Charge time in strive is short so you can get used to it quick. If you're doing totsugeki and a button comes out, you probably just didn't charge long enough.
>>722335006I really dislike how fightan devs seem to be scared of zoning and setplay these days. Glad that they are compensating it with other stuff. That HP drain sounds like it'll either be real nasty or useless/very situational. I can see myself getting good enough with her to annoy people at my local.Thanks for your input, anon.
>>722335006that venom got no balls
any Lucy players in here? do you ever use the lifesteal debuff? it's the only one I don't see a use for
>>722317587Assuming you're being serious1. Just do some charge moves in training mode. Overcharge them it doesn't matter. The important part is nailing the release.2. Try seeing what's the smallest amount you can charge. Some games have different charge timings for different moves and you can really feel it.3. Try any combo that requires you to build charge mid combo. This will show you what the actual window for building charge is and how you can sneak it in during other actions.
imagine going to metafy paying for some goober to teach you strive
>>722317587Strive default button layout for keyboard is ass.My set up for keyboard is just asd for kick, slash, heavy slash. and zxc for kick, roman cancel, dust. But you probably have a controler lying around right? You can just use that too and the default button mapping for that should be pretty okay.For fighting game terms try The Fighting Game Glossary you can just google it and it should make navigating the wiki and the guides easierAlso from the way you described Roy and May charge stands for moves with inputs similar to totsugeki not moves that you just hold so they get more powerful. And charge characters are sort of a taste thing since there are a lot of people that just hate having to hold back everytime when they want to get a move out. I'm sure after a while you'll get used to the timing with totsugeki but it might be a good idea to also check out other characters because everyone does huge damage in this game and everyone wants to get on the offense eventually.But anyway, have fun with the game anon you should be able to find ppl around the same skill level as you in the tower after losing a little bit I'd also recommend trying out the other guilty gear games because strive sucks!~
>>722333952Man that Sol almost had a decent gameplan.He could've waited on the burst to make you piss it away with wings fullscreen.Either you approach to what he wants or you trade your meter for nothing. I forget if you can unsummon wings or not.He already had burst as insurance in case he couldn't check your approach
>>722337636>keyboardI know it's a thing and works somehow, but I could never. And I play leverless already.
Is may a v8rgin
>>722340029i deflowered her
I miss the guy that commissioned lots of May fart pics
I am a filthy '21er that bought a fightstick back then after playing may for a month at launch. It feels strange how relatively long ago it was, I liked the /v/ strive threads but haven't played the game in a while now
im gonna punch the next STRIVER i come across...
Fighting games are for virgins
>>722338574I've played games on pc all my life so when I was getting into fgs years ago I didnt have a controller and now keyboard is just what im used to
>>722335923Strive setplay/zoning is actually pretty decent imo>>722338553>He could've waited on the burst to make you piss it away with wings fullscreen.getting hit by burst would just stop the tension drain, and taking off wings when you have ice field is barely punishablebest course of action in this case would be to say fuck it, 2P the low fish, bandit revolver and then RC either to combo/pressure or keep yourself safe against high fish
>>722332404positive bonus means you can run up in their face and get 2-3 50/50s in a row.
>game tells you that you are hiv positive cool feature
>>722317587>So I just picked may as my main since she has a hyper aggressive+hard hitting charge moves based moveset like my smash main roy.>my smash main RoySol, Ky, Giovanna and Slayer are right there for your jab-backair ass. May may be simple but she still requires you to be mentally compatible with the concept of charge specials.
why baiken has a gun
>>722346131>getting hit by burst would just stop the tension drainThat is trueBut what I'm saying is Sol wants to be close, your position wants you to stay farBut the wings create a massive incentive for you to approach so that does his job for him.Now obviously you're approaching with fish coverage so it's pretty fucked.But he has burst in the case things don't work out.Fullscreen gold(?) burst accomplishes only the knockdown, kinda wasteful imo.
>>722350726Why wouldn't she have a gun? She's a cool samurai lady on a surface level read but in she basically wipes her ass wih the concept of honorable and fair combat, she compensates for a damaged body by kicking up the ground the fight takes place on, countering strikes at times pretty much everyone else can't, and pulling extra weapons like grappling hook/claw and guns with explosive rounds out of her pocket/empty sleeve.
>>722327774>Testament now nonbinary>Dizzy fully censored>Jam covered from head to toeFuck off
>>722352136umm its called character development chuddy
>>722350834>But the wings create a massive incentive for you to approach so that does his job for him.I don't have to be point blank to damage him It's Sol, if I move in without getting in throw range, the only dangerous thing he can do is Bandit Revolver RC mixIf he does and it hits, I still have burstIf it's blocked, WOL might trigger during the mix which would get him down to 1HP or force him to cut his pressure short to save his healthReally the best course of action for him was to do something like jump jK (to hit the air fish) > bandit bringer/revolver > RC > Wild Assault extension, which would have caught me overextending or forced me to waste my meter on an RCBut, I got away with it because he didn't know the situation and couldn't figure it out in time
>you will never be comfy playing strive in the pandemic again
>>722357039with your tranny bros from 'cord* you forgot to add that at the end
>>722357131I was doing round robins with people from /v/ that were just cool dudes
>>722357039I do not feel anything for incels who use the x file name randomizer, it means you use the internet too much
>>722357348I do use the internet too much, but atleast I dont worry about what other people's 4chan posting habits
>>722357229funny how strive /v/ lobbies lasted longest compared to uni or tekken or sf6
Totsugeki
>Janny deleted OP's imageThere was nothing wrong with it... Wtf?
>>722361002It was a girl showing off her smelly, sweaty shoe with her oversized toes in the viewer's face. How is that okay?
>>722361629This was OP's pic. There was nothing wrong with it. This isn't even NSFW.>But I can see 3 toes!This board really is weird sometimes.
brisket is so lucky...
>>722331221Did you seriously take google's AI answer as fact? Masterful bait if intentional, though.
>>722368725sniff
