ANYONE can learn Fighting Games. 

"ANYONE can learn Fighting Games." *starts with someone who already plays fighting games*

I feel this so hard as somebody who basically bounces between the celestial challenge and floor 9 all the time with Gio. But this Video is a really motivation to get into celestial with Season 2.

As someone who bought strive like a month ago, started playing Giovanna and had the same issues, as a pretty decent smash player, this video is fucking useful and inspiring! Good job

I can definitely understand how demotivating it feels to fail the celestial challenge. The grind from floors 4 - 10 was a pretty steady easy climb from my experience but the grind from floor 10 to celestial felt like climbing a mountain. It took me 3 long months of bouncing between floors 8 -10 before I finally broke through to celestial. I can totally understand why some people wouldn't have the patience to go through that. As much as I love this game the ranking system can be very tilting and demoralizing.

Thank you for featuring me in the video at the end Akaraien! I'm happy I was able to contribute in a small way. I learned a lot from your coaching and just by watching your games on RU-vid. It gave me fresh perspective on not just Gio but also on fighting games as a whole genre. Coaching isn't just about technical knowledge. Sometimes, it's also about motivation and morale-boosting. It reminds you that this is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be enjoyed with others. That's what I love about coaching. Right now, I'm able to challenge on the Celestial Floor but I KNOW I have a lot to learn. I'm looking forward to it :)

I understand the frustration of your student, when I started playing guilty gear and was defeated many times in the celestial, at that time I had been playing for 3 months, but after practicing a lot I managed to do it and last month I was in the top 100 with only Gio in the celestial room, it's not much but you have to start with small goals. Great video

I can only admire this man, that come so far in one month, even if he's dropped the game. For the last 3 days I played DNF Duel and played about 150 matches and won about 10, maybe 15 at best. Even with simple mechanics, I just can't use my brain and hands to do right things. Even spending time in tutorials in a real match I'm starting to panic and just mash all the buttons. Yeah, in 150 games I managed to remember something and even could do some combos. They were dumb, but I did them. But one misstep and here I am again, being wiped on the whole floor. Yeah, I did some damage, but on the end I just lose and lose again and again. These 3 days were agonizingly depressing. And this man in a week learned so much. Yeah, he's being coached but still. Hope one day I can learn to play even as half good as he is.

this is one of the most satisfying videos i have ever watched omg even if he didn't reach celestial, he got that good in his first fighting game in just a month that's insane, gave me goosebumps to see him baiting burst and other things fantastic video

3:31 "slowly builds during gameplay" **gold bursts**

Nice. I never got into fighting games, it looks way too much a commitment for a working man like me. Maybe someday.

I've always felt I've needed a coach to help me get over this mental block I always hit when I play fighting games. I've been playing them since SFII in the 90s and I've always been a very scrubby low skill player and never figured out how to get past that. There are so many concepts I try and read about, or watch videos but I just don't always learn very well that way. I don't know a single other person in real life that plays fighting games and I don't really learn much from getting beat online by a stranger who I can't even interact with. I can watch all the videos about RC and combo paths on all of youtube but I just never really do it right myself. I don't get any help or feedback from playing CPU, spending any time in training mode, or losing to strangers online so I never feel like I improve, I always feel like I practice wrong and it usually ends up feeling like I dont even have the ability to get better. I know I need to keep trying and just play more, playing more and more is the best thing to do but I get discouraged easily and have no one I know IRL or online to play with or motivate me to stick with it.

This was super well edited man! And clean transition into the ad haha.

Great video, great twist at the end, so relatable. I need a coach lol

Strive was my first serious fighter, i swapped between gio, ky, nago, and millia, settled on gio, made myself go from 4F to 10F with very little coaching. i learned RC mechanics and gio’s good combos around 8-9F and learning neutral for 10F. still not celestial but i just have fun fighting my friends who were early celestial players. now i play gio, chipp, and ky pretty equally, and I’m fine with not hitting celestial since I’m not hard focused on a character enough to do it :)

This is absolutely killer content. Been watching your streams lately so I know your skills are top caliber but your ability to articulate concepts is insane as well. This type of stuff pushes the scene forward. Bravo!

Love the production on this one, man, sick video, I enjoyed it!

Great video, take my watch time!

Seeing him quit made me sad. He was so close to his goal but let angry and frustrated get to him. I could only think of one speech to help him push forward "Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky.

So this video has motivated me to start my climb up the tower and I appreciate you heavily. Im new to fighting games but you and GekkoSquirrel motivated me to dedicate time into this and have finally gotten up my first 2 floor rank ups. Thank you for the amazing content

I love you ! You are a great salesman ! I love the way you explain. I main Gio, that's how I founded you and you helped me a lot. Thank you.

honestly Akaraien you've been super motivational for my grind to celestial, I started really improving a lot in the last few weeks and whenever I have match up issues I usually go find a clip where you're playing to see how you handle the tools and to learn what I can do better in my matches. I love incorporating the Akaraien special into my bombo's and have made my friends genuinely fear it. Thanks for the videos you make and being a guiding beacon for all us Gio mains!!!

cant believe I just watched a 20 minute coaching ad

Thats a great video, man, holy shit, made me motivated to grind some strive Got to floor 9 when started playing, will try to aim for celestial this season

I've been playing strive for quite some time I have around 250 hours and have been playing since release. This has been the first fighting game I actually decided to sit down and put time into. I've just stuck to gio to try to grasp and understand fighting games. But I'm in this constant back and forth with floors 9-10 it's just an endless battle with no clear path. The dramatic skill difference is discouraging, like I'm throwing myself at a brick wall with no sense of progression. Despite attempting to watch and read many videos and guides I just can't seem to grasp it. But I love that you're doing this to help players who are struggling. You're absolutely my favorite GG content creator. I'm deffinelty interested in maybe paying for lessons if you have open space. Or maybe I should wait until season 2 due to changes. But overall thanks for being awesome dude and keep up the good work.

Honestly this video is making me want to play Strive and learn a fighting game, I've always just button mashed and really don't know anything about them. This was very interesting.

I just started playing Strive and I love Gio as well. I feel like this guy you are training could be me haha. It's so satisfying to progress in these games. In this early phase it feels like every time I play I'm improving something. Love the video!

good video, Akaraien.

seeing progress is a beautiful thing man

I wish I could learn how to play GGST ( Giovanna) but I don't have a lot of time to play. I spent a lot of time to find a controller that suits me. It's frustrating to miss inputs. I watched a lot of videos but I have the feeling that I'm not progressing. Blocking and smashing buttons like a dumb are part of my weaknesses.

so i just watched a guy get almost to the top, only to get so frustrated he quit the game and never played it again… inspiring 🙃

Honestly as someone who's just gotten into guilty gear mere days ago this and some of your other vids are like, really encouraging and make me feel better in a way. Esp with the fact you use an analog stick bc so many Fighting game fans are adamant that you use d-pad but I am too Disabled in my hands to use d-pad. And generally overall your advice is great :] And also makes me feel better bc I hadn't done any fighting games in like. Years despite my huge huge need and want to do so, so this helps even more !! Thank you so much - from a disabled Bridget main lol funny yoyo go zoooom

Strive is such a good beginner game it’s insane. If you want to get into fighting games strive is an amazing start

I'm new to strive and this vid had made me wanna take my Chipp/Testament skills and see if we can get to the celestial floor I'll be back with an update in 2 months

im trying to get back into strive after getting burnt out a while back. this is my first fighter at all. i dont have the time for proper coaching so ive had to learn to enjoy the game at a much slower pace - what got me burnt out in the first place is how overwhelming it was and just feeling like every guide was starting at a baseline 2 miles above where i was. im still not confident enough to play a public match after a 5 month break, and i spend most of my time in the game just grinding out combos in the practice range. coming back to strive has really shown me the depth and beauty in fighting games and this is something im going to stick with, but trying to teach myself this game is a huge task and i have a very long road ahead. if theres nothing else keeping me committed, its the attitude this community has towards growth

nice video. i think its my monitor speakers being lame but i wish the levels were mixed a bit better. one part is super loud then another low...it's just hard to hear. but thanks for the video. i reached celestial alot but still havent done the challenge yet. think im close tho

Great video. I feel like I wanna play Strive !

Been playing since game dropped, only just got to floor 10 before immediately getting kicked down to 7 on a tilted losing streak and crawling back to 9. Only just figured out meaties and safe jumps no lie. About to go to my first tournament after going to first local last week. These vids been super helpful on the way there

This video is soo good

Really enjoyed this video! You can definitely tell he already had good fighting game brain from playing smash

The fact this guy got to Celestial in 20 days... makes me question my ability to fight. DESPITE THAT THIS VIDEO WAS GREAT!

I only started FGs about a year or so ago, my first one was GG Xrd Rev2, but it was kinda dead and the netcode sucked, but I still loved it (still my favorite FG), and so I hyped up the release of Strive, and I loved the game at the beginning, but I started playing less and less, but recently I picked it back up and got to play more and I'm loving it as well, losing a lot, but winning some, trying to get better at my own pace

Bro nick riddle used to be a heal during pm. Good too see, I like this channel

After I thought about it some, I agree that anyone CAN learn to play fighting games, but not everyone wants to. My example is myself. I invested 60+ hours into my first traditional fighter, SFV, before I gave up. I spent 90% of that in training mode learning, but nothing really seemed to click. I didn't beat any other players and felt like i wasted my time. I more recently tried out Strive and I spent maybe 10 hours before I realized, I don't like the "journey" of fighting games. And that is the majority of fighting games. I get easily frustrated and demotivated, and those traits are antisynergistic with learning fighting games. I do not have the ironclad mental to lose repeatedly and keep getting back up.

Surely he's "anyone" when he does combos day 2

I remember an old Book I had. A paperback book, "How to Win at Video Games 2" In this Book, the 1 piece of advice; it gives - across ALL Games, in the Book; was to learn about the Character, you were playing as - how they Move, Walk, Run, Jump, etc. Their Abilities, everything. I remember; I an Instruction Manual, to Turok Dinosaur Hunter, on N64: "Before you play, it is wise to Set your Options." In every new Game I play, the 1st thing I do, is Set my Options. Then it's straight to Practice, learning how my Character or Characters operate - it's been a staple & Tradition of mine, since reading the book "How to Win at Video Games 2"

Time to try again with my new hitbox controller 🔥

Man this video was awsome I'm trash at strive stuck on floor 7 this coaching sounds like a way to not suck as bad ☺️

Quality content

This game is really fun and welcoming to new players, as someone who only played smash ultimate as their only fighting game, I got into ggst bec of how cool it looked and to play with my friends, I got it on the 12 of sept, fell in love with it and in competitive and completely tryhard mindset I got so into it I somehow got to celestial on oct 28th, it took me a couple of attempts though! First time I got to the "celestial challenge" was oct 12, just one month after getting the game, I stopped playing after baiken came out and now im returning for s2, but the fact that the game is so welcoming and easy to pick up makes it feel like im not really behind other than getting used to the new changes from current patch

Sharing my perspective here because the ending really hits home, I’m a current top 100 Potemkin (on pc) and strive was also MY first fighting game. I’ve watched them for years but this was the first to make me take a plunge. The celestial challenge is frankly demoralizing. It took me over 40 attempts during the course of a month and a half of grinding. Of those. Maybe 2 or 3 made it to 4 games, most of them were washes. Probably the halfway point of this grind i was at the point where I was rarely losing on floor 10 anymore. The gap between floor 10 and celestial is immense, and while I was steadily getting better, there was no point I felt I was having a breakthrough. I just eventually got good enough that I passed, feeling frustrated, demoralized, and dejected the whole way. But the ending to this story is if you’re dreading having to do it again, you learn SO fast once you’re up there. The next month I had it within a week of casual play, and every month after has been easily getting it on day 1. Honestly that’s the real issue with the celestial challenge as is. It gives you no time to learn. Imo if you’ve never been celestial, it should let you play out all 6 games win or lose. I think I woulda gotten it in half the time if I’d just been allowed more games up there. Tldr if you’re like the protagonist of this video and frustrated with the celestial challenge, I’m validating that it’s frustrating, the system design makes it hard to improve till you manage it over the hill, and once you’re up there the game will feel amazing again.

As someone who just got into fighting games outside of smash gio is pretty fun with her relentless offence but my struggle is keeping pressure up but this video was inspiring ngl

I've dabbled in games like BlazBlue and Rev 2 in the past, but was never much of an FG player. Having picked up Strive a few weeks ago, I really discovered some kind of genuine love for the genre. It's unlike anything I've experienced (coming from mostly competitive FPS). Besides practice, it really does take a clear mind and patience to keep going, but I guess that goes for anything. This was a really inspirational video.

Oh man great video! I'm a gio/nago main. I have had Celestial challenge 5 times, 3x with Gio and 2x with Nago. I got 5/6 twice, one with each character. I always tend to choke when I get there though 😕. Hoping to change that with season 2! Maybe I'll have you train me Aka 🙂👍.

I've been playing on and off Strive since August 2021, I'm a Pot main and I'm still trying to beat the celestial challenge. It's a real struggle and i feel like my character gets fucked pretty hard sometimes, but I will keep trying. Nice inspiring video, you should post similar coaching videos, event with different characters maybe.

yeah this tracks, basically my journey so far just a bit accelerated and with coaching. I have hit the challenge twice and got sent careening back down to floor 10 both times, a little disheartened but nothing a bit of practice and time cant solve

This video is really motivating, even if that happened in the end, but it happens, it can be difficult, even if you are not accustomed to this type of game and there is no one guiding or helping you, even more so if you choose more characters technical or difficult like Zato-1 and Happy Chaos, I've been trying and training for about the last week, because as I've always had problems with Main normally, now that he's releasing tomorrow, I'm about to go back on fire, and go up with him and one day go to EVO, after it was announced, my life changed in certain aspects among other things, which complicates and that normally I have to play against people from farther parts, and as I live in two houses currently Houses, the MS it usually goes above 200MS and Rollback sometimes reaches 7 in the house wifh bad internet, but after a few months, I'll be able to play better for longer, I even tried asking for help, but in general it didn't work, maybe I got a little lost for some reasons and for the comment I will stop here, but that's it,

Respects to my boy. He fought his heart out. Salutes to him

Im kinda hard stuck at floor 8 and 9. Ill drop to 7 sometimes when im playing characters im not the best with. Having a hard time getting out of 9 tho. Some tough competition at floor 9. I never lab tho. Maybe a little bit of warming up in training while waiting for a match

Are you going to compete in Guilty Gear Strive not only at the upcoming Evo 2022 tournament, but also other offline tournaments as well (Frosty Faustings, Ceotaku, etc.)? I haven’t seen you compete in an offline setting when playing Strive or any other fighting games.

I bounce between Floor 7 and 8, but I feel I can learn a bit from this video. Definitely gonna go back into the Tower when I get the chance lol

This is my first traditional fighting game and I play fairly casually, but I’ve hit floor 10 before. It was really rewarding.

Man this video is nice AF, if you're not playing fighting games, you're missing fr. W for akaraien

When heavy days kicks in, i feel the goosebumps 🔥🔥🔥

ANYONE can learn Fighting Games* * with a coach

YOOOOOOO IVE JUST RECENTLY GOTTEN INTO FIGHTING GAMES AND JUST GOT STRIVE AND IM FLOOR 2 😩 IF YOU WANNA DO PART 2 IM UP FOR IT 🙌🏽

Hey I've kinda been doing the same thing. Been playing for 2 weeks, this is my first traditional fighting game. I've been competing in Platfighters for a while. My Platfighting coach has been teaching me the fundamentals. I can get to floor 9 by shear force of dash cancel farslash whiff punishing(I play Gio cause imma Furry), but then I get overwhelmed and forget my options and start getting out buttoned. I have a lot of difficulty with Gios super inputs right now. And I lack matchup knowledge so I literally don't know what to against most characters and am just praying that this or that is the part of this characters corner pressure where I get to reverse from. I also don't trust my own judgement and back out of my own risky options even if my opponent has done nothing but prove to me that they're gunna shield on wakeup so I should just grab them and then I panic and crouch slash again.

as someone who has been trying to get into fighting games man the beginner struggles are so similar to that of rhythm games (something i’m very familiar with)

Fun vid & story of a person new to fighters. Anyone can learn- true. Not sure anyone can reach Celestial. :) I've played fighters since the genre started, and Strive for quite a while (though my main's lv is just 64). But the highest I've gone is 10th fl. Currently on 8th. I got gold rank in SFV, but it took over 5 years. Never tried paid coaching, though I post in Discords a lot, do replay review, warmup in Park, etc.

been getting into strive with a few friends and one of them hit celestial and i think top 500 potemkin in like 90 hours or something stupid like that, and im still over here trying to remember which button is slash and which is heavy slash

NICK??? YOOOO, I loved his project M bowser.

Very diff experience compared to someone who starts on something like chipp for example lol

So is it possible to teach a fl8 to improve??? I want to go to EVO Orlando and need major improvements. How much will it cost?

There's a pretty huge ass asterisk of 'when taught by an expert' . . . yeeeeeah some of us don't have that level of access, and RU-vid doesn't cut it.

Your content is gold. I mean this

I started playing FGs in 2014 but had a long pause (with occasional third strike games) from 2018 until around a month ago. I'm. Now playing GGST. We'll see how long it takes for me, haha

Interesting Video. What got me into fighting games was DBFZ. I was a smash player only, and DBFZ was the incentive to grind traditional fighters, not only that but a tag team game at that. Since then, I've been following the FGC and got interested in various games. Anyone can learn fighting games, especially nowadays with the stupid amount of free resource.

To me the biggest challenge is choosing a game: a played around (Melty Blood, BBCF, UNICL) but I never settled down and tried to effectively learn. Even right now I don't know whether to pick +R, STRIVE or Skullgirls.

i dont know why but this video puts a smile on my face

I was initially placed at floor six lost a few games and ended up moving all the way down to 2 and now no matter how many I win I don’t move up

My character of choice was Potemkin. It took me, a "never played fighting games" person to get celestial challenge 2 weeks. I failed. Next week I hit cel challenge 2 times. Failed. BUT Week after I was hitting celestial challenge daily. Sometimes 2 times a day. In the end it took me around 36 days to get my place in havens. Currently trying out Ramlethal. Sometimes 3/0 10 floor ppl but sometimes get 3/0ed as well. When the time will come I wanna get my celestial spot as Ram as well Pretty proud of myself. I didn't have pro player as my mentor. I remember hitting floor 10 before I realized how to do RRC

I couldn't get into this game, I loved xrd 2 but now play melty blood type lumina and the learning curve is far easier to get used to the game

I struggle using a dpad, and you both are using fighting sticks. Should I switch to keyboard, try hitting 623 on dpad more or wait with the game until I collect money for a decent joystick?

Anyone know what the day 4 background music was? 6:45

I wonder if I could get tips on how to use Nago better. ^^; There is only so much I can do by myself and looking up combos online and tech from Hotashi. I mean... I would love to know what I'm doing wrong and get it beaten out of me. Or at least gently pushed towards the right direction.

For me Strive was my first fighting game I actually decided to get into I started with Ky and Gio and ended up playing Baiken and that's who I've been playing ever since she came out. I started at floor 2 cause I was super cocky and got humbled real wmfast when I stated out. It took me a while watching players like Deb and Kizzie play inspired me to play more and look back at my replays see what iwas doing wrong and all that stuff. It took a while but this is ky third month in Celestial and this is one of my favorite games I'm so glad I got into this series and can't wait to see where strive goes. PS I don't really play Gio anymore but still has one if my favorite designs on the game

I got placed at floor 6 to start. I immediately lost 20 matches in a row and ended up arguably where I belonged at floor 2. Initial placement means nothing lol

is there a video on youtube like this but about potemkin?

Ngl. This is wholesome as hell

Getting to the celestial challenge in 1 month from brand new is pretty good. It took me 300 hours of gameplay just to reach floor 10. Even then, I'm 350+ hours in now and I still only manage to beat other 10s maybe 20-30% of the time and some even beat me dozens of times in a row. I'm still not even close to trying to challenge for celestial.

You are EU right? Do you do coaching for other characters as well? I'm mainly looking at leo or baiken I think

Well... I don't think that anyone can learn fighting games, i couldn't, also, there are some skills that can be transferable from platform fighters to traditional fighting games, since he said that his brother is ESAM i would assume that he already have some understanding on certain things, as such, it's no surprise that he got it so quickly. Still, nice video!

how do you get into training mode with a friend like you did around 3:11

i tried ggs yesterday, tried online, and got to floor 8

I usually hover around floors 7,8 and 9. It's been that way since launch haha. I'm ok with it

can you try this experiment again with someone who has never played games?

it is in fact really easy when you know the basics of tradicional games and the ggs mechanics, but learning how to counter some characters is hard, theres almost no resourses of how to do that, so we need to learn by the hard way ( keep practing, ask for help in communities etc)

I've only gotten into Guilty Gear (and traditional fighters) recently with Strive, and I've been enjoying it! My biggest issue when it comes to fighting games isn't the games, but the FGC itself. The FCG has some of the most elitist and toxic people I've seen in a while. I know a good amount of the FGC is really nice, but these people have been there long enough for it to be a problem. I know a lot of people would say to just ignore it, but that's not easy for me. I'm a very emotional and passionate person so these things get into my head after a while. You can only really hear that you suck for playing a certain character, or that the game you play sucks because the inputs are "easy" enough times before it becomes too much. I've had times where I've tried to have a genuine conversation about fighting games, until some douchebag ruins the whole conversation. It makes my drive for fighting games constantly fluctuate due to this. It doesn't help that I really don't have stable enough internet to play online, so i'm mostly playing these games by myself or when I can meet up with a friend irl. I still wanna try and play these games more, but damn is it hard sometimes.

This whole video is an ad but I love it

I can surely do it... once bedgirl comes out! Testament/Bedgirl main~

this was my first traditional fighting game when i bought it back in june and since then ive played around 120 hours of this, xrd, sfv, sfiii, and various other fighting games and ive been stuck in floor 6 since then. i just dont feel like im improving. i want to keep getting better but some sort of mental block is preventing me from learning anything and i feel stuck. i watch lots of maximillian dood, sajam, kizzie, and other fg youtubers, i study wikis, spend lots of time in training mode, but nothing seems to help. the last thing ive yet to try is coaching, but not only do i not have the money, but i feel like my negative attitude is just going to prevent me from learning anyway.