Just picked this one up an hr ago, recently got back into "anime" fighters and have been brushing up with Dbfz until I saw the Evo trailer for this lol
Yo Guys, if you're new to fighting games or Guilty Gear and want to learn or need to find players of a similar skill to play with. I've put together a discord community called Fighting Game University. Feel free to join, so you can meet with other players and get some practice for the upcoming Guilty Gear game! Click the link below if you'd like to join. discord.gg/XATQ6bX
Thank you Brendan, I'm a new GG player, I just bought it yesterday. I came from Street Fighter series and Super Smash Bros Ultimate and I wanted to try an anime fighter. This is the best guide I've found so far. Subscribing right now! :D
This is by far one of the best guides for a fighting game I've seen. Can't tell you how refreshing it is to have all this valuable information conveyed so clearly and quickly. Much appreciated!
This guide is unreal. I'm just picking up guilty gear for the first time today and this video is the holy grail. I've been playing melee for years and have never seen a tutorial set that explains fundamentals so well. Thanks dude
I expect this guide to blow up with the 2020 GG announced at EVO last week. As a fan of only a few years im so excited to be able of a brand new GG experience when it comes. Thanks for the guide. Ill also practice on Accent Core + R on the Switch/PC as well as my own copy of Rev 2. GG > BB for life!
Im new into fighting games and i recently bought GG Rev2. I play character action games a lot so i wasnt new to concepts such as cancels, combos and such. After i finished the tutorials, i was fairly alright at the game, and then i joined an online lobby to test my skills at the game, and then i experienced what i would call "being an npc in the DBZ world, watching 2 characters fight so fast that u cant even see what is going on". After they finished, one of them told me that it is my turn. I immediately apologized and said that i wasnt cut out for this shit and pressed ALT + F4, I think sticking to the story mode and training is enough for me until the new GG comes out XD.
As someone who has only recently gotten into fighting games, I find your tutorials incredibly useful. Your teaching style is very clear and easy to follow. You really deserve more views! I'd also urge everyone to go watch your live coaching vids!
It may be a year old, but thank you for these guides! I got the game yesterday, and it’s super intimidating, but you explain things in a really concise and easy to understand way.
@@Jorge-hn1ye Agreed, but I swear every character I choose has to be the most difficult. Trying to main Baiken, I-No and Chipp. Then again it's a fighting game, the coolest looking characters are either the easiest or the hardest. ;-;
6:55 “Tension is really interesting because tension- Yeah fuck you ky... ...so uh tension-“ That’s my absolute favorite part. But yeah I just came from Strive and saw that xrd looked really fun to play as well. I’ve seen guilty gear before, but at the time I wasn’t really into fighting games at all. But now looking at this....I could have had a lot of fun learning the game with everyone else when it first came out...
@@slyswiper4150 I played Xrd for about 3 months and played a little xx accent core +r I mostly did this to adjust to all the system mechanics and to feel how the game is played. For example I wanted to learn what I could do on block on hit on defense on offense on oki on all kinds of situations so I learned through RU-vid and things like dustloop and such.
@@cobaltghost34 I also mean like getting used to the buttons and inputs since I have been playing fighterz for a while but just don’t got any other fighting game experience so I’m wondering if inputs will be hard cuz that is the only problem on my mind
Thanks so much for this video! It feels a bit difficult to find videos that are useful to an absolute beginner like me, but you explained it really well and I feel like I learned something.
Excellent info, I'm a new player to the fighting world and it's stuff like this that really helps. It's so nice to see experienced players looking out for beginners. Thanks man 👍
This is a really great guide!! Bought the game last summer, but the mechanics and speed of the game were a little more complex then I was used to at the time. Your guide defenitely made things more clearer and I'm going to try out what I've learned soon!
Bruh I don't have the game, I only played Guilty Gear almost 20 years ago and it wasnt Xrd Rev2, I don't even recall the title but couldnt find any video about the game 🙃 I was just wondering why I sucked as a kid
This is such a wonderful, detailed guide that helped me understand GG better than any guide I've seen. The biggest bummer for me with GG is the notation. I don't think the number pad is justifiably better than directional notation. I shouldn't have to transpose notation in a fighter ever. Back, downback, forward (or b, db, f) etc. is far, far better. The numpad only works when you're in left, and using it gets really jumbled when your on 2p side (player, not punch (another confusing thing about the numpad)). All in all, thank you for the incredible video!
Player two is often reffered to as p2 not 2p Also numbpad notation really smooths things out when talking about more intricate motions And has uses outside of motion inputs Its not inherently better or worse as it has advantages and downsides to regular notation
This video is great. I feel like what makes people so intimidated with getting into fighters like this is how so many guides assume people already know their way around the game. There are “basics” guides that jump right into lists of abbreviations that mean absolutely nothing to someone who is just starting out.
I bought this game yesterday after watching some reviews. It’s a gorgeous game but I’ve only played a little of the tutorial. After watching five minutes of this first part, I’ve added the whole series to my FG list. Your explanations of the chain and tension systems are amazing. Thank you so much! Edit: 12:18 “That’s such a fuckin weird thing to say.” Lol!
I just started playing fighting games as well the learning curve is huge and I still lose to easy bots sometimes but I’m having fun just need to find a character I like
@@StephGoKrazy Yeah. The golden rule of fighting games is to always be ready to lose and relearn what you thought you have mastered. I think a lot of people stop playing them because the learning curve is insane. Although they are an incredibly rewarding experience in the long run.
@@StephGoKrazy They are definitely unique games to me at least. Despite many titles, the overall experience is something beautiful. I play together with friends trying to hone our skills as we fight again and again. It's not the same as in shooters and mobas, since every mistake leading to a loss, is mine alone and not because of a team.
I’ve played ALOT of fighting games, but never have I heard of numpad notation. It’s unnecessarily confusing until you’ve learned it, like military time. I have straight up heard nobody use it. I always see stuff like DB or QCB.
it's used alot in fighting games but more so anime games cause it's a way to discuss combos and moves to make it easier for people who don't speak the same language
Thanks for this, bought this game because it's on sale and got to know it from epic seven collab. First time I'll get into a fighting game so this helps a lot. Keep it up. Edit: What would be best to use for new players? Keyboard/controller? Joystick/D-Pad? etc.
Thanks Poro! So honestly it doesn't matter what you use. I'll actually make a video about it since you brought it up, but I recommend whatever is most comfortable for you. I've seen pad players, stick players, and keyboard players do very well. I prefer stick because with a pad you have to use a different pad as different consoles are introduced. A stick is always the same
Blazblue Cross Tag got me into these games, but I found it super hard to transition to Rev 2. This guide has really helped me with figuring things out!
I just picked it up, I've never played but really want to get in to it, if you or anyone is down to practice and teach me I would really appreciate it.
I tried to get into revelator 2, but between the smaller player base and the difficulty of it in general( coupled with the fact that all i ended up wanting to do was impractical dragon install combos in training mode) I never really got into it. But with the new one coming out i’m hoping to actually put some time into it, so here goes
I’m new to the fighter genre as a whole, the only others I’ve really played are smash bros. Hopped on guilty gear, was super drawn to Faust for some reason, learned some combos, hopped online and got my ass kicked numerous times, but it just makes me want to get better so bad lol
thanks! i dont typically play fighting games so ppl on discord hate on me. Ive never played a fighting game not on roblox that is like this cause of cost. thanks for this tutorial!
this my first time playing a 2d fighter (ive played 1 or 2 3D ones at a very casual level before) and chaining/ gattling is soo hard !! atleast now i know that you need to get the input out while ur previous attack is hitting. but its still really difficult to get my brain and fingers to move that fast. i guess with enough practice ill have it down. didnt think getting the basics would take up as much motorcortex space as irl kata’s LMAO RIP
That 2k, 5k shyt is confusing. I’m coming from MK11, Dragonball FighterZ, and SF... I have to translate it to down forward or quarter circle forward movement
The number pad notation is always read as if you're on player 1 side no matter what. Just pretend your analog stick or arcade stick is a numpad on a computer. It takes time to memorize, but with repetition it'll stick.
Holy fuck i want to play this game so bad ... and get better at it. 1 it looks SO BEAUTIFUL! 2 the music is so anime 3 the characters are insanely unique. but fuck its hard >.
I'm a Mortal Kombat player and we use number notations for buttons but damn I never knew you have to use that for anime fighters 😮 Overall tho this is a good guide
Thanks a lot for these guides! they are helping me a lot. I know a lot of people ask you this type of questions but I wanna hear your opinion about using the hori fighting commander in this game, Is it good in this game? I'm really used to it lol
You're welcome and thank you! You can use any controller that is comfortable to you including the Hori fighting commander, pad, fightstick, keyboard. Whichever you prefer.
Do you have to specify if youre talking p1 or p2 position when doing combo notation? 4 is forward for p2 and back for p1... this is why other fighting games just use d, d/f, f etc for directional notation
Good question, you always say notation as if you're p1 even if you're on p2 side. So 6 means forward no matter what and 4 will always mean back. Hope that helps, if you have any more questions or wanna play join our brand new discord! discord.gg/XATQ6bX
Man this game looks nuts, the only problem is making my lil brother play this with me... you know when your fav game is kinda hard, and the person you are playing with doesn't want to put in effort.
Thanks for this guide! Bought this game a couple of months ago (PS4) but it was hard to get into it without any help. Mechanics aside, is it possible to set the BGM to random instead of loop in the Dojo? I set it to random at the character select screen but then it only selects a random song for the stage and loops it until I leave and re-enter. It's really annoying if I have to hear the same song for the 10th+ time in a row while training.
It`s weird, as much as I agree GGXrd is by all objective measurements a hard game, it`s the first FG that I was able to pick up and actually start learning to a degree. I`ve always had trouble with games that are considered much easier, such as Injustice or MK. I guess the game was just a better fit for me in a way.
I learned Injustice 2 first, but NRS games give you a lot of bad habits so it took me a while to adjust to other fighting games, so I'm sure it would be the same story the other way around.
Amazing. Fighting games are a pain in the ass for me but I decided to give GG a shot and I think I am hooked. However, maybe it's just my impression but the community seems dead :(
I dont have an arcade controller, only the PS4 default one. Is it possible to play the game in a good level with a normal controller? (my english kinda sucks so sorry about that)
Sorry for the late reply; I’m not too far into Guilty Gear but I can confirm that it’s totally okay to play with pad on this game! I’ve also heard pad players map their buttons though to their preference; although I think Johnny and Zato-1 are two characters that benefit a lot from playing on a arcade fighting stick. Overall, pad and fight stick is just preference in the end for most players. Hope this helps.
