How to get good with I-No - Guilty Gear Strive guide 

“It’s worth noting”… talking about her fireball… I hate myself

As a person not only new to strive but to fighting games in general, I feel like I-No is a great character to propel players into being able to play more complicated characters. Her difficulty lies not in difficult inputs or complicated mechanics, but in understanding how to mix effectively (the ground dash of course is weird and that can mess with new players). I find the more I learn to play her the better understanding I have of mixing in general. She also helps me to learn not to mash so much and to play a little more methodically. Overall, very fun character and this guide is very helpful!

Such an old guide, yet as a complete newcomer to the series, without any noteworthy experience in fighters in general, this is the first guide I found to be helpful. Thanks for making this.

im trying to pick up I-no and so far i made it to level 20 without winning literally a single match lmao. thanks for this one JM!!!

It's crazy to me how you can just say "Generally what you're going to do is just use her air dash and then mix up" and everything just falls into place like magic. You did the same thing with Giovanna. "Use your normals to frame trap and then go for throws" like, that's it, that's the magic phrase that unlocks the character. I'd love to hear similar examples for other characters if you have the time.

I love this. You start with the overarching game plan, and then include just the most relevant tools as they become important. No flashy 20 hit combos, just "You're gonna wanna utilize your dash to get this mixup." First you tell us how the mixup works after a dash, then you show us how fireball can help enable this mixup by forcing your opponent in place, and so on and so forth. It's such an organic way to learn.

I want moar beginner friendly "how tos" like this. Gameplan and what tools to use as a beginner. I loved it. :O

Hoping they add the I-No skin from end of story mode, that was 🔥🔥🔥

Just started today and she is my first char I picked. Love her and this guide will make me a better fighter

I really love her design and the air hop dash feels great to use. But in a game where most characters can easily convert any hit into a wall carry 40% combo, her normals and conversions feel a little weak. Especially players that like to mash light are something I still haven't found out how to beat. Also her movement can be pretty telegraphed and suffers greatly against characters with strong horizontal attacks. Still, it feels great to land mix up after mix up or those sweet roman cancel combos with hovering, multiple strokes and sultry Performance cancels.

Another great starters guide. My two favorite characters are literally I-no and giovanna thanks to these guides lol

Man this game is so hype. I-no def going to be one of my mains, but I’m for sure gonna try the whole cast.

I've been a long time Ky Player, and I've always wanted to play Ino, and I feel like this super useful! Thank you

I noticed playing online that 214k does tend to whiff a lot. You can confirm into it from basically anything, but it generally puts a lot of distance between you at midrange so I think it’s def better to go with stroke, also giving you the option to RC. Also, something that was pretty unintuitive was that you can cancel her dive kicks by pressing the button you used to do the special. All three of her dive kicks can be strung together from a single jump using this, and combined with dash canceling and j.d, you can keep yourself in the air for like 6-7 hits max. At any point in the string you can let the divekick hit the ground and start hitting low. Not to mention the fact that you can charge the divekicks to mix up timing. Her mix is very, very strong at a first glance. I didn’t expect for there to be so many opportunities to set up the fireball and get real oki, as well. I only really wanted to play her because of the awesome redesign, but I’m finding myself more and more excited about her.

She’s definitely who I want to perfect but it’s obvious her movement is incredibly elaborate and it’s important to have control over her.

I don’t have this game yet, but when I get it I really want to play I-no. I started playing guitar during quarantine and started loving it, And the fact that I-no uses a guitar and plays little riffs stuff stands out to me.

This character has been the bane of my existence, I might just start playing her to learn the MU inside out tbh because when I get knocked down by her and have to just hold the meaty fire ball into a mix where I have to guess like 3 times before I even get a chance to try and take my turn back I get so tilted lmao

One year later and even though might be outdated this guide still great, barely any good beginner guides for i-no. Problem is good players don't understand what new players need to start so instead they just tell them what every button does and when to use and neiche situations but in reality new players just need to hear a couple buttons to press at least to start. Also a super basic combo like this is super nice for new players who don't want to lab a combo just to start playing online matches.

SUPER helpful, lotta stuff i hadn't even considered. worth noting: the heavy version of stroke can combo into 2k > 2d, and then you can set up your fireball oki to go for more schmixes. also fireball oki > dash > command grab super is OD

Okay, so I've been screwing around with I-no for a good few days before I actually found this guide. good to know I had the right idea using the fireball to dash in. However, I am still getting a hold of the combos so thank you on that front

The highest damaging combo ender in the air is slash, heavy slash, into sultry performance :)

You can confirm HS Stroke into Slash Stroke. The timing is particular though.

I’m so happy you did I-no first! I preordered and got GGS day one but I also hurt my hand in an unfortunate burger thawing accident lmao. I started up yesterday and want to get ranking ASAP so this guide is so welcome! Thanks jm loving the content, this game is amazing and totally deserves the spotlight!

I wouldn’t buy a 3v3 game for a while until I tried out KoF.. changed my life

Excellent I-no guide and tutorial jmcrofts happy Thursday much love my friend love your streams and can't wait till u stream today and every time your on

Been watching your videos for a couple of months but I finally subscribed today because of Ino. We need more noob friendly videos!

i-No has always been "anime El cabong" to me.

Picked up Strive the other day and started playing I-No and this video was really helpful! Thanks man! :)

This is really well done. The example matches at the end helped put it all together, thanks 👍🏻

That guide sparked my interest in i-no, thank you so much :D

I don't think I-no is hard to play in Strive. The whole "I-no is hard" was mostly in +R because she was very execution heavy in that game. Her combos were quite hard to pull off and dropping them could let you in some ugly situations. In Strive her combos and gameplan are very straightforward. She seems quite strong, so I'm happy to main her once again.

I think Ino is one of my favorite characters to play against, and I've been thinking about picker her up. Great vid

I've been messing with her for a bit even on XRD before strive released and I'm loving her all over again along with Ram

Easiest and most understanding/concise guide!

Omg I just noticed if you roll the stick backwards from double tapping forward to dash into faultless defense, you can basically do most of the motion for the supers. This way you can block while also getting ready to land an unblockable if they don't throw anything out.... just make sure you have enough meter for the faultless and the super! EDIT: You can basically do anything off of this buffer pattern (empty into something else, low into trip into setup, super unblockable, charged dust, throw). It honestly feels like maybe it should be a huge part of the gameplan given it has a built-in block. The only thing it doesn't let you do is instant overhead off of it since you force an early landing.

I been playing ino for a second character but the mix ups I did not know worked so well great to know I hope you do more of these!

Love the guide, super informative. Can’t wait to put this stuff to work on Friday

Just picked up Strive and I-No immediately became easy. Not sure why people are saying she is difficult. I just love doing quarter circles.

thanks for making this video, i've always wanted to play and i-no was someone who i always wanted to main. as i'm relatively new playing series all your pointers helped me a LOT. just bought the game today, spent 30 mins in training, tried a few matches, got my butt kicked, then watched your vid right after. win rate went up like no tomorrow lol!

I played Bridget for two days straight in the xbox open beta, and now it turns out she's a dlc character so I guess I'm maining I-No now it is what it is

Good to see Jim caving in and embracing the waifu/Top Milf culture

I love that I-No has retained her loopable oki from Xrd, even if you have to sacrifice quite some damage to keep it going. It's a great Day 1 gameplan. I'm REALLY looking forward to this Friday, it's been over a year of watching this game without being able to play because PC.

I've been using Ram since the game came out and I'm trying to switch to I-No. Really helpful video, thanks!

Holy shit you have 200k subs??!! Congrats! I remember when you had 4k subs.

Ino was my ace in the pocket back in the XX days against my pals. I knew like half the roster and as they would download me i'd change characters, rinse and repeat, but if they had me on a losing streak i'd bust out the Ino and always win. They eventually told me i wasn't allowed to use her lol which i couldn't do to any of them because they were solo main players.

thanks for the guide, I'll peruse this once the PC version comes out

Bought the game yesterday, got 4 hours in. So far tried Giovanna and I-No and she is just amazing. Love the gamestyle :P

I didnt understand at first why her fireball was so weak in terms of damage but now I understand...

The flying dash is kinda hard to get used too but I love her so far. Doesn't seem like she does high damage but the projectile keeps opponents pinned and let's the pressure stay.

Mr. Crofts, could you change your input display setting to P, K, S, HS for us non Playstation players? Thanks!

Steering the projectile up and down is wonky in strive it was very easy in Xrd.

I played about 40matches with I-no trying to see how viable she can be. Just feels like you have to work way more to get her to be good. Especially against pressure of characters like sol and ky. Whenever I was in a corner against them I just felt like she didn’t have much to wiggle out and you also don’t get as much damage off of converts. Sol did AT LEAST 150dmg (meterless) every time I got hit with a combo. Kind of sucks the fun out when you’re sweating and they drain your life after 2 combos lol.

Chemical love *IS* definitely weaker in strive. It no longer cancels into the vertical version. Not only that, but the vertical chemical love doesn't even exist in strive AT ALL!

Thanks for the tips, super helpful

Thanks

What’s a good low bnb combo for I-No? Have you been using her dive kick a lot?

Learned I-no by myself spending time in the dojo and I love her! (too bad I still can't play against Leo and Millia...)

Indeed she's awesome

my first gg and i love I NO so much thanks for the vid

Can you do a how to get good with faust

Thought I had it down until I ran into someone using same character spamming same move over and over 🙃

I haven't played the game yet but it feels good to watch a Ram getting beaten up XD

I love ino on my Fightstick ima ah beast with her made it to Floor 9. Tried using my controller it’s hard for me and I’m a life time controller user so idk invest into ah Fightstick don’t care what people say it’s easier once you get use too it.

The PlayStation buttons on the input display rather than P/K/S/H etc. make this much harder to follow as someone not using pad :/ would be much appreciated to change that setting for future videos :) subbed either way, thanks for the info!

It should be a huge Ky player but I can never get past floor 7 with the knocked back down to five or six I got frustrated so I looked at the roster and said okay what do I need to do I-no she is complicated with the dash but honestly if you just play with the character enough you could understand how to use her in situations rushdowns and close-ups and mix ups boxing characters in is her forte I loved it so much I got past level seven I'm on floor right now on top of that my combo strings go a lot longer now too with Kai I would at least get a 7 or 8 combo string with Eno I got 10 huge improvement in all aspects versatility defensively a really well-rounded character don't be fooled by the gimmick of she's a tough character to play she really isn't

How are you moving so immediately after the projectile comes out of quarter circle back P? Ends up being so slugggish and i cant do much input after for me, what am i doing wrong?

"Stroke is a really good and abuseable move" 😏

Set dash to button and she gets so much easier to play.

Do maaayyyy

She’s so cool

I want to get into I-no, but just doesn't feel like she has any get off me moves. If I do happen to get comboed, I have one burst, and then I'm fucked

He mentions the heavy stroke big tree is plus and can gives you enough time to press 5K into Chem love. It seems that this move is only +2 on block though, which doesn't give enough time to use her 5K. Did this get changed in the first patch or something?

Bro the second super always breaks the wall instantly ;)

This guy knows how tobplay clean buy doesn't know alot of tech yet, you can easily break the wall from mid screen w a Roman cancel combo from Ino. Practice her wall break combo in the mission mode to get an idea how it works

Bring out that Leo guide JM!!!

Hey JM, can you do Millia? Was a great vid, much appreciated!

I've seen daru use the pushback on block for 6h to reset into another mixup

I dunno if I should try I-no or Giovanna. I used to be a big GG fan, I played a lot of Baiken back in the day.

You can just press dust and have her fall immediatly instead of fd.

I-No is really cool in Strive. I need to figure out how to respond to her landing the fireball on block so I don't get mixed.

Are their certain instances where her command grab doesn't catch? I swear there have been a handful of times when I set the opponent up to be stuck on block, I'll fly in and I feel like I couldn't be any closer, but the grab fails and I whiff.

Do you command the insta kill immediately after activating preparation?

She is hard to play IMO but i do suck at the game lol but I thinks he’s cool. I love her moves and her play style

Bro I watched your day 1 video, I dont quite know if I trust on this matter

Thank you.

Just picked up I-no literally last night and I'm having a ton of fun. Seeing Daru 1v6 the entire enemy team inspired me to give her a shot. Won a good portion against my friend who's much better than I am, but ended up dropping two floors in the tower. It was my first online session though so I sort of saw it coming. Either way I'm sticking with her.

He’s right about the new players and 3v3 cause I wanted zfighters but it’s just mvc with dbz super character

This is the character I want to main, but boy coming from DBFZ as my first fighting game this is ruff 😅.

Started with I-no very different character from what I'm used to. I'm a Mk player so this new for me. Thanks for the vid

Man I really don't like how long it takes to dash after fireball, I understand why but it always trips me up

We need a how to on Axl Low

Thanks I hope I get better

Chipp next pls. He got so nerfed that everyone is kinda bullying him to showcase TOD's. What are we gonna do with him now? XD

Just started playing I-No and so far my biggest struggle has been against people who block my dash in button and then mash crouch jab sadge

Wow this vid helped a lot, hopefully this will help me smoke guys online

Man this game looks bad on youtube. So much stuff moves on screen it fucks up the compression. Big counter leaves a visible trail at 1080p. Trying to figure out Ino in the hotseat I kept getting Dash airthrow instead of dash dust cause I don't use the macro button. Bummer.

Yeahh she is a real fun character, she not like anyone I've played with in a fightning game

Anyone have advice for what to do when you are Ino and cornered?

I'm watching this to learn how to counter this fucking character

I hate this character because i don't know how to block her.....I need to into the enemy lines for Nagoriyuki's sake