No One Agrees How Good Asuka Is in Guilty Gear 

Whenever I get my butt kicked, Asuka is broken. Whenever I sweep, Asuka is dog water. This is the correct opinion and no one can convince me otherwise.

I just love how unique all the zoners are. Axl, Jacko, Happy Chaos, Asuka, are all so weird compared to each other. In general it sorta feels like zoners in games get the most creativity put into them, maybe it's just because of their design space being pretty open.

What this character is missing to be super top tier is consistency. I find him hard to fight as Baiken, but if he doesn't start with the correct tools, I can just blow him up.

Very polarizing matchups. I find it extremely funny how I-no suffers against Happy Chaos but completeley obliterates this character with just chemical love

The way I see it: characters with short range normals and no projectiles = He DOMINATES. Characters with long range normals and projectiles = he struggles.

Playing against a top rated Asuka makes you want to alt+f4 and take care of your responsibilities

I think he's easily one of strongest characters in the game but I'll hold that thought and wait for Arc World Tour. I want to see how far Gobou will go with Asuka.

auska is in grappler tier. basically op when he steamrolls, bad when he's loosing

Gobou choose Asuka = bullet hell boss 😂

As someone who's been playing Asuka since release, I find that he has this really weird blend of overwhelming positives and negatives, even outside of his defense modifier being based on mana. He doesn't really have any good button for the 9-10F range, 5K is pretty alright but against a character like Ky, they can just kinda run at you and press a really disjointed and active button. Cubes being hurtboxes is good and bad, good in that it beats Baiken Tatami and Nago Clone, bad in that you like, hella lose to Sin due to cube cancels. There's also the point that this character has a strong burst situation, but is pretty vulnerable to being bursted at the worst times himself, and he's not very mobile meaning that characters like Chipp just chew through Asuka's neutral for breakfast. But on the plus side the sheer versatility and adaptability this character allows for is lowkey degenerate. TC3 stuff is all mids, so any mix you have is pretty committal, but you better believe the reward is hella insane. More than anything, I just think his Matchups are weird. He falls vulnerable to a lot of characters on the lower or more esoteric end of things. Faust, I-no, Bridget, Chipp, Axl and Sin all have a field day with Asuka, but I think Asuka is pretty alright against Nago, has a weirdly even to possibly favorable MU against Happy Chaos, and just breaks a lot of the rules that all the top tiers kinda abide by. Its more a meta shift than anything Also this character is definitely easy to knowledge check people with. The fact that I can still put Delayed Howling Metrons in their face and they just hold it while I become +22 is kinda insane haha

Asuka is my main. He is one of the most fun characters i have played, and I got to celestial for the first time with him. If they change him, I hope its for the better, that makes him both more fun to fight and play. and to not just nerf him because people cant handle TC3

If I could change this character, I would make it so 1. You can get spells from any of the decks at the start of the round *and or* 2. Switch the manarecovery spells around so that the regenerating one is in tc2, the buff is now in tc3, and that tc1 now has the Spells-to-mana spell

The best way to practice Asuka without going online is the survival mode, that's how I first practiced initially. Just be conscious of what you are doing and not spamming you won't learn anything that way.

Asuka is only broken in the right people's hands. Most people don't have the patience to really learn him

One thing I've noticed about mana regen is that if you have it, you can eat a full combo and keep your mana shield. Part of Asuka's gimmick is obviously getting punished heavily if you slip up and let them in, but with mana regen, this is almost negated because you recover mana faster than you lose it

There is a lot of randomness involved with his kit, so his performance can vary situationally depending on matchup and the spells he gets. So he could be broken or weak depending. The clips people post are when his resources line up perfectly, which is hard to do consistently in a real match. It is like saying Faust is broken when they see a clip of him only pulling out meteors, bombs, etc. I do think he has a LOT of potential, it is just there is not enough tech that has been discovered and distributed to players. When we see someone destroying brackets with Asuka doing things nobody has seen, that is when I will considered if he is broken or not.

Lord knight got that eternal youth spell

Which means he’s balanced, but people just don’t want to admit it

Is Asuka hard? (Safesearch off edition)

i think he can keep out the opponent away really well and dish out really good damage, but if the opponent gets in even 1 time hes pretty much dead

200 lvl main here: totally agree with you it’s just situational but I can usually contend against his “counters” pretty well. Ram match up is hard

Im a big asuka main and i just love him. I love that theres endless things to learn with him and every match feels different.

I don't think its complicated, he is broken on offence and super weak on defence i.e. no good dp, mana chip a lot to do not much time to do it. (but people don't like a moderate answer it has to be broken or weak)

I am glad they added parry and the rush attack so in the future they can't give him a fifth slot.

Once i realized i could just hit the cubes asuka went from "why the fuck did they put this in the game" to "I like this matchup as johnny"

I don't understand the design concept. Asuka's goal is to get into a game state where the opponent is playing a stacked bullet hell game. I don't think Asuka is broken, but it's just odd to encourage this kind of gameplay imo

The thing about tier lists and top tiers is that the tier lists inherently makes the assumption that both players are good and completely skilled in said characters. For example. In Super Turbo Dhalsim is top tier but he’s much harder to use and not many people play as him. That doesn’t change the fact that in the hypothetical scenario he’s still a top tier. So it seems like in the scenario where two very skilled and knowledgeable players are competing that Asuka would in fact be considered a top tier.

As a Pot Player Asuka is just so painful He just gets to float around just far enough away from Kara Heat Knuckle range and high enough for Hammerfall to not hit, shuffling through spells, and all I can do is slowly inch my way as he slowly but surely puts together Exodia. The good thing is, if I DO catch him he just sorta dies? Potemkin drains his mana like hell and once he's out of it one good starter just IMMEDIATELY kills him lol But yeah I am completely and utterly biased on the "He's too strong" front... Maybe Heat Tackle will allow me to stop him from just flying about where I CAN'T reach him!!!!!

I feel like although it is situational for him to get into his test case 3 pressure string, those situations are a bit too easy to get into. idk what should they change to make him a little harder to get into situations in his favor though. One thing that definitely needs a noticeable nerf, in my opinion, is his cube super. It's way too safe for him to just spam that move at any range and force the opponent to block it while he tries to either recover his mana or switching spells.

The ones I’ve played play a very safe zoning game. It becomes a game of just finding 1 or 2 openings.

I’d love to see the guilty gear team get the jjk IP for a 2D fighting game 💯 his infinite mana glitch reminds me of a dude in the manga of jjk when he hits a jackpot in his domain

From playing asuka it takes a lot to be consistent with him, partially from the rng but mainly how he has a few particular matchups that just suck. Definitely one of those characters you should spend time learning the matchup. From experience sin has been particularly hard to stop as asuka If I were to change anything about asuka I would spread the exodia setup around other decks by swapping the mana and bookmark cards. That should hopefully make the setup harder but not too hard while fixing the problem of asuka rarely needing to use the other decks. It would also make asuka even more interesting to play as now high level players will start switching decks to fish for the best hand. I think it would silence the people worried about asuka while making the character more fun to play. Basically making the setup worse while also giving more power to some other setups. Probably wouldn't change much but I feel it would be more fun to play.

Guilty Gear Strive is my first fighting game, and when I first played I chose Asuka because of how awesome he looked to me. Once I learned a bit of how he plays he has become the only character I find truly fun in this game to play.

The one thing I'd change is the auto-reload of the Test Cases/decks; there's no reason to change out of TC3, and getting Exodia means you can literally spam cubes. I've won by just looking at what cards were popping up, I don't watch my opponent because it's likely they can't interact with the cubes anyway (Arpeggio/Bit Shift are effectively safe & unpunishable). Just make the cards in each deck only reload if every card in every deck has been used up. It completely changes how Asuka has to consider their card use and not just spam their shit. (also why the fuck does the Regen Mana card last 15 seconds, like holy shit that's way too long)

i think asuka can get to wining or almost checkmate situations very very often. he's not a free win but he can put you in the grinder pretty frequently (and for a long fucking time) despite the rng, basically.

Really cool character

I personally find I have a lot more fun in TC1 and even TC2 than TC3. The main thing is that Mana regen and auto import are broken, but good god is there a lot of other crap in that deck. When I'm playing the other decks, I feel a lot more like I'm playing around what I have, while in TC3 I feel like I'm JUST fishing for even a half of the exodia, since even when not assembled it's stupid strong.

I think people see Gobou's gameplay with the character and immediately think he's broken. He's not, Gobou's just crazy.

I wouldn't mind if they shuffle his decks a bit just so he has to work harder to get the broken spell combinations, like moving auto bookmark to case 2 so he can't immediately round start test case 3 for an easy wincon.

Yo LordKnight, you got vitiligo too?

5:35 XD

Yo @LordKnight ur Andre’s cousin (from SHS) Yee?

As a Goldlewis playeer this matchup is CBT unless I win within the first knockdown. Then again, that's more a problem that Goldlewis's MU spread is full of CBT matchups.

Kinda feels like he hasn't really taken off in terms of popularity and results, but I guess since I don't actually look at results that much I'm probably just talking from a position of ignorance...

You have to look at it with the fact in mind of there being a lot of basic rushdowns and shoto style characters in every fighting game. Zoners tend to be rare in comparison to these. In GG's case there are more zoners all of which are very unique and are more tolerable to others, I feel as if since there are more unique zoners or just zoners in general in this game that people tend to feel as if there are too many. Like stated previously, in comparison to others their casting is still lackluster. It is a more annoying playstyle to have to play against without a doubt, but that just makes the skill expression of rushdowns and other more traditional styles of play more impressive. The ability to play against more unique unconventional styles of play really begins to shine through with additions of characters like Asuka.

I think Asuka is a cool dude tyat either loses bad or wins really hard

Just got jumpscared by my video thumbnail holy shit

I'd never played against Asuka even against the computer until I faced him online and I felt like I was in a boss fight just cubes everywhere

0:05 Cube... Macubega... MACUBEDYNE!

I remember wanting to main asuka because I didn't know who to play. It didn't work

He is quite strong and really annoying to fight making him almost pre nerf Ram tier of this character is bullshit but I feel like a minor nerf wouldn't kill him. But of course he is good Gear generally makes these kinds of characters broken but hard enough most wouldn't play em take a look at Zato throughout Gear history

Has someone modded Asuka to look like Kaiba from yugioh? Honestly it would fit how he plays better imo

Um Which Deck?

"Is he a broken unfair character?" 80% of the cast in a nutshell. I would even say more: what makes most of Guilty Gear Strive successful comes from the fact that almost all characters are broken.

Hes obviously pretty good

nice combo drop stoopid

Strange how some people say he’s top tier when he has one of, if not, the worst disadvantage state in the game.

asuka imo is either busted or absolutely trash depending on what spells he rolls/starts with. if his gameplay gets going, hes extremely oppressive, but also once you actually get in he explodes. beating him revolves around not letting him set up his stuff because once he starts its just about gg

Literally one guy is good with that character 😂

I MOSTLY want his super projectile nerfed by a lot. And I mean a lot. He just autowins neutral if you happen to not HKD wallbreak. And pretty much in neutral is the same thing. Also he is one of the few REALLY priviliged characters that gets immense value from using blue burst to get the opponent off from him, he just auto wins neutral by blue bursting and spamming projectiles. Blue burst should give breathing room, not giving them a huge advantage at getting their win conditions. I shouldn't get this much punished because I happened to not be able to burst bait, specially when I may not have meter to RC and guard before burst hits me. GL uses drone after blue burst too, but I mean come on, he has to have something to have a chance at neutral. If they added half a second or a second of not being able to use spells after Asuka uses blue burst I would love it

I've been saying since launch of Asuka: change cards placements, so the player has to use the other decks more, cuz how he is now? (Nov 16, 2023) the only deck Asuka uses for his win condition is the 3rd and nothing else, there's way too powerful cards on the 3rd deck, cube wall, tp and the repel/absorb staves be changed from 3rd to 2nd deck

Many people liking Asuka due to how broken he can be. Me simply liking him due to his flashy magic moves and a edge-lord mage cape.

He isn't broken people are either just to lazy to learn the MU or they don't want to buy him to learn how to beat him which is actually a fair reason I think that all dlc should be free in training mode.

Ask her is kinda good

“There are people who like every character in Xrd” I refuse to believe this statement

There are only two things i think are overtuned for Asuka considering the type of character he is. 1)He is way too tanky with mana and if he were to stay that tanky hitting him doesn't actually drain enough mana (altought if it did drain more it would probably too much). 2) That GODDAM FUCKING overdrive wich isn't a revesersal but it's so fucking fast it might actually be.

Asuka is simultaneously one of the BEST and WORST characters in the Game. Let me explain asuka's wind conditions in test history which isn't necessarily available to him immediately he has to either get lucky or get his ultimate and being a good situation to use that ultimate then he's got a filter to get the cards even if he pops both cards it's not a guaranteed win but I will say that the situation is like 95% in his favor. With manna Reagan and Auto bookmark. That being said he also has the worst situation in the game by far. When is manna gets broken and he gets steamrolled it's the worst steamrolling you'll see in Guilty Gear thanks to his extremely low defense without his barrier. Not only that he doesn't have access to a spells and you have to survive(huge emphasis) with his below average normals. To frame this understanding I'd like to present you with a questions. Who would you rather be? in the corner against gold Lewis. Asuka with no mana? Or anybody else? Who would you rather be in a mix-up against milia. Asuka with no mana or anybody else? In a long range fight against Axl? Asuka(even with mana) with no mana or anybody else🤣🤣🤣

asuka isn’t broken like happy chaos where he becomes an auto-win character once you learn him. he’s good once you master him, but his gameplan actually takes quite a bit of skill. asuka has a lot of depth and quite frankly, the game needs more characters like him, and they need to be strong.

I find it funny how they put characters that are brand new to the series and mesh them in with the overall tone of the game where movement is slow enough to hit a moving target enough times you'd think the target never moved in the first place

Is he broken? No. Thats ridiculous. Hes good yes but he snowballs hardbin both directions. If asuka doesnt win the early game, he folds like paper. For most players who try to play asuka, theyll get stomped out by all the gorillas in the game, quit and go back to playing their favorite flavor of glue. Because the gorrillas can spin, beyblade, nightrade, stroke etc blah blah blah to almost completely ignore most of his kit. If he wins the early game, hes hard to contest, you can swing through his zoning but it requires as much situational awareness as the Asuka themself.

Nice video! This character is unfortunately more of the same and these characters that just send millions of projectiles ad nauseum with little interaction arent really fun to most people - but they are fun to some people, so i expect we'll keep seeing them. I just want more interaction options around cubes. Asuka in Test Case 3 is a blocking simulator for 90% of the time you fight him. I''m sure more counterplay will develop soon though

Zato bros...

Also if you wall break Asuka with 50 meter he can just super and setup shop for getting hit and you can’t do anything about it.

I really don’t think Asuka is top tier but like he could use some changes maybe, like a nerf to auto Mana Regen. Honestly nago deserves nerfs more tho than Asuka imo

i don't care if asuka is broken a single round out of 20 matches.

From a casual standpoint i skip asuka players everytime. Every character is kinda straight forward even Happy Chaos. But with Asuka i feel like im playing a 1.5 players game. Standing in the corner waiting for that one moment to strike back and mostly getting bodied by the amount of crap hes throwing around.

Im not entirely sure why but asuka manages to feel like the most fair zoner arcsys has ever designed despite him technically being an rng zoner

This game need more characters like Asuka. This is what Guilty Gear IS.

Character needs a rework. With deck 3 auto bookmark and mana regen he's completely broken, without it i don't think he can compete. If his only viable strategy is to literally spam spells non-stop, that's really unfortunate and boring, absolute waste of potential on this character.

LK make a video on why fighting games actually take zero skill

Not watching this video because the P4AU Adachi theme gave me too much whiplash, too many dark memories... sorry /j, nice video

I have the most fun fighting him which is nuts to say in a game where zoners and execution heavy set play characters are pretty annoying and stupid. I think Asuka is very well tuned, maybe the best designed character in the game, evident of they didn’t really change much in the big update. At the toppest of top levels though I can see an argument, but at that point every character making their way to final 16 or whatever are degenerate so it’s harder to pin on just Asuka.

I love every character in Strive, but I also don't play against strong players often, nor is anything in my life dependent on my performance in the game. They all just burst with unique character, style and game plan. And I guess that's all that matters to me.

I hate the player utilizing “X” character argument as to why a character is doing good. In reality the character has always been that good it just took a specific player to highlight these strengths

I hate characters like this, and they keep adding them. Just mid range zoner with resource management. But with asuka, when someone is really good, you might as well just not be playing.

mmmm if ppl thought HC was broken....then Asuka is def broken. And i do think he is. A lot of your video show Asuka's playing from full screen with his projectiles, but when he pins you in the corner and uses his projectiles with NO recover or cool down.... it's freakin impossible. Especially if your char doesn't have a invincible reversal (potemkin) I mean from point blank range, po can't even 5p in between those spells/projectiles... I'm personally tired of the these crazy ass char's in Strive. I do not think Asuka is brain dead like Johnny or Elphelt...but def shouldn't be able to do what he does.

Character plays the game alone

Think his skill ceiling is too high.

He's the only character who occupies every tier if all player are counted, but mid-S I guess if you only count the ceiling. Too many random variables to be the top dog.

If you can control the character this complicated you deserve the win especially in a game where lot of simple characters are powerful

LK you know this character is busted asl 😂😂😂

Im honestly surprised nobody has ever talked about Jojos Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future characters or moves. *Petshop* is possibly the most busted character ive ever seen, and *tandem super* is such a busted move/mechanic that there are tournament rules on how many reps you can do.

I love Asuka from Senran Kagura games and I love Asuka from WWE.... But this Asuka not so much. And why does he have a woman's name?

This is a quarter stealing boss fighting game character in a era where quarters are used any more to play fighting games. I hate asuka ❤🎉

the way asuka loses today is the same as the way he lost on day 1 and the ways he wins are largely the same as day 1 too. he seemed like a character that would need to develop a lot but i actually think a lot of questions about this character today could basically be answered then. he has a ridiculously powerful win condition that isn't that difficult to achieve and will also just kind of die at random in some rounds due to bad draws or an opponent putting a button through one of his cubes and deleting it fur a fat CH combo that drains his resource.