Second Rate Soldier: Why was XRD Potemkin low tier? 

Ive always wondered why the person that wants to be up and close to grab you has a move to toss you half the screen away

I like to think xrd pot was a direct response to FAB's growing power. It was getting so ridiculous that he was starting to phase through the veil of real life and ggverse. They didn't want him to PB RC 2H HPB the entirety of the backyard so they kept him in check for a game life cycle.

Having a TOD in the corner seems kinda pointless when you need to be winning the match HARD to actually get to that point. You win with the TOD 1 out of 15 games, but it's gotta be even less than that where you win with the TOD and the opponent is at high enough health that nothing else could have killed.

I'd honestly love to see more videos like this about the older games, gives perspective how much different strive is

I wish there were players of all the other characters that went into such detail about the characters toolkits like you do with potemkin. Potemkin mains are quite lucky to have someone like you making these video resources on this channel

Heat Knuckle oki is basically all he needs to jump to mid tier immediately. It's sad and one of the few things I prefer AC+ over Rev2 for.

The fact that all they needed to do was give him 1 buff and they just refused to is infuriating

This was very informative and you also managed to sneak in a lot of humor in there (the Sin bit had me dying). Great video.

you see, video essays talking about a fighting game character are my favorite thing to watch

I now see why on twitter you mentioned how much more of a struggle Pot is in Xrd this is downright manslaughter to his character

Nice vid. Kinda solidified for me that I'll stick with +R for a while hehe. Also bonus points for the Transistor Soundtrack used throughout. Good stuff.

the evolution of Potemkin is very incredible! Never knew he could fling himself like a missile! I might pick up a copy XRD one of these days!

Xrd Pot may be the “weakest” of the 3 Pots in comparison to the rest of the casts. But his Facial Expressions are Golden.

I knew from tier lists that Xrd Pot was considered to much worse than +R Pot, but never quite understood what the difference maker was. Glad we know have a very informational video breaking down the important changes that were made.

I would love to hear about Potemkin in older versions. X, vanilla XX, XXAC

I appreciate the use of Transistor OST in this vid. It's good stuff! Pot is such a neat character to learn about in comp or outside of it in lore. So thanks for the good content as always^^

It kind of seems like they were very deliberate in Xrd Pot's design. It seemed like they wanted to keep him a one chance character through and through

7:40 The whiplash that put me through got this the instant sub, you really know your research. Looking forward to possibly seeing more on some old low/high tiers?

Strive Pot feels like he's drowning right now. They keep buffing things that doesn't need to be buffed while ignoring what needs fixing. If heat knuckle gave oki, 2p was 7 frames and Hammerfall Break wasn't 28 fucking frames he'd be a lot better. I don't really understand what they want Pot to do in Strive. He wants to get close but lacks the tools to get close and stay close. It's bizzare.

THE MUSIC SELECTION IS ON POINT A FELLOW TRANSISTOR FAN

Fantastically well made video. I really enjoyed it!

A brief history explaining why we got garuda impact

as someone who started guilty gear with AC on the psp, this is very interesting

As a Sin main in Xrd, I truly enjoy this video and laughed hysterically. Subscribed "little shit control the neutral with one special" lol

It was really nice to learn about how exactly Pot was bad in Xrd after just hearing that he was bottom tier for so long. And the Transistor music was the cherry on top. Great vid!

As a Sin player, I've got a few more Beak Drivers if you want em

This was awesome. I'm finally getting around to learning Xrd Pot in earnest and have been a little frustrated coming from Strive Pot. This helps put things in perspective :) He's still a blast to play

This is such a sick video. great editing and info, made it easy for even a non xrd player to get.

This was outstanding, thank you

Good info on this vid for people like me who's only GG exp comes from Strive The Transistor OST was a good surprise too!

Sadly we cant unlock FAB Potemkin, hes the best character in the game

Very well put together video. Congrats on shining some light on Xrd Pot! I have 1000+ hours with this sucker in all Xrd games combined. Ah, the memories...

Pretty good vid, i mained pot back in sign so this really took me back. I remember losing tourney matches to nothing but beak driver all too well. The only thing im disappointed in is that you didnt talk about how awful trishula was in sign 1.0

this is one of the best videos youve ever put out

Very fun video to watch!

+R Potemkin should be one of the shining golden examples on how to design a great grappler along side such beasts as Ultra 4 Zangief, and Xrd should be the cautionary to warn weery devs to prevent them from completely fucking up their grapplers alongside such woeful stories as Omega 4 Zangief

I really like the tone shift in music choice after talking about pots scary corner pressure. It really emphasizes the point about how he's worse midscreen

Good writing, great info, *and* Transistor OST? Subbed. As the kids say, very based OST choice.

Great vid!

yooo transistor OST? You deserve a like just for that.

Excellent video! Actually beat me to the punch on it since I wanted to make a video like this as well.

Good informative video with a touch of humor! Would love to see you analyze Tager through the editions of BlazBlue and Potemkin over the versions of Strive and even pre XX.

literally never played a guilty gear game but I love these kinds of videos

fantastic video

I nearly a decade playing X and all of the XX games, always as pot. When I finally got a ps4 and Xrd Holy shit was I bummed out with everything pot lost, I still have nightmares about Raven.

Appreciate the transistor ost. It's sick.

i want this kind of video but on Strive. this video despite being a XRD video just gave me all kinds of meme shit i could do in Strive.

00:48 I remember being so satisfied when I bought Xrd sign and realized it has #reload feel to it, and no AC stuff. Cause #reload was the version available on PC, and I played the hell out if it. I kinda did not get AC changes back then: my brain rejected it after so many hours in #reload. God, xrd was the best sequel in my life)

Also, AC+ Pot was still a terror to this day. The fact that Heat Knuckle first part was so strong (Oki+better meter gain) and Slidehead left you in an OTG state where any hit was considered airborne was so dumb.

You know what I, someone who has never played xrd, don't like about this potemkin? His stance. In strive, his stance is much wider, and is hunched over. In xrd, his head is much higher up on his massive shoulders, which has the effect of making him appear more upright, despite his lower pelvic area being further back. They also made said pelvic area a little wider as well, so now potemkin looks like a trapezoid with the small side on top of a a square in stead of a large upside down triangle

thanks frank :)

Ok but the fact that the ToD ends in Heavenly instantly makes him an S tier

As soon as the matchup bit was starting I was hoping Beak Driver would get mentioned. I was not disappointed.

Not here to really comment about the video content, but I appreciate the use of the Transistor soundtrack. Underrated game.

Well done video bravo

Loving the transistor OST.

When you were talking about matchups that pot struggled with, I was thinking raven since one of his strength is his neutral.

Awesome vid. I'd love to see one comparing his strive version to the past.

and them comes strive potemkin that chad lad they sure made him more playable there right ( i would love a video comparing all his versions )

"PLEASE don't buff potemkin." - Everyone after playing Fab

i´m new to guilty gear, plays +r potemkin and i adore using 2d vacuum into potemkin buster. The idea of 2d not being a vacuum or the fact that it didn't always had that property is uncanny af too me, i can't imagine pot without that T_T

Strangely coincidental, as me and my Pot friend started playing Xrd recently. He's dropped Pot for Sol so far, but I'm thinking about dropping Ky for Sin

0:49 glad I'm not the only one who noticed

I miss old Pot, I started playing back in X2 and stopped when xrd crushed my main. Last time I played was at AX, some dude rocked my world with sol, they were good, and then picked sin as to tell me to eff off. :T never felt so washed

Transistor music? That's a nice surprise

Since I play pot in strive I never really knew how he was before. So thanks for the insight of Potemkin history in Xrd. Even then this low key makes me sad and makes me wants to ask Just why? Why base him off of Reload and not AC/+R? This literally makes no sense to me and now Im worried that pot might be based off of his Xrd variant (hopefully Im wrong and just over thinking things) Regardless I appreciate the video and good job on it too I thoroughly enjoyed it thanks.

What's your take on the state of strive potempkin?

I'm still malding that ICPM and Trishula didn't make it into Strive - I loved those two specials to death. I'm also still addicted to using HFB is Strive out of habit I picked up in Xrd despite it being basically worthless as a neutral tool unless you have meter or just feel the need to cancel blocked 6H for some reason. I hope you do the same type of video for Strive Potemkin, because the current version of Pot in Strive is also the worst character in the game and watching the segment about patches ''buffing'' Potemkin sure feels very familiar - fixed none of his problems, just buffed damage on meter use.

Arksys always did kusoges and it will never change what carries them is the bizarre factor and osts, because if they did like everyone else and created a street fighter clone for their main series, they would've gone bankrupt long ago

Well, we are entering the dark times now in Strive as well.

Transistor OST? Absolutely based music choices

I had more fun on. Ggxxac+r than xrdrev2 but yeah in mid screen i jad a lot of problems to pressure corner not proble but mid he get destroy sometimes and sin hard to read on my end but still doesnt make me to stop playing him

He may be the weakest in Xrd, but you know what he DOES have in this game? The best RC animation no contest

Man. It’s like moldybagel but for Guilty gear! I’d love to see more!

I wish you mentioned the fact that he overall just isn't rewarded for making the right reads, like ever. I'm still baffled by the fact that forward mega fist is minus on hit

He beat slayer so idc

Good thing I dropped sin (my friend mains pot)

Took me a second to place the music, but SGG music is the good shit

Any chance we could see a video on the completely dysfunctional mess that is missing link Potemkin?

I really wanted a "and then came strive!" With pot wrecking someone while his theme was playing. Oh well

4:29 Is this not a 3f link due to the input buffer?

Now I'm curious about Slash Potemkin. He seems to have basically none of what made him good in Accent Core, but was ranked fairly high on most of the tier lists I was able to find.

Ty yt recommended

burly heart does something to me

Just hope it doesnt happen again in strive

but why would they base off #R when that was almost the oldest xx version when +r was fresh and barely 3 years old?

I'd like to see a video similar to this one but with Xrd Rev 2 Zato, he is arguably comparable to Pot at being bad and inconsistent.

oH GOD SIN'S BACK STRIVE POT MAINS RUN

I would say Pot being so bad is why I didn't get into Xrd much, but I think it was that there's nobody I liked to play as more than Pot in Xrd, which made his placement feel so much worse. Meanwhile I really like Pot in +R & Strive but currently use Kliff & Goldlewis instead. I think I just don't like the #Reload approach as much as +R's, and for Strive it's just a mix of GL himself and the versatility of its RC that make me like it.

Cause he stole Skullgirls' Panzerfaust's drip >.>

Wait but what happened for Strive?

I love watching fighting game analysis videos while knowing nothing about them. Something about having a 5K/c.S 2H HFB SJ j.P j.K j.S ICPM thrown at me is pretty funny

Xrd potemkin my beloved

Zato and Pot got the shaft hard in xrd

yo whats up with the vibby music

Do you like Xrd Pot more than Strive one?

Hey i'm a +R noob & not a Pot main (HOS/Robo), so I gotta ask Why is Pot getting oki after Heat Knuckle WITHOUT Extend so important to him compared to doing the Extend? Like I get how it's useful, it's Oki on your jump read, but what's the problem with actually doing the Extend? Does Extend not give Oki either? Is the window to confirm Extend super short?

That last bit about Xrd Pot being fun is absolutely true. I'll be honest and admit that as a character, +R Potemkin is a much stronger iteration than Xrd's. But with that said, I greatly prefer the Xrd Pot's gameplay, tools like 6K, charged FDB, and ICPM are infinitely fun to play around with

I don't understand why they couldn't just give him that knockdown off of heat knuckle, feels like Arc Sys was dead set on him only being allowed to do things when he has you cornered

at least he got paid back when Strive came out, Pot mains ate good