Why Leo Whitefang Is Top Tier in Guilty Gear Strive 

He’s only top tier to you because you been getting rekt by Random Leo’s since xrd lol he’s not good he’s like mid tier he got no run very hard to get into back stance short negative normals he’s purely gimmick, flashkick isn’t even an issue anymore since you can throw flashkick cmon my son Oh yeah he doesn’t have knockdown !!!!!! H dp maybe the only one now? Also he doesn’t do a lot of damage He’s gonna get at least have to open you up 4-7 times most chars that are consider top tier only need 3-4

congratulations, you're the first person in human history to make a Leo video without using the words "unga" or "gorilla"!

Been playing him since beta. Dude is hella strong. Even my mom only carried me for 9 months.

This is literally better than every leo guide I have seen. Thank you.

Good vid. I think a lot of people focus on Leo's offense when talking about his strengths because it's very in-your-face, but a big portion of his strength relative to the rest is how tough he is to crack defensively/how high risk it is to pressure him, which you covered really well. Just a small correction at 6:10 - 5H isn't actually a disjoint. His only disjointed normals outside of stance are the guard point followup, 2S, and j.H (and 6P obviously). (Edit: also apparently 2H is disjointed directly above Leo - TIL)

One thing not mentioned here, but very important: Leo has good reward off of light buttons. 5p>5p>5p>236s gives a knockdown, which is great in its own right... But remember that point about that dash momentum? Well, if you time it correctly, dash boosted 236h will let you run through them, and get a backturn without getting wakeup grabbed. Sure, it might lose to invincible reversals... but it's still an option that your opponent will need to be watching for after you represent it.

Literally just started learning Leo, LK teaching us how to bring the king to ladder, perfect timing

Clean editing on this one. Love the content and the Baiken my dude 💪

Hey LK, do you have any plans on making videos about general defensive counterplay for characters in Strive? You mentioned how Leo could lose on his own offense a couple times in this video and going more in depth with stuff like that would be cool to see/watch.

lOVE YOUR STUFF BRO KEEP IT UP

Great video

Also side note as a Leo player. Just to mention as of the last patch I believe, his guard point stance has Armor on it too (The follow up) because more Def to fuel his offense.

i just started and decided i was a leo main yesterday, perfect timing

"...and the parry is quite fast." my guy, its invulnerable frame ONE with parry activating frame 3!! You don't get much faster than that! 🤣

My friend and I played Leo and Millia respectively and I just laugh at some of the stuff I remember him saying. Like when the devs buffed him to have an easier time in neutral opening people up in which every pro at the time were confused at that yet he was like "he so needed this". Playing a more volatile character and being subjected to this bundle of ape steroids I still have flashbacks, was a blast.

6:09 5H is not disjoint you can counter poke it but it hits low profile moves

That leo mix is why i put him up there.

My man out here going ham straight buffet style.

5h is not a disjoint to my memory, and it has two versions that will come out depending on what the opponent is doing. The version that beats 6p only seems to come out when the opponent hits 6p or when you do low profile moves like stroke and vortex

I-No has good grounded options vs Leo's guard stance, stroke being the main one. The stance is really good vs air options, but getting them out of that habit is worthwhile.

i remember when ppl thought he was dead after how lost the ability to do a combo off his crossup

I've been playing Leo since release, and while Dustloop says 5H is not a disjoint honestly I can't recall a time it's been exposed, the later active frames counterhit pretty much every attempt I've seen at even 6P'ing it and the reward off counterhit almost anywhere on the screen is nuts, round ending a lot of times. 15 frame startup but illegal move nonetheless.

As a first to guilty gear. Leo played the game for me and taught me basic offense defense of guilty gear. Than I switched to Nago as he looked like a cool character. But this guide makes.me wanna go back to leo

8:14 the AI is learning

LK the goat, great analysis as always.

There's also the stance cancel on backturn I guess that also makes people mald

LK needs to make this bridget video already man😪

I love his fit.

If I'm not mistaken, he's +5 after the stance overhead when stance cancelled, right? Although, leaving brynhildr stance may not be the greatest idea for him

Good vid but Leo's 5H is disjoint? Is Leo's dustloop outdated?

You should do a video like "Not as strong as you think" and explain why

I clicked on the video, but you see, /I know damn well why he's top tier/ but I'm gonna give LK the engagement XD

When I said "why is this character top tier" this isn't what I meant

This video was cathartic. Leo gets a lot of shit and this video picks apart what's deserved and what's not. Acknowledging that Leo is generally strong in most stages of the game (like most top tiers, I believe) while still pointing out his differing mobilities lacking areas and especially that his "strong" neutral tools are strong in specific matchups and not just all of them like many say and especially that even though backturn can be crushing, it's way more escapable than most advantage states if you're practicing sometimes no matter how much you lab, ram corner pressure or Nago corner looping pressure can just blow you up. A lot of the time you can flowchart backturn even if you aren't at a high-level and can just IBFD like the pros can (I know I can't.) Pure opinion from here: I think that in the most recent patch Leo definitely undeservedly got some of it worst among most of the top tiers, as they nerfed both the way to get into the win condition as well as the win condition itself not to mention a lot of his combo variety. This made him way less fun to play, imo. Wonderful video, I've been praying for it and it did not disappoint.

Make a "why axl low is low tier" video please, for my own sanity

This video inspired me to drop Gio to play Leo instead which reinvigorated my will to play GGST. Reached Celestial within 6 days. Thank you!

Good shit. I'll be over here waiting patiently on "Why Axl Low is top tier in Guilty Gear Strive" (trying not to cry)

Let me preface my question with this: I'm a casual scrub. Could you explain a little more about why guard point is so hard for characters like Sol and Milia to fight against?

I started playing Testament against my friend who only plays Leo even though no one has fun playing against him. He has yet to win a set of 5 against me. Feelsgoodman

The Almightier All-Rounder

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Wait LK, Sol can't really do well vs the guard point but 2S counterpokes 5h fairly well

3:20 Please someone tell me how to do this ...

About Sol not being able to deal with Leo's guard points: can't he actually do HMC? It'll autoguard the followup and Leo can't jump out of it. I guess if he had meter to Roman Cancel it then it wouldn't be a good idea, but otherwise...

he is just #thatguy

I play Leo like a complete moron but then once they are angry… dust counter

1:45 you can do j.K twice on heavies to make that rejump route very consistent.

Leo is sick, I have no idea why he's one of the lesser played characters considering he's very good and not hard to use. Is it because he's a stance character and people are afraid it will be difficult?

Hey Leo mains, I wanna join the zoo. Do I need to memorize all these combos on dustloop to be able to play this silverback?

fyi on people who want to know, leo's perry is frame one

Leo is definitely top tier. You hate to see it

So when we talking about them low tiers?

Yo can you make more VSav videos?

Why ramlethal is top tier!

Leo 5H is not disjointed

I once saw a guy playing millia with the name leo main and in his r code it said 'leo is a bottom 5 character' now all of the leo doomers can go back to maining their toptier in shame.

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If he is top tier...... Damn, it's me. I'm ass. Buff me Daisuke.

HAHAHA THEY WILL RESPECT LEO NOW...chip am out for you

Why is Potemkin bottom tier

its because hes king of gorillas he got good buttons and you dont have to think too hard to be effective me hit buttons me win match simple

Leo players are the most scrubbiest players ever

I hate him so muchhh . I hope they remove him. 🤡🤡🤡