At least Xrd’s Slayer was slow as fuck in neutral, and ate shit against all rounded characters like Ky or Sin. Now that everybody else is just as slow (even goddamn Chipp is closer to Slayer than himself from XX/Xrd), Slayer feels even more ridicolous.
@@whitestripe484 Though Strive Slayer is also the slowest he's ever been, lacking both BDC Mappa and Footloose Journey to close the gap. He can't dashblock. All he can really do is either walk at you or commit to a Mappa or airdash in, pretty much. Not like he's helpless in neutral, but it's definitely one of his most glaring weaknesses against characters that outrange him. That and his defense. Neither of which matters if he actually hits you, of course.
@@whitestripe484 Slayers high damage made more sense in Xrd. He had to actually fish for those counterhits otherwise his combos were limited. Strive Slayer doesn't even need to fish for counter hits, he gets rewarded regardless.
Damn right, now we just need to get rid of all the weirdos. Perfect roster is Sol, Nago, May, Aba, Leo, Pot, Goldlewis, and Slayer. Maybe bedman can stay too for reparations. +Sin
Honestly I don't think constantly jumping against slayer is that bad of an idea, considering his ground game is a bit uhh, absurd as I call it, while his 6P isnt as busted as previous iterations
@@Kitikiriithat is a risk, but only if they can position themselves under you to threaten that. The way Hotashi is doing it with Bridget is pretty safe and makes trying to 6P her iffy.
The peoples need a slayer counterplay video. Pls i beg you i keep on blocking master hammer but i cant interupt it Please slayer is litterally pressuring me as we speak, i might die at any t...
try jumpin masters hammer on reaction it comes out a lot slower than the other follow ups so as long as you're not stuck in block stun you can jump it and punish
you can jump master's hammer and low, jump loses to pilebunker and gets air guardcrushed by overhead (basically back to square 1) usually i try to just pay attention to whatever the slayer is picking and either jump or block overhead, though this is an admittedly oversimplified guide to dealing with slayer its worked for me well since 99% of his player base do not have the brain cells to use all of the tools at their disposal
People are really desperate to pretend slayers isn’t nuts, the amount of white knighting for a video game character in some of these comments are wild.
Yea they really gotta tone it down. He’s like goldlewis but if you gave goldlewis the speed of a character like sol. He, even more then goldlewis, just has too much damage. He will get 1 confim and that will literally just kill your entire hp bar. Not to mention he also has the 100% tension super that just kills you
This might be controversial but i actually think that those two things need to stay, they're absolutely the most integral part of slayer. What i think needs to be toned down is the stupid reward on k mappa hitting. That shit used to be like +0 ON HIT why does it give a knockdown and so much corner carry, it makes his neutral too good for what he does.
Im finally able to play fighting games again after having too shit a connection for awhile and I really am not having any fun with strives current balance. The damage is still just too damn high you just have no time to actually play the game you just explode instantly from most characters basic combos
being a rampant xrd player allows me to watch strive players suffer from afar, it's absolutely wondrous to see what gets dropped on them each new patch
Balance aside I love how his 2H is a mirror of Nago’s DP. One is a low crush, the other is a low profile, one is an overhead the other is a low, one is a normal and the other is a special… Just love the design parallels like that
Gonna tell you why Hotashi,Slayer wanted to be in this game back in 2021 LMAO but Daisake kept putting him on the backburn/sidelines,now hes gonna make his own highlights.
@@sandwichxiiidl 2P beats all 4 follow ups. PB hits before you press it so you just block PB and combo him. They can delay too but it's a decent option. After lvl 4 whiff a 20-22 total button (5K or smth) into grab, it beats everything except pb (you get CHd)
Nope, I personally think slayer is fun as hell to watch, Bigg Damage and Pliebunker loop will always be fun to watch, also there's a lot of weird counter you can pull out with dandy step cross up, also pro play in ggst can't be any worse than femboy meta, where everyone just cube spamming and who ever get to have 50% bar first basically win the game.
Are you kidding? Slayer is the most honest character on the roster: he is 100% up-front about wanting to make it quick so he can get back to his wife and laying all the damage out toward that goal.
@@metalllich3493 High HP high damage gorilla with low execution. Maybe honest if you compare to the top tiers, not terribly honest compared to like, Ragna or Jin.
The "guess I'll die" against slayer when you're in a combo is the realest thing ever
Real "sure would be a shame if you don't block this mixup" energy.
> "Man, Strive damage is way too high it doesn't feel good"
> "Yo can we get Slayer in the game"
We literally fuckin warned all the new players who asked for him. We warned them about this being his normal, but none of them listened
At least Xrd’s Slayer was slow as fuck in neutral, and ate shit against all rounded characters like Ky or Sin. Now that everybody else is just as slow (even goddamn Chipp is closer to Slayer than himself from XX/Xrd), Slayer feels even more ridicolous.
@@whitestripe484 Though Strive Slayer is also the slowest he's ever been, lacking both BDC Mappa and Footloose Journey to close the gap. He can't dashblock. All he can really do is either walk at you or commit to a Mappa or airdash in, pretty much. Not like he's helpless in neutral, but it's definitely one of his most glaring weaknesses against characters that outrange him. That and his defense.
Neither of which matters if he actually hits you, of course.
@@whitestripe484 Slayers high damage made more sense in Xrd. He had to actually fish for those counterhits otherwise his combos were limited. Strive Slayer doesn't even need to fish for counter hits, he gets rewarded regardless.
@freshlymemed5680 Proof that people with say anything to justify high damage as long as it's not Strive.
What Strive REALLY needed was another absurdly high damage brawler fr fr
Damn right, now we just need to get rid of all the weirdos. Perfect roster is Sol, Nago, May, Aba, Leo, Pot, Goldlewis, and Slayer. Maybe bedman can stay too for reparations.
+Sin
@@evilded2 throw Anji in too
@@evilded2 please stop torturing us...let us go
Sex with man
@@evilded2Jam
slayer is the ghost of s1 sol come back to haunt the strive playerbase
i can't believe how much stupid bullshit this character lets me get away with
Talking as if sol doesnt still let you get away with the stupidest bullshit
7:01 That seems like how we gotta play it, I swear people in strive are determined to run full speed directly to their death.
Honestly I don't think constantly jumping against slayer is that bad of an idea, considering his ground game is a bit uhh, absurd as I call it, while his 6P isnt as busted as previous iterations
Well, if you jumps mappa punches, Slayer just spams c.S or f.S and hits a 3 hit combo that blows 60% of your HP, so jumping is not the best option
@@Kitikiriithat is a risk, but only if they can position themselves under you to threaten that. The way Hotashi is doing it with Bridget is pretty safe and makes trying to 6P her iffy.
The peoples need a slayer counterplay video.
Pls i beg you i keep on blocking master hammer but i cant interupt it
Please slayer is litterally pressuring me as we speak, i might die at any t...
try jumpin masters hammer on reaction
it comes out a lot slower than the other follow ups so as long as you're not stuck in block stun you can jump it and punish
you can jump master's hammer and low, jump loses to pilebunker and gets air guardcrushed by overhead (basically back to square 1)
usually i try to just pay attention to whatever the slayer is picking and either jump or block overhead, though this is an admittedly oversimplified guide to dealing with slayer its worked for me well since 99% of his player base do not have the brain cells to use all of the tools at their disposal
You can also grab master’s hammer on reaction, as it’s grounded 1 frame before it’s active. So you grab them right before it hits you.
RIP
If you do the thing (punish) and you do it right, and you don't fuck it up, it works. It just works.
Average 8 way mix pixie fan vs Average 1 shot enjoyer
8:40 actually sick
remember guys. if Slayer has universe and u block 2s, you either get grabbed or you get counter hit 5H and take 250 damage
just fuzzyblock lol
Or you FD and neither of those options are a threat
Actual skill issue if you take the damage.
Shrimp issue
Slayer preys on strive player habits. I’m here for it. 10/10 design
People are really desperate to pretend slayers isn’t nuts, the amount of white knighting for a video game character in some of these comments are wild.
What character you are playing?
Strive totally needed another brawler with insane dps
Love the layout of this videos editing, new character matches, issue recognised, lab with results is so satisfying
If slayer stays popular in the tower I think I will sincerely switch to a dp character
Why's slayer have Milia Mix with Pot Damage?
NGL love slayers addition but that is alot of damage
Yea they really gotta tone it down. He’s like goldlewis but if you gave goldlewis the speed of a character like sol. He, even more then goldlewis, just has too much damage. He will get 1 confim and that will literally just kill your entire hp bar. Not to mention he also has the 100% tension super that just kills you
This might be controversial but i actually think that those two things need to stay, they're absolutely the most integral part of slayer. What i think needs to be toned down is the stupid reward on k mappa hitting. That shit used to be like +0 ON HIT why does it give a knockdown and so much corner carry, it makes his neutral too good for what he does.
@@SirTriton lore accurate Slayer confirmed
@@enclavehere4705 nerf neutral(mappa punch), keep the rest as is
@@NeroWolf42 yea he kinda is 🤣. Unfortunately its part of his character that he does too much damage
Your laugh be killin me bruh💀
A menace to asuka and society
Hotashi you silly goose
The caught emote really caught me off guard and I laughed out loud
6:45
When Slayer stomps the yard.
“Try Goldlewis” 😭
I see a pilebunker damage scaling nerf in the future, potentially a slight damage reduction as well to account for bunker loops
I've watched this video to many times. This is Hotashi at his finest.
I love seeing slayers use the jump cancel during neutral, it's pretty sick
Spark Mandrill enjoyer.
I've been waiting 3 years for Slayer, you can all hold that
You should've been waiting for longer bro
you should be waiting until strive 2 comes, like jam players will be
Damn skippy LMAO The Dandyism has arrived!
Im finally able to play fighting games again after having too shit a connection for awhile and I really am not having any fun with strives current balance. The damage is still just too damn high you just have no time to actually play the game you just explode instantly from most characters basic combos
10/10 editing, love it
As Gio the roundstart against Slayer is so fuced up, at least I think so
"You can beat far slashes with that shit", I as a faust player, know this too well. (I don't know any other character's f.s because I only play faust)
beatsinmyheaddd
when infamous nago player calling anyone coward
go hug hc
got my grub on but didnt pig out
Slayer is such a hit, definitely the most fun character they have added since season 1.
being a rampant xrd player allows me to watch strive players suffer from afar, it's absolutely wondrous to see what gets dropped on them each new patch
whats the song name?
also seeing your reaction at getting deleted cracks me up everytime
"OH YOUR SO RIGHT-"
slayer’s mere existence is reason #2325 on why May isnt top tier anymore
I've been waiting for Slayer since the announcement of this game, you all need to put your finger energy into holding down/back and these Ls.
Hi friend, what is this game called?
0:31
I wanna use this for a soundboard lol
>Plays Bridget
>Why Slayer damage so high?
Buddy...
that's what i'm saying
Conveniently ignoring that Slayer damage is always high, this isn’t a Bridge issue, it’s a Slayer issue.
honest character, either wins in two interaction or loses in three. just guess the literally 3f mixup KEK
DAMAGE!?
Balance aside I love how his 2H is a mirror of Nago’s DP. One is a low crush, the other is a low profile, one is an overhead the other is a low, one is a normal and the other is a special…
Just love the design parallels like that
I would say Nago's 2H would be the more literal mirror, but i wouldn't be able to include as much dialogue.
except that Slayer had that 2H for years and Nago only released in strive
Gonna tell you why Hotashi,Slayer wanted to be in this game back in 2021 LMAO but Daisake kept putting him on the backburn/sidelines,now hes gonna make his own highlights.
what dem beats :o on 2:00?
What's the song playing at 0:42 tho?
Beats in my head. SF 3rd strike.
@@lojika1majik thanks!
Did they really need to make him have a mix up game when he deletes half the health of 90% of the cast off of 1 hit?
It's fake though? You can jab everything except the hammer, and you recover in time to throw the hammer.
@@Pandaman64what? Pretty sure hammer is the only one you can jab
@@sandwichxiiidl 2P beats all 4 follow ups. PB hits before you press it so you just block PB and combo him. They can delay too but it's a decent option. After lvl 4 whiff a 20-22 total button (5K or smth) into grab, it beats everything except pb (you get CHd)
@@sandwichxiii Please don't spread misinformation.
❤
lol
bridget gets to play _that_ lame AND have a DP? damn
I play pot and it just a game of who can get two combos off against this guy
Honestly, hold them Ls bridget player
Will competitive play be unfun to watch if slayer remains like this?
there's no evidence hes hard meta so I dont think its a problem. hes good but unproven, a lot of characters in gg are very strong
Nope, I personally think slayer is fun as hell to watch, Bigg Damage and Pliebunker loop will always be fun to watch, also there's a lot of weird counter you can pull out with dandy step cross up, also pro play in ggst can't be any worse than femboy meta, where everyone just cube spamming and who ever get to have 50% bar first basically win the game.
Money is on slayer going the way of ramlethal. Supposedly busted but never wins a major.
@@Pandaman64 I agree. he can look really scary in clips but a lot of characters have a lot more complete kits than him imo
@@Pandaman64 proof Slayer/Ram players are carried /s dont crucify me
For the crime of playing Bridget all damage you took was 100% deserved
Lol at the first guy, got gapped while playing a carried ass character and still talked shit
did you even watch the video? the first guy did some stupid shit for the memes and jokingly said "coward" when he lost
@@Vazuzzu Ah, I didn't realize those were ironic pilebunkers 😐
Slayer is cringe af
fame has spent 0 seconds of his life on an honest character, unsurprised to see him on slayer
Are you kidding? Slayer is the most honest character on the roster: he is 100% up-front about wanting to make it quick so he can get back to his wife and laying all the damage out toward that goal.
You must be one of those mfs that say someone like ky is 'honest', at this point what is even a honest character?
What's wrong with Susan in Blazblue?
@@metalllich3493 High HP high damage gorilla with low execution. Maybe honest if you compare to the top tiers, not terribly honest compared to like, Ragna or Jin.
@@lane9668 Both Ragna and Jin are kinda better, though
learn the matchup