Why I Love: Gill (SFV)
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2024
- A mini video essay on the character Gill in SFV, a unique status effect oriented character who sacrifices core mechanics for his extremely potent debuff-centric gameplay!
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A pretty quick upload if I do say so myself :) No Jimbulus here, and 1 small note I'd like to mention. If there's 1 thing I wish i did a little differently in this one, its that my tone sometimes comes off as negative towards Gill's power level. He IS lower tier, but SFV is a relatively well balanced game and even though Gill is on the weaker end, he's certainly capable of performing well! If you came to the comments to call me a downplayer think of this as my apology lmao
Otherwise, hope you enjoy the video!
I agree
you know, i really appreciate how far fighting game design has gone
a low tier in SFV is like "oh they can do some work, but they just can't force their gameplan as consistently as the high tiers" while a low tier in something like SF3 is 'he just don't feckin' work properly half the time"
It is truly fascinating to see how far fighting games have come, we've gone from low tiers being so poor that winning with them especially in tournament would be so miraculous it'd go down in fgc history to low tiers not necessarily being "bad" just more difficult to do well consistently with which is a massive improvement.
@@the_big_bad_reaper what could they do with the low tiers in 5 to put them better in line with the rest of the cast
@@InTheKitchenWristStirFrybuff them lol
@@ThePersonWhoAsked69420 yeah no sht lol i mean how would you buff each of them individually.
Gill was always my favorite character to play in SFV until Oro dropped, despite him having BY FAR the lowest win rate amongst all the characters I played. Glad to see my boy getting some well-deserved love
Nemo Gill is a work of art 👌
yeah your right
and the 2and gill main muramasa was dope as well
Yep
This is literally the type of video I wish 100 characters had, sometimes I will look up old fighting game characters to see how they work and there is NOTHING! I was ready to binge this series but I saw the previous video was a year ago nooooo!!!!! I loved the video!
i got sfv champion edition during the christmas sale this year and the first character i played was Gill because i was like "Oh he's the villian of Third Strike actually playable" and i fell in love, one of the fastest fighting games for me to find my main.
For me my favorites character in sfv were akira with her air combos it was so cool to launch them in the air and just go wild on them
damn i hope they bring him back for sf6 he looks sick
Can’t forget about the absolutely goated voice acting from Liam O Brian, easily my favorite part about Gill
I only got into street fighter pretty recently via third strike on fightcade, and was curious what gill was like in the only other game he’s in. This is a really cool video! You explained both the character and SFV really well and I can really feel your passion for him. That parry is badass lmao
Gill's absolutely gorgeous. Honestly one of my favorite character designs ever. He's been my favorite since his debut.
I loved watching/playing Gill players. Once they had a groove, I’d be in my head like, “OK how’re you gonna convert this?🤔”
Gill is a character of extremes, which is one of the things that got him stuck with the "low tier" tag. He had to give up a lot in exchange for his big-boy damage: poor confirms off of his 3 frame light (I think the best he can do cLP -> cLP -> Light Lariat, but unfortunately I don't have SF5 currently installed to double check that), his cMK's cancel window being too short to hit confirm (in what was essentially "hit confirming off of your cMK, the game"), no invincible reversal, and in the final season being a character who has to compete for the same living space as Luke.
That being said, when he *does* get a hit despite all the aforementioned shortcomings his opponent does just explode, especially if he's got meter to apply retribution. His parry can also throw a wrench in a lot of characters' frame traps: many of which rely on a 2 frame gap which is large enough for you to parry through and very few of them have a mid/low alternative with the same frame data to force you to guess in a way that doesn't leave them open to you pushing buttons. He also shares his brother Urien's raw lariat into V-Trigger for free plus frames tech.
But none of that is *truly* important. What's important is that you get to do massive, swaggy combos that feel awesome to do in a game that just didn't have that kind of thing until the last 2 seasons.
Great video, always love to hear people talk about their favorite characters (also always glad to see SFV getting some love). One of my favorite details about SFV is how Gill and Alex interact uniquely with the system mechanics to carry a little bit of SFIII with them.
Great video! Gill was also one of my fav characters in SFV. I especially loved his ice vtrigger mixups. Sadly those became a lot less threatening when they introduced vshift, as that's just a get out of jail free card for those situations :(
I'm a Gill main, and I agree, the V-shift did give people a free escape. That's why I started spacing my ice traps after knock down depending on where I thought an opponent may try to shift out. It was hilarious watching them shift on wakeup thinking they were gonna escape the coming trap only to land in the trap.
Glad to see my favorite character and main covered
Great job at the cold shouldah clash! It looked like a tough gig but was a ton of fun to watch!
Very engaging as always, looking forward to the next one :>
I kept seeing your name around back during GGST tourneys since Jack-O' is my favourite FG character and I want to root and believe and in my bros (despite being more so a Xrd player).
But other than playing just Guilty Gear I also got into SFV when 6 wasn't out yet and my main there was Gill. It's incredibly fascinating to me how our taste in character choices can be so similar. That we laser focus on who our mind finds the COOLEST, regardless of gender, regardless of tier lists, regardless of perceived difficulty barrier for learning whether it be floor or ceiling.
Is it the most successful route to take? Probably not. But is it the most fulfilling when your hard work pays off? Absolutely!
"his anti-air damage is bar none the highest in the game", tengu
I love these kinds of videos, fgc members just gushing over shit in the games they absolutely love or a character they find super interesting, it's always the most rewatchable content.
Gill is my favorite character ever since street fighter 3rd strike because I love his gameplay and theme song.
Btw if the opponent get stunned during freeze their life bar gets drained after they get frozen to the ground
Iirc his parry is active on frame 2 not 3
Im 85% sure youre right
Just saw on supercombo:
The first parry has a 2 frame start up, but any successful parry after the first has a 3 frame startup.
Correct, my apologies. I had gotten it mixed up with Gill's fastest mash, c.lp, which is 3f startup IIRC
I don't know which opinon author has about G from SFV but DAMN - i would love to see a similar video about him. This is so interesting to watch
i think this is my favourite video you’ve produced, i would love to see more like it if it was fun to make.
Thanks. Gill is awesome
Gill was hyped up to be a next major Antagonist in SFV's story A Shadow Falls, and despite being eternally gratefup he made it into the game I feel like we never really got the dramatic story we deserved, and SF6 still hasn't either.
Who knows, perhaps something is cooking on a slow burn, much like SFV Zangief V Dhalsim
He was hyped up because canonically SF3 comes right after SFV. He was the next big villain. And since he's still alive, he could return in 6 as well.
Great video!!
More like why I love Eddie
I love that they kinda brought this back with Aki and her poison, it would be a waste of such a cool mechanic.
You know, I've just been getting into SFV and Gill caught my eye. Thought I'd learn some other characters before learning him though because he seems pretty tricky as it stands.
I like the subconscious messaging to make me want to watch infiltration vs fujimura
i wish they put him in to street fighter 6 i love gill
Whilst he’s not my favourite (Seth takes that spot) Gill was insanely fun to just lab around and chill
In general I love when a character FEELS like a boss character if they’re important or powerful in lore, it makes you feel awesome.
gotta look up nemo gill combos. dude is nuts
Seraphic Wing!
Talk about Dazzle from Dota 2.
Maybe Someday Mr. Goblin
@@eddventure6214 foiled again.
SAME!
cool
Now im interested in your thoughts on aki in sf6
❤️💙
Infiltration vs Fujimira at 9:53
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ahhh just wanna comment that his parry was 2f not 3f. It was a pain in the butt to go against
Considering most frame traps in SF5 had a 2 frame gap, that was huge for Gill's ability to defuse pressure. Like, if I'm Juri going for my standard 5MP -> 5MK pressure that's an easy parry window for Gill meaning that I have to instead change the frame trap to 5MP -> 2MK which I get basically nothing off of.
Gill and Alex made SFV for me. If it wasn't for those two, I might've never touched the game.
Late SFV was goated with Rose, Oro, Akira, Seth and a bunch of other characters being so fun until Luke came of course, bruh when are we deleting that disease of a character 😂
what if he was called dill lole
rooflemonger is just a content farming clown, I don't see why you have to change things to accommodate him. Even if the series' names were similar the difference in quality coming from effort + actually knowing what you are talking about would be enough to distinguish yours from his.
Great vid btw, we're revisiting sfv as the sidegame in our weeklies this month and now I'm considering labbing some GIll to surprise the boys.
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I’d argue Oro does more anti air damage
Depends on if V-Trigger is on the table.
Man as much as people shit on sf5 I feel like the characters are what really made the gane interesting.
In my opinion, I find sf6 a not very good/fun game mainly because there are not any cool characters. Dunno if it's a hot take or not 😅
Yeah but he from street fighter 3
We need gill/urien in sf6. The roster is boring.
I agree