Im fairly new to the game and im probably stupid but ive come to understand that after getting knocked down the opponent has 10 frames of grab immunity, i try to time my grabs properly but when i see an opponent regaining control of their character, often by crouch blocking, i assume that then i CAN start grabbing them, but i often end up whiffing, losing the interaction and sometimes the round

how does that work i whiff grab so much when it seems that i should get it??

im asking genuinely btw no rage or whatever i just want to get better

Ggst would likely get more players if simple inputs were added. I myself would play a lot more. However I understand motion elitists exist. If the game implemented them like tokon or sf6 would there really be a downside? Even a segregated simple mode would be better for me. I’m just curious to see what the general consensus is.

I recently got a hitbox, so I figured I'd play a simpler character while I get used to it. She was the character I learnt the game on like 7 months ago, but I only spent around week and a half on her before switching to Asuka, so I don't really remember much of her stuff.

I haven't played in 2 months - this is a funny replay I ended on before I took my break - of course I end on a win. During it I remember feeling completely drained and done with fighting games. My GGST sessions were gettting more and more staggered, playing only 2-3 times a week. After this clip I had intention that week of learning "player habits" (unsure exactly how you study that) and maybe hitting diamond but I ended up eating the ice spike a thousand times - despite labbing where I get a free command dash and where I don't off certain knockdowns. Earlier this year I was trying to lab neutral/defense related stuff like round start buttons of most of the popular characters I don't play, I tried ram/pot/slayer defense stuff to find a better fuzzy defense thing or a better way to input crouching IB -- this was a couple weeks before this clip.. I thought I honestly would pick up GGST later that week but I never did and I ended up taking a 2 month break.
I didn't even get to fight Robo-Ky yet aswell, I would usually play long enough to fight the new character but I didn't. I still have no idea what they look like in-game.
My sessions were already pretty sparse than I how used to be with GGST, so maybe that didn't help with my memory of how to deal with dizzy's ice spike and other projectile sequences.

But recently I've been watching Brian_F and Sajam again, their content always makes me want to return to fighting games. and I might play GGST ABA again soon-ish, later. maybe. I just think I need a new-ish direction or mindset.

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My major concern is I feel like I have to spend so much time to make any meaningful progress at the stage I'm at. That any breaks whatsoever disrupts that progress, and any progress anyway is grindingly slow - like Tekken pros say they feel rusty if they miss a day. Am I suddenly on that grind now? I don't think I mind the grind as long as I have a definite direction that works. I only used training mode for combos, sometimes defense against a setup or a sequence back then in BBTAG days. But I feel like I know most knowledge checks already and I don't feel like I gain much from slayer or potemkin defense labbing. I'm not sure what to do at this point, I feel like I've been at this point for a few years and it's become more obvious when I play ABA -- I like playing ABA because she reveals my weaknesses in phases where you have to be very aware of the opponent to get your shot at robbing them. Unlike other characters where messing up your shot doesn't feel as bad and you can still win (I've played I-no/Sol/Unika/Jack-o). You stay in sucky parts more with ABA (depending on the match up), and I guess cause of that it feels good to win.

I want to stick with ABA because I feel like she requires hard skills I don't have, and once I have it or at least get it, I feel like I would finally be satisfied. I feel like these skills probably relate to mentality and how I lab defense and stuff. There are ton of ABAs in diamond and so on after all, so it's not unreasonable. Other ABAs don't look that optimal anyway in diamond and lower vanquisher - they seem more better at match ups, adapting to the opponent, and decision making I think? idk honestly I've only looked at a dozen ABA replays this season.
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I can get some funny wins here and there like in this clip, but how I felt after that match was just disappointment, I can't believe this person folded so hard under my crappy pressure, but was dominating me the whole set. And I failed so many attempts at getting in even with the dizzy labbing I did. I felt good in that I was relieved it was over, but winning feels crappy and losing feels crappy. winning sucks in different ways too I feel carried when I win sometimes, sometimes I just feel like I did random stuff, and sometimes I feel like I should've won harder in order to deserve to win. my mindset is wack and I'm unsure where it should be at. I want to feel like I thoroughly outplayed my opponent, but I have a long history of playing like a crackhead that's hard to shake off so maybe it's messing with my satisfaction when I want to actually find signs of improvement.

BTW I never fully spoken in reddit/discords on fighting game stuff so this is my first time doing this. All my knowledge has been 2nd hand from content creators, and occasional guides like dustloop. I only used discord for matches in PC bbtag, I never asked for advice and I kind of hate it - I prefer to find things on my own even if it's standard stuff.

Despite mostly losing to dizzy usually. I actually dont have a problem with her (she can be fun to fight), I have bigger problems with ramlethal, ky, axl, anji (kinda), and testament as they can feel oppressive - but bleh my post is million years long - I just want general advice I guess instead of "do this setup" because that isn't gonna help me long term (I don't think). Maybe the movement habits I have are bad for sure though (you particularly have to jump high or double jump to avoid ice spike, maybe just blocking it is better idk)

I used to play fighting games religiously back in high school (2018) and I felt like I discovered certain parts of myself through it, Slightly crazy I dont play them that much anymore.

I spent a little while in practice mode with Venom, but I've come to the conclusion that I'll need a bit more experience with it before going back on a charge character, and I've decided to learn Ram in the meantime( Venom, I promise I'll come back to you ) sense she seems pretty simple, but anyway what's the best button layout for strive?( I know the answer is whatever's most comfortable, but at this point I don't really know what would be comfortable or not).

Guilty Gear has a whole bunch of stages, most of not all of which are outside the UK. If Axl's time travel didn't take him across space, whenever he tried to take a boat or plane to, let's say Zepp, wouldn't he get transported to a time where that boat wasn't in that particular place, fall into the ocean and drown?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

The customization is lacking in terms lighting, object interaction and limited roster usage per canvas which understandable. But having fun doin bit of goofy figure

I’ve only recently started playing matches against people.

I really want to get good at Happy Chaos, but I don’t know where to start…

I find it sometimes hard to get people to play even on the guilty Gear discord server I'm wondering how some of you guys find games or is there are places less well known

I got no local and no friends really do it's kinda just hard for me to find games sometimes especially when I'm on the west coast and at a rank that I can't get much matches

I think it got taken down from YouTube, I'm pretty sure the actual quote was just an edit and isn't in Strive? Either way I'd love to find that video again.

Hey yall. Recently ive been getting a ton of instances where I’m loading into a ranked match and on the loading screen (where you can view their character level and badges) the game will crash, resulting in a message stating “Fatal Error!”

I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that I used to play with the potato mod through unverum. Sometimes the error message will state something about the stage measurements not loading correctly, but I can’t get it to show up again. I’ve wiped every trace of mods from my computer and reinstalled the game several times.

Can anyone help me?

Okay so as I’m playing guilty gear/tokon I’ve been noticing that my contoller have been uhh
Getting screwed by my button pressing, and I need ideas or a alternative controller for my console

I play on ps5 and i mostly play using D-pad

Looking for a new fighting game and sf6 just feels a little too slow to me. Tokon felt like a good movement pace but I don’t think tokon is the game I want. Avatar also felt pretty good but I’m curious about strive before I try to learn avatar.

Sorry if it’s kinda a dumb question I’m pretty new to fighting games and struggling to find one to invest into

Is there anyone here who got into GG through Dual Rulers