Why You Are Wrong About May Guilty Gear

no special note this time besides pls subscribe i feel a silver play button in my future so PLEASE uwu edit - there are a lot of comments already, so instead of replying to a lot of people individually, I'll address a lot of the common replies here and leave it for now 1) "something something Slash is the only person who does well with the char" -she has more results from earlier versions -just because a char is good doesn't mean they will necessarily have a lot of results. Right now GL and Sin are considered S tier, and GL players miss top 8 at major/super major events often, main one he has off the top of my head are EVO Japan and CEOtaku 23. alternatively, chars that are "bad" get good results too, it's the nature of tournament since the balance is OK 2) using 5k vs jackO is cherry picking neutral interactions -this is just one of the more famous ones, there's more + some her shit just wins into death 3) using super rc for defense and comparing to dp rc is silly and bad -i go out of my way to mention that it costs 100 meter -you are trolling if you think it's not good -it is undeniable it's one of the better 100 meter options -this here was also to add that she is one of the only chars that has reversal > 50/50 in a safe way -i fucked up here, but the point was that she pretty much has the best defense out of any char that does not have a meterless reversal 4) she's less fun -has nothing to do with how good she is shoutouts to the May defense force, y'all are the only reason I haven't been playing her for a year straight lol. it's ok for her to be top tier and she is definitely not one of the villains, please accept her being good and thank you :) finally this video is approved by slash

May Guilty Gear, her legal name.

at this point it feels like its guaranteed that arcsys is gonna rework may every season, its gonna look like a nerf, and then slash will figure out a way to keep winning tournaments anyway

slash is so good at using all of these crazy strong parts of her kit

TOTSUGEKI IRUGATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I've always loved how you make the top-level thought process and more nebulous concepts easy to understand for players of any skill level, you're really good at breaking down complex things into little bite-sized chunks and connecting the dots so people can understand the bigger picture. Keep up the great work! :)

I always thought it was weird that May didn’t have blue wild assault, seeing as she’s a character who gets rewarded for her plus frame guessing game and has a pretty useful command grab

I'm not sure if this is a hot take but I've been playing May since season 1 and her current version in Season 3 is probably my second favorite version of her to play in Strive. Season 2.5 was probably my overall favorite (I miss those CH 5K > 6H > Up Dolphin combos) but I've still been having fun with her in season 3 especially after they made the input buffer for split/stop more generous. It just took some time and effort to get adjusted to her in season 3 because they drastically changed how she played. I do agree that some May players have been overly dramatic about her changes throughout the course of the game but to be fair ArcSys patch notes have a weird way of making May nerfs look waaayyyy worse on paper than they actually are in practice. I remember when the first season 3 patch with Johnny dropped I saw several people who don't even play May cheering for her nerfs and claiming she's basically trash now. This started to change when dedicated May players started to figure out how to work with her new kit.

great vid, i feel like this really helped me understand what this character wants to do. the s dolphin on block into 5p to counterhit sol 2p was an eye opening moment. i feel like this even serves as a pretty good character overview for people who might be interested in picking her up!

A big thing about May changes since release is that they tend to be pretty substantial, Dolphin went from being a default range to you having to hold down S or H to travel full distance to now where its full range but you have press a button to cancel it. Her 3K used to be a hard knockdown and 6H used to always ground bounce and now S Dolphin is more negative than ever. Everytime a big change like this happens, more and more of the non-dedicated May players probably drop her.

Hey lk! Been a big fan since i saw you play mitsuru vs bananaken in side evo finals. It got me into persona and one of the better margs in the community thx to you. I know persona isnt popular but it would be super cool if you made a marg video going over how you invented the j22c oki and more. After watching your match vs grover recently (although it does suck that grover got the runback win), im sure it would be interesting if you ever do make another persona video

I would rather have season 2 may back with half the damage than this new may I don't like her new play style and I HATE 6H not launching Don't think I am alone in this opinion either

Tempest is thanking God every day for the fact Dunkey retired from competitive Strive early. Best May in the universe.

I love ♥playing ⚓May 🐬(her mobility buttons and dmg are so nice). What characters play like May (SF6, TK8, GBVSR, Uni, Melty, BBCF...)?

Playing as Asuka against her in mid floor is such a torture, I can never guess what she gonna use. Her and Elphelt are the two characters I can never really win against

On burstbait, do you think one char being considerably better than another at baiting burst is a bad thing? And thanks for the May update.

Good video may is obviously very strong and her weaknesses are pretty minimal yet shes common in casual play but uncommon in competitive kinda reminds me of a certain flag user

I want to point out, especially on the loss of May players, since this is a thing me and a bunch of other May players (Pluto and Corey especially) experienced. She's been reworked fundamentally 2.5 times (Jacko patch could be argued as her changing with intro of TOD May era until that got taken away). They changed dolphin extensively in Season 2, which a lot of players adapted to and had fun with, the pseudo negative edge version. With Season 3, they deleted almost all her whiff routes from Season 2, while adding in the tough, new ones off 5H counterhit, as well as a major nerf to her other launcher in 6H. With Season 3 reworking dolphin and adding one of the biggest single move frame data changes (both horizontal dolphins got 9 more frames of whiff recovery), combined with Wild Assault being added, just made a lot of players not have fun with her. She got reworked into something entirely different, on top of being years of constant, unfiltered hate. There have been times I or other May players have just been subject to being hated by people for only our character, and has been so bad that even Yurikov had to step in one time (when he had #1 May hater in his bio) to tell people to chill with it. It's why the talent drain is going to happen again with Slayer and unless she gets a 3rd rework or given an actual new move to allow balancing her without nerfing her launchers again, it will just get worse. Arcsys also has this really bad habit about making a giant change to May that looks awful when you read the notes, and then changes later on

please LK you need to buy a mic that doesn't register your stick sound its so loud... :') (well maybe its just a me problem)

Great video. It will never stop amazing me that despite how easy (and fun) charge characters are to play, so many people just can't hang with them. Even I-no's hover dash scares people off come to think of it, I was scared off from that too for a while so I guess I can understand. But they are both so much fun to play with once you're used to them.