RWA Announcer

WOW, these Dizzy buffs! She's gonna be AWESOME if she gets to keep all of this! Surprised all Ram got was the new moves. Hopefully they're good. They sound like they'll be "Sword Rekkas" of sorts? I'll miss Jump-Cancelable 6P, but Raven seems fine, if not a bit better, thanks to the Super improvements. I-No changes are GREAT, and Elphelt changes sound pretty reasonable. I am a bit concerned about that Health nerf though. (Going to assume she's just been bumped down to Ky/Venom Tier?) but being able to Special Cancel ALL the 5Hs sounds REALLY FUN! I doubt she's dead by any means, but considering she's been nothing but nerfed since she dropped, I can respect people being disappointed, even if she WAS insane when she was first released. All in all this looks really interesting, and at the risk of upsetting a few people, I'm enjoying collecting all of these delicious Millia tears in my bucket right now! Hasn't she been S Tier in literally EVERY Guilty Gear since GGX?

While I'm not really sure why Corey put up a CPEX Combo Video, since it's an outdated game, but I made a post about the recent Christmas Festa Tournament Tokyo Button Mashers held over Christmas. I'd initially thought we'd missed a balance update or something, since the Console characters are in the Arcades now, and those things historically have gone hand-in-hand, but I suppose they're waiting on that for some reason? When we get that, or if there's news at this event in 11 days, I'm sure Woocash or I will get on it. We've made an effort to get a bit more ASW stuff on our site, but there's not much going on right now, compared to SFV or KI that are continuously getting patches and characters added.

Because some of us buy English versions of games and like having the audio in the native language we speak? Like I said, it's not the end of the world, but to ask why someone would want this seems a bit silly, especially when they broke series tradition and did it last time.

As someone who uses English voices in all of his fighters, quite enjoyed the -SIGN- cast and even bought a couple of System Voices, since I could ACTUALLY understand them, I'm certainly a bit disappointed. Especially since I was wondering who might play Jack-O' with her multiple personalities, but as others have said, it's not a deal-breaker by any means, so long as the text is in English, which it will be. I'll just miss having the option for the sake of options. Glad to hear Dizzy's abound midway through her development. I've enjoyed the Valentines, I-No, Milia and Leo, but I'm ready to get my girl back! Hope she'll be worth the wait.

Not exactly how much Celica has improved overall, and I'm no expert on her BBCPEX incarnation by any means, but I find the fact that Ronitta is currently the Top Ranked player in the Japanese Arcades to be pretty telling. She either got ALOT better, there's still some matchup ignorance going around or he's just that good. Kinda surprised to see Nu-13 that low as well. I know she took some big hits from CPEX and Yoshiki's playing Lambda now, but I've seen him and Pinose put in some solid performances with her, and as thrilled as I am at Lambda's improvements, I was hoping they'd be a bit closer in terms of power, so I could play both of them without feeling like I'm wasting time because one of them is significantly better than the other.

The only one I recall seeing is one from Poropichio from March 7th. I assume this is read Right to Left, so Carl, Rachel, Izayoi>Nine and Arakune? Funnily enough he was complaining about Jin's Overdrive being the best in the game now, so what specifically did they do to Frost End this time?

Not to bring a lot of negativity or doom and gloom to the discussion, but talking about the game in my local scene recently, since we've got a couple of Guilty Gear players that want to return or get into it for the first time, one of our players started complaining about the game's balance and noted specifically that Dogura, Goro, Shadow, Dan and a few others have been complaining about the game and declaring it Kusoge on Twitter. Been out of the loop for awhile, so is their truth to this? And if so, what are they saying specifically?

That would be Hohiko, Killey. He's a 10th Dan Ram, and should have more than a few vids in our old Video Thread, assuming that all hasn't been moved over to here yet? Also, do we have Revelator threads yet? I saw Ram put together a nice little win streak against a few players before they fell to a Chipp on Jonio's stream.

Any idea who won the 3V3 to qualify for Arc Revo?

Time to drop some fresh Daiji footage in here, courtesy of Jourdal and Typical East Coast! First up, nearly an hour of Ram vs. Sol! Daiji (Ramlethal) vs. Uki (Sol Badguy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2GXzIiDVM Here are some FT3s between some top Japanese players from Typical East Coast: Daiji (Ramlethal) vs. Susumu (Chipp) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6DvNT10Mk Daiji (Ramlethal) vs. Kedako (May) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wFA-hpjhM Daiji (Ramlethal) vs. Isamu (Venom) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYsRYyMeK_w Daiji (Ramlethal) vs. Sabamiso (Bedman) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yUE1DR6uE Also, FAB (Potemkin) vs. Kakkou (Ramlethal) at 25:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyKu2TiCd4

Here's Alfred's Ram against Sasaki's Zato at 8:49. Mikado Masters GW 2015 - Singles Tournament 5/28/15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1J8JB4FWxE

I got a Nu/Lambda vibe when I first saw her, and I love that the "Ball and Chain" ended up being pumpkins. She's a simple design, she's got the musical references, she's got the Halloween influence, complete with the scary face for a Super/IK, and she'll likely bring something fresh to the table in terms of gameplay. Don't get me wrong, I'll MARK HARD when/if we get Dizzy, but I like that they're trying new things, and I appreciate what Ram, El, Leo and Bedman have brought us, so I'm looking forward to seeing her in action, especially when she's been working behind the scenes for so long. Can't to see I-No's reaction when she inevitably sets her off about something. As for this new mechanic that was mentioned, being able to deal a "Fatal Blow after a successful Blitz" sounds vague but scary to me. I would hope that would come with a decent amount of risk to justify it ending the round, but we'll obviously have to see how it goes this weekend. This might be an odd comparison, but I suppose they're trying to make Blitz Shield the defining mechanic of Xrd, the same you could argue that Overdrive defines BBCP? Also, just noticed the name similarity with I-No. Ha.

At the risk of inadvertently bringing more depression upon us, FAB put out a tier list while he was in Germany, since he disagreed with Ogawa and Sharon. He'll also have placement explanations later this week. S+: Zato-1, Milia S: Elphelt, Faust, Axl A: Sol, Ky, Chipp, Sin B: (in order from strongest to weakest) I-No, May, Venom, Leo, Bedman, Slayer, Rammy C: Potemkin

Oh there were interviews with these lists? Would somebody mind posting those if possible? I'd LOVE to hear what Damosu has to say about Liz and Adachi.

Mdesilva translated some new 2.0 Tier Lists form Damosu and Hina. Damosu: S: Mitsuru, Shadow Mitsuru, Shadow Chie, Shadow Ken A: Ken, Aigis, Adachi, Ken, Akihiko, Yukari, Sho, MINAZUKI, Margaret, Shadow Yosuke B: Chie, Yu, Labrys, Rise, Naoto, Yukiko, Shadow Yukiko, Shadow Junpei, Shadow Teddie C: Yosuke, Teddie, Shadow Labrys, Kanji, Marie, Junpei, Elizabeth. Hina: S: Shadow Mitsuru, Shadow Chie, Shadow Ken A: Aigis, Mitsuru, Shadow Yukari B: Yu, Yukari, Margaret, Naoto, Ken, Yukiko, Sho, MINAZUKI, Rise, Shadow Labrys, Teddie, Shadow Teddie, Shadow Yosuke, Akihiko, Shadow Junpei C: Labrys, Elizabeth, Junpei, Kanji, Marie. https://www.twitter.com/mdesilva_/status/604314556555382784

Since Skylone was asking for Ogawa's newest tier list. S: Sol, Milia, Zato, Axl, Faust, Sin, Elphelt A: Ky, May, Chipp, I-No, Bedman, Leo B: Venom, Slayer, Ramlethal C: Potemkin Also, Japan received the 1.1 update in arcades on March 19th, so they've had it for 9 weeks now. Certainly not enough time to explore EVERYTHING by any means, but long enough that I'd feel calling these lists informed first impressions from these players.

No comprehensive list of balance changes unfortunately, but ASW put up a post on their official site about some odds and ends that were tweaked in the 1.05/1.1 patch, like the handling of old Replay Data, the ability to use Random System Voices, as well as the Hosts of Lobbies now having the ability to disband the room and kick out everyone in one fell swoop, in addition to bug fixes for Zato, May, Pot, Milia and Elphelt. https://www.arcsystemworks/guilty-gear-xrd-update-1.05-details/

Glad to hear she's still mostly intact. Is she still the Oki Queen in 1.1? Because that's pretty much all I care about with her. Also, does the Trance nerf require us to just be more careful while we set it up in the corner, or has she lost some of those chip setups due to the reduced number of hits in the move? Glad to hear that Calvados is DA BESS now though. That's probably the buff I was looking forward to the most. What about the Target Combos? Any new juice with them, since they were buffed considerably?

SRK just confirmed no E.T.A. for America yet, but since EVO's running it, I'm sure we'll see it soon. http://shoryuken.com/2015/05/07/guilty-gear-xrd-sign-gaining-arcade-parity-on-consoles-soon/

For whatever it's worth, I just popped on to ASW's U.S. website and saw nothing about Xrd 1.1. and it's definitely been updated, since they made a post about the Golden Weed PSN sale that recently went on, so this may very well just be for Japan at the moment, even though it's still early in the day, and they've got time to always put something up later on I suppose. Still thought it was worth noting though. There were also full patch notes up for a Chaos Code update, so they definitely do post that type of stuff there in English.

Seems odd this would release so close to Texas Showdown, since it's this weekend. Wonder what they'll do about it?

That's what it seems like unfortunately. Kuni is doing some good stuff with her, and hopefully Daiji will stick around, but a lot of the stronger Ram's have dropped her. and I believe the NCR commentators mentioned that she is currently the LEAST played character in the entire cast as of 1.1, so I don't think we'll be seeing much new tech from her until the patch drops on consoles. Now whether that's a sign that she's weak now, or that Elphelt and Leo are just that crazy, since I think they're the Top 2 most played in the arcades, remains to be seen. I haven't seen any tier lists yet, so I don't think we can fully say where she comparatively stands yet against the rest. From what little I've seen though, I think she's mostly intact.

Here's a quick match of a pink Ram, (unsure on the name,) getting DESTROYED by a Slayer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIZF4Plcmo And here's a video of, I believe, Kuni, putting in some nice work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFUPunk6gYM

Sounds like a good idea, and a lot of character threads did that for BBCP once 1.1 came out. Might I ask where you've seen this footage Arm? I've seen one or two matches on Goldenrody's channel, but not that much. Also, I've only seen Karinchu play Milia, so he may have dropped her. Granted, he's always had a Milia and a Sol, but I think this is the first time I've seen him use her in a 5V5 Mikaido Team Tournament over Ram before IIRC.

Sounds like a good idea, and a lot of character threads did that for BBCP once 1.1 came out. Might I ask where you've seen this footage Arm? I've seen one or two matches on Goldenrody's channel, but not that much. Also, I've only seen Karinchu play Milia, so he may have dropped her. Granted, he's always had a Milia and a Sol, but I think this is the first time I've seen him use her in a 5V5 Mikaido Team Tournament over Ram before IIRC.