Baron Samedi

not to be a douchebaggot, but out of curiousity, why doesn't Baiken have her own match-up forum? seems like knowing your opponent is particularly important for Baiken considering guard cancels and what's punishable by whom, etc. edit: because it's kind of hard to sort through this thread to get a lead on particular match-ups. sorry if this is in the wrong spot.

So there's just as many Bridget or I-No players as there are Sol or Jam players? and Hi-C, no, I was just thinking of a post I saw somewhere where someone mentioned that people in the U.S. don't go up against Faust nearly as much as Faust gets played in Japan, and remembered myself a fair number of Fausts over there. But haven't been to any arcades with GG back in US. Thinking that the frequency of characters could be different based on geographical location just based on largescale trends in taste.

What are your suggestions on picking up an alt? I'm mainly playing Baiken right now. I'm having some trouble deciding who else I like, but I feel like I want to get a character that rounds me out and gives me a different fighting style. I'm most attracted to playing Slayer, but my best GG friend is a hardcore Splayer and it seems like a friend of ours we've drawn into the game wants in on Slayer too. Nothing wrong with a GG lair of vampires. But some diversity in our play would be superior. What do you think good complements are for particular characters? If characters are weak in terms of certain match-ups, what are good meshes that make you a more rounded player?

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I apologize if this has somehow been covered; I entirely expected that it would have been but multiple and varied searchings haven't turned much up for me. While it's obviously impossible to conduct some kind of census of all Guilty Gear players, and even more difficult to define precisely the borders between casual at-home/salaryman-after-work-at-the-arcade play, more competitive play, and 'professional' play, there's obviously some sense that some characters - regardless of tier ranking - are simply more popular and oft-played than others. Given that, what would the enlightened denizens of Dustloop consider to be the most popular/frequently played characters in Guilty Gear? I would imagine this would probably have some geographical differentiation (mainly between Japan, the rest of E/SE Asia, and everywhere else, I would guess), and that might complicate matters. Nonetheless, what would you suggest as a 'tier list' for most popular characters? From the paltry little I know - from being a lurker on these forums for a few weeks, watching GG^ videos, and playing in the arcades in Tokyo while I was studying abroad - I feel like it's something like this: S: Jam, Sol, Testament A: HOS, Johnny, Ky, Slayer B: Baiken, Chipp, Eddie, Faust, May, Millia, Potemkin, Venom C: A.B.A., Anji, Axl, Robo-Ky D: Dizzy, Zappa, I-No F: Bridget (don't think I ever played against even ONE) The idea here is at around 'B', it's neither surprising nor tiresome to see that character pop up. At around C, it's a bit of a treat because you don't see those players that much at all. The real black swan here is obviously Johnny as far as tiers go. I felt like he was everywhere in the arcades. Input?