Potemkin Buster and its super variant, Heavenly Potemkin Buster are some of the most powerful single moves in the game, biting off entire chunks of your health. UPDATE: Having trouble with Ram? check out our beginner’s guide. They’re not meant to be projectiles you throw out casually, and their absence affects many of her moves, including her aforementioned super. The only downside with Ram is that you have to manage her swords properly. She’s also got one of the best reversal supers in the game, with a fast startup and invulnerability. Her pressure is impeccable, and her exploding swords in the corner are a trap for anyone too eager to get their turn back. They’re not too detrimental, really, but be prepared for the occasional “what do you mean Potemkin can’t airdash?”Īnyone who’s played the previous betas knows Ram is a beast in the right hands. These characters have unique mechanics that are really fun, but usually come with one extra learning requirement. His non-randomized tools are pretty great too, and the satisfaction of landing his wheelchair super is going to be a huge reason to keep new players hooked on it. He’s a character you can just pick to have fun. Thanks to his random item gimmick, new players might be incredibly frustrated that they have just as good a chance of buffing their enemies as they do hurting them.īut in a sense, there’s no preparing for that. I mean, at first I was gonna throw Faust way lower on this list. Your main barrier to Anji will be having the discipline to not mash, because so many of his buttons are really good but even better with disciplined execution. Unlike many of the offense based characters he’s actually a really good pick because many of his tools have little to no downside to them. He has multiple attacks to let him get in without a hitch, while his butterfly setup lets him maintain pressure even after a knockdowns. What does the second Totsugeki chain into, you ask? Why, it’s a third Totsugeki.Īdmittedly, May Fans from Xrd would probably be upset at how they toned down her kit with less setups, and beginners might have some difficulty learning her charge inputs, but it’s definitely worth it.Īnji is another offense character, with some really unique tools that allow him to keep you on the back foot. Even now, during Gulty Gear livestreams chat is constantly memeing her Totsugeki, the attack in which she charges forward with her dolphin that conveniently can be chained into yet another Totsugeki. May has been the terror of the open betas, being an offensive powerhouse with fairly low execution requirements. In the grand scheme of things it’s not like she has any practical downsides, but she certainly lacks the style and flair a lot of the other characters have, despite having a cool ghost dog. That being said she lacks ranged options, and you will have to learn what each of her specials does to get the most mileage out of her. While she’s not too insane by Guilty Gear standards, Giovanna is a good character for newer players thanks to her responsive buttons and relatively safe playstyle.
Much faster than Sol, Giovanna’s whole gimmick is having many great individual moves that chain into each other. Ky also has Sol’s old super, Dragon Install, which triggers when he’s in low health to give him a big performance boost, so you’ll even have a comeback mechanic, although it’s probably best to not become overly reliant on it since the pre-requisite is being in low health.
His fireballs are also way more straightforward than they were in Xrd, no longer using the Grinder to get the big ones out. Similar to Sol, Ky sports a way more balanced moveset, focusing more on being an all-rounder compared to Sol’s rushdown antics. You’ll basically learn all of the Guilty Gear basics with Sol, considering how much of his kit has its own unique situations to shine, and the outright fun of catching people off-guard with Wild Throw. Sol Badguy is an offensive beast with a variety of tools to get in such as the amazingly named Night Raid Vortex and Bandit Bringer, along with his zoning and pressure tools like the fireball Gunflame.
Look, it’s an unspoken rule that if you’re going into a fighting game blind, your best bet is to go with the poster boy. You hit buttons, you’re usually going to be left with an interesting result. Follow is the tier for characters who are totally beginner friendly.