The most CHAOTIC fighting game archetype.

just don't get hit you've probably heard this phrase before maybe your friend said it when they were up three stalks against you and while it's technically true and obviously easier said than done there's a certain type of person that literally lives and dies by this phrase they don't care about defense or patience whatever that means they want one thing and one thing only to crush you as fast as humanly possible as the name implies glass cannons are pretty powerful on offense but their defense or health is pretty much the opposite but hey like I said earlier it doesn't matter if you don't get hit right the interesting thing about the glass Cannon archetype is is that the requirements for it are based on attributes and not necessarily play style for example zoners will always excel at hitting their opponents from distance naturally every zoner no matter what fighting game you're playing will have a similar play style they hit you at a distance where you can't hit back and maybe they use projectiles or long normals to do so but the only requirement for glass cannons are to hit hard on offense and be weak on defense or have a small health bar sometimes both this means that glass cannons could look like this this or even this they aren't specifically tied to a play style which is why I like to think think of glass Cannon as a sub archetype so today I want to talk about some of my favorite glass Cannon characters and how different their play Styles can be today's video is sponsored by Royal match Royal match is a free-to-play puzzle game with no ads let me say that again no ads whatsoever you can relax and enjoy over 4,500 levels without any interruptions the game progresses as you help King Robert renovate his castle and sometimes save him from danger if you ever get stuck on a puzzle you can join a team to help you and if you're looking for more of a challenge you can compete in local and Global championships Royal match also has an endless variety of events and different ways to progress through the game it's always engaging so if you're looking to relax and have some fun as well as directly support this Channel download Royal match for free with my link in the description again thank you to them for sponsoring and I hope you guys enjoy the rest of this video Guilty Gear is known for its really unique characters sometimes it feels impossible to categorize them because they can be wildely different from traditional archetypes I mean they have a fighting bed for crying out loud but the series does have a glass Cannon character now you might be thinking of Chip and while he certainly is made of glass he doesn't really have a cannon it's more like a Nerf gun to be honest in my opinion there's another character that fits the description better and that is nagor Yuki Nago is basically a glass cannon on steroids the game describes him as one shot and I think that's pretty accurate if things don't go your way you're dead because of Nag's blood rage mechanic he gets access to special moves at the cost of filling up his blood gauge and I'm talking like really good special moves he gets a Teleport you can spin like a Beyblade and it's neutral and block so you can throw it out whenever you want two hit slash that does a decent amount of damage and a clone that acts like a projectile every bar of blood that fills up increases the speed and power of His normals but at the same time it increases the amount of damage that he takes really amplifying that glass Cannon aspect this becomes even more extreme when he goes into blood rage his health bar completely depletes and his normals become ranged and extremely powerful s of turns into a glass Cannon zoner at that point get away from me lose here slap in the world of platform Fighters glass cannons can kind of benefit from how different the landscape is from traditional Fighters you have way more space to stall out your opponent and when defense isn't on your side it's a pretty nice change to have in brala it's easy to tell right away what archetype the characters are because their stats are displayed directly below them there are six legends that I consider glass cannons because they're a part of what I like to call the two defense Club in braal you can alter any of the four stats by adding a point to it at the cost of removing one from a different stat and since all of these characters have a base of three defense they can have two defense by altering one of the stats let's look at Jiro for example he's not the strongest in the group but adding one point of speed gives him an insane stat line of eight speed seven dexterity and five strength ignoring the two defense that's pretty good essentially making him a glass Cannon Rush down which is kind of ironic because you want to be up close but that also makes you vulnerable and it only takes three Sig to put him into red Health however if you do manage to harness the power of not getting hit you can unlock jro's true potential if you're in the Bala scene I'm sure you've seen some of EXO's videos on how jiro's underrated but before that a pro player by the name of Fason has been pioneering The jom Meta for a while now and the madman even used him in tournaments a couple times in top eight of a tournament he was up three STS to one against one of the hardest hitting Legends in the game but of course when you're a glass Cannon nothing is ever that simple due to the non-existent defense he ended up losing that game and unfortunately the set and that's probably why we don't see much zuro in competition but hey if he didn't get hit things would have been different but Jiro did win the spring championships last year so the potential is definitely there but a glass cannon that you've probably seen a lot in Esports is Jigglypuff Jigglypuff also benefits from the space that platform Fighters give she has really good aerial movement making it easier for her to recover and harder for her opponents to contest her notorious rest move can kill at insanely low percentages but you got to make sure it connects because the range is very small and you're left vulnerable for about 30 frames so if you use the move make sure it kills Jigglypuff heavily relies on a hit and run kind of play style as trading blow for blow with characters isn't viable with low Health this is also why people hate playing against puff because not only are you going for straight hits the whole game it also makes it a lot slower especially if they're just evading the whole time and of course I can't mention this character without mentioning hungry box a prominent Pro player in the smash scene and often regarded as one of the best players he's won a lot of major tournaments with this character and all I got to say is it's never over until the last stock is taken oh oh what oh my God he's he gets the read and he gets the no an hbox what how is he so clut now puff isn't the perfect character but what happens when you give a character a good counter to almost everything well you get Akuma in Street Fighter 5 Akuma virtually had an answer for anything you threw at him we know he's a shto so he's a balanced archetype with a fireball a shukin and a Tatu but on top of that he has multiple Fireballs that can be shot at different angles which is something a zoner would have he has a demon flip that gives him nice mix-up options options and a Teleport he can use at any time and if you decide to spend all your meter anyway you have the choice between his regular super and the Raging demon he has everything you want in a character except for his health he has the lowest health and stun in the game alongside Seth it only really takes three good combos to put him in stun but I mean again does it matter if you just block everything toito has dominated with this character over the years and he's considered to be one of the greatest Street Fighter 5 players of all time at worst he's top two I would also like to see how Akuma would look in Street Fighter 6 too and last but not least maybe the most controversial pick on this list Makoto honestly I contemplated for a while whether she should be on this list just because of how hard it is to categorize her is she a rush down a Grappler maybe something else but I do think you can make the argument for her subtype to be glass Cannon and here's why we know she can steal rounds I mean that's a given both in Street Fighter 4 and especially third strike but with how slow her movement is it forces her to commit to fast attacking moves to keep up the pressure and if those moves don't land it can get ugly in third strike she has the slowest light attacks and a wide hitbox making it it easier for her opponents to juggle her and in Street Fighter 4 she has a total of 950 Health points which is below the average so she has slow movement and low Health but her offense is really good I mean she sounds like a glass Cannon to me but yeah that's my list of glass Cannon characters that I find interesting let me know which character was your favorite or maybe there's one that should have been on this list also who would you remove from the list as always check out my other fighting game videos if you haven't join the Discord to hang out with us and I hope you guys have a great day [Music] peace uh this is kind of awkward the video isn't 8 minutes yet now I'm totally not just trying to lengthen the video but my Discord channel is really dead I want to revive it so badly but I just haven't had time to post or anything like that but I'd really appreciate it if you join there used to be a lot of people and now there's a few of us but we still talk I mean sometimes I just don't want it to be dead anymore okay yeah

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2023