It's sad to see how our boy has fallen. Haven't played Strive in months, and now I'm scared that he's not the Asuka I've grown to love 😔 I'm rooting for you crab to still represent him. I'll be back soon, I'm counting on you to show me the new stuff lol Another edit: Just read both of your community posts, damn another soldier lost sadly. Still, I hope to play you again someday in Strive, and it was really cool to see the Asuka community coming together. Good luck, man, on whatever you decide to do. Appreciate all the clips you've given us all this tim
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This situation sucks. I love Asuka and he has been my secondary for a while now while I've mained Bedman?. With Bedman?'s recent buffs it has been especially hard to find the motivation to play Asuka, which I really wish wasn't the case, he's too cool to be dropped! I'll probably return to him regardless of compensation buffs once I hit celestial on Bedman? though. Again, he's simply too cool to drop.
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Christian Crab
Hello again, there is a small update from the dev team. They hear how people are mostly disappointed with the most recent update and have published a small article, basically saying they will do a small balance patch on December 23rd. I am not expecting Asuka changes but I would love to be proven wrong. Hopefully, someone at Arcsys noticed how most top Asukas dropped him. Here is the announcement if you want to read the full article:
www.guiltygear.com/ggst/en/news/post-2398/
If you are curious about what I have been doing, all I will say is that I am now playing super casually and haven't entered a tournament since my last livestream, nor have I had the motivation to enter a tournament. Still, according to rating update, I am the 4th best Asuka*, and I believe in a few days I will be the 3rd best Asuka*, and a week or so after that, I will be the 2nd best Asuka*. Not because I got better, but simply because a lot of the top Asukas seem to be dropping him. This is due to rating update not counting any profiles if the standard deviation on their rating is greater or equal to 30.
Zando has already stated he has basically abandoned Asuka. Gobou played Asuka recently on the 15th, but that's after a nearly month-long break from Asuka. Druice currently has a standard deviation of 26 and has been playing Johnny way more consistently than the little they play of Asuka. When I talked to Druice and asked if they are still playing Asuka, they said "as of now no, will update you once we get ahold of the patch". Maoking currently has a standard deviation of 15 and hasn't played since December 7th, with the last time they played before that being November 24th. It doesn't look like they are even playing other characters. Again don't forget the huge disclaimer that this is all just a rating update analysis. For all I know, any of the other Asukas I mentioned may just be grinding tournaments and might just be ignoring tower (though I doubt that...)
*Having number 2 next to my name doesn't suddenly make me the second-best Asuka. I still believe Gobou, Zando, and Druice are better Asukas than me, but they just haven't been playing Asuka since the balance patch (the only reason I'm not listing Maoking is because I have never seen any of their gameplay, I just know they have consistently been top ~5 on Asuka in rating update for a long time). I would say OrdinaryMagician and SolarisXT are also either as good or better than me but they haven't played almost any of the new season, however, they both said they plan on playing Asuka still, life has just gotten too busy for them to focus on funny wizard man at the moment.
Unfortunately, this will be a hollow "victory", but it is slightly motivating. If I am really one of the "best" Asukas left then I want to make sure that this character still gets shown off in tournaments, Asuka is just way too cool for people to not see his gameplay. I still haven't fought a lot of the huge problem MU's this patch (Axl, Johnny, Bedman, Sin, I-No, and Chipp), nor have I fought top-level players that really know the MU, BUT I have access to methods to fight these people and character. I just can't promise I will be motivated enough to.
If you read all of this, thank you for still being invested in me, and here is a bonus clip that I recently got. https://youtu.be/Bg8Az_Km7q8
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