 How's it going everybody? Datoi here back with some more fantasy strike online matches. Now the last time we featured this game here we were actually focusing exclusively on the all RNG based character Lum and having a ton of fun trying to luck our way into some wins on the game. You guys seem to enjoy that video and I had a really fun time with the game so I thought we could bring it back and actually try to go up against some serious competition this time and try to improve our overall sense of the game. That's why in today's video we are going to be taking our main team into some online matches against a top 100 ranked opponent. Now if you guys enjoy this video definitely make sure to go down below and leave a like and let me know your thoughts on continuing on with more fantasy strike in this sort of ranked match style that we do for fighters every now and again of course. With that said I guess I should go ahead and stop stalling and just say that the person we're going up against is not just any ordinary online player it's actually J.M. Kroves. How you doing man? I'm pretty good don't cast me up too much here or else you know I'll get criticism people like this guy got the master right. I've seen you Grotty you're pretty good at the game. Well I appreciate it thank you. In fact we just got done recording another session of this honest channel the link will be down below if you want to watch another round of us going on at Fantasy Strike but it was pretty good a pretty good match I'm gonna go with Lum here honestly my favorite character in the entire game and he might even be up there on just fighting game characters in general. You know I used to just hate Lum I despised him but I've come around you know he's just got I don't know it's just like a lot of there's a lot of fighting game characters that have luck elements right but Lum feels like it's more than an element like it is the character it is it's it's thematic because sometimes you just get fireworks and you win the round and so I think it makes sense from like a lower perspective that he's since he's obsessed with gambling that's how you play in the game with a big guard crush oh I like that you're this character scare this is the guy that can turn into a dragon right I'm gonna go for her very very scary character another character that does two damage grabs which is right you damage Yomi counter too oh yeah I didn't even know that that is just really cheap to me I love the characters I can do more than am I punished for this okay good jumpable oh I'm gonna jump again you don't mind are you mine see that's cheap cuz I don't know what I should jump there invincible oh that's not invincible it's not throw invincible yeah that was a throw see I didn't even know that okay I have a lot to look out for with this character yeah that one of the things about Midori is that like even though the dragon has like its own moveset a lot of the sort of things that make Midori unique carry over in the dragon so like Midori his throw leaves you standing which is kind of unique and so does it with the dragon and his throw does two damage and so does the dragon's throw is Yomi counter does two damage and same with the dragon so there's like a lot of ways that you can tell it's the same character even though it is pretty different yeah it's mostly for me what was messing it up was that air grab it looked like you were coming down to strike me to just pick me up I was like okay was the air grab is very deceptive all right let's see who we get here I'm hoping that it's not a ah this was the matchup I was hoping it wouldn't be great we got two different types of zoners here hey that's a cool costume to yes this game is very good looking costumes I wouldn't get I wouldn't say the game on base looks super good but if the costumes were like built-in I actually think it would I mean that would that's a lot of work but if they were you can definitely tell that like the base character models were done like years ago yeah I would say they should definitely like recently all right we're gonna do a little bit of wind strats here oh no yeah I can walk through the wind cheap nice far out knocking on that was good patience to wait for the pause this is intense that reach nice whoo so I don't know if this is how fantasy strike players look at this character but I definitely see him as the guile of this game yeah he is time elements to him but he has I was actually gonna mention did you play much Street Fighter 2 not much but I did play Street Fighter 2 so it's like a huge I used to play Chun Lee a lot in Street Fighter 2 like hyper fighting and it's just like a thing in that game that you don't want to trade fireballs with guile because what happens is you trade fireballs and then he slaps you with forward heavy punch yeah and like literally Geiger has the exact same mechanic like yeah it's pretty fireballs with Geiger is bad that's just something I know with guile is that he has a lot of fireballs and if you trade he'll punch you in the face for that that was a nice jump yeah for some reason guile just has long-reaching normals that's mostly what reminded me of him with Geiger is just yeah that punch is like the reverse kick of I think that that's kind of one of the cool things about charge characters is that like they can give them better normals than the rest of the cast because their special moves have that huge downside that you have to charge them and it's the same with Geiger like you don't have to charge but if you walk forward the gear counter resets hit my wind up oh that was rough okay the outstretched arm yeah that was cheap that was not on purpose don't punish okay all right not too much damage though yeah there is the classic damn that is again the jumps are good though nice yeah the jumps are getting these places the fireball game is not the fireball game is getting me punched in the face yeah I think you're figuring out the match up because I would say generally grave needs to be the aggressor against Geiger yeah I definitely don't want to get caught asleep at the wheel here I would much rather play a oh no see now we're getting the second layer Yomi we're just exactly the next level yeah I mean oh no no you're good you're good it's slow I was like he's gonna stick up but now you were ready for the third later Yomi I was it no I was like all right let's just see if I can't get up close and personal yeah the gray is another character that's um who's this uh the slayer yeah this game has a lot of different fighting game I wouldn't see I'm not comfortable saying inspirations but at least they remind me a lot of other characters yeah I think on the one hand like I'm totally open to the criticism of like it's not as you know they didn't use as much creativity coming up with original character concepts I understand that but also at the same time like philosophically the idea of this game right is that like anyone can pick it up and play really fast and it actually does kind of help that you can look and go oh this character plays like Ryu like you can instantly have an idea of what your game plan should be I wouldn't even if I were to criticize this game I wouldn't say that it's too similar because I feel like on its base level it's a very core fighting game like there's not there's not a ton you can go for here like but for the character designs they do have I think it works another one damn okay there's some unique ones too like quince is very unique like I don't really know any characters like that in other games yeah quince is super unique and and lump he has you know he has the Faust item mechanic but other than that yeah lums like was it was that this video in your video where I was like lump is I think it was this one lump is there's a lot of characters with luck elements but lump feels like I don't know if that's gonna count okay did lump is a character that is mostly luck I was oh my god the fireworks I didn't even see the fireworks come out it hadn't hit you that was so sick so yeah Faust has luck elements but I wouldn't say like luck and lumb are hand-in-hand oh my god how does he do it folks another Yomi counter we just keep getting those dude I really got prepared for that next one oh no that's gonna be way early yeah that's another aspect of lumb that I'm very bad at it's trying to actually make that move hit it invincibly like as a reversal it's not really that good of a reversal it's not that good but because it's there I feel like I should use it as one yeah and it's another thing where like you kind of have to get the sixth sense of like are we gonna trade right now am I gonna get beat clean and once you get that sixth sense for it you can you know start using it better but it's hard oh the three-piece don't take that please oh no I needed that I got my krillin sense of being oh nice bait though yeah I'm assuming that's a pretty important role in this matchup that was bad oh no there we go that's what I need to see I'm madder here I think you're gone so yeah I don't know how this is gonna work whoo I don't know how that was gonna work but I'm happy with that I ran I was like this is my only chance you slow they're bomb not a fan to be honest okay what how did that work I'm honestly like so nervous I'm like trying so hard to play well right now oh they got me Panda holding down I tried to kick the panda I don't know if that's gonna be that changes things this really changes things I was yeah I was totally prepared to go over the projectile land on the cherry I'd start to come back from there that really that threw a entire different spin on things oh you were already making the plans oh my god these Yomi counters are too good I love the Yomi got a systems a lot of fun for me all right this is where this is where I would love to see some bombs there they are yeah and the baby lumps I'll just take all this chip I'll survive oh my god oh no no give me the cake that changes things as well I'm failing again you can just lay in a block I think I'm going for that yeah that is there's a lot of recovery honestly I think that's too punishable I feel like you should have been able to get something man well do you know it used to be different I did not know that yeah they they made it really really different in the free-to-play patch basically he used to not do the flash kick he used to just walk and then I thought the flash kick was something you did baked into the super now then yeah I did know that was different than I just assumed you were flash kicking every time no I wish I could not do it but yeah it was like by far the most broken super in the game before and it like made a lot of matchups really hard that was oh my god that's why I'm better at this game the most people my luck is just too good were you were you you were this close to saying you're a better than me and then you know I thought about say that but even as a joke I feel like that was too obviously not true so I just said no no that's why I'm come on that was crazy I mean the comeback is happening right now it's all right let's not let's not go there I don't know if only Mars gonna come it's game point right now that's also another element of this character that I think is super punishable three piece there crazy yeah the only marthes I mean only Mars a character where my ideas are bigger than my technical skills because I would love to be able to consistently do that like right there because you can go over that I'm saying that for the audience but yeah that's a that one I did not think would work I was just getting medium but yeah that would be so sick what's funny is like all my friends and I that like I convinced to play this game we pretty much all went through the same journey where we're like only is sick we all play them on our teams and then we get the diamond rank and it just becomes too hard to win yeah I would I would assume that high level only it must be pretty hard to get moving yeah the fact that all his wake-ups lose to throw is a big problem I really have enough to make up for that in my opinion yeah I'm not even at that level where I've worried about that yeah and I'm there's already like it's tough to get stuff moving yeah he's one of those characters we're like does an auto turnaround come on they should at least give the boy that that would be kind of nice right but yeah like he just kind of I don't think he's like not viable in fact there was an Oni in top eight of anime vote last week but it feels like an uphill battle a lot because you got to struggle to get in nice and then if you get knocked down once you just kind of die yeah I mean he's definitely got a straight like he hits pretty hard yeah and and like all the way for the lower ranks when you're in bronze through gold he's just free wins like everybody just rolls over and gets completely destroyed by him but so far that has been my experience I don't think I even though I would say he's definitely my weakest character just cuz I'm technically pretty bad at the game I learned at least that character he just he works in lower ranks because you just hit the medium button and take like all the help away yeah you're doing good though I don't want to hear the downplay here I'm not like since this is such a like I don't want to that's another thing with like doing I guess is like meta talk but in my in my first video people were like man you you just picked this game up I'm like yes but it's a very fundamental like I've technically been playing fantasy strike for most of my life it's just stuff like the Yomi counter specific jumpable grabs and what's not jumpable like your rook was I would say rook is a very important match but the Yomi counters are on point though I would say Yomi counters I just enjoyed the system a lot like I guess me and grabs just I mean me and grabs have never gotten along let's see jumpable I hate that the game says jumpable so you know that was a normal grab and I tried to jump yeah that's where I struggle with the game is like the fantasy strike exclusive techniques I'm gonna do something a little risky here oh yeah that was risky that was risky all right oh you got me I'll take it oh okay human form human form oh no two health bars and a sweep yeah that's the catch I'm trying to Yomi counter you know after people get thrown there they're like I bet he's gonna throw again I bet he's gonna come back look there it is I'm like so nervous I don't want to lose that's the fun part of Yomi counter is people eventually people just stop trying to grab you oh I thought I had that one too I think I walked back oh that would have been sick oh no not like that what a way to lose yeah the Yomi counter system is very fun to me I would say it's probably my favorite part about the game and it's cool that you get a full meter that's satisfying a full meter like I've health no of super whenever you land a Yomi counter you know you're super I didn't even know that I know yeah see that's the I mean I probably it's not like I probably have played with that since I just looked down I'm like oh I got a bar yeah exactly but yeah if you're in dragon mode as Midori it like fills up the timer oh it's your super bar see that sounds like maybe I should be a Midori man because that he's pretty sick for sure I don't know why I want with this oh god what am I gonna do about these baby Pandas I jump in fear punch the babies no I jumped in figuring I would I would make a play there with the bomb and it said I you just blocked it I got hit by the bomber and let me get that coin you didn't jump oh I'll take the super I guess we're gonna roll with this that's bad so I'm literally not touching my controller right now but see he does rough yeah it was definitely too good before but I'm not sure how they could have nerfed it in a way that wouldn't make it kind of bad because it is kind of bad now but yeah like before if they ever threw a fireball you just get a free two damage partner just walk up and do a two-piece combo oh god I hate these dice I love the dice oh my god point oh you didn't jump but notice how I have the technical skill to call it out that's true you did predict it I think I'm just gonna get blotcher oh yeah that's man I don't I like I really thought that was a great super before like like you said it was probably too good but yeah I thought that was the whole point of the character but seeing that now it's like oh and like to put it in perspective he was like easily the best character before the free-to-play patch and then they he's like got more nerfs than any other character in that patch like and they've made his super so much worse and he's still like most top players consider him like one of the best in the game I was gonna say that when you jumped and I threw a cake at you that was supposed to be a coin I don't know my luck must have been off okay oh no I'm dead no my luck counter my luck my luck was all off that last round glad we got it I feel like long as just getting like free wins here I just can't I just used to think he was so lame but now it's like he needs it he's the epitome of he needs it you know what I mean you know it's just a good character if he does super and then three fireworks and a mini-lum come out I'm just like well he kind of needs it though that ghost is cheap oh that was cheap too what I saw you stated still for a second there yeah I was I was trying to size them up oh the back dash yeah we're out here schmovin I mean he was moving I wasn't sure how many times you were gonna do that nice no two hits though oh my god how did you avoid my counter by missing my button I saw you do the counter that I was like oh nice that is cheap ghost I don't know why I tried to grab you while you were grabbed by the guy yeah I was like oh I guess I'm living that one for a little bit alright fashion oh that's still hit that was cheap nice grab nice grab oh nice the three piece I'm starting to feel oh let's go that was nice that was a good round that was a good round compared to the last two that was an excellent round we went for it whoa I'm getting scared now no that would have been so sick oh oh I really thought that the ghost was gonna grab so did I that's kind of why I hit buttons cuz I was like I gotta get out of here this ghost is gonna mess when I get a ping though can I get a ping no if you counter hit that super does three damage oh oh I'll take that I'll take that couple of ghosts all right we say we developed a counter game plan there I know I'm struggling a little bit here oh now we got a shut down grave yeah strongest character on your team to Graves top tier he feels pretty top tier he feels pretty cheap honestly yeah he's just very easy everything he has is good except for his reversal yeah I would I would say I agree just from the slight time I've had playing I don't know if anyone's informed you of this either but it's like it's kind of like a thing in this game that you know the fact that you have one button DP like to make up for how strong having a one button DP is they make them all have like a big downside so grave his DP it's really slow obviously nice okay that worked Jaina DP damages her for one Geiger DP he can only do if he has charge Onimaru DP loses to throw so like every DP has like one big issue with it I did not know that yeah because like you can't just put Ryu Dragon Punch in this game because it would be way too good on one button you just like DP everything on reaction I'm trying to get like that actually I'm just trying to DP on everything oh that's invincible nice okay okay one to one yeah I guess that's I didn't know that that art I assume art the archer girls who you're talking about yeah I did not know a damage right without knowing that I was like man that's kind of cheap that she has that yeah it takes one health point off I think like in the card game the Yomi card game that these characters are from I think she had a self-damage mechanic and so they brought it in on her DP all right let's see if I can't play a bit of the wind game oh can I get a ping though I hope I didn't hit anything I don't think I had to do it okay okay here's more deep lore I've got all the deep lore about this game so I don't know exactly what the relationship between the gray and quinces but you may have noticed that they share a lot of similarities nice there we just one with it yes they both have an air super that goes to hella far and stuff they both have a back a that's like a ground pound that move but so if the gray counter hits with his air super he gets triple damage right he gets three points instead of one but if quince counter hits with his air super he gets a free meter oh so they're both like very tricky characters who like really want to counter hit you with stuff oh no please tell me that hit oh rough okay another game I was really I was looking for that grounded super I was like we got two bars if that hits we're good all right who's the last character oh no it's Geiger or Geiger well at least we have I feel like I got a decent bit of matchup experience with this character before oh yeah you're yeah you got it you know not to trade fireballs that's all you need see look he's in there oh I like to say Geiger just to make people mad it's like saying pizza I had that same phase with Jiren Jiren Jiren there's a lot of times I just slightly mispronounced it is like an inside joke to just me that was an awkward period of time let's see if I can't oh no it's like when I tell people that you know when I play Ocarina of Time I like to play as Zelda and buy a new sword for Zelda and stuff so wait you're saying that super doesn't even give you the DP like instant you're like you're not fully invincible right away no there's like two frames and then the DP comes out that is true yeah it's only really good for punishing fireballs and you still have to like time it well yeah I was gonna say I threw a fireball right there and it still was a little off yeah that's probably Geiger's only literally like his only downside is that his supers are not good I haven't even done his air super this is the robot yeah the machine not the robot it's just kind of walk away but I am gonna do I'm just gonna leave look it's gone what a good use of my full what an excellent meter user yeah I've been up yeah I would definitely say I'm not as impressed with Geiger's I thought I was but everything else is so good he's got like the best fireball the best reversal he's got incredible normals and supers just suck look I've got a I've got a thing stuck on the air here so I can't throw another one you can see I'm thinking about it I thought maybe I could get a DP out of you okay okay oh no I did not meet a jump right there yikes all right let's see if we can get a final round this is it this is the final round well if you win it's not well I was actually thinking about like I did not realize this like it's been 20 minutes like 25 minutes oh yeah that's true ooh this this this set has been oh what a DP I ain't going out that easy though I'm at least gonna well we didn't do it oh I didn't know I thought saving the bar might be better I don't know if I'm gonna work at that oh I got scared oh you're not dead yet I'm not we still got one hit left but just the miss play potential whoa counter that's it rough what a game that was an intense one that was intense GGs to jade crops of course if you want to see a more footage of us going head-to-head and fantasy strike the link will be down below but man what a set I'm glad we got to play some more of this game like I said before if you want to see some more of it feel free to let me know down below in the comments but I'm good to go I think I think that was my fantasy strike Phil yeah that was sick that was sick thanks man all right thank you for the games and again if you want to go watch that footage over there any last words nope thank you everybody for watching all right take it easy y'all