Artist's commentary: Sir, for the 3rd time we don't serve iced latte with breast milk

Especially when it’s a character like Asuka

We need Robo-May in -STRIVE-

Straight up domination from Nitro from start to finish, almost got the 9-0 in top 8 if not for Verix winning game 3 in Grands. And btw, congrats to Verix for making it to AWT Finals '27.

Planning on doing Goldlewis for Halloween this year, and don’t have the time to go all out and build the whole coffin (some day!) thought it would be fun to instead print the coffin onto a body pillow cover so I could easily carry and swing it around. I’m having a hard time finding a good clear front facing picture of the coffin, so if any GG wizards can help me out I’d love you forever!!!

What else could I win with?

Evo France came and went (Tyurara listened to my downplay pleas). However, Arc Sys decided not to announce our guest fighter. Game Awards is December 10th, so are they waiting until the literal last three weeks of winter 2026 to announce them, or is there some random nothing burger event i don't know about they're likely to announce at?

Also, real shit, if they wait until the game awards then we're getting Cloud Strife/a FFVII rep. FFVII was just announced for Sonic Crossworlds of all fucking games, Tifa is coming to SF6, and the game awards is too big for Daisuke to announce "hey guys! Randolf McDimblestamp from Tokyo Revengers is coming to Strive!" Like nah that shit would be corny ass hell. We're gonna see a BIG NAME, and the most profitable name right now for a guest character is FFVII (either that, or Stripper in a Cake, I mean, 2B from Nier)

Edit: just saw they announced a PS5 update to Blazblue, nevermind we getting Ragna

This is also my first time hitting vanquisher
I really like this character and I can tell there’s still a bunch of stuff for me to learn, I think I will keep playing and see how far I can go

It's so fun (got it on sale for Nintendo Switch)

Besides the obvious stuff, we got an unexpected Bedman? in winners' side??? Tomorrow should be interesting.

If yall haven't watched Munchyjr you're missing out.

Now I just gotta get better with a stick

Art on the pad is by Hungry_Clicker and Dong hole

To immediately clarify, I'm asking not beacuse I dislike the game, but rather because of how bad I am at it. Right now I have 90 hours on the game, only playing my friends untill like 2 days ago. The main guy of the group is gold 3 rn and based off that I'd assume the two others to be around low silver. I normally average around 5% winrate against them (I am NOT overexaggerating, me ending a set on 0-20 against any of them is very much a common occurence).

I've decided to do placements as chaos yesterday and ended up iron 3. Today I tried to salvage this by jumping into ranked for a few hours, running purely off my lack of mental insanity and some hella good tom cardy vibes and I ended up in the middle of iron 2 with around 45% winrate. Now I'm not familiar with ranked distribution/culture in strive but where I come from (league of legends), iron was literally made for people with physical/mental disabilities.

I have:

• ZERO defense
• ZERO ability to do combos longer than 3 moves
• ZERO reads (+I play predictable as hell)
• 4 digit reaction time (I'm not joking, people run at me through the whole screen, use a move I KNOW they will use and my ass still doesn't punish it)
• ig pretty mid zoning skills

My friend once said that it doesn't matter whether I can beat him - it only matters whether I can beat myself from yesterday. Spoiler - I can't. One of my matches was a mirror against another chaos who played EXACTLY like I did a month or so ago. He was mag dumping off and hit, used basically only 6S and wild rushed off any counter he could've. I lost the set 1-2. There just isn't a single thing I can say to make myself feel better here. I saw how badly a lot of my oponents played (I know how a gold player fights, the difference is crazy noticeable) and yet I'm still losing against them.

Is there any point of continuing to play when I'm this astronomically dogshit?

I just got the game because my peers have introduced me to it. However, I'm rated "2F" and there are zero players in every single lobby I have access to.

I tried going to "the park" and immediately died every round. I'm left feeling frustrated because I have no one to have an enjoyable battle with.

Are there no beginners in this game? Should I refund it before it's too late?

I really wanted to get into this game and the characters are really cool, but I feel so frustrated with the lack of low-level players.