My Ram's corner pressure horribly is inefficient and i was having trouble cracking their defense or people were slipping out of my corner pressure all the time. So your tips were super helpful. Using your tips and with some practice hopefully i'll improve my corner game thanks bro
17:38 is one of the reasons why i love Ram , shes such a flexible character and you're able to just freestyle and do whatever you want. I hate being restricted
Stumbled upon this a year later and the information is useful but something that could be added in future guides or w/e is for things like block strings/ combos if (and I dont know if GGST's combo search thing was in the base game) they were in the combo share thing in some way so people like myself who need to visually see the inputs and do them to learn.
Great video! I really like how you illustrated the rps of Ram’s blockstrings. Not enough people resources show that and it’s very important thing to know.
I've been looking for your channel or socials since I saw you in the online tournaments weeks ago. I'm still just a noob to fighting games but I've gotten to floor 10 trying to watch your tournament matches and just trying to copy some of the movement. I'm super excited to find you actually have something like a youtube channel and a full guide! Edit: Do you have any advice for people who notice ram likes to run up and will counter grab you a lot? I've been trying to read them and just do a hop backwards then punish their grab whiff but it still messes my game up a lot.
Usually if someone is doing that you need to keep your offense tighter, use more low hitting attacks or do attacks just outside of throw range. Just out of curiosity, how did you end up finding my socials?
@@SQuirrel147 Thanks! I'll try and have better spacing in the future to avoid being grabbed so much but anyway, I found your socials just by looking at the smash gg user profile and googling your username which kinda led me to some people talking about you in youtube comments and your twitch. Maybe it's because I was specifically looking you up but youtube actually recommended this to me.
You can jump out of the blockstring without FD and the 6P is quite risky to do. What is the best answer for very jumpy opponents? Jump and jab em or air grab?
Thanks for the video bro im a dbfz player with 3000hours and started switched to strive 2weeks ago, playing ram only aswell. I managed to get to celestial/vip after failing the challenge only twice, but im still learning like i was doing wrong corner blockstring/my own versions where i would sometimes fail to pick up the sword, or opponents just jump or dash out, but finally i found a vid which explains easily the best corner blockstring :D subbed and liked
Honestly if they reduce Mortobato's damage, reduce the damage sword toss does to the wall (so it can't give her the mid screen confirms into wall breaks), remove the infinite block string and play a little with her meters (reduced RISC gain primarily) I think that'll be enough for a lot of her most significant issues. The existing tools Ram has work together such that any individual nerf to how they function would severely harm her, and while her corner pressure is amazing that's kind of the point since her options outside of the corner aren't that great outside of her being able to do some relatively nonthreatening pokes. I think that she needs to get less reward and that'll be enough of a nerf to keep her good and closer to the rest of the cast. But in exchange I want Slido to actually be made useful.
@@TheInfiniteDraw Doesn't even need to be in the form of nerfs, but usually it would. Mortobato, as Ram's only reversal, shouldn't be made harder to hit but it does give a massive momentum swing for how much damage it does. I'd say reduce the damage even a little bit to 150 (which would put it in the camp with other reversal supers) or if they really want to make Ram bullyable even go as low as 130, but the range and invincibility shouldn't be touched. The infinite blockstring can be removed by increasing the pushback 6H does on block, and reducing RISC gain is a general means of hitting a character's damage output without needing to significantly defang them. And this is me talking from the perspective of "Ram has to be nerfed" which isn't even necessarily my opinion. She has some really strong stuff that probably is too powerful. Being able to confirm a wallbreak from a properly spaced 5K is a certainly "why is this allowed?" type of thing (though some of the people probably haven't realized that you need it to be properly spaced) and Mortobato feels like Potbuster for how much it swings momentum thanks to the damage. But as a whole I do think that the meta should be given more time to explore how to fight against her before any game changing nerfs come, she's not like Sol where people are finding new broken stuff on a daily basis. When I think of a lot of the nerfs people suggest like gimping Morto's range or making her pokes have hurtboxes on the swords I can only think of how that would be overkill and probably make Ram helpless since she already gets bullied by rushdown so imagine if she were made afraid to cover the space in front of her out of fear of whiff punishes.
@@Zetact_ Nah her swords should have extended hurtboxes on whiff considering there's characters like Nago who are considered better than her that have them. But everything else you said i agree, literally her kit is redundant outside of like 2 specials which is why i feel they should nerf some of her stuff but alter the rest to give them actual use rather than just extra options.
Isn’t it possible for the opponent to throw Ram when she tries to reset her pressure after sword explosion? While labbing and during matches I’ve struggled to get the pressure so frame tight that when I go to restart my pressure again after the H Sword explosion with C.S, I usually get thrown if the opponent tries it.
It depends on how far you need to run up after the explosion happens. In the example in the video it is absolutely not throwable if you do everything fast enough. But the farther you need to run up the less frame advantage you have to work with. If you are really spooked about a throw just do an early 2K or something
I tried to reproduce the inital loop from your video with the dummy but I can throw consistently when he's dashing in (i'm not using FD). Is it due to the new patch or am I too slow when I record the dummy doing dash + cs?
What can Potemkin do against Ram H Sword and then jump back forward air dash S? She can air dash over Flick explosion, beat backward Megafist, auto block heat knuckle and beats Pot's jump P.
Hi! Appreciate the guide. Quick question in regards to the basic blockstring. Isn't it possible for a blocking opponent to throw Ram after the sword explosion and 2k, right as she tries to come up to pick her sword and close slash? I've labbed the string for a while and just can never get the close slash to be a true string after the 236H --> 2k, even at point blank range. Thanks again!
If you are doing it correctly it should not be throwable. You probably need to do things faster than you think you do? It is harder to time correctly the farther away you are so keep that in mind.
The blockstring on 3:26. I think you can get thrown out of it even if they are not FDing. I recorded myself doing it to test if and I could throw that. Is it just hard to time or something?
Hey ISQ - I've been working on my ram (got to celestial in large part due to you and bachiru) and I wanted some of your thoughts on the potemkin matchup. I struggle to get the true block string after sword throw against pot and still pickup the sword without leaving room for or a throwable gap. I either fail to grab the sword or get thrown most of the time; but I don't seem to have this issue with any other character. Is this because of his size or?
When doing that block string is the dash up close slash supposed to hit them mid air or after they land? Idk if I’m doing it right or not bc I never hit them with it midair (even in training)
How do you practice the actual dash up close C btw? I’m having trouble in real matches where I’m either not dashing far enough and I’m not getting my sword, or I’m dashing too far and getting punished by buttons
I don't mean to alarm you, but I think patch 1.10 changes to sword toss is based on this video. You can no longer trade sword explosion with 6p or DP. And they fixed something about the location of the sword after being tossed to the corner (i.e., you may be able to pick it up again after the YRC). That said, please make more videos downplaying Ram.
Thanks for the helpful guide. I do enjoy playing Ram, however I am a Potemkin player, and I was wondering since he doesn't have a dash, can you use hammerfall to get out of the corner just as efficiently as a dash? Does anyone have an answer to that?
Hammerfall does not work. Potemkin can megafist out of the gap between close slash and sword toss however and he can megafist out of the gap between the sword explosion and whatever normal she presses. Hope that helps ^.^
I think the swords should not embed in the wall and then explode on block or hit. That's how Eddie works so idk why the swords are different in that regard. They can trade as projectiles but the fact they give you full combo punishes on trade is kinda ridiculous.
"You can actually dash block out of the pressure here"
Me a nago main: *internal screaming*
Pot main: screaming along
@@srseki cant he just slide head out?
Edit.: Im no pot player.
@@isoito5927 all his moves only has 1 hit armor, Ram following attacks will send him to next stage.
2 years late, but Johnny player screaming
A full comprehensive complete ram guide by you would be godsent
My Ram's corner pressure horribly is inefficient and i was having trouble cracking their defense or people were slipping out of my corner pressure all the time. So your tips were super helpful. Using your tips and with some practice hopefully i'll improve my corner game thanks bro
17:38 is one of the reasons why i love Ram , shes such a flexible character and you're able to just freestyle and do whatever you want. I hate being restricted
sol >
Hoo I've definitely misunderstood ram corner pressure. This was beautiful! Keep up the tournament success!
i needed this just so i can see how to get out :p
I'm not a ram player but I love this as it helps me understand future Ram opponents better In the future, good video
Thanks SQ, loved your Ferry and also your Ram. Keep it up!
now if she gets hit before sword explodes, it no longer explodes, keep that in mind and adjust your strings accordingly.
Thank you, been a fan since you used to play Chie lol good to see you're still around
This was really helpful. I've been having alot of success freestyling Ram but it's about time I learned some setups
God i wished i found this video earlier. Because i was getting smoked by ram, thank you so much!
Stumbled upon this a year later and the information is useful but something that could be added in future guides or w/e is for things like block strings/ combos if (and I dont know if GGST's combo search thing was in the base game) they were in the combo share thing in some way so people like myself who need to visually see the inputs and do them to learn.
Great video! I really like how you illustrated the rps of Ram’s blockstrings. Not enough people resources show that and it’s very important thing to know.
Thank you so much for starting a youtube channel. I have been watching your tournaments recently, keep it up.
This was quite helpful. Glad I came across this link on twitter and came for the full vid.
Great vid. Thanks for putting this together.
Very helpful for both ram and the blocker. Good job keep up the good work.
Damn, exactly what I needed
thank you so much SQ
this is so cool! thank you so much for the helpful guide
Thank you so much for making this!
Amazing guide
excellent video! super helpful for me. also enjoy the animal crossing music as a relaxing background. earned yourself a sub
I'm glad someone commented on the Animal Crossing music lol
@@SQuirrel147 I immediately started digging thru the comments to see if anyone had mentioned the music lol. LOVE the vibe it gives to the video :D
this was awesome. thank you so much for putting this in video form
thank you for this video!
I love you and this so much 😭😭
sword toss can be 6p'd now but instead can just rps
Nice video! Any chance we can get a neutral guide for Ram?
I've been looking for your channel or socials since I saw you in the online tournaments weeks ago. I'm still just a noob to fighting games but I've gotten to floor 10 trying to watch your tournament matches and just trying to copy some of the movement. I'm super excited to find you actually have something like a youtube channel and a full guide!
Edit: Do you have any advice for people who notice ram likes to run up and will counter grab you a lot? I've been trying to read them and just do a hop backwards then punish their grab whiff but it still messes my game up a lot.
Usually if someone is doing that you need to keep your offense tighter, use more low hitting attacks or do attacks just outside of throw range. Just out of curiosity, how did you end up finding my socials?
@@SQuirrel147 Thanks! I'll try and have better spacing in the future to avoid being grabbed so much but anyway, I found your socials just by looking at the smash gg user profile and googling your username which kinda led me to some people talking about you in youtube comments and your twitch. Maybe it's because I was specifically looking you up but youtube actually recommended this to me.
Thanks SQ, this was helpful!
Super helpful video. Thanks!
You can jump out of the blockstring without FD and the 6P is quite risky to do. What is the best answer for very jumpy opponents? Jump and jab em or air grab?
Great video, very instructional!
Great vid SQ.
Trying to get into GGS and this helps!
Great vid, thank you!
amazing!
Let's do this
Thanks for the video bro im a dbfz player with 3000hours and started switched to strive 2weeks ago, playing ram only aswell. I managed to get to celestial/vip after failing the challenge only twice, but im still learning like i was doing wrong corner blockstring/my own versions where i would sometimes fail to pick up the sword, or opponents just jump or dash out, but finally i found a vid which explains easily the best corner blockstring :D subbed and liked
Wonderful content!
thank you for this video
Nice video , keep it up. Cheers
Finally a ram player that doesn’t just tell me “just FD is bro”.
Great work, Lord SQ 👍
I really hope that Ram survive to the next balance patch
Honestly if they reduce Mortobato's damage, reduce the damage sword toss does to the wall (so it can't give her the mid screen confirms into wall breaks), remove the infinite block string and play a little with her meters (reduced RISC gain primarily) I think that'll be enough for a lot of her most significant issues. The existing tools Ram has work together such that any individual nerf to how they function would severely harm her, and while her corner pressure is amazing that's kind of the point since her options outside of the corner aren't that great outside of her being able to do some relatively nonthreatening pokes. I think that she needs to get less reward and that'll be enough of a nerf to keep her good and closer to the rest of the cast.
But in exchange I want Slido to actually be made useful.
@@Zetact_ So basically all they need to do is touch every aspect of her character and make her worse in every way and it should be fine?
@@TheInfiniteDraw Doesn't even need to be in the form of nerfs, but usually it would. Mortobato, as Ram's only reversal, shouldn't be made harder to hit but it does give a massive momentum swing for how much damage it does. I'd say reduce the damage even a little bit to 150 (which would put it in the camp with other reversal supers) or if they really want to make Ram bullyable even go as low as 130, but the range and invincibility shouldn't be touched. The infinite blockstring can be removed by increasing the pushback 6H does on block, and reducing RISC gain is a general means of hitting a character's damage output without needing to significantly defang them.
And this is me talking from the perspective of "Ram has to be nerfed" which isn't even necessarily my opinion. She has some really strong stuff that probably is too powerful. Being able to confirm a wallbreak from a properly spaced 5K is a certainly "why is this allowed?" type of thing (though some of the people probably haven't realized that you need it to be properly spaced) and Mortobato feels like Potbuster for how much it swings momentum thanks to the damage. But as a whole I do think that the meta should be given more time to explore how to fight against her before any game changing nerfs come, she's not like Sol where people are finding new broken stuff on a daily basis. When I think of a lot of the nerfs people suggest like gimping Morto's range or making her pokes have hurtboxes on the swords I can only think of how that would be overkill and probably make Ram helpless since she already gets bullied by rushdown so imagine if she were made afraid to cover the space in front of her out of fear of whiff punishes.
@@Zetact_ Nah her swords should have extended hurtboxes on whiff considering there's characters like Nago who are considered better than her that have them. But everything else you said i agree, literally her kit is redundant outside of like 2 specials which is why i feel they should nerf some of her stuff but alter the rest to give them actual use rather than just extra options.
Isn’t it possible for the opponent to throw Ram when she tries to reset her pressure after sword explosion? While labbing and during matches I’ve struggled to get the pressure so frame tight that when I go to restart my pressure again after the H Sword explosion with C.S, I usually get thrown if the opponent tries it.
Yea its possible but extremely hard/risky
It depends on how far you need to run up after the explosion happens. In the example in the video it is absolutely not throwable if you do everything fast enough. But the farther you need to run up the less frame advantage you have to work with. If you are really spooked about a throw just do an early 2K or something
I tried to reproduce the inital loop from your video with the dummy but I can throw consistently when he's dashing in (i'm not using FD). Is it due to the new patch or am I too slow when I record the dummy doing dash + cs?
Awesome analysis. Now I know why so many top players just get oppressed in the corner by ram.
Good guide, Buff Ram tho
What can Potemkin do against Ram H Sword and then jump back forward air dash S? She can air dash over Flick explosion, beat backward Megafist, auto block heat knuckle and beats Pot's jump P.
Hi! Appreciate the guide. Quick question in regards to the basic blockstring. Isn't it possible for a blocking opponent to throw Ram after the sword explosion and 2k, right as she tries to come up to pick her sword and close slash? I've labbed the string for a while and just can never get the close slash to be a true string after the 236H --> 2k, even at point blank range. Thanks again!
If you are doing it correctly it should not be throwable. You probably need to do things faster than you think you do? It is harder to time correctly the farther away you are so keep that in mind.
The blockstring on 3:26. I think you can get thrown out of it even if they are not FDing. I recorded myself doing it to test if and I could throw that. Is it just hard to time or something?
I'm getting déjà vu
Hey ISQ - I've been working on my ram (got to celestial in large part due to you and bachiru) and I wanted some of your thoughts on the potemkin matchup. I struggle to get the true block string after sword throw against pot and still pickup the sword without leaving room for or a throwable gap. I either fail to grab the sword or get thrown most of the time; but I don't seem to have this issue with any other character. Is this because of his size or?
When doing that block string is the dash up close slash supposed to hit them mid air or after they land? Idk if I’m doing it right or not bc I never hit them with it midair (even in training)
How do you practice the actual dash up close C btw? I’m having trouble in real matches where I’m either not dashing far enough and I’m not getting my sword, or I’m dashing too far and getting punished by buttons
I don't mean to alarm you, but I think patch 1.10 changes to sword toss is based on this video. You can no longer trade sword explosion with 6p or DP. And they fixed something about the location of the sword after being tossed to the corner (i.e., you may be able to pick it up again after the YRC). That said, please make more videos downplaying Ram.
Thanks for the helpful guide. I do enjoy playing Ram, however I am a Potemkin player, and I was wondering since he doesn't have a dash, can you use hammerfall to get out of the corner just as efficiently as a dash? Does anyone have an answer to that?
Hammerfall does not work. Potemkin can megafist out of the gap between close slash and sword toss however and he can megafist out of the gap between the sword explosion and whatever normal she presses. Hope that helps ^.^
Thanks!
How do you play neutral with Ram?
I think the swords should not embed in the wall and then explode on block or hit. That's how Eddie works so idk why the swords are different in that regard. They can trade as projectiles but the fact they give you full combo punishes on trade is kinda ridiculous.
+ sub please do more content champ ! love u girl
This one’s for the algorithm
play gio.
0 dislike i had to put one cause only god is perfect ! , great video sq
Rams just an ape
this video was OD
Garbage character along with Sol, play Ram or Sol if you suck and need a crutch to win
That is a horrible take
@@ThePlasticBowl The character is kinda braindead imo but even i agree this is a bad take tho too.
Sounds like you hate Guilty Gear but choose to play it in order to complain about it. Sounds like a crappy hobby.
Great video!