Well, that and the choreography of the move finally is actually readable and easy to understand. Before strive, every one has him just go upside down and not move. It's not clear what's going on. And Xrd has the camera flail around in a way that makes it hard to read. It was always a very simple move concept made so horrendously overcomplicated. Strive just made the motions clean, simple and easy to read, while adding a lot of theatrics to it. 10/10 super.
The one from STRIVE is the best one by far. Not because of the animations but because it also makes sense compared to the other ones. He actually uses the rockets from his gauntlets to rise above the skies and fall on the breaker.
@@cheeseistaken still looks nonsense. I mean, it gives the impression he's jumping "on the roof", but WTF would he be able to do that in an open skies stage, like Japan, for example? That's why I'm saying that STRIVE's is the best one. Because it makes sense.
@@Saikyokugen it makes sense, on open stages, but on closed ones it will look nonsensical, besides it’s the same thing that allowed chipp to hang on to walls where there were none.
@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs Yeah I introduced my friend to Guilty Gear, but he won't let me play Potemkin anymore because I HPB his totsugeki everytime
I don't know what that move is called, but a suplex is something different entirely where you bend over backwards to slam someone into the ground. He's just slamming people over his shoulders.
Fun Fact, the "Flaming hands" thing was just an animation trick to cover up how awkward it is to show one sprite grabbing another sprite and not looking awful or just not actually grabbing anything at all.
Potemkin really had the best glow-up in the history of fighting games, going from a weirdo nobody really liked to the gorgeous platonic ideal of a grappler
Potemkin has no confirmed nationality currently, as his place of origin is stated to be Zepp. Correct me if I am wrong. I'm guessing this is a judgement made by his skintone. I personally thought he was Black, but he could possibly be Indian instead.
@@nesmario123 dude, Zepp is located in India before it's changed into "Zepp". Hence his skin color, the Indian instrumentals in his latest theme for STRIVE, and the Hindu Gods appeared in the literal heavens in his revamped *Heavenly Potemkin Buster*
Xrd kinda forgot what made HPB so cool. Adding the jetpacks drew less attention to the suave backflip he did and instead made it look like he was meant to go higher but there was a malfunction. Strive got rid of the backflip, but I think the jetpacks taking him into the stratosphere makes up for it.
Sol would return for many more therapy chiropractic sessions with potemkin after injuring his back saving ky in the infamous "oh no I'm falling" incident
I always loved HPB in Xrd but at the same time I felt like it was still missing something. Strive just perfected the move with arm boosters along with actually flying through the heavens before falling back to the ground.
Every time Leo asks him, "Is this the highest you can go?" Potemkin goes higher. Next game after strive, Potemkin brings both of you into space and falls back to earth like a meteor.
I feel like you could combine the iconic, original somersault with the magnificent rocketbuster we've got, now. I'm picturing Pot doing the flip while the rockets come out, and they fire just as he's righting himself; so they kind of catch him just as he's starting to fall. I can just picture the exhaust ribbons forming loops in the air in front of him as he finishes the roll, before being caught and thrown into the sky by the thrust, as if he were loaded into an oversized slingshot. Not that I'm knocking what we got, of course. Just a thought...
A derail I like in Strive is that there’s a moment where it feels like zerp gravity for the target. Makes you feel as if Potemkin isn’t some sort of strong guy, he is a machine.
I'm not a good player of Guilty Gear, playing just a few times... But downloaded Strive just to see that masterpiece getting the deserved love of the fans.
ya because he used to be a slave lore-wise hence the no armor with slave collar back then, but then when Zepp getting coup d'etat and now is free and his best bud gabriel become a president now he's a right hand man - soldier (good for you pot) I used to hate the change in his design since he looks menacing back then but now he kinda cute which disappoints me at first but kinda growing on me, but then again it's understandable since if you look at his bio, Potemkin's hobby is drawing (so perhaps he request/design his helmet to gabriel lmao) and also dude is actually kind, gentle and honest hence the change in the design (aside from him being a soldier that is).
Tbh if they just skipped the whole jumping off the ceiling bit, the past ones would be great. Like imagine the first buster but instead they go through the ceiling and come crashing down
The move never made sense to me; what with his weird flip he does, it didnt feel any more powerful than a normal buster. That is until they finally gave him some thrusters to finally show folks heaven (And while they where add it, remove that weird nonsense flip?)
Unrelated, On the SLASH freeze frame of Pot. He has a slightly less detail judging by his eye and helmet, That's because it's a inbetween frame that ain't suppose to hold on for too long. Like how they did in 2d animation. Pretty cool.
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Finally cracked the code. The missing element all this time was jetpacks.
Now is can fully call HENVENLY POTEMKIM BUSTAAAAAA
Jetpack? More like Heavenly Potempkin Thruster
Nah it’s a dumptruck
Lol
Well, that and the choreography of the move finally is actually readable and easy to understand. Before strive, every one has him just go upside down and not move. It's not clear what's going on. And Xrd has the camera flail around in a way that makes it hard to read. It was always a very simple move concept made so horrendously overcomplicated. Strive just made the motions clean, simple and easy to read, while adding a lot of theatrics to it. 10/10 super.
The one from STRIVE is the best one by far. Not because of the animations but because it also makes sense compared to the other ones. He actually uses the rockets from his gauntlets to rise above the skies and fall on the breaker.
That and he actually says "Potemkin" instead of the Japanese way of saying his name (Pochomukin).
Also it's impossible for him to jump that high with those tiny chicken legs.
old potemkin use the rocket to accelerate downward instead, needing to jump less as high
@@cheeseistaken still looks nonsense. I mean, it gives the impression he's jumping "on the roof", but WTF would he be able to do that in an open skies stage, like Japan, for example?
That's why I'm saying that STRIVE's is the best one. Because it makes sense.
@@Saikyokugen it makes sense, on open stages, but on closed ones it will look nonsensical, besides it’s the same thing that allowed chipp to hang on to walls where there were none.
Never
EVER
*EVER*
Jump at Potemkin.
Spoiler: They're gonna jump in.
@@araaraoni Potemkin main here.
Can confirm: They will jump. And they will scream.
ggst be like
Haha me airdash away/roman cancel airgrab uwu
@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs Yeah I introduced my friend to Guilty Gear, but he won't let me play Potemkin anymore because I HPB his totsugeki everytime
@@meeachael627 *Good*
Imagine someone literally taking you to heaven just to suplex you like theres no tomorrow
I don't know what that move is called, but a suplex is something different entirely where you bend over backwards to slam someone into the ground. He's just slamming people over his shoulders.
@@kikiretzorg1467 this would be an Argentine backbreaker
@@kikiretzorg1467 it's called a German suplex
A day in the life of Chipp mains
@@pinksywedarnoc8017 nope, its def a Argentine backbreaker
"You call that breaking my spine? You Zepp ladies wouldn't know how to break a spine if- *AUGGHH, MY SPINE!"*
"You, stop where you are! He's running away, don't let him get to the Tension!"
“MY HEALTH! HE COMMAND GRABBED ALL MY HEALTH!”
Aw, my back... my back!
This thread is beatiful, im just sayin...
@@b.w.c5933 “You call that 40%? You blue combo ladies wouldn’t know how to do 40% i-”SLASH
I love that he gets bigger every game, in 3 or 4 games he's gonna be the whole screen
man got Massive
The Guilty Gear version of Ira Gamagoori
Just as the Founding Fathers intended. 🙏
He apparently canonically has a disease that makes him constantly get swole and has to take treatment for it... So yea! You might be right
@@negativesanchez Is it terminal?
Thank God you didn't use Chipp as the dummy. He's traumatized.
He never gets Zanuff frequent flyer miles aboard Potemkin Airlines
Ah yes, the 'fuck half your life bar' move. Now in 4k!
Aka the Chipp killer, the ah gottem ggs, the imma keep doing mega fist till you jump
Schlip, Schlop, half of your hp is gone
You're lucky it's only half... xD
Because no one should jump against Potemkin. No One.
*Lost Horizon has entered the chat*
The best part about Strive is the length of it. It forces your opponent to watch the entire sequence and reminds them: yeah, you fucked up
Fun Fact, the "Flaming hands" thing was just an animation trick to cover up how awkward it is to show one sprite grabbing another sprite and not looking awful or just not actually grabbing anything at all.
Very smart move, as it looks really cool on top of it
Strive made the lamest overdrive turn into the coolest move in the history of Potemkim's gameplay.
Tbh, it still looks badass in the old versions.
It looks fucking baddas in Xrd Tho
But in strive just make you scream with your whole lungs
HEAVENLY, POTEMKIN, BUSTAAAAAAA
No in the history of grapplers
@@skullieraptor2112 Nah
Yea it really got juiced in Strive
Potemkin really had the best glow-up in the history of fighting games, going from a weirdo nobody really liked to the gorgeous platonic ideal of a grappler
Arcsys really gave Potemkin the greatest super in the history of grappler characters.
@DeadbeatJean I guess but are they animated nearly as cool as Strive's HPB?
Ok but have you ever "I WILL BE YOUR END-"
He's the grappler that beat the low tier curse. He EARNED it.
@@splitjawjanitor5369 he already beat that curse in xx he's just styling on the curse in strive
@@chechakkimnorbirth3777 Let's be real, he beat the curse the moment they decided Chipp's health should be _that_ low.
1:50
The look on Sol's face just screams "PLEASE NO! I LOVE MY SPINAL CHORD!"
He broke my back my back is broken SPINAL
Can't ride wife no more
LOVE HOW THEY REVAMPED THE MOVE IN STRIVE.
The Buster in STRIVE reminds you that." Oh yeah, he's Indian."
My favorite character in the series 💪
Wait, he's indian? I thought he's heavenly inspired by communist russia
Always thought he was Russian. His name is Russian after all...
Potemkin has no confirmed nationality currently, as his place of origin is stated to be Zepp. Correct me if I am wrong.
I'm guessing this is a judgement made by his skintone. I personally thought he was Black, but he could possibly be Indian instead.
@@nesmario123 dude, Zepp is located in India before it's changed into "Zepp". Hence his skin color, the Indian instrumentals in his latest theme for STRIVE, and the Hindu Gods appeared in the literal heavens in his revamped *Heavenly Potemkin Buster*
@@inconsideratebox3000 Zepp used to be India before the events of Guilty Gear prior to being named "Zepp", hench Potemkin's skin color.
I love the little delay on the startup because it gives the enemy a chance to think
"Oh God why did I jump"
*HEAVENLY.....POTEMKIN.....BUSTER!!!*
AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
SLASH
I HATE MY LIFE!!!!!
I NEED A SURGEON!!!
HEY- WAIT WAIT WAAAAAIIIIT!!!
My favorite Guilty Gear character finally gets one of the best finishing moves ever. That Heavenly Potemkin Buster in Strive is GODLIKE.
Other Overdrives look lame af in comparisson
@@mcswim565 granted I like all the overdrives but heavenly potenkin buster in strive is singlehandedly the most hype inducing move ever
I absolutely love the detail at the end in strive, the fact that's there's some deities shown makes the name "Heavenly"
Xrd kinda forgot what made HPB so cool. Adding the jetpacks drew less attention to the suave backflip he did and instead made it look like he was meant to go higher but there was a malfunction.
Strive got rid of the backflip, but I think the jetpacks taking him into the stratosphere makes up for it.
1/3 health bar gone, reduced to atoms
If chipp its 1/2
1:42 That music drop is legendary
Chiropractors when they “fix” your back:
If you've seen Grandma's Boy, and you wondered what fighting game they were playing at the party, this was that series.
I remember that
Sol would return for many more therapy chiropractic sessions with potemkin after injuring his back saving ky in the infamous "oh no I'm falling" incident
Oh wow his design has gone through a massive change. Tbh I like Strive’s and Xrd’s version with the armor better.
He looks like Alphonse Elric now
It's good, but I miss the giant collar thing.
There should an option maybe a dlc for classic styled skins that would be dope...
Aka sol gets his fucking spine broken for 2 and a half minutes
I can only imagine how happy potemkin Mains must been when they first saw the Version from strive.
if i get hit with this move in online matches , i don't even mind. This is just too hype.
My favorite part was when he said Heavenly Potemkin Buster
A friend: I recommend you this guy, he's a pretty good chiropractor
The chiropractor:
GOD DAMN!! The way the Buster syncs up to the music at 1:52 is *GOD-LIKE.*
yeah dude, i'm surprised noone is talking about it, it's absolutely perfect
**IM A FOOL, I KNOW NOTHING. I JUMPED AT THE POTEMKIN WITH METER. BUT I WILL NOT THROW THIS GAME NOW!**
i really love how you synced his strive HPB so perfectly with the music
Potemkin is gonna express mail you to God, same day shipping.
Do
Not
Jump
At
Him
I always loved HPB in Xrd but at the same time I felt like it was still missing something. Strive just perfected the move with arm boosters along with actually flying through the heavens before falling back to the ground.
Just tired of being a clown of fate and desire to do HEAVENLY POTEMKIM BUSTER everyone
I love how in strive hes just like "Man fuck flipping upside down IM GOING TO ACTUALLY TAKE YOU TO HEAVEN"
Sol Badguy spine have been destroy on the making of this video.
Every time Leo asks him, "Is this the highest you can go?"
Potemkin goes higher.
Next game after strive, Potemkin brings both of you into space and falls back to earth like a meteor.
1:52 this has no reason to go so hard
I'M A FOOL, I KNOW NOTHING,
Fly to the heavens, only to make you feel like hell on landing.
Potemkin's thumb is bigger than his entire head! that is some crazy proportions!
.
Wow. Potemkin’s original design was complete ass. His redesign is absolutely amazing. What a 180.
Imagine Potemkin got into MK12 as a guest star.
Whenever i see a HPB in strive, i shed a tear...its...beautiful
Oh no, I forgot all about the old UI with the portrait, Burst, and R.I.S.C. gauges following the lifebar
Sol: "Man, I've been aching lately, I should see a chiropractor."
The chiropractor:
He breaks bully maguire
HPB: Halving your HP every time you jump at Potemkin since 2000
I feel like you could combine the iconic, original somersault with the magnificent rocketbuster we've got, now.
I'm picturing Pot doing the flip while the rockets come out, and they fire just as he's righting himself; so they kind of catch him just as he's starting to fall.
I can just picture the exhaust ribbons forming loops in the air in front of him as he finishes the roll, before being caught and thrown into the sky by the thrust, as if he were loaded into an oversized slingshot.
Not that I'm knocking what we got, of course. Just a thought...
The best command grab in the history of fighting games was made in strive.
Finally, some good fucking ASMR!
Tf??
A derail I like in Strive is that there’s a moment where it feels like zerp gravity for the target. Makes you feel as if Potemkin isn’t some sort of strong guy, he is a machine.
Man, that weird back flip really took all the air from the sails in older games.
Potemkin looks absolutely tiny compared to how he is now in strive.
In Strive, he sends you to Heaven twice.
0:28 This one is my favorite because of the voice line
HEABENRYYYYYYYYY POTEMKIN BUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAH
That's the best part. It's such a hype move.
at first: "big supplex"
Xrd: "yo, what if we made it like, go really high?"
Strive: "YO GUYS, WHAT IF WE SUPPLEX TO LIKE, SPACE"
He looks like he's got tissue boxes on his feet
They turn this into a cool move.
Why the music from these games so good?
Because the creator partly made guilty gear as a sneaky way to sell his metal albums.
@@kingofthemoon3063 I honestly believe this to be partly canon whether or not its true.
Cause the music is a DAMN BOP
@@kingofthemoon3063 to help sell his friends metal albums, daisuke has nothing to do with outrage, the band that does the music.
@@halodragonmaster Because its Guilty Gear, beside creator of the series know how to make badass music
RIP Sol's spine
HEAVENLYYYYY
POTEMKINNNNN
*BUSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR*
"I HATE MY LIFE!!!!"
Seeing Sol eat HPB after HPB brings back good memories of Xrd. :)
I like how the Petite games are the only ones that updated the sprites/model the various incarnations
Neeeewwwwwwbiiiiiie - Potemkin bustaaaah!!
HEAVENLY.. POTEMKIN... BUSTAAA!!!!
For me, Potemkin's voice in Reload is soo freaking badass..
He sounds like a high goldlewis is xrd
Strive one literally makes me shake in excitement as I know it kills
Heavenly GlueChugging BUSTER!!!!!
No wonder Sol has neck problems lol
*S O C I E T Y*
「ARMOR-CLAD FAITH」
I'm not a good player of Guilty Gear, playing just a few times... But downloaded Strive just to see that masterpiece getting the deserved love of the fans.
Guilty gear strive’s version probably my favorite move in any fighting game
Bane could learn a thing or two from him
PROMINENCE BUUUUUUURN-a!
He goes up til thee up up and goes down to thee up down
NO ROOM FOR MODERATION!
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This nigga hits like a BOSS charcter
potemkin without armor is sad and depressing to look at, with the mask hes cute and charming
I prefer original pot, armor looks silly
ya because he used to be a slave lore-wise hence the no armor with slave collar back then, but then when Zepp getting coup d'etat and now is free and his best bud gabriel become a president now he's a right hand man - soldier (good for you pot)
I used to hate the change in his design since he looks menacing back then but now he kinda cute which disappoints me at first but kinda growing on me, but then again it's understandable since if you look at his bio, Potemkin's hobby is drawing (so perhaps he request/design his helmet to gabriel lmao) and also dude is actually kind, gentle and honest hence the change in the design (aside from him being a soldier that is).
@@Graphiccore I like how you get a glimpse of his old face in strive in Faust's bone crushing excitement.
@@iorilamiaWell he does take the role of a silly clown
Always thought the upside down flip looked stupid so I'm glad they Finally got rid of it
'Well, that escalated quickly!'
Tbh if they just skipped the whole jumping off the ceiling bit, the past ones would be great. Like imagine the first buster but instead they go through the ceiling and come crashing down
Why is no one talking about that EURPHORIC music sync for strives?
What the- HES NOT A ROBOT????
he's a super soldier promoted to a one-man army
So we have best poteeeeemkiiiiiiiiiin baaaaaastaaaaaaaaaaaa
Fun Fact: President Gabriel invented that move and taught it to Potemkin
If you all think this is one of the greatest Grappling supers. Just search Darun Mister's Meteor Combo (Gamble of Darun)
The move never made sense to me; what with his weird flip he does, it didnt feel any more powerful than a normal buster.
That is until they finally gave him some thrusters to finally show folks heaven (And while they where add it, remove that weird nonsense flip?)
Heaven or hell
Potemkin: BUSTEEEEEEERR
Damn... so it just looked like ass until strive
I love Potemkin so much, and his redesign is perfect
I always wondered for who this move was more devastating. For grabbed character or Potemkin's legs?
All that glue makes the bones real strong
1:48 didn't know he was indian that's cool
Germans are related to north Indians, they're both Indo-Europeans
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess oh, cool!
Unrelated, On the SLASH freeze frame of Pot. He has a slightly less detail judging by his eye and helmet, That's because it's a inbetween frame that ain't suppose to hold on for too long. Like how they did in 2d animation. Pretty cool.