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People have been expecting this for a while now, but it’s finally been announced: Sin Kiske will be the new Guilty Gear Xrd character available in the console release! Famitsu has two online articles about the announcement with some nice screenshots, and also has a page about it in this month’s issue. Shoutouts to Kurushii for providing the magazine scan.

This month’s issue of Arcadia has a two page article on the Arc Revolution Cup, which has started since 3 weeks ago. Top Faust player Kiisha was interviewed for the GGXrd portion, which you can view here. You may remember him as the winner of last year’s Arc Revo Cup for Guilty Gear XX AC+R. Credit again goes to Kurushii for providing the magazine scan. He was also asked for his opinion on Xrd’s tier list, and I have translated it below:
Kiisha’s GGXrd tier list
S Sol Zato Faust Ramlethal
S- Chipp Millia
A Ky May Axl Slayer
B Bedman I-No Venom
C Potemkin

Anime Expo 2014 will be taking place this entire fourth of July weekend, and Aksys has announced that Guilty Gear Xrd will be available to play in the dealer’s hall at their booth! So, if you’re an AX regular or happen to be in the Los Angeles area, this is a good opportunity to give the game a try before its console release.

Kedako and Ruu have been doing a lot of testing and research concerning the system esoterics of Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, and I wanted to make this post to translate their findings and put them somewhere for reference.
UPDATE: Ruu’s blog now has complete frame data for every character, including Sin, Elphelt, and Leo! I will update this post periodically as more translations become available.

https://twitter.com/kedako_faital/status/436761622342692864
All characters once again have 420 health, down from 460 in AC+R. Hellfire state kicks in when 337 points of damage have been dealt: basically, when you have 20% or less health remaining. Kedako tested this by playing Chipp in sparring mode and throwing shurikens(which do exactly 1 damage) 420 times.  Now that’s dedication

https://twitter.com/kedako_faital/status/456052461673791488
Defense modifiers
Sol 1.00
Ky 1.03
May 1.06
Millia 1.22(up from 1.21)
Zato 1.09(up from 1.06)
Potemkin 0.94(up from 0.87)
Faust 1.00
Chipp 1.30
Axl 1.06
Venom 1.06
Slayer 0.96
I-No 1.06
Bedman 0.94
Ramlethal 1.06
Sin 1.05
Elphelt 1.00
Leo 1.00
As you can see, defense modifiers are mostly the same, except for the aforementioned 3 characters, who had theirs nerfed. Between the 3, Potemkin’s defense nerf is the most significant.

https://twitter.com/kedako_faital/status/460409542447083522
https://twitter.com/kedako_faital/status/460409665885450240
Wakeup times

Character Faceup Facedown
Sol 53f 49f
Ky 51f 49f
May 53f 50f
Millia 53f 51f
Zato 53f 50f
Potemkin 52f 50f
Chipp 58f 52f
Faust 53f 57f
Axl 53f 49f
Venom 49f 54f
Slayer 54f 48f
I-No 52f 48f
Bedman 52f 58f
Ramlethal 53f 51f
Sin 58f 49f
Elphelt 55f 55f
Leo 56f 54f

http://blog.livedoor.jp/ruubr/archives/38575830.html
https://twitter.com/kedako_faital/status/455393624977469440
Roman cancel startup times and other info. There is a ton of info here, but I’ve only been able to translate the following.
YRC: 6f startup followed by 18f of screen darkening. Also has 2f of invincibility
RC: 1f startup
PRC: 15f startup

https://twitter.com/ruubri/status/454292152353173504
Ruu tested the red roman cancel mechanics, and came to the following conclusions. Red RC has 1f startup, and slows down the opponent’s speed by half. In addition, the red RC adds extra frames of hitstun or blockstun. The extra stun increases depending on the level of the move that connected beforehand:
Lv1 18f
Lv2 22f
Lv3 26f
Lv4 32f
Lv5 36f
This is why certain combos only work when you add in a red RC. Typical example is Sol 5s5h Bandit Bringer, which does not work normally. But 5s5h RC Bandit Bringer does work.

H.H continues his series of FT10 exhibition sets with some players from the Kansai region for a change! LOX Bedman and Isamu Venom are featured, who you may remember as the two who faced off in grand finals at the a-cho Pre Arc Revolution Cup. Normally, H.H dual streams on Nico and Twitch, but he appears to have forgotten to stream on Twitch this time. So I had to upload the Nico archive for the Youtube mirror, which is why the quality is noticeably worse than the previous FT10s.

EDIT: H.H did a local recording of the FT10 so he eventually uploaded the set to his Youtube account.

2014/6/20 H.H stream
LOX(Bedman) vs Isamu(Venom) FT10

Ruu and Day recently had a very long set of May vs Ramlethal matches at Monte50 game center in Osaka! It is unfortunate that the god of Bridget can’t play his character in Xrd, but his May is no slouch. Day is an OG Testament player who was one of the few to continue playing that character in AC+R. He is now one of the top ranked Ramlethals. His name is also weird to romanize: it should technically be Di, but commentators always pronounce his name as “Dei”, and I’ve also seen him write his name in katakana, which would make it “Day”. So I just went with the 3rd option since it’s the least confusing one for English speakers.

In other news, Gamespot recently put up some Xrd footage taken from E3! They are all featuring players who are trying out the game for the first time, so don’t expect any real matches. However, the videos are in 1080p, so they are definitely the highest quality footage out right now.
Ramlethal vs Bedman Youtube
Ky vs Millia Youtube

The Arc Revolution Cup qualifiers officially start this weekend too! Hopefully there will be some streams.

Ruu(May) vs Day(Ramlethal)

Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

H.H recently streamed a FT10 exhibition set on 6/8 between Nage and Nakamura! This is definitely the closest set that has been shown on his stream so far, so it’s a great watch especially if you play these characters. There were some great casual matches played after the exhibition, mostly with FAB. Famitsu also has an article up about these exhibition matches.

Nage(Faust) vs Nakamura(Millia)

Casual matches with Satou(Millia), Nage(Faust), FAB(Potemkin), Nakamura(Millia), JT(Bedman), Roi(Sol), H.H(Ramlethal), Ain(Ky)