Guilty Gear Strive: Bridget Beginner's Guide

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Guilty Gear Strive enters its Second Season with a bang, bringing fan-favorite yo-yo wielder Bridget into the mix of an already stacked cast of characters. While many characters have seen significant changes in their gameplay style or gimmicks, Bridget is still the All-Rounder Fighter you know and love.

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Though her kit did change, Bridget's brutal and surgically precise yo-yo skills, mixed with her mechanical bear, Roger, make her a joy to play and feel familiar to old-timers who played her in the past installments. Bridget has many tricks up her sleeve, making her a formidable foe from almost anywhere and in most situations.

Bridget is classified as an All-Rounder fighter, having tools that allow her to control space from significant range while also having a solid neutral game, which makes it hard for opponents to approach her and easy for her to get in. Furthermore, Bridget has one of the more unique movements in the game, allowing her to close the gap on her opponent in the blink of an eye, granting her the ability to apply relentless amounts of pressure.

If it wasn't clear by now, Bridget has some of the best offensive options in the game, making her competent from just about anywhere on the stage. Additionally, thanks to Bridget's ability to control the space in front of her, she can single-handedly set the match's tempo. She can force her opponent to respect and adapt to her playstyle or die cowering in fear of her intense mixes, blazingly fast attacks, and unyielding pressure. However, this is where one of her few weaknesses comes into play, her defense.

While she has a few 'Get Off Me' options to help her create space and stop an encroaching opponent, she