Slayer (Guilty Gear)
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Slayer is a character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making his first appearance in Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival. He is a rather tall vampire, though unlike most vampires, he seems entirely unaffected by sunlight. He spends each entire round smoking his pipe, and if defeated, he merely lies on the ground looking amused rather than being unconscious. He is also accompanied, largely, by his wife Sharon.
Gameplay
Slayer relies on dodging and combo potential. He is good at dust combinations, and some good players have been able to achieve dust combos that take care of a majority of the opponent's health. His simplistic overdrives are perfect for buffering into, and his command throw, with its stagger time and easy buffers, is a staple. His "Dandy Step" moves are perfect for punishing (and creating) a miss. However, his greatest strength lies in his ability to "phase out" of the screen momentarily and, thus, completely evade his opponent's attacks and even counterattack immediately. This is called "back dash cancelling" (BDC) because, during the animation of Slayer's back dash (where he disappears momentarily before reappearing a certain distance behind), Slayer can jump cancel the back dash. Incidentally, Slayer can perform special and overdrive moves immediately after doing his back dash, so a player can buffer a back dash cancel into an attack (or an attack into a back dash cancel). When properly executed, Slayer will very briefly disappear (for not more than a few frames) due to the back dash, then cancel the back dash because of the jump, and then perform the special or overdrive move before actually leaving the ground. (This can be equivalently done with a forward dash; however, the forward dash offers slightly less invincibility frames than the back dash, so is only reserved for certain "safer" circumstances.)Slayer's other strength relies on the ability to deal massive damage from any random hit. Any hit that leaves the opponent in the air leads to one of two possibilities: The Rest or the Two-hit Dandy. The Rest has many variances, but the original form was (in the air) kick, punch, kick, jump cancel into kick and then either air dust or footloose journey. The Two-hit dandy uses one of his supers, usually called Direct Hit Dandy in the US. The super has a unique property, where there are two separate hit areas: Slayer's body itself and the purple orb that he leaves behind. Both hit areas do respectable damage on their own, but it is also possible to hit the opponent with both of them, causing massive damage and dizzy potential. On the ground, Slayer relies on Roman cancelling into his hard slash or forward hard slash for massive damage.
In Guilty Gear XX, his command throw can be looped and the loop is consequently named the bite loop. By using a forward dash cancel, he can get out of his teleport early and execute the command throw and repeat that sequence. After 10-12 bites, he can dandy step into a pile bunker and Roman cancel into a second pile bunker, dizzying the opponent and guaranteeing an insta-kill. The sequence requires perfect execution, but is dangerous enough to put him in the top tiers.
In Guilty Gear XX#R, his bite loop is reduced to the point where he can only chain about 6-7 bites and forward dashes, eliminating the insta-kill strategy. Fortunately, the bite also gains a life regain property and the bite loop still nets Slayer a large amount of tension.
In Guilty Gear XX: Slash, his bite loop is reduced even more, making it only capable of two to three hits in the corner (Although more repetitions can be performed if the opponent is not near the corner), and his Back Dash's invincibility is sharply reduced, making BDCing actual moves practically useless, and BDCing a jump significantly less effective. In addition, his "Undertow" attack is no longer unblockable, but instead has one hit's worth of super armor. His mixup game is greatly improved by the addition of a fake Mappa, which dashes him forward, but does not attack, allowing for throws or Bite Loops as the case may be.
Story
Background
Slayer founded the Assassin's Guild, but disappeared shortly thereafter. His original intentions, like many notable founders of Assassin's Guilds in fiction, were altruistic. Unfortunately, he finds, upon returning, that his syndicate is far from his original idealistic view of it, and decides to dismantle it. He seems to be connected to Gabriel in some significant way, and seems to know quite a lot about various political affairs, most notably the Post-War Administration Bureau (PWAB). It is revealed in the Midnight Carnival that he is the murderer of Chipp Zanuff's master. How his realtion to Chipp will evolve is unknown, but it could go similar to the relationship between Zato-1(Eddie) and Millia Rage.Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival
Slayer's Story Mode begins with a visit to Ky Kiske, claiming that it is "customary for the king of the night to ask for permission from the protector of the day before venturing into the sunlight." He has the apparent motive of either observing the cast, or warning them of being targeted by the PWAB. He has three endings: in one, he defeats Eddie, who wanted to possess Sharon. In the second, he faces Venom, and explains that his victory was because of hesitation in Venom's heart. In the third, he defeats I-No, and has a brief conversation with That Man about current events.Sharon
Sharon is Slayer's wife, and apparently immortal and invincible; for one thing, she can survive getting drained of blood by Slayer without any apparent lasting effects (one of Slayer's opening scenes before a battle shows him completely draining her). In one of Eddie's endings, Eddie melts after attempting to possess her, and I-No (who set him up to this) comments, "Illness, parasites... Nothing sticks to her." Sharon's exact nature remains unknown.
Music References
Slayer is named for the band of the same name. Several of his attacks (Under Pressure, Dead On Time, Spread Your Wings, All Dead, and It's Late) are named for Queen songs. His Undertow is named for an album by Tool, while his Royal Hunt is a Danish metal band.Sharon is possibly named for Sharon Osbourne, or Sharon den Adel of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation.
| Characters: A.B.A | Sol Badguy | Baiken | Bridget | Dizzy | Fanny | Faust | I-No | Johnny | Justice | Ky Kiske | Kliff Undersn | Jam Kuradoberi | Axl Low | May | Millia Rage | Anji Mito | Potemkin | Robo-Ky | Slayer | Testament | That Man | Venom | Chipp Zanuff | Zappa | Zato-1 |
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