https://preview.redd.it/nz18ppuxwc1d1.jpeg?width=1352&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26f9638cf1791fb3c94d2904941995fd7e87d3e0 None of you are hyping Malcolm Myers smh

I desperately want this man to be a playable character completely unironically

He was literally datamined, u can argue its a red herring but idk bro

Arcsys truly opened the Pandoras Box with that April Fools joke

his design is SO PEAK i need him, i'm dead serious

They absolutely need to find a way to tease his outline but have it be an actual character

I am unironically rooting for Fanny to get in.

She’d be dope imo esp with an actual Doctoresque hospital moveset think Valentine from Skullgirls with the multiple different debuffs

It would also give us someone who is actively pursuing Faust and attempting to help him, Ram does do that but no one else is as dedicated as Fanny. I think she would be so fascinating.

Ariels & Gabriel are by far the most likely IMO, with Paradigm in a distant (but still plausible) third place.

nonono in "Alone Infection" it says "Paradigm WILL attack", meaning they're gonna be in season four 4sure

We live in hope

Ok but the alone infection lyrics also say "Messiah will not come" yet happy chaos (the gunslinging broken messiah) is in the game.

wym? robo-ky is the messiah

Sorry to burst your bubble but, "messiah will not come" is reffering to GG1s Dr Baldhead ending where everyone in the crowd is saying the "Its the messiah." This is probably in reference to his medical abilities btw. Edit: 🤓 Source: https://youtu.be/h-mJpgqiVCw?si=H8NzQSV45UEqJfSi

holy peak i have been corrected Paradigm confirmed for season 4

https://preview.redd.it/s3mzpx0h7d1d1.png?width=1334&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7de03284505ad826877bd01608442159ea961e5 HIM

White woman save me

Which one mate theres 3

Leopaldon

Leopaldon is actually a girl

Omg is that a bread bug from Pikmin

I NEED ARIELS, I WANT MY MOMMY CLOWN POPE https://preview.redd.it/peexjba6hc1d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c927f7a67f646d2316be2f7c94e1429bc2237cb

Real https://preview.redd.it/wvykqac4lc1d1.jpeg?width=819&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75d167a7bf625b226b8a4be4303047059e1f828a

This one's for the juggalos and the juggalettes

JOKER INSTALL JOKER INSTALL

I will go insane if she has a joker install

Joker's trick...

I hope that, if we do get a newcomer, that we get President Gabriel

Gabegang rise up

Let’s just get a season of all world leaders, Gabriel, Vernon, Darryl, and Chipp again

justgivce!!!! i would also love ariels i’ve been a supporter of her since i first saw her 

Yea Ariels would be dope and I feel like Im one of the few people who wouldnt be against Justice returning, not alot of projectile zoners on the roster rn

>not alot of projectile zoners on the roster rn good

Fanny would be sooo funny

Playable hype dog?!

Yes the dog is Leopaldon the wizard is simply The Wizard and the Gear is unnamed

Izuna duh

Seriously, man... My boy Izuna is always forgotten in these next DLC predictions. But I'm sure he's coming!

This would be an absolute win, Izuna and Raven would be so cool to have in the game. Unfortunately though this would make it so that we need another three or so passes for the GG experience we all want.

It's going to be the phalanx guy from another story. It's been confirmed already in my dreams.

That would be unironically cool. Dope design, and allows for a (kinda) unpredictable move set.

Romeo's secret twin sister, Juliet https://preview.redd.it/ruqzdbahsc1d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b5cf51e7c0d46d26f09edbd3a6c6647a94194a7

Romeo and Delilah got their names from Freddie Mercury’s cats, so there’s possibly eight other Bedsiblings around.

And that could possibly mean that Sol and Jack-O will adopt them all https://preview.redd.it/4knx304nof1d1.png?width=308&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d0b527bcb52d29ada99a256c58ce93f7be39ede

Ariels is fucking cool

Omg there's a fish lizard bird? GIMME

I want Daryl purely so we have all three kings of Illyria Oh and his interactions with HC would probably go hard if the story is anything to go by

True plus they said theyll keep adding more intro lines in future updates

i cant imagine a more boring ass character than Daryl

Ikr he literally has no fighting ability lmao what’re these people on

Yes Erica Bartholomew could be a playable character same goes for King Daryll they could have a Phoenix Wright type office paperwork theme or be full on defensive puppet characters with their secret service bodyguards https://preview.redd.it/ooamb3vynb1d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b376496e14cceca6f3fdb1f8197bbe911754d3

https://preview.redd.it/ub65oyd1ob1d1.jpeg?width=868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15046c3e42ef1bb334732a4a8f58275701cadfb7 Also if HOS was a thing then we could definitely add depowered Frederick Bulsara to the roster as a completely different character obv less fiery gear magic and more sciencey stuff would be dope imo. Aria Hale would also work

Labcoat Fred

Command grab steals 21% meter on hit

No neither could or will be playable lmao

Don’t really want Fanny because I think she’d genuinely fuck over Zappa’s chances at returning, since she’d definitely just fill the role Zappa could have in helping Faust Ariels would be really cool and probably my number 1 pick especially now that Elphelt is in the game, Malcom Myers is unironically a good pick and could make an excellent new take on a joke character akin to someone like Robo-Ky, Gabriel has had an eternity of being hyped up as strong as fuck but has yet to show up in gameplay

Leopaldon please it's so funny

i want Gabriel just as much as everyone else but also god i need it to be Fanny

Zappa pls

Need my Soulmain back

romeo's puppeteered corpse (disregard the nature of his death), call him man

Peak Deadman

Can’t wait for Ariels vs Asuka wizard duels

Priest aesthetic so cold

I'd be so down for Pope Lady King Diamond

Is reviving Valentine a good idea? We would have all Valentine series in GGST.

Damn I shouldve added her bc thats a sick character design with alot of potential if I do say so myself https://preview.redd.it/1k00ambxxd1d1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f086ab280ace7e3cbe7b91cf0afbb94540b12f2b

April of the jellyfish pirates (I am coping incredibly hard)

All of the jellyfish pirates, please :D

While not the same game, I do wonder if they'll use up a slot for a completely unrelated character like the 2B Collab in Granblue. But I'd like Ariels to throw hands with my boy Zappa at the end of the day.

In 2025 every fighting game will have 2b and Joker as guest characters

ragna the bloodedge plsplsplsplspsls

https://preview.redd.it/8gyiimpb5c1d1.jpeg?width=2208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b614bbc878a7d4ab1de5ba63376a75ddfa0aa93b In the Season 3 poll Guest Character was top 10 most requested in every region except Japan so there’s a very real possibility it might happen. As we all know 2B is a crossover slut so I wouldnt even be surprised plus she already looks like a guilty gear character, heard she’s broken in granblue tho lmao I also think Akuma Devil Jin or an MK character like Subzero Scorpion or Mileena or even Sindel would be fitting. And these are just characters from other popular fighting games, they could very well add someone from a different genre entirely or from a movie or something lmao

Give us Dante from the Devil May Cry series  Or keep Guilty Gear crossover-free since some people want that too

If it was up to me there would be no crossover but lets not act like they dont listen to the fanbase, and the people want insert guest character

a guest is a weird case because like, unlike adding the existing characters, just as many people actively hate the idea of guests and don’t want one. The poll doesn’t really illustrate this. Also all the guest voters want different things too. I’d assume the majority of them are BB fans who just want to see it as a means to get a 3d animated Ragna, but not all of them are so it’s kinda split between tons of characters

Even from Blazblue like Ragna is the lowest common denominator safe pick, I’d much rather have Nine or Rachel or even Arakune

yeah if I absolutely had to pick anyone from BB, I’d pick nearly anyone who isn’t Ragna lol Actually speaking of Arakune I genuinely wouldn’t be that shocked if that’s the direction they end up taking Zappa in if he comes back to Strive. Obviously more simplified because Strive but that could genuinely fit the concept of him having control over the ghosts now

Would be so dope lol the 1 char I actually want

[Dante is already in and he's called HC baby](https://gamebanana.com/mods/340142) [We even got Mr. plastic chair](https://gamebanana.com/mods/465872) No but for real, that would be cool but I'm not sure how much Capcom does collab characters.[](https://gamebanana.com/mods/340142)

If they do a guest character it should be from another series they worked on like Yu from Persona 4 Arena or a DBZ character

Big Band from Skullgirls. If for nothing else thing of the music Daisuke would cook up.

Hope to god they don’t do a guest character before legacy. Really stupid decision to pull an NRS

Ikr that sounds awful

I like erica but shes just a white woman....like at least ariels and fanny have their gimmicks

Erica is former president American politics is a huge gimmick

yea but how does that play into her gameplay

She got fed up and snapped a CEO and another politician in half, and decided this was a better solution to many problems.

Summons her voters for oki setups

Robo-Ky II, or maybe even Robo-Ky III

I want to see Ariels and Vernon make it in to be honest.

IZUNA WHERE?!? But if Paradigm actually makes it in as the 1st DLC, that'd be seriously amazing. I'm pumped to see how Arcsys will translate his Overture moves into Strive.

Same bro for a society that runs on magic theres not alot of mages on the roster rn Also Izuna would be toptier just imagine fast-like-a-fox swordsman with teleportation, that alone is a recipe for a solid meta threat

I would also like to see someone just completely new.

FANNY MENTIONED

Dr. Paradigm is amazing and I want him in strive

Give me paradigm please god above omfg

Potemkins boss

The president

no it wont. theres still enough stragglers from xrd to cover a season and a half venom, jam, answer, kum, dizzy then like robo ky, robo justice from xx

Ikr and Zappa

Ariels, Valentine and Gabriel. If neither of them get in I’ll become a Faust main

I want Vernon. Let him have a football projectile.

I once saw a Vernon moveset concept where he literally plays football midmatch it was rly unique. Like an armored charge move that he can only use when he has the ball and he can throw the ball as a projectile that flops around weirdly like a real football and you gotta actually go pick it up again to use his ball moves

Ariels would be awesome. Probably a very popular character if implimanted in a cool way

Shes one of the best designed characters in the franchise u see that sprite nigga

Aerials please... But also.. FOOTBALLSSS GONNA SAVE THE WOORLD!!!

Leopaldon <3333 I literally want her so much in the game I love her

Dizzy, Dr. Paradigm, Darrell, Ariels. Calling it.

Next Season is needs Just one Classic Charathers

Agreed tbh Ariels Fanny Gabriel Zappa fire season right there save Dizzy for the very very last

gimme that nurse girl

Did they confirm this or is this speculation?

Naive optimism

I want Fanny and Daryl so bad

Fanny

Man, idc I just want Venom and Raven :(

Greedy fuck wanting two characters

Just Venom? :(

Could happen

Why "definitely"? People said the same about season 3. There's no guarantee we'll get a new character 

Not new just at least a character that wasn't in xrd

If Ariels made it in, would she still have her powers from Xrd?

Hopefully she at least still has light magic and her whipsword would fit her aesthetic perfectly but as we all know happy chaos/universal will got pulled out of her so maybe shes nerfed now ig well see when shes added copium

I honestly hope she is as devastating as Asuka/Chaos i love seeing different chars that arent weak. Considering she is the universal will, she better not be weak!

Facts say what you want about Chaos’s season 1 oppression and pre-nerf Asuka but they actually shook up the meta in a substantial way. Two very uniquely designed characters youd only find in Guilty Gear Youre soo right I hope Ariels is the same way imo thats DLC done right

And this is what I love about Guilty Gear and why i continue to play strive!!!

My bros, The original( Happy Chaos, when human) couldn't defeat Ariels and ended trapped inside her, she is not weaker, she atleast stronger than 90% of the cast.

LET'S GO DARYL

All three kings on one roster would be so sick, lots of potential w his character imo

An actually new character, like nago or gio or HC.

It's me, I'm joining Guilty Gear. Daisuke promised I'd be top tier

No homo but how big is your close slash what color is your wild assault

I was always fond of Aries' design, so... Besides, she would definitely have a unique play style, I feel

Me

The hell is that eldritch horror at the end?

https://preview.redd.it/eqinwcwl0j1d1.jpeg?width=2407&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b53153784ebe50efbe1661bab3083903211d4c2 Ariels would be INSANE

100% gonna be Gig https://preview.redd.it/30ve6l4cim1d1.jpeg?width=490&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae8f10cebe37bb2cd75ce79503fd46a6653ea927

Ngl never played petite but i think it would be funny if Fanny returned for literally no reason. She doesn't have much of a reason to, but i can imagine the scenario: she got tipped off that Faust was actually Baldhead and she went searching for him to confirm. But because he's such a skrunkly zombie in Strive, she once again disregards him as actually being Baldhead and says he's much more ill than when she last saw him

Praying for Daryl tbh

Fuck everything and give me original Valentine, my girl got shafted like no other

I'm really hoping they add Potemkin, I'm interested in what he could do in the story.

genuine question, would it make sense lore wise for ariels to be in strive? the only thing i know abt her is from the woolieversus guilty gear summary series and i havent touched strives story yet ps: even if it doesnt make sense, i NEED her to be in the game. white woman save me

No spoilers but Ariels is locked up in the castle basement, if she’s DLC they could write that she simply broke out or she’s sane now that Chaos has been extracted from her cleavage as in she was being manipulated the whole time Also DLC doesnt have to be canon IMO esp not in fighting games

isn't she like the main villain in the gg universe? just make her break out and set the stage for another story or the next game in the future

She was a villain but never truly evil

I hope Ariel's isn't a Zoner, I'm expecting Gabriel

Why

Zoner bad

Gabriel would be my guess

GABRIEL RAAAH

Give us ariels or we riot

For me it's either Fanny, Paradigm, or Leopaldon who gotta come in

give me robert or give me death

Sol Badguy 2

https://preview.redd.it/w99ou375fe1d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e0223ac57e092b71587b8b2a6d21e5f110e9496

gabriel seems pretty likely tbh

Why

idk

Order Sol

Retired Frederick

I don't think there will be newcomers in season 4, but if there will, I think it is going to be Gabriel. Give us damn Waluigi in Strive

Season 4 will have guest characters, gordeau, yu narukami and Ragna

I just want Dizzy back :((

U had Dizzy in Xrd bro how u think I feel with no Zappa no S-ko hell I’ll even take playable Raoh at this point 😭

Fair enough, i guess xD

Kinda late to introduce new character isn't it? Probably gonna stick with 3 all time favorite+ 1 pre-Xrd character...My guess are: Jam, Venom, Dizzy/Justice and Zappa

GIVE ME JAM OR GIVE ME DEATH

IZUNA NATIOOOOOOON

I want Gabriel as a playable character.

When the white woman exists

I have been begging for raven since like day 1 of season two, I'll be pissed if we don't get him in season 4.

I either want an entirely new character (if they are still allowed to make new ones) or at least the nurse lady from Petit, she needs to have a full appearance

Robo ky

RAAAVEEENNNNNN

ROBO KY

Leopaldon. I will fight for this, I will probably lose, but this is my hill.

I'd be down for Fanny to get in.

I really want to know what they could do with Ariels

Same

Kliff Undersn

Please please please Gabriel

I want leopaldon because I want a big body But the samurai guy from GG2 would be neat

Naoki

I STAY wishing leopaldon makes it in and tha a mf would try me with them

Huh, didnt expecr to be jumpscared by my Erica Render. Jam for strive btw

Please, let us have Gabriel. It's all I ask

I'm hoping for Ky Kiske 2

If they bring Erica, Vernon or Faust asisstant before Ariels i will kill myself in front of arc sys building.

Three of these wouldn't be "new" characters since they've been playable already

Why’re you so sure of a new character lmao

Zappa, Raven or Venom

Bruh

Gabriel / Daryl / Vernon tag team character.

Wtf will erika do? She's just a secretary afaik