The first few months of a fighting game are always a great time for both the new and old players. The early days of a new fighting game are no stranger to discoveries, many of which can drastically alter how the game is played. A new taunt cancel technique has been discovered in Guilty Gear Strive.

   In the original Guilty Gear on PlayStation, any move could be cancelled into a taunt resulting in the original game being littered with braindead infinites that were not at all hard to pull off. Now, something similar, but far less egregious, has been discovered in Strive.

   In Guilty Gear Strive, we can use taunt cancelling to increase the damage of combos. Generally, when you Roman Cancel during a combo, you get the Red Cancel. This lets you cancel the move you were doing and helps you move freely again. It even causes an explosion than can be counted as a hit in the combo and affects damage scaling which means it will make your combos do less damage overall.

   Purple Roman Cancels work when a move is in recovery and has not hit the opponent. It even causes a slowdown effect but it lacks the same explosion that red Roman Cancels do. You have to wait for a moment before Roman Cancelling the taunt, as if you do it too fast you'll get the normal red Roman Cancel. 

   Depending on the combo, you can squeeze out anywhere from 30-50 extra damage. Certain characters can also use this technique in other applications. Characters whose normals have lots of blockstun, like Zato and Potemkin, can use taunt cancelling for mixups and setups.

   The second piece of tech discovered, is a little more advanced. For characters with super moves with invincible startup, if you Roman Cancel the startup of your super you will retain all of the super's invincibility and be free from being punished. This only costs 50% of your meter. All characters have access to a risk-free invincible move on wakeup for only 50% of your meter.

   It is unclear whether this new taunt cancel and invincible super tech in Guilty Gear Strive is intentional or not. They may be gone after the next patch, and if so, get some wins in online while you can. But, if they are allowed to stay in, they will dramatically affect how the game is played from this point forward.