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Luckily, the first season of DLC characters has already been confirmed for the game, meaning that its roster will be growing with time. Guilty Gear is a series with a franchise with a deep well of characters so there are many outstanding potential choices.
10 A.B.A.
A.B.A is a homunculus that hasn’t been playable in a Guilty Gear game since Guilty Gear XX. While she is initially one of the least mobile members of the roster, A.B.A utilizes a unique playstyle that allows her to temporarily power herself up, providing her with significant power and speed boost. A.B.A. is the perfect type of character that could be a throwback for veteran players while further diversifying the roster with a new play style.
9 Slayer
Guilty Gear Strive is the first core Guilty Gear game to not feature the Slayer in its roster since Guilty Gear X. Slayer is a rushdown character that focuses heavily on horizontal momentum.
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While the game currently features several rushdown characters such as Chip and Milia, each of these characters approaches offense differently, providing players with additional options.
8 Zappa
While Zappa hasn’t been playable in a Guilty Gear game since Guilty Gear XX like A.B.A., he was actually featured in the story of Guilty Gear Xrd. A flexible yet complicated character that is based around various cursed summons and ghosts that possess him, Zappa has much in common with the puppet character archetype. As Strive currently does not feature a playable puppet character, this feels like the perfect role for Zappa to fill as a DLC character.
7 Robo Ky
Last appearing in Guilty Gear Xrd’s story, Robo Ky is perhaps one of the most subversive characters in the franchise. As a robot created to look like Ky, one may anticipate that Robo Ky functions like a clone character.
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On the contrary, Robo Ky totes one of the most unique play styles in the series, having several moves that make hilarious use of his robotic nature as well as a unique heat meter that must be managed over the course of a game. Unfortunately, like Zappa, Robo Ky hasn’t been playable since Guilty Gear XX.
6 Johnny
A fan-favorite character in his own right, Johnny is a captain of the Jellyfish Pirates, the same sky-pirate crew that is home to the increasingly popular May. Johnny is a somewhat balanced character that functions quite well at mid-range, using projectiles and pokes, allowing him to serve as another all-arounder for the game’s roster. While he was a DLC character in Guilty Gear Xrd, Johnny has been playable in each core entry of the series since Guilty Gear X.
5 Dizzy
Like Johnny, while Dizzy was not initially playable in Guilty Gear Xrd — she was added to the game post-launch as DLC. Dizzy is a half-gear and one of the most powerful characters within the series lore. Dizzy is a central character to Guilty Gear, married to one of the franchise’s protagonists, Ky. As Dizzy is a fan-favorite and she makes a cameo appearance in Strive, it’s likely that she’ll be made playable in Strive’s lifetime.
4 Testament
While the gear Testament was once an important key character within the story of Guilty Gear, he was completely absent from Guilty Gear Xrd. Playable in the very first entry in the series, Testament fights using a massive scythe and projectiles, allowing him to zone out his opponents with his special moves and normals alike.
As Testament makes an appearance in the story of Strive and the game doesn’t currently feature too many long-range fighters, we’re hopeful of a future appearance from Testament.
3 That Man
Despite being one of the most integral characters to the lore of Guilty Gear, specifically the story of Sol Badguy, the character simply known as That Man has never been playable. While the character is frequently quite elusive and largely absent from the center stage of the story, he is featured prominently within Guilty Gear Strive’s story mode and already has a model within the game. If That Man were to ever be made playable within a Guilty Gear game, it would be in Strive.
2 Aria
A character with similar circumstances as That Man, Aria is an incredibly important character within the story of Guilty Gear, already having a model within the game. Using the same body as Jack O from Guilty Gear Xrd, a playable iteration of Aria could blend elements of Jack O’s Xrd gameplay with new mechanics, creating a character that builds upon the past to make a new and engaging member of the roster.
1 Goldlewis
Introduced in Guilty Gear Strive’s story, Goldlewis Dickinson is the righthand man of the president of the United States of America, wielding a coffin that contains an alien from Area 51 as a weapon. Yes, that’s seriously his weapon.
Despite this brand new character’s introduction within Strive, he is currently not playable. As a brand new character, the sky is the limit for his playstyle, as he can fit any character archetype that the game needs from a zoner to a grappler. Due to the fact that Goldlewis’s model already exists within Strive, not making him playable at some point within the game’s lifespan feels like it would be a crime.
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