The first guest character is coming to Guilty Gear Strive, Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Evo 2025 highlights the state of the game before this arrival. Sure, it’s also a big Arc World Tour qualifier and just a spectacular tournament!
We are approaching the end of Season 4 in Guilty Gear Strive (GGST). The game already has more characters than any other instalment in the series, and Strive remains alive on the casual and top-most competitive levels.
Evo is always a great celebration of fighting games and the community in general. In 2025, GGST is part of the main lineup again. We can witness the amazing miracles on the big stage and get ourselves prepared for the Cyberpunk vibes coming to Strive.
The tournament itself is extremely important for the GGST esports professionals. It’s a Platinum+ qualifier for the Arc World Tour 2025. The winner advances directly to the finals event, and the top participants receive an increased amount of standing points.
Everything about Guilty Gear Strive Evo 2025 is here!
Where to watch GGST Evo Las Vegas 2025: Stream
The Guilty Gear Strive tournament opened the final day at Evo Las Vegas 2025. You can watch the official stream right here.
Lucy in Guilty Gear Strive: A guest character from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
This girl is the first guest character in Guilty Gear Strive. Lucy originates in the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Arc System Works revealed more details on her during GGST Evo 2025.
The release date for Lucy in Guilty Gear Strive is Aug. 21. Here is the gameplay trailer.
Guilty Gear Strive 2.0
A new chapter for Guilty Gear Strive was announced at Evo 2025. We don't know much detail yet. The new version is named GGST 2.0, and it's coming in 2026. It's still pretty exciting, isn't it?
Results: Guilty Gear Strive Evo 2025
In this section, you’ll find the final standings, top 8 brackets, and a tournament overview.
Guilty Gear Strive is the main game of the official global league Arc World Tour 2025 (AWT 2025). At Evo 2025, GGST has a Platinum+ qualifier, so the battle at this fighting games esports event is exceptional.
Final standings
Placement | Player | Character | AWT 2025 points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kshuewhatdamoo | Johnny | AWT 2025 Finals, 400 |
| 2 | RedDitto | Ramlethal | 200 |
| 3 | Aboii | Potemkin | 90 |
| 4 | tatuma | Sol Badguy | 40 |
| 5-6 | Paragon | Jack | Happy Chaos | 24 |
| 5-6 | Paragon | Daru_I-No | I-No | 24 |
| 7-8 | Verix | Nagoriyuki | 16 |
| 7-8 | Team Factor | Precho | Goldlewis | 16 |
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Top 8
On the upper side, we have the winner of GGST Evo Japan 2025, Daru_I-No. He faces Kshuewhatdamoo, who is rather new to the top-level esports scene. Still, Kshuewhatdamoo won CEO 2025 and was 4th at Combo Breaker 2025.
RedDitto, the Champion of ARC World Tour 2024, is in the parallel brackets.
In the lower brackets, Verix makes his way back to the top level Guilty Gear Strive. He is the ARC World Tour 2023 Champion! Verix got a pretty difficult opponent: Tatuma was the grand finalist at GGST Evo 2024.
Final brackets
Winners Semifinals | Winners Final | Grand Final | Grand Final Reset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aboii 3:0 RedDitto Potemkin vs Ramlethal | Aboii 2:3 Kshuewhatdamoo Potemkin vs Johnny | Kshuewhatdamoo 0:3 RedDitto Johnny vs Ramlethal | Kshuewhatdamoo 3:0 RedDitto Johnny vs Ramlethal |
| Kshuewhatdamoo 3:1 Daru_I-No Johnny vs I-No |
Losers Round 1 | Losers Quarterfinals | Losers Semifinal | Losers Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verix 2:3 tatuma Nagoriyuki vs Sol | Daru_I-No 1:3 tatuma I-No vs Sol | tatuma 1:3 RedDitto Sol vs Ramlethal | Aboii 2:3 RedDitto Potemkin vs Ramlethal |
| Precho 1:3 Jack Goldlewis vs Happy Chaos | RedDitto 3:2 Jack Ramlethal vs Happy Chaos |
Kshuewhatdamoo is the Guilty Gear Strive Evo 2025 Champion!
In the top 8 brackets, Kshuewhatdamoo had some seemingly easy matches and some disastrously difficult battles. He started with defeating Daru_I-No, the Evo Japan 2025 Champion. Then, Kshuewhatdamoo performed an impressive reverse sweep against Aboii.
The grand final started awfully for Kshuewhatdamoo. RedDitto reset the brackets with 0:3. Really strong mentality is needed to recover from that. And Kshuewhatdamoo did it! In the decisive match, he won with 3:0.
A great thing about this tournament is that everyone in the top 8 played different GGST characters. Kshuewhatdamoo won on one of the DLCs, Johnny. RedDitto made through the loser brackets with Ramlethal. Even Potemkin was here!
A great match to note is Verix versus tatuma. It was another reverse sweep at GGST Evo 2025. Verix was on the match point, and still tatuma completed his comeback.
Jack defeated Nitro, the Evo 2024 Guilty Gear Strive Champion, even in the top 24 brackets. He brought the match versus RedDitto to the last game but couldn't advance further.
As the GGST Evo 2025 Champion, Kshuewhatdamoo earns a spot at AWT 2025-2026 Finals.
The Arc World Tour 2025 features quite a few other qualifiers that are planned after Evo Las Vegas. The next Platinum event is Ultimate Fighting Arena 2025, from Sept. 12 to Sept. 14.
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