- This article is about the Takara Tomy release. For the Hasbro release, see Guilty Luinor L7 Karma-Q Guard-Q+Destroy-2.
Guilty Longinus Karma Metal Destroy-2 (ギルティロンギヌス・カルマ・メタルデストロイ-2, Giruti Ronginusu Karuma Metaru Desutoroi-2) is an Attack Type Beyblade released by Takara Tomy as part of the Burst System as well as the Dynamite Battle Layer System. It was released as a Booster in Japan on September 11th, 2021 for 1650円.
It is the successor to Rage Longinus Destroy' 3A.
DB Core - Longinus
- Main article: DB Core - Longinus
Takara Tomy's Longinus is a left-spin DB Core that features two metal dragon heads with lance details meant to invoke the DB Core's namesake, the Lance of Longinus from Christian folklore. The design is reminiscent of its predecessors, particularly of the Nightmare Longinus Layer and Longinus Gatinko Chip. Longinus features three Locks, including one extra thick Lock, creating high Burst Resistance. Longinus also has a gimmick: the DB Core has two metal dragon heads, making it the heaviest left-spin DB Core and the third heaviest DB Core overall. The heavy weight of the metal dragon heads generates high inertia which increases a Longinus combination's Knockout and Burst Attack potential.
Blade - Guilty
- Main article: Blade - Guilty (Takara Tomy)
Takara Tomy's Guilty is a left-spin Attack Type Blade with two small blades and two large blades, and is almost identical in shape to its predecessor, the Zwei Base, albeit larger. The aggressive shape of Guilty's blades produce excellent Smash Attack, and are sloped upwards to produce Upper Attack. Guilty has the most powerful Smash Attack in the game, due to a combination of its aggressive design, wide shape, and excellent Outward Weight Distribution (OWD).
Guilty features six of the signature metal dragon heads of the Longinus line of Layers: four are located on the top of the large blades, with two on the underside. The six metal dragon heads results in a very heavy weight; Guilty is the heaviest Blade in the Dynamite Battle Layer System, at 17 grams. The heavy weight of Guilty creates high inertia which increases the Layer's Knockout (KO) and Burst Attack potential.
The heavy weight of Guilty requires Attack Type Drivers with rubber flat tips, which have higher speeds than plastic-tipped Drivers. Furthermore, as a result of its aggressive design, Guilty also has significant recoil. As such, Drivers such as Xtreme' and Quick' are recommended, as they have controllable movement patterns that help control Guilty's recoil. However, in wide stadiums such as the Beystadium DB Standard Type, traditional Attack Type Drivers are weaker as the chance of knocking out opponents is reduced. Thus, Drivers with high Stamina and Life-After-Death (LAD), such as Metal Universe and Zone'+Z, are recommended.
As a result of its high performance, Guilty has remained a staple of the meta since its release, and is the strongest left-spin Attack Type Layer in the game.
Armor - 2
- Main article: Armor - 2
Takara Tomy's 2 is an Armor with two pointed ends opposite to each other. The two-sided shape has an even weight distribution at two opposite points to increase Attack.
Forge Disc - Karma
- Main article: Forge Disc - Karma
Karma is a DB Disc with ten upward sloping blades along its perimeter, meant to create Upper Force in left-spin and Down Force in right-spin. It is essentially the DB Disc version of Nine. In theory, the blades increase the grip of the Beyblade on the Stadium floor with Down Force and decrease the friction between the Beyblade and the Stadium floor with Upper Force. In practice however, the effect is negligible and the blades reduce the Life-After-Death (LAD) of Karma. Due to its shape and weight distribution, Karma works best in Attack combinations.
Performance Tip - Metal Destroy
- Main article: Performance Tip - Metal Destroy
Metal Destroy features an eight-pointed star tip, akin to Jaggy, under a free-spinning plate that sits at a standard height. It is the Metal Lock Driver version of the Destroy Performance Tip, featuring a Metal Lock and a stronger spring, increasing weight and Burst Resistance. The Metal Lock has shorter tabs than standard and Dash Locks, resulting in lower Burst Resistance, despite the stronger spring. There is a mold variation of Metal Destroy: initial releases of Metal Destroy have the original Metal Lock design, which can damage a Layer's teeth. All subsequent reprints of Metal Lock Drivers from October 2021 onward feature a running change that shortens the tabs, reducing Burst Resistance but also the likelihood of causing damage to a Layer.
Due to the tip's shape and diameter, Metal Destroy will create an aggressive movement pattern equivalent to Jaggy with the same moderately controllable movement pattern and speed.
What sets Metal Destroy apart from Jaggy is the free-spinning plate that is meant to stabilize a Beyblade if it is knocked off balance by creating a second point of contact with only minimal Stamina loss due to its free spinning nature. Unlike other Tips with similar gimmicks such as Cycle and Guard, the low placement of Metal Destroy's plate ensures that lock up does not occur, meaning that Destroy's gimmick works as intended.
While Metal Destroy has poor Stamina from the star shaped tip, the smooth perimeter and free-spinning nature of the plate also grants Metal Destroy high Life-After-Death which can allow Combinations to potentially Out-Spin their opponent if a Burst or Knock-Out has not been achieved.
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- Like its predecessors Lost Longinus Nine Spiral, Nightmare Longinus Destroy, Bloody Longinus 13 Jolt, Zwei Longinus Drake Spiral' Metsu, and Rage Longinus Destroy' 3A, Guilty Longinus' name is based on the word "guilty", a term to describe a culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing, and St. Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus during his Crucifixion in Christian mythology.
- Guilty Longinus' avatar is similar to Rage Longinus' avatar with alterations:
- The entire body frame is now sleeker.
- The wings are now armored with five plating.
- A completely white head with four red eyes, violet crests with gold borders, and white extension on each cheek.
- Violet sections on the base of the neck behind the head, the jagged collar around the clavicle area, the hip region and upper leg, the sharp calves, the inner tail, and the two large, and the jagged extensions at the two lower wing plating.
- Gray upper arms and nails on each upper and lower claws.
- Gold sections on the wings, hip region and each knee pad.
- A flame-style tail stinger.
- Two violet orbs: one on the chest and the second on the tail stinger's base.
- Four silver blades with cerulean markings as part of the wings.
- Cyan flames on the back of each neck spine toward the spines running down the tail, lower mandible, inner neck, torso, each inner toe and inner claw, and the base of the tail stinger.
- And each thick forearm has two dragon heads.
- Guilty Longinus is the last of four Dynamite Battle System Beyblades to include an Evolution Gear add-on piece for Dynamite Belial Nexus Venture-2, the first being Vanish Fafnir Tapered Kick-3, the second being Savior Valkyrie Shot-7, and the third being Astral Spriggan Over Quattro-0.
- This Beyblade reuses the 2 Armor from Dynamite Belial Nexus Venture-2.