[quote=“fatboy, post:485, topic:50715”]
See. I look at this differntly. Gian/ Alex Wolfe are not agressive. From watching these two you feel it is all about positoin. You can’t get in on them, they slowly push you into the corner.
well, when he was talking about “aggressive zoning” he meant pushing the opponent into the corner but since neither of us really understood what he meant in the first place the argument becomes somewhat moot.
i’ve watched the videos on all of them, but i couldn’t tell you the various styles of who and what. so take whatever i say with a grain of salt.
when i read “aggressive zoning” i thought he meant moving forward (walking/drill/slide) to maintain the half-screen to 3/4 screen distance where dhalsim is most deadly. watching gian (owning casuals 2k5), he doesn’t back off even against zangief. he just crawls forward against everyone and anyone not only to push his opponent into a corner, but also to maintain optimum positioning (where i’m sure fatboy and i agree). to me this is aggressive for dhalsim (where i think we disagree).
now i’m not saying the way i play is right, wrong, better, or worse. i’m just trying to say what i would constitute as a passive dhalsim vs an aggressive dhalsim. what i do if i’m playing passively, i will back off of the optimum distance and even back myself into a corner during a match and force the opponent to attempt to make up a full screen distance at all times. if i’m playing aggressively, then i’m always within a half-screen distance of my opponent attempting to bait or dizzy my opponent.
to me passive would be playing outside of 3/4 of a screen from your opponent and aggressive is within that distance. with gian, he plays within that distance so i see him as aggressive.
with fatboy’s definition (i could be mistaken and don’t want to be placing wrong words or ideas), my understanding is a passive (cautionary is probably a better term) dhalsim plays a slow and steady game to control spacing whereas an aggressive dhalsim will take much more risks (pokes, jabs, drills, slides, grab attempts, random fbs n flames) where spacing is less significant. under such a definition, gian would be a non-aggressive dhalsim.
anyway, tomato tomoto. potato, pototo…
yoga,
krimson