"For Mother Russia!" Zangief Video Thread

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^In case nobody’s seen it yet. If you ever feel down after losing to a Seth/Dhalsim, watch this to get you motivated. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I’m really struggling to figure out what he could have done in that match. It just seemed like his only hope was for Ricky to make mistakes, of which he made too few to capitalize on.

Either way I agree, he made us proud.

Honestly looking at vangiefs matches its pretty easy to see that vance was taken off guard my infiltrations akuma. Hell infiltration is one of the most interesting akumas i have seen.

Although i feel van could have done better against ricky since ricky was spaming hk couldnt he have just used crouching jab into ex hand i think that would made the match much easier

Here are the first two matches of a money match i did vs spriggan last night he plays a mean Adon.
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If you want to see more they are on humbags channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/Humbag

Yeah, I’m not a big Akuma fan but Infiltration really had a fun to watch Akuma. Much respect to him.

Interesting set.

I didn’t know once he’s deep enough you can lp SPD his flip kick. People always neutral jump after that and i eat combo. Guess I’m not fast enough.

That jumping knees x3 > ultra was hilarious.

practicing the walk up 720 i almost have it down
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O when o when am I going to get some Gief vs Juri, Hawk, Makoto, Guy?

I know other than the Hawk match up, this is “suppose” to be in Gief’s favor, but these characters seem to have very good zoning tools adn AA’s against Gief.

Purple, Brown belt stuff is fine. Doesn’t need to be SF4 black belts sparring.

Here are some matches vs a good friend who has a nice Zangief:

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^^^ Yeah bro, he had some pretty good block confirming skills. I like that Blanka a lot, really beastly with those point blank slides and reversal electricity.

does anyone know the name of the video where zangief is just spamming the jumping headbutt and theres funny music while hes doing it?? i’ve been trying to look that video and i cant find it. it was one of the videos on the home page of srk.

Zangitroll?

Zangitroll?

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Heres me at Area 13 vs Big Marcus top 32 at evo and I would say one of the top 3 midwest players along with floe and wolfkrone. I lose the first match win the second one so stick around.

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Ouch, yeah, it’s really bad if gief is at the distance of Rufus’ cr.HP. That’s the distance he wants gief at because he can pretty much react to everything gief does. You have to get next to him so gief’s st.mp or cr.lp/cr.lk will beat out his pokes.

Joe needs to STOP jumping. There’s no need to jump at that point, it’s just impatient. He has 99 seconds to win the match. I would only use lariat on reaction if possible as if you guess with it you will get punished.

focus backdash the cr.hp to build ultra, or mix between st mp - st mk, or just block. damage limitation. He walked into too much stuff.

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I’m having serious problems with good Ryus lately. I know that Ryu is a tough match for Gief, but lately I just can NOT get past the zoning. I see this match and it mirrors the same things I’m seeing in my matches. Is there ANYONE out there taking down GOOD Ryus recently, and more importantly, consistently? Doesn’t matter if I use U1 or U2, I just face these same problems that Vangief has in here.

I think he could have taken it if he didn’t drop his combos. He got a little greedy on that first combo. He also screwed up on the cr.lk into exgh that one time and ppp lariat came out. When I used to use pad, I used my right thumb and index fingers to hit the pp but I think vangief uses left trigger for ppp so if he screwes up, he gets lariat. I’m glad I moved onto stick now though.