"For Mother Russia!" Zangief Video Thread

Do not PPP lariat against guile fireballs. Do not lariat sonic booms at all unless you are half a screen or more away, otherwise he will punish your lariat recovery. Do not fadc FORWARD through fireballs, you will eat a spinning backfist then lots of counter hit spinning backfists. You want to minimise the damage you take trying to get in by just walking forward and blocking. Don’t always walk forward straight after blocking a sonic boom every single time because guile will look for that spinning backfist as soon as you press forward. Jumping MK is your main tool for getting in. You need to be doing it close enough so that if you jump over a boom, the best guile can do is block.

Don’t always cross guile up when you have him cornered after knockdown - he has a slow reversal so you can safe jump him with knees, splash or whatever.

If you jump t him and he blocks, go straight for fierce SPD rather than jab then spd.

Resist the urge to jump at guile when he is holding down back, you are AlWAYS going to get flash kicked.

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@ WorstGiefEVER thanks for the advice I haven’t really try to use J.MK I will give this a try, I have sometimes connected a Lariat after dodging a sonic boom but only because Guile will press forward HP Lariat beats that right away but I will safe that when I am sure of it. Thaks for the tip on cornered Guiles I always do crossups.

@ Aquasilk after that tournament I started using U2 it has whiff 2 times now > 1 Flash kick > 1 Ex up Ball but I continue to do my best.

Thanks for the tips though =)

vs abel, why are you jumping like it is super mario bros? you don’t need to jump. And when you do jump and are close to him you are not using knees or splash and your jumps are not ambiguous. Be more patient, you have 99 seconds, use them. You don’t need to finish the fight in 20 seconds.

  1. Stop Jumping.

  2. Stop wakeup EX-Banishing flats.

  3. Stop repeating your mistakes, the enemy wont mix it up if it isnt blocked…

  4. Whiffpunishg with OS - Light XX EX-GH!

  5. If you do jump, mix up short jump kneedrop whiff aa grab and normal mk…

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This is a vid of my zangief in a tournament winners final one month and a half ago, i´ve started playing him recentlly (my main is rufus) and this was my first tournament with him:

ADFT 2011

I improved quite bit since then specially in blockstrings and u1 setups (also missing a few OS) that I really wasn´t using a lot. But still any advice is welcome , I´m really liking gief.

Towards the end of the first round, why are you walking backwards? You are gief. Walk forwards. Don’t do desperation green hands to try and win a match (I am guilty of this myself). Use ambiguous knees on Sakura after knockdown, she can’t do much about it.

@WorstGiefEVER Jumping like Mario Bros :rofl: I guess I craked :rofl: since that was match point to advance to grand finals, I abused the jump because that Abel does not do c.MK as anti air, I have been practicing knees (Even though I don’t know wich side will land) more frequent now, I dont do cross up only now I will fight more patient now thanks :karate:

@Veggey

  1. Stop Jumping. > I know this already will work on it. :sweat:

  2. Stop wakeup EX-Banishing flats. > Hard to do but easily possible.

  3. Stop repeating your mistakes, the enemy wont mix it up if it isnt blocked… > :tup:

  4. Whiffpunishg with OS - Light XX EX-GH! > will do!

  5. If you do jump, mix up short jump kneedrop whiff aa grab and normal mk… > Nice I will try this

Thanks for the feedback Zangiefs Khorosho! :rock:

@Sharin!

For some reason i thought you where a poor player. But i was nifty surprised when i watched your video! You have a good Zangief, strong on foot and good with mixups and reads!!! =D

I dont know the level of the Sakura, but i do know that you can abuse c.lk XX EXGH - OS in that matchup like sakura didnt know what hit her. It beats all her pokes, and at worst trades. At the right space.

i haven’t been on here in a while but i thought i would leave this here

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i started using it vs viper lol [media=youtube]qNXJdzFZOiY[/media]

it’s online so… yeah anyway. you need to send me invites to your room …

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at 4:40 you will see a perfect bait but because of the shitty grab box… i lost the game oh well

Some Gief AE shenanigans (Starts around the 31:00 mark)

Justin.tv - teamsp00ky - Guard Crush Revival - Next Level Arcade, NY - Featuring the trailer of I Got Next!

Also a good fight against Arturo’s Dhalsim (AE)

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Yea sure man, I added you so hit me up whenever you like

omfg in that ass like activator …vs arturo… i played him at south florida shodown in casuals and got owned lol. time to take some of your tricks .

wow those matches at guard crush was pretty crazy…good shit.

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Death to Guile.

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Any feedback/criticism would be greatly appreciated.

Each one of your short lariats could be punished by “Headbut, EX-Upper, Ultra etc.” im not trying to be mean, but you played very dangerously vs. this balrog.

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a small combo video i did… nothing to crazy but show some damn support giefers lol …jk

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the video shows me doing the combos with input display, showing my genuine inputs and it was done with a camera so, yeah :slight_smile:

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