This is just ridiculous for me to fight, most of the time I’m better than the Zangief but I still always get beat by something totally random, its so stupid. Help?
It’s impossible to give you advice if we have no idea what you’re doing wrong… you need to post some videos or explain your situations. Maybe what you think is ‘something random’ is actually you being very predictable and Gief is calling you out on it.
Zang can’t att you if you boom correctly,he jump you have Air Throw or many other anti air, be carefull if he has Meter.Try to never be knock down Guile is very weak on Cross Up against this type of char.
The secret to winning at this matchup is…
Spacing.
Learn your spacing between your character and your opponent. Figure out where you have the advantage as well as your opponent’s. Learn that and the majority of your uphill battle will already be completed on this matchup.
i usually lame zangiefs out. I play super lame against him. But yeah man you have to get the spacing down, so you don’t get knocked down by ex green hands. but hard to give you specific tips if i can’t see you play or not knowing exactly what you are having trouble with. Read the sticky here about character matchups.
And you’ve already checked the matchup thread, right? Quite the Zangief infoz in thar.
Just my two cents but I like watching their meter as I keep them away with my booms and once they have EX and are in green hand range, I jab and then neutral jump into whatever combo I want. Usually starting with mk. Don’t back yourself into the corner and if you have the space to safe boom and you know he likes to lariat, you can always jump in and do a b&b combo (sometimes including the slow SB you threw out if you hit him at the same time as it’s passing through him) and then regain space you lost. Basicly bait EX green hands as try try trrrrrrrrrrrrry not to get knocked down. If you start losing space, try to get it back before you land in the corner.
if the zangief u face doesnt get a knockdown on you and he doesn’t op-select or gets you dizzy while you try to escape, he sucks! once zangief score a knockdown it should be over…, just my two cents, play it lame, dont give an inch, df-hk works good on him