They gave him no buffs and halved the stun on his flying headbutt, you can’t make this shit up.
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Somebody at Capcom must have a feed of all Gief wins, and just takes each piece out slowly.
Its bad enough when an SPD whiffs, yet your whole character model goes through the enemy, sometimes their width again behind them…
Ive learned I cant use Fierce spds because they never land.
Fierce SPD range is really low.
Best way to use it is after a st HP crush counter. Do a micro walk and use it. Then dash and you will be in position to either land another one or mix up with something else.
Other than that, ex SPD is your friend.
Trust me dude
His headbutt>exairspd is some good stuff if u know how to use it
I already rely it quite often in real match
Very good stuff when opponent are in the corner and trying to jump over your SPD
also excellent when you are waking up with full super bar, they love to vertical jump over you when u just wake up in order to prevent your 720, super good chance to let them eat your headbutt>360
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HP SPD is a post oki SPD. Basically you’re supposed to land an EX SPD first, then HP SPD becomes a thing. Which is scary because if you land the HP SPD it gives you the same oki to dash up and HP SPD again. Which is why people usually panic and start jumping once they get caught by a HP SPD because if they dont try to get out they’ll get looped by 220 damage throws until they’re dead. Lower ranked players usually start jumping immediately after you land the first EX SPD on the first oki and that’s when you can just smash meaty buttons and ticks in their face and make them take more damage until they’re dead. Since this is SFV you can even wait for them to jump then jump up with them into air SPD. Which just like the ground SPDs, the stronger air SPD you use, the better oki you will get. HP/EX air SPDs will start HP SPD loops.
You can even dash up c.LP vs 3 framers after a landed EX or HP SPD and you can tick into another HP SPD. On hit or block. So if they get hit by c.LP they can take a tick HP SPD and if they block still can take it. Just gotta know the timings.
This is basic oki chart for Gief. If you’re not doing what’s in this video you’re likely struggling to grab people with Gief. Especially check the SPD and air SPD parts.
If you happen to get close enough to the opponent to land a f+MK on hit or whiff it in front of them you can also get it there as far as neutral goes. Like Bea said can get it after s.HP shit also and then start the party.
If you land an EX or HP SPD, smart opponents usually just let you dash in and get one HP SPD in if they’re not going to get stunned. It sucks for them and it does a lot of damage to them but its worse to try to jump out, get c.LP’d reset out of the air into a meaty button and then take another one for even more damage. Not smart to try jumping out until after you block a c.LP or take your first HP SPD. That way you can get a better read to jump out of a tick into grab later.
Snip of Gief beating jumping hit boxes with flying headbutt air to air into air EX SPD.
The hit box isn’t huge, but its completely red so that means it will beat anything that comes in contact with it from the air with correct timing. You can’t beat it out with much any air to air and can stuff. Can stuff EX dive kicks and such as well. Then they have to deal with HP SPD oki on wake up.
It’s not all bad this season. Now that Abigail has been castrated, at least Itazan and Snake will pick up Gief again.
I think you mean Itazan will pick Alex and become Italex.
At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
And why does your cat look like Hitler.
Because she has a moustache and when I visited the shelter to adopt a kitty, I couldn’t help but notice it.
Whence, she became my cat. And turned to be quite the lap thief too.
With a most adorable moustache.
Don’t forget the other nerf: Gief lost his corner v-reversal into CA combo, too.
Not to mention the fact that the combo scaling on crush counters hurts also. Sure, crush counters do less damage to Gief, but more often is the situation where Gief baits out an EX reversal and gets a huge punish. Now it doesn’t do as much damage. So that’s another setup per match we have to guess correctly on. Yippee.
That said, I haven’t had much chance to try out the headbutt-EX air SPD yet. Even still, the changes from 3.5 clearly hurt Zangief more than they help him.
And I doubt Itabashi or Snake Eyez will pick up Gief again any time soon. Nevertheless, I’m still fighting the good fight! And I recently hit Plat 
I think Itazan will pick up Gief again, who else would he main (besides Alex)?
All in all, I think the CC scaling benefits Gief, as his real problems lie in defense (no invincible EX, no 3-framer). His damage potential is just fine. In my opinion, Gief only needs one major buff to be competitive, and that’s EX Siberian Express armor from frame 1. As it is now, he’s completely helpless in every situation where he is minus. You can’t reverse outside of CA, and no 3-framer means you have to sit and block fake frame traps all day.
https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status/984057117408546818
He actually is playing Gief again already.
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STU still repping with the Gief.
Gotta admire his devotion!!
He has been playing Rob at tournaments instead.
Forgive me but who is Rob?? No trolling here i’ve never heard that nickname used for a fighter.
I meant Rog, of Balrog.
Mistyped it.
Ah ok yeah i’ve seen that on WNF!!
Rog is his pocket fighter when Gief gets wasted.