Zangief General Thread: Our Russian Skies Are Protected

More footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2e3FCCZpXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBt8ohU-s78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMoag0HEaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRuVwmJcHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixABhwSEqo

He either has a cr.mk like Hugo and his sweep doesn’t knockdown, or his command normal sweep (which looks like his traditional sweep) doesn’t knockdown.

Is that Siberian Blizzard-esque air throw a command grab with special motion inputs or is it just the LK+LP throw? Because if it is a regular air throw, then that cinematic is going to grow old and feel tiringly long very quickly.

I believe Mika can combo into her grab CA, too.

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He combos into super from a jab at 1:51 in this video.

His super does 2 hits normally, but as you can see it says 3 hits here.

Pretty sure its a special motion since he does an ex version of it in the trailer. I like how it keeps him in the air when he wiffs it i wonder if he can bait out antiairs with that.

Based Russians, they showed us every move Gief has :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VseYC8JcIxA&index=7&list=PLpyttNGQ4YB6vzLpepYbNk5zHz4FUM1Iq

The body press & the knee drop are back and he has new command move, a jumping knee attack, which moves forward and isn’t an overhead (Forward Medium kick ?) and that headbutt (decent anti air)
HP is that Hulk’s move, can be charged like Mika’s HK.
A lot of his old tools.
The running bear grab looks cool with that new animation.
He jumped before the CA, I assume that’s a 720 + PPP

Anyone take a picture of the command list? Come on Russia!

I don’t understand why people are so upset with his reveal. It’s the Gief. The grandfather of 2D grapplers.

You got your Karin, R.Mika, & Birdie but people are salty because this wasn’t Alex, Sakura, Urien, or Dhalsim?

Seriously?

Fucking Dhalsim?

Zzzzzzzzzzz

For people like me, it’s because we’re sick and saturated of them. I would of rather seen a face that we haven’t seen in a while or ever. I got hype during the vega and bison reveals because they’ve been my go to characters forever but once the hype died down I realized that a returning cast consisting of all the 3S characters omitted from IV would of been a lot nicer.

Will the zangief demo be today? It’s looking like it’ll be tomorrow…

It’s easy, nobody are watching it with bussiness sight. If i were Capcom, i will get a classic and rare (alpha) characters, for new players there will be practicaly 8 new characters and 8 characters that everyone knows.

Then after that i just cash out the most requested ones like Alex, Urien, Sean, Juri, etc. It’s plain and simple, and people will forget about all this drama when their favorite character is announced.

From russian forum. One guy said that his grabs are 360, and also this was mentioned in 1 of the videos.

According to video, they had no move list.

Dhalsim is an awesome character and I really hope he makes the cut. At the same time I’m glad Zangief is in too. Both are great.

Capcom needs to upgrade Zangief’s damage. NOW. His SPD does like 15% to Mika. Shit is ridiculous.

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Sounds about the same damage as Mika and Birdies jab command throws which do 150 or so.

Mika also has high health.

No green hand has me intrigued… I didn’t really enjoy Gief’s approach style when it was dependent on approach normals, green hand buffers and altering jump arcs. It seems like they want Gief to play much more in the mid range and then go for SPD’s as and when the opportunity presents itself, not as his primary threat, which is why I enjoyed playing Hugo so much.

RBG sped up looking like meat squasher, hop knee, armoured st.hp, there’s definitely some Hugo flavour going on here.

This is probably the best iteration of gief since marvel, headbutting fucking fireballs, armor on some moves, multiple armor it looks like in SUCCESSION, more ways to eat projectiles besides that god damn green hand and he gains a better spinning lariat, PLUS all of his moves do a alot of damage, even his lights probably do like 60-80 or at worst 40 for fuck sake, oh my god.

The reveal is a snoozer because he’s gief though and the hype train is based on character choices alone.
They gave him the oh shit factor he alone did not have like hugo or thawk or his pre sf4 iterations :slight_smile:

I think it would have been ingenius for Zangief to hold the pose for a three count, the bell ringing and then sending them straight through the surface.

If the opponent has any HP left after the CA they break the hold.

CALM DOWN GIEF, IT’S JUST A LITTLE GIRL

Dhalsim is still coming, if you’ve paid attention to the leak list that has been spot on up to this point.

And yes people were expecting characters that weren’t seen in awhile just like the rest of the Alpha cast and not be reserved for DLC. Is that so hard to comprehend?