I think its the shortfall of V. The game’s risk and reward lends to certain types of characters being more viable, with certain evolutionary genetics or character traits being more advantageous than others.
Street Fighter V is survival of the fittest, and grapplers have to evolve or face extinction. Sadly Zangief was not meant for this SFV world.
R.I.P Snake Eyez (Zangief). Anyone care to write the eulogy? Any Zangief fans attending to pay their respects?
On a more brighter note. HELLO Snake Eyez (Alex) !!!
hey guys, in neutral i’ve been seeing itazan use st.mp a lot in footsies, but what is this giving me that cr.lp doesn’t? is it just the damage+possible hit confirm or what? cr.lp just seems like such a better check
It’s is the fastest medium. Better damage and can frame trap off of cr jab because is it 6 frames. Only plus one on block through. Gief must use all buttons
Fuck whoever thought it was a good idea for the Guile Sonic Barrage (V-trigger) to go full screen looking all rainbow edition. So far it’s odd most want to play Guile like Nash in that they are going in, I’ve had like two who played it the “correct way” and yeah I didn’t fare so well.
I have the same problem you have. Some matches I display good patience. I like your match with Rasheed. You displayed good patience and allowed the match to come to you in order to counter. In the match with Ken esp that first round, you went too aggressive.
I am still getting use to this as well as I am use to playing very aggressively.
I was patient because I can DO NOTHING against rashid’s typhoon spamming
I can only wait and let him lose patience, and then come up to me for other possible fight :s
After 45 min in the video, they are more Zangief fights vs ken
just bought an arcade stick earlier, still getting used to it, im now back at super silver(damn), any stick user here? whats the best restrictor gate for gief? planning on getting an octagon , not really feeling the square gate
You do realise your execution will drop at first, until you adjust.
I’ve used all three types, octogate, circle gate and square gate. And I think square is the best overall, because you can find the diagonals. Thus can easily crouch block, back and forward jump.
You’ll have problems with octogate, when those points aren’t well defined. Blocking and the likes is more harder.
Just practice, and don’t ride the gate! Don’t trace any squares! Just draw circles.
Sanwa JLF square gate seems to be the standard, with plenty of room for execution error
I use a Seimitsu LS-32 which is also a square gate, but its a much smaller square gate (throw/engage distance), which makes it quicker to do commands like 360 etc, but the margin of error is not as forgiving.
probably need to compare the feel of the gates before having mine replaced…thing thats pissing me off is my c.lp spd tick throws the spd comes out but as an air spd happens mos of the time when im on the right side
It doesn’t make me feel good to say this, but nobody believed me a month ago when I said it was only a matter of time til snake dropped gief. This game depresses the hell out of me. Not fun to play grapplers, and just about no giefs to watch…
So, if one player dropping Zangief is enough to discourage you to this extent then just copy him and play somebody else. Honestly, Snake could stop playing grapplers in SFV and I wouldn’t care. Better to play a character that you have fun with instead of struggle to enjoy the game.
If you want to watch a high level Zangief, follow Itazan who was a top ranked japanese Zangief in SF4 (Itabashi Zangief). Honestly, I like his Zangief over Snake’s easily.
You can play a character for any reason you want bro. Whatever makes you wet. I’m just a huge fan of Snake Eyez, and how he’s refined, defined and re-defined the landscape of playing Zangief. His countless hours and countless contributions. But he’s under immense pressure to shape up or ship out.
SFV has certainly changed the landscape of character play style - suppose Alex is the reincarnation of USF4 Zangief? And Snake feels more at home that way. To what end, would you guys still continue to play Zangief, even if he was a total stranger, a completely different character. Like if he had no command grabs, a shoryuken, hadouken and a tatsu?
To each their very own, but I REFUSE to believe, not for a moment, that Capcom are a bunch of incompetent fuckwitts. As much as it is duly noted regarding Combofiend’s personal bias towards grapplers, I expect much better. Even a monkey could design a more balanced grappler meta game than what we’ve seen thus far. So I’m inclined to believe there’s more to the saga and a greater purpose. Perhaps its in the details. But they’re get it right, if they haven’t already done so.
Congratulations, to everyone who’s still playing Zangief. I’m sure your making Snake Eyez proud. Rep that Russian Hard!!! RESPECT.
Snake dropping gief didn’t discourage me, I was already VERY discouraged. Look back and see I’ve posted about it for some time. When you’re already discouraged, seeing one of the best players also drop the character is kind of the nail in the coffin though.
I do agree with evansgambit about the grappler meta though, its completely horrible. It doesn’t feel right at all.
