The one thing that worries me a bit about no green hand is that I don’t see how Gief gets to stay in his opponent’s face after landing a hit on them. It’s like anything other than a throw means he’s going to have to work his way in again.
The way I typically envision the pure grappler archetype, you have a hard time closing the gap, but once you’re in, you’re a monster. Not sure how this applies right now.
That crappy Zangief must be garbage! He beat Momochi but lets face it Momochi is a free scrub anyway. He doesn’t know anything about footsies. Its clear that a random Gief could own him for free without thinking.
i think when people figure gief out, it would be more in line with the first round momochi won where he dominated. He only lost because he wasn’t respecting the match up imo.
Good to see one of the old legends of SF posting here. Good write up and it’ll be interesting to see if you main Gief. Be good to see you in some tourneys again.
too bad that I don’t just watched videos but played Zangeif for more than 7 hours.
and DevilJin is a scrub who begs fpr free money to get a ps4, so I don’t take him serious, he is a capcom d**k rider and thats all.
I don’t even main Zangief in SF4, I mained him an the Alpha series and all vs games where he was ingame.
but nice try. I’m not a whiny kid, I just give my criticism and opinion about zangief and i’m not alone with this opinion, nearly everyone I know who played him shares the opinion with me, they just don’t say anything because they care about "disagree and wtf"stats, ayyy .
Every new character is in the new beta except Zangief, I think it’s because he is like half done yet, maybe he is not perfect right now and thats ok since it’s a beta.
and now calm your tits, you’re anoying as hell.
Metrokard, if you are getting a hands on please try a few things, first post a picture of the move list for us, second see if he has his dizzying headbutts (UP+MP or HP) on neutral jumps, and please post lots of footage if you have anyone who can film it
i tried him out and went 5 for 6 lost to a Necalli a few things have been changed no more kick lariat and his running bear grab is half circle and from what i saw he dosnt have atomic suplex when hes close to them. i was not able to pull off any combos…i got like one grab off of crush counter…and one 2 hits combo with lariat. his spd is close to what it is in 4 in that you can catch people in between throwing out normals which i did a few times…but the distance isn’t that good…2 jabs and its like they are out of range. his standing mp is a good poke but a little slow…and his fierce i think is pretty good along with his forward fierce which i think can be used as poke also its pretty fast. i did not see any air headbutts…but in all honesty i didn’t try to do that and i should have. I feel he has the tools but hes missing something like green hand for combos…all in all i have to have more time with him before i really pass judgement on him
i think it was forward to back for the running bear grab… the forward fierce is the headbutt that does negates fireballs. for the air spd im going to be honest i forgot the input but i think it was a full 360 because dont quote me on that …one thing about the air spd…if you do the regular he stays up in the air for a bit…kinda like haggar in marvel 3 …but if you do the ex he drops straight down so you dont get hung up in the air.