Zangief General Thread: Our Russian Skies Are Protected

Can you do this:

Charged HP Crush Counter -> Activate V-Trigger -> Suck the opponent in -> Critical Art ?

https://youtu.be/EPK_kvOdniY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4bQnNngUxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UYwi4pP0

Just landed a crush counter st.HP > st.HK for a stun and then did cr.mp xx super in a real match.

Lifeā€™s good fellas.

My point is that he should always be landing on the other side when connecting with a cross-up, is all.
I just had a match where it happened mid screen. Definite bug.

You donā€™t need to. Just do headbutt after the CC, then link directly into CA.

But, yes, I believe you can.

Yes, even better.
Made this short video yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rgl--aYXA

I really like current Gief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEg2JM5MHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=176jrtBSItQ

Wich is scary because i liked first builds fun Ryu too

Capcom please, donā€™t fuck up

so gief bnb = standing lp standing lk? thatā€™s it?

why cant he combo into 2 jabs or into his medium mp.

edit i guess u can combo lariot after lk.

Like I said, why even waste your V-trigger? Just do headbutt > CA after the CC.

Here are some more Zangief videos, I even made a convenient playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOn6vjrKj_U&index=9&list=PLdqY4sDs-ITXqLUVuLxUDil9wBrCKgM0L

Iā€™m not a pro player, so if you were looking for high level stuff, itā€™s not in here. But this is some decent Day One Zangief play.

My experience with Zangief was pure hell for the first couple of hours. But I stuck with him because I liked the character so much. When I started focusing less on winning, and more on just having fun landing SPDs in a match, I was getting much better results.

Anyone know how fast the spds are? They definitely arenā€™t 2 frames, i think they are between 5 and 8 frames.

Frame data says 5.

What are his fastest moves then?

And do you have a link to the frame data?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=131&v=U7uWV0461V0

i need to figure out how to anti air better as of right now that where most of the damage i receive comes from

Headbutt could be out of range sometimes, while v-trigger will hit from far distance, so sometimes you should use it with trigger, if you close enough, you can use headbutt.

For frontal jump ins, Ex bear grab will absorb the first hit and throw them.
For cross ups, ducking under the attack and then lariat works, but itā€™s tricky to time it.

Iā€™m having a ton of fun with Zangief in this beta.

Running bear grab being useful is incredibly fun. LK startup is pretty fast and can be used kind of like Hugoā€™s running grab in 4.
Counter poking a low poke with st.LK xx LK running bear grab is catching a lot of people.

Also, anti air fierce seems really good, it usually air resets the opponent in front of you in SPD range (depending on how far they were when they got hit).

The heck am I supposed to do against Dhalsim?