Does Zangief scare you? The MotM thread

bokmeow · Oct 12, 2006

'Cos he does scare me plenty. Zangief is one of those characters in MotM that has quite good priority + surprisingly good reach + fast jabs... his low sweep comes to mind... so when I play against the CPU I usually just use my best character... ok, more like my only character Kyo with his long leg sweep and long kick during jump in, then cancel in to some fast combos, and then jump back out... I'm way too pussay to stay in Zangief's zone for 1 second longer than necessary 'cos I fear he would just grab me with his pile driver, and when the difficulty setting is on gamer, 2 pile drivers could easily send me to my maker...

Weevus · Oct 12, 2006

Capcom seemed to have made Zangief gradualy better over the years. He was shit in SF II, but by Alpha 3 he was a decent character.

rarehero · Oct 12, 2006

Weevus said:
Capcom seemed to have made Zangief gradualy better over the years. He was shit in SF II, but by Alpha 3 he was a decent character.

decent?
more like grappling god.
in alpha 3 he's almost invincible.
he truly is the lord of battle, especially when you combo his lvl3 super.

wizkid007 · Oct 12, 2006

Well he is a great character.

So ill go with a little saying

If you cant beat him. Use him!

Weevus · Oct 13, 2006

rarehero said:
decent?
more like grappling god.
in alpha 3 he's almost invincible.
he truly is the lord of battle, especially when you combo his lvl3 super.

He may be a badass, but I've just never liked him. I hate these :360:

RATM · Oct 13, 2006

he is unfortunately blinded by his soviet patriatism. Capitolist based characters like Guile have far better financial gains.

Silky Johnson · Oct 13, 2006

He's also GodLike on Super Street Fighter 2x x_X

Tango · Oct 13, 2006

zangief is a killer, no doubt. And strong as he was in alpha 3, he was still a force in SF2. Granted he had alot of weaknesses (low forward keep away tactics)but he was still a monster in the right hands. My partner played strictly zangief and dhalsim on SF2 and he was a terrorist with em. Even gave my guile problems who I reckoned to be the gods choosen representative.

I just sold my hyper fighting cabinet and this makes me wish I hadnt, but no one wanted to play it. Id like to say it was because I was so good but i know its really only because of the alpha 3 and third strike cabinets. Good times though.

rarehero · Oct 13, 2006

when they gave zangeif his movable spinning lariat,
i mean come on.
game over man.

bokmeow · Oct 13, 2006

rarehero said:
when they gave zangeif his movable spinning lariat,
i mean come on.
game over man.

That move is insane. Juggles like feck. I think most moves trade against the movable spinning lariat? The only move I found effective is a strong sweep to trip him.

johnroche · Oct 14, 2006

Haoh is a killa!

BBH · Oct 14, 2006

Weevus said:
Capcom seemed to have made Zangief gradualy better over the years. He was shit in SF II, but by Alpha 3 he was a decent character.

he was not shit in the original SF2 World Warrior. His SPD didn't push him back very far at all, he was free to get into range again and tick into another SPD. That's pretty devastating and stuff.

evil wasabi · Oct 14, 2006

I think Zangief could look stupider.

Weevus · Oct 14, 2006

BBH said:
he was not shit in the original SF2 World Warrior. His SPD didn't push him back very far at all, he was free to get into range again and tick into another SPD. That's pretty devastating and stuff.

I beat him everytime with Ryu by just jumpkicking. Even on harder difficulty levels. Maybe some people were good with him in SF2, but I never met any.

Orochi_invisibleink · Oct 14, 2006

setharnott said:
zangief is a killer, no doubt. And strong as he was in alpha 3, he was still a force in SF2. Granted he had alot of weaknesses (low forward keep away tactics)but he was still a monster in the right hands. My partner played strictly zangief and dhalsim on SF2 and he was a terrorist with em. Even gave my guile problems who I reckoned to be the gods choosen representative.

I just sold my hyper fighting cabinet and this makes me wish I hadnt, but no one wanted to play it. Id like to say it was because I was so good but i know its really only because of the alpha 3 and third strike cabinets. Good times though.

thats cool. you gotta love people who take an underused (often underpowered) character and become dominant with them.

as for zangief in motm, my nakoruru seems to have a pretty easy time with him :down:

BBH · Oct 14, 2006

Weevus said:
I beat him everytime with Ryu by just jumpkicking. Even on harder difficulty levels. Maybe some people were good with him in SF2, but I never met any.

Nobody gives a shit about CPU AI when factoring in how "good" a character is.

Tango · Oct 14, 2006

Orochi_invisibleink said:
thats cool. you gotta love people who take an underused (often underpowered) character and become dominant with them.

yup. Thats kind of his tactic, use the characters people are not very familiar with, get good with them and rely on the fact that there are new tricks people are not familiar with and exploit the hell out of em. Back in the day he was the only person I knew using makoto and Q. Now since all the japanese SBO vids these characters get used alot and the tricks have all been seen, but at the time his kara throws were unbeatable.

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