Breaking through Zangief's attacks

[Leander.quest]

How can you break through Zangief's attacks?

An opponent did the ... some sort of dropkick where Zangief turns in the air all the time. Every attack Blanka did was useless. Amazonian river run? Nope...normal attacks? Nope. Cannonball? Nope.

And Zangief also ran towards me to slam me...360 degrees move + kick button I think...but he used drive meter as he was glowing red...and always ran through my attacks to grab me. Shouldn't this deplete Zangief's drive meter? He kept doing the grab move with red glow, but his drive meter remained at 100%.

[Leander.quest]

Or was it a cheater? I just googled cheats and found out that there are tools for that.
How weak and poor can you be to use such cheats online??? And how stupid can anyone be to develop such cheats for unfair cheaters? Grow up, all of them!!!

The cheat tools can break through things, has auto counter throws, jumps over projectiles automatically etc.

"Auto Counter Throw - Breaks throw attempts on you automatically in any situation except of course if it's a counter hit.
Auto Counter DI - Automatically counters DI attempts made on you cancelling moves into DI for you and all of course you can still get DI if its done on your recovery frames.
Catch The Frog - Zangief specific, will automatically SPD grab opponents that do jump ins on you, hardly misses...
Auto jump fireballs - goodbye fireball spammers
Stealth features - Many stealth features like % chance bars Min . Max frames so the moves won't ever come out on the same frame over and over making it virtually impossible for YT detectives to cling onto that anymore.

VIP features
Auto DI against uncancellable moves - Does DI against moves that cannot be cancelled into DI reducing the opponents tool to put pressure on you.
Auto Jump out of SPD grabs - Not Honda, not Lily, not Manon or Gief will be able to grab you anymore... oh and Aki either.
Auto Perfect Parry - The one that all love... the take back your turn move the move that everyone complains about now at the tip of your fingers automatically perfect parry moves that will let you take back your turn.
Smart Macro - Character specific smart macros like one key Auto SPD from Gief, you will be able to perform an SPD with just one key of your choice and the smart macro will select the best SPD (Light, Mid, Heavy) depending on the range from your opponent.
Perfect Charge - Charge moves are released in the first possible frame automatically... perfect, perfect perfect...
Autoblock - for all characters Classic+Modern, blocks strings, pokes, crossups and overheads.
Easier Drive Rush - Simplified drive rush to just forward + DP, optimized to use the least amount of drive gauge.
LUA SUPPORT - Has been added to SF6, opening the possibility to create
auto whiff punish combos, hit confirm, auto drive rush after hit, automate character gimmicks etc.
Stealth features - Stealth features for VIP specific features"

[Peddie]

You most assuredly did not encounter a cheater because whatever rank you calibrated into, they calibrated higher. That said, you can figure out the counter yourself, go to training mode, record Zangief doing the move you did, and just have him do it over and over until you figure out something that works.

[Danny DeVito with a Gun]

It wasn’t cheats, Gief just has some armored attacks and attacks with priority. The armor gives him a red glow when you hit him

All of his armored attacks are upper body armor only. You can can hit him low

If he’s doing his running command grab, just jump and punish it

[Purple Monkey]

Why don't you share the replay with us so we can see?

[Leander.quest]

I still don't know this new system (just bought the game). I pressed LB+RB, but Zangief canceled it with a simple light punch.

I mostly play against Zangiefs...2 piledrivers and you are dead....and not knowing how to do anything against the moves the fights are short.

In the corner, I press towards the opponent + LB + RB, but did not work. I forgot to use Y+B.

The stick problem sucks...having level 3 super moves, but I jump around instead of pulling it off. I don't know if this is an online problem. In training mode doing two quarter circles + a button works, but did not work now...I keep trying till game over. :D

[🌎Earth]

don't try to drive impact him when he is charging his heavy punch. only the top half of him has armor when he does this, so try to sweep him when he's charging. even grabbing is a better option than DI here, but is risky and good giefs probably wont get caught by it. if you've got an idea how long your opponent likes to charge the punch, you can also neutral jump and punish him if you get the timing right.

[Leander.quest]

Thanks