Is Zangief overpowered?

[ZEbani]

I dont actually play the game but I like watching tournanaments, championships or online matches for fun .
everytime there is a player who choses zangief wins. The guy deal huge amount of damage and almost no way to block his grab or whatsoever. Hoduken fighter such as ryu ken or etc cant help but getting beaten.
It is shocking to see how teh charcter developed through past years.

[Stnank]

Overpowered? Hell no. He's always been able to dish out huge damage. That's what Zangief does.

But every other characters' simple combos out-do a command throw in terms of damage. Right now I think a lot of players are just in shock that the lariat isn't crappy anymore. Once they learn how to deal with it, he won't be as threatening. The white life nerf is also a huge kill.

[Figon]

I don't know why this thread full of bronze league people are voicing their opinions. In bronze, ken is toptier

[MagicSeaDog]

FANG is op too. Weak caracters like Guile and Urien should get buffs.

[Brandon]

Цитата допису Nim:

FANG is op too. Weak caracters like Guile and Urien should get buffs.

And buff Akuma so people will actually try him out.

#NotEnoughAkumas

[Ro]

Light attack beats EX SPD.
Light attack is overpowered.

[WickedRequiem]

Jabs actually are, in SFV.
For some characters, jabs are excellent AA as well as combo starters.

[drawknives]

Цитата допису Rafito:

He's now decent, considering that his green hand is gone. Hard match against him (playing Laura)

Who cares about green hand when you have a crouching light punch that reaches half screen.

[Gaxkang]

Цитата допису Punymeyer:

If it's one-sided lag, then I think that is true for all characters. But in general I think rushdown characters are the best in lag.

Sure it benefits everybody, and it does help out rushdown characters but grapplers too I think in a big way.

Like Zangief's jab power, and pile drivers.

[Aqua Snake]

Not even close.

[Stnank]

What gets me about this topic is the OP claiming to enjoy watching tournaments and the like.

Do you exclusively watch Zangief winning compilations? Zangief is hardly in the top runnings, ever.

[mercureXI]

Цитата допису ZEbani:

everytime there is a player who choses zangief wins. The guy deal huge amount of damage and almost no way to block his grab or whatsoever.

Yeah blocking grabs sure is hard.

[Cipher Esteria]

Цитата допису drawknives:

Yeah, there's an age-old Zangief trick they use though.. jump in with medium kick.
The whole purpose of it is to stuff anti airs and throw the oppoents timing off.
So it turns the whole exercise of anti-airing Zangief into a 50/50 crapshoot.

Just DP him, anti-airing Gief is not even anywhere near as hard as anti-airing someone like Laura, what is still piss easy.

[giangole]

if he spams jabs go for a fireball if you have it and make him jump and antiair, with necalli you have the v skill to spam and activate trigger asap, zangief JMK doesnt beat uppercuts, the main mistake against zangief is too let him play the game while you should keep him pressuring, if you keep getting rekt by jabs means yuor meaty and spacing is not on point

[WickedRequiem]

I know I should be doing meaties and dp, but I haven't been able to land meaties recently... seems like wake up jabs always beat it (by any characters). And dp's been pretty unreliable to come out fast enough lately.

Yeah, this sounds like a scrub complaining about connection instead of getting gud, but

[giangole]

for meaties you need setups, go on youtube you'll find somethinf probablty for your character or you can do it as I did fro mthe raw frame data from tool assisted