Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo/Zangief

Introduction

Moves List

Normal Moves

Throws

Toward/back + strong: Zangief sits on the opponent's head, opponent always stays in front of Zangief. Sets up a crossup fierce splash when unteched. Zangief's most commonly-used normal throw.

Toward/back + forward: Zangief throws the opponent over his head, opponent always ends up behind him. Not as useful as strong because the opponent is thrown too far for a splash.

Toward/back + fierce: Gief does, I don't know, something to the opponent's face for multiple hits. Not really that useful.

Toward/back + roundhouse: Gief bites the opponent for multiple hits, also not that useful.

Down-toward/down-back + strong: Crouching version of the fierce throw, not that useful either.

Down-toward/down-back + forward: Same deal, not that useful.

Toward + roundhouse while jumping with opponent in the air: Zangief grabs the opponent out of the air and flings him behind himself. Ok range, but very rarely useful.

Command Normals

Toward/back + strong/fierce: Gief does a stupid little hop. The hitbox has like no range and beats just about nothing out. It was probably meant as a way for Zangief to be able to hop over opponents' low normals, but it's not very good at doing that. Mostly it's just an annoyance.

Target Combos

Zangief's normals are remarkably linkable, so I'm going to put down the links with the move being linked from and linked into and then a couple of the most-used link combos, but you can figure out a whole bunch of others too.

Crouching jab, crouching jab

Crouching jab, crouching roundhouse

Crouching jab, crouching short

Crouching jab, far standing short

Far standing short, crouching roundhouse

Standing strong, far standing short

Standing strong, crouching forward

Far standing short, far standing short

Frame Data

Strategies

Match-ups

• • Balrog (Boxer)
  • O. Balrog (Boxer)
  • Blanka
  • O. Blanka
  • Cammy
  • O. Cammy
  • Chun-Li
  • O. Chun-Li
  • Dee Jay
  • O. Dee Jay
  • Dhalsim
  • O. Dhalsim
  • E. Honda
  • O. E. Honda
  • Fei Long
  • O. Fei Long
  • Guile
  • O. Guile
  • Ken
  • O. Ken
  • M. Bison (Dictator)
  • O. M. Bison (Dictator)
  • Ryu
  • O. Ryu
  • Sagat
  • O. Sagat
  • T. Hawk
  • T. Hawk
  • Vega (Claw)
  • O. Vega (Claw)
  • Zangief
  • O. Zangief