Punk (Cammy) vs. MenaRD (Zangief) - Bo5 - Street Fighter League Pro-US Week 4

[@schwim69]

Love seeing these two play. Both genius at the game.

[@BuddhaBytes]

truly 2 of the best street figher 6 players in the world. amazing to watch...the spacing on the attacks alone is premium. I rewatched and basically every landed attack was a counter or punish counter..truly top tier.

[@hom3r]

Mena is really smart and flex player. He knows how to take advantage of the character until nerf comes in 😂

[@kalibandelosmontes7779]

help me capcom...

[@gavinpowell4607]

Translation: Plays the broken characters

[@fallenknight2580]

@@gavinpowell4607 if that was the case he would play akuma. No he chooses a balance between flexibilty of the character he plays, how much it is getting labbed from other players and just overall how overpowered it is.

[@Kusanagikaiser999]

Punk vs Mena is start becoming the Daigo vs Tokido of this new era, always these 2 clash is a CLASSIC.

[@CaioSantos_p15]

( 12:02 *) A cara de bunda do punk depois de perder mesmo tendo provocado foi impagável 😂

[@gabrielcarmonaone]

Punk was a bit nervius at the End you can see it I'm his hands and face 😅😆 Mena put Everybody nervius

[@MDToboggan]

Punk is always nervous, he trash talks to deflect from it

[@mrgrimm53]

​@@MDTobogganYh he should really get a coach for that , the ones that top athletes also have. Imo Punk with no nerves would be unstoppable.

[@allansqr1]

everyone shakes when competing, that means nothing, it's completely normal

[@blinblinthing]

@@allansqr1 EXACTLY. This aint a world champ competing at your local arcade, this is HIGH level fighting with two EVO champs. Nerves gonna come into play.

[@Kusanagikaiser999]

0:22 plz someone remind Sajam that these 2 are EVO CHAMPS not just finalist, I mean both won evos this year is wasn´t that far away.

[@novaclank7401]

He literally says champions afterwards. Did you want it listed first? lol

[@Erzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Sajam is one of the most boring commentators ever

[@lomelody1297]

Bro…Mena won and kept his respect even tho Punk was chirping. You can tell hes on a journey and hes seeing the bigger picture. 👏

[@0utrunner237]

_Menatation_ 🧘🏾‍♂

[@nobabrilg5581]

Mena is respectful. Now his "local fans" I cringe everytime. They could take a page from this guy sportsmanship considering he started as a teen

[@lomelody1297]

@@nobabrilg5581 what?

[@joncliffmckinley5868]

​@@nobabrilg5581you mean "loyal fans"?

[@ivandrago5891]

Punk evo champ, mena trying to get there

[@servHis221]

As I said before...Pop Off Goat is back but humble pie was inevitable. He was doing so well staying humble through Evo but after that win the monster ego resurfaced man...

[@fgckevin]

that humble mask wearing off

[@douglasmijangos3327]

If there’s anyone who can talk their shit it’s Punk .. he’s such a beast.. his Whiff Punches are unmatched 🐐 🙌🏻

[@servHis221]

@@douglasmijangos3327 No doubt. I am always in awe of how much data he has about SO MANY PLAYERS from different parts of the world. You watch his videos and he'll tell you when other dudes are doing someone's combos. He's a savant of the game. But that ego...

[@douglasmijangos3327]

@ 😂 I know the Ego might be crazy but if you’re a 🐐 you should be able to Trash Talk in my opinion… there’s others who talk shit and aren’t GOATS…. If there’s anyone who should be able to it should be the Greatest 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@5pydieman]

What’s wrong with having a big ego? Especially when you paid your just dues and put in the work and have the hardware to back it up. I can’t name any high level competitor whether it’s gaming or sports that doesn’t think highly of themself 😅 trash talk is a staple of competitive environments

[@obadboy]

Great set! I love Punk getting hype on his own play. Love player to player interactions like that.

[@abc2390986]

Most people will try to block and maybe take a throw against Cammy when being pressed oki on wake up. MenaRD: imma wake up with a forward dash since I knew Cammy is afraid of wake up CA so I punish his back jump with CA. This is both galaxy brain smart strat and god read.

[@leonardoturtle9802]

Damn crazy how well Mena has picked up Gief, you can tell he still needs to learn a bit more of the MU specific punishes but his pressure, mindgames and footsies are all really amazing with gief. He really conditions the SPD very well and he rarely whiffs the SPD because of it, the only thing I think I can see Mena really needs to learn is jump cancel SPD and just playing gief more will help him learn when to use it.

[@mitsukiisbae6753]

I will NEVER get tired of seeing Mena WIN!

[@brassmarsh]

11:46 what’s this walk about?

[@iamlyth]

Victory power walk

[@NelsonAndino-pq2cx]

mana op, capcom always nerf all mena charapter but is imposible nerf mena

[@lomelody1297]

Love this

[@allansqr1]

All mena does is take advantage of ridiculously strong characters. First Blanka, now Gief. It was like that with Birdie and Luke in SFV. When nerf comes in, we all know what happens. It's not forbidden to play strong characters, all pro players know how to play against them, but some characters carry their players. Take that dude who played Gief in Week one against Punk. That mf is a nobody and almost won against the EVO champ, because Gief. Mena revisits the tier list everytime his characters get nerfed.

[@lomelody1297]

@@allansqr1 lmaooooo bro no one played blanka until mena won a major with him, and luke was still in debate to be the top 1 character until capcom cup. stop HATING just because your parents dont love you. If theyre so strong bro go win a local with gief then lol. And if his characters were so overpowered why is everyone in SF league playing gief just like him🤣. Delusional

[@gavinpowell4607]

They dont nerf his characters, he plays the broken characters until they are balanced. When was the last time you saw him play Blanka? If they brought out a busted OP Marisa next week, that would be his main. He just plays whatever gives him advantage, his does not care.

[@Donquixotedoflamingo0107]

@@gavinpowell4607true

[@catboy1398]

The father’s punk 🗣️

[@coriandalexanderdeason9710]

MenaRD: is kratos Punk calls himself a god and clearly MenaRD said I slay those who call themselves he

[@danimaryam3908]

great set from both players

[@katou7880]

Everyone say hello to Nemo's new best friend!

[@kerc44]

By far the best match of the League this year

[@melodicharmony9772]

I love watching Punk lose. He’s so immature & arrogant, IMO. He’s an AMAZING player. Never hating his skills. I just love to see him lose and get humbled. Mena is so respectful & professional & humble. And his Zangief is UNREAL!!!!

[@feersided]

Finally his zangief improved.

[@YouAlreadyKnowBabi]

Wooow! What a GIEF!!! Holy shit

[@douglasmijangos3327]

I’m Hispanic and I love Mena.. he’s such a beast .. BUT whenever PUNK is playing… PUNK is my fucken 🐐 🙌🏻

[@GPowtlaw2]

what a match this neutral is for real from both players

[@MDToboggan]

Punk and Noah get so nervous for people that talk as much trash as they do you could tell after that sigh after the 4th game and his shakey hand that he was cooked. I don't know why would you try to trash talk if your nerves get to you that much if anything you are better off not talking trash at all lol. It's almost like they're both scared insecure children when ever their ego is at stake and the trash talk is a defense mechanism from them having full mental breakdowns.

[@allansqr1]

Getting nervous and shaking is completely normal, don't make it sound like pro players are godlike creatures, they're just humans. Everyone gets their hands shaking when competing. Btw, trash talking, or even talking to yourself out loud, is a good way to relieve the stress.

[@MDToboggan]

@@allansqr1 I never said he had to be a robot, I'm just saying trash talking when you are up can't help with your nerves because that's just gotta add even more stress to your nerves because now you've added the stress of well I just trash talked so now I have to win in your head. You can tell the difference in nervousness between calling Mena random and the let's go let's go after Mena came back in game 3, where as he if he had just stfu and focused on the game like Mena he probably would have won.

[@blinblinthing]

@@MDToboggan Likely an attempt to sike out a player.

[@gavinpowell4607]

Its called adrenaline. Makes the hands shake. But yeah when the heartrate is up it seems his go-to strategy is trash talk to cover.

[@nazzynaz97]

​@MDToboggan How was he trash talking? He was literally just hype after a good win.

[@InstantRiot]

Crazy level of play. Fantastic match between two champions

[@nagendersinghbisht504]

Big fan of MenaRd And Punk

[@vaselinemachine1484]

11:56 match was so good caba was pinching his chest

[@BlueLightningSky]

This is apparently a Zangief favored matchup since the start of Street Fighter. I still have no idea why but I believe it is from results and experience.

[@nunyabizwacks6711]

as a Cammy player i can say i agree. Currently alot of ppl say Cammy is a bad matchup for Gief, but nah, its the other way around. Esp with Cammys fairly low damage and needing to spend meter plus how much drive guage dmg gief does. Honestly i almost agree with the ppl that say Gief is broken rn. Personally, im not sure that hes actually broken, but i would say he's def borderline broken. But its partially because of the SF6 mechanics and being able to build-a-combo with drive rush. Ok fine, Gief is a grappler and his SPDs and stuff do big damage, fine that is what it is, but since that is the case, he shouldnt also be as good in neutral or with combos as he is. And alot of his normals actually out-range Cammy's, and its 1 button push to keep her out of the air. I know these guys are pros so not like i can tell them how to play, and i know Punk is playing super careful and calculated and looking to punish, but if I was Punk, personally i would throw a few hooligans in there in this matchup. I feel like theres a few diff times he could have caught him off guard with a hooligan throw or something, and especially in that last game after he hadnt used it any up until that point and needed to make something happen.

[@douglasmijangos3327]

2:47 😂 Punk’s face … he’s such was like 😧😂

[@adrianojimenez2844]

Are you nervous punk ? 😂

[@ValCary-y6p]

Yea let's go punk!!!❤ win or loose im in full support!!

[@ElloAsty]

MenaRD and Daigo are the only 2 guys who can stop Punk.

[@adriandenton6637]

DOWNLOAD COMPLETE

[@iupzor]

great match

[@colelegante]

thats the bull

[@yep81]

damn shine been eating

[@RonJomero]

Mena has definitely improved his Zangief game tenfold in just a few months. Looking good!

[@toghnealandjay]

Punkdagod is the best! Not taken anything from the rest of the players cause they’re all beast! In there own right. But punk cammy go crazy!

[@nunyabizwacks6711]

yea he really is. I always knew he was good, and Mena is super good too, but i wasnt 100% sure that Punk was the very best, but honestly after really watching him alot in tons of diff matchups against diff ppl, if i had to choose just ONE single player to say was the best player in the world, i think Punk is him. There are so many good players and they are all close in skill level, Punk and Mena are neck and neck, but i honestly think theres just some natural gift that Punk has for this that almost no one else has. He doesnt have to put in the same amount of work as others to be at the same skill level and his reactions really are second to none. He can literally pick up a new character and be one of the best in the world with said character in a few days, thats not something trained or taught, thats something thats just in him that allows him to do that so easily, its wild. Also, if you play the same character he does, it allows you to see and appreciate what he does even more. As a person whos played a ton of Cammy and know her inside and out, it allows me to see just how insane he really is with her, where as ppl that dont know the character that well may not be able to truly tell just how good he is. Cammy is a good character and many ppl rate her highly, but shes a character thats truly hard to be successful with at a high level compared to other characters that are also considered top tier. Ppl say Cammy is S tier, but i dont agree with that....maybe shes S tier for Punk caliber players, but if you dont have great reactions, spacing, neutral in general, etc, your gonna have a hard time against the ACTUAL s tier characters. Where as its much easier to be successful with the likes of Akuma, Bison, Ken, etc.

[@reksaba7580]

⁠@@nunyabizwacks6711number wise mena its the best street fighter player for 5 and for 6 hes tied with punk but when it comes to mena vs punk mena 80 percent of the time be always winning, and in my opninion cammy its S tier she hasnt gotten any major nerfs and as you can see menard literally has a 5 month old gief shitting on people like punk and dual kevij like its nothing while punk stuck to only cammy for the past years i cannot believe how a 5 month gief its doing all of that to be honest.

[@mkeonine]

Keep running that mouth Punk. That'll help u win alright. lol

[@buckekatt]

Where the hell is Tasty Steve?

[@jorgegonzalez1058]

The bull!!!! 🇩🇴

[@janogodspeed3247]

Gief need od spd wake up! Like the dp's

[@sandau44]

Good ass set

[@Torbero47]

Choke da god.

[@UltramarineDad]

Mena removing a common punk 😂🎉

[@buckrogers-lk3yr]

what happened to MenaRD blanka

[@randybadthomas]

I think they nerfed Blanka

[@Sepheta7]

Gief vs cammy is always a bad match up for cammy. Punk should change to dhalsim.

[@duedecimal6622]

oooh thanks, Punk. i almost forgot to pick my apple pie from the oven.

[@IsaiahManzini]

😂😂last round 😂😂😂ass whipping...

[@iamkazuki830]

Sometimes Punk think he's the only person who can play Street Fighter in the world, lol

[@DANG-o4j]

Pretty obvious here, doing that against Mena 😅

[@kleverbt9889]

He was nervous and anxious the cámara caught those moments, Mena always in calm even in the end went to shake hands, so respectfully

[@detroitvcw]

Arrogance and egoism. If he can manage to rid himself of that and humble himself as he did in Evo, virtually no one could beat him. He literally loses matches because of the masking of insecurities he has by this ego. His mentals are his short-comings.

[@Never83]

Virtually nobody? LMAO! Humble or not (and has nothing to do with humility and everything to do with confidence), there's a whole host of players capable of defeating Punk over the past year in SF6 - can start with Kakeru, Mena, Angry Bird, Tokido, Problem X, Xiao Hai.

[@detroitvcw]

@@Never83 It does have everything to do with humility. You can't manifest confidence..what are you saying?? arrogance/pride/falsified pride can cloud your thinking strategically. It makes it more about proving to others instead of strategically playing the game. He has arguably the best neutral in the game. Nobody whiff punishes like he does, and the game is controlled by the neutral mechanic. On a given day, anybody can be beat anybody. All those players you named are not nearly as consistent in their play as punk. You haven't seen more than half those players in a major competitive setting consistently in forever besides angry bird. Punk is always in the mix 90% of the time. The stats speak for themselves, and I'm not the biggest fan, but I do have to recognize good consistent play when I see it.

[@gameclips5734]

why is the game sound so bad?

[@Kenny-sl6hb]

Good. Punk is way too arrogant.

[@Indiana-r9b]

Just imagine if he wins the upcoming capcom cup.

[@kleyserx]

@nuckledu

[@Kenny-sl6hb]

@@Indiana-r9b I don't know. But it is obvious Cammy is a bad matchup for gief. You can see the arrogance by sticking with cammy.

[@Nupe-cx9tm]

everybody doesnt have to be considered arrogant because they are better then most of the world and believes they should win

[@funkycoldmedina32]

He’s toned it down from previous seasons 😆

[@espartacokal]

😤💪😂😂😂

[@funkycoldmedina32]

Men-nah nah nah 😂

[@lockedronin6279]

Gief having better normals than marissa is a crime

[@LauroNeto-py5yl]

punk down

[@deionisgnarly111]

It's soo quite i wonder why?

[@gazanever6291]

Lol. Punk chirping again and getting his lunch eaten 😂 Dude is like Gladiator in Marvel; confidence up, ability‘s up. Confidence down, GGs

[@stinkypinkeee5085]

MenaRd is gonna have a gravitational pull if he gets any bigger...have some pride in your appearance, big boy...Caba belongs in a gimp box...

[@MoeMunnie023]

tf is a gimp box hahaha

[@abc2390986]

What is this body shame out of nowhere? IMO MenaRD is just beefy. It is not like he is looking unhealthy at all.

[@MalvinRD]

Mena isthe best in the world, RD RD RD

[@LordMcMuffin]

Punk needs to cut his hair. He look like a middle aged gas station attendant.

[@JP_LDN582]

not a single combo drop the whole set. this game is literally rock paper scissors the video game. ZERO hype. couple golf claps at the end lmao

[@z.o.z.o.o]

010 = lie, truth, lie perfect-lie aaaxxxuuuummmaaa