[Daigo] SFII Zangief is Just IMPOSSIBLE to Beat! “Are You Kidding Me, Zangief!?” [SFII]

[@drodriguesaarlol]

3:44 man, that stun recovery was illegal

[@mr.marino9247]

Faster than Akuma and Bison lol

[@Overkill935]

@@mr.marino9247 eso es sierto desmasiado masheo de botones o la maquina ya lo hace recueperar la salud anormalmente

[@sliding_by8607]

looked pretty legal to me

[@felipeaguena5289]

What stun? Does it even count as a stun if lasts zero seconds?

[@jimnpen8451]

I remember on super nintendo he would just bite you death, 75% health in one attack..

[@carlosaugusto9821]

He does that in this version too, but less than his SSF2 version

[@alexzhu4710]

sometimes he is weak like a girl, but sometimes he ends you just one blow

[@jimnpen8451]

@Panty Sniffer im sure. Everyone whoever played sf 2 does. It was criminal, and I have an autistic cousin who could do it too, could time the button presses just right and lock you in you tight, same with Dhalsims' yoga noogie

[@mr.marino9247]

I had it in 3DO Panasonic and he does that too. Even he has an aerial throw that drains more than 80% of your health and if he kills you, you scream twice, like an error.

[@GIacius]

@@mr.marino9247 that sounds terrifying.

[@Cloud971]

The fact that even Daigo loses to him, proves that the AI is cheating.

[@TheAciditty]

It is funny I just watched a video showing exactly how the computer cheats in SFII. Zangief was a gatekeeper for quarters.

[@dolan-duk]

@@TheAciditty Protecting the Russian economy.

[@thephoenix2038]

I mean, it was literally made to take your money at the arcade

[@carlossosa1359]

Definitely worried about the wrong shit

[@mikhail21]

has fast fingers

[@vodkagobalsky]

I love how Gief is triggered to jump as soon as you input dash low.

[@cardsharpHS]

He’s programmed to jump when you do lots of things. You can exploit it by stand jabbing to make him jump then dragon his ass. You can get two perfects every time on Zangief in Alpha by doing exactly that over and over. He’s really hard on Alpha as well if you try to fight fair.

[@stephanrhodes4227]

@@cardsharpHS You mean Alpha 3? In other alphas, he is pretty easy. I don't recommend Ryu though, but if you're a really good Dhalsim player you can beat him!

[@future62]

His standing roundhouse also beats Dhalsim's every time. Ask me how I know 😔

[@stampede8681]

I remember in the Arcade SFII you only needed 3 moves to win with Zangief. Block, Grapple and flying kick. Good memories.

[@underratedphonker6395]

My dad taught me a "cheat" on how to beat Zangief. You play ryu , go to the corner , jump and only hk. Works like a charm every time.

[@ericl9781]

😂😂

[@TerminatedAccount.]

Thanks man I'm gonna teach this trick to my grand

[@guccispeedboat]

Just like how I found a cheat for Guile. If you learn his flash kick range and keep using jab shoryuken just barely outside of its range, he'll do flash kick even if it will miss or be blocked and you can punish it for free.

[@jendlti]

That doesn’t work for this sf2 version. I think it only works on first 3. Or the difficulty gage is always set to max in the nearby arcade close to my house.

[@maniaulakh5696]

My strategy was always the Tatsu. He never blocks the last rotation. And with Ryu the Tatsu knocks you down.

[@LOLFLUSHDRAW]

watching daigo react to broken ass shit when he is aware of the broken ass shit just shows how GOATed he is. what a boss

[@ticklenuts8148]

Oh dirty b work the shaft, shine his knots too

[@YaBoiBigSmoke147]

Sometimes it really do be like that

[@carlossosa1359]

Gotta be the dumbest shit I have read today goated over reactions straight assclownery

[@backgotpains]

i love it when Daigo's mic cuts out when he screams after dying lmao

[@Slayerthecrow]

I think there was a top somewhere of the most cheating fighting games CPUs ever, the one of SF2 is legendary.

[@StreetFighter2010]

Mortal Kombat II is another precious cheating gem.

[@Slayerthecrow]

@@StreetFighter2010 That cabinet is an input reading nightmare, SF2 basically gives the PC extra advantage in moves that shouldn't be possible.

[@carltasticdrew9633]

*SNK enters the chat*

[@KleberDKurosaki]

I remember being often being cornered with dictator doing scissors kick in loop and losing an round randomly world warrior snes

[@philleotardo8760]

@@StreetFighter2010 that game is a nightmare on the easiest difficulty

[@Ogema-1]

That pained looked of getting Zangief is the result of decades of bad experiences fine aged.

[@Kara-de5cz]

Recently i played a lot of USF4 arcade mode, with AI on hardest difficulty : trust me, Zangief is a complete monster, he got your number. Fei Long too.

[@Fudgaboutit]

Different game

[@JohnOnlySpeaks]

@@Fudgaboutit ai not challenging thi

[@carltasticdrew9633]

Challenging is different to straight up cheating.

[@RainbowCrash56]

Sf4 AI is just cheesy SF2 AI is an absolute monster

[@carlosaugusto9821]

It's absurd to compare that to ST hard Ai

[@su0tin731]

I remember playing in an arcade where if Zangief grabbed you he either hugged you to death from 100% or roflstomped you from the ceiling into hell, again, from 100%. It was quite hilarious seeing all the healt bar dropping down to 0 in slow motion. As well as infuriating xD.

[@amankolli]

when he is like 6 or 7 he is such a pain instantly throws you and bites you cant even get clos

[@Ser-Smiley]

Imagine if this is Nemo instead of Daigo. The salt level will go through the roof! 😂

[@fidacuca]

lol

[@EyeOfTheMind86]

The trick to beat zangief was to do back jumps and flying kicks, while with dhalsim you had to spam sweeps on his wakeup. At least this is how I used to cheese them years ago at the arcade.

[@AbdulAhad-sx8ne]

3:44 that stun on Gief 🤣🤣

[@Playgames23237]

😂

[@all4dh8rz3]

I remember on super Nintendo when I first fought against zangief he grabbed me almost immediately before biting me repeatedly depleting nearly all my health!

[@triple_lei]

Wow, this vid has everything! From deep insights to the mundane, to even the man himself adapting and overcoming.

[@bubbajr19]

3:50 The range on that SPD!

[@EMdemo]

Fucking hell, it's always surprising to watch ..... Even after having seen that hundreds of times lol

[@Hanklesmash]

I know how it feels to get your ass beaten by CPU version of Zangief

[@lexxluey]

Behold the glorious high level power of the CPU 0:05 standing still yet throw's a sonic boom 2:35 how does Gief recover so quickly? 3:44 Wow. Just wow. The man did not even get a chance to attack Gief. The CPU was in stun for less than a second. Such fantastic. Such cheap. 3:51 This CPU was cheap. Look at the distance from which he grabbed daigo. SNK would be proud.

[@tharickabras8520]

Actually, the grab distance is correct if the CPU read Daigo input in case he pressed a button that didn't came out because of the grab. There are certain Normals that makes your hurtbox go a little forward

[@nomaschalupas2453]

i thought i sucked as a kid against the computer. now i see it almost impossible.

[@LtheOriginal]

I like how the AI just mashes out of Balrog's headbutt throw after the first hit. It's unapologetically 100% doing TAS levels of mashing, inputs into every frame. And getting out of it ASAP.

[@xray8012]

There are those characters in every SF game that just make players go "Oh FAAAACK why that character now!?"

[@Drew_D]

I love it when you try your hardest to beat a character, but end up doing something simple like crouching punches to win.

[@budgetcoinhunter]

He's lucky he only has to deal with SSF2X AI. I'd love to see him try to handle SSF2T's instead, which is even harder.

[@amankolli]

bro the AI cheats so much

[@misterjersey5460]

2:07 SAY WHAT!?

[@RetroKid]

Repeated neutral jumps in the corner and just hit roundhouse when Zangief is close, and he will walk into it every single time. It worked in the 90s, and it still works today.

[@Archedgar]

Oh yeah. I remember that. This man speaks the truth.

[@smokeonfire3495]

It doesn't work on super turbo...!

[@thrillhouse4151]

7:38 not afraid anymore… til that *screaming bloody* Zangief shows up with his eye popping out of his head on the next screen!

[@Archedgar]

That is the worst "Sonic boom" sound effect in the entire franchise. Zangief is indeed meccha yabe if he's one of the later match-ups.

[@gezeo750]

Apparently they changed it from the Super one back to the older versions in USF2.

[@Zofer-1920]

Agreed. Always hated the “Sonic Boom” voice and Boxer’s “1,2,3” punch voices.

[@DestinationUnknownTH]

The only character that can KO anyone with a regular throw like "bite-your-head". Especially in the second round

[@mr.marino9247]

Zangief can KO you with an aerial throw that drains more than 80% of your health. And don`t forget he can stun you with a headbutt.

[@DestinationUnknownTH]

@@mr.marino9247 the real boss lol

[@Polymathically]

Rare footage of Daigo getting bodied.

[@zonadogt]

thanks for the black screen with the other videos in the end. a way better now

[@zedsdeadbaby]

definitely this! more youtubers need to be aware of this, we cannot turn off those popup video suggestions towards the end. they cut off too many endings

[@LuisMendez-up5te]

00:03 Neutral Boom!

[@groniteserpent4499]

Daigo : have confidence The announcer : USSR Daigo : No confidence

[@jorgehudorovich2244]

We used to make memes about how daigo never smile, nowadays on his streams this is something so frequent

[@Purlypurlington]

Lol we only saw tourney daigo back then I felt

[@Purlypurlington]

And he was winning all the time so he had the cool guy face going 😎🤣🤣🤣

[@jakal911]

I've never been able to beat this game without using a continue. SSF2, I beat without losing a single round multiple times to get the special ending.

[@TokyoXtreme]

That ending brings joy to the others like you all over the world.

[@co81385]

CPU Zangief is very tough if you don't have a projectile!

[@_Paul_N]

The crazy part is no matter how hard or fast you press buttons, Zangief is taking a bare minimum of 60% of your health away. Mortal Kombat 2 is also infamous for this with countless videos of broken AI that reads 99% of your moves to steal your arcade quarters.

[@geosword6]

I cheesed this game in the arcades back in the day by using Vega and simply using crouching hard kick / slide attack. Time it right and you can keep knocking the characters back on the ground almost constantly. Double perfects on Bison every time. SSF2 Turbo / X was harder but still succumbed to this gloriously smelly cheese tactic. I figured if the CPU wouldn't play fair, neither would I! Edit: Just noticed he is playing the Turbo version.

[@Chursh]

Channel is sweet man, cheers for the translations.

[@vicioenviciado6999]

3:42 wtf

[@iroquoispliskin4068]

SF2 AI cheated a lot

[@SkeletorTclaws]

I use Standing fierce and time it so the clove barely touches zangief as he is lumbering forward.

[@gargervon8697]

That works well in the CPS1 games, but it seems to get me trip punished in ST more often than not. Or just whiffs, because he still ducks. Strangely, he seems more likely to walk into standing Roundhouse in this game. Well, I can only say the latter for sure in Hyper Street Fighter 2, with the CPS1 versions of Boxer. I don't tend to play as his more modern variants in that game.

[@thedkm-4894]

Love those Japanese official guides for Street Fighter II , we feel so much passion in these guides :33

[@jazzyjez]

5:10 Daigo must of started playing this game after his 1st birthday.

[@jasonwaltman3566]

Neutral jump and heavy kick when he moves in.

[@smashbro5]

3:45 almost heard the Guile theme playing for Gief

[@TheLongWind]

I love how Boxer's head butt only does 1 hit vs cpu hahaha

[@stretchjohnson752]

Best way to beat him is to walk back and punch at the same time I promise you will never lose to him if you do that.

[@Eddie_Enfer]

Dude that lariat to the super was crazy

[@NesrocksGamingVideos]

Just jump up and down (don't press right or left) and keep doing air kicks to his face, easy win. Oh... Your character can't kick.

[@shoegazemusicisthebest2715]

Thanks for this content. Where could I find more footage of Daigo playing against CPU?

[@zzzzzz6686]

From my opinion, a lot of professional players are too offensive. There's a pattern that you have to figure out with every character. For Balrog vs Zangief, you just have to crouch, press MP, Zangief will either jump forward or backwards, and then you just do your Dashing Uppercut. This strategy works for Fei Long as well. You just have to keep doing this until he is backed to the corner. 90% of the time, Fei Long will jump back and that's when you do your Dashing Uppercut. If you use Ryu vs Fei Long, use the same crouching MP strategy, fireball, stand away far enough, Fei Long will jump forward, and sweep him. Each character vs CPU has a pattern that can be figured out. In my opinion, Dee Jay is the easiest vs Zangief. Just stand, press HK when Zangief walks close enough, 3 hits, he's dizzy, stand, press HP for 2-hit combo to build meter or simply throw, jump back to be safe, repeat, and finish with super for more points. Also, in my option, Dee Jay is the easiest to use against the CPU in SSFII Turbo. He's like Guile but way better. His cross-up combos are better and it's easier to connect his super from juggling.

[@100Bucks]

⬇️↘️➡️↗️⬆️↖️ punch button. Either direction works if you use zangief. ⬇️↙️⬅️↖️⬆️↗️ Punch button. Doesn't matter which direction you do it. I prefer the first one I posted because I'm use to doing this ⬇️↘️➡️ with ryu.

[@stormbringer8154]

3:44 what?! 😂

[@Overkill935]

omg recovery instal

[@pedrerickz6953]

what version of SF this is?

[@Mayo_the14]

Turbo

[@edwardwhakatihi1226]

I use Medium punch Balrog does a standing uppercut when timed right it glitches AI into a loop

[@irlrp]

What version would it be to only have 16 playable characters, but still the extra characters from USF4 and the SUPER (and Gouki ??)

[@EliosMoonElios]

That give me flashbacks from the game World Heroes 2 JET(GameBoy) where the final boss was fine tuned to beat the 2 main characters(Hanzo & Fuuma, ninjas) Y never beat him with Fuuma, I develop like 12hit combos just to try to beat it without let him fight back but that damn boss only need 1 second to cut half my health, but it was ridiculous easy with any other character, I beat it with the rest of the cast mostly at the first try. >:(

[@mrCHRONIC128]

This for me is the game where if the commentator says "you lose", you know you really fucked up. Really love #ssf2t

[@MoyosoreOgunbiyi]

7:09 - Magic Pixel flashbacks... 😂

[@HellTantrumbull]

Naturally Daigo is playing the japanese version. I'm curious to know if he ever played the U.S. version with the ultra cheap ai.

[@sgtcaco]

That is just pure torture. Why would anyone.

[@HellTantrumbull]

@@sgtcaco If I can do it so can he. 😎

[@sgtcaco]

@@HellTantrumbull I take my hat of to you Sir. That game is the definition of rage.

[@fogfish303]

does gief always show up after cammy? lol

[@mansmo9513]

If Zangief jumps on you're dead.

[@Megalocade]

I live and breath this game but so many innocent controllers were smashed up and ripped to shreds during my early days of the past 30 years of playing it..😁

[@williamb223]

I know that feeling all too well.

[@wads80z]

Wait, can humans lariat through Boxer's super after the first hit, or is that a CPU only thing?

[@megac4]

Lariat is middle body invulnerable. Horizontal middle projectiles and punches pass right through it.

[@biglaz7211]

Balrog is M. Bison in this version? Or did I miss something?

[@gargervon8697]

Three of the names of the champions got swapped around when they crossed the Pacific.

[@amenstal123]

Now you know ? There's always a loophole for any character in SF2-s. Congratulations Hahaha

[@CustomStyleCajunTurkey]

CPU Zangief is legitimately hard. I think I always 2P skipped (join game as 2nd player selecting them and winning so I don't have to fight them in arcade mode) Zangief and Jubei from Fatal Fury 2 because they were next to impossible to beat. I've also seen some strong players lose to Zangief in arcades consistently.

[@vodkagobalsky]

Yeah but you can't get the good ending doing that though!

[@cookieDaXapper]

Late Zangief is bad, late Ryu is WORSE, the TRUE boss of the game.

[@carlnikolov]

Zangief hadooken him into submission like every other player does lol

[@chadbrown3025]

Try getting that blanka last on 10 difficulty. That was a real mother to win back in the day or getting past sagot on the hardest difficulty was harder than zangeif. And that purple fire m bison speed was so overpowered compared to yours made up it almost impossible to win. Or win every time anyways

[@marcusrios9203]

Just watched smug go through this same struggle

[@VTuber_Clipp3r]

I was rooting for zangief...

[@cansevimsoy]

Why Balrog is M.Bison?

[@RedRanger2001]

Daigo is Japanese and playing the Japanese version of the Street Fighter games at least SF2...

[@thetalisman963]

Why does it say M. Bison but he’s using Balrog??

[@MrUltimatemaniac100]

Love Daigo - SF2 Legend 👍

[@tlacahetl]

Jump attacks are his weakness

[@simonr6553]

I thought he was going to pick Guile, it looked like that at the start. Now THAT'S a hard match-up. The ridiculous thing is with most other characters, this match is one of the easiest in Turbo because you can just keep spamming the same move over and over again, but Guile doesn't have such a move (far standing HK he keeps blocking), and the Guile vs Gief matchup with human players is 8-2 in Guile's favour.

[@bryanchong3746]

Daigo san. I can’t agreed with you anymore. The earlier the better with Zangief.

[@rain4169]

Boxer's VA script: WOAAAAH

[@slyshadows999]

Even if I know they reverse their name, I think it's the 1st time I am seing Balrog called M BISON

[@RenanMarkBruzola]

I feel you bro.

[@adz693]

Standing HP from full range and CPU Zangief can't get anywhere near you. I double perfect him pretty much every time whether I get him 1st or 8th. Same with DeeJay and THawk except with standing HK.

[@SouthernHadoken]

Why is his name m.bison and not balrog?

[@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King]

That was his original name in Japan. It was a reference to Mike Tyson. They switched the names around in the American releases because they didn't want to get sued. In Japan, the guy with claws is Balrog and the guy in the red suit is Vega.

[@SouthernHadoken]

@@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King LMAO....did not know that.

[@geoffreyharvey579]

Balrog is called M.bison in this version? Is this the original sf2 Japanese version? I'm confused, not familiar with all the lore of street fighter series.

[@SolracCAP]

M. Bison was his original name as he was based on real life boxing champion Mike Tyson. Capcom changed his name to Balrog when Street Fighter was released for USA because they were scared of getting sued by him for using his likeness. To avoid confusion during tournaments with both Japanese and American players, he is simply called Boxer.

[@Phantom93044]

Yo... Street Fighter master is having trouble with Zangief... Not only one of the slowest chars in the game but commonly one of the first to get matched up with... Makes me wonder how difficult Ryu would be if he took Dictator's place... Thats insane. Ssf2x is just TOO HARD...

[@FabioSilvaMetal]

Jump up high kicks are your best bet

[@HJayZ91]

Is Daigod playing ST on hitbox?

[@saonnonymous]

he thrown his stick away years ago

[@solohayunaverdad]

this game is a headache in some words

[@holden6104]

Forgot how amazing this remixed soundtrack was.

[@MarcoAWilcox619]

M. Bison? AFAIK that's Balrog. I know the Japanese version was the original and the names are like here. Why did they changed''em for the American market?

[@phil4863]

He doesn't play the US version? Hmm I wonder why(difficulty)?

[@maurojd1119]

Akira ono intensifies.

[@mikeestill1672]

Zangief is easy to beat. Just continuously neutral jump and roundhouse or fierce when he gets close. I figured this out when I was in 5th grade on SNES. I'm not sure about Balrog, but it works for sure with Ken & Ryu. Try it out and lmk how it works!

[@nixman8789]

or continuously jumping backwards into the corner with ken/ryu and using jump roundhouse is usually a failsafe last resort for me haha

[@mikeestill1672]

@@nixman8789 he's got more tendency to block if you jump backwards. Neutral jump will make him walk directly into the jump roundhouse

[@nixman8789]

@@mikeestill1672 that is true that he will block on occasion but if you do the kick late enough you can link a crouching medium kick into hadouken and if he blocks that you can slowly chip him down.I have always had mixed success with neutral jump, it seems to work the first couple times and then he starts anti airing every single time...but then again everyone has different workarounds for the bullshit cpu

[@ShotokanEditor]

only in the old versions this worked. on later versions he wil pile driver you

[@mikeestill1672]

@@ShotokanEditor does 30th Anniversary count as a new one? I'm about to try it right now

[@geechie-don7157]

I use ken. I trap the russian bear on the right side of the screen just enough to where his big azz can't jump over the hadoken.

[@glauberluis2926]

That´s because Itabashi controls him against U.

[@Ben-qz6kg]

Computer dazed for 1 frame •________•

[@comhghallgeraghty3541]

Balrog called Bison here?