 I've been playing a ton of Street Fighter 6 online ranked matches, and out of all of the characters I've gotten into ranked, only two, I decided that today I wanted to hop into some ranked matches with Zangief. This character's damage is extremely ignorant and he can feel very punishing to play against, but it comes at the cost of him not being as mobile as the rest of the cast. Will that slow us down today? Well, we can only find out. Here comes a new challenger. Ooh, starting off with a Kimberly mix-ups again. I feel like I run into Kimberleys a lot when I play Geek, but that's fine. You know, I need to see the speed for myself. First of all, get off me and then into Alaria. Knee, and then why don't we take a light SPD? Ooh, we're playing good. Let me try to get a trip. All right, all right, scare him a little. I've also, I did a lot of Kimberly match-up tech. The double jab is important. I just need a jab twice. If I see any teleports, I jab twice. That is my rule of thumb. Block that. Driving back. Thank the, thank the Zangief God's brokers. Here I come, heavy SPD to bring the game down. Headbutt. Oh, I could have ended it. Double jab, just double jab. Always double jab against Kimberly. Ooh, pose on a flex. Zangief is so toxic. Watch the teleport. Double jab. Oh, I did not expect driving pack. Jump. Larry it. Headbutt. Into light SPD. You got to, you got to jump away. You got to break away from me. Don't teleport. Oh, I tried to get crazy with it. I tried. All right. I'll take this. I'll take this punishment. It's not too bad for me. Oh, mix ups into a grab. Okay. Okay. Now you jump in to get Larry it. Yep. And now I'm going to end the game. No. No, I don't, I don't want, I don't want that. Do I hit him with the level three? Do I be toxic? No, I'm going to hit him with this teleport into this. What you, what, what, what is you? I'm sorry. You what? Stop. Slice. I'll take the game. I got to take the game. I already got embarrassed. Let me flex on them again. Request rematch. I need to get back in the speed of the games important to Zangief. Oh, no rematch. I hope that's not a trend for the rest of this video. All right. Up next, we got a man in this should be good. We both want to play that grab game only. I'm going to play it a little bit better. Hopefully that's what you hope, right? Zangief go crazy. Let's start with something ignorant. Heavy SPD to punish. Love to see that. Oh, I didn't mean to do that. I'm trying to use more of Zangief's buttons in my gameplay because I definitely, oh, oh, oh God. I definitely don't want to just use the buttons. I think are good. I want to make sure I'm utilized with the master players utilize and one button. I think that is his headbutt. Oh, too bad. It got me punished. It would have been beautiful. I should just hit one after I'll do it right now. That's a tie, right? Come on, bro. You know we tied. I'm still live though. You let me live. All right. You killed me shortly after and three grab stacks. Not good for me. Not good at all, but we should still be fine as long as I play a good game. Jump in. No punish. Okay. I got to see my options. Oh, into a light SPD. We love to see that. Give me another one. Look at that range. Zangief go crazy. Oh, right after that. I could take the game here, but let's be smart. I want to save some meter. We're in a great position. All right. Super comes out. Should be fine though. Again, we have so much time in the world. Grab. Don't try me. Three bars left for round two. We need that. I'm trying to do my wrong level three super just for funsies. That move is so good. Oh, I'll just do it then. I'll do it. You want to drive it back? Come here. Drive it back. This get the crowd hide. Pump it up. Drive it back. This look already half the health bar gone. Now they're scared. They want to jump. They want to jump in me, but I'm not going to let that slide. Oh, Larry. Get out of there. Oh, I should have just driving Larry at that. Beautiful. Huge. Oh, got away by the skin of their teeth right there. Oh, oh, that was almost game. Drive impact. Bye-bye. How do we end it? Oh, yeah. That never mind. It ends in itself, but I'll take the win. Zangief pose on a flag. Sodom. Do I get a rematch? No. Okay. Whoo. I thought we were going to go all day without a rematch. I'll take it. Light SPD. The range is crazy. You've got to spam it. I'm using the need to get into range. Oh, lay him out. Don't jump in me. I react to those grab. Punish him for that. Oh, I try to go for the extended command grab just to kind of finish the game up medium to keep the pace. You don't even have the stacks that you used to drive impact. Keep it out the air and a slap. All right. We're good. We didn't burn out. We had to save meter. We just kind of played it slow. There's no need to get too crazy on Zangief. The grabs are just the icing on the cake. Don't try that again. All right. The grab kind of let us get punished. Why couldn't combo? Why does he need that? Oh, I'm trying to get that combo. It's just not working right now. Oh, big damage. Look at that. Oh my goodness. It's probably over. Don't jump. Do me a favor. Don't you know my jumping grab super? I thought I was going to go nuts. I really did think I was going to go nuts for no reason. Oh, drive impact to end it. That is toxic. That is toxic. She almost broke through the guard too. But Zangief just don't care. All right. Third match against the Ken. This was actually a fireball matchup. So this should be pretty interesting. I want to see if I can get that two bar super to work. If not, I mean, I'll definitely still take it. Oh, going far away. Now you jump. Oh, I should have been there to drive impact that. I'm going to regret that till the end of my days, huh? Okay. I want to drive impact back. Let him know that I'm not afraid. Oh, big damage. Don't go nowhere. Don't go nowhere. Don't go nowhere. Oh, I wanted to get. I'm trying to keep him in that quarter. Oh, oh, I thought I had to. I thought I had the latest, but he's burnt though. He's burnt. He's burnt. He's burnt. This should be. This should be game over just off this alone. He's burnt. He's got no reaction to drive impact because he's burnt out. We got to take advantage of that for the win. Almost two bars of super, which is exactly what I want to do against fireballs. I want the two bar super combo. I want to see a fireball. Let's see if it hit. He didn't even know what to do. He was afraid. He was not sure what he was doing there. Oh, I had to do something, right? Oh, oh, is that it for me? Oh, why did I walk into that? I'm stupid. He's got a whole C8. He's got a whole three bar super now and I'm going to have to play around it. Oh, no, nothing came out. Okay, I'll take it. That was risky though. He could have just bounced back. He could have done the same thing and just ended my life. Oh, but now it's not looking so good. Now it's not looking so good for him. I got to be honest. I got to be honest. Oh, there it is. Look, grab, fall back with it. We got to keep our win streak going. I got to keep rising the ranks. I didn't think it would come down to a grab. I probably would have spent some meat. Hello? Capcom? Capcom, don't do this to me. My points. Oh, yeah. Wait, zero points. Capcom, what is this? Capcom. Well, I'm finally back online after Capcom hit me with the robbery of 2K23, but oh, give me that. I'll take that combo every day of the week. Can I get a knee into a light SPD? No, I can't. But this person did just try to throw a grab out. So that tells me that we might be in the money. If I can get some beer in their heart, we might be in the money. Don't. I'm not trying to let him go anywhere. I want him in the corner. They get another stack off me, but that's fine. Oh, no, not the grab. Geez, the damage. My goodness. The damage was insane. The damage is insane. Light SPD. I stretched out my neck for it. Oh, and the EX and the air. We lose the round and they get three stacks. That is not good going up against the man. And I would have at least preferred to win the round. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You actually pressed a button there. You pressed a button against my medium beef slaps. I'll take a light SPD to make up for it at least. I can't let him push buttons there. That that was crazy. That was you're not allowed to do that. You can't do that against beef. I'll take the big damage though. I'll take that too. I'll take that to clean second round to make up for it. Got me smiling a little bit. I can see the sun shining again. Oh, Larry. Oh, the backhand. All right. I'll take an EX for that because I know that in my back pocket, I have I have an unholy wake up super and I'm going to lay to tell me you didn't jump. Oh, the pre-jump, but they are burnt out. They are burnt out so we can get crazy. Oh, headbutt into it. That was nuts. Just medium slap. Just medium slap. Take the game. Holy, we had to put in a lot of work for that one, but now we actually get 50 points. Capcom, you still owe me. You still owe me a hundred points at least. All right, Capcom, I'm going to let you go with an IOU though. And to be honest, I shouldn't. I shouldn't be that generous, but here I am. I wanted it. Oh, I'll take it. So again, we're using that need to jump in a range. That's the ignorant part. We're jumping in a range and then just hitting a brutal light SPD from a range. They don't even think they can get hit with it by. So now I just wake up driving back because I'm because I'm not him. I'm not him. I will never be him. You know, I feel like jumping. I feel like just jumping. Can you show me that you can punish my jumps? Oh my God, I didn't say that guy in the background actually kind of scared me but jumped out of nowhere. Not against the wall. I'll take it. Mediums medium slaps. It's all one. I'll take that every day of the week. Two bars to spend, but I'm spending none of it. Now I dash it for the kick low kick. I know I'm deep. I know you don't think I'm going for lows, but here I am. I got to test those shoes out. Oh, I wanted it. I wanted it. I'll be honest. Oh, that wasn't even a real combo. Oh, the head, but the lightest PD again. That is toxic. I bet again. The head, but I could have done another light as PD probably. I have three bars. So this game's over. This game's actually over boys. Three bars. Just wake up on Geek. Nobody expects it. It seems toxic, but nobody expects it. You got to teach the world. If you're a Geek player, just wake up level three. That's my advice. It gets your games. Give me another 50 points. Capcom. I need my I.O.U. Cash and we might get that second plaid star. Kimberly's not reacting. Okay, two star platinum. Kimberly, the mix up I'm expecting are about to be crazy. But if we see teleports, double jab, we know that now. Elbow in that. All right. That one. I that one. I just kind of guessed that drive impact would work. I don't know if that's actually an option. Let me test those toes out real quick. I should have larry that. I have to larry that one. Light as PD from the range. My goodness. I will swing. Okay. Nope. Nope. Didn't really work out how I wanted to. I'm in the corner. Oh, no. Come here. Grab. I can't double jab that. I'll take the trade. Huge. All right. That one. We just got off to a really early lead and that helped us. We need to get another early lead again. Don't teleport. Okay. I'm immediate dash in. Oh, I thought I had to read in a half. I'm not even gonna lie. I thought if I could do it early enough, anything was punishable with drive impact. Oh, with punish. Can't block that. Do I have three bars? I do. No, I don't. Yes, I do. And why am I not? Why am I not scared down? Because I got three bars. That's the real answer. People don't want to hear the real answer no more. But the real answer is on Zangief, I'm not afraid when I have three bars. Because I know if nobody got me, my level three got me. Let me test those toes. Oh, ah, ah. I don't think you're not going anywhere either. Jump. Oh, no. All right, here's the thing. No, not your super please. No, it was supposed to be mine. The game was supposed to be locked up. The hubris. No. I deserved it. I got hidden lotus and I deserved it. I got a little cocky. I got a little carried away, but now I have three bars so I can put this, I can put this game away. I'll take it. No, wait. One bar super. Oh, worked. Hold on. Maybe I can do the combo. It wasn't my attention. It wasn't my attention. Oh, I didn't do the right button. Well, now I lost all my bars. Now I lost all my bars and probably all my will to live. I truly, I truly am upset with myself now. I truly deserve the worst. Wait, wait. I'm Zangief. What am I doing panicking? I got to remember I'm Zangief. I'm Zangief. I just need two hits, two good hits and I win. Oh, I don't know if I'm going to get two hits though. Oh, I'm getting beat up on the ground. I have to play perfect. I have to play perfect to win. Can I do it? See, that's why you just double jam teleports. You don't have enough time to impact. Ah, huge mistakes. And the level three mistake too. All the mistakes are building up. I deserve to lose, but I got to correct it. I got to get this back. Don't jump. Oh, don't don't leave me here. Okay. Light ass beating. We're back. We are so back. Overhead. Overhead part two. Okay, we both dashed. We both dashed. Shouldn't we both share the love? Then should we both get a sweet combo? Okay, not good. I'm not seeing any teleports. Cross-up kick. Can't cover that with a jab. What do I do? How do I win this? How do I win this? How do I win this? Wait, that might catch it. No, it didn't. We lost. Damn. Don't punish me. Oh, if I could have caught that, maybe with the combo, I could have won. Maybe. But now we're in a no-man's land. Oh, oh, that's a heavy one too. Nuts. I'll take that trade into a line. It's beating my goodness. You can't win any trades. Oh my God, the stock exchange is broken. The trades just don't make sense. I'm jumping out the corner. I'm, I'll just throw the knee out. I'll just jump. I'll just jump at him. Why not? Why not just jump? Yo, we can play neutral all day long too. Okay, that move sucks for me. I'm not even sure what Gief's answer is. Up against the wall. Splat. Super. Does that hit? It does. Wow. That is good damage, especially for a game deciding round. Can I get the three bars? Do I hold out hope? It doesn't look like it. I hate when I lose that. It doesn't look like I'm going to get the three bars. I'll be honest. It doesn't look like it, especially they're running away from me. Take all the damage we can get. If I can get the three bars, maybe. Three bars is closer than I ever anticipated. No, right as I hit the three bar mark. I lost again. Damn. All right. One more set. One more set. Damn. All right, Marissa, this is an armor based matchup. So we just got to do big damage like that. That is exactly what you want to see. And then just headbutted to light SPD. This is crazy already. Take that. Double jab that out. And then another light SPD. You got to break away from that cycle, but now you got to watch your toes. Geek is all over you. Great, great round. When you start with a combo like that, it's hard to lose on Geek. You get, and again, again, we're going to get the same exact start into a headbutt. I'll wake up into a light SPD. Is any of this looking familiar? If you want to know how to play Geek, in my humble opinion, you don't have to learn very much. You could just learn the basics. Keep him in the corner. Throw him back into the corner. Don't let him escape. Hit him with a meaty. Oh, God, the armor. Oh, God, the grab. A lot of damage, but not too scary. Especially when you can... Is that an overhead? Especially when you consider that we can just win with jabs now pretty much. I mean, we've locked it up to an extraordinary degree. And then we just do that. We do that to seal the round from a good distance. You got to remember, Geek is like 8'7". He can reach a pretty far distance on the screen. But can we do it again? Can we do it again? That's the big question, everybody. And there it is again, boys. The big starting combo we saw a million times. Into the heavy, into the light SPD. We saw this start a million times. And then I dashed in, but this time... See, I was trying to get crazy there. I messed it up. Whoo! Now do me a favor and don't jump. Oh, I tried to snag him out of the... I was trying to pretend that airplanes and the night skies were like shooting stars. Now I just double jab it out, I think. Okay. Okay. Okay, I'm kind of getting the turnaround on me. Now I'm not going to lie. I ain't going to lie to you. I don't want to be here. I really don't want to be in the corner. I'll take the anti-air. I'll take that, too, honestly. I'm going to keep my distance. Whoo! What a comeback from the Marisa, though. To be honest, that was just beauty. They changed up the game plan way too much for me. Okay, but we're back. Ha ha ha! We are so back. Oh, jumped it this time. I should have expected to change up, but I didn't. Oh my God. Think about going against Marisa. She can do the exact same damage back to me. What the? I wasn't expecting a random perfect parry there. I'm not going to lie. I have my level three, though. So we're not out of it just yet. Let me tie up the game real quick. I got it tied up. Spam it. As soon as I get the three bars, I'm using that. Burnout. Super! Stop it. Get some help. You're burnt out. I knew you couldn't drive impact back. Thankfully, you didn't armor crush me. I thought that might happen, but I took the risk. All right. How many bars am I working with? Just almost one. Okay, I tried to dash in for the kick. Oh, I'm liking this. The rollback is making it a little hard, though, to play neutral. I couldn't get in range. Huge damage, my goodness. Oh, that damage is huge. That damage is unholy. I am feeling not so good. Oh, no. No! I pushed a button and paid the ultimate prize. Oh, Marisa, please. Let me get the full set, though. Let me get the full set. Okay, good. All right, now we just got to go 2-1. If I can go 2-1, that means I'm still up in points. Why did I do an instant jump? I just wanted the backwards one. Okay, I'm just going to jump like a clown now for a little bit. I'm trying to force him to think that I'm just losing it. That sucks. This is a terrible situation to be in. I got no drive. I got no drive at all. I got, oh, now I'm really, I have no drive at all. The sweater weather, man. Damn. I don't even know how to play this. I definitely tried to jump there. I tried to pull a fast one on him. Okay, not good. Not good at all. Only at one bar in a little bit. No, no SPD. Not going to fly. Need a range. And there we go. All right, now we're setting the pace. Okay, the low. Oh, I just didn't do the Larry at that time. No anti-airs by me. Sloppy, sloppy play. Sloppy play. We can't survive in this world like that. I think we're dead. Are we? No, not yet. We're close. No L1 either. Oh my God. We're going to lose the set and the video is going to end on a lost streak. Damn, you hate to see it, but you know what? That's PlatinumGee for you. So hopefully you enjoyed it. If you did, definitely make sure to leave a like. Check out some of the other videos on your screen. I've been Dododoya. Let me know what other characters you want to see in the comments and I will see you in the next one.