In fighting games we have witnessed legendary comebacks and comebacks that seemed impossible. Today I am going to bring you, not a comeback, but rather "The comebacks" where the player Snake Eyez, a faithful Zangief player, had the responsibility and weight of his region on him since by losing the members of his team he would be in a 1 vs 5 against characters over which he had no advantage and against some of the best players in the world.
There are people who love a character so much that they marry him by choosing him always, not only in one game but directly in all of the saga
This is the case of the player I am going to write about today, who since Street Fighter 2 has committed to using Zangief no matter how good he is, achieving the greatest title in his career which was winning the Evo in 2010.
I know you might not be that impressed that he won a championship in a game that's almost two decades old, but he did it against the best, beating players like Tokido and Daigo Umehara in the process.
Zangief is a grab character who is not a bad character at all, he just has a problem, that due to his nature he needs to get close to the opponent to do devastating damage and that is difficult against several characters who have projectiles and long-distance hits.
There is a concept called "Matchup" which is the strategy and knowledge of the game that is applied in a match between a specific character against another specific character. An example if your main character is white the way to face a Ken player is different the way to face JP and since there are different archetypes, strengths and weaknesses there are some characters that you are stronger against and others that you are weaker against. Zangief as we already mentioned has many complications with characters that Zangief and that are much more complete than him, having in the fourth installment in Snake Eyez's own words eight matchups in which he wins, three in which he is neutral and 16 in which he loses despite the fact that Zangief has matchups in which he cannot do much. Snake Eyez has shown that this is not an impediment to winning tournaments alongside his beloved character.
Well, I leave you the video, and enjoy it as I did when I saw it.