Watching snake eyez win against the same person who 0-3d him on winners bracket was insane

The patience is unreal.  By the end of the last match that JP was conditioned to not throw out spikes or ghosts in fear of eating lvl 2.  So much so that he walked himself into the corner against a burnt out Zangief.  Checked all the drive rushes and stopped a bunch of teleports too.  JP was waiting for a whiff that never came.  Snake eyes is a pro  at standing there menacingly.

Tier lists : exist
Snake eyes : i missed the part where thats my problem

Gief aint OP, Snake is OP.

Snake Eyez is definitely one of the greatest grappler players of all time. He is an absolute monster not just with Gief in Street Fighter, but is also currently the best Potemkin player in Guilty Gear Strive. I love watching him play no matter what game it is.

I'm so glad us grappler players can claim one CRACKED OUT player like Snake Eyez. He's such an inspiration for the grappler grindset. No matter how zoned out you get, you can still put the fear of God into a zoner once you make it in.

when your worst characters win tournaments, you've got a pretty decently balanced game.

Can we get more tournament reactions from Max pls? I love the amount of insight and education he's provided with this and the other finals he reacted to.

It makes me so happy to see Snake Eyez playing Zangief in SF6, after seeing him give up on him in SFV. This man was one of my biggest inspirations for playing Zangief, good to see this man cooking again!

Man Snake is just a legend, he always proves that even low tier characters can DOMINATE.I hope he is gonna win even more tournaments as Gief!

no matter how cool JP is, it'll always be satisfying for me to watch a JP player get wrecked

I got into fighting games watching SF4 tournaments, and Snake Eyez was always one of my favorites.

I like how Snake chose to manage his meter too. He did not use it unnecessarily ever. Allowed him to keep plenty for blocking.

Snake eyez be like:
GET IN THE COMMAND GRAB

One thing that all of the top giefs have in common that is really underrated: These are players with incredible endurance. They've been playing gief for decades in a place where the standard MO is "Just keep gief out and wear him down", which is fine... but when you're getting into set two, set three with multiple 60+ second rounds you just get tired... but this is the world these giefs have lived in since the dawn of time so they absolutely have the stamina for it, and when you make a mistake because you're 5+ minutes in of zoning they capitalize on it and run you into the dirt.

I really think to some degree this is what Capcom wanted with this game. Max is right that a lot of Snake Eyez winning is Snake Eyez himself, but the game also gave him the tools to do it and it seems to me that the difference between S tier and D tier in SF6 isn't as wide as it is in a lot of other fighting games. It makes it a more fun game to watch when even a bottom tier character can realistically win.

Snake eyes played out of his mind

I can't wait for Akuma to have double the drive gauge

He didn’t need to win 3 games…. He needed to win 6.

“Snake Eyez wins through patience” feels like it should be on a banner that follows him around any tournament…