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Guile vs. Character Strategies: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix

Last updated on Jan. 1, 2009

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vs. Blanka

This is arguably Guile's toughest match up, and HD Remix Blanka is even better than he was in Super Turbo.

He can slide under your Sonic Booms, and his Beast Roll is safe from counter attacks.

Don't try to use Guile's Overhead Attack or Sabot Kicks (Towards or Back + Medium Kick), because Blanka can crouch right under them.

Standing Light Kick (joystick in neutral position) is a pretty good normal in this match because it should knock him out of his slide, counter his horizontal Beast Rolls and Super. The only problem is you're really limiting yourself when you do it because you can't charge for a Flash Kick — but you can charge for a Sonic Boom.

If you keep doing Standing Light Kicks you can charge back as long as you keep hitting the button without doing a Bazooka Knee, any break in your timing though will have you hoping forwards so be careful of your button presses.

Light Punch Sonic Booms into a Hop Kick (Hold Away and press Hard Kick outside of close range) work pretty well, because the Hop Kick should knock Blanka out of his slide and into your projectile for two hits. You need a lot of space for this though, because your Kick takes a bit to come out.

Also random Hard Punch Sonic Booms work alright in this match, because it gives Blanka less time to do a reaction slide under them.

vs. Dhalsim

Guile's Sobat Kick (Back + Medium Kick) can hit Dhalsim's limbs consistently. You have to be wary of him sliding under your Sonic Booms, but the same tactics you use against Blanka's slide should work here as well.

Use your Hard Kick Flash Kick if Dhalsim starts pulling some tricky midscreen pressure tactics to knock him down.

From long range you're probably going to be getting into a fireball war. If Dhalsim starts getting predictable with his Yoga Fires, peg him with a Jumping Hard Kick.

vs. Sagat

It's important that you stay about mid-range screen away from Sagat. If you're outside of this range he can pummel you all day long with his Tiger Shots, and if you get too close you're opening up his Tiger Uppercuts.

But from mid-range you can use Hard Kick Flash Kicks to hit Sagat's limbs when he does a projectile or mid/high poke.

From this distance you should be able to do an alright job controlling the match by scoring knock downs and using your pokes, just watch out for Tiger Knees.

vs. Vega

This is still a difficult match, but Guile's new Hard Kick Flash Kick finally gives him an option against Vega players who would do his slide sweep all day long.

Also the Claw's new Fake Wall Dive can give you issues when he baits you into a Flash Kick, so try to stick to jumping Hard Punch or Hard Kick to counter his Off The Wall moves.

You'll probably want to keep the pressure on as much as possible, doing a lot of jump attacks works alright, but be wary of Vega's Flip Kicks.

vs. Zangief

You need to play very patiently in this match, and turtle, turtle, turtle. Basically you're going to spend 90% of this fight in the crouching down-back position.

Zangief can and will destroy you when he gets in close, so use a lot of Crouching Medium Kicks and some Sonic Booms here and there to keep him off of you. When he jumps, Flash Kick him.

The thing to avoid is getting predictable. If a good Gief player knows what's coming, he'll find a way to get in.

Remember that Zangief can't Lariat through your projectiles, because you can Crouching Medium Kick him out. So most players will just try to slowly advance on you and look for any openings they can get.

If he gets in close despite your efforts, get away from him with Jumping Hard Kicks to try and push him back, and continue to throw random projectiles to keep ticking away his life.

Contributions to this guide by SiYkO, Sirblew.