#Grapplers

[viceandmature]

Frankensteiner Grapplers

[salixlikescake]

I love La’An, and honestly- grapplers too.

[thetruejerrycan]

Something I've never brought up in public is that I do a majority of the thumbnails on my friend Bass Boosted's YouTube channel, with this being today's upload and possibly my magnum opus. Click on the link below the image above if you want to see two guys play grapplers, talk about Street Fighter, and throw rock

[wrestlingarsenal]

This classic Tag Team squash from my old DVD archives features the masked Grapplers beating down jobber Rick McGraw -- a stocky fireplug who always looked beefy and huggable, and cute, too! His partner is young Eric Embry, one of my favorite wrestlers from the 1980s. (In this video, we sadly don't see much of Embry (until the pinfall) because McGraw plays Face-in-Peril for most of the match.)

This aired on Southwest Championship Wrestling and the original commentary was in Spanish which I don't speak. So I decided to dub in some audio from one of my favorite Tag Team matches produced by BG East. Turn up the volume if you enjoy suffering males moaning and groaning, which for me really adds to McGraw's performance of sexy agony and defeat.

The Grapplers really kick McGraw's ass pretty good -- I lost count of how many Knee Drops they drove into his forehead. And can I just say, I always thought their matching black-and-white hoods were tuff and intimidating and kinky AF.

[each-dustbin1]

You know, the way some people talk about grapplers like they're always low tiers in every game is so weird to me, because grapplers are quite often not the underdogs in their games, and it's especially noticeable looking back at previous titles in popular fgcs, even with all the kusoge garbage grapplers there was still

Zangief who was really good in SF4 and a high tier in Alpha 3

Abigail was a top tier in SFV until nerfed

Both Tager and Potemkin have had games where they were top tiers

Hulk and Haggar are both fantastic characters in UMVC3

King had a move that was +93 on block in Tekken 1 and anybody who knows frame advantage should realize why that's insane

Beowulf and Cerebella are great characters in Skullgirls

KOF is full of grapplers, and even if you want to be picky and call most of them rushdown, slower more traditional grapplers like Goro Daimon have still been high tier

And so on and so forth. A lot of grapplers are lower on the tier side of things, but almost all of them are viable, and quite a lot of them are actually the big meta threats in their games. Just something I think a few of you would like to know.

[nitpickrider]

Just curious if you had any though regarding the Grapplers. Me? Love 'em. Pro Wrestling Heels AND super villains? I just wanted one of them to cut a promo on Captain America or the Thing, maybe promise to fight them at the next PPV

This is entrapment. I'll answer the question just know that you brought the unhinged second half on yourself.

I think I've said this in public before but I am a MASSIVE Songbird fan. Melissa Gold is one of those characters I follow with very heavy interest, everything she does I am there to read it. As such my familiarity with Screaming Mimi is more as stories of Melissa's dumb college years. Like she ran off a got a stupid, unsightly piercing rather than spending several years doing actual CRIMES with the 3 most butch women I have ever seen. I've never read any real stories with them but I hope to run across them someday so I have some actual thoughts to share. That in mind, let's get down to what you all knew was going to happen here.

Poundcakes:

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Letha:

FUCK! I mean...ho baby FUCK! *pant pant pant* humminahummina

Merciful god nothing about that woman is either legal or godly sweet mary mother of- Titania:

HHNNNNNNN, ok, yep, that's it. Split my collection amongst yourselves because my wretched, sinful soul is floating away from this earth on a cloud of that woman's FUCKING BICEPS

[mangocoal]

Street Fighter 6 is awesome. I've been having alot of fun playing as Zangief against my friends. Also, yes. There are mods that can create the greenscreen effect.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot to link where to get the green screen tool. It's part of the Lua Freecam mod. You can get it at this discord server: https://discord.gg/9Vr2SJ3

[smorzinc]

my biggest source of dopamine is getting jump reads with Potemkin. they are what I play guilty gear for.

i like the ones where i feel like i intentionally made them jump into my Heavenly Potemkin Buster. conditioning and pressuring them into the corner so jumping feels like the only option.

i love the ones where i know they're going to jump because of a pattern I've noticed. i really feel like im inside their head with those ones.

my favorites are the ones that not even i am aware are about to happen. some subconscious pattern recognition or fuckin divine clairvoyance just tells me they are going to jump. I'm not even aware of these half the time. my fingers just GO. im just as surprised as my opponent half the time. i REALLY feel like I'm inside their head with those ones.

oh and the massive explosion followed by the deletion of half their healthbar definitely helps too.

[marvelman901]

Poundcakes (Marian Pouncy) . 1st - 4th slide is from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe v3 10 (1991) Art by Keith Pollard and Josef Rubinstein. 5th and 9th slide art is by Gus Vazquez and Howard Bender. . #poundcakes #marvelman901poundcakes #marvelman901grapplers #grapplers #90s #marvel #howardbender #keithpollard #josefrubinstein #gusvazquez (på/i New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClFAXr3MyH6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sebeth]

Titania

[randosrandomrhetoric]

Fighting games, the most glorious rage inducing, pull out your hair, yet satisfying experience this side of getting one up on that particular family member that you hate to be around. This feeling is what ultimately brings me to my topic, Grapplers!

While there are many fighting game archetypes that people hate, mainly all the ones they don't play, it seems grapplers and their players seem to get a lot of hate. Well, at least in the wide casual perspective. Why is this? Is it because of our superior mental acuity? Our superior might? Is it jealousy of our sheer intimidating presence? Despite being the best, grapplers to this day often get chastised for being brain dead, cheap, and just unfun to play against. Who's fault is this? Is it the developers fault for making us so strong while being so mid? Is it the busted AI because they always know when they can grab you? Is it because of their soft spines and fragile necks? We can only speculate.

In all seriousness, it really seems like grapplers get people up in quite a fit. I only ever seem to get rage quitters or 1 and dones when I play grapplers. My wife, who doesn't even play fighting games, but from the few times she played SF2 on the SNES, hates Zangief to this day. She will give me shit every time I start a new game and pick the grappler. Even with actual players, there's discourse over them. Some lunatics have tried to call out and get Zangief nerfed in SF6. Zangief!! The character generally considered the bottom 2, if not THE worst character in the game. Even playing Tager, in the first Blazblue, or Kanji in P4A, online, I got hate messages.

In the end, though, nothing is more satisfying than landing that throw. This hit of dopamine, every time you read your opponent like a book, or in the minor few instances, make a lucky guess, the feeling is amazing. And maybe I'm just an arsehole,but just imagining my opponent raging after I dash up and hit that SPD for a 3rd time in a row, chef's kiss. So if you've ever raged, gotten upset at a grappler, or chuckled along as you throw your opponent to the ground, bless you. As for me? I'm thinking of changing my name to Jebediah because I'm gonna stay churning butter every day. May the grappler gods bless you and join the Throw World Order. Later friends.

[galakaz]

The strongest grappler main to fight would be your psychologists as they would know enough about you to read your backdash option

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[thetruejerrycan]

[kik1draws]

Oh boy, to take a bath with these hot men? Am I in heaven…?🥹😭

[prokopetz]

Yujiro Hanma vs. Bugs Bunny. Fight only stops when one is down for a full 10 count. Who wins?

I cannot emphasise strongly enough that as far as classic Looney Tunes goes, Bugs Bunny is a predator, and big hypermasculine dudes with violent dispositions and no necks are his principal prey item.