User blog comment:Monkey Doctor 33/Hey Baby, Another Masterful Battle! Gouken vs William A. Zeppeli/@comment-3189283-20180630083456

Let's see shall we

I'm going to side with Gouken in this battle. The primary reason for this is that Zeppeli's Hamon is not going to be particularily effective against Gouken because he's not undead, sure he could knock him unconcious or stun him with enough Hamon but you can tell just by looking at how hench Gouken is that's going to take some doing. Aside from that though Gouken also has the harder hitting moves here with his Gohadoken being a more damaging version of Zeppeli's hamon cutter and his two Shoryuken moves being able to disable Zeppeli's hamon as it specifically targets the torso of the opponent, allowing him to knock the wind out of him and stop him chaneling his Hamon energy. That's another important factor actually Gouken's hard hitting moves all seem to target the torso of his opponent and one good connection will stop Zeppeli from being able to use his Hamon properly which will be a massive blow to his fighting capabilities.

Moreover Gouken also has the better defensive abilities with his Kongoshin enabling him to basically parry anything Zeppeli can throw at him and Senkugoshoha allows him to dodge the various Hamon based projectiles Zeppeli can throw at him. Futhermore two of his offensive moves Gohadoken and Tatsumaki Senpukyaku also have their defensive uses, either to cut through incoming projectiles or just simply dodge them respecitively. Zeppeli meanwhile doesn't have any real defensive moves yes he can heal himself but that won't do much good against an opponent who isn't trying to inflict lethal damage on him like Gouken and most of his defensive resistance comes from the fact the undead he normally fights have to bypass his Hamon to actually hurt him. Yeah he could create a barrier of leaves or hair but he has to physically create those himself and Gouken isn't going to give him the chance to do that.

Gouken also has the advantage of experience and fighting skill in my opinion. Zeppeli, for all his training and Hamon skill, was soundly defeated by both Dio and Tarkus when he faced off against them, despite them both being relatively inexperienced with their new undead forms. Gouken meanwhile has gone up against Akuma and held his own against him on multiple occasions even surving what was supposed to be a battle to the death and not to mention all the others Street Fighter characters and all their weird and wacky fighting styles. Zeppeli is simply too specialised in fighting undead opponents (and even then he comes off worse most times) whereas Gouken is used to living people and some pretty powerful ones at that. Ultimately Zeppeli lacks the hard hitting moves and more importantly the solid defensive options of Gouken which allows him to come through the victor.