the more i read this the more i think people need to relax. sure seth got nerffed and in vanilla he was godlike and now hes whatever. he still plays the same even though hes not as good and he is still competent. his nerffing didnt make him a bad character, it made him balanced. just like how i feel with sagat. both are still very solid characters.
Gdlk in Vanilla? Do you know what you’re saying? You get hit by 4 TU and you’re dead. Sure he was better in Vanilla, but I wouldn’t say he was gdlk.
okay yeah, gdlk was an exaggeration, but he is still viable, i dont see him as a shitty character in super by any means.
In Vanilla and Super, he’s pretty good, but in Arcade, he’s going to suck balls 
I played vanilla the other day at a tournament (freeplay), something I haven’t done since like… 5 months ago.
Seth was so goddamn broken. Srsly, his dive kick was ridiculously fast 
And you could just spam KKK teleport to the other side of the screen, all the time.
Seth was nowhere near broken. Broken is 600+ damage off of a hit trade. Broken is Akuma in ST. Broken would be Guile’s sonic boom without a charge motion. Sure, he raped Zangief almost for free, but it’s Zangief; he’s supposed to get raped by fireballs and long range pokes by virtue of his character design. Nothing Seth did was free and punishing Seth usually led to him losing half of his health. VSF4 Seth’s dive kick was fast, but could only be used near the peak of his jump. If someone is letting him dive kick, it’s their fault for not doing an anti-air.
sometimes i play vanilla just to play old seth lol
If you want to play seth, play vanilla, and to a lesser extent super, i.e. when his u2 actually served a purpose lol. His AE incarnation is a slow frail old man compared to his fast, strong virulent vanilla contemporary.
This is what I think capcom was thinking when they introduced these ridiculous nerfs:
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[]noobs complain about his cheap/brokenness
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[]these complaining noobs constitute a large amount of the income that capcom receives
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[]appeasing the noobs = more $
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[][serious] seth players are (relatively speaking) pretty rare
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[*]never really see seth’s placing high in tournaments particularly often
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the # of people complaining about seth nerfs will be < the number rejoicing over seth nerfs => nerf the $h!t out of seth & make him unplayable
My money’s on capcom ignoring sf4AE from here on out and focusing its attention elsewhere.