my AIM is the same as my username (Lord BBH), I wanna play more peeps in this. I play pretty much everyone except Feilin!
anyway seeing how everyone has a different tier list I may as well post mine. It’s pretty similar to my colleague zeppy_gorilla’s, but I’ll try to explain it:
S: Ray, Karnov, Zazie
A: Lee, Jean, Marstorius
B: Samchay, Mizoguchi, Matlok, Clown, Yungmie
C: Ryoko
Feilin: Feilin
I still think Ray is #1 in this game because I don’t think he really has any really bad matchups. Wheel Kick is just one of the most obnoxious anti-air moves I’ve ever seen in a fighting game. Karnov… well, we all know why Karnov is good. Zazie has so many options, his “DP” has almost no recovery and he can dash into it… plus the ABCD rapid punch thing.
Lee could maybe be in the top along with those 3, just on the basis of how scrubby he is to play and how much damage he gets (along with easy dizzies). I dunno. Jean is up there because he can turtle pretty effectively (a flash kick that moves him backward? why?) and his ABCD punch combo sometimes does even more damage than Zazie’s, it’s insane if you can do it right. Marstorius is odd, if he gets one grab he can use that momentum so sometimes win the round instantly, but he has a hell of a time getting in on most fireball characters. He’s very scary to play against but the low jump is just such a huge weakness.
Here’s where things get weird - I can’t really differentiate the next 5 characters (Samchay, Mizoguchi, Matlok, Clown, Yungmie) into individual tiers because they all feel about the same to me. They can all win, but they all have weaknesses. Samchay is definitely the best of the bunch, but I don’t think he should be in the next tier. Yungmie is definitely third-worst, winning with her isn’t hopeless but she doesn’t have enough good ground combos, one more bufferable move from the ground would’ve been nice.
Ryoko gets her own tier because I don’t feel she’s anywhere near as good as those 5, but she doesn’t deserve to be grouped in with Feilin. She gets raped by the top tier, but against everyone else I don’t think it’s a total blowout for her (although she may still have some pretty bad matchups). The big difference between her and Feilin is that if Ryoko gets an opening, she can actually do about 40% damage instantly.
Feilin is in Feilin Tier because she is garbage.