More balanced than most, if not all other Street Fighter games.
Anyone putting ST or HDR up on this list have no idea what idea what they are talking about and i love those games to death.
Secondly any game that has one or multiple banned characters should not be used as an example.
By calling those games greatly balanced there’s just a slippery slope towards just keeping banning characters until the remaining characters have enough balanced matchups between eachother. If a game is supposed to be considered balanced the balance needs to be natural and not artifically created by banning until balance is achieved…
I definitely see Jenets and Kevins get taken down. The same CANNOT be said for Gold War Machine, Red Vennom, Strider, and Red Spiderman though.
Vampire Savior hasn’t been mentioned enough in this page of the thread.
I’d mention VSav, but I don’t know a lot about the roster. Too busy getting killed by the CPU. >_>
Only 2D game I know of where bottom feeders are capable of winning tournaments.
tekke 3 in my opinion is a very balanced game.
sane with ttt
Now THAT’s cool. You don’t even see that in SSF4.
Red Spiderman?
tekken 5 DR
Lol, replace with Wolverine
Shit, lets say XvSF. Everyone in that fucker is crazy broken.
This. An anakaris BEAT a sasquatch in the FINALS. GG. VSAV better be on this list now.
There’s also a Victor owning a lot of faces.
Placing my vote for VF5.
Ballz 3d, picking a character means nothing in that game
kof 98 if balanced, i dont think most people know enough of the game to even mention it not being balanced.
RB2 is another really balanced game.
ggxxac update from what ive heard.
ST is the greatest (imo) fighting game ever made, but many people think it has too many 7-3 matchups to qualify for this list.
7-3? What about those DeeJay/Blanka 9-1? There’s a fucking TON of those.
KOF98UM Hero edition (it nerfed Krauser who was the only real problem)
Shiki’s right about vanilla 98 not really being balanced, though it’s balanced by Capcom standards. UM improved things- only Kasumi is unviable, but Krauser was SF4 Sagat good without much in the way of a counter character. Hero edition nerfed down Krauser to upper mid, unsure if anyone else became problematic.
VF4- VF5 (unsure about post-vanilla VF5)
SSVSP- there’s a couple of weak characters, but they can compete. This game does have some mild counterpick issues, but not to the extent of ST.
SSF4- The top tier all can be counterpicked, and there’s few horrible matchups. Might be best balanced 2D fighter ever
Tekken 6 BR- there’s a top tier, and it’s not as balanced as VF, but still well balanced.
i didn’t feel the need to go further with the lopsided matchups in ST 
the main premise of this thread was finding the games that didnt have 7-3 matchups at all, which is why most ST players recognize that even though its an amazing game, it doesnt meet the criteria of this particular list.
but of course, some people (pointbreak91) don’t read the op (i can’t blame them too much, its really long, and reading is hard)
kof XII should be up there! jus sayin!