Ok so i recently saw xian’s tier list. He placed sagat 9th which with all due respect to xian(Love the guy , he’s a great player) but i think thats a crock of shit.
I’m going to list who “i” think beats sagat then im gonna list who i think is even and who i think he beats. I’m not going to sit here and give scores because people will argue and debate too much over meaningless shit.
Feel free to disagree.
Loses to:
Akuma,Ken,Fei-long,Ibuki,Viper,Abel,Dudley,Gen,Vega,Adon,evil ryu, juri,Cammy,Dhalsim,Gouken,Seth.
**Even: **
Ryu,Guy,Chun Li,Bison,Balrog,Sakura,Guile,Rose,Makoto,deejay *special note Ryu and Sakura i feel that could maybe go to beating sagat but i’ll just put them even for now.
Beats:
Zangief,Honda,Thawk,Dan,Fuerte,Cody,Rufus,Yun,Blanka,Oni,
I have left out: Yang and Hakan as i’m not sure. Hakan might beat sagat but i feel sagat can perhaps beat him also. Yang i dont have any high level yangs anymore since he got nerfed and i never have any trouble however.
I think everybody that truly understands sagat will at the very least agree with 90% of the characters i listed as beating sagat do have the matchup advantage. 1 or 2 might be debatable but as i said one two could replace them anyways. So with this many unfavorable matches and the rest mostly even how is this character 9th? Honestly i think this game engine doesn’t favor sagats character design. I Hope capcom for once actually does the right thing by the king. He deserves to be in the top 5-8 imo. Currently imo he sits around 15 and i’ve thought this for a long time. The worst thing i find is characters with superior options to sagat also do more damage then sagat. This to me is what capcom needs to get right. Anyways rant over.