I have to say I've never seen a game where tier lists have been so insignificant. At EVO, from the quarterfinals on, all but 4 characters were used (Goro, Takeda, Ferra/Torr, Jacqui) and each of those characters were represented in pools. It seems every character in this game could be top tier if used by the right person. Of all the faults this game has, being unbalanced is not one. Look at how creative NRS was with the different move sets available in this game. Can you imagine how difficult it is to add such a large amount of unorthodox moves and keep it this well balanced? Accidentally adding one or two frame advantage could throw everything off and there still hasn't been anything that breaks this game at the highest level.