Well that's true. But that's not exactly what you were saying. You were basically saying: "We can't rate how good CSZ is based on that player because that player is actually very good and knows how to use CSZ to its fullest potential."
My point was we're supposed to consider characters being played at their fullest potential.
I honestly think Stryker is more tourney viable than a lot of characters right now. I'll tell you that much.
I feel he's kinda like Adon in the early days of SSF4. Long time considered low-mid tier by most simply because a lot of players didn't know how to play proper footsies and lacked fundamentals. Then people realized most of Adon's matchups were actually 5-5s and he had no real bad/unwinnable MUs so we started seeing him more in tournaments.
Stryker has good zoning, air control, good footsies, safe strings, good meter building, decent damage output. I mean COME ON guyz, Stryker is basically Ryu with a roll attack that goes under shit and he can cancel a hadoken -that travels at the speed of bullets mind you- into dash cancel throw, cross-over jump, crouching forward, AA roundhouse, stance switch block or any special move whenever the fuck he wants. I sometimes feel like I'm the only one that realizes how freaking awesome that is.
If Daigo played Stryker he would wreck people up. I'm sure of it.