He did, and then he never accomplished anything with the game again after she was nerfed, despite his efforts, thus showing the power of the character pre-patch. Not salty at all. I was at Evo that year and the matches were hype as hell. PR Rog landing the command grab with Tron? Place went crazy. Also, Viscant won in 2011 and Evo has been Evo much longer than that.
You're talking about MvC3.
True, it is. But at the same time you've been moving characters around based on feedback, thus giving the impression that you wanted to make an accurate spicy list.
If a character has as many winning match ups as S would imply, then they would be broken from the perspective of creating a balanced game, which is exactly what the dev team at NRS is trying to do. Having a tier list like this undersells what they accomplished with this patch.
I'm not calling him a terrible player. Obviously, other people were playing her too and he was the one that managed to put the pieces together correctly, while holding onto his composure at high level play. That definitely takes skill. But to not have accomplished anything after that, and he did try quite a lot, says something about the state of Phoenix when he used her.
You're thinking with a black and white mindset. Life is not black and white. He could have stopped playing it as seriously, after playing it more seriously than anyone, previous to his win. Lack of dedication doubles in affect if your character is severely changed.
