A disciplined Scorpion will evaluate what vortex setup he used and how it will condition the opponent in what they decide to do next. Making a braindead guess and just throwing out B2 or F4~Spear point blank on each one is just asking to die.
Also, I haven't once called Smoke overrated or underrated here, my theory is to get an idea of what everybody's consensus of the character would be without the resets. For worse, or *gasp* better. On paper, it's a downplaying context, but then I openly acknowledge that every single character I play loses to him regardless.
I wasn't implying that you thought Smoke was overrated...it was more towards the community as a whole. Still, I somewhat misunderstood the point of your thread. My apologies.
Without resets, I would say Smoke is 9 - 10 on the tier list.
With resets, I would say he's 5 - 6.
Also, with regard to Scorpion, correct me if I'm wrong but if your opponent was also a disciplined player wouldn't they understand you were trying to condition them to change their response, and keep blocking the same way. It's like with Smoke if you keep doing d3/d4 and the opponent never opens themselves up to b2. Either way, my point was that the b2/f4 spear mix-up is much riskier than Smoke's reset. Smoke's reset isn't a gamble at all...it's just practice.
