MITDJT
No offence dude, don't be pissed off lol. I'm just saying that it's not that long to figure out if a character is good or bad. We just need to have a look on high player's tier list, kommunity's tier list, tournaments' casting (which is, like mk9 was, most of the time the same arrived top 17), frame data, couple of weeks in the lab, normals, and specials to figure out if a char is decent or not.
Obviously you can find new tech, but I really think it won't change the character that much unless you find an infinite or something which will be patched asap.
I always supported you, your brother (until cyrax) and Pig since mk9 for being the only guys playing characters that we didn't use to see in high level tournaments so your arguments getting out from your mouth are legit, but I still give you my opinion because that's why TYM exists.
As long as I won't see the "bottom/unexplored char" in a high level tournament (without crazy buff patch), I'll stay on my position. I already see a ton of batgirls in tournament whereas she has been released recently. And I can bet I'll see a lot of scorpion at EVO. So why some character are top 8 viable day 1, where some other are still "supposedly unexplored" by the kommunity and underused by progamers after 2 months ?
I wanna believe to coincidence, but I'm not superstitious. :/