By popular demand...character stock.
Green Arrow: Stock up. I am not exactly sure why NY is taunting midwest about Green Arrow/Chris G winning UFGT, as if it's this huge embarrassing blowup when Chris just placed top 3 at ECT. Regardless, a strong showing for the emerald archer.
Superman: Stock down. Where was he in the top 8? Soonkerman got bodied by Art and Tyrant is now emo and playing Grundy. Is the f+2,3~breath era over? Was Death right all along?
Aquaman: Stock neutral. Tom got bodied but Dizzy did pretty well, placing 7th and showing off cheap OTG tech. However in the end he was beaten by a wave in Atlantis. I've tried to make the case for the water interactable healing Arthur but no one at NRS agreed.
Deathstroke: Stock up. Slips places top 4 and along with Aris pretty much puts the nail in the coffin of anyone taking M2Dave seriously. Apparently' Deathstroke actually had tools outside guns all along.
Ares: Stock up. Juggs on blast almost as much as Dave when Alucard beats Tom, Pig and Jeremiah. This is another character that Slips and I have said is good but no one listened. Only a fool would downplay the god of war. Shout outs to Alucard for actually thanking Paulo for the buffs after eliminating Tom.
Doomsday: Stock down. Doomy fails to place top 8. What's a poor monster supposed to do in a nerfed body splash world? d+1~earthshake, supernova and 24/7 body splashes are no longer getting Doomsday free wins. I have a feeling it'll work out in the end though.
Shazam: Stock up. Chicago's own Heroic Legacy comes out of no where and eliminates M2dave and gives Pig a run for his money in the top 32. The Atlus Torpedo crossup tech is the cheapest use of a Psycho Crusher I've seen since CE Bison that year EVO used Hyper SF II.
Sinestro: Stock up. I thought this character was dead before he had a chance to live? Apparently Pig is so competitive and must be the best at everything he was trying to outdo Death and the Smoke community when he spammed TYM with Sinestro downplay for the past month.
Killer Frost: Stock down. Speaking of the porkman, according to him Killer Frost is now apparently the most broke character in the history of fighting games, surpassing Eyedol, Ivan Ooze and ST Akuma in brokeness. Unfortunately when it came time to actually deliver in tournament she got her back blown out by flying drones.
Johnny Cage: Stock neutral. Once again Dizzy has won a major with Johnny Cage. Will he ever stop pretending Cage is like 20th on the tier list and loses to anyone with a fireball? You'd think this would be a shoe in for stock up but stock is also slightly down due to Tommy running to his shite Cage when King beat his Smoke with Kung Lao.
Kabal: Stock down. REO stayed home and Detroit has apparently died again so the only Kabals at the tournament were Carl who's Kabal is mysteriously so free he can't beat Quan Chi and Soonk who got bodied by Carl's KL, which GGA suspects was on purpose so he can continue to push his talking point that KL is a bad MU for Kabal and somehow that means Kabal isn't broke.
Kung Lao: Stock up. Used well as always by King and Carl but it was Dizzy and MIT's pocket KL's that made the most noise. The Shaolin Monk gave Dizzy a few games leeway to download King and give him the ability to overcome the Cage vs. Kenshi MU.
Kitana: stock neutral. As always a solid tournament character in the top 8 but free to Kenshi.
Sonya: stock up. MIT debuts his new Sonya with an impressive win over PL and a 4th place finish. Suffered the meter drain glitch in the winners semis match with Dizzy but I have no sympathy and consider meter drain glitch to be a tax for having such a retarded armor move.