I don't think you understood what I said. The point was that even Superman, as the most broken character in the game, with the braindead f23 meta, didn't make 3 appearances in the same major top 8 until the world's biggest fighting game tournament months into the game.You're still failing to detect sarcasm. Nobody would seriously compare Catwoman to pre-patch Scorpion. The point is, someone not doing well with a character and then doing well with another isn't an indicator of said character's place on a tier list. Also, fine, let's stick with PL: Please explain the improvement to his Batman and Doomsday. If the point is, he didn't do well with those characters but he did well with Scorpion, how on earth are you conveniently ignoring him doing well with Batman and Doomsday around the same time he was doing well with Scorpion? He improved. That's the real reason. Since you say you played him and seem to be in agreement with me about this, then you should understand how using THAT as an indicator of Scorpion's brokeness is flawed
What majors were Theo, Slayer and KDZ attending with Superman during these 3 months for his brokeness to be on display? Yeah, my point exactly. Or are you seriously implying pre-patch Scorpion was better than pre-patch Superman? All of what happened at CEO simply means that Scorpion needed some time getting use to fighting against due to the back-to-block mechanics, not that he was extremely broke (keep in mind CEO took place after the initial fix to his flipkick and MB tele). Again, anyone who complained about him were A) complaining about their own inabilities to adapt to him originally (and that's not to say that he wasn't really good. He was. But you're kidding yourself if you don't think part of why most players initially struggled was getting used to blocking against him) and B) own up to the fact that they also should have been lobbying for Black Adam and Superman to be nerfed around the same time. Period. You can't act like it's no big deal Scorpion was swiftly nerfed while Black Adam and Superman were allowed to make a mockery out of EVO top 8. Sorry.
The very fact that you'd compare Theo, Slayer and KDZ (3 of the absolute most dedicated mains, who had been grinding their char, playing locals and training for months) to 3 guys who picked a character up a week and a half before a major is ludicrous, and proves my point.