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Vatista. She's got zoning tools, a meterless invincible reversal, good normals, and fairly reliable ways to lockdown the opponent til they screw up.

Oh god you're right, damn you french bread and your terrible engrish

Then good thing this is big ass normals: the game, and pressure is still really strong considering a lot of the cast lack a meterless invincible reversal, and a whiffed or blocked invincible reversal can't be made safe by anything.

EX Grim Reaper version has invincibility, normal version is ex cancelable and chain shift is possible on whiff, hit or blocked. Its not the move by itself that makes it overwhelming, its the fact that if Gordeau has meter, grim reaper becomes the way he's going to force you into his optimal ranges.

Yuzuriha has mixups from whiff charge j 2c, but she doesn't have any jump attacks fast enough to be considered an instant overheads. She does have frame traps though, and you can catch people whiffing with your slashes. Her aerial slashes are also air unblockable. Most yuzurihas i've seen do assault j.2c, then they'll either whiff into a low, throw, or let it rip. Her main gameplan looks to be a lot of space control and whiff punishing in the long run, having to play catchup is not something you want to do with her.

Well it's not perfect since certain characters are overplayed and others are underplayed, and im doing this entirely from memory so mid tiers are bound to be out of order, but the current list from top to bottom is Gordeau, waldstein, vatista, merkava Hilda, linne, carmine, eltnum, Hyde, orie, yuzuriha Seth, chaos, akatsuki

Well statistically speaking yuzuriha players don't win a lot, in fact I've only ever seen like 2 yuzuriha players win consistently while the rest have ranged from passable to terrible. I'd still trust the arcade machine compiled tier list more, humans are biased and numbers don't lie.