Who are the lower mid tiers of Street Fighter 5 right now? EventHubs Season 5 tier list part 2

Not terrible, but not great

Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero • October 23, 2021 at 7:58 p.m. PDT • Comments: 7

We're back with the second installment of our EventHubs Street Fighter 5 tier list for Season 5. Catalyst and I both shared our bottom tiers in part 1, and now each come forward with our next batch of lower tier fighters.

Here we're starting to see characters that a decent bit of juice in a few categories, but often just don't seem to be able to make things come together effectively enough to garner consistent wins. While it's not necessarily true for everyone we talk about in this segment, one of the qualities holding some of these characters back: they're just too honest.

Being a top tier in Street Fighter 5 usually means you have some pretty gnarly abilities that have relatively low risk and high reward. Often times this comes in the form of a powerful V-Trigger, but can also be found in the effectiveness of certain special or normal attacks if they lead or leave a character in or toward especially advantageous situations.

Catalyst and I both came up with individual tier lists and did not share with one another before recording, so there are actually fairly few places where we place the same character in the same place. This makes for a bit of back and forth, especially when our placements differ by more than few spots.

Since the roster is made up of 44 characters right now, we're sharing roughly in 11 character batches and this means we're making our way right up to the half way point in this segment.

Check out the full discussion of characters 33-23 via the video below, and then please hit us up in the comments section (preferably on YouTube along with a like and subscribe) to share your reactions and opinions on SF5's current character rankings.

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