From: caine@dcl-nxt01 (Caine B Schneider)
Subject: Re: SFII-CE Match-UPs and Ratings
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:05:45 GMT

el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent) writes:

>These are my ratings for matchups in SF2-CE based on my experience.
>A score given to a character is the number of times he can win out of
>ten when fighting master vs. master.

>Character  Chance of defeating:                              Total  % chance
>used       Ryu Ken ChL E.H Zan Bla Dha Gui Bal Vega Sag Bis  Score  winning
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ryu         5   6   7   8   5   5   4   7   9   4    3   4     67     55.8
>Ken         4   5   7   8   5   4   3   4   8   3    3   4     58     48.3
>Chun Li     3   3   5   4   4   3   6   2   6   5    6   4     51     42.5
>E. Honda    2   2   6   5   7   6   3   2   8   6    2   4     53     44.2
>Zangief     5   5   6   3   5   5   4   3   7   5    3   6     57     47.5
>Blanka      5   6   7   4   5   5   7   6   2   5    7   3     62     51.7
>Dhalsim     6   7   4   7   6   3   5   5   9   1    4   4     61     50.8
>Guile       3   6   8   8   7   4   5   5  10   6    3   6     71     59.2
>Balrog      1   2   4   2   3   8   1   0   5   3    2   2     33     27.5
>Vega        6   7   5   4   5   5   9   4   7   5    6   5     68     56.7
>Sagat       7   7   4   8   7   3   6   7   8   4    5   4     70     58.3
>M. Bison    6   6   6   6   4   7   6   4   8   5    6   5     69     57.5

>Rank Character  Score  %age   Crushes          Crushed by
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>1)   Guile       71    59.2   Balrog    (10)   Sagat/Ryu      (3)
>2)   Sagat       70    58.3   E. Honda   (8)   Blanka         (3)
>3)   M. Bison    69    57.5   Balrog     (8)   Guile/Zangief  (4)
>4)   Vega        68    56.7   Dhalsim    (9)   Guile/E. Honda (4)
>5)   Ryu         67    55.8   Balrog     (9)   Sagat          (3)
>6)   Blanka      62    51.7   CL/Dh/Sag  (7)   Balrog         (2)
>7)   Dhalsim     61    50.8   Balrog     (9)   Vega           (1)
>8)   Ken         58    48.3   Bal/E.H.   (8)   Dha/Veg/Sag    (3)
>9)   Zangief     57    47.5   Balrog     (7)   Hon/Gui/Sag    (3)
>10)  E. Honda    53    44.2   Balrog     (8)   Ryu/Ken/Gui/Sag(2)
>11)  Chun Li     51    42.5   Dha/Bal/Sag(6)   Guile          (2)
>12)  Balrog      33    27.5   Blanka     (8)   EVERYONE!

>Guile is the most powerful character when matched against all of the
>characters.  However, often only a few characters are selected to be
>played in a match.  These are the characters which have few enemies.

>Blanka is powerful because his natural enemy (Balrog) is seldom played.
>Ken, Ryu, and Guile used to be more dominant at UIUC before Sagat players
>got better.

  Ming, are you sure that Balrog loses 10/10 to Guile?  That would seem 
highly unlikely.  Also, you didn't give Dhalsim enough credit vs. Zangief.
I've many matches where Zangief simply can't get close to Dhalsim.  This,
of course, is a very boring battle, but Dhalsim usually wins...  The Vega
vs. Dhalsim battle is a little closer than you say.  Maybe not 9/1, but 8/2
or 7/3.  But then again, this would be my experience counting on yours...
I do agree with your Sagat ratings.  I've seen many a Ryu or Ken (including
yourself) go down to Sagat.  Personally, I play Sagat to beat Ryu or Guile,
but vs. Ken seems to be more advantageous to Ken.  
  Your M. Bison ratings are also reflecting the recent uprising of the
dictator.  I've never seen him played this much (lots of Cheez-Whiz).
At this rate, UIUC is going to take the cheese title from Wisconsin.
Evil Ken is still #1 in my book.

Caine Schneider

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