*sigh* Anyone who puts Sieg as bottom tier hasn't played a good Sieg player. It's like comparing him to rock, and he's not THAT bad. a competant Sieg player can still win a tournament, he'd just have to try hard. Does he still need a mechanics and damage buff? very much so.
In SCIV, I was a good Siegfried player and I can play him well in SCV. I believe he is very low as a character currently.
His throw game is low damage
He has apalling backstep and sidestep
All of his tools are flawed.
In SCIV, top Siegfried players were a mixture of solid fundamentals, good reads and gimmicks. Even until the end of SCIV, a lot of high level players did not know their anti-Siegfried properly and the added gimmicks made the matches easier. One need only look at Pantocrator bodying half of team USA to see that and even Bibulus who is very knowledgable about characters in the game got a lot of details wrong in commentary.
One can also look at the high level US players who still don't know Sieg properly and post their thoughts on him here: people who stupidly post shit like '22A needs to be + on block' in attempted irony and the bandwagon of retards following them. Siegs issue in V is that while he is defenitely stronger than in IV, in IV you could to an extent get by just from playing solid, but now the gimmicks are absolutely necessary and in a game where everyone is a damage monster, its like playing a bear in tekken - there are so many do or die 50/50's that he has to use. He's just not viable against someone who knows their anti Siegfried well and even Pantocrator agrees with me. We were talking at Cannes and he himself said 'If Siegfried is not buffed in patches, then I will drop him.' (Imagine it with a French accent)
Believe it or not, Siegfried players are not whiney little bitches: Siegfried has some serious problems that need to be fixed for him to be truly tournament viable and anyone who says otherwise needs to brush up on their Sieg knowledge.
