Ranking All the Fighting Game Characters I've Ever Mained 

I feel so incredibly bad for anyone that missed out on playing MVC3 Dante.

Really hoping we get a separate upload of Sajam showing off BS in Injustice 1 from the same stream. Did not know that "pig tech" and "dumpster tech" were real things until now

I prefer Sajam making a tier he doesn't put anyone in than Coney creating a hyper specific tier for each character.

MkX tremor was probably the most broken character I've ever played. Although I didn't play him in a broken way at all since that was one of my first fgs.

Have not watched the vid yet, but you are definitely downplaying Sol. SMH my head

Batman should be in anyone can cook. The bat drones made that character kinda braindead, even in the context of injustice. Specially before the DLC characters like Batgirl that just out-maneuver projectiles came out. I literally played Batman blindfolded for a set as a dare and nearly got a perfect. All his combos lead to knock down, you call bats, do a safe jump that landed left or right, do a overhead or low string, and you could either keep it safe or convert off the audio que of them blocking and the combo would be long enough that you could get another bat out by the end.

Crazy Sajam only just uploaded something he streamed over a year ago, why was he talking about Strive Sin before he even came out as if he had played him?

Still signing the descriptions with 2022 instead of 2023 I see 😂

0:05 Pick Ryoko in Karnov's Revenge and marvel at how much of the cast completely shut her down by simply mashing light punch.

I'm surprised I didn't see at least Filia in the tierlist. I think you played much more Skullgirls than Blazblue.

a tier list i can kinda get behind, hell yea 🤟 edit: i think it's interesting to think how different people would interpret 🧐 these tiers i say i have played "I Carried" characters, but because their quality of life/cohesion was trash 💔 --not because they lacked (much) raw power

I have a similar mindset on believing in my characters. also most games, if a character is truly bad, it’s probably because they are lacking tools, and tools are fun. I like being able to do a lot of stuff or having a tool for multiple things. It feels powerful. I’m not forcing top tier, I’m just playing what I like that is also good.

Never thought I'd see the day that Sajam would willingly make his own tier list. The dawn of a new era o7

This is such a good idea for content. I still remember watching all the old nightwing tech back in the day

Man thinking back to OG fighting games and how some characters just didn't work brings me back. Some of those KOF rosters made me question if the devs just hated someone and made them into the game.

I really like the format for this list.

Oh God when he mentioned the Maya damage ender and I almost cried.

I followed Sajam back when he was uploading Injustice 1 Nightwing matches. I was hooked

Some of the best content I consumed on YT, Ty sajam

release bardok is everyone can cook tier for sure, bardock today is doing the heavy lifting

Hitman was so good and cool it carried my enjoyment of the game itself

i'm surprised you didn't put fillia and big band on here, i remember you playing skullgirls for a while with those characters

As someone who was very late to the Granblue train seeing Katalina so high is absolutely baffling to me lol.

I have to wonder how this list would shift if was going either by all of the first versions of the character or all of the latest versions, especially since release versions still tend towards degeneracy in the modern patch era. I feel like Hit would definitely still be last either way though.

Yo this concept is amazing! Mind if I share this idea around with other games?

that Batman description was "imagine if Happy Chaos was Happy Chaos"

sajam is a top tier enthusiast (good for him) for real tho, I feel like there's the aspect of how comfortable the player feels with a certain character, when you get lucky and your favorite archetype has a very strong character, shit feels too easy almost of course you might play grapplers but then you deserve to suffer so who cares

Injustice 2 Batman was my best character, and I never took him to the lab once. He was a combination of fun and powerful that meant you could just pick him up, play him any way you want and cook

This is a really cool idea

I’m going to let my salt take host of my body for a moment and say that Nine deserves to be in the anyone can cook category. There was a time when she was ALL you would see online, at least in CF 1.0, and I thought maybe there was something difficult about her. Sure, maybe memorizing all of her spell recipes was difficult to manage, and maybe now i’d rank her in they did the heavy lifting, but in 1.0 all of her normals recovered stupid quick so she was hard to punish, Kunzite was the god spell, it was fast, it tracked in front and behind her, it was plus a million on block, it counted as the first hit being an overhead if i remember correctly, with the second being a mid, did a huge chunk of damage, it fatal countered on counter hit, ground bounced if it caught you in the air amongst loads of other things, the spell was so good they had to drastically nerf it and buff every single one of her other ones to make them worth using. It was like Testament’s arbiter sign on steroids. She had some of her hurtboxes enlarged too because for some reason on top of having far reaching buttons she needed to be hard to hit on top of that, and she had a teleport that recovered quickly as well to boot. Imagine some unholy fusion of Axl, Happy Chaos, and and Nago, but all condensed into the tiny body of May, and equally as hard to hit, and thats the best way I can describe how fighting her felt.

I loved the Injustice nostalgia trip. I kind of wish people still played it but I understand why they don't

@ 7:51 Marvel 3 Dante or Marvel Infinite Dante? Both are Super strong, but Infinite Dante, i swear, was unnerfable. i dunno if that's even a word but it sure is a thing where Dante was involved. (i think he was nerfed in *all* of the patches. That's right, *both* of them! xD

great video, but why no reference to your favorite rumbleverse moves? young goldlewis snubbed

I think Captain Cold from injustice 2 was busted but I wasnt anywhere near the level sonicfox was using him at (special mention for black manta I think he's great)

Hol up...let him cook

Shoutout you for playing my boy hit

I still remember Batman’s jump in cross up😂😭

This is a fun idea.

2:50 correct me if im wrong but didnt fulgore kinda counter her? but was still even

Part of the balance is that FGC games are all 1v1, so you either have a varied cast with polarizing matchups, or a boring cast with close matchups. Because of that, results based tier lists are hard because results change a lot based on the bracket distribution. This is why 40-60 matchups in fighting games are super acceptable, I've even see people consider 30-70s playable. This also means tier listing hard since meta week more directly influence data. If character A beats B, amd alot of people play B, A week look broken. However if C beats A, C will do worse in the tourney, even if it beats the top player by listing to the higher number of B players. In other games, with way more parts of the game, which as team mates, macro movements, and ability combos, 1v1 matchups are mitigate. For instance, an assassin vs adc 1v1 is like, a 90-10 matchup, but with teammates, Frontline, support, toys becomes completely untrue. The more ways you have to control your destiny, the less inherent disadvantages matter, so outside of really fucked patches, you'll find most characters in most other games are viable at top levels. DOTA especially sees insane cast diversity at the highest levels of play.

This video was great : ) Awesome idea for a video

Ronin Takeda before the nerfs in MKX had a block infinite on like 3/4ths of the cast. Clearly I outplayed everyone else. EDIT: As someone that definitely was an IJ2 necro for a long time, I'm remembering you played bats earlier rather than later, and that character received nothing but nerfs over the game's lifespan and continued to make top 8s pretty much till MK11. I remember they tried to patch out his vortex about a half dozen times but it just...came back. That character wasn't quite baby mode in that he'd play the game for you, but he was pretty damn close. Supes was pretty honest by comparison, since most people that wanted to play that bullying, footsie orient style played BA and his f12 was just a better string for that, and his frame advantage with trait cancels was stronger. Supes had marginally better zoning in some matchups, but his real strength was his corner vortex with the restand into 4-way guess.

Damn, you're younger than I thought (not commenting on your looks). Is this games that you took seriously at a competitive level, or just games that you were good at. Also I2 Batman is "Anyone Can Cook".

Ooof, I got blended by a Fulgore last time I played KI online, holy shit was that painful.

One day i should just play some fucked up character for the sake of it just to know how it feels. Out of all of my characters i think baiken is the strongest and she's pretty much just fine.

I think it’d be neat to do a list of which characters you think are the most fun and/or a list of characters that you think are most well-suited to your preferred play style as a fighting game player.

@ 8:41 Why Sajam! i had no idea that you were a Samurai Shodown V Perfect kinda' guy! xD i mean when you're the only Character in a ginormous sword fight with a bow? @ 12:09 Strider isn't about power he's all about the options and versatility. Also, triple jump *never* sucks! Seriously though? NO DarkStalkers? Not even from Savior? o.o

People will go on rants about how miserable a matchup is for their main and then say it's a 6-4 or 6.5-3.5

It's a bit difficult to follow this tier list if you didn't play the games on the patch that you are ranking them by. A fun follow up video would be ranking these same characters with current patch and comparing viability.

This is another video where I get reminded that people calling a really good move "esports" is funny as fuck

I can't believe you made this list and left Inspector Azuma off of it. I guess the Croc with a Glock is just too strong.

my guy, you left out sonicboom brad's black adam

Injustice 1 having Nightwing was really cool to me at first bc he's one of my favorite comic characters ever so once i learned how he was it made me sad

I had no idea that Sajam played the same MvC3 team I did!

GGS was my first Guilty Gear game, and i can say for certain that 1.0 sol should be in anyone can cook lmao. I made it to the highest floor in the brief time i played the game, i still think i currently have less than 50 hrs in the game, bro definitely carried. Idk how he is now tho haven't really played since then

trying to act like jam session assist does not do the heavy lifting

6:38 what does esports mean in this context?

S1 v.1.0 gran and kat were absolutely busted because they were really easy to play, with high damage combos out of almost every routing and they had either really plus buttons, or really fast punishes that no other character in the game had at that point. Percival was supposed to be the punisher heavy hitter of the game, but why play him when you can play Kat or Gran and skip the whole stock micromanagement. Other character that was ridiculous S1 was Gorilla Blade Lancelot.

Why did I think S1 Sabrewulf was Warwick from League of Legends

I love this video idea but... I swear you ran Injustice 1 Superman against me when we (Southern Ohio) came to GGA. Am I misremembering? Was I playing someone else?

goldlewis, gran, and xrd sin should be bottom of heavy lifting imo

Maya was nuts but so was saberwulf. Saberwulf was an absurd character s1 of ki.

I made my friends mad with IJ2 batman and I'm not all that good, love that character

Where’s the KoF characters

Bro, the disrespect to Agent G is heartbreaking.

1 min 17 secs into the vid and I can conclude sajam only plays top tier (factual)

Where's Byakuya?

Release 16 is def anyone can cook . Hard knock down on everything was game breaking .

*KI WINS AGAIN!*

Funny the only character I played from this list is Johnny Cage.

I want injustice 3 so bad now, i miss batman gameplay

Thought elena was rather execution heavy

I am a character loyalist and I always end up falling in love with garbage characters. Goldlewis is legit the highest tier main I’ve ever had, I think big body characters tend to be weak and I think they are the coolest so that’s my curse. Oh wait, android 16 too lol

Terry Typhoon strongly disagrees with the Goldlewis placement.

I think the strongest characters I've played are like. Season 1 Android 21 T7 Jin and Eric Myers

Starting playing G from Gief. My G isn't good by any stretch but life was so much easier compared to Gief. I felt like Gief had wasted 5 years of my life. He is seriously so bad, but I had gotten use to playing such a bad character and got blind to it.

14:33 what about people who loves a character because of their design and/or lore but they sucked? then they're forced to carry them

KI is too fucking intelligent for me and I tried to play Omen

I dunno about that Johnny Cage placement, he had some BAD issues. Characters with small crouching hitboxes made a lot of his pressure fake, pretty much all of his good buttons were highs so he got D2 chin checked more often than pretty much any other character, characters with good disjointed low pokes like Noob or Frost could lock him out and shut down his gameplay easily, he had crap throws and no way to open people up BESIDES throwing them (leading to even more chin checks), and on top of all that he has the worst set of Krushing Blows in the entire game. Johnny was pretty rough at launch, and while future patches made him better he still had enough awful match ups I'd place him in equal footing at best. (That said I suck at Johnny Cage so grain of salt and all that.)

Tbh Strider isnt even as strong as Akuma now in UMVC3, takes way less skill for pretty much equal comeback opportunity, not to mention Akuma can kill 3 characters in an XFactor lol.. so maybe the 3rd best low health anchor in Marvel??

“When I pick a big body, you know that character is cheap” 2 weeks ago: “Goldlewis drone got nerfed so can you guys please stop complaining and learn the matchup he’s not even cheap” 🤔🤔🤔

I think Nine is in the right spot, fwiw. She's pretty easy for how much she offers, despite not being the absolute highest tier of bullshit (There's a reason JP Nine players all went to Izanami.) Having MAYBE two different combos, being generous, and some of the most fucked up pressure in game is pretty good. Downsides aren't really apparent until you start playing her at a higher level (very polarizing matchups. Any character that has better long/midrange threat than her can zone HER instead of vice versa and her approach is laughably bad.) and at mid level you just kinda cook people with rock/navy pressure and don't feel the weakness.

Why does Sajam pronounce "games" like an Irishman

Dante was way crazier in vanilla mvc3

We all know Goldlewis is the top of this list smh

Modern Fighting game players get: 1- Reliable training mode to reproduce/lab scenarios 2- Increased/simplified Lineancy to help them with executions (not to mention the MODERN Controls) 3- Good netcode to properly practice match ups with live opponents 4- Balanced rosters in which low tiers are still viable characters to use/play with in tournament settings... All young players can and Will go play team-based games and/or more RNG involved games to justify losses and/or win easier and pay more... just as simply as that

Where the fuck is Oleander.

Tom and Jerry is equal footing in season 1 or 2?..... Talk about delusional

41 seconds poggers

15 seconds pog

This guy only plays the top characters from these games and defends them

If 1.0 Sol isn't in anyone can cook tier, I can't even imagine playing against those characters.

We really saying Goldlewis did the heavy lifting when he has nothing but bad matchups (excluding pot)

It doesn’t matter too much you youngins are the patch generation all you have to do is complain on Twitter or twitch and your characters get help Or talk about a character you don’t actually play and get them nerfed Sajam can rank how he wants

Where's Smash Bros, because that game is definitely a fighting game! ._. yes no Smash Bros? I bet you smell like lavender! 🙄

my most loved character of all fighting games is mike haggar on umvc3 of final fight