You’ll find a chart below showing roughly who would win how many games out of 10 if two high-level players of equal skill played against each other using the characters shown.
For example, M. Bison would win 6 games out of 10 against Crimson Viper.
And Sagat would win 7 games out of 10 against Zangief.

Note: All of the names below are based off of the American release of the game. Balrog is the Boxer, Vega is with the Claws and so on.

So who is the highest tier character you ask? Weeellllll!!!

The king of the mutha fu*kin tiger knee of course.This is the character i use and happen to piss people off with…I’m still learning how to master Sagat’s flame in battle but it’s good to hear that my personal fav character made it to
“God-Tier” status lol