Just out of curiosity how many of you who play SFIV at a high level encounter Seth players? seeing as the character is cheap as god knows what, i fail to see why anyone would want to put someone through such torture. I myself have a decent record agaisnt Seth (this morning played against a guy who used seth 6 times and beat him 4-2) but like i said is this a rairty?

i could go on and on about how much i dislike this character (including using him myself) but do you think he could be made into a good competitive character using the move set that he has now or is he far too cheap to play at a competitive level and the gentleman code of honour steps in (ala sagat & akuma)

Seth has a good move set with damaging combos and can put a lot of offensive pressure on opponents. His stamina(health) is the worst in the game though, that's why I don't play as him.

I use Seth as kind of a 2nd alt and dont really see what you mean. Seth having such low health, his damage output not being the best, and a shit ultra is more than enough to make him not cheap. The thing about Seth is that he can have a great round then in the next one be perfected from 2 combos. It seems he just has his ups and downs. If you want to get into a character being cheap look into Sagat or Blanka. Thoughs would be better choices to bitch about.

" I use Seth as kind of a 2nd alt and dont really see what you mean. Seth having such low health, his damage output not being the best, and a shit ultra is more than enough to make him not cheap. The thing about Seth is that he can have a great round then in the next one be perfected from 2 combos. It seems he just has his ups and downs. If you want to get into a character being cheap look into Sagat or Blanka. Thoughs would be better choices to bitch about. "

In tournament play, or at least, in the majors I've been to, Seth doesn't see a lot of play.  It is mostly Rufus, Sagat, Bison (dictator), Balrog (boxer), Zangief and Blanka.  Occasionally Ken, Ryu, and Chun Li.

Its also been a while (April), but from what I've been seeing on ShoRyuKen the tier list hasn't changed much, and thus, the player base won't migrate.

Seth has a great spacing game, though not nearly as good as some of the others.  If you get in close, his options go away, and his low stamina makes him suffer dramatically.

I don't hate Seth players as much as I hate Ken players. For some reason I am just awful at fighting Ken players. It just feels like they are randomly jumping around shorukening every 3 seconds. I can never read them.

Seth's terrible stamina makes him an easy character to beat. I main Sakura and i've only lost to a couple of seth players.