Hi guys, I'm new here and I'm a big fan of SF.  
Was just wondering if there's any tier lists out there yet or who you think is the best characters. 
So far i think DeeJay looks pretty solid. What do you think?

Too early for an "official" tier list.

Honestly, looking across the board, it looks like this really is "THE MOST BALANCED FIGHTER EVER"tm. 
 
I'm not even being sarcastic. There doesn't seem to be a huge differential in strength between any two characters any more. 
 
Dan-tier is bullshit as well.

People who pick their character based on a tier list are ass monkeys who enjoy prostate exams. Like Gambit.

Well obviously Balrog, Akuma and Rufus are still top tier. The new characters and the old characters that have been changed alot (Rose for example) haven't been tested enough.

dan is god-tier

My prediction... 
T. Hawk is God-tier...

Wait until after EVO and there will be a list probably. I think DeeJay is very good but alot of people now have realised that if you spam down-back down-forward and punch as he's crossing you up on wakeup 9 times out of 10 you'll hit him with a clean shoryuken. It's kind of lame. It doesn't even trade most of the time. I think Ibuki is going to be very good in the right hands and I don't think anyone will make top 8 at EVO with Sagat. I hope to see alot of Seths. I think Seth's gotten much better since SFIV simply because everyone's damage has gotten a little worse so he lasts a bit longer. I think Seth's Ultra 2 is ass though and it's kinda annoying his Sonic Boom - Ultra trap is all messed up now. 7/10 it seems like he'll do his super instead or teleport which is lame. It still beats focusing punks though.

" dan is god-tier "

Ibuki and Ryu are going to be top tier. But, a lot of the cast is going to be mid and lower tier, with just a couple stinkers (no offense.)

Deejay is not top tier.
 
Chun li is going to be high, Akuma probably number 1 or 2 now.
 Juri might be pretty high, but im not sure

Hakan is the man, and I dont care what anyone else may think.

Mine at the moment:
 
Top tier
 

• Akuma
• Ryu
• Cody
• Sagat
• Rufus
  
• Juri
• Ibuki
  

• Balrog
• Blanka
• Ken
• Chun Li
• Abel
  
• Zangief
  
• Dudley
• E. Honda
  
• T. Hawk
• C. Viper
  

• El Fuerte
• Seth
• M. Bison
• Guy
  
• Gouken
  
• Hakan
• Guile
• Deejay

• Rose
• Makoto
• Gen
  
• Adon
  
• Cammy
• Fei Long
• Dhalsim
• Vega
• Sakura
• Dan

as for the new characters i've played i think
dudleys top tier
makotos poo tier
juris upper mid tier
codys upper high tier
adons low mid tier same with guy.
hawks mid
All predictions btw. =)

All I know is that Sagat is still kinda broken, even if they nerfed his Tiger Uppercut.

"I think Seth's Ultra 2 is ass though and it's kinda annoying his Sonic Boom - Ultra trap is all messed up now. 7/10 it seems like he'll do his super instead or teleport which is lame. It still beats focusing punks though. "

"
Top tier

• Juri

" Lower Tier
 

• Dan

" People who pick their character based on a tier list are ass monkeys who enjoy prostate exams. Like Gambit. "

Guy with your gut.  Don't play a character because he is top tier.  Play with a character that you like the style of.  I like Honda's still so I picked him and stuck with him.

" Mine at the moment:
 
Top tier
 

• Akuma
• Ryu
• Cody
• Sagat
• Rufus
  
• Juri
• Ibuki
  

 
High Tier
 

• Balrog
• Blanka
• Ken
• Chun Li
• Abel
  
• Zangief
  
• Dudley
• E. Honda
  
• T. Hawk
• C. Viper
  

 
Mid Tier
 

• El Fuerte
• Seth
• M. Bison
• Guy
  
• Gouken
  
• Hakan
• Guile
• Deejay

 
Lower Tier
 

• Rose
• Makoto
• Gen
  
• Adon
  
• Cammy
• Fei Long
• Dhalsim
• Vega
• Sakura
• Dan

 Obviously some of my tier is completely messed up-but the game is near perfectly balanced. If you want to, you can make changes. "

" . I think Seth's Ultra 2 is ass though and it's kinda annoying his Sonic Boom -

I'm going to hold off on talking serious tiers until the iPlayWinner list is up (which will be very soon), but I can say with confidence that the mid-tier cast is very large. Overall, the tiers are shaking out a bit like Tekken where even though there are obvious top tier characters, they don't completely lord over everyone.
 
The top tiers also haven't changed. It's still Sagat, Ryu, Akuma and Rufus. If these guys are A-Class, pretty much everyone else falls into the B-Class range, with the obvious upper-mids being Chun, Bison, Balrog, Guile, Cody, along with everyone else who was good before. The worst characters are still Fei-Long and Gouken (Vega is definite B-Class now), but are now joined by Makoto and Hakan. 
 
The differences between top and mid are slim, but the differences between mid and low are significant. Thankfully, I can count the obvious low-tier on one hand.
 
Also, I don't want to pick on DBZ, but Dhalsim is low tier? Seriously? The only upper-mid character from SF4 to get a damage BUFF and you think he's low tier? Craaaazy.

" I'm going to hold off on talking serious tiers until the iPlayWinner list is up (which will be very soon), but I can say with confidence that the mid-tier cast is very large. Overall, the tiers are shaking out a bit like Tekken where even though there are obvious top tier characters, they don't completely lord over everyone.  The top tiers also haven't changed. It's still Sagat, Ryu, Akuma and Rufus. If these guys are A-Class, pretty much everyone else falls into the B-Class range, with the obvious upper-mids being Chun, Bison, Balrog, Guile, Cody, along with everyone else who was good before. The worst characters are still Fei-Long and Gouken (Vega is definite B-Class now), but are now joined by Makoto and Hakan.   The differences between top and mid are slim, but the differences between mid and low are significant. Thankfully, I can count the obvious low-tier on one hand.  Also, I don't want to pick on DBZ, but Dhalsim is low tier? Seriously? The only upper-mid character from SF4 to get a damage BUFF and you think he's low tier? Craaaazy. "

Tiers are pretty much a non-factor at this stage in the game. SFIV didn't get tiers until the arcade version was out for months and months.

Abel for A tier. Relative to everyone else, that dude got nothing but buffs and a sick ultra 2 that punishes just about everything for 500 damage. All Honda headbutts, all Cody knuckles, any attempted jump out of a grab setup, Honda/Chun/Juri neutral jump nonsense, any fireball from about half screen, certain blocked sweeps; the list goes on. Any move that's -8 or more on block, no matter how much pushback it has, is getting spun for free. You can autocorrect it to catch crossups of almost every kind, including shoto crossup tatsus. Delicious!

Too early for tiers, there has only been one major tourney, and that just ended a little while ago.  
 
I think speculation is fun though, and even though everyone yelled at dbz for making his own tier list, I'm going to ahead and make mine, even though I don't know a lot about this game yet. It's just for fun because I'm really fucking bored, so don't flame.   
 
Also Giantbomb is really buggy so now random things are underlined.

MY OPINIONATED AND SPECULATIVE GUESS TIERS
 
S: 
 

• Akuma (no real nerfs other than roundhouse loop, new ultra might be viable?)
• Rufus (ex snake strike nerf was needed, but other than a little damage lost there he's still the same mostly.)

• Balrog (Sagat matchup is a little better because Sagat's s.lk isn't special cancellable, none of the new characters seem like counters to Rog either, other than that he is the same)
• Sagat (TU nerf is noticable to me, s.lk change is gonna hurt him, but he's still very strong)
• Ryu (No trade into ultra, DP trades more too now unless you do it late, still solid though, plus I think he can combo off overhead now?(rumor, haven't tried))
• Bison (Dude got buffed nicely, new ultra is great, PC is better too)
• Abel (Breathless is great against certain characters, and I feel like he was headed up in the tiers towards the end of SF4 anyways)

• Juri (rushdown queen, both ultras are useful too)
• Dudley (corner rape, forward fierce is retarded)
• Ibuki (alternate C.Viper imo, once people figure out all her shit and optimize her playstyle then we'll really see how good she can be)
• Guile ( charge buffs are huge, his U2 is great, normals got even better, and sunglasses? nuff said)
• Chun-Li (Kikosho! and then an unnecessary amount of hits)
• C.Viper (how do I block this bitch? )
• Cody (great rushdown, lot of counterhits, focus is really fast/long range, but no wakeup game whatsoever.
• Ken (everyone else who can jab to sweep uses it and it helps, so I think it'll help Ken too. overhead is a little faster)
• Seth (I thought he would've been even higher but they took out some of his ultra traps as well as they nerfed his teleport)

• Dan (he actually does seem to have improved, but c'mon, it's still Dan)
• Fei-Long (he's still pretty much the same..., U2 is crap)
• Gouken (really fun and I like him a lot, but he can't even crouch tech, can't link into a special cancellable normal, extremely poor wakeup game unless you're a great guesser)
• Rose (U2 might be decent but she still has a lot of weaknesses, does poor damage, free on wakeup)

• Zangief (seriously haven't played one in Super yet, and I haven't seen any videos of him either, he was a beast in the last game and the Sagat matchup might be a little easier for him now, but I really have no idea.
• Hakan (I haven't seen anybody who knew what they were doing with him yet.) I'm expecting someone at a big tourney to show us all how he's played much like Sabre did with Sakura at EVO 2K9.
• Makoto (dude I haven't seen anybody play her well yet but I feel like the potential is there? I hope so because I like her character but...)
• Deejay (he seem's like he can play really lame like Vanilla SF4 Guile, but then has a great mixup off of a knockdown, but I haven't seen enough good Deejays, or his matchups to guess.)
• Gen (haven't played or even seen one in Super yet)
• T. Hawk ( seems really fucking good at times, but then once people learn the matchup who knows what will happen, will he suck like in SF2? Or will be as good as Gief was in vanilla? Also he could potentially have some bad hard counters)

It's a little early for tiers, I think. Watching fairly high level tournaments over the past couple weeks (MWC, most recently), it's obvious most people still don't know the matchups for the new characters, and that kind of messes everything up. It appears they're better than they are just because people don't know how to play against them and people who are playing with them have a match-up advantage because they know how their opponents character usually plays. It'll be a while before we really know where most of them stand.
 
The returning 25 characters are a little easier to figure out as you have a baseline of what was true before and what's true now, but once again with nearly 30% more matchups to worry about it's tough to know just where they stand.
 
With that said, I'm going to take this opportunity to spout a bunch of BS as if I know what I'm talking about. :P
 
I think the obvious characters that have improved are Chun Li, Guile, Dhalsim, and Vega. Characters that have gone down don't seem to have gone down by much. If you were good with Sagat before, you're still going to kick ass with him. But it appears Sagat, Ryu, and Rufus have all gotten slightly weaker, but with most of the cast getting weaker, it doesn't appear that their tier positions will change dramatically.
 
Like I said, the new characters are so hard to tell. Before the game came out it appeared Dudley was going to be very strong but people are figuring out that it's really hard to get inside with him, and he's looking like a bit of a disappointment. Cody is very solid but can get into trouble when he gets knocked down against a solid offensive player. Juri looks pretty decent in the right hands, but that could just be because it's too early to know the match-ups and she's an easy character to pick up, which makes her appear better now than she will be in a couple months.
 
A lot of the early high level tournaments have EVO spots on the line, which means a lot of people are falling back on what they know and the new characters are getting much love yet. My guess is we'll see a lot of shuffling between the first list that comes out and the one that comes out a year from now as people really start digging into what these new characters can do and how that effects the match ups.

" @Scooper said:

" . I think Seth's Ultra 2 is ass though and it's kinda annoying his Sonic Boom -

Anything that links into Stomps can link into U2 and its a great anti air. "

" @Stang said:

" People who pick their character based on a tier list are ass monkeys who enjoy prostate exams. Like Gambit. "

You will be hearing from gambit's lawyer.... me. "

" @AniMoney: Haha that is your explanation for why Ken is B tier? Try to connect jab into sweep with him. If you think it is as easy as it is with Ryu or Akuma you are very very wrong. It is easier for me to jab ultra then it is to jab sweep. It is a tight one frame link that requires very specific spacing. Not practical. "

" @AniMoney: Haha that is your explanation for why Ken is B tier? Try to connect jab into sweep with him. If you think it is as easy as it is with Ryu or Akuma you are very very wrong. It is easier for me to jab ultra then it is to jab sweep. It is a tight one frame link that requires very specific spacing. Not practical. "