Dman...mitsu probably isn't the best example of bottom tier cap...he's pretty high. He gets a bad online rep but offline he's still brutal (see: Belial). I feel we should really be trying to buff characters not nerf them. I feel Amy is the marker for what the highest should be. She's stupid good, but if you give lower characters buffs it can be corrected. Same with Algol, he could've been fixed by simply buffing characters that couldn't deal with the bubbles...Hilde was really the only thing where the problem was the character, not so much other characters not having options and needing buffs to compete. If I had it my way Hilde would've lost the slide RO on C2A, charges get reset on hit and wont charge while grounded or airborne, Algol bubbles would've been attached to a force meter so they couldn't be spammed and all the bottom tiers would get much needed buffs.
I would like to push for less RO range tho. Some characters have some absurd ones. Ivy RO cannon, Nightmare 1A GS KK, Kilik FOTD to Asura, and Yoshi iMCF combo (holy fuck i hate this one, almost as bad as the Doom combo). There's just no need for that much range on an RO. I'm a fan of ROs, but when you have this stuff some stages are constantly putting you at risk of an RO when you're at a range that should feel safe. Too many matches get lost over a lucky guess with little need to set up. Seriously that Yoshi iMCF one drives me insane since it's has SO MUCH RANGE for the combo, it's safe, and makes everything a damn frame trap with how fast it is (and fuck stepping it since it's quicker than 11 frames). Every time you're in range you can just fish with it till it connects and it's over when you combo, sure it's range is piss poor but he's got a lot of knockdown to to close the space. I'd be fine if they took out the ridiculous slide RO at the last hit (dunno the move, but it's a high JF. Ear slicer?). I feel RO's will be much more skilled if they require more set up and positioning than having access to 50% of the stage at times, to where they just become convenient options rather than premeditated.