Ok so I'm going to just state my opinion on this, I hope it sinks through to some. I absolutely 100% believe that Reptile is a top ten character at this point now. I've done a lot of messing around in the lab even to this day and I've worked a lot on my fundamentals as a whole. I've realized that this character relies on footsies more than most of the characters in the game, and that he is a character that requires more work than anyone in top ten besides Shang or maybe Smoke or Jax. This being said, a lot of you don't really know what it's like playing the character, and I don't think you really understand the work it takes to win with him. I've placed top 8 at a small major with him before and never caught props like these guys did, and that wasn't during one of my emo phases lol. The character has placed top 8 on multiple occasions, but most of the people have patience and fundamentals to make the character play to his full potential. I don't like to think this is downplaying, because I'm fully aware of how good the character is, but I do think he takes work to master.