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Since when or in what tournaments do certain character in Street Fighter get banned? I think you're kinda pulling stuff outta some place here. Games like SF, BB, GG, etc. never had to ban characters even if they were op. They might of been cheap yea but that's literally the first time I've ever heard of something like that. Gonna need a source on that.
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'Games such as those' is the important part there, if the game is well designed or simplistic enough characters don't have to be banned because the creator's have done their job. If you add in more moving parts, like say, League of Legends, you suddenly need an internal banning system because some characters are outright broken. A better example is how many stages are banned in those sort of tournaments because they favour one player in particular or are too random to ascertain skill. 

Anyway, that's a different topic entirely.