From Dustloop -
"So seriously, what the **** was arc sammy thinking when they made such a piece of ****character? I think the story goes something like this.
Dev A: Alright guys, we have 9 characters, they all seem pretty top tier and have their own specialty, are we done?
Dev B: I think we should have 10 characters, 9 seems kinda low
Dev C: You're probably correct, so what top tier should we make now?
Dev A: You know what? I'm tired of making top tiers.
Dev B: yea hes right, lets make a low tier.
Dev C: hm okay. Lets make a list of what top tiers have and give this character the opposite of everything a top tier has.
*Makes list*
Damage
Range
Speed
Defense
Pot Buster
Good anti air
Good jump in
Ways to get out of pressure
Ways to keep pressure
Dev A: okay guys. So lets give this guy **** everything
Dev B: I think for the upper guys to accept this he has to at least look like he has potential. Lets give him potential, then restrict it.
Dev C: okay, so damage. He can have good potential damage, But only from impossible to do startups.
Dev A: Okay, lets give him a bit of range, but make all his moves have idiotic recovery on whiff
Dev B: People will probably feel fast when they see him hop instead of dash. So lets give him that, except lets make it punishable.
Dev C:**** defense is a must, theres no way around it
*nods*
Dev A: Pot buster? yea right. You know what'd be funny? An anti air that has no range and small hitbox, and **** invincibility. Lets give him that. He can trade hits to anti air ONLY if hes lucky.
Dev B: lolol sounds like a great idea. Lets give him a **** jumpin too to make sure he cant pull out any winning miracles.
Dev C: lolol, okay. Lets not give him a VV. We'll let him get out of pressure with a roll type of move. But lets not give this move any invincibility and a huge recovery so he can get baited for free, unlike every other uppercut we've made so far.
Dev A: You know whats the best way to do pressure? 2v1. So lets give him a robot doll or something. But make it so it dies and cant do anything while the character is blocking so the robot is essentially ****. Remember to make it the slowest thing in the game so he cant actually use it for any good purpose!!
Dev B: man, this character is beautiful.
Dev C: Yea i just cant wait until these morons think hes top tier and try to use him to top tier. We'll b ****ing swimming in money thanks to these ****ing morons.
and thats how carl was born."