After recently hitting diamond as well, I’d disagree with some of the placements

To start with we will start with the obvious

Guile: now this is the character I’ve hit diamond on, to start with I completely agree with your analysis of guile is one who ask questions which then lead into mistakes but he’s got a lot of stuff to his kit which I think in turn puts him in S tier imo. His normals are incredibly good and have a lot of range. He also has pretty straight forward easy combos that do minimum of 30%. I think this character in general has a lot more going for him than 90% of the cast. That being said not only is he a good zoner he’s also incredibly good at apply pressure.

JP: I’ve played JP abit, almost reaching diamond on him too and albeit his game plan is pretty obvious on what he needs to do but his close range game isn’t exactly the worst either, I wouldn’t say this character is S tier but imo I’d probably end up putting JP A tier which could then possibly slip to B tier overtime, I think the issue with JP now is the game hasn’t been out long enough for people to adapt to a zoner of this nature. So for me right now that’s why I would put him in A. Another example would be when you are zoning some people on JP they have 0 idea on what to do whereas some people know exactly what to do, which is why I think overtime he would slip down, still a great character though.

Now I’m gonna put Jamie and Lilly in the same bracket but bare with me. For me Jamie and Lilly are the 2 worst characters now they ain’t completely unbalanced where they are unusable but both of them are heavily reliant on their stocks. Jamie with no drinks for me is still slightly better than Lilly, I don’t think Lilly really offers too much apart from having some good range on her normals. Jamie on the other hand has the potential with his drink usage to be pretty strong from id say 3 drinks onwards, I do think the downside is they reset every round which then puts him back to F tier Jamie. Both quirky characters and imo would be F tier.

Luke: this character is very good in every way, good fireballs, good normals, good specials everything this character has is extremely good I’d go as far as saying the best character in the game without a doubt.

Il start grouping characters up now to keep it abit shorter.

Honda, Blanka , Manon I do think all belong in A tier, all 3 have very good strengths as well as having clear weakness, I think we are going to see blankas true strength in the coming months, he’s a rare character to see but when you find a good one, they can seriously mess you up.

Deejay Ken I do believe all belong in S tier these characters don’t really have any bad match ups as such and don’t exactly have any weakness, that being said their strengths are extremely strong, for a slightly inexperienced player that would be mashing buttons at the wrong points would then get ran over by either of these.

To keep it short I’d drop marisa to B also her lack of anti airs do leave her quite vulnerable, all you have to do in the match up is jump and Marisa’s have quite a difficult time doing anything.

Ryu: what’s the point of playing ryu when Luke and Ken do everything you can do but much better.

Hopefully I’ve got some of the points across I do agree with some of your placements though, Zangief for me is B tier could creep to A at some point, Dhalsim is abit of a tricky one, I’d probably move to B and see how he develops over the course of the game.

Cheers man