We know that it was going to take something like winning a major with Leona so people can remove that stigma from her and that's why I challenged Bala to win PowerUp with her.
I dunno what you're smoking because she's never been low tier and honestly you guys were the one that created the stigma. The harsh truth is you guys just didn't do the research or just failed to recognize that.
Now granted the majority of these videos are from the arcade version, you know how little has changed for her hence it's still relevant. Lastly, not to take anything away from Bala's stellar performance at PU'2012, she was already known to be good since 4leaf used her in STA matches, ESB Sam's infamous Leona, and more recently Reynald using her in the last few TheRunBacks; it doesn't take a major to know what we already knew.
Here's evidence from older posts of Japanese players tearing it up shown here (Post was from as early as 10/11/2010), here, here, here, this one is just off a counter hit, here, another list of videos and one more for kicks from the console version.
The irony of the whole thing, we remember you telling ESB Sam, the same person who beat you with Leona, to drop Leona because she wasn't good =)
Well I'm pretty sure there's video from every character beasting in the FIRST 3 months when the game was released in the ARCADE version lol so your videos don't mean much.
You say "we knew" but I've done some research and I CAN NOT find a tier list from you where you we point out that Leona is good. What I see here is that you are trying to capitalize on somebody else success at a major tournament with Leona, now that you see her potential you come out and say "we knew" when our tier list has been out for moths and you just now come and say this, that is not right in my opinion.
To make a tier list it not only requires knowledge about the game but also BALLS since we are putting our ideas out there and we gotta be prepared for people's reaction and the possibility that we can be wrong. So if you want to compare apples to apples grab your "TIERS" and put a list together.