You can't judge any character online. Period. And you're thought of Alpha is clearly that; online judgement. Offline every character feels balanced (at least to me) but online I could say Christie, Jann, Ayane, Hayate and let's not forget Sarah are all SS tier but turn to average offline. Hence why online is overall garbage lol.
I admit that i do judge characters based on their online capabilities, but i have no other means of experience to actually judge them correctly. I understand that my judgement is wrong and that i shouldn't be judging things that i dont know much about, but i do speak from whatever experience i do have using and fighting that character. And i agree online is garbage.