Man, just flipping through some of the EX characters, a few are way better than I remember them being, and a few are way more ass.
D. Dark wasn't that good. He had good trap setups but placement just took so much work. Also, his DP was ass besides being a combo ender or something.
V. Rosso was godly. A fucking command dash, high/low counters, easily able to get 1/4 bar off of a quick combo, and his excel stuff was pretty easy. He could build meter fairly well, and side switching was a pain to deal with. A lot of his concepts are in other characters now, but man he was something.
Skullo was booty. That character barely had anything going for him that other characters could do better. He's fine in excel, but outside getting things started was painful. Might as well pick Shadowgiest who did everything Skullo did but better, more damage, and way better supers.
Darun had some good tools, but nothing that stands out compared to Gief and how good the latter was. Felt really easy to punish most of his stuff.
Hokuto is the only character I remember being as good as she actually was. Sidestepping in EX is crazy because it can displace fireballs, and her movement was pretty good. Counters hung out a while and I feel like you can easily catch people with counters in EX.
Kairi is way, way better than I remember. Like insane damage, can space you out, great in excel and outside of excel, good DP. His supers weren't so hot on their own but if you got a combo from them that shit was good stuff.
But this is all from me playing the CPU and trying out a bunch of things so what do I know. It's pretty cool to see some of these character's playstyles leak into SFV (and in some cases, 4 as well). If (more like, when) Garuda gets in, I hope he's better than his EX version, because he's pretty damn vanilla.
Thanks for calling my Ibuki decent 