i go on in sf4 saying "ohh ryu is easy to play, ohh sagat is easy to play, ohh blanka is easy to play, ohh ken is easy to play" and i rarely if ever play any of those characters.
so i decided to.
out of those 4, i would say in terms of ease to difficulty (yes, they are still among the easiest characters to play in the game) i would have to go
blanka, ken, sagat, ryu
can't really say anything with ryu, since he's ken...but his srk's aren't as beefy as kens, which, a fierce srk with ken is easy to land and does mucho damage. i put sagat between ken and ryu because well, he's a slow son of a bitch, he has MASSIVE POWER, and damn good health, but with ken i can kind of just fuck around with the joystick and win games, sagat can't really jump in as easy as ken can from what ive played, but he sure as fuck can turtle better, which since im not the best at turtling, for me, he's a bit harder to play as then ken.
blanka...
charge down back like most charge characters, wait for opponent to do something, then do something about it. they jump? BALL! they move forward? BALL jumping on you? ELECTRICITY! fireball? well you have that crouch move down and all 3 punches, you can slide forward underneath it (good at closer range) a bit riskier you can do an air ball, but they generally throw me when i do that so be careful, EX FORWARD BALL generally lands. if you mix it up with blanka, it's god fucking impossible to predict and counter what he's going to do unless you have reflexes faster than lightning.
i think that was my third or fourth time playing blanka in sf4, i would most likely have a higher winrate overall if i used the four characters talked about instead of chun-li. but it's more of "im only going to play these characters just to fuck around and throw some taunts in there while im at it because being an ass is fun after a 15 game losing streak with chun-li." ill "play to win" with characters i deem worthy to play. and you can go "but you are a faget for not using characters because they are easy to play" no, im not, i use zangief, and in case you didn't know, gief is up there with "LOloMASH BUTAN TO Winnnnnnnn" characters in this game, only playing catch up actually takes a bit of skill, and his bad matchups (blanka, sagat, akuma) are literally impossible to beat if they know how to keep you away.
wtb actual friends to play said game so blood pressure will go down, random internet people with no voices may as well be AI, and i rage hard when i lose to AI.