He can pressure safely, his rushdown is really good, and he builds meter like a mofo.
No he can't safely completely. There are points during his blockstrings that he can be thrown out of what he's doing, Phampy demonstrated this excellently vs Marn at Evo(and destroyed Marn for that matter).
His meter building is really good for sure but Zero is really just extremely dependent on the player. Everyone says Zero is god tier but how many Zeros are(or were rather, the game is dead competitively) big things with Zero? One person, Marn thats it. He isn't even the best anymore as well so it isn't even like he shows complete significance to todays game. Fact is that Zero has very low health, does very little damage without an assist(and a proper one at that, such as Polimar) and his more advanced combos are harder to pull off than most characters' this is not to mention that his advanced combos do only as much damage as many characters simple combos!
With a good combo extender assist backing him (Ryu or Morrigan in particular) Zero is pretty much the best character in the game. Without something like that, he's good but not the best. Yatterman-2 is real underrated, she definitely should be top tier
Nah he isn't the best. It's mostly universally agreed these days that Tekkaman Blade is the best. He can make himself safe with Shamshir, he has the best air mobility in the game, a good projectile, gigantic range, the best super in the game(Crash Intrude), and best of all: he doesn't need Baroque to do big damaging combos.
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
Haha yeah it probably is.