I have yet to see a successful fighter with good balance. MvC series has so bad balance they had to make another version and gain more quick buck.
Vanilla MvC3 at its worse (God tier Phoenix, broken assists) > Brawl in terms of balanced. Now that Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom is released, pretty
every single character in the game (save 5 or so, which nothing in a game of 50) is viable, which is more than what you can say about Brawl's balance.
Kain with Wolf.
San with Ike.
TKD with Fox.
Fonz with Ganondorf.
FOW with Ness.
Please don't assume things you don't know.
Also please stay away from MK talk or I will lock this.
I'm sorry, but they don't nearly as well as the top tiers.
I'll give you San, Kain and TKD. Thats 3 players doing well with a character that are not high / top tier ding well in Brawl. Thats not enough.
Are you joking with Fonz with Ganondorf or are you actually serious. Ganondorf is absolutely horrdd, and I'd love to see a major Brawl tournament with Ganondorf players making it anywhere... hell i'll even give you top 8. His mention is completely irrelevant. In FOW's case, I know for a fact he uses MK for a lot of Ness' problems matchups.
And the fact that you could only name 4 characters (2 of which i will disregard) isn't impressive in the slightest. In Melee I could name a dozen or so players who could win actual tournaments with low tier characters. Come APEX (MK is unbanned i believe), and even the tournament after top 8 will consist of top / high tier characters exclusively. (With one or 2 minor hiccups like a mid tier character making it in)
I hope you don't misconstrue my post and think i'm trolling. This entirely my opinion, and the discussion (so far) has been vitriol-free.