1) Every metaknight main will move the a A or S tier. This simply isn't true, some will quit the game entirely,
First of all, I was saying "the leftovers", meaning the people who don't quit playing the game.
others will move to mid/low tiers.
Secondly, I doubt this one. Of course you'll have people without much competitive mindset or so switching to Mid or Low Tier, but in general you will have people switch to other Top and High Tiers. Especially the Top players.
By the way, metaknights leaving the community is a TERRIBLE side effect, as people leaving any tight community like the smash one is a shame. If many metaknights would do this, it may reverse my opinion on the ban entirely, not that my opinion is that strong to start with.
But this is exactly what will happen. A lot of Meta Knight players will quit the game, most prominently Mew2King. He - and many other Meta Knight mains - have spent many many hours to become better with their character. These many many hours would poof into thin air and they'd have to start over all again. Mew2King stated he only likes to play Meta Knight because of the playstyle, and that no other characters appeal to him. I'm pretty sure that's also the reasoning for Dojo, Tyrant, and all the other Top Meta Knights. I would feel the same in their position.
I bet that if you compare the matchups of every low/mid tier vs metaknight with the average matchup of every low/mid tier vs every A/S tier combined, metaknight alone would have a better average matchup.
lol, what BS, sorry, man.
Meta Knight may have no disadvantaged matchups overall, but this is really quite a stretch, don't you think? Do you really believe that Meta Knight - when I already said that there's only a handful of characters he really destroys in the cast - has overall better matchups against Mid and Low Tier than the WHOLE High Tier TOGETHER? LOL! You just lost all your creditibility.
I'm saying that it would *significantly* improve most low/mid tier characters expected matchup ratio for an average tournament.
Not really. At least not significantly. They'll still run into High Tiers. And each of them has a harder High Tier matchup than Meta Knight.
So while ... let's say Lucario (because I'm tired and can't think of a better example right now) won't run into a Meta Knight - a slightly disadvantaged matchup, I'd say - the probability of him running into a Dedede, one of his harder matchups, is far higher than before!
Considering Dedede is already the #3 in the character ranking, there can only be an increase of Dedede players.
The same goes for any character that has a bad matchup in general. While the chances they will run into Meta Knight - usually only a slightly disadvantageous matchup - are zero, the chances they'll run into their HARDER matchups is significantly higher, since the Meta Knights have been washed into the other characters. Especially if this harder matchup is spread in the Top or High Tier.
I hope you are able to grasp the fact that these characters will not do better overall at all (with a few possible exceptions).