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Eh, I'm just proud of myself, so I quoted this.I really, really like Brawl alot, but I admit that they did a fail job balancing the game. Brawl is a game where you choose your main because you enjoy him. However, there is no denying that there are better and worse characters in Brawl. Its fact. In addition to broken characters, there are fail characters too. People like MK, Snake, Marth (), D3, wario, and more stand above the majority of the roster while Falcon, Ganondorf, Link, Samus, and others sink below. And then people like Luigi or Peach or Donkey Kong or Wolf play right in the middle. Regarding the highest tiers, I'm not saying that MK or Snake are ban-worthy (do not flame me
), but that they are at a much higher standard than three-fourths of the cast. And Samus and Ganon and Falcon just do not contend in an environment like that.
Now, a player's skill level is superior to the disadvantages or advantages of his/her character. Yet competitively, your skill is usually matched by an opponent's, allowing for the match-up factor. A MK player will have a slight advantage over a Fox player, and an incredible adavantage over a ganondorf player. In a relatively balanced game, the differences are subtle to moderate because every character has some chance at the top spot. But Brawl's brokenness does away with those possibilities and requires low tiers to pick up a high tier secondary or first (the usual case, that is). Point blank, a Snake player will tend to dominate over an Ike player. A D3 will generally place better than Link. Falco will usually KO Jiggs.
Yes, there is a wall, however thin or thick, that separates those of high tier from those of low. And the middle tiers all rest in the valley between the two hills. Here we have it, the truth. There it is.
Why don't I play Plus then? I hear it promises a fair game to every combatant.
Well, anyway, thats my speech; felt like writing something up.
You should save that in Notepad for future use.Eh, I'm just proud of myself, so I quoted this.
Ha ha. I do that sometimes..... thanks. And I wouldn't discourage you from using Ike. Yeah, he's not high tier, but he's a pretty darn fun character to use, and he's definitely a good contender in the right hands.
That's a hollow argument. To an extent, tiers do, in fact, exist. There are indeed better and worse characters. MK is not "one of the harder characters." He is the best, setting a higher standard than the rest of the roster and imbalancing the game. Ike is, truthfully, not viable against him usually. And although its not impossible, Ike is at a severe disadvanatge (reference to another thread if any of you recognize it
) against MK or Snake, especially at the highest level of play.
