My list isn't totally based off tourney wins. Diddy has too much potential to be where he is in tournaments. It's a shame. I rank my tiers on who's the best, not best in tourneys only.
really, diddy sounds good on paper, but if the opponent knows diddys tricks, he isn't that good, once people started dash attacking and airdodging to pick up bananas diddys started losing a lot.
Having said what I said above, DK is on par with both MK and Snake when fighting them, so he can win against them in the finals of tourneys. So what?
so a lot of things, he doesn't just do well vs snake and metaknight, he has even or advantageous matchups with most of the cast, and its reflected in his tournament placings, and should be reflected in the tiers
You forgot to mention how many Diddy and TL players main them and are good with them, and how many top8s and top4 each character has. It's not overwhelming.
ill cover it more at the bottom of this post, but to me, having a lot of good diddy and toon link players (there are/were plenty compared to characters like dk and wario, who have very few mains) with very few wins means that character is bad and just popular. if the character cannot win, even when overplayed, then it is overrated in my book. toon link and diddy are somewhat popular, which is why they place high, but they aren't good enough (currentlly at least) to win many tournaments.
also note, ankokus list is on a point based system, when you factor in top 8 and top 4, dk has 86 points, wolf has 74.5, diddy and toon link
combined have 63.5, you might have a small argument for toon link, who has 42 points on the list, but diddy is just not good (21.5 points)
As for Wolf, he's crap. Everyone knows it. His moves are so telegraphed, it's kind of lame. After a lot of practice, he becomes much, much easier to fight. He has too many bad matchups too. IvanEva's chart doesn't reflect how bad he is, but it's true. He was overrated in the beginning when this game came out.
after playing the germ, and watching lucky beat plan 9 with wolf, i can tell you he is not overrated. his playstyle that was used at or around launch was overrated, but currently, the character itself is very good. his projectile is still good, he still has good range, his bairs good, and most importantly, he's winning and placing well
Once again, you seem to only be crediting one side of the Smash community, Remember how Emblem Lord said the New England region thought Marth sucked until he made some of those players how good he really is? Just because California has the mentality that Wario>MK does not make it true, because that is only taking account of that one part of the comunnity. While Wins can not be disputed, one thing that can be pointed out is that if one character has an obscenely larger amount of wins than overall top 4/8 placings, it usually slightly more of a testament to the person or people using him than the characters. Characters like Marth, who place much more consistently but do not actually win all that often, make better cases because usually they are placing better overall in all regions, not just one where said person is dominating. And MK really only has 2 or 3 disadvantage too, DK is one, Snake really is debateable whether it's an even matchup or an advantage in Snake's favor, and possibly Pikachu. If you really think Wario's matchups are that great, I suggest you bring your argument to the Matchups topic and get it fixed on the chart.
In terms of tournaments, Meta has been winning AND Placing High very consistently, probably the most consistent out of all characters. Wario has been winning, but he hasn't placed Nearly as consistently in Top 4/8 placings. Meta has him beat there, and you can't just take the view from one smash region because that would create bias like Emblem Lord stated before.
Meta's matchups are better and AT THE VERY MOST Equal with Wario if what your saying is really true.
Not to mention, you completely ignored all the other characters that I mentioned in the arguement I brought up against the list.
most of the other characters would require a long argument that i don't wanna go through again. and metaknight has been winning an placing high because he, along with snake, are two of the most played characters, while there are very few warios. the fact that there are only a few, yet those few are winning tells me wario is a very good character. and it's not just one guy winning a lot as wario. futiles insane, but plan 9, deff and wario have all been doing very well with wario.
if we can't credit tournament wins towards high tier placement, then what can we credit? tournaments usually reflect correct character matchups, and the results of the tournaments should be reflected in the tiers