Lol, np. It's a lot better to hope then to not, right?Thanks alot. I appreciate your response.
It's not that Yoshi is "horrible" per say, but he just isn't cut out to be top tier. One can only hope the best when optimism takes control, eh?
I forgot I was going to respond to your first post!
Not even close to high tier, and he was significantly nerfed. Not simply because of his moves, but because of the game engine change as well. These aren't assumptions i'm making, because I have played the game alot.
1st. Yoshi's aerials can only gimp, but they don't have any sort of good knockback considering that his only decent aerials are laggy. his Nair gimps, his Bair gimps, his dair gimps, his Fair gimps, and his Uair is only liable when you talor it to KO'ing at high percentages. Yoshi can only play effectively near the edge, where as other characters have better mid screen approaches and safer aerials that have better priorities.
These were the main things I didn't fully agree with. Yoshi's moves may have received a nerf as far as damage goes, but gained more ranged? I think it seems like an equally fair trade. His aerials have practically no landing lag, which is great for comboing. I never thought of Yoshi to be a power house to begin with, he's got some fairly good combos for racking up damage so that when his few finishing moves do land, you'll hopefully get the kill.4. No DJC. This was Yoshi's best aerial approach tactic. It made all of his aerials connect faster. Without the DJC, the only good SH aerial he has is his Bair.
Brawl has changed to be based on more aerial fights, I think the loss of DJC was for the better. If he still had DJC it would put him at an extreme disadvantage because recovery looks to be very important in this game. I mean I can't even recall how many times I've gimped myself off the ledge because of his DJC, and I feel his new recovery was needed, it was probably one of the biggest gripes against Yoshi in melee.
All in all I think Yoshi definitely got buffed from melee. I personally think Peach, Shiek, Marth, and Fox got more nerfed than Yoshi did.