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I personally like him a lot. What he loses in potency from a sourspot hit he gains in raw kill power off of tippers. Tipper ftilt, fsmash both kill really early and all of his aerials will take stocks at higher percents off tippers as well. It can't be overstated how valuable bigger disjointed...

MG covered it for the most part. One other thing that a lot of the pros like Awestin and Bestness do with it is that it confirms grabs at all percents. Basically you can magnet immediately off of shorthop, fastfall uair with your c-stick into grab. From there you can either back throw for the...

I think giving Fox a shoutout for Usmash here is warranted. Comes out frame 8 and has retained it's strong kill power from past games.

She seems to suffer from Sheik-itis in that killing with her does not happen before late percents. She has a harder time starting combos in this game and losing reliable ladders absolutely destroyed her. In Sm4sh you could ladder people and kill them pre-70% with regularity but her knock back on...

I'm of the opinion that the Frog is top 5 looking strictly at toolset. He's one of the most mobile characters in the game. He has good combo potential at both early and later percents with dthrow, dtilt, dash attack, nair confirms, drag down uairs, jab resets etc. Dtilt and dash attack in...

Awestin wins USW again this time beating ESAM's Pika with Ness. Making us Ness mains proud. It was also kind of cool to see a Zelda in grand finals at Wednesday Whiffs.

Lucas is good, Ness is sleeper top tier imo. He has way more and better kill options, better combos and mix ups because magnet is much better on him, and still edgeguards like a boss. Magnet in general gives Ness some of the best kill confirms in this game and is one of the biggest reasons he's...

Yeah I'm thinking it's a case of the character not having a strong history competitively combined with the fact that only a select few top players have picked him up. He has so much going for him this game in that bthrow is still the best kill throw in the game imo, all of his aerials kill, he...

As someone who's using Fox as a secondary everything Rhus said is true. A couple other smaller things to remember 1.) Dtilt is incredibly good in this game. It is one of your combo starting bread and butter moves. 2.) At kill percentages sour spot nair can true combo into u smash. This is one...

On the subject of Marth I'm sure he's going to climb the tier lists as players get more acclimatized to the pace of the game. Melee is much faster paced than Ultimate and he was top tier in that game. He still spaces well and has the disjoint of a sword, and sourspot isn't always a bad thing. He...

Ah OK I see where you're coming from. What I was trying to point out was that I think the only thing keeping Sheik from being good in this game is her atrocious knockback. Bouncing fish's kill power was neutered in this game. You aren't taking stocks at any reasonable percents unless you land a...

This is a little disingenuous. Speed absolutely matters, as does every other factor you've brought up. The problem with Sheik in this game has more to do with how terrible she is at killing. She was S tier in Sm4sh for the sole fact that she could back up her combo game and frame data with...

I'm talking about lack of projectiles. He still gets spaced hard by swordies

Not very good. He has some good things going for him (one of the strongest kill throws in the game in bthrow, good frame data for a super heavy on buttons, dthrow combos, nair being a solid landing and OoS option, revenge being godly when procced) but he has weaknesses that are too much for him...

Absolutely. Swordies are in in this game and he's a relatively safe investment as far as nerfs go with how much attention Peaches, Inkling, Olimar and Chrom are getting.