I'll be honest, Ganondorf is a character who is being slept on like many other characters in the game. And there's the fact of this...this game, much like most other fighting games, have their star shiners eventually.
No one knows for a fact that Ganondorf can't win a major or a national or even place top 8, because no one knows! Literally, no one can determine that characters like Ganondorf, or any other bottom tier, can't place high within these. We automatically assume a character is bad, but through results and determination through other people, a character we think is lower will eventually rise up.
How many times has this happened?
Who has always had those kind of changes?
And who's the most prominent example of a character actually turning out to be good within the Smash Bros. games, despite years upon years upon years (literally, over 10 years) of being considered a low or even close to bottom tier? Everyone, I present to you:
Remember where that little thing was in the Melee tier list?
Yeah, fifth worst character back in the old days of Melee. But then someone came along to give Yoshi that boost from bottom tier to a middle tier, Amsa. So now where's the little dinosaur on the current tier list?
He literally jumped 9 places up into 12th place! 12th out of 25, the upper part of the list! From literally the fifth worst character in the game to literally jumping spots up to the upper portion; that's a huge jump!
So we've had a history of making mistakes, horrible ones before, so why are we consistently repeating ourselves every single game with characters? We currently rate Ganondorf at the third worst character spot in the game despite evidence to the contrary and the fact that we're still unable to determine what placements our middle to lower tiers can be!
We have characters like
and
who are examples of characters in need of more study, but to
, he is a character who people might as well admit they have little to no knowledge of unless they main him and know his tools. He is a character who may eventually rise up into being a middle tier character or at worst, a low tier character. But we don't know it yet because the meta is still too far in its infancy to even determine much!
People often look at Ganondorf's cons without looking solely at the pros as well, they automatically assume that due to these things, Ganondorf is one of the worst characters, but they don't know it until they have played him in a great level. Let me ask among those who don't main Ganondorf this question: Did you ever once try to give him a legitimate chance or did you automatically just assume that from how you play him, you think he's a bad character, or that how you've played some bad players, that he's a bad character; is it not that you don't know how to play against him or have inexperience about him to the point that you just want to make sure he's low?
Answer me that.
And answer me this everyone: Are we really to give a determinate tier list, still even in the fact that the meta is infantile and many people have not tested; are we really sure about these placements to hold solidification within the future?
Answer me that as well.
