This^^
I agree that he's overturned, but he's no brawl MK. People will always switch to top tiers if becoming the best is their main goal. The only reason they switch to cloud so often is because he's the easiest top tier to use.
It's sad to see mid tier mains like Raziek lose faith in their character and pick up cloud, but their thirst for winning surpassed their passion for their character. That's totally understandable.
It's a fair point that players aiming for the top will pick a character they think they can get there with.
However take a look at something Raziek said in his post explaining his switch from Robin to Cloud (
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sopop6):
The rest of Raziek's post is exactly what you'd expect from a low-mid tier hero switching to a top tier: he's disappointed with his recent results, and realizing that he could be much more successful by switching full time to his top tier pocket. But the fact that he wouldn't consider dropping his main for any other high/top tier character suggests Cloud is in some respect not just another top tier.
Of course Raziek is only speaking for himself, but it does seem as though Cloud attracts a lot more defectors from low, mid, and high tier mains than any other character in the current meta.
The questions to ask are why this is the case, and whether it's good, bad, or neutral for the meta.
The "why" is mostly agreed upon. He is a top 1-3 character and is much easier to pick up than any other top or high tier character.
Whether this is anything to be concerned about is much more controversial. One position is that no amount of pocket Clouds or switching of mains should be treated as cause for concern until Cloud starts looking more dominant in majors and super majors (this argument was made frequently for pre-patch Bayo). On the other hand Cloud's presence at that level is definitely increasing, and since his player base is growing while already being the largest, that trend will likely continue. And if Cloud does continue growing more popular across all levels, and we see more and more Cloud pockets turn into Cloud mains, then it will be hard to argue that there isn't a problem here.
I want to clarify a couple of points since apparently I'm important enough to be a topic of discussion on my switch of characters.
The main thing I wanted to address is that I'm not switching to Cloud
solely because he's good. Yes, he's clearly amazing. I personally think he's top 3 in the game with basically no real debate.
However, I am also switching to him because I find him fun as hell AND he's strong.
I have always played sword characters in virtually every game that I can do so. (I learned fighters on Brawl Marth, play Cloud/Robin/Corrin in this game, and play characters with sword-like disjoints in other fighters (Baiken in GG, Terumi in BB, etc) It is how I prefer to play (heavy zoning/spacing), and Cloud provides me very satisfying gameplay in addition to being very strong. Its for that reason that I simply CAN'T switch to another character. I can't play non-sword characters. That's why I wouldn't switch to 'any other top tier'.
THAT SAID, I would not switch to Cloud if I did not enjoy him. I fully believe in order to realize one's potential with a character they must have a passion for playing that character, as that is what drives them to come up with new and creative solutions and gameplay styles. Playing a character without the passion to do so results in a cookie-cutter gameplay style that will plateau at a point. You saw this with a lot of average MK players in Brawl.
I enjoy Cloud a lot, Cloud is amazing, and that's why I'm choosing to main him.
Further, to clarify on where I stand on Corrin, since I only briefly touched on that in my Twitter post:
When I say I would be playing Corrin/Robin if Cloud didn't exist, what I meant by that is that I as a competitive player need to carefully consider how thin I am spreading my efforts in order to maximize inputted time to outputted results.
After Genesis, when Corrin released, I went into a bit of an exploratory period where I was playing Robin, Corrin, and Cloud in roughly equal parts. I was trying to decide who I wanted to play in what matchups. I enjoy all 3 characters. I am skilled with all 3 characters. However, as I moved towards GOML, I found myself gravitating toward Cloud the most strongly out of the 3.
There are a number of reasons for this, but ease of use and better matchups would be the primary two. I think Corrin is fairly technical and unorthodox in how she's got to use all of her tools, whereas Cloud is a much more straightforward character. Corrin also still struggles somewhat (at least IMO) with some of the matchups that are the specific reason I am moving away from Robin (Diddy most notably, somewhat ZSS).
So in making the decision between Cloud and Corrin to focus on, I went with the one I thought was stronger and would provide me with better results. I think both are strong characters, but my goal was to find a sweetspot on playing to win AND playing a character I enjoy, and I came to the conclusion that Cloud was the road forward for me.
I was only further validated in that conclusion by the difference in how well my Robin did vs. Nairo and how my Cloud did Game 2 at GOML. Yeah, I might have gotten oddshot'd on my second stock, but I was keeping it even until that happened, whereas my Robin struggled and stayed in disadvantage state practically the whole match.
TL;DR: Pick a top tier, but also make sure you enjoy them!
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