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Official 4BR Tier List v2.0 - Competitive Impressions

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Everything else about Mewtwo more than enough makes up for it though.

The same cannot be said about Zard. I'm not understanding your argument here.
I'm saying Mewtwo still has good OOS options. I feel like the character that takes the most damage to his game from traction is Luigi. Everyone above that isn't at as much of a loss. Mario, for example, has bad traction as well. But his airspeed and usmash range give him good options.

While Zard doesn't have the airspeed, his options do have decent range on 'em.
 
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Fatality and consistency don't exactly go together in the same sentence. Lmao
In what world is Fatality inconsistent? Dude hasn't placed below 17th at anything since EVO 2015 and his only somewhat bad placements were at Come to Papa 2 where he got 13th and Clutch City Clash where he lost to Captain Zack and Scatt
 

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In what world is Fatality inconsistent? Dude hasn't placed below 17th at anything since EVO 2015 and his only somewhat bad placements were at Come to Papa 2 where he got 13th and Clutch City Clash where he lost to Captain Zack and Scatt
I did this thing a month ago

https://smashboards.com/threads/4br...tive-impressions.440784/page-91#post-21486969

He loses to a lot of mid-level players and virtually never beats top level ones despite best efforts. He's consistent at good losers runs, but his best win as far as I can find is Marss
 

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After Sheik Ftilt's your shield its a whole mixup game where the opponent has 5 frames of advantage (Perfect shield drop though which is isnt that easy to execute w/o anticipation of the ftilt)
 

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Since we were on the subject of Zard - in ZeRo's latest video, he talks about how Leo thinks Charizard is top 15 in the game. So that's interesting.
 

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Since we were on the subject of Zard - in ZeRo's latest video, he talks about how Leo thinks Charizard is top 15 in the game. So that's interesting.
That's interesting and kinda cool but where's the evidence and results? Zard doesn't have a huge playerbase so it's hard to tell if zard is in the proper tierwise...
 
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ZeRo fought Leo in some friendlies with his Shulk. Doesn't mean much competitively but these were some very fun matches to watch. For a pocket ZeRo's Shulk is pretty solid.
 

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Since we were on the subject of Zard - in ZeRo's latest video, he talks about how Leo thinks Charizard is top 15 in the game. So that's interesting.
It's not actually interesting though.

How many times have we heard about top players voicing random opinions that aren't backed up at all, generally make little to no sense and consistently turn out to be just plain wrong at some later point? Remember when Pikachu was top 4 according to ESAM? Remember when Zero declared Rosalina the game's best character? Or when Leo claimed Marth is top 5? Or dyr claimed Corrin is top 4?

These opinions are not 'interesting', as you call it - they're just plain bull****. Let's not pretend they are anything else.

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I'm going with Gheb on this one even though I love my zard. When you make a claim unless there's evidence and facts to back it up then the claim has no value except for gullible sheep to follow it. Better to make a claim with some substance to it then to make one with no substance at all you know?
 
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It's not actually interesting though.

How many times have we heard about top players voicing random opinions that aren't backed up at all, generally make little to no sense and consistently turn out to be just plain wrong at some later point? Remember when Pikachu was top 4 according to ESAM? Remember when Zero declared Rosalina the game's best character? Or when Leo claimed Marth is top 5? Or dyr claimed Corrin is top 4?

These opinions are not 'interesting', as you call it - they're just plain bull****. Let's not pretend they are anything else.

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To be fair, usually when people voice these opinions it's based on traceable events. Either these are characters they recently struggled against, or they feel most comfortable with those characters. Characters that come almost out of left field like this show that top players are struggling against characters that are usually considered to be free.

I know that in Zard's case, ZeRo also expressed that he was better than people thought after playing ANTi's over and over. Now, it remains to be seen if that translates into anything over time, but I think that these sorts of opinions are interesting even if specific placement is off.
 

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So now that's now Leo , Mr.R , Dabuz and Salem that have offically said that they think :4bayonetta:is in the top 3 if not the best in the game now. Hmmm

Am I missing anyone else ? Lol
 

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Not really, Bayonetta is pretty ****ing broken. Thank god we still have Sheik and Diddy to keep her in check, Mewtwo too maybe but I feel like that leans more towards even
 

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I'm still ultimately expecting her to cross over the "broken" line and have talks about banning her start up again. Its kinda nuts how quickly she bounced back from her nerfs and unlike some of the other hyped up characters she has gone through at least one serious phase of other characters trying to develop counter play against her. Not really working out well. She just goes against too many of usual smash character design "rules".

Nobody maining Bayonetta should do so without quietly dabbling in another top tier as a "secondary". Just in case.
 

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So now that's now Leo , Mr.R , Dabuz and Salem that have offically said that they think :4bayonetta:is in the top 3 if not the best in the game now. Hmmm

Am I missing anyone else ? Lol
The real question is who doesn't think that Bayo is top 3 at this point.
 

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Post-patched :4bayonetta: is certianly not on the level "broken" than say pre-patched :4diddy: and :4sheik: and both were not ever considered for banning

Reults show that Diddy is likely a bad MU for Bayo
I am not so sure about Sheik since I don't know if there is actually been a lot of high level matches between them post-patched

:4mewtwo: is pretty suspectable to Bayo ladder combo Jank kills due to his size and weight. Especially if Bayo has rage
 
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Post-patched :4bayonetta: is certianly not on the level "broken" than say pre-patched :4diddy: and :4sheik: and both were not ever considered for banning

Reults show that Diddy is likely a bad MU for Bayo
I am not so sure about Sheik since I don't know if there is actually been a lot of high level matches between them post-patched

:4mewtwo: is pretty suspectable to Bayo ladder combo Jank kills due to his size and weight. Especially if Bayo has rage
But Bayonetta is also pretty susceptible to being camped out by Mewtwo and you cant be forgetting the insane potential 0 - deaths he can pull off from just a dtilt
 

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At this point, the only way I can see someone not seeing Bayo as top 3 is if they believe the top 3 is :4diddy::4sheik::4sonic: with the first 2 being generally agreed upon and the latter of the 3 being formerly considered for top 3 or even number 1. I would list :4mewtwo: too since if optimized, he could infinite all but 3 members of the cast but one of those 3 just so happens to be his worst mu and an incredibly viable character, so not likely. Doubt there's very many people who believe Fox, Mario, Rosa, ZSS, Cloud or anyone else is good enough to be top 3. Maaaybe Cloud since he's currently number 2 but then Pika and Ryu were top 5 and went down pretty far without any patches affecting them directly.
 

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Welcome to the age of twitter celebrities everyone. It's not so much top players voicing random ideas so much as potentially exaggerating certain views they have which will draw discussion / publicity. And I think one of your recent elections proved that any publicity is good publicity so you're going to get statements which people are obviously going to call out - but these players aren't being outspoken for the sake of having 'weird' opinions. What really interests me is the thought behind the post before it's blown up - and seeing people trend positive opinions on Charizard isn't actually new. I think a lot of us have been having thoughts for a while that go along the lines of he's not the low tier everyone assumed he was. And I've certainly been myself outspoken about the way in which our current stagelist and banning procedure (in my region where we only get one ban... Hoo boy!) affects his viability and literally the ways you do and don't get to play against him.

So this kind of rhetoric doesn't surprise me at all. On the contrary actually, it's kinda pleasing to see top player/s who feel the same way I and apparently a lot of others do.
 

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But if zard isn't the bottom tier everyone thought he was.....then WHAT IS HE?!? We don't have enough definitive proof to tell us where he falls under on the tier hierarchy!
 

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no ordering within tiers according to ESAM

:4zelda::4wiifit::4drmario::4charizard:
:4duckhunt::4falco::4bowserjr::4dedede:
:4ganondorf::4jigglypuff::4pacman:
 

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When I ponder the quandary about what Marth in Smash4 is missing or his comparative power level verses his Brawl counter part, it's quite interesting. After a long list of engine changes and buffs, significantly less difficulty due to sweetspot hitboxes plus is accompanied by one of the best KO set up moves in the game .... tasty.

Sure a few things were nerfed (ACs on aerials and some mobility being practically the only ones ["double fair!": no, **** off]), but with more range and a $$$cash-money$$$ printing jab - it's feasible he is overall one of strongest chars in the game (probably under a similar merit to what he was in Brawl: "who does he actually lose to?" [Marth mains are beating Sheiks/Diddys/etc more often than they beat MKs in Brawl]).

At release an in-depth analysis of him vs would've been scathing and harsh... he was a super trash character after all. But now, point by point, the things which are worse are compensated heavily one way or another.

Things come full circle.
Time to fite gheb 5evermore.
"We're getting the band back together!"

Top 5 is still a pretty steep statement though, but his high-scaling fundamentals and reaction speed based game plan is primed for endless success.
 
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Again where does that make zard fit? 'm not sure if he's D tier but i'm also not positive if he's strong enough for C tier. In fact I think he's smack in-between those if that's possible...
 
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no ordering within tiers according to ESAM

:4zelda::4wiifit::4drmario::4charizard:
:4duckhunt::4falco::4bowserjr::4dedede:
:4ganondorf::4jigglypuff::4pacman:
I've pretty much made a decision to not take anything ESAM says seriously when it comes to his opinions on characters. Zelda being better than characters like Duck Hunt and Doc is just flat-out false.
 

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It would be better to counter a person's point rather than just go hurr #esam oppinions
 

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ESAM's next big upset will be to Sinji, I suppose ;)

But I feel like he's mostly biased to Pika's strengths here. I can see Pika abusing Pac Man's weaknesses really well.

Actually, same for Mewtwo and Corrin (if he still plays either). So Pac-Man's placement makes sense from that perspective. What can Pac-Man do if any of those characters steals his fruit and runs?
 

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no ordering within tiers according to ESAM

:4zelda::4wiifit::4drmario::4charizard:
:4duckhunt::4falco::4bowserjr::4dedede:
:4ganondorf::4jigglypuff::4pacman:
*Looks at bottom tier*

I see ESAM's at it again. Just has to include one bit of obvious stupidity. It's basically Sm4sh clickbait.

tl;dr Pacman has nowhere near the amount of bad or outright horrible and unwinnable matchups that the bottom tier faces, actually has a faceroll-easy matchup in the form of Mac. Yeah, it's not especially relevant in the meta, but by gum it's more than anything the bottom tiers have.
Again where does that make zard fit? 'm not sure if he's D tier but i'm also not positive if he's strong enough for C tier. In fact I think he's smack in-between those if that's possible...
My advice would be to ignore the numbers and focus on what they actually mean. In this instance, people think that Charizard is a bad character, but not the worst one.
Pac-Man... in the same tier as Jiggs and Ganon.

...Why?
Because apparently ESAM wants to continue his long streak of people calling him dumb for having wacky opinions.
 

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At work and with less then half a gig of data so can't watch the video but I can see Pac being a low tier, probably not bottom though.

If anyone remembers, back when Cloud was announced and we had prepatch Sheik 50/50ing left and right, there was the question of what if Cloud beat Sheik and lost to everyone else. A character with that supposed mu spread would be low/bottom tier easily even if the Sheik mu was 0:100 against her. Having 1 super good mu doesn't matter if the majority of the relevant ones are crap.
 

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*Sees Esam put a top 30 character in bottom 3*

Okay good same Esam.

ESAM's next big upset will be to Sinji, I suppose ;)

But I feel like he's mostly biased to Pika's strengths here. I can see Pika abusing Pac Man's weaknesses really well.

Actually, same for Mewtwo and Corrin (if he still plays either). So Pac-Man's placement makes sense from that perspective. What can Pac-Man do if any of those characters steals his fruit and runs?
Honestly by this point you can barely call upsets aganist Esam upsets at all. That's how inconsistant he is.

Edit:Also, Pac-Man actually beats Corrin for similar reasons as why he beats Marth (Struggles when Pac-Man plays defensive with fruit and hydrant)
 
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ESAM's next big upset will be to Sinji, I suppose ;)

But I feel like he's mostly biased to Pika's strengths here. I can see Pika abusing Pac Man's weaknesses really well.

Actually, same for Mewtwo and Corrin (if he still plays either). So Pac-Man's placement makes sense from that perspective. What can Pac-Man do if any of those characters steals his fruit and runs?
If Pac has the lead, not care and just wait. None of those 3 can projectile camp him profitably.

If he doesn't, play carefully, block a lot, and focus on getting stage control + eventually cornering them.

Tbh though at top level, Pac really shouldn't be getting his fruit stolen. His player can always take measures to make theft chance absurdly low.

As for the placement, top players putting Pac Man that low isn't new. I know Dabuz put him at bottom 3 and I believe Mr. R put him in bottom 10.
 

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Though I know Pac Man struggles notably more when you have match up experience, the notion that Pac is bottom tier boggles me.

Clearly Bottom 3 is over-dramatic, but I do hear a lot of bottom 15 claims.

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*Sees Wintermelon imply Pac-Man is top 30*
Okay good same Wintermelon.
 

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My advice would be to ignore the numbers and focus on what they actually mean. In this instance, people think that Charizard is a bad character, but not the worst one.
The problem is just how bad is charizard, extremely bad, a bit bad, or 'meh average but gets outshone by higher levels'?
 

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ESAM's next big upset will be to Sinji, I suppose ;)

But I feel like he's mostly biased to Pika's strengths here. I can see Pika abusing Pac Man's weaknesses really well.

Actually, same for Mewtwo and Corrin (if he still plays either). So Pac-Man's placement makes sense from that perspective. What can Pac-Man do if any of those characters steals his fruit and runs?
Srsly people, instead of haunting ESAM, try to understand he's just biased because his character abuse it pretty badly.
And that he lives in the same region as Purple Guy and he has probably seen Zelda do more stuff than almost any other character in that portion of the list.

I bet every single one of us is biased too regarding certain characters.

Also, Leo's full opinions:
There was a problem fetching the tweet
-Meta Knight is not top tier
-Ban Bayonetta (Tweek)
-Cloud isn't the most broken one
-Diddy Kong IS broken
-Fox no is honest (I love this quote)
-Lucario is Top Tier
-Charizard is Top 15

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If Pac has the lead, not care and just wait. None of those 3 can projectile camp him profitably.

If he doesn't, play carefully, block a lot, and focus on getting stage control + eventually cornering them.

Tbh though at top level, Pac really shouldn't be getting his fruit stolen. His player can always take measures to make theft chance absurdly low.

As for the placement, top players putting Pac Man that low isn't new. I know Dabuz put him at bottom 3 and I believe Mr. R put him in bottom 10.
Out if curiosity, how does Mewtwo not projectile camp him well? And how does Pac Man get past utilt?

EDIT: UGH dtilt
 
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