Earlier in this thread we talked about character potential and all that, and whether it's worth it or not to main a low tier character.
Opinion on Game & Watch has been all over the place, but he's often seen as some kind of mid to low tier denizen. "He has a bad neutral!" they say. The point I was trying to make with all that talk was simply, we still don't have the whole picture, and anyone who believes our conceptions of characters are locked into place only 15 months into a game have no perspective. I remember when everyone just assumed that Marth was clearly the best character because Ken was just that dominant. Even if characters like G&W might still end up mid tier or worse, we still have so much to learn about them.
As for Japan, they were just a collection of monsters. The issue was that even if you take down their best, as Regi did against Ranai, their 2nd and 3rd best are still ridiculous. Everyone else was the high schools in Kuroko's Basketball and Japan was the Generation of Miracles. Maybe if America got their collective best together they would have the edge.
Watching other VIllagers in pools, or even in the crew battle and comparing them to Ranai was like night and day. He just hands-down knows the character better, and is willing to do "stuff" when most Villagers will retreat and hide.
Also let's talk about Komorikiri's Sonic running up and grabbing Regi's G&W out of F-Smash. WHAT
