Oh, I do think top level players who have a lot of time to spend on the game may benefit from having more than one character, at least if their main has multiple bad matchups.
I did address this, actually:
Also, top tiers can have bad matchups. I'm on the fence whether Wario is a top tier or just a high tier, the character does have some notable flaws. Time will tell, I suppose.
I don't know if you are reading my whole post at this point, because it seems like you are just replying to a single statement without actually taking into consideration the rest of the post. I don't really know what to say, so, short of rephrasing the same thing again, I'm going to drop this.
Name 1 person who said Wario is a top tier.
Like, in this thread, or in general? Browny made a pretty explicit post about it on the last page. In general, I mean, the most obvious answer is Zero. In a lowest common denominator sense, Twitch chat during the Glitch interview went nuts when Tweek suggested that Wario wasn't top tier.
I don't think Ike is a top tier either and he won the major before this. Ike has better results than Link too. So does YL. The difference is people are saying Link is top 3. No one says YL's top 3 (he's not). Or Ike is. If Players are going to make claims like that on their tier lists I'd expect Link to have better results. Salem was a top 5 player who has won majors before. If Link really had the tools to be top 3 Salem should be scoring better and not forced to switch off Link against worse players. Top 3 is a very high bar. The reason people dump on Link isn't that we want him to lose; it's a much needed counter argument to people who, for some reason, ignore Link's very real flaws like
dying at 48% from being hit offstage or poor frame data.
Okay, so who, besides Salem, thinks Link is top 3? Like, who are people?
Actually, it doesn't matter, because you are replying to a piece of a larger point of contention with
how Frihetsanka was implying Link wasn't top tier. My problem was with the inference that because Salem switched off, Link is not top tier. It's not a good argument, given the context of how many top players switched off their main characters.
Also, I already said I don't believe Link is top tier. You are making points against an argument I'm not making.
Also, also, Link could be top tier and still switched off of. The game is young and there are over 70 characters. Even Larry switches off of Fox, who looks like the most solid case for a solo top tier at this point.
Also, also, also, better results take time. It took quite a bit of time before Bayo won a major in Smash 4, and towards the end of the game's lifespan, her top players still had to switch off of
her.
Also, also, also, also, I'm not attempting to hype Link up at all. Link isn't in my roster, and I have no dog in this fight. But your example is a bit... disingenuous. Like, how many characters are going to survive having their jump stolen, then being FF Fox-Fair'd with horizontal drift off the stage?