Competitive players - Why do some of you choose not to play top tier characters?

[okiyama]

maybe some competitive players play not top tier characters cause there better with them

Yeah, I think that sometimes a players playstyle will just fit a character better, so they'll do best with them.

To make it so your playstyle follows the character thoughy ou just need to play them for a long long time.

 

[Divilenta]

In Melee, I'll play as Marth. Not because he's top tier (I didn't know tiers existed when i started playing as him) but because he's the only character I'm actually ok at.

 

[unwelc0med]

every person i play is high/top tier

marth, c falcon, falco, fox


yep.

oh wait, i kinda play roy...

 

[debaser]

Luigi is so **** fun I can't resist playing him sometimes

 

[Tee ay eye]

Talk to Taj. He may not be the VERY best, but he sure is darn close.
If you have spare time, look up shadowclaw on youtube.

You do realize that Taj uses Marth or Fox when he needs to pull out a win, right?

 

[Sybawave]

Yeah, Taj and Forward are some of the best lol Taj just likes to play Mewtwo a lot unless he's losing.

XD I just picked Marth because he was a) blue b) had a sword c) had a cape and d) didn't have teh ph1r3

 

[Wind Owl]

WTF could you possibly have against teh ph1r3?

 

[victra♥]

You do realize that Taj uses Marth or Fox when he needs to pull out a win, right?

IIRC, he went M2 vs M2K's marth in a tourny recently. He probably assumed he'd lose either way, but it still goes to show.

I use Fox, Marth and Falcon. (Real original I know lol) But its fun to use Pichu once and a while. Its really satisfying and Pichus mobility is pretty sexy.

 

[D20]

Pichu isn't low tier. He has two taunts.

 

[Sybawave]

Lol I like wuteh more than ph1r3 XD

What does using M2 on M2k go to show?

 

[Gigan X3]

I Main Mewtwo because he's hot.

 

[jd_smith_88]

I'd have to say wit me, I jus like goin against the tide. I main ICs, Link and Roy n I think just about any character has the potential to be a real top tier. Ive seen planety of vids of ppl using lower tiers n beating, not only hi tiers, but top players. such as a G&W beating M2K's fox. Aniki's Link beating Ken's marth, Mewtwo beating Bombsoldier's falco, ect. The tiers list simply infulences ppl to play wit high tiers so dat noone uses the lower ones.

 

[metaXzero]

I'd have to say wit me, I jus like goin against the tide. I main ICs, Link and Roy n I think just about any character has the potential to be a real top tier. Ive seen planety of vids of ppl using lower tiers n beating, not only hi tiers, but top players. such as a G&W beating M2K's fox. Aniki's Link beating Ken's marth, Mewtwo beating Bombsoldier's falco, ect. The tiers list simply infulences ppl to play wit high tiers so dat noone uses the lower ones.

I have a feeling those were some old videos...

Like it's been said, that's just the PLAYER being good, not the character.

 

[Sybawave]

It's how used to the low tier player the top player really is

 

[DippnDots]

D20's young link is top tier, no lie

 

[Geist]

I'd have to say wit me, I jus like goin against the tide. I main ICs, Link and Roy n I think just about any character has the potential to be a real top tier. Ive seen planety of vids of ppl using lower tiers n beating, not only hi tiers, but top players. such as a G&W beating M2K's fox. Aniki's Link beating Ken's marth, Mewtwo beating Bombsoldier's falco, ect. The tiers list simply infulences ppl to play wit high tiers so dat noone uses the lower ones.

Those vids are pretty old =p
Japan is pretty behind the US in terms of metagame as of present day.

While I agree with you that low tier characters can be played at a high level, I feel like I have to say that the people who have done things like that are incredible good players no matter what character they play. M2K's Pichu could likely beast 90% of smashboards' anything, but Pichu is a terrible character.
The really good thing about melee is that it's flexible enough to allow lower tiers to perform that well. But there are still notable differences in hitboxes, lag speed, priority, versatility, adaptability that some characters have that others don't.
Best example, grab an action replay and turn all characters into wire frames and look at their hitboxes. 80% of Jiggly's moves have bigger hitboxes than pichu's entire body. -__-
Not to mention higher tiers are plagued with gay things like disjointed hitboxes and lagless moves.


Personally I continue to main Samus because I'm aware of how good she can actually be. Just look at what Alukard and Hugs are capable of doing so some of the best players.

I started playing her because Super Metroid on the SNES was too good. :D

 

[RaynEX]

Alukard plays Samus?

 

[Sybawave]

He has an amazing Samus lol

 

[-Chad-]

I play Pikachu because he's yellow and fuzzy.

 

[Vts]

I play Pikachu because he's yellow and fuzzy.

:D

i play ice climbers cus nana is hot

 

['Fro]

I play Samus because she suits me the best out of all the characters in the game that I've tried to learn. I picked her up faster than I did most characters, and I'm more used to her. I occasionally try to work on other characters, but everytime I go back to Samus she gives me better results. There's why.