Falcon fails at approaching, too. You shouldnt forget that.
Yeah Falcon sucks at approaching. He doesn't
fail at it though. Ike and Zelda fail at approaching. Falcon has legitimate options. The other two really don't.
Link's projectiles and overall potential make him better than falcon, and Yoshi's reach, and overall better moveset, which makes Yoshi's playstyle less limited than falcon's, though arguably worse physics, put him above falcon too.
Sketchy argument at best. Link unlike Falcon is also worse in close range situations and has much less reward off of a much riskier grab, and Falcon is better at safe KO moves.
Yoshi however has a fail shield, a more limited approach, and worse kill moves, and he isn't as consistent at juggles. He's not just clearly better than Falcon (although I wouldn't disagree that he should be above Falcon, but in the same tier).
Zelda's tilts and reach, though she also lacks a good approach, puts her above falcon.
Her only good tilt really is D-tilt, which just hits low, and she also has a fail shieldgrab. Her recovery and physics in the air are worse than Falcon's too. Falcon has kill moves with better range than what Zelda has too.
Ike's reach, damage dealing, though more limited playstyle still puts him above falcon.
Ike's reach is only really seriously good on moves that are either ridiculously laggy, powershieldable on reaction, or both. He can do some decent damage off of Jabs, which are NOT safe on block (shieldgrabbing them is easy for any non-tether if you know the timing).
And jigglypuff's aerials, aerial movement, recovery, and pound put her above falcon.
I agree with this statement honestly. I think Jigglypuff is in fact significantly better than the other mentioned characters.
Falcon has moves that are safe on block? To some chars maybe, but anyone with a 5 frame ground attack hits him after whatever he does. As for Zelda, I don't know if she has anything safe, but Ike DEFINITLY has safe options, like Nair, Fair and retreating Bair(Snake's F-tilt doesn't even reach it). Play my Ike please, I'll show you .
You really are not punishing Falcon's well-spaced B-air or N-air on shield, and his U-tilt and D-smash are also safe on block.
Ike doesn't have anything that is safe on defenses that he can
approach with. All his stuff that is "safe" relies on retreating and expecting them to not powershield certain things on reaction.
N-air is slow enough to powershield and doesn't have enough range or pushback to be safe on block without really really situational spacing.
F-air = powershield on reaction
Retreating B-air is retreating...anyone can retreat to make stuff safe, even Ganondorf. Ike doesn't have the tools to play a safe spacing game that lets him approach consistently in any way unless his opponent makes a mistake.