Quoted for Truth. Others are just being delusional. All the data disagrees. All the winnings, cash, frame data, match-up, tier list... hell, the supposed even is only correct if you mean the nerfed Meta Knight.
Except that this is entirely bull****. MK is the best in the game, and that is a contributing factor, but you know what? Name me any number of truly top-level main for each other top tier character, and I will name you a top-level player who mains MK. Hell, I even think I might be able to do it all the way down to like, Toon Link.
That's how much he is favored by the top pros. That's the degree to which he's liked among the best players in the USA. With that kind of representation, it's no wonder he's winning a lot. If M2K, Dojo, Ally, Tyrant, Anti, and Nairo all mained Snake or Olimar, don't you think we'd all be sitting here with pretty damn similar figures?
To point to these top players winning a lot and say "look at MK oh my god he's so ****ing broken" is like looking at UMvC3 Wesker's results and thinking, "OH GOD BROKEN" – no, "the character is broken" is not the explanation. There are a lot of factors playing into it, and blaming it solely on the character being "broken" is stupid. MK is easy to pick up at lower and mid-levels, the best in the game, and generally a very solid pick in every matchup. Does that mean broken? **** no. A character with those qualities
could be broken, but it doesn't necessitate it. And in this case, it's clearly
not the case – MK is great, but not even remotely broken. Want proof? Well, we have what are clearly top MKs losing, in no particular order, to:
-ICs (Kakera vs. ESAM)
-Olimar (Nairo and Ally vs. Nietono)
-ROB (M2K vs. Ocean)
...and more.
And then, of course, there's the cherry on top: Japan, which is clearly the most advanced region in the world in terms of metagame, and especially in terms of MK (anyone who gets the impression that the USA's MKs are better after watching Otori and Kakera play is
nuts), doesn't consider MK a banworthy threat. They consider him a top tier character, reasonably in line with the others. The idea of banning MK is
laughable in Japan, despite them having what amounts to two of the best MKs in the world and many more very notable MK players.
Is MK banworthy in the USA, or at least the east coast? Very likely. The mindset that many US players have is, quite frankly, poisonous, and leads to an absurd overcentralization around Metaknight – this idea of "why go through the extra work for a character who's worse anyways". Does this mean MK is broken? No! It means that a large portion of the USA (and, from what I've gathered, people like Kunai KazeKun [oh god I hope he namesearches] in Europe) are gigantic *****es, whether you want to admit it or not.