Snake and Dedede are both broken in their own respective ways, too, except, *****es like OP only wanna ban Meta Knight because 1) They either don't know how to fight one or 2) They would just rather cry on the boards about the character instead of learn how to fight him.
Meta Knight is just as beatable as Snake or Dedede is, in fact, even MORE SO. He's light as hell. Did you know that a landed fair from Ganondorf on a Meta Knight SLIGHTLY on the right side of Battlefield, fully DI'd, will kill Meta Knight off the side at about 54%. Honestly, I REALLY don't want to hear it.
Yesterday myself and my best friend were discussing things like this, and I had decided that I would merely answer cries like this with a simple "Then play *whatever character"*, but it's not that simple, and I really want to make you feel stupid.
Although I didn't read your entire wall of text that you posted originally, I noticed that someone brought up that whoevers Meta Knight that's in question (which undoubtably isn't M2k) 3 stocked the entire tournament. Am I to believe that this happened in Texas? If I am correct in this assumption, then I continue, and if not, then feel free to disregard this, as you eventually will with the entirety of my post because I'm not a *****;
It seems to me that if this was the case, then Texas is really bad. You can go ahead and say "Oh well he plays Meta Knight like Florida has never seen before!", but lets face it, that's not the least bit true. We had M2k down here for an entire week, and those of us in SFL played him at TWO tournaments, not just at FAST1. Not everyone got 3 stocked. In fact, our more notable players (Leh, Seibrik) didn't. Under no circumstances are you going to tell me that whoever this kid is that's beating Hylian (pfft) is better than M2k. Learn to fight a character.
The Brawl community really needs to start to come to a fast realization, and I really mean FAST. This goes out to all of you, not just the cry babies like OP and Dock
You really only have about 2 options at this point on Brawl. These are your options:
1) You ban characters. But you can't just ban Meta Knight. You ban Meta Knight and Dedede will be so ungodly over powered, but the chain continues! If you ban Dedede too, then Snake is ungodly OP and you have to ban him too, and before you know it, all the top tiers are gone and everyones playing Falco.
2) You realize that this game is terrible, ESPECIALLY competitively, and you take everything with a grain of salt and just play the game it's meant to be played. All characters, tripping, everything.
Of you don't like Meta Knight and think he should be banned, then I highly suggest that you think twice about surrounding yourself by competitive Brawl. Tier whoring is the way it is. The game is just like 3S. Just like when you go to a smash tournament there's no way you WON'T see Meta Knight/Dedede/Snake, it's like in 3S, there's no way you won't see Chun/Yun/Ken(?). When characters are so substantially better than the rest of the cast, those who like characters other than the top 3, but still want to play competitive, have a decision to make:
1) Play the character you want and, unless you're Azen, get your *** handed to you.
2) Give in and play a top tier character.
I wish it wasn't, and you can try to argue is isn't (which won't matter because I'll never see any replied anyways) so bread and butter, but honestly, the quicker you all begin to see it and accept it, the smoother the Brawl competitive scene is going to go.
On the bright side, you could always just play a good fighting game that isn't Brawl. You DO have options!
