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Marth or Ike

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Smash Apprentice
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who do u think is gonna be the better character, Ike seems to be a pretty decent character with his hard hits and he isnt as slow as everyone said he was, but marth may have a few nerfs but still seems to be a solid character. Who do u think will end up better?
 

Black Waltz

Smash Champion
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ike has already proven himself as pretty much garbage tier: crappy recovery, slow moves, slow movement. but thats not stopping me from playing him. theres no question that marth will be better than ike.
 

SiShenDao

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Dec 31, 2007
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101
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Michigan
In terms of...
killing power - ike
speed - marth
range - ike
aerials - marth
lag time - marth
recovery - marth
final smash - marth

Overall - marth is better
 

draigaran

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Nov 18, 2007
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Generally faster players have the advantage. But the difference between the characters really depends on who's playing them. We all know Gimpyfish rocks at using Bowser :b. However, I can't imagine Ike being high tier whereas I can easily see Marth being high tier. (I know Brawl has been out for two days. Yes this is just speculation. Yes I'm just excited about getting Brawl, so I think about these things.)
 

/~Dogma~\

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ive main marth for 4 yrs but i really like ike i will only main both of em ill prolly be good with both but i got to have to game to decide

but whos better
with marths nerfs and buffs (atk speed) and a little moveset variation his metagame will be pretty diff but it will resemble melees a little but i think ike wins ground game but not by much and of course marth wins air game
but im thrilled with having a heavy swordsmen and fast swordsmen i couldnt have it better
 

InfiniDragon615

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Not this already, I expected it but this is rather fast. I like them both, and as such will use them both, but as for who is better, time will tell.

EDIT: The one thing I will say is I think both characters will be pretty high up there from what I've seen of them. FE = hacked I guess. :laugh:
 

/~Dogma~\

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lol FE swordsmen are the best of em all

FE swordsmen for top t..GOD TIER XD
 

MonsterCC

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Dec 24, 2007
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I liked having both Marth and Roy in Melee, so having my main Marth back is cool, but now we get a proper slower swordsman character with his own moves.
So yeah they both rock.
 

AlphaDragoon2002

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I think it's WAY too early to tell who's better. If I had to make a guess it'd be Marth (because he was really good in Melee), but again we don't know.

I plan to use Ike myself, and continue to polish my sucky Marth skills using him as a secondary. FE characters are too cool.
 

reothepenguin

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Ike, no question. Although, a fight between the two will be interesting. I might be wrong but Ike has proven to be faster than once thought. I say give him a shot. Who knows, the heavy hitter may surprise you.
 

Rakath

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Oct 20, 2007
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A lot of the big Ike issues that were hit on from E4A on have seemed to have vanished... Marth still seems a little better to me, but it's a new game... we can't tell tiers yet even bewteen two characters.
 

/~Dogma~\

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ive watched a ton of ike vidz and just a few moves combined with his insane AAA can change a match but on the other hand marth is always on ur a**
 

Sosuke

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Idk man. Honestly, it's like Ike looks awesome and stuff but I already main Marth in Melee. But hey, if I can ajust better to Ike in Brawl, Ike. Just whoever I'm better with. But I'll use both of them for sure.
 

Devotion

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I'll probably just main Marth again (unless I like Pit a lot) but have Ike as a secondary. Can't see not playing Ike no matter how bad he is, I like his character a lot.
 
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