Kirby is a bad character. His cons are worse than his pro's. He is very short ranged, very slow, has lag on all kill moves, he has terrible match ups with top tiers, he is 2nd to easiest to KO. His pro's would be 5 jumps, good dash attack, and good grab game. His pro's aren't good enough to make him a good character or even a decent character. So I want to know why he is a middle tier and not a low tier.
You probably have never played a good Kirby player. /generic answer to generic pros-vs-cons argument.
Hell, I believe he should be
higher.
I don't know what to do to show you Kirby isn't a low tier character. Videos are pretty
meh for persuading, his tourney results pretty much give him that place in the tier list presently...
Well, let me correct you on some things at least:
*He is not 2nd easiest to KO, nor the 3rd, nor easy to KO at all as a matter of fact. He's about 5th lightest, but lightest =/= easiest to KO.
*His dash attack isn't 'good', it's okay. People can shieldgrab it easy.
*He is not very short-ranged. He's got disjoints in a lot of his moves, and his grab is deceptive.
*He isn't slow. His movement in comparison to the rest of the cast is "average". His moves are fast though, and he can string hits together. Some of his strings are inescapable due to the speed of his attacks, too.
*His MUs with the top tiers aren't terrible. Terrible would be to have -3's here and there and the rest -2's. He has -2's here and there and a couple of -1's. He's held back by MK. I should know, I use him competitively.
*As far as kill moves, I don't think he has lag on bair and uthrow, two staple kill moves of his. Fsmash doesn't have THAT much lag, dsmash neither. And he's still a gimping monster.