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Early on, yes she was. I wasn't exactly around at time, but in researching Melee's history Sheik got many more "lol ban nao" comments than MK ever did early in each game's respective metagames. Snake definately counters or has an advantaged matchup with MK, same with DK,. MK actually has counters IIRC Sheik didn't really have counters aside from people who thought went "Neutral" with her. While you may have a point in the lacks of truly iseful universal and helpful ATs helping the cause, it wouldn;t stop the process compeltely, it would only slow it down. And once again, we cannot say MK is dominating everything at all, the only way you could say this is in theory, because experimental evidence proves otherwise.nope, peach is not even debatable, she's not even close to any of the worst characters, she's miles above them, and ike just isn't a good character, but anyways.
On to the metaknight ban, i don't know, yeah shiek was good in melee blah blah blah, but she wasn't broken, but you had AT's to help u out against her, most of the cast actually DID stand a chance, but there were a select few who were just aweful, like bowser and pichu. however in brawl, in my experience with MK, he has a bigger advantage over the rest of the cast than shiek ever had in melee, she was good, but even at her prime, marths, foxes, falcos, dr mario, and even samus did well against her, and thats with a much smaller cast of characters, but in Brawl there are really only a very very few characters that counter MK and even if they did counter him you still have to be a much better player than the MK player, because of the physics of the game i don't think MK is gonna go down anytime soon. but i wouldn't say ban MK just cuz he's a good character and has way too many followers, let the game settle a bit, develop the metagame and see where it goes, and in 2 years if he's still just dominating everything then maybe a ban then lol.
S Rank
1 Snake (58 top8, 52 top4, 2 top2, 35 wins, 630 pts)
2 Meta Knight (59 top8, 66 top4, 3 top2, 18 wins, 524 pts)
That was Ankoku's S ranking for them pre Summer 08. Now Granted MK placed slightly more consistently than Snake, but notice how Snake was one win short of Doubling MK's total wins, and also note on that very same list, that Wario had more wins than MK as well with some other characters coming close as well.
While he may limit the field heavily, he certainly isn;t dominating in tournaments as of now >_>
Once again, lets let this discussing of MK's ban-worthiness end after this.