I said Squirtle outright sucked there, and Charizard has a better chance than you think. Meta Knight is a hit and run, style character. He beats Squirtle at this, and Ivysaur has problems. Charizard is the good option, again. However, Charizard, while he will take a beating, will not be outright killed the way he would be against Marth, or, for that matter, outright killed at all. Meta Knight can't gimp Charizard very well for two reasons:
1: Glide
2: super armor (takes damage, but doesn't flinch)
The super armor affects all match-ups, but his super armor techniques are too punishable.
As for glide, metaknight owns the air. Marth beats Charizard's airgame, and we wouldn't dair trying to compete in the air. It'll help you recover horizontally, but, against MK, I don't think being able to glide will stop his edge guarding game.
Also, Charizard has something Meta Knight doesn't do well in: range. Charizard outrages Meta Knight most of the time, as Meta's sword is a lot smaller than your's.
You'd think that...
But as I said before, Marth doesn't even outrange MK, the opposite is true.
Granted, it's only the dtilt, but perfect spaced dtilts alone are more then enough to attack safely. Charizard has the same issue, mk outranges him, so he can't be on the offense. He has to camp because flamethrower and f-smash are too punishable, and MK outranges everything else on the ground.
Also, when the numbers are close (in this case, Charizard's and Marth's are), we just estimate them to be 50-50, which is kinda close.
I prefer to round up in general because, tiny or not, it's still an advantage. About 52/48, I guess would be the fairest.
I just think it more accurately describes the match-up, because even a tiny advantage is still an advantage.
But it is your board, you guys decide if you want to round up or down on this.
I see and appreciate that, but we can't run on what one person says and a bunch of people parrot; that's just as bad.
Well, it wasn't one person with other people parroting.
I checked them as well, before EL even came to the thread, I was checking in practice mode.
In general, don't take people's words for things like this. Check for yourself, it makes things more accurate.
Uh, green without a plus in it means that the numbers are close, but lean in the Pokemon's favor by a factor of around 10 or so. Charizard has a couple of strengths against meta Knight, like range, power, and weight, not things Meta Knight likes that much. The numbers, while not as close as Charizard to Marth, are close. Green is like you can come into the pit with an advantage or two, but don't expect victory (total means you don't have to give a **** as much). If you like, you can help us by helping recruiting other boards, as they will likely have a better input than us alone. Also, the Meta Knights could be cocky...
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I'm very sorry, but MK outranges Charizard AND Marth.
It's completely ridiculous, but true.
I should pick up my charizard again and run the match-up versus some of my mk main friends.
Though, overall, it pains me to see what they did to my second favorite first-gen pokemon (charizard).