You can check the Charizard tactical discussion if you're rusty. I made it as a response to asking a question, why do people think Charizard sucks? I can expand that further.. why do people think PT sucks? The answer, nobody knows him outside of the 10 regulars on this board. Name practically every weakness you have against Charizard, and it is likely to be false, which is why I made it. Also, sometimes the answer according to common sense is the one that is the wrong answer. Common sense dictates that, if Meta Knight is top tier, PT would be mincemeat, yet PT isn't a dead man, and we concluded that there is an advantage to Charizard. However, we do have to rethink how we do this entire process from scratch, as we aren't real good on knowing others outside PT and very few people know PT well. Maybe we should get a list of strengths and weaknesses for each character and compare and contrast, so if one character's strength is another's weakness, then Character 1 would be strong against Character 2 and so on. Maybe all of us are tackling this problem wrong, especially since the current method is prone to the gang-up "it is a shutout" that this look-up is saying. Aka, we gotta start ALL OVER AGAIN!
here is an example of my Idea
We are comparing Character A to Character B, the differences are Rock, Paper, and Scissors, like the game, each strength is first, and each weakness is second:
A
Strength: Paper
Weakness: Rock
B
Strength: Scissors
Weakness: Paper
In this case, A has the advantage, as he has more advantages over B, what's even more, since the ratio of A's strength to B's weakness is 1 to 1, it is a great advantage. If it was less than a 1 to 1 ratio, then the advantage is slight, if it was even (or very **** close), then it is a neutral match, and if it was the reverse of the two, it would be a disadvantage in the respective ways.
We don't have to redo PT's as we know him, but we would have to get a list of the opponent's strengths and Weaknesses to our own. This would mean we would have to go onto other boards to ask for a general consensus to their Character's strengths and weaknesses to our own to get a better result. However, the only disadvantage I see on this method is that Strategy isn't well applied here, but then again, we don't really use strategy that much when talking about strengths and weaknesses, just how to overcome them. This is only accepted if Steeler36 accepts this method.