LOL @ people saying that Sonic's Homing Attack doesn't suck.
That attack is just plain garbage. It has large start-up, and when he does eventually zoom towards you, that's basically a free attack for the other person, and against characters with good USmashes like Zelda this is especially bad.
Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmr_uI4Ndg
Aside from the instance when I used 3 Homing Attacks as a taunt, this is how Homing Attack should be used. It isn't a bad attack by any means. You just have to know what you're doing and have full control of your movements before you start it.
What I mean by "full control of your movements" is that you should be able to start HA at any time YOU want and know EXACTLY when the attack gets launched. An example of not doing this is spamming B to break out & retaliate against MK's Mach Tornado. You won't have control over exactly when HA will get launched and you will most likely get punished for it.
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I have to say that I agree with just about everything on this list, Pierce. Some of that even made me rethink my character choices.
The only beef that I have with your list is your summary of PT.
The first thing would be Ivysaur.
Ivysaur is definitely
MY best of
MY 3 Pokemon and I've studied and used her extensively, so please believe me when I say that I know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to Ivysaur.
I couldn't see Ivysaur being anything less than Mid-Tier individually. Why would she even be bottom tier?
It can't be just her recovery. I mean Olimar has a FAR worse recovery than Ivysaur and look where he is. Not only does she have the longest diagonal range of any tether recovery, she has Razor Leaf which is better than a purple Pikmin since it's always available and semi-homes in on the other character. Let's not forget the very minor detail that she can somewhat slow her decent using D-Air.
Her aerials are either devastating (Up-Air & F-Air) or have ridiculous range. (B-Air & D-Air) N-Air just racks up damage and sets up.....everything. (Including itself)
Her ground game is just as solid. F-Smash, D-Smash, F-Tilt, D-Tilt, and Jabs have great range and priority. Bullet Seed OoS is just hell on Earth for anyone that gets too close. (The first hit of Bullet Seed is in the same class as Snake's F-Tilt in terms of a disjointed hitbox)
As for Up-Smash....well....what's there to say? It's a faster, stronger version of Lucas' Up-Smash. High risk, high reward.
Razor Leaf is just in a class of it's own as a projectile. It clashes with things such as Toon Link & Pit's arrows, but it slices through projectile stoppers like the pillars of Luigi's Mansion. Waddle Dees, and Pikmin. It's also very spammable and has a very large hitbox for a projectile. (Which makes it a Nade-happy Snake's nightmare)
I REALLY don't see why she'd ever be considered low-tier.
Honestly I've been wondering this for a while now so I'll post this on the PT boards too.
The only other problem I have is how you make it sound like each Pokemon is a stock.
Unless you're on FD, it's VERY easy to Zero Switch Pokemon and only take 10% to 15% in the process. On stages like SV, Delfino, Japes, & RC, if I really wanted to use Ivysaur for every stock, I could very easily do it using Baton Passing and take absolutely no more than 20% in the process.
PT could easily pass Sonic on the tier list. (This is coming from a Sonic/PT main) Hell, he could even pass Wolf. While it's true that a lot of people just don't know the PT match-up, even fewer people know the character as a whole which is why he's so underrated in the first place.
.....wow I can rant about PT huh?
With all that aside, I love how you presented this, Pierce. More people should use this kind of format instead of just posting a tier list with no explanation and expect us to talk about it.