There not underrated lol.
Anyway, Ksizzle, if it counts for anything, I personally think you are better then lee with lucario. Just off of my experience with both players by playing them and watching them, you make better choices overall.
@Omni: Your right, your region has not moved from a year ago. The issue is not the characters however, it is the drive to play the game to increase their skill. NJ overall is sinking down the same boat slowly. We are losing players overall, and some of is just don't care as much anymore. I don't blame the repetitiveness of the characters, rather, I blame the lack of energy to thrive to be better then another person. As NJ players, we have little determination to prove anything since for a decent amount of time we proved that we are one of the most fierce places to be. NY falls into the same category. I hate my own state for that, but it's hard to try and motivate people who have lost all motivation to try and dominate others. Because of this, we lack competitiveness, and substitute it with mediocre excuses saying why we are doing bad OTHER then the fact that we are putting in less work and trying to get the same result. I fall under this, since I use to place decently high in every tournament I went to until around the 3/4th mark of 09'. From that point I have been placing nearly last. I have not put effort into improving dramatically until recently when I switched mains for the most part.
Everyone: I bring this up because watching my own state, and my neighboring states, from the outside saddens me. I **** talk this game all the time, but the one thing I never really complained about is how much competition it use to bring between people. For me, that is what makes a game fun. I know some people who don't go to tournaments anymore because of just the payouts being low. If your convince more people to go, the payout will be larger. I have been playing games competitively since I was like 12, from halo (Anyone can MM me =]) to even Tetris. I have attended every tournament possible, from MLGs dating back to the beginning of H2 to Evo's. For a game that we are trying to make competitive, but lacks the emotion from people that are needed to make it competitive, is not a competitive game.
It's motivation overall. Laziness takes over and just makes us weaker in general. I think its time for all of us to just get up and start playing again.
Sorry for the mini wall of text. I just thought it had to be said.