Are you sure this is right? This disagrees with Bowserboy3's list, for the Pits at least.
You are correct. Either someone edited their vote and added an upvote for the Pits without saying that they did so, or I simply missed a vote (seems pretty unlikely, but it could happen, I suppose). I'll edit my post.
I think you are doing a great job Frihetsanka, but I think naming the tiers atm does more harm than good. People are too fixated on the tier names. People ignore which characters are being in the same tier. Like I don't vote Link to be High-Mid, but I'm voting him to be in the same tier with the likes of Ike and Luigi. This is also the reason why I am against voting Palutena higher 'cause I have really hard time seeing her better than Kirby and Mii Gunner. Once I see them moving to same tier as Wario and Samus then I can see Palutena also joining the upper tier.
The names are
unofficial, so people may ignore them if they wish. I think they do more good than harm, and I think, given the current characters, the tier names are mostly accurate (once more characters have moved up to tier 2, ie what I consider Upper High tier, of course). I think with 8 tiers those tier names I've suggested are fairly logical, and most characters fit those tier names (in my opinion), but you are free to disagree, of course. Bowserboy3 has expressed a desire to not spend too much time discussing tier names right now, so I will respect his wish and try to avoid a discussion.
Do note that quite a few people wanted to keep Ike in tier 5, so perhaps it's not Link that is too low but Ike that is too high? Perhaps you should downvote Ike? Or upvote Kirby? Though I think Palutena is better than Kirby, both based on MU charts and results. As for Ike/Link, I don't think the case for Link being High-mid is that bad anyway, seeing how he's starting to get quite a bit of results in Japan.
As for Mii Gunner, well, that character is underrated by the Smashboards. It wouldn't surprise me if Mii Gunner ended up in tier 7, or even tier 8, even though the character deserves better.
One of my main reasons for giving the suggested names is to avoid having people counter-vote based on different perception of what tiers are. For instance, if person X thinks that tier 2 is Lower Top tier, then they might counter-vote any upvote for Meta Knight or Mega Man. If person Y thinks that tier 2 is Upper High tier, then they might upvote Meta Knight and/or Mega Man. If both agree that tier 2 is, say, Upper High tier, then such counter-voting would only exist if they actually had difference in belief regarding which tier Mega Man and Meta Knight should be in. Thus, people having similar ideas of which tier is which helps reduce
unnecessary counter-voting, and keeps counter-voting more relevant. Of course, since these are merely my
suggestions, I run the risk of convincing some people to view the tier that way while some people view it differently. I was worried that would happen when we created a tier above the old tier 1, that we would see a bunch of downvotes for Mario, Fox, Cloud, etc, since people might perceive those as "Lower Top tier" rather than "Upper Top tier", in case they view tier 1 as Upper Top tier and tier 2 as Lower Top tier. However, this doesn't seem to be the case, and most people seem to have accepted tier 1 as Top tier and tier 2 as Upper High tier. The lower tiers seem a bit more controversial, for some reason, but right now we're mostly seeing it in a few characters (such as Pac-Man and Palutena). I suppose that's not too bad, since both are borderline cases.
In the end, even if we do agree on names, we might disagree what the names entail. For instance, some people might believe that high tier ends around top #15 or #16, while others might believe it ends around #23 or #24. They might have similar views on how good the #23 character is, but some might call it "Lower High tier" and others "High-Mid tier". Same with lower tier characters, some may call the bottom 10 character a "Low tier character", while someone else might call them a "Low-Mid character", yet their beliefs in how good the character actually is might not be all that different. Personally, I would say that we, right now, have about 10 Top tier characters, 13-15 High tier characters, 7-12 High-Mid characters, 5-10 regular Mid tier characters, 5-10 Low-Mid characters, 2-7 Low tier characters, and 2-4 bottom tier characters. Others might argue that we should have maybe 5-7 High tier characters and a lot more High-Mid characters, and they wouldn't necessarily be wrong. Some might like to engulf some of the characters I consider Low-Mid in Low tier, yet this might be because they consider "Low tier" to not be as bad as I consider "Low tier" to be. And that's fine. In the end, what's most important is where characters stand in relation to others, I'd argue. Top 20 will always be pretty good, regardless of whether you call it Lower High tier or High-Mid tier. Later on we're going to order characters within tiers, and then we can put, say, Palutena at the bottom of tier 5, or at the top of tier 6 (assuming that's what people vote for).
tl;dr: Tier names are
unofficial, but might still serve as a help for some people (including me). In the end, even tier names like "Lower High tier" and "High-Mid tier" are not that well-defined, so it might be a good idea to look at where characters stand in relation to others. This won't become clear until the later rounds, however, since that's when we'll order characters within tiers. Until then, I think a lot of people will have more use of thinking of character X in, say, Low-Mid tier, rather than "tier number Y", which can get confusing.
+1 ---- Why is DK low 4th tier? He may be combo food and have one of the largest hurtboxes, but he's also the scariest character with rage next to Lucario. He's decently fast and obviously very powerful. He has very good His Ding-Dong is one of the most dangerous combos in the game, and he has a variety of ways to get a grab. He possesses many disjoints in his Up and Down Tilt. His Grounded Up-Special has super armor, making it an incredibly good kill move. His arms are intangible too! His drawbacks are mostly lack of a decent vertical recovery and deplorable ledge options, but his amazing strengths overshadows said weaknesses. He is also has a better than many of the characters in the 4th tier, and even a few of 3rd tiers.
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