See the bolded and underlined currently
for now that is the tier list, because it is too early to make any assumptions based on metagame and other in depth stuff, so we base it on who is actually winning tournaments since that is straight fact
Then doesn't it make more sense to rank characters based on highest # of wins...as opposed to the most people who finish high? If we measured characters who actually WON tournements, this would rule out some of the inconsistancies.
The way the Character Rankings List is set up, a Snake can take 1st place, 2nd place and 5th place...and end up with 1 win, 1 top4 and 1 top8 from one tournement. But for Falco, there are usually only a handful (if that) in any given tournement. The most points he'll ever get out of a tournement is 1 win. And there isn't always a falco in every tournement. Falco doesn't stand a chance in a list that measures popularity
only.
Lets look at the tournement board in a slightly different way:
1. 1 Snake (53 top8, 49 top4,
33 wins, 338.5 pts)
2. 2 Meta Knight (55 top8, 63 top4,
16 wins, 296.5 pts)
3. 5 Wario (10 top8, 14 top4,
16 wins, 127 pts)
4. 3 King Dedede (23 top8, 32 top4,
15 wins, 182.5 pts)
5. 7 Mr. Game & Watch (32 top8, 21 top4,
8 wins, 119 pts) <6>
6. 8 Donkey Kong (12 top8, 15 top4,
7 wins, 86 pts)
7. 6 ROB (28 top8, 25 top4,
6 wins, 119 pts) <7>
8. 11
Falco (17 top8, 11 top4,
6 wins, 71.5 pts) <12>
9. 13 Lucario (7 top8, 10 top4,
6 wins, 63.5 pts)
10. 10 Pikachu (5 top8, 15 top4,
5 wins, 72.5 pts)
11. 12 Pit (10 top8, 13 top4,
5 wins, 69 pts) <11>
12. 4
Marth (35 top8, 34 top4,
4 wins, 139.5 pts)
13. 9
Wolf (18 top8, 17 top4,
3 wins, 75 pts)
14. 14
Fox (9 top8, 13 top4,
3 wins, 58.5 pts)
15. 16 Ike (13 top8, 9 top4,
3 wins, 48.5 pts)
16. 22 Zelda (6 top 8, 5 top4,
3 wins, 33 pts)
17. 23 Sonic (6 top8, 4 top4,
3 wins, 30 pts)
Notice where Fox, Wolf and Marth are on this list. Falco is doing very well even though he has far less tournement representation than all three of those characters. There is no debate that Marth sees more tournement than Falco. This alone should be grounds to suggest Falco is a very good character. With low representation, he still places high. If Falco had higher representation, he has the potential of being very high on the list.