atticusfinch7
Smash Apprentice
It sounds offensive but I'm sure you will agree with me. In japan all the tournaments are free so it makes people use whoever they like instead of the top tiers. As such all the characters get representation and their meta is not dominated by 8 or so characters, and the bad characters have good players. Here in u.s using a low tier makes you more likely to lose ur $ so people don't get the many tournaments of practice for their low tier mains like the japanese do. Because of sakurai looking at japanese results logically more than U.S he doesn't see how inbalanced it is, so we don't get sheik nerfs or samus/doc/ganon buffs or mario usmash nerf or cloud nerf.