Oh, for all of you that are wondering why Link is considered so bad, it's really ONLY because his recovery (and aerial game, but mostly just recovery) is so BAD. Uair and Dair aren't good enough approaches, just punishers, and high risk, high reward moves, that are completely irrelevant vs. good people. His projectiles are too slow to use campy. He actually has good speed for his power, but no good approaches. He has decent defense . . . until you hit him once.
In a nutshell, as Marth, I can 0 to death combo link almost every time, and there's nothing he can do about it. That's not even always true for C. Falcon.
Also, the low tier in this game is pretty good (when you don't compare to the top tier). Good players can beat other good players with low tier characters if their opponents are using anyone not in the top 10. Even a SMART C. Falcon can do well (my friend has master mix-up his bad approaches to make them decent, lol) and Brawl defense in general is just too good. CF's jab combo still hits for really good damage.
And for the person above me . . . get out more, lol. My little sister's Zelda is ****, and ROFL at what you think she has going for her. Her Ftilt rivals that of Snake, and of course, Zelda has the ability to switch out of a **** match-up with DownB. All of her tilts are really good actually, and when you combine that with really good Smashes, she has a nice moveset (get at that frame 5 dash attack). Her Nair is the balance she needs for her aerial moveset, since the rest of her moves are hard to land. Her truest weakness is actually her fail recovery, and her floatiness, although she's a very ground based character.
Ike is decent, you need to see Ike at highest level play. My crew member Ryko's Ike is just too nasty for me to describe, but I'm confident you'll fight a **** Ike one day.
Peach is decent, but she's also still mid. Mid tier does not equal bad. My brother's Pit is ****. My crewmate's Wolf is very good. Wolf has a nice, spammable blaster, with an awesome ground game, which his fastfalling supports. His aerials are also decent.
As the backroom put it, T.L. looks good on paper, but he's not top tier material.