DSF(Snake) vs Deva(Link) MM 1 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaik3Efwdxw
DSF(MK) vs Deva(Link) MM2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMen9KvflM
You have to understand those vids of DSF loosing to Deva.....they reflect matchups not tier list placements.
Just because A bad character Like Link can go head to head with Snake..... it means its practically an even matchup at high levels of play.
If tier lists were soley a result of overall matchups, those vids would definatly help link. However, teir lists also take into consideration tourney results which justifies much of this teir list...
I can't beat Taj's Mewtwo in Melee, does that mean that he should be placed higher? No. Just because of one person's ability to play a character does not out-weigh the absolute crud that character actually is. If Link was making tournament results or showed through some other means that he was actually good, then he might have a case. But just a handful of people doing well with him doesn't go against lots of people doing well with a character.
Seriously though that arguement only works because the player playing the "Low teir" character is much better than the person playing the "High teir" Character.
This is Deva and DSF...Not some noob vs some good person.
SIGH I SAID A LOT okay i caught my breath.
I'm fine with the teir list....
I strongly believe Link will be one of those players whose metagame will be one of the last to fully develop due to the low amount of players that play him and having what can be considered the most amount of AT's given to a character in this game. I'll just list a few...
Zair with Bomb
DAC (Every character has this)
ZAC (Every character can do this but only helps those who can use b moves like items such as peach or T Link)
Bombsmashing
Arrow canceling
Reverse arrow canceling
Bombesliding.
Craq walk (Everybody has this but Link actually has one of the best in the game)
Now if you can combine some of those AT's you can even come up with more AT's such as....
DAC with a bomb in hand (after you drop it from the air)
RAR into a reverse arrow cancel
AND SO MUCH MORE.
Yes some of those are useless but others are very important and worth using. A good player must determine what is good and worth using and what is worthless.
Unless your a great player Like Deva.....Your going to find it near hell impossible to integrate most of those into Links game properly without a lot of practice. And trust me.....they are practicing.
Thats' why I feel characters with vast amount of AT's like TL and Link and Peach and Snake and so forth will go up because their metagame will be one of the last to finish as it progresses slower than the other such as marth (a very good character but doesn't have many AT's and his meta game is close to finished if not finished already)
Snake might also go down though considering we had that Snake craze and know just about every aspect of snake.
that is not true with low tier characters as they are played much less.
This teir list means
NOTHING as a new and more accurate tier list will come out at a later time.
Keep in mind this is the SRB first attempt at it so don't have a heart attack.
Seriously though Link>Ganondorf......keep in mind I am biased when I say that as i just don't want Hyrule to burn.......