10char See:A ban on Meta Knight should be contingent on two questions and the answers to them:
1.) Does Meta Knight have any match-ups that are not advantageous to him?
2.) Can his non-advantageous match-ups reliably stand a chance against him?
Here are the answers, as far as I grok the current metagame...
1- Meta Knight has several effectively neutral match-ups (anywhere from 45:55 to 55:45). I believe that they are Yoshi and maybe Snake or Donkey Kong. (Unsure about the last two...pretty sure DK isn't and Snake is.)
2- Assuming that only Yoshi and Snake are in the equation, yes. Snake's attacks have the ludicrous phantom hitboxes, and his power is clearly enough to take out Meta Knight early.
Yoshi has the grab-release-upwards smash and the grab-release-spike chains that he can pull on Meta Knight. If the Yoshi is competent and grabs Meta Knight, it's game over for that stock.
If Meta Knight was at a clear advantage against everyone else, I'd say that he should be banned.
But he's not. Two characters may not be a lot, but it's something standing between him and complete domination.
Ussi:no and no
seriously, do any of you remember melee? and how fox did for so long? and sheik? and how they wanted to ban Chain grabbing? and that game was around for 7 years. This one has been around in the states since March, not even a year, and you want to ban a character because of matchups and tourney placings? you reeeeaaaaally need to reasess your standards in competative gaming
While MK has problems agianst the heavies, anyone telling you that DK is a soft counter is just wrong, he doesn't have the priority to beat MK ever. Snake does and Ike kinda does thats about it.