I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and I wondered should I start using Meta Knight? As much as i despise him, if I really want to be good should I use him? All the Top Tiers always place well in tournaments. How often do you see a Falcon or Ganondorf win a tournament? Rarely. Now that I've started using Mr. Game and Watch, I've noticed that I do better against people I usually lost to.
Then I realized, if I put as much effort as I do in Zelda/Sheik into Meta Knight and Snake, imagine how good I could be. This perplexed me. Is this the right thing to do? Should I just drop Zelda/Sheik, one my favorite characters ever, just to win? Is this moral?
As of right now, I think I might join the Tier Wh***s and main all the Top Tiers (although I already use 3 of them). I'm not compltely sure yet. What do you guys think? I need some insight from my fellow Smashers. Please don't be biased. Thanks.
- TSM
Please explain How NL is so good then? He plays everyone, and has almost beaten M2K (not in a set, but at least one match, though to be fair, it looked like M2K wasn't playing very well that day) with Lucas. LUCAS!!
Yeah, you don't see many Falcons and Ganons winning tournies, but it's not for the reasons you think. There simply aren't very many good/great Ganons/Falcons out there. If there were, more would win tournies. Take a look at Zeonstar or Koskinator. Those two just **** **** with their Ganons, but guess what, that's only two people.
Also, lower tier characters tend to have certain disasterous matchups (Ganon vs Yoshi, for example), which can make it almost impossible to win with JUST that character, which is where secondaries come in.
As for Zelda/Shiek, there are a fair number of good Zelda/Shieks, though not enough to consider them a high tier character. On top of that, I believe they have some really bad matchups as well (though I don't know who. To venture a guess, I'd say MK, Pika, or ROB. Maybe Ike too for zelda? *Shrugs*). If you learn your character extremely well AND the matchups (the latter is probably even more important), then you should be able to pull off victories, especially since a lot of people won't know the Zelda/Shiek matchup.
For example, I play almost every character to a certain degree. I picked up Shiek against my friend's MK, and for about 3-4 days, he couldn't get a win off, because he had no idea how to approach the matchup. After that, he learned it, and I never got a win off with Shiek again (though I put up a good fight, and if I bothered to learn chain jacketing, I think I would win again easily.). However, in a tournament, an opponent only has three games to learn a matchup, and that is, quite frankly, not enough. If they don't know it and you do, they're srewed. If they do, then you can either outplay them, or try to switch to a more advantageous character (which may not necessarily be the higher tier character, depending on the matchup.).
How long ago did you pick up G&W? Do your friends know the matchup yet? Are they stubborn and refuse to switch to a character who deals with G&W better than their own for that specific matchup if said matchup is disasterous? Those are the things that will influence how much you win or not.
Suppose for exmaple that I played your G&W, I would pick Mario, who is low tier. Do you know the matchup? Do you know that FLUDD will not only stop your Bair approaches, but keep you frozen in place long enough for me to punish? Do you know about Mario's low % combo abilities? Are you likely to get fireball gimped due to not expecting it? Do you know how to deal with a ledge camping Mario?
Most likely your answers will be no, in which case, I would be most likely to win. If, however, you were to know the matchup, odds are you'd know how G&W gets around said things, then I would have to switch to another character to avoid losing over and over.
I feel you. My main is Mario, but I'm considering switching over to Kirby just because it's so much easier to win with him. I have a lot of fun playing as Mario, but I also have fun playing with Kirby AND I have a better chance to win with him.
Heh, I main Kirby and second Mario. Ironically, I used to main MK before I found out about this site.
Both characters have a good chance of winning, but you guys seem to be missing the entire point. You won't win based on how high on the tier list your character is, you'll win based on matchups and your knowledge of your character. Without those, you're going to rush to MK expecting to win, and guess what, you'll lose to a mediocre Yoshi because you didn't know he could CG you across FD and back to end it with a Uair/Usmash.
I hate tier whores with a burning passion. I don't understand them.
I do, but they tend to be wrong.
Anyway, that's a long enough wall of text for now. I think you get the point. Hopefully it'll help you become a better smasher.
. If you can pick up MK for a week, and go win a tourney, then you're either really good, or your region is terrible. Hes not a free win, just help against people you don't wanna fight with zelda.
