So your telling me that Ike has a harder time finishing off characters than Zelda? Then no wonder at his position on the tier list.Because a guaranteed killshot at 110 in brawl is not common, and considering with DI people are fully capable of living at 150+, a power character having a 100% way to kill at 110 is not bad at all. Secondly, I say dair is easy to land because dair is easy as hell to land.
And subsequently get hogged, smashed, whatever. Having the distance means nothing if you're going to die regardless of how far you went. Fine, if I get hit with one of 3 down smashes I'm not making it back, those rarely if ever hit me to begin with and send me off the stage. If they do, I accept my stock loss and keep going. If you get clipped out of fw at all, let alone get scouted, you're good as dead.
There's ONE character in the game that outright takes ike out if he's offstage, and he has wings.
Your over-generalizing Zelda's recovery....she's not Link. Her double jump is more than adequate as is and she also has a few tricks like love jumping.......................Ike in no way has a better recovery than Zelda.