About the tiers, I too wished it was more balanced, but such a prospect is impossible. For example, ICs used to be bad, but when desynching came along, they rose up. Also, even though Fox kicks butt, not as many people would play as him if he were not fun to use. In fact, I am started to get sucked into high tiers, I need to not forget my lower tier characters. Already learned the waveshine [not consistent], and the shorthop blaster [could use more aim].
Also, double missle is a very difficult trick, in comparison to others? There's still hope for me yet.
I worked so hard on that trick, and I still occasionally miss it [and now more so that I practiced too much with Fox]
You're 15? A lot smarter than most 15 year old Ive met. Hell when I was 15 I didnt even play melee
Well it really sucks that you have to live in scrubtown, but you have a GREAT mindset, the perfect one to improve your game.
I think the online experience will benefit you more than most.
That's why I am crazy for Brawl. I cannot travel, I cannot go to a random person's house, and there are few tournaments in Miami, Florida. Actually, I don't want to go to tournaments, but smashfests, as I have no income whatsoever.
I have this one friend, not so much of a scrub, but a supernoob. He says some crazy things. At one point, he said I was boring him because I am too "indecisive" with my characters. [I played Mario, Samus, Link, Fox. That was before I picked up Pikachu].
Another weird thing, when I first picked up Samus, I stunk BADLY, my missles would get caped to my face, and I was 3 stocked. Then a few weeks later, I was owning him, and he noticed no improvement. I was double missling him, but he said my Double missle was useless because I did not aim, and only some of the missles hit [you can't aim a double missle, and duh most of the missles are gonna miss]. Also, I would jump over caped missles as well.
Also, he assumes that since I can't use dashdancing well, dashdancing is a useless move that won't help at all. He thinks the shorthop blaster is useless, even though I told him its not to beat him up, but to force an approach. He said he could just cape it, or shieldroll.