If Snake or Metaknight is one of your mains then I don't care. What drives me nuts is how everyone and their grandma uses Metaknight as a counterpick when they have their back against the wall. Snake is beatable and has like 6 characters that counter him while Metaknight has one... Snake. That's the main thing that bugs the crap out of me with MK.
Seriously, don't ban any characters. As much as I think Metaknight is Smash Bros on training wheels, we all will have to get used to him because he's so freakishly overused both on and offline. We're just going to have to buck up and learn how to beat him despite it being an uphill battle for 36/39 of the game's characters... (The three characters being Snake, Mr. Game and Watch, and... himself
)
I'm not hating on Metaknight but I am really off put by losing to IK3NI for several reasons:
1. When I PM'd him, he didn't know what a counterpick was.
2. He then basically told me that no matter what stage I chose as my counterpick, I was going to lose so he just picked mine.
3. His sig brags about his undefeated record this month and says you can challenge him simply to increase it.
I can't stand arrogance and this is simply ampliyfed by the fact that he plays the best character in the game... *grumble grumble grumble*
Again, I think Snake is a tad overrated. Dangerous but reasonably beatable.