*comes out of hiding for Brawl thread*
I'm glad the poll shows that SW has a lot more common sense than these threads usually suggest. :)
Another extremely controversial thing that Brawl has is their character roster. It is extremely unbalanced. Meta Knight currently rules this tier list with an iron fist and has no bad match ups against any other character. Falling closely behind is Snake. These two characters pretty much dominate the tournament scene. If I recall corectly, Genesis (Probably the largest Brawl tourney held this year) had results that looked something like Snake, Meta Knight, Meta Knight, Meta Knight, Meta Knight as their top 5, in that order.commonercoffee
Personally, I don't believe this whatsoever (the unbalanced part, not the tourney results, which I completely believe), and I blame the tournament players for the oversaturation. They saw Meta Knight, squealed with glee over his speed and priority, and flocked to him in droves, evolving his metagame way past every other character in the process. After that, why would you take a chance on any other character when you have this already-developed character right there?
I believe Meta Knight is on his way down to Earth in the tier list. Other characters are catching up, and more and more even and potentially positive matchups against MK will be found. One thing Brawl has going for it with regards to character balance is that the mid-tier and lower tiers can compete with the top tiersfar more than in Melee. That, and the game is still evolving. In my opinion, Toon Link will eventually take over the top tier, Snake will plummet, and ROB is awesome. (Wait, that's a fact. :P)
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