the beaty of brawl compared to melee is that now you can play with the chars you like in competitive ways.I HATED MELEE because of tourney variety.
I went to 4 mayor melee events and i saw 90 percent of Foxes,marths, falcons and sheiks(and them some peaches doing smash down all the time).I found later ,researching on the web, that it was also the case WORLDWIDE.It was pathetic.Why having over 20 chars in a game to use just 4 all the time?I won a smaller tourney tho myself NOT using either of those. And now my fav char has a shot at tourneys.And Diddy is not getting enough love while being a beast.Pretty good char, as well as Donkey.Diddy is often ranked higher than Ike,yet online you find a lot of ikes which lose constantly.So that trend will make ike less desirable rather quickly.Now people is chosing him cuz hes "cool" looking.But slow and pawnable as hell.