Official Tier List

[Falcon0408]

Topic
Note: This is the v1.0 tier list.

Top
Meta Knight
Snake
King Dedede
Mr. Game & Watch
Falco
R.O.B.

High
Marth
Wario
Lucario
Donkey Kong
Diddy
Pikachu
Ice Climbers
Kirby
Pit
Wolf

Middle
Toon Link
Olimar
Fox
Zelda
Zero Suit Samus
Bowser
Luigi
Peach
Ike
Shiek

Low
Lucas
Ness
Mario
Pokémon Trainer
Samus
Yoshi
Sonic
Jigglypuff
Ganondorf
Link
Captain Falcon

Originally Posted by Smashboards

1. Tier placement doesn't necessarily reflect your ability to beat your friends with a specific character. You might beat your friend's Metaknight with Sonic, but that doesn't mean Sonic is top tier. It means you win that matchup against your friend. Tiers are not absolute measurements of match outcomes.

2. Instead of measuring match outcomes, tiers are more a measurement of potential of characters against the rest of the cast in a competitive, 1v1 tournament environment. It shows general strength of a character's abilities in a specific tournament environment. So yes, maybe Yoshi is a beast in teams or Ganon is REALLY good with items turned on... but this list measures somethingd different than those things.

3. This list is based on a combination of tournament result data, extensive discussions with top players and tournament hosts and looking at general trends in play in the current competitive metagame. It took a lot of work on the part of some of the best minds in Smash to compile this list.

4. This list might change with time. It is based on how we perceive the game to be and play it competitively NOW. However, if a replacement for l-canceling is discovered or new tactics cause the game to evolve over time, this list could change. So if you main a character that isn't near the top, keep playing and evolving their game. You might be the one, like Chu Dat's Ice Climbers back in Melee, that cause people's opinions to change.

5. That said, don't give up hope! Just because your character isn't ranked at or near the top, doesn't mean you can't do fantastic things with them with enough talent and effort. We do not publish this list to encourage players to change their main tournament character. If anything, it should serve as a challenge to take the game to the next level.

6. In Smash, any character can win in any matchup if you are smarter and better than your opponents by a wide enough margin. So keep playing to win and work hard to be the best player you can be, regardless of which character you use.

My thoughts: After Snake and Meta it's pretty much all wrong (until Captain Falcon), tournament results have influenced it way too much.

[Woods]

lol at Lucas!

[PowaStar]

DANG! I was about to post this you beat me to it also you should've posted the six things that SBR had at the beginning of their post.

[Coolza]

Gah! Beat me to it.
Tink is Mid-Top? D:

[johnmcgerber]

humph pkmn trainer low tier.cant wait til the Hbcs read this lol

[PowaStar]

Yeah Tink is Mid I didn't expect D3 to be top tier thought he would've been high tier.

[Falcon0408]

Originally Posted by PowaStar

DANG! I was about to post this you beat me to it also you should've posted the six things that SBR had at the beginning of their post.

Whoops.

[PowaStar]

Thank you for putting that up because I didn't want to see some scrub say: " I beat my friends Metaknight all the time with Lucas so should'nt Lucas be top tier too?" and make a fool of him/her self.

[AGU003]

hows captian falcon the worst hes not that bad

[PowaStar]

Originally Posted by Rahi123

hows captian falcon the worst hes not that bad

Well if you dont want people to think hes that bad do tournaments with him so you can prove them wrong thats how snake became top tier people use to think he wasn't that great but look at him now!

Also Falcon you should let people know that characters placed in tiers are in order from 1st (MK) to 35th (C.F)

Also this should be stickied so it won't sink into oblivion.