Thread:Byll/@comment-26428407-20150523192854/@comment-26428407-20150523204427

There's the new list, but I'll tell you how it was determined from my POV.

First, I made a list, admittedly it wasn't very good. I did this testing by playing every character against Mario and measuring damage potential and range. I was influenced by the post of "characters with multiple jumps and projectiles" have the advantage, hence, most projectile users were at the top. This was the original.

http://imgur.com/fkK8okm

I posted this on the #supersmashflash IRC Chat, and I had suggestions from Chaos0 and Kylos of moving Knuckles and Blue up. Ermac then contacted me and we proposed to form a new tier list using our combined knowledge of the game.

The first thing we did was deal with #1 and #2, Lloyd and Tails. We agreed that Lloyd was better after we realised that Tempest was broken. Tails came next due to having the most favourable properties, with projectiles and multijumps.

After this, we narrowed characters down by game series, and then companies. We organised it and decided on placements and published an ordered list. The process started with a list like Luigi, Mario, Zelda, Sheik, Young Link, Link, Mewtwo, Purin, Pikachu, before evolving into the current list. All placements were agreed upon, and we removed Lloyd and Tails in order to review any potential contenders for the top 2 spots.

Blade was the only undisputed placement, as he is the weakest character in the game.

After we got a fixed, ordered list, we then tiered them, originally it was Top, High, Subhigh, Mid, Low, and Bottom, however, I changed this to the standard S, A, B, C, D, E format we see on other tier lists.

As there are no SSF tournaments, we couldn't base this on tournament results, so we based it mostly on potential and how well they potentially would do in a tournament. I'm not a Back Room member, nor do I claim to be an expert on SSF, however, I believe this tier list is an accurate representation of SSF's convoluted meta.

SSF's stage list was fairly easy. We had a few already legal stages, Battlefield, Final Destination, Pokemon Stadium and Dream Land. I added Hyrule Temple because I thought it would make for an interesting counterpick.

The stage list:

Starter:

-Battlefield

-Final Destination

Counterpick:

-Hyrule Temple

-Dream Land

-Pokemon Stadium

A potential match setting would be 5-stock, 7-minutes due to how short the games are.

I apologise for the essay, I just believe SSF has lots of things that we need to look at.