| rdfs:comment | - A Tier List is a rating of more than 2 items in most games, comparing who/what is the best. For example, the Super Smash Bros Brawl Tier List states Meta Knight as 1st place in that list. In the Need For Madness saga, however, the list is split into 2 categories; racing and wasting. Though some of the positions are under debate and critism, these are the most accepted car levels.
- All rankings are subject to change, especially when new monsters and quests are added.
- The tier list is a list that ranks all characters in order of their potential to win under tournament conditions, assuming equal skill on the part of each player, based on analysis of the current metagame. Tier lists are commonly made for competitive fighting games and high level play, as well as strategy games that involve a selection of usable characters.
- The Tier List is a classification system that describes the relative success rates of characters in fighting games, when played by computer or high-level players competitively. The Street Fighter series is no exception, and there are various tier lists for most games in the series.
- Among the Super Smash Bros. community, it is common for distinguished groups (such as the SmashBoards Back Room) to create Tier lists, rankings of a character's potential in tournaments. The SmashBoards tier list is generally seen as the "official" tier list, though many other groups have created their own. The lower the number on the tier list, the greater the potential for that character to do well in tournaments. The position/rank of a character in a tier list is decided by analyzing carefully many factors, such as:
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| abstract | - Among the Super Smash Bros. community, it is common for distinguished groups (such as the SmashBoards Back Room) to create Tier lists, rankings of a character's potential in tournaments. The SmashBoards tier list is generally seen as the "official" tier list, though many other groups have created their own. The lower the number on the tier list, the greater the potential for that character to do well in tournaments. The position/rank of a character in a tier list is decided by analyzing carefully many factors, such as:
* The character's individual attributes (weight, falling speed, movement, damage output, recovery, etc.), moveset, pros & cons and strategies.
* The character's matchup against other characters and how well they perform.
* Counters are taken in consideration, meaning how much advantage or disadvantage a character has against another. However they are not a deciding factor for the ranking.
* The character's perfomance on specific stages.
* The character's overall performance on Tournaments. After a careful study, each character is assigned to a specific branch of the tier list's tree, in categories divided by letters, with "S" being the highest rank (although in both Melee and Brawl, there is a "SS" rank exclusively for Fox and Meta Knight respectively). Depending on the number of characters, the amount of categories increases.
- A Tier List is a rating of more than 2 items in most games, comparing who/what is the best. For example, the Super Smash Bros Brawl Tier List states Meta Knight as 1st place in that list. In the Need For Madness saga, however, the list is split into 2 categories; racing and wasting. Though some of the positions are under debate and critism, these are the most accepted car levels.
- The Tier List is a classification system that describes the relative success rates of characters in fighting games, when played by computer or high-level players competitively. The Street Fighter series is no exception, and there are various tier lists for most games in the series. It should be noted that tiers are based on how characters match up with two people of equal skill facing each other. Tier lists tend to change over time when new strategies and such are found for fighters, so there is truly no "final" version of a tier list. There have been many massive debates regarding the legitimacy of tiers, and if they truly even exist in Street Fighter.
- All rankings are subject to change, especially when new monsters and quests are added.
- The tier list is a list that ranks all characters in order of their potential to win under tournament conditions, assuming equal skill on the part of each player, based on analysis of the current metagame. Tier lists are commonly made for competitive fighting games and high level play, as well as strategy games that involve a selection of usable characters. Characters' individual matchups with other characters also affect their placements on the list. However, one cannot determine the rankings of two characters without looking at their matchup spread as a whole. For instance, let's assume that character A is a hard counter for character B. However, character B has better matchups overall than the rest of the cast when compared to character A. As a result, character B would likely be ranked above character A. However, individual matchups can still have an effect on the positions of these two characters. Even if character A has a worse matchup spread, they have a chance to be ranked higher than character B if they have stronger matchups against the top ranked fighters, as character A would be more viable for competing at the top level of play when compared to character B. The first Super Smash Flash is considered to be competitively unviable, primarily because the camera follows only player 1, giving player 2 an unfair disadvantage that breaks the symmetry necessary for a true competition. Looking beyond that, the meta is still extremely hard to measure, given the game's primitive engine which is prone to suffering from game-breaking glitches that renders most of the differences between characters moot. Still, it is not impossible to determine how the characters would fare from a theoretical standpoint, but special measurements have to be taken into account to construct a tier list. Super Smash Flash 2, on the other hand, is more refined and provides a much more authentic Smash experience that encompasses techniques and strategies that have proven useful during tournament matches. Thus, the tier list for the game ranks and measures the expected competitive performance of every character, based upon analysis of these techniques and strategies from the current demo. The tier lists are produced by the Smash Flash Back Room, a small subforum in the McLeodGaming Forums.
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