Anyone claiming a character sucks right now is showing off his or her own ignorance.
I disagree. I'm not ignorant at all as I've been playing the games for many years and generally know what a successful character is like in Smash and this Ganondorf does not possess any of those traits that make a viable Smash Bros. character in a 1v1 setting.
Of course, it depends on who is at the top or what the top 10 are but Ganondorf is a very simple character that's easy to figure out and exploit his weaknesses. We might not see that right now but we definitely will in the coming months and the Ganondorf getting second place at the Japanese tournament is both because it's early and because in this early meta Ganondorf has some positives a bunch of other characters lack (mainly the ability to KO earlier than a lot of chars that struggle to KO below 150%).
That said, that positive will only last so long and as we get Gamecube controllers (or actual controllers in general) and become more familiar with how a character generally plays and their strongest options, I am fairly certain Ganondorf will fall off very quickly. He doesn't feel like, to me, what makes a good character.
Whereas other characters I can immediately pinpoint what makes them good from the onset and how good those things will continue to be in the long-term regardless of how the meta shapes up -- i.e Yoshi's aerials are all
really safe, produce good damage, and have amazing coverage.
It's still early, I'm aware, but much of Ganondorf's traits aren't going to change very drastically six months from now (unless some amazing movement option gets discovered for him, which I find highly unlikely). Until he can do something that can help him circumvent his weaknesses, he will most certainly become a mediocre or just really bad character just like in Brawl.
Makai said:
Nope. VIPs just vote. It's pretty unscientific.
It wasn't just put to a vote, it was definitely based on tournament results and MU data factored in. I expect, because there's no backroom this time around, the tier list will form based on how each regions tournament results shape out + majors + nationals + MU data.
