His anti gravity is a really good option against most of the street fighter air game, makes sense he would be a top tier.

Jim bulushi?

i don't.

Anji in +R is weird in where he is rather polarizing. Characters that can say “lol no” to his Oki like Jam and Baiken do well but those who have to respect it tend to struggle.

says the best low tier ever

Tier lists in general shouldn't matter in choosing a character, but in XX, they don't matter at all. Robo-Ky for example, is considered one of the worst, but he can still win majors.

Can't relate

Also I'm an Axl loyalist in the GG series.

Ice Man. That's all I will say

Or being considered good in brawl for having an even matchup with meta knight.

Or falcon in 64 for having an amazing matchup against pika (he was top tier)

Wasn't he good outside of bayo

@@riannlim991 Pikachu was definitely a good pick, but he had a killing problem that held back his consistency, which was a definite issue in a game with such an insane comeback mechanic as smash 4 rage.

Pikachu did not have an even matchup against MK in Brawl. People definitely thought that at one point but by the later stages of the game's meta, MK was considered to win the MU. Pikachu definitely did better in the MU than most other characters but he still lost overall. The real notable thing about Pikachu is that he literally invalided some of the high tiers. Characters like Snake and Falco were very strong characters but they got completely destroyed by Pikachu. Pikachu could literally kill those characters (and multiple others) off of one grab (or at the very least build up 100%+), which is about as fair as it sounds in a game where most characters had to work really hard to rack up damage and kill.

Fighting games really are like martial arts in a lot of ways.

dude where the fuck does this quote come from like instead of years of training martial arts bruce lee became the guy in the neighbourhood that just knows how to fix all our shit

Hakan's take on Bruce Lee's philosophy. Actually, I like this better.

@@chaotickreg7024 more like one that is faught strictly using mental prowess.

@@ansrfururactions Not strictly mental. You have to maintain a perfect connection between your mind and your hands. It's a martial practice, it just doesn't involve hitting.

STOP CALLING ME OUT

@@dabluepittoo-aqua4213 I'M CALLING ME OUT TOO WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT

@@thepastaprogenitor851 pit mains are 50/50 against everyone except pikachu. pickachus mus are always 90/10 unless its gnw. then its 50/50

@@ink3487 pretty much. We don't kill him as early as other characters and rocked just as hard as every other char. Mii brawler and kirby go 50/50 against pikachu tho.

@@thepastaprogenitor851 brawlers 50/50 vs the rats? i sorta understand kirby cuz he can deal with the tjolt but brawler?

Tiers always exist. whether they matter is game dependent. Garou is incredibly balanced to the point I'd argue the only certainties are Kevin, Jenet, and Kain are undisputed top 3 and Rock, Freeman, and Tizoc are bottom 3, with everyone else in what I like to call "dart board tier" where you can justify anyone's placement here, whether you think they're top 4 or bottom 4. The cast is so close I'd argue no one's really below A tier by fighting game standards. But tiers still exist. You can't argue Rock's low damage, Freeman's lack of any defense tools or Tizoc *not having combos* is on par with Kevin having infinite meter grinding in neutral or Kain having an unblockable. Those tools aren't that broken because even though they're unintentional they're not so dominant they eclipse anyone, but they exist in the game and can be used and will make them better. Even Virtua fighter 5FS, the most well balanced fighter of all time, has a tier list. It's generally read 1st place Akira Yuki 2nd place literally everyone else and for good merit. Akira has literally every option available and has the best of almost every tool the game outside of strings and a flip kick, which he lacks both of. This fine because the difficulty in even using these tools right is so high it necessitates making him noticeably better because then you'd never play him. I'd argue that if vf5 didn't make tiers matter and everyone one was equal than akira would be a pretty bad character design because why wouldn't you just play the easier characters if he was only equal to them? Something Tekken has failed with since the console release of Tekken 6. Speaking of... Tekken alternatively is a series where you will probably be laughed at for saying tiers don't matter. Even in T1 it's hard to argue jack a character with no real good moves at all or Yoshi who didn't really stand out that well could compete with Nina and Kazuya's death combo's and King elbow drop that was plus *94* on block, which means you actually took more damage for blocking this poke once than taking it to the face repeatedly. And every game after has had an obvious discrepancy even if we ignore the bears. Kazuya one touches you in T2 and is literally the only guy who can side step, and Jack 2 wasn't much better than his predecessor, T3 Jin was unstoppable as was T4 Jin, t5 Steve had an infinite from sidestep, t6 bob was so OP top 4 evo for the game was only bob, which killed it's esports scene for a while etc. etc. Even the progenitor of the genre has only really had ultra 4 be the one game free from tiers being controlling. Say even Ken was an equal to 3s Yun and Chun and you'd be laughed at thats how dominant tiers are. Hell sf2 is practically defined by it's tier list. With the videos description of Axl literally being what people call E.Honda syndrome, where you only have dominant match ups but you suck against all the good characters and you're good against everyone else so you just settle into mediocrity. TL;DR Tiers actually always have impacted every game to at least a minor degree and Will always exist, even in something like Dive Kick. I just think it's important to build context and look at it game by game because sometimes you can balance 50+ characters really well in a fighting game while still having clearly better options. It's called KOF98UM. And you can't do that even with the top 10 of those characters. It's called Mahvel 2. Low tier doesn't always mean bad, sometimes it's still great. And sometimes Mid tier basically means diet bottom tier. I just think it's important to learn why those tiers exist and how much they matter.

@@Neogears1312 mid tier means diet bottom tier: super smash brothers brawl

it's on the SFIV tier list 2:28 on the top right

@@mattheusfinco7050 DONT TELL ME POST IT AS A COMMENT

@@hyge-j8384 ok

@@hyge-j8384 Lol is the old dude a little meme he hides in his vids

it's on the SFIV tier list 2:28 on the top right

@@mattheusfinco7050 Can’t pin a reply, post it in the regular comments section

@@eddventure6214 done

That's fair. When both players are equally trash at the game match up charts don't matter. It's whoever spams the most that wins lol

This is my favorite thing about tier lists. The low tiers being able to show up and do damage is so satisfying to watch in almost any context

This is a lesson learned through common sense. Although it's often said that common sense isn't so common.

That’s true, but people often do say that a matchup is 6-4 and things like that. Which you could interpret as a percentage

Yeah that was a mistake on my part, I meant to re-record but as luck would have it my mic started having odd static issues right around then, so I added the visual disclaimer instead

The hardest thing I can think of is plus R Zato (Eddie) and Angel in KOF, but I'm not super knowledgeable about many games

@@kuzunohaxiv7912 I have heard of Vatista from Unib being super complicated.

@@ew275x Vatista is only hard if you haven't played many charge characters before, I'd say puppet characters are usually the hardest to learn.

sorry for the bad English :(

The punctuation makes reading the sentences a bit rough, but your English is great! (although my main language is also not English, so I might be wrong).

@@periclescomoeddie5215 Thanks for the feedback! I will look forward to my punctuation! I'm trying to consume content in english to improve

@@mattheusfinco7050 You welcome :) Consuming content in English is an amazing way to improve in English, keep doing it.

Its good english, as for innate tools, yes, but those factors already influence matchup and tier list charts, its good to be aware of those when thinking about them yourself

While there's some loyalists and people who do like complex characters, yeah it's usually best for a tournament to go with a comfy and simple pick even if the more complex character might perform better, because if you are not performing your best you might get steamrolled as opposed to the comfy and simpler character.

Part of the issue with in-game stats is filtering those stats, most people are not good, and so wouldn't provide a good view of what the match up is amongst highly skilled players, instead just diluting the data to unreadability

Tiers Exist SO WHAT XD

Fair, but I think his point is that a teir lisr isn't an objective measure of overall strength but how strong they are in the current game environment.

You overestimate people. There are so many people out there who look at tier lists as the infallible word of God on how good or bad a character is, and don't even consider match ups.

Forums, game communities(discord, reddit;etc), character specific communities, are usually where you'd find matchups

Little known fact I’m fairly into competitive Pokémon and I actually considered putting this in the script, but decided it strayed a bit too far from the central focus!

@@eddventure6214 I also just remember this now, but there was a time when Bibarel, and even bidoof, was banned to Ubers during the beginning of gen 5. I recommend checking out this video that I linked. It's a pretty interesting watch: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n92EjNhlm9a5kY0.html

Check out marvel vs capcom 2's ost

I think in Little Mac's case it's the tournament stages not being in his favour.

Ok what winning matchups does he have? And are they not negated by stage picks

I was more the line of Brawl Ike. He's one of the best but is low tier because he has one a really bad match up with Meta Knight, who is basically god in Brawl.

I wish he did talk about Little Mac since he actually has decent MUs with most of the top tiers but the problem is everyone hates him so they automatically put him in a (we win cause he sucks +2) which is sad

@@G0nard231 the problem with little mac is that his aerial game is so bad that just about every character in the game can just decide not to interact with him on the ground. This forces him to be aggressive and potentially put himself in bad situations. Even FD which is his best stage has drawbacks because the lack of platforms makes it hard for him to land once he gets hit.