OfficialVinylI only said that because that's what I want to do, no matter how ignorant I may be. The match-ups in brawl is pretty much the only thing I focus on, because it's what tells what the player can or can't do, what they need to avoid, and how to take advantage.
The skill of a player does determine how much use he/she can make out of a character, and the put it down in a match-up thread only to determine the tier list in a proper way. It's just there to tell you which character has a stronger chance of victories. I'm not gonna follow that route where people choose snake and stuff only because he's better.
I'm in competitive brawl because I want to beat the people who beated other people by finding strategies and ways to take advantage, not a cheat sheet. I can assure you most smash pros do the same as I do, not because of the tier list, but because it the character the find most comfortable to play with.
Bah, random rambling, yes. But that's just my two cents. I also hate myself for starting an argument.
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Here's another video. This one was my favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsLMI38-VQ
I wasn't trying to argue with you either, just saying tier lists serve a purpose
it'd be like saying that a 6s team in tf2 should be able to run a full time spy just because the player is so good at tf2