Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24114180-20140107193454/@comment-25479669-20140929173945

There is no tier system. The developers would have had to make one. Which they didn't. They just made the characters. How you fight depends on which fighter you use, but you can be great with one like Ganondorf or Purin and you can be terrible with Meta Knight or Ice Climber.

I think people made up the tiers because they wanted to force their own preferences on the rest of the SSB base. And the one who wrote that article shouldn't be allowed to communicate with the outside world. Such a biased article.