Metagame

The metagame is the peak of competitive play - the overall skills of all the top players. A character's metagame is this cumulative knowledge as applied to a particular character.

As the Smash community learns more techniques and assumes new strategies, the metagame continues to expand. Thus, the tier list, which is based on each character's metagame, is dynamic. This explains changes from previous tier lists (such as Captain Falcon's movement from low to high tier).