Top 5 Worst Characters in Smash 4 · 12:46pm Sep 2nd, 2015
Now, I recently did a top 5 underdogs blog, but there really are stinkers in Smash 4, and we gotta know them. I'm not telling you you shouldn't use them but in any kind of play in general... have fun trying to win.
5.
Poor Mewtwo, man. He's just like he was in Melee. He's floaty, has a HUGE hurtbox, has weird combos that make no sense, and lacks good setups. The thing with Mewtwo is, I want him to be good. I want him to be the Legendary killing machine to end all Lucarios. BTW Lucario, you're irrelevant and I hate you. Please go away. Thanks. Anywho, Mewtwo, despite being infinitely COOLER than Lucario, is way too light for his hurtbox. He's huge and for a light character that sucks eggs. He's got kill power going for him at least, but gosh dang does he need a WEIGHT buff.
4.
I don't like Robin one bit. He's very clunky, he's slow, and he has one of the worst recoveries in the game. He's so gimpable and killable off stage that even Fox could disrespect him, and he has little to no aerial game off the stage thanks to his combo-like nature. Robin runs out of juice every so often and once you get used to his attacks that follow the same pattern every time, Robin is bad on a catastrophic level. Sure in casual play he's fine but hit upper play or tournament play and you're as good as dead if you play him. Half of his moves are laggy enough that you can just jump over them and smack him hard. He's pretty bad man.
3.
This is just what you get, Marth! The "Hyrule Tier" all this time in Brawl and Melee sucking up to Fire Emblem snobs like you. How does it feel to have 3/5 of the Fire Emblem characters bottom tier? INCLUDING YOU? Good thing the cool ones are alright. I'd fight for my friends anyday. Anyway, Marth and Lucina are just sad as characters. They have little to no landing options, lag on all of their good moves, a poor recovery, predictable shield break, and they're pretty damn light. Worst of all is Lucina is completely obsolete now that Roy's out. If you don't like Roy, you can play Marth, but if you don't like Marth, find another character because Roy is Lucina except 10x better and fiery. He's also our boy. In short, I guess you can play Marth but start playing Roy if you played Lucina, because she has no reason to be here anymore.
2.
Good. God. Zelda is just bad. Now we're getting into the real stinkers. How is Zelda supposed to rack damage up? She's got kill moves, sure, but every single one of her attacks is either gimmicky, hard to use, or has an absurdly hard to get sweetspot. Every one of her aerials except her up-air has this sweet spot. Also her grab sucks and sometimes her Up-b is so clunky it puts her into an unfair disadvantage! Jeez man, you'd think they'd fix her already. You gotta read the opponent like a book if you want ANY damage off an them. It's pretty wank.
1.
Where do I even start with Samus? Half of her moves whiff the opponent when they should hit them, her hurtbox is abnormally big for her size, she's a heavy-weight character that floats everywhere, she's slow, her charge shot is out-prioritized by PIKMIN, her jabs don't link, her recovery sucks, she has 1 kill option and it takes 6 seconds to charge and is out-prioritized by everything ever, she can't go offstage or she'll die, her bombs are useless, she has no true combos, her roll is ungodly slow and terrible, and her frame data is god-forsakenly horrible. This isn't the case of a character being bad, this is a case of a character being UNFINISHED. Barely anything about her works as it should. Hell, her regular A attacks don't even link into each other! What is this nonsense? Samus is the worst a smash character has ever been since Kirby in Melee, and that is really saying something.
#FixSamus
Props to Manaphy for showing me this
My brother used to play Zelda a lot, but now, he's decided to throw her away because the Up-B keeps messing up when he's getting back to the stage.
thoughts on Ryu?
also, as someone who absolutely loves Lucina in Awakening, it makes me so sad seeing her in Smash4. I mean, I kind of understand that she started out as a alternate costume switch for Marth, and they just decided to separate her because fanbase demanded, but come on! They did the same thing with the Italian Fake Doctor, and he's actually a viable different choice from Mario. Lucina's just... a quicker Marth.
That's it.
She's literally Marth, but a bit quicker on her moves.
3364430 Zelda's up b is her saving grace and her dying wish. As a recovery move, it's asinine how bad it is. It never snaps to the ledge, It has weird hitboxes, it never travels the distance you want it to, and it never travels the direction you want it to. However, it's her best kill move. What even.
3364455 Yeah, he always does what he calls "The Elevator" with it as a kill move.
Hit them up with the start, then go straight up and kill with the finish.
But yeah, the recovery is disgusting now. >.>
3364453 Actually, they're the same in quickness. The only difference is instead of Marth's moves not having good knockback except on the tip of the sword, Lucina's is spread evenly. She has no "sweetspot" on her sword, and that's the only difference.
3364453 As well, I have no thoughts on Ryu, he's just too weird to judge yet, although he has some devastating combos he can do.
3364458 Yeah that's the general name for the move. It doesn't save Zelda from everything else wrong about her though
3364523 Poor Zelda…
And now, my brother plays Luigi now. I have discovered how ridiculously scary he is.
But at least my G&W annoys him, so that's a plus, I guess.
3364529 GimRWatch is a solid character... if absurdly light.
Customs. That is all.
(Except for Samus and possibly Robin, they just suck.)
3364646 Dem disjointed hitboxes, yo.
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5. Mewtwo doesn't have customs. DLC
4. Robin's problems come from non specials as well as specials.
3. shitty customs
2. problems come from non specials.
1. Problems come from everything.
They are unsavable.
3365333 I meant badges. Makes Mewtwo heavy, makes Robin fast. Often custom badge builds make more sense than the standard ones. I mean, why is Robin so slow?
3365344 I'm going by tourney standards and badges are not allowed.
3365379 Ah. You know, they really should come up with some kind of Badge rules for tourney, considering it does wonders for balancing if done right.