List of SSB4 tier lists

The Smash Back Room Super Smash Bros. 4 tier list was published just at the end of patch 1.1.3. All versions of the list are as follows. Characters with the same numerical value are listed alphabetically.

First tier list (February 1, 2016)

Super Smash Bros. 4 Tier List #1 [1.1.3]
S				A							B			C
1	2	3		4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20.00	19.46	18.77		17.95	17.86	17.83	17.52	17.51	17.43	17.12	16.52	16.50	16.39	15.16	15.15
D								E
16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
14.27	13.89	13.88	13.75	13.63	13.56	13.20	12.92	12.47	12.25	12.12	11.80	11.41	11.29	10.81	10.17
	F								G
	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43-44		45
	9.29	9.10	8.93	8.72	8.65	8.35	8.12	8.08	7.75	7.72	7.47	7.18		7.14
	H		I			J							Unreleased
	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56		—
	6.04	5.59	5.01	4.79	4.78	4.12	3.60	3.32	3.23	2.79	1.96		—

This is the first tier list released by the Smash 4 Back Room. It was based on votes from 53 high-level players, most of them Back Room members. In accordance with the most common tournament rulesets, custom special moves were not taken into account, with the Mii Fighters and Palutena assumed to be restricted to their default movesets. A follow-up article was released on February 16, 2016, offering further explanation on the voting process, as well as insight from the Back Room about specific characters.

The tiers in this list were split into groups: Top (S); High (A, B); Middle (C, D, E); Low (F, G), and Bottom (H, I, J).

Many members of the Smash 4 community thought that this tier list was created too early, as version 1.1.4 was only two days from release, which would add Bayonetta and Corrin as playable characters, as well as likely contain a variety of balance changes; ZeRo, considered the world's best Smash 4 player at the time, notably abstained from voting due to this. After the release of 1.1.4, two further balance patches were also released, leading to further dispute over the legitimacy of the tier list.

Second tier list (August 21, 2016)

Super Smash Bros. 4 Tier List #2 [1.1.6]
	S								A
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7		8	9	10	11
	1.32	2.18	2.66	3.39	4.88	5.39	5.88		7.09	8.41	8.46	8.93
	B						C
	12	13	14	15	16		17	18	19	20	21	22
	13.88	14.54	15.07	15.93	16.39		16.64	17.85	19.36	20.95	21.11	21.52
D							E
23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
23.64	23.73	24.41	24.52	24.89	25.64	27.34	30.93	30.98	31.55	32.18	32.61	32.68	34.52
F							G
37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46-47		48	49	50
37.80	38.73	38.80	38.91	39.27	40.00	40.64	41.77	42.66	43.18		45.16	45.75	46.02
			H
			51	52	53