List of NTSC tier lists (disambiguation)
The Melee Back Room tier list has changed many times since its inception. Previous versions of the list are as follows:
First tier list (October 8, 2002)
4.9: Sheik
4.8: Falco, Fox
4.4: Marth
4.1: Mario
4.0: Zelda, Samus, Luigi
3.9: Peach
3.8: Dr. Mario
3.5: Ice Climbers, Ganondorf
3.4: Pikachu, Link
3.2: Captain Falcon, Young Link
3.1: Jigglypuff, Ness
2.9: Yoshi, Donkey Kong
2.8: Roy
2.1: Kirby
1.8: Mr. Game and Watch
1.6: Pichu, Bowser
1.3: Mewtwo
Second tier list (December 19, 2002)
For the second tier list, the Melee Back Room not only averaged the votes for every character to determine a tier list, but also calculated the mode of characters' placements.
Mean
1-Sheik (2.2)
2-Fox (2.3)
3-Falco (3.9)
4-Peach (4.4)
5-Marth (4.7)
6-Mario (8.5)
7-Dr. Mario (8.8)
8-Samus (9.6)
9-Luigi (10.0)
10-Ganondorf and Jigglypuff (11.0)
11-Captain Falcon and Ice Climbers (13.0)
12-Zelda, Ness and Link (15.0)
13-Pikachu (16.0)
14-Yoshi and Young Link (17.0)
15-Roy and Donkey Kong (20.0)
16-Mr. Game and Watch, Kirby and Bowser (21.0)
17-Mewtwo (23.0)
18-Pichu (24.0)
Mode
Sheik - 1
Fox - 2
Falco - 3
Peach - 4
Marth - 5
Zelda - 5
Samus - 6
Ganondorf - 7
Dr.Mario - 9
Mario - 10
Jigglypuff - 10
C.Falcon - 11
Luigi - 12
Ice Climbers - 13
Link - 14
Y.Link - 15
Ness - 16
Yoshi - 18
Pikachu - 20
Bowser - 22
Roy - 23
DK - 23
Kirby - 24
Mewtwo - 24
Pichu - 25
Game&Watch - 26
Third tier list (June 23, 2003)
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Fox
- Falco
- Marth
- Peach
Upper Tier
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Luigi
- Samus
- Jigglypuff
- Captain Falcon
- Ganondorf
Middle Tier
- Ice Climbers
- Yoshi
- Ness
- Pikachu
- Roy
- Link
- Young Link
- Zelda
- Donkey Kong
Bottom Tier
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Kirby
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
- Bowser
Fourth tier list (July 1, 2003)
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
- Peach
Upper Tier:
- Falco
- Samus
- Mario/Dr. Mario
- Jigglypuff
- Ganondorf
- Captain Falcon
- Luigi
Middle Tier
- Pikachu
- Yoshi
- Ice Climbers
- Zelda
- Ness
- Link/Young Link
- Roy
Lower Tier
- Donkey Kong
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Kirby
Bottom Tier
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
- Bowser
Fifth tier list (September 29, 2003)
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Marth
Upper Tier
- Fox
- Peach
- Falco
High Tier
- Samus
- Captain Falcon
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Jigglypuff
- Luigi
Middle Tier
- Yoshi
- Link
- Roy
- Pikachu
- Young Link
- Ice Climbers
- Zelda
Low Tier
- Ness
- Kirby
- Donkey Kong
- Mewtwo
Bottom Tier
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Pichu
- Bowser
Sixth tier list (April Fools: March 31, 2004)
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Jigglypuff
Upper Tier
- Fox
- Captain Falcon
- Falco
- Link
High Tier
- Marth
- Roy
- Peach
- Luigi
- Ice Climbers
Middle Tier
- Ganondorf
- Samus
- Mewtwo
- Ness
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
Low Tier
- Young Link
- Kirby
- Pikachu
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Donkey Kong
Bottom Tier
- Zelda
- Pichu
- Bowser
(the Melee Back Room forgot to include Yoshi; once people realized he was missing, they placed him in middle tier, betweem Ness and Mario)
Sixth tier list (real version: April 2, 2004)
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
Upper Tier:
- Falco
- Peach
- Captain Falcon
- Samus
- Jigglypuff
High Tier:
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Luigi
Middle Tier:
- Link
- Pikachu
- Ice Climbers
- Roy
- Zelda
- Young Link
- Yoshi
Lower Tier:
- Ness
- Donkey Kong
- Kirby
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Mewtwo
Bottom Tier:
- Bowser
- Pichu
Seventh tier list
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
Upper Tier:
- Peach
- Falco
- C. Falcon
- Samus
High Tier:
- Jigglypuff
- Dr. Mario
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Ice Climbers
Middle Tier:
- Luigi
- Link
- Roy
- Donkey Kong
- Pikachu
- Zelda
Low Tier:
- Ness
- Young Link
- Yoshi
- Kirby
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Bowser
Bottom Tier:
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
