Zelda (SSBB): Difference between revisions

Zelda was initially seen as a solid middle tier character, being ranked 20th on the first tier list; her significant buffs in ''Brawl'' made her a very powerful character that was able to compete decently with the then inexperienced playerbase, who did not utilise much camping and were not as capable of evading attacks. As the metagame progressed however, it became realized Zelda's buffs did little to address the very significant problems of her character design; Din's Fire was still a rather difficult to land projectile that could not easily force approaches while Zelda herself was still very slow and incapable of initiating approaches, and her moveset still consisted of unreliable finishers that made it very difficult for her to rack up damage as well as reliably KO when the opponent is in KO range. As ''Brawl'' became more defensive based and camping became more prevalent, Zelda's problems were significantly exacerbated, and it gradually became clearer that Zelda was a poorly-designed character that could not remotely viably compete.  

Zelda's decline started slowly, with her only falling two places on the second tier list. But it picked up on the third tier list with her falling four places, and then she took a nose dive on the fourth tier list to 35th in bottom tier as the fourth worst character. She fell even farther to being ranked the second worst character on the fifth tier list, and has been stuck there since, which is also the largest tier drop any character experienced in ''Brawl''. Nowadays Zelda's position is just as low, and there are some players who even think that Zelda is the worst character in ''Brawl'' and not {{SSBB|Ganondorf}} (similar to the disagreement between both {{SSBM|Pichu}} and {{SSBM|Kirby}}'s placements on ''[[Melee]]''{{'}}s [[tier list]]). While Zelda does have a few players dedicated to using her, her overall playerbase is very small and makes virtually no impact, so it is unlikely Zelda's competitive prospects will ever improve in ''Brawl''.

While Zelda performs poorly in ''Brawl'' singles, she performs a bit better in doubles, where her significant flaws are less exploitable, and her strengths are a bit more advantageous. Riot, for example, routinely places well in doubles events in his region, while he usually performs mediocre in singles, if he enters singles at all.