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Originally Posted by Asuras
How do these tier things even work? I'd always thought any character can kick ass if the player is good enough. Is it just based on the percentage of wins for each character against all other characters no matter the player behind the controller? Tiers seem silly.
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Tiers are supposed to be an extensive evaluation of a character's ability based on the advantages and disadvantages of their moveset as well as how they match up against other characters.
A character in the "top" tier would typically be a character with the most favorable matchups and the least number of disadvantageous matchups, while the opposite would hold true for someone in the bottom tier.
Player skill is not factored in, because the point of a tier list is to evaluate a character's potential, and because in tier list discussions, player skill is always assumed to be constant, where the player is competent enough to know how their character works, not just mechanically with combo execution, but strategically with approaches, zoning, spacing, etc as well.