What thing did you understand after thoroughly analyzing the Character Rankings of Smash Bra?

Nintendo game "Super Smash Bros. Smash Brothers SeriesForrest Smith, a software engineer who has played for many years, has released software for the Nintendo GameCubeSuper Smash Bros. Smash Brothers DX"Is the character ranking of"Tier List"As a result of analyzing the surprising facts turned out.

The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Brothers
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Smashra has a side of party games of four players at the same time, but Smith's subject to analyze is a smash fight as a fighting game like a street fighter fighting on one-on-one without items. Smarkra has a character ranking called Tier List, and Tier List is ranked characters based on various data, such as result, usage rate, compatibility with stage, etc. in each character's specialized tournament.

Smith analyzed "SmashBoardsBelongs to the prominent Smavola community.Smash Back RoomHas publishedTier List. Smith analyzed the tier list of the Smash Back Room for the past 12 years on the Super Smash Brawl Smash Brothers DX from 2002 and graphed the transition of each character's ranking.


When you look closely in the graph, you will notice that the ranking is low but the ranking is increasing gradually. "Jigglypuff (Japan name: Pudding)" indicated by a pink line starts from 17th place, but it ranked up to 3rd while temporarily extending the ranking to Gunggun. Like the pudding, the blue "Captain Falcon (Japan name: Captain Falcon)" was originally located 15th, but gradually raised the ranking and finished 7th. Smith predicts about Falcon, "Perhaps it was probably not realized that anyone noticed the strength of Falcon, or could not understand it."


In addition, the light blue "Ice Climbers" (Japan name: Isleimer) dropped its rank in one year from the start but showed an unusual movement that it will rise at a stretch afterwards. According to Smith, if the character 's ability is too high or too low in a normal game, the gamer takes action immediately and the result should be reflected in the ranking in one week. However, in Super Smash Brawl Smash Bros. DX, things that can not be thought of in ordinary games such as an ice creamer that the rankings rise sharply after one year are happening.

Smith said, "There are many characters in Smavra, it's up to the player to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the character.It can be said that this is not balanced in game design, but because of the character ranking fluctuation It will take time. "An interesting part of the Smash Bra is exactly what it is."


Looking at other characters, the top "Sheik (Japanese name: seek)", "Falco (Japan name: Falco)" "Fox (Japan name: Fox)" "Marth (Japan name: Mars)" was released I have been keeping the 4th place or more all the time from.


Although the ranking was high at the beginning, it was "Mario (Japanese name: Mario)" "Zelda (Japan name: Zelda)" "Luigi (Japan name: Luigi)" "Ness (Japan name: Ness) "Yoshi (Japan name: Yoshi)". In particular, Zelda has lowered the ranking by more than 10 points within nine months from the release, and the number of people who use it rapidly has decreased. Zelda seems to be popular at the beginning of the game because it can be transformed into a seek of ranking first in the game, but if you hold down the A button while selecting Zelda on the character selection screen and you start the game you will be able to start the game with seek As it turned out, it seems that the rankings have fallen at a stretch.


On December 6, 2014, "for Wii U"Super Smash Bros. Smash Brothers for Wii U"Is going to be released, it is a place to wonder what will be the ranking of the character usage rate.