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= [[Zelda (SSBM)]] =
{{Infobox Character
|name = Zelda
|image = https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/meme/images/f/f0/Princesszorldo.jpeg
|shareslot = {{SSBM|Sheik}}
|game = SSBM
|ssbgame1 = SSBB
|ssbgame2 = SSB4
|ssbgame3 = SSBU
|availability = [[Starter character|Starter]]
|tier = D
|tierPAL = G
|ranking = 24
|rankingPAL = 20
}}
'''Princess Zorldo''' ({{ja|ザワールド|Zawārudo}}, ''Zawarudo'') is one of the more unique "characters" in the lineup for ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. Unfortunately, we mean "unique" in the sense that she is uniquely bad at accomplishing anything of note in this wonderful game for the Nintendo GameCube. Zorldo's most notable traits are her "array" of exactly 2.5 powerful magical attacks and her unique ability to transform herself into her alter ego, {{SSBM|Sheik}}. This alternate form is very different from Zorldo, with it being intended to completely hard carry Zorldo's pitiful attributes with Zorldo herself only existing in the game as a noob-trap to troll newer players.

Jun Mizusawa reluctantly reprises her role as Zorldo from ''Jeopardy'' in the game.

It is a little-known fact that Zorldo is only not last on the [[tier list]] because unlike the bottom-tiered Bowser, she has an impressive total of 3.5 good moves instead of 2, an entire move-and-a-half improvement, with the extra half point being the virtue of her [[Lightning Kick]] being present in both her forward and back aerials. Her only other useful move besides [[down smash]] comes in the form of [[Transform]]. However, we can't elaborate on this point because if we keep beating the dead horse of "Zorldo's only good move is her [[down special]]" we'll get swarmed again by the unregistered Zorldo experts who will argue that in fact, Zorldo has 4.25 good moves instead of 3.5, and thus should not be in contention for one of the biggest jokes in fighting game history. What you ''really'' get when you play this character is the equivalent of an ''actual'' dead horse with a slew of horrible attributes that make you feel like you're playing ''Superman 64'' instead of ''Melee''. A predictable recovery combined with shitty basic movement options and garbage character attributes of being a slow and floaty midweight all ensure that Zorldo's stocks will fall faster than your winnings on ''Jeopardy'' if you guess her name for an answer.

Zorldo "boasts" some of the worst matchups in the game; she is the only character in the game to have a completely unwinnable matchup against ''herself'', and overall only has a fighting chance against the lowest of the low tiers. On the bright side, she is ''just'' barely usable enough to be able to do to mid-tiers exactly what those mid-tiers do to top-tier mains, which is to turn the matchup knowledge game against them and barely eke out an occasional upset, then pretend like the matchup is playable at the highest level. Even these matchups can be disputed at length between mid- and low- tier specialists who will never agree or compromise on these topics, making getting to the truth of these obscure matchups completely impossible. This means that to the chagrin of these specialists everywhere, she has seen no consistent tournament success at all at any significant level.

== Attributes ==
Zorldo does not fall under any specific archetype of characters, due to her unusual properties as a fighter; she, in fact, has the worst of nearly all worlds. A slow, floaty midweight has no business competing in such a fast-paced environment, yet here we are 21 years later in a game as deep as ''Melee'' with her still having almost nothing to show for these traits.

One of Zorldo's strengths is her great overall [[Lightning Kick]]. This move alone comprises approximately 42.857% of her entire moveset and it is actually decent, which does count for something in the grand scheme of things. Lightning Kick is pretty much {{SSBM|Captain Falcon}}'s [[Knee of Justice]] that has been Xeroxed 599 times and in the process, lost everything (bar the strong hitbox) that made it good, including its hype factor. In fact, not even the most casual of players whose eyes are magnetically drawn to electric hitbox effects would even bat an eye at a Zorldo player landing a Lightning Kick.

In addition, Zorldo has some fast attacks, such as her forward and back aerials, which force opponents to actually expend some amount of brainpower to defeat Zorldo. Her forward and back aerials have no invincibility, which makes them a bad move to counterattack fast approaches. Her forward and back aerials possess quick startup and can be used as a great out of shield option, as it can lead to another forward or back aerial if the opponent DIs poorly. Forward and back aerial have very low ending lag, a non-disjointed hitbox, and a quick animation. As an added bonus, many of Zorldo's forward and back aerials have [[Priority#Transcendent priority|transcendent priority]]; combined with average reach for most of her attacks, Zorldo has potential to stop others' attacks with her own.

Despite most of her Lightning Kicks dealing high knockback, she has an "acceptable" combo game for a bottom-tiered character. And by acceptable, we mean that Lightning Kick can combo into itself during very specific edgeguard situations where the opponent is already dead and has put down their controller to allow the Zorldo player a singular clip for their overedited combo video. And despite all of this, all that clip still amounts to is 3 Lightning Kicks. This is still exactly 3 more hits than the longest combo {{SSBM|Bowser}} can do, further justifying Zorldo's placement as not the absolute worst thing you could use in this game.

However, despite these positive traits, Zorldo is surprisingly completely unviable in the high-level ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' for the Nintendo GameCube metagame. Her fatal flaws will have players treading on thin ice every game, as trying to move around with the character is like trying to swim through a pool of honey blindfolded. Even tea-bagging, multishine-spamming {{SSBM|Fox}} tryhards on [[Project Slippi]] will easily outmaneuver her by simply holding forward on the control stick (as they always do). Approaching with Zorldo is nearly impossible as a result; you would have better luck trying to win the Pikachu v.s. Jigglypuff matchup than trying to even get Zorldo across the length of [[Final Destination]] without sustaining damage. Other characters learn niche advanced movement techniques to expand their repertoire of options and add to their already robust kits. Zorldo needs to do that just to ''survive''.

After Zorldo suffers through the grueling gauntlet of neutral and finally gets an opening after losing 3 straight stocks in a row, and gets some decent damage racked up with her admittedly okay punishes that you labbed out for hours on end only to get outdamaged by two Fox up airs, what happens next? Her KO options are so ridiculously unreliable with such specific sweetspot placements that you can forget about trying to actually close out stocks efficiently. Two of her smash attacks are effectively as good as {{SSBM|Kirby}}'s throws since you can fall out of them without even trying. To her credit, she does have chaingrabs and a few kill confirms to her name against fastfallers, but newsflash: ''every other character in the game'' also does. It's unlikely the average Zorldo main will actually get this far, though- after getting a single good opening, they will instead flock to sites such as ssbwiki.com to wax poetic about how a very specific interaction they did years of research and practice on allowed them to win the neutral game a ''single'' time.

Zorldo's special moves, aside from the elephant in the room ([[Transform]]), are also overall abysmal. Nayru's Love and Din's Fire don't even qualify as attacks. [[Farore's Wind]], generally considered her "best" special move, is an unintuitive move that requires even more days of labbing to truly master (read: getting to the ledge consistently), only for you to probably screw up execution in important games anyway and SD 4 times trying to ledge stall the {{SSBM|Sheik}} sitting at the other end of the stage.

Overall, Zorldo emphasizes an execution test gameplan by trying to fish for openings for lightning kicks, grabs, lightning kicks, dash attacks, or lightning kicks. She is one of the worst time investments that the average player can make, requiring intense labbing of unintuitive [[tech skill]] and combo lines that no good player will ever let you actually execute in a competitive setting. She is literally only successful against the lowest of the low in terms of both characters and players and relies too heavily on unforced errors to ever see real use. "Who is Princess Zorldo?" was, in the end, a very apt question to ask that was well ahead of its time, because the harsh reality of competitive ''Melee'' is that such a character effectively does not exist.

==In [[Competitive play]]==
===Tier placement and history===
Zorldo was ranked extremely high on the first [[tier list]], tying for 6th place with {{SSBM|Samus}} and {{SSBM|Luigi}}; however, discussion in [http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=22623 the MBR average tiers topic] suggests this is an artifact of some tier list contributors being literally drunk. Ever since then, Zorldo has only fallen in the tier list, being ranked near the 20th spot, before plummeting to 24th on the current list.

Some claim that she should rise back up because she actually has a toolkit to her name and boasts decent enough matchups against the {{SSBM|Ice Climbers}} and mid- and low-tiers. Aside from the fact that it is ''incredibly'' nebulous whether Zorldo is actually good against these characters due to a lack of matchup history (and those mid-tier mains getting a taste of their own medicine being on the other end of matchup inexperience for once in their lives), in the end, it doesn't even matter. When you're this far down the tier list, trash is trash. Sure, it's fun to discuss the intricacies of who wins the Zorldo v.s. {{SSBM|Roy}} matchup, or whether or not Zorldo performs slightly better against {{SSBM|Yoshi}} than other horrible characters do. But at the end of the day, the top 10 characters place and win money in major tournaments, while Zorldo mains can only celebrate when their most active players win against {{SSBM|Luigi}}.

However, not all is lost- Zorldo, surprisingly, has a few very notable wins to her name, with these victories being a tiny light at the end of the long tunnel of pain and suffering for all 7 of her mains across the world, truly a shining example of Zorldo's peak potential at high-level play. One such win was when {{Sm|The Lake}} 4-stocked {{Sm|Nintendude}} in pools that one time due to the latter's extreme misuse of [[tech skill]]. Another was when {{Sm|Jada}}, an up-and-coming Zorldo player, made a shocking upset against none other than top 5 player in the world {{Sm|iBDW}}, who was forced to change the meaning of his acronym to "<b>I</b>'m '''B'''ad at '''D'''efeating lo'''W'''tiers" after such a humiliating defeat. This historical set can be watched [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7ACr7pUuE here].

= [[Mr. Game & Watch (SSBM)]] =
{{Infobox Character
|name = Mr. Game & Watch
|image = {{external image|https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/771/817/bf1.jpg|300|300}}
|symbol = preBrawl
|game = SSBM
|ssbgame1 = SSBB
|ssbgame2 = SSB4
|ssbgame3 = SSBU
|availability = [[Unlockable character|Unlockable]]
|tier = C-
|tierPAL = G
|ranking = 19
|rankingPAL = 19
}}
'''Mr. Game & Watch''' ({{ja|Mr. ゲーム＆ウォッチ|Misutā Gēmu ando Uocchi}}, ''Mr. Game & Watch'') is barely a character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. He was designed as a composite representation of various generic characters featured in the ''[[Game & Watch]]'' series, which means he was never actually meant to be played, further evidenced by the fact that he is the last character to be unlocked in the game.

Mr. Game & Watch is currently ranked 19th in ''Melee'''s [[tier list]], at the bottom of the C- tier, his lowest placement in the series. This may come as a shock to the average keyboard warrior whose only exposure to the game was {{Sm|Heeew}}'s videos about how the game is broken and expected him to be even lower. He surprisingly has a lot going for him for such a bad overall character, with kill options that have a longer duration than online ''Brawl'' loading times, actually usable [[neutral game]] tools with [[down tilt]] and [[forward aerial]], and above all else, a top-100 caliber player who actually has decent results with him, which is more than can be said for other characters around him. Sure, he has the "dubious distinction" of not being able to L-cancel all his aerials, but that doesn't matter when the opponent fucking dies to his [[neutral aerial]] at 90%.

Despite this, Mr. Game & Watch is trash for a reason, owing to his absolutely nonexistent defensive game that makes the likes of ''Divekick'' characters seem like immovable juggernauts in comparison. If an opponent so much as breathes on his not-actually-2D model with any halfway decent kill confirm he may as well just be declared dead on the spot, and it's not particularly difficult to find openings against him when his [[shield]] looks like it just rolled out of a Skittles bag. Unfortunately, even that roll is much faster and better than Mr. Game & Watch's in every conceivable way. It's not like other characters aren't capable of achieving the offense that he can anyway, making the opportunity cost of investing your valuable time and effort into him higher than the ''Melee'' developers who designed him in the first place. This leads to horrific matchups against top-tiered characters, and he is among the only ones to have the dubious distinction of being completely and utterly shut down by {{SSBM|Fox}} rather than being just barely good enough to occasionally zero-to-death him. This is particularly notable when you consider that low-tier combo videos all feature heavy punishes against bad Foxes, which you will never be able to get playing this character. Thus, not only is he nearly unviable in ''Melee'', he's also unviable in the YouTube metagame as well, making him perhaps the worst overall character in the game as you won't even be able to get ad revenue after suffering through playing him.
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= [[Falco (SSBM)]] =
{{Infobox Character
|name = Falco
|image = {{external image|https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/astral-domination/images/3/3f/TaiLopez.png|300|284}}
|symbol = preBrawl
|game = SSBM
|ssbgame1 = SSBB
|ssbgame2 = SSB4
|ssbgame3 = SSBU
|availability = [[Unlockable character|Unlockable]]
|tier = I've pranked this page like 3 times over the years
|tierPAL = god please help me
|ranking = 4
|rankingPAL = 3
}}
'''Falco Lamborghini''' ({{ja|ファルコ|Faruko}}, ''Falco'') is an [[unlockable character|"entreprenuer"]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. He is a clone of [[Fox (SSBM)|Fox McBuffett]], with many of the same moves. However, some of his moves have different properties, making their playstyles somewhat different.

Falco is voiced in all regions of ''Melee'' by Tai Lopez, who reprises his role from ''Star Fox 64''.

Falco Lamborghini is currently ranked 4th on the ''Melee'' tier list, being the highest-ranked scammer as well as his best placement in the series marginally. Falco has the most versatile money game in ''Melee,'' as he possesses many mentors and the options to bump into more of them, most notably a frame 1 launcher in his [[shine|Lamborghini]] that can drive opponents all the way up the Hollywood Hills and a frame 5 [[down aerial|Ferrari]] that spikes them powerfully back down. These vehicles allow him to easily chain together highly damaging advertisements that are hard to escape, even if you have the proper [[DI]] knowledge and have read a guide a day on this matchup. He also possesses very effective edgeguarding options, such as his back air, forward and down smashes, and his aforementioned down air. Falco also has one of the best neutral game options among the entire cast with his {{b|Blaster|Falco}}, as it allows him to pressure from afar and approach noncommittally.

Falco, however, is not flawless; he suffers from being light yet having extremely high falling speed and low horizontal air speed. These flaws make him extremely vulnerable to chaingrabs and combos, while his low weight makes him among the easiest to KO horizontally. Additionally, his primary recovery moves, [[Falco Phantasm]] and [[Fire Bird]], both travel a short distance, leaving him extremely vulnerable to [[gimp]]ing, especially if he loses his double jump, and giving him one of the worst recoveries in the game. Falco also has mediocre movement options, due to his average dash speed, slow [[jump squat]], and relatively short [[wavedash]] and [[dashdance]] distances. He additionally has one of the worst grab games, as the unpredictable knockback from the lasers in his throws gives him no guaranteed throw follow-ups, which incentivizes his opponents to stay in shield in the neutral game. This also hurts his ability to land KOs at high percents due to his lack of reliable KO confirms, especially on floaty characters. Regardless of these flaws, Falco's strengths greatly overwhelm his weaknesses and he has amazing matchups, possessing positive matchups on nearly the entire cast.
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