List of SSB4 tier lists

The Smash Back Room Super Smash Bros. 4 tier list was published just at the end of patch 1.1.3. All versions of the list are as follows. Characters with the same numerical value are listed alphabetically.

First tier list (February 1, 2016)

Super Smash Bros. 4 Tier List #1 [1.1.3]
S				A							B			C
1	2	3		4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20.00	19.46	18.77		17.95	17.86	17.83	17.52	17.51	17.43	17.12	16.52	16.50	16.39	15.16	15.15
D								E
16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
14.27	13.89	13.88	13.75	13.63	13.56	13.20	12.92	12.47	12.25	12.12	11.80	11.41	11.29	10.81	10.17
	F								G
	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43-44		45
	9.29	9.10	8.93	8.72	8.65	8.35	8.12	8.08	7.75	7.72	7.47	7.18		7.14
	H		I			J							Unreleased
	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56		—
	6.04	5.59	5.01	4.79	4.78	4.12	3.60	3.32	3.23	2.79	1.96		—

This is the first tier list released by the Smash 4 Back Room. It is based on votes from 53 high-level players, most of them Back Room members. In accordance with the most common tournament rules, custom special moves were not taken into account, with Mii Fighters presumed to be restricted to their default movesets.

The tiers in this list are split into groups; Top (S), High (A,B), Middle (C,D,E), Low (F,G), and Bottom (H,I,J).

Many notable members of the Smash 4 community (including ZeRo, who abstained from voting), thought that this tier list was created too early. This was partly due to the fact that patch 1.1.4 was only two days away from being released, with the imminent inclusion of Bayonetta, Corrin, and balance changes. Later, on March 15th, another patch would be released, with even more balance changes.

A follow up article was released on February 16, 2016, offering further explanation on the tiering procedure as well as insight from Back Room members on specific characters. [3]

Second tier list (August 22, 2016)

Super Smash Bros. 4 Tier List #4 [1.1.7]
		S				A
		1	2-3			4	5	6	7-8		9	10	11-12
		1.19	2.49	2.51		4.68	5.99	6.46	6.56	6.60	9.81	10.38	11.54	11.61
B								C
13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28-29
13.29	14.39	17.37	17.97	18.41	19.07	19.25	20.14	20.68	20.82	23.31	23.73	24.85	24.96	25.89	28.62	28.64
D										E
30	31	32		33	34	35	36-37			38	39	40	41	42	43	44
31.59	32.11	32.27		32.96	33.21	34.59	35.11	35.13		37.95	38.58	39.12	39.66	41.95	43.43	43.96
		F						G				Unranked
		45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52-53		54	—
		45.43	45.65	47.01	47.64	48.86	49.32	49.59	51.21	51.22	53.47	—

This is the second tier list released by the Smash 4 Back Room. This list sees drastic shifts as a result of the three balance patches and two new characters that released between the first list and this one. Diddy Kong's consistently high placings and popularity around the world have led to him securing the top spot--this is the fastest in Smash history that a top character, in this case Sheik, has been replaced. The most outstanding improvement is Mewtwo's unprecedented 27-spot rise thanks to its buffed speed, strength, and hitboxes, leading to high tournament placings thanks to players such as Abadango. Marth also saw a great jump, courtesy of buffs to his speed and hitboxes as well as the work of mains such as Leo, Mr.E, and Pugwest. The character with the biggest drop is Roy, who, despite being technically buffed from Melee and receiving some slight lag reductions in 1.1.4, has had very limited tournament representation due to his glaring flaws: limited approach options, laggy attacks, high vulnerability to combos, and poor recovery. Jigglypuff is now dead last due to its almost nonexistent representation, attributed to its abysmal survivability, range, and combos.

Tier list chart

This table shows the ranks of each character through all of the tier lists, as well as a numbered description of their change in rank each time. "Change" lists how much a character's position changed between the two tier lists it is in between. "Highest" represents a character's highest position, "Lowest" represents their lowest position, and "Difference" lists the difference between the highest and lowest position. "Overall change" represents a character's change between the first tier list and the current tier list.

Character	2nd (current) tier list	Highest	Lowest	Difference	Overall change
Diddy Kong	1	1	9	+8	+8
Cloud	2	2	12	+10	+10
Sheik	3	1	3	-2	-2
Rosalina & Luma	4	3	4	-1	-1
Mario	5	5	8	+3	+3
Sonic	6	6	6	0	±0
Fox	7	7	7	0	±0
Zero Suit Samus	8	2	8	-6	-6
Ryu	9	4	9	-5	-5
Mewtwo	10	10	37	+27	+27
Bayonetta	11	11	11	0	±0
Pikachu	12	5	12	-7	-7
Meta Knight	13	10	13	-3	-3
Villager	14	11	14	-3	-3
Mega Man	15	15	28	+13	+13
Ness	16	13	16	-3	-3
Toon Link	17	17	22	+5	+5
Corrin	18	18	18	0	±0
Marth	19	19	41	+22	+22
Captain Falcon	20	14	20	-6	-6
Greninja	21	21	25	+4	+4
Lucario	22	22	23	+1	+1
Yoshi	23	15	23	-8	-8
Pit	24	18	24	-6	-6
Donkey Kong	25	25	27	+2	+2
Peach	26	19	26	-7	-7
Dark Pit	27	17	27	-10	-10
R.O.B	28	20	28	-8	-8
Luigi	29	16	29	-13	-13
Olimar	30	24	30	-6	-6
Robin	31	31	31	0	±0
Bowser	32	30	32	-2	-2
Lucas	33	33	36	+3	+3
Wario	34	21	34	-13	-13
Ike	35	26	35	-9	-9
Lucina	36	36	47	+11	+11
Mr. Game & Watch	37	35	37	-2	-2
Pac Man	38	28	38	-10	-10
Little Mac	39	39	44*	+5	+5
Palutena	40	40	50	+10	+10
Kirby	41	32	41	-9	-9
Duck Hunt	42	42	43*	+1	+1
Link	43	42	43	-1	-1
Shulk	44	40	44	-4	-4
Samus	45	45	51	+6	±0
Wii Fit Trainer	46*	39	46*	-7	-7
Bowser Jr.	47	34	47	-13	-13
Dr. Mario	48	45	48	-3	-3
Falco	49	38	49	-11	-11
Roy	50	32	50	-18	-18
Charizard	51	49	51	-2	-2
King Dedede	52	46	52	-6	-6
Mii Gunner	53	52	53	-1	-1
Mii Brawler	54	48	54	-6	±0
Zelda	55	55	56	+1	+1
Ganondorf	56	54	56	-2	-2
Mii Swordfighter	57	54	57	-3	-3
Jigglypuff	58	55	58	-3	-3

* = tie

See also

• List of SSB tier lists (NTSC)
• List of SSBM tier lists (NTSC)
• List of SSBB tier lists (NTSC)
• Metagame