Meta Knight (SSB4): Difference between revisions

Upon the game's release, Meta Knight's heavy nerfs were quickly noticed: his shorter recovery, lack of trascendent priority, slightly slower attack speed and shorter reach in his moves all contributed to saying Meta Knight was heavily overshadowed by his ''Brawl'' appearance, with players arguing that his nerfs from ''Brawl'' were too harsh for him to be better than a mid-tier character. However, after being buffed over several patches and seeing increasingly noteworthy results from his best players across different regions, most famously Leo in Mexico, top players such as {{Sm|ZeRo}} re-evaluated their opinions on the character, and Meta Knight saw a subsequent rise in popularity, with {{Sm|Mr. R}} and {{Sm|Nairo}} occasionally using the character and Abadango deciding to main him, and his perceivably advantageous match-up against {{SSB4|Rosalina & Luma}}, a character ranked above him, boosted his meta game even further, as it made him valuable as a counterpick. Players started to acknowledge his proficiency in edgeguarding, frame data, and KOing ability, along with his [[Rufio|up aerial combos]] that were reliable on the entire cast, traits that he retained from ''Brawl''. As a result, Meta Kinght was subsequently ranked at 10th on the first official 4BR [[Tier list]], in the bottom of the A tier, however, many players believed he should have been placed even higher as one of the best characters, a major reason being that he was considered to lack notably disadvantageous match-ups other than {{SSB4|Sheik}}.  

Meta Knight's status went into a sudden decline after the nerfs to his up aerial combos in patch 1.1.5, which were a driving force behind his success. Several of his best players began to use secondaries more often, such as {{Sm|Leo}} with {{SSB4|Marth}} and {{SSB4|Tyrant}} with Sheik and {{SSB4|Diddy Kong}}, and others such as {{SSB4|Katakiri}} have dropped the character entirely. Regardless, he still possesses a great punish game and popularity as a counterpick to Rosalina, and he continues to gain noteworthy results, allowing him to maintain his high tier position at 13th on the second version of the tier list, on the B tier, and only a slight drop from his previous ranking.