List of NTSC tier lists (disambiguation)
The Melee Back Room tier list has changed many times since its inception. Previous versions of the list are as follows:
First tier list (October 8, 2002)
4.9: Sheik
4.8: Falco, Fox
4.4: Marth
4.1: Mario
4.0: Zelda, Samus, Luigi
3.9: Peach
3.8: Dr. Mario
3.5: Ice Climbers, Ganondorf
3.4: Pikachu, Link
3.2: Captain Falcon, Young Link
3.1: Jigglypuff, Ness
2.9: Yoshi, Donkey Kong
2.8: Roy
2.1: Kirby
1.8: Mr. Game and Watch
1.6: Pichu, Bowser
1.3: Mewtwo
Second tier list (December 19, 2002)
For the second tier list, the Melee Back Room not only averaged the votes for every character to determine a tier list, but also calculated the mode of characters' placements.
Mean
1-Sheik (2.2)
2-Fox (2.3)
3-Falco (3.9)
4-Peach (4.4)
5-Marth (4.7)
6-Mario (8.5)
7-Dr. Mario (8.8)
8-Samus (9.6)
9-Luigi (10.0)
10-Ganondorf and Jigglypuff (11.0)
11-Captain Falcon and Ice Climbers (13.0)
12-Zelda, Ness and Link (15.0)
13-Pikachu (16.0)
14-Yoshi and Young Link (17.0)
15-Roy and Donkey Kong (20.0)
16-Mr. Game and Watch, Kirby and Bowser (21.0)
17-Mewtwo (23.0)
18-Pichu (24.0)
Mode
Sheik - 1
Fox - 2
Falco - 3
Peach - 4
Marth - 5
Zelda - 5
Samus - 6
Ganondorf - 7
Dr.Mario - 9
Mario - 10
Jigglypuff - 10
C.Falcon - 11
Luigi - 12
Ice Climbers - 13
Link - 14
Y.Link - 15
Ness - 16
Yoshi - 18
Pikachu - 20
Bowser - 22
Roy - 23
DK - 23
Kirby - 24
Mewtwo - 24
Pichu - 25
Game&Watch - 26
Third tier list (June 23, 2003)
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Fox
- Falco
- Marth
- Peach
Upper Tier
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Luigi
- Samus
- Jigglypuff
- Captain Falcon
- Ganondorf
Middle Tier
- Ice Climbers
- Yoshi
- Ness
- Pikachu
- Roy
- Link
- Young Link
- Zelda
- Donkey Kong
Bottom Tier
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Kirby
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
- Bowser
Fourth tier list (July 1, 2003)
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
- Peach
Upper Tier:
- Falco
- Samus
- Mario/Dr. Mario
- Jigglypuff
- Ganondorf
- Captain Falcon
- Luigi
Middle Tier
- Pikachu
- Yoshi
- Ice Climbers
- Zelda
- Ness
- Link/Young Link
- Roy
Lower Tier
- Donkey Kong
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Kirby
Bottom Tier
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
- Bowser
Fifth tier list (September 29, 2003)
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Marth
Upper Tier
- Fox
- Peach
- Falco
High Tier
- Samus
- Captain Falcon
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Jigglypuff
- Luigi
Middle Tier
- Yoshi
- Link
- Roy
- Pikachu
- Young Link
- Ice Climbers
- Zelda
Low Tier
- Ness
- Kirby
- Donkey Kong
- Mewtwo
Bottom Tier
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Pichu
- Bowser
Sixth tier list (April Fools: March 31, 2004)
This tier list doubled as an April Fools joke and a lesson to the community to not blindly swallow the Melee Back Room tier list as the truth. Though most people suspected this tier list was a hoax, it set a precedent to criticizing the tier list that had not existed before.
To "defend" this hoax during the two tumultuous days it was the official tier list, Melee Back Room members argued that Marth was too slow to remain in the top two tiers, that Link had untapped aerial prowess, and that Jigglypuff, through speed and the Wall of Pain, ruled the air to the point of domination.
Top Tier
- Sheik
- Jigglypuff
Upper Tier
- Fox
- Captain Falcon
- Falco
- Link
High Tier
- Marth
- Roy
- Peach
- Luigi
- Ice Climbers
Middle Tier
- Ganondorf
- Samus
- Mewtwo
- Ness
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
Low Tier
- Young Link
- Kirby
- Pikachu
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Donkey Kong
Bottom Tier
- Zelda
- Pichu
- Bowser
The Melee Back Room forgot to include Yoshi; once people realized he was missing, the MBR placed him in middle tier, betweem Ness and Mario.
Sixth tier list (real version: April 2, 2004)
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
Upper Tier:
- Falco
- Peach
- Captain Falcon
- Samus
- Jigglypuff
High Tier:
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Dr. Mario
- Luigi
Middle Tier:
- Link
- Pikachu
- Ice Climbers
- Roy
- Zelda
- Young Link
- Yoshi
Lower Tier:
- Ness
- Donkey Kong
- Kirby
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Mewtwo
Bottom Tier:
- Bowser
- Pichu
Seventh tier list (March 19, 2005)
Top Tier:
- Sheik
- Fox
- Marth
Upper Tier:
- Peach
- Falco
- C. Falcon
- Samus
High Tier:
- Jigglypuff
- Dr. Mario
- Ganondorf
- Mario
- Ice Climbers
Middle Tier:
- Luigi
- Link
- Roy
- Donkey Kong
- Pikachu
- Zelda
Low Tier:
- Ness
- Young Link
- Yoshi
- Kirby
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Bowser
Bottom Tier:
- Mewtwo
- Pichu
Eighth tier list (July 8, 2006)
This is the current tier list.
Top Tier:
- Fox
- Falco
High Tier:
- Sheik
- Marth
- Peach
Middle Tier:
- Captain Falcon
- Ice Climbers
- Samus
- Dr. Mario
- Jigglypuff
- Mario
- Ganondorf
Low Tier:
- Link
- Luigi
- Donkey Kong
- Roy
- Young Link
- Pikachu
Bottom Tier:
- Yoshi
- Zelda
- Mr. Game and Watch
- Ness
- Bowser
- Kirby
- Pichu
- Mewtwo
Note: the names of these tiers were originally called God Tier, Top Tier, High Tier, Middle Tier, and Low Tier; these names were changed to the ones shown above on July 10th, two days after the tier list was released.
