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 was based on votes from 53 high-level players, most of them Back Room members. In accordance with the most common tournament rulesets, custom special moves were not taken into account, with the Mii Fighters and Palutena assumed to be restricted to their default movesets. A follow-up article was released on February 16, 2016, offering further explanation on the voting process, as well as insight from the Back Room about specific characters.

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

Many members of the Smash 4 community thought that this tier list was created too early, as version 1.1.4 was only two days from release, which would add Bayonetta and Corrin as playable characters, as well as likely contain a variety of balance changes; ZeRo, considered the world's best Smash 4 player at the time, notably abstained from voting due to this. After the release of 1.1.4, two further balance patches were also released, leading to further dispute over the legitimacy of the tier list.

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. Bowser Jr. also saw a noticeable drop due to Tweek switching to Cloud and therefore having almost no high-level tournament representation. Jigglypuff is now dead last due to its almost nonexistent representation, attributed to its abysmal survivability, range, and combo ability.

As with the first tier list, a follow-up article was released.

As before, the tiers are split into groups: Top (S & A), High (B & C), Mid (D & E), Low (F & G), and Bottom (H).

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