Super Smash Bros ultimate is hands-down
One of the most anticipated releases of this year and people are already enjoying it immensely
but with a massive roster of
77 playable characters and more to come
It's gonna be pretty tough to determine which characters are going to be the best once the competitive season starts
However, nice to tons of hours of analysis and testing from pro players
we have a solid idea of which characters are going to be the ones you see in most in the tournaments and
That's what we're gonna do today guys. What is up? Everybody? Chaos here. Welcome to chaos top tens
And today we're gonna go over ten of the best characters right now in Super Smash Bros ultimate now, keep in mind
This list is being made at the launch of the game
So everything here is subject to change
Once Nintendo starts making balancing changes and be sure to let me know who's your favorite smash ultimate main and let's get right into this
Kicking off. Our list is Roy. I mean, this is a pretty great one Roy made his debut back in super smash bros. Melee
Where he was widely considered one of the worst characters in the game
He made a return in smash 4 but was really only seen as a mid tier character at best
But he's been buffed hard for ultimate
He is currently seen as a top tier character
Now Roy retains his high damage output from melee in smash 4, but his movement speed and his combo potential have been greatly
Improved and one of Roy's biggest problems in melee was the fact that he had virtually no kill setups
but now now that he has better movement that problem has been solved and he is definitely
One of the best characters in the game right now
Next up we have sonic now sonic debuted in Brawl, but really wasn't that great
He was fast and had some cool moves
But the brawl meta wasn't very kind to him and he was pushed down into the mid tiers
He returned in smash 4 and got a pretty nice buff into the high tiers and saw a good amount of tournament play
But that still wasn't the best around however smash ultimate is changing. All of that Sonic is currently a top tier character
Thanks to his great speed and insane combo potential. He also boasts a pretty nice vertical recovery
Although his horizontal movement off stage leaves something to be desired and overall
This is the best version of Sonic in the smash series to date
He's definitely going to be getting into some tournament placements at number eight
We have Sheik with the exception of brawl Sheik is pretty much always been a top tailor character in Smash
He's been can one of the top-five best characters in both. Melee and smash board even in brawl her worst appearance
She was still a solid mid tier character now smash ultimate
It seems that nothing has really changed for the hyrule ninja and that's definitely a good thing for you chic players
Chic retains her excellent speed and combo game from previous smash titles as well as their godly edgeguarding tools from melee
Smash Altman is definitely a faster game that smashed for so chic is really getting to show off her strengths now just like she did
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At number 7. We are going to go with Mewtwo now
This is this is one that most smash players probably did not see coming
Mewtwo first appeared in melee where he was honestly pretty terrible
But he got a pretty hard buff in smash 4. We was considered to be high tier
He went from the bottom to the top
But I don't think anybody was really expecting to be one of the best characters around in an ultimate Mewtwo boast
Great power and pretty ridiculous range thanks to his psychic abilities his forward smash is pretty insane and his up throw will deal
ridiculous knock back and even kill off the top of the stage at hyper since then on top of all that
His recovery gets pretty great distance and he's invincible for it making him very hard to kill
Offstage, I think most people are pretty excited to see some competitive Mewtwo players burst onto the scene
It's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out
Especially as the meta changes as we go in Nintendo starts to do some balancing
At number 6. We have another big buff that I don't really think anybody expected
I'm talking about
Ike
Now Ike first appeared in brawl where he was considered to be I guess a mid tier character and then he returned in smash 4
And he was once again kind of locked into that mid tier range
But with the changes to the core gameplay
In smash ultimate Ike strains have finally been given a chance to shine and he is now considered to be one of the best
Characters in the game at launch his sword gives him a nice jointed hitbox
and he I mean he has great kill potential and his combo game is great right now the only downside to Ike
As of right now is that his recovery is pretty predictable and keeping me off stage isn't really that hard to do right now
But aside from that he is a great solid character to use and there's a lot of people that are taking a liking to it
Number five and this isn't going to surprise anybody
Cloud now cloud first appeared in smash 4 it was one of the most used characters in
Competitive play he was he was basically spammed
In fact many smash 4 players consider him to be the second best character in the game behind viennetta
So it really it's not a surprise
It shouldn't be a surprise that cloud is back in the top tier category again in smash ultimate
he's a very easy character to get kills with thanks to his disjointed hit boxes as a
Ridiculous limiter moves much like Ike like we talked about earlier clouds recovery
Isn't that great and it's actually pretty predictable but that can be forgiven when you consider all the crazy stuff
He can do when he is on the stage
Now number 4. We're gonna go with Diddy Kong. This is another one. That's probably not going to surprise many people
Did he made his smash debut back in Brawl where he was considered? He was pretty high up on the list
I have top 5 top 10 probably and then when he came back in smash 4 he was undoubtedly one of the best
characters in the game
well
Here he is again in the top 5
For smash ultimate Diddy Kong has a ton of strengths in previous games and pretty much all of those
well
He brought them with them
to ultimate including his projectiles his banana peels his good recovery his solid speed and
His insane combo potential. I mean honestly, he's kind of like the total package right now
Some would say he could actually use a nerf right out of the gate
so we're gonna see if Nintendo listens to the community on that one or how they handle that because there's gonna be a lot of
Community outreach us a lot of feedback
Coming in on who should be nerfed who should be buffed who should be taken out. So on and so forth
It's gonna be interesting to see how the meta evolves as we go
Number three, we have Marth martha's another character has been on top for a long time in Smash in melee
He is almost unanimously considered one of the top three characters in the game in Brawl
He was considered to be in the top five and in smash 4 he was definitely hovering in the higher tiers
So for ultimate he's going to be taking that high tier spot once again and in great fashion Martha's great kill potential
Thanks to his tipper smash attacks
And even when you don't get the sweet spot on his moves, they are still going to deal a ton of damage and knock-back
I mean killing enemies extremely early on in the smaller stages. Yes, sir
Marks recovery has always been his weakness and that's the case once again in ultimate
But but if you're a Marth player who still hasn't figured out how to recover well with him
It's it's kind of on you at this point
You you've got to figure that part out because all of the pluses with this guy are really really good
number two
We're gonna go with snake now snake was a fan favorite character in brawl
And he was a day I would say he was a top 10 character in the game when it comes to competitive play
however
He was absent in smash 4 so fans are
Obviously stoked to see that he is back in ultimate but much like Mewtwo that we talked about earlier
I don't think anybody was expecting him to be this dominate especially being up here in the top three
I mean top to snake is ridiculous in smash ultimate thanks to his speed his killing power his projectiles
And yes his insane
Recovery, he's covering all those tools
He has something for pretty much every situation so far and on top of that he has one of the best taunts in the game
By far so you're going to see a lot of people that are running snake and there are people talking already
saying that he is going to need a nerf very very quickly because he literally covers all
Aspects of the game right now in a number one this kind of makes me smile
Pikachu that's right
Another character who has been on top of the smash world ever since the start
Pikachu has been in every single smash game and has always been a pretty solid pick in the original smash on 64
Pikachu as unanimously considered the best character in the game in melee Pikachu was nerfed a bit
But he was still a high tier character and umbral
Pikachu was once again a top 10 character and in Smash for Pikachu held on to that high tier position
he was always he's always been floating around the top, but it
at the n64 s Pikachu dominance is making a return with smash ultimate because this version of Pikachu is
Starting to look like the best character in the game right now peek is fast. He hits hard. He has great recovery
he's very small and hard to combo and has a ton of
options for just about every scenario you can ask for if you ask me I think
Pikachu is going to be one of the most played characters once the competitive scene for smash ultimate picks up
So if you're trying to get into the competitive
You should probably get pretty good with snake and you should probably get pretty good with Pikachu and there you go guys
Those right now at launch literally the days where the games only been out for a day is our list for the 10 best smash
ultimate characters obviously
This is going to change it is going to reshuffle over and over and over but if you're getting the game
You aren't gonna go wrong
Taking any one of these 10 characters right now to get good at hope you guys enjoyed if you found it informative
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