Tier Lists - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Guide

This page collects community and professional Super Smash Ultimate Tier Lists of the best characters to use in Smash Bros. Ultimate. Over time, pro players and other outlets such as the SSBU Reddit community release their Tier Lists for Smash Ultimate and rankings of all the fighters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, ranking them based on time spent with the fighters and how viable they are.

Note that these community tier lists are meant to be subjective opinions derived from experts in the fighting game community - but they are not definitive rankings overall, especially for casual players.

Official Rankings and Tier Lists for Smash Ultimate

The Smash Bros. Ultimate game has little info presented on ranking its own fighters - however there are a few pieces of info given in the tips section that offers definitive confirmations of certain characters abilities - listed below:

Highest Jumpers	Most Jumps	Heaviest	Lightest	Fastest	Fastest (Walk)	Slowest (Walk)
Falco	Jigglypuff (6)	Bowser	Pichu	Sonic	Marth / Lucina	Incineroar
Greninja	Meta Knight (6)	King K. Rool	Jigglypuff	Captain Falcon	Fox	Robin
Zero Suit Samus	Kirby (6)	Donkey Kong / King Dedede	Mr. Game & Watch / Squirtle	Little Mac	-	Jigglypuff

Sakurai On Rankings

In his weekly Famitsu column, Sakurai explained part of his outlook on how fighters are updated and balanced, and why tier lists don't always play a role in this decision:

"player-created estimation of each character's strength...differ pretty greatly from our records." For fighters like King K. Rool, "his victory rate was 51.9%, and in Elite Smash it was 48.9%," so he doesn't really see a need to adjust him.

As far as character usage in a given week, the most used was Cloud, with Ganondorf being the top choice for Elite Smash, even though his "win-rate was only around 47.9%, which is on the lower end of the rankings."

r/SmashBros (SSBU) Reddit Tier List

This Super Smash Ultimate tier list was made by compiling 14,320 votes from the Reddit SSBU community. You can read the entire explanation on how this list was created in the r/SmashBros tier list thread. This list was published Dec 28th, 2018.

RankedBoost Super Smash Ultimate Tier List

The following list was created by the folks at RankedBoost, who have evaluated their tier based on weight, aerial movement, run speed, and dash - as well as other factors. This list was last updated on January 19th, 2019 See all of their details here.

S-Tier	Chrom, Ike, Inkling, Lucina, Marth, Peach, Pichu
A-Tier	Bayonetta, Cloud, Daisy, Donkey Kong, Falco, Fox, Link, Olimar, Pikachu, Roy, Sonic, Wolf
B-Tier	Bowser, Captain Falcon, Diddy Kong, Ganondorf, Greninja, Isabelle, Ivysaur, Metaknight, Palutena, Pokemon Trainer, Richter, Sheik, Shulk, Simon, Snake, Squirtle, Wario, Yoshi, Young Link
C-Tier	Charizard, Corrin, Incineroar, Ken, King K. Rool, Lucas, Mewtwo, Mii Swordfighter, Ness, Piranha Plant, R.O.B., Ridley, Toon Link, Zelda, Zero Suit Samus
D-Tier	Dark Pit, Dark Samus, Lucario, Mario, Mii Brawler, Mii Gunner, Pit, Rosalina & Luma, Ryu, Samus, Villager, Wii Fit Trainer
E-Tier	Bowser Jr., Dr. Mario, Jigglypuff, King Dedede, Luigi, Mega Man, Mr. Game & Watch,
F-Tier	Duck Hunt, Ice Climbers, Kirby, Little Mac, Pac-Man, Robin,

ZeRo's Updated Super Smash Ultimate Tier List

The following table was put together by notable Smash 4 eSports player ZeRo, who put together a tier list based on his time with the game after the first day the game was out and based on his time playing characters at preview events. This list was updated on January 19th, 2019.

Top Tier	Inkling, Chrom, Pikachu, Peach, Olimar, Lucina, Marth, Yoshi, Mewtwo, Lucario
High Tier	Richter, Simon, Lucario, Roy, Link, Young Link, Mewtwo, Palutena, Ike, Cloud, Samus, Dark Samus, Lucas, Pit, Snake, Shulk, Ryu, Ken, Pichu, Pokemon Trainer, Mega Man, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Bowser, King K. Rool, Ness, Isabelle, Villager, Wario, Toon Link, Fox, Zero Suit Samus, R.O.B., Robin, Meta Knight, Duck Hunt, Mii Swordfighter, Diddy Kong
Mid Tear	Luigi, Dr. Mario, Wolf, Mario, Sheik, Bayonetta, Incineroar, Captain Falcon, Ganondorf, Falco, Pac-Man, Zelda, Ice Climbers, Mr. Game & Watch, Ridley, Greninja, Mii Brawler, Mii Gunner, Jigglypuff, Dunk Hunt, Bowser Jr., Wii Fit Trainer, Corrin, Rosalina & Luma, King Dedede
Low Tier	Little Mac, Kirby

Leffen's Super Smash Ultimate Updated Tier List

The following table was put together by Smash Melee eSports player TSM|Leffen, who also created his list after spending the day playing as most of the characters and created an early tier list. This list was updated on December 14th, 2018.

S-Tier	Inkling, Mewtwo, Chrom, Roy, Peach, Daisy, Pokemon Trainer, Richter, Simon, Pikachu, Corrin, Pichu, Yoshi, Falco
A-Tier	Shulk, Marth, Lucina, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Meta Knight, Wolf, Sonic, R.O.B.
B-Tier	Fox, Incineroar, Palutena, Bowser, King K. Rool, Ike, Young Link, Zero Suit Samus
C-Tier	Greninja, Ridley, King Dedede, Olimar, Mii Gunner, Jigglypuff, Mii Brawler, Ryu, Luigi, Wario, Toon Link, Ken, Sheik, Cloud
D-Tier	Mario, Dr. Mario, Ness, Mii Swordfighter, Duck Hunt, Robin, Lucas, Mr. Game & Watch, Rosalina & Luma, Dark Pit, Pit, Bayonetta, Captain Falcon
E-Tier	Pac-Man, Snake, Ice Climbers, Zelda, Ganondorf, Bowser Jr., Villager, Isabelle, Mega Man, Kirby, Dark Samus, Samus, Little Mac, Link, Greninja, Wii Fit Trainer

Event Hubs Super Smash Ultimate Rankings

The following is a list of community voted tier rankings for all character in Smash Bros as voted by matchups at the EventHubs website. This list was last updated on January 19th, 2018

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