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The DEFINITIVE Smash Bros. Canonical Power Tier List

RelaxAlax

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Alax takes on Gods and loses.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 The Super Smash Bros. Canon Power Tier List Rules
05:07 E Tier
07:24 D Tier - Low

10:19 C Tier - Low
13:59 C Tier - Mid
16:09 C Tier - High
21:59 B Tier - Low
27:59 B Tier - Mid
31:40 B Tier - High
34:11 A Tier - Low
37:10 A Tier - Mid
42:46 A Tier - High
48:19 S Tier

FURTHER READING

VS. Battle Wiki was the source for most power scaling descriptions for each character mentioned. It would be repetitive to list all of them, but here are additional research sources provided for calculations and explanations of really dense verses.

Little Mac by Antoniofer and Dalesean027
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Lit...
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...)
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Street Fighter Feat by Jasonsith
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Fatal Fury’s Satellite Laser
https://web.archive.org/web/201607082...
Dragonair destroys a city by Arceus0x
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Deoxys Meteor by StrymULTRA
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Pac-Man feats by CuteAnimeNekoGirl99
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Jack-6 feat by DemonGodMitchAubin
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Donkey Kong Moon feats by ArmorChompy
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Mario Universe Feats by ArmorChompy
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...)
Byleth and Sothis feats by DemonGodMitchAubin
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Jav...)
Samus freezes sun by SomebodyData
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Dark Samus power by DarkDragonMedeus
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Ridley Feats by SomebodyData
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Xenoblade Blades explained
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Bla...
Pyrrhon Pushes Planetary Object by CloverDragon03
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Kirby by Eficiente
Cosmology: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Explanations https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Feats https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Sephiroth’s Supernova and Final Fantasy Scaling by TartaChocholate and Mr_Bambu
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...)
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
*overall, it is heavily debated whether this feat should be taken literally, but given the many sources and explanations of summons being these pocket dimensions that open for the duration, I chose to allow them.
Castlevania Cosmology by Theglassman12
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Dracula’s Ridiculous Feats
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Dra...)
Kingdom Hearts Cosmology by Bobsican
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
Sonic speed calculations
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Use...
https://www.quora.com/How-fast-is-Son...

20 Comments

@relaxalax Creator 2 years ago Pinned

thanks 5 watchin!1!

This was a project done entirely on my own. Editing, research, cutting out stupid pictures for a whiteboard - all your boy. So I totally expect that I overlooked characters here. I mostly tried to order things but within sub tiers I think there's a lot of debate. If you see any contradictions, tell me! I put on a character in the video but I genuinely have no horse in this race and was trying my best here. I will do a followup stream going over comments and my errors in January reading comments and arguing my points.

@josiahgarber3761 2 years ago

Kirby is literally a lovecraftian god of positive energy. That's not even an exaggeration. His inside is a pocket dimension.

@Larree17 2 years ago

I love how Dr. Mario stays on the side the whole time as if he's going to be in S tier but then just never gets placed

@Aidswayz 2 years ago

I always love watching people try to understand children’s game characters in a canon sense. Alax is going crazy over a Piranha Plant’s pipe for example, and the most thought Miyamoto put into it was “Yeah that looks funny. I’m gonna include that”

@Filves1773-n4b 1 year ago

"They call it Final Fantasy, but there are 17 of them" 😭

@calebtanner1384 2 years ago

il like 80% sure kirby holds back for sportsmanship like something in smash limits about everyone's power but kirby is just kinda above that hence why he is able to escape galeem

@danielwilson8604 2 years ago

kirby has canonically survived an entire galaxy exploding. twice, and the second time was so casually it's pretty easy to miss.

@goombaballdasher969 2 years ago

god i love being a kirby fan
I can just sit through this hour long video and be like "I know how this ends"

@Shadoboy 2 years ago

"Goofy probably scales to Sephiroth" is not something I ever expected to hear.

And specially, NOT expected to think "that makes sense".

@EXCUSIB 2 years ago

i love how the top 6 are a hedgehog, a kid, a teenager, a weird guy with a sword, a weird lady with guns and a pink ball

@jonathanflanagan1504 2 years ago (edited)

Little Mac DID also defeat Donkey Kong in a boxing match.
Also it's worth noting that aside from Lucario and Mewtwo, all the other pokemon characters come out of a pokeball in their intro, implying that they are pokemon with trainers, rather than wild pokemon.

@CaptainWobbs 2 years ago

One of my favorite things in any game ever to this day is how if you wait on the “The End” screen in Kid Icarus Uprising, Hades comes back and is like “Wow, I can’t believe Pit killed me, the god of the underworld, that means he must be the strongest Nintendo character”. They know full well that this is the kind of thing we do in our spare time.

@Graphomite 2 years ago

The concept that Kingdom hearts makes "Goofy scales to Sepheroth" a plausible statement is very funny.

@bigmikeymikey 2 years ago

Villager can lift and handle 20 ton whale sharks with ease, man is critically underrated.

@ninjajack6457 2 years ago

Seeing Dededee unranked for most of the video is terrifying

@leolhez 2 years ago (edited)

Fun fact about a Kirby ability:

In Forgotten Land, they get Time Crash, an evolved version of Crash. This allows them to concentrate so much energy into a single point that time just stops working.

Aka, they brute force their way into stopping time.

Edit:
Another Fun Fact about another ability because why not:

Mike is an ability whose effect I can only describe as memetic.
Most people think that it just allows Kirby to sing so loudly that it creates a shockwave, but what's actually happening is that they sing SO BADLY that anyone who hears it laughs to the point of exploding.

Aka, it's audible Joker Venom that blows you up for good measure. Keep that image in your head next time you use Mike.

@myname2896 2 years ago

And let's not forget that Kirby is still just an infant when he does all his stuff.
Adult Kirby must be the most terrifying thing ever

@captainhuntank7963 2 years ago

Like how most of these characters basically go from casual to "beat up god in my spare time or when im midly annoyed", and then there's the kirby lore