I wholeheartly disagree with this statement, I dont think megaman has the best neutral as you are making it to be and his stage control isnt as good as you are making it be.

I never said he has the best neutral, i said he has the best zoning game, and honestly this community really doesnt understand how important stage control really is and with that many tools in his disposal, MM has a really, really good time covering options and forcing people into awful positions.

But overall, this is one of the weaker tier list I have seen. While its not an obnoxiously bad one, it has a lot of flawed placements in general and I'm suprised that the Backroom of all things (Which is strict as hell on its applicants even rejecting good candidates that are top level players) made this tier list. This should have been A LOT better tbh. And I'm just thoroughly disappointed with what they came up with.

There was actually a weird way we did this, so I won't explain everything but I will say our methodology did leave some characters higher or lower than they actually should've been.
In this case, it put MM higher than most people thought, Sheik lower(IMO), but overall there weren't too many discrepencies when making this. You guys honestly shouldn't look at the exact placings of each character (OMG PUFF AT 27!!!!), but instead look at the tiers that they're in. Each character's specific placing was very hard to get a general consensus on and therefore the characters in each tier can basically be interchangeable.

Could the list of each contributing BR member also include who those players primarily play as?

I can sort that for you at some point

Aight, smear aside, lemme tell you this straight.

- Literally got straight buffs, still has an amazing recovery with float and teleport, can trigger Kaioken off his side-b which is actually stupid lol, he has a chaingrab and any nerfs that he did get have meant absolute piss all because he's mostly just received straight buffs in the transition from 9b to Beta
- You're really overlooking the good stuff here. 0-death Rufio combos are possible with the new shuttle loop, his recovery pretty much got straight buffed with the teleport, he has a throw that sets up into his DSmash free and he's received lots of other buffs that offset the minimal nerfs he received.
- Sonic Thrust is kinda situational and Tempest shouldn't be your main recovery option now that Rising Falcon exists and restores your jump. Lloyd has a pretty good combo game, can still kill pretty well and still has a really good neutral. The nerfs reworked him, but he's still a really damn good character.
- Ichigo got a massive speed buff, which makes his only flaw his slightly poor recovery and slow kill moves. He's now genuinely a really scary character to deal with as so many of his quick moves have massive range and good combo ability. Ichigo can't be rushed down as easily anymore.
- Arrows give him a super threatening offstage and neutral game. His combo ability is good and he kills a lot earlier than he probably should because lol up air. You should be very afraid when fighting against Pit because he's a damn good character.
- Luigi's traction and slow speed make his neutral a lot worse than Mario's, and whilst his close range punish game is incredible, Mario just finds most foes a lot easier to deal with in terms of actually getting in, because the dash speed buff, whereas Luigi has to really take risks to approach sometimes.
- She's got good setups yes, however, in a metagame where swordsmen and characters with long range and good kill power reign, Puff really fails. She dies super early and some of the higher tier matchups are just super rough.
- A character who relies heavily on gimmicks. This means that as soon as you know how to counterplay his gimmicks, the matchup instantly goes into your favour. Pacman is only really doing so well because he has a dedicated top player (Kyoz) maining him.
- Nope, he's fine where he is. You can be throwing out constant hitboxes against this character and be completely safe for him because he has to overcommit hard whenever he takes an action.
- Range issues, something that's very prominent in this meta, his combo game took a hit because he's too fast for his own good, and there were some startup and endlag increases on moves that should have been key parts of his kit, leave Sonic to just be an underwhelming character.
- Chibi got 9b Sora'd hard. He has a great neutral because of the projectile changes, but Chibis best kill moves were nerfed to have literally no power to them so he either has to land a cheeky dair or land a smart smash attack in order to kill, which can be really difficult.
- The unconventional nature and general slow speed the character possesses leaves the character to have a horrendous neutral with an exceptional punish game. Sandbag relies on characters getting close so he can heftily punish them, but only a couple of charaecters actually need to get close to do damage and the rest of the cast can just play out of Sandbag's effective range. Also, his recovery leaves him at a disadvantage if he's forced to up-b as he's in hitstun so could accidentally seal his own fate by being edgeguarded after the explosion, or from the fact he'll die if he uses his Up-B past a certain %.
- Still is maintaining a presence thanks to Corvid and Drarky, unexplored character who still has some fairly good tools in his kit, despite some large nerfs.
- Not really hugely compensated for the nerfs he received and got completely left behind by the rest of the cast in terms of power. He sucks now because the nerf to his zoning is compensated by the buff too everyone else's projectiles and the need to really have good range or speed to make up for it in this meta

I disagree and I fail to see how he has the best zoning tools in the game. In fact, Thats compeltely false, you cant be good at zoning AND one of the slowest characters in the game at the same time. You cant have stage controls being that slow. A decent Fox can just, literally, laser camp you and evade all of your projectile game.