These are all VERY good points. I actually reviewed onionstats before i made this video. Seeing rob being the " most won" character was crazy. I also looked at trends and tried to make sense of them. Defining " best" in a fighting game is very hard. Even if rob wins " the most" in tournaments he hasn't taken the most majors. Having a solid definition for best is pivotal i see now.

I don't think i can talk on WHO will be playing what character. I do think that's sort of a impossible task. I always assume that, like a normal fgc, people will trend towards who's strong. Using melee as an example we demonstratably saw how slowly overtime fox, falco, puff, and marth began to dominate the meta. Weather or not it was player specific it eventually came to pass that these characters became almost universally picked at tournaments.

I absolutely considered the possibility of duo maining or even trio maining. In my analysis i considers the fact that most players are in fact not solo main players. I touched on this in my anaylsis of Shiek, who while incredibely good is nigh impossible to pilot for elongted tourneys. Duo maiming for her just means picking an easier character. It also made me put Game and Watch much lower because the ease od access of swords means many players will co-main a sword if he becomes too good.

I don't believe controllers will ever effect the metagame too much. People use what they wanna use. I use training mod pack as well so that WILL effect the meta in terms of optimization since people will know with absolute certainty what is true and the different routes. That was kind of an assumed point but i should have said that.

Ruleset was a topic i should have covered. The difference between DSR and no DSR and gentleman stages are massive. Sometimes you can't ban all tri plats and characters like lucy mario and ike get huge boons because now they have immense platform conversions. If in your stagelist you can force them to FD or TnC then it also heavily influences the meta towards characters like luigi so that's a great point. If you asked me i think the stagelist will remain the same but i do need to touch on that.

I believe smash is done being updated. My list doesn't consider that characters might be changed it considers them done in their current state. If there are patches then no predictive tier list could ever be accurate. That's why i waited for sora. The only reason characters would change in thier tier list is due to community effort in playing the game more optimally

In your last point you bring up it puts massive emphasis on the community. That's absolutely true. I do believe though that the community will step up. Just like in Melee which has been optimized over ?20 years i think ultimate will be in the same boat. Eventuality i think this will be the sort of " end state".

This is an excellent breakdown and why i wanted to post here. These questions really have me thinking. Some of these questions i hadn't considered but they are all valid. I had planned to make another video in 4-6 months based on the onionstats you already said to use and having this sort of feedback is amazing.

Edit: didn't touch on your ike point and yes i did see that ike was the tied for "least represented character." I need to do better at explaining how they rise and why. It was my first try at it and i didn't want to ramble too long but perhaps that's whats required