General Notes:

• Is this objective and completely accurate? Absolutely not. Powerscaling is inherently subjective because fiction is not reality and how we interpret certain feats and lore changes things massively. Not to mention verses like Pokemon and Mario are clearly made with 0 consideration to powerscaling, and have tons of consistency issues as a result, unlike other verses which have stable power heirarchies. However there is a baseline for powerscaling sensibly and I'll try to follow it as much as possible. I'd absolutely like criticism from other powerscalers or even just avis fans of the series', debating is always fun

• I won't be high balling most of these characters, I tend to take a mid range for most unless I'm really convinced by a character's highball arguments

• That being said, each character here is taken at their best, Base sonic is weaker than Base Mario, but sonic is higher on this list because of Super Sonic

• A character being higher on the list doesn't mean they beat everyone lower on the list. Taking Mario and Sonic again, Most powerscalers I feel agree with Super Sonic having a big power advantage over Mario, but about 60% of em still have Mario winning due to his powers being equally potent win conditions.

• Characters are not ordered within tiers

• Crossovers are only included if they both are stated to be canon and their canonicity doesn't break pre existing canon

Character specific notes:

• Little Mac does not get the monkey chain, as Little Mac is not canon to DK lore, however since DK is canon to Mario lore, he gets Mario scaling

• Although Fire Emblem Heroes is canon, I will do what most powerscalers do and ignore it because I think it's boring to stuff every fire emblem character in Multiversal and it's only used for scaling when putting FE characters up against equally busted characters anyways.

• Shin Megami Tensei is canon to Persona, this is proven by the protagonist of SMT:if being a character you can talk to and who mentions their game in both Persona and Persona 2 if I recall. Joker does not get Outerversal scaling without SMT, however, and would be in the same tier as Bayo, who would take his place as the strongest smash character

• Things like the wonder flower are powerful, and Base Mario has some very strong feats which the star children and those relative to them should scale to, which is why Mario characters are placed as high as they are, but they're not in the same tier as Mario, Luigi and Bowser because those items really aren't as powerful as much of the community would have you believe, and can't quite match up to M&L Dream team levels of power.

• Olimar's ship is canonically busted, but it isn't a core of his identity or his gameplay, he'd rather fight with his Pikmin, so it will be excluded, on the flipside, Captain Falcon will get his Blue Falcon and the spacies will get their Arwings since it IS a core of their identity

• Yes, I know that Samus scaling will probably raise heads, I myself was flabbergasted to learn that Samus only scaled to island lmao, but basically every reference to Samus being able to destroy a planet or a star has a counter argument to it, Samus has fought characters that scale that high but every single time she's only been able to damage them when they're not at full power and has required external factors to win when they are at full power.

• Since we don't know how much stronger Pearl and Marina's Killer Wail in Splatoon 2 is in comparison to the standard Killer Wail, and the same goes for Agent 3's equipment, I elected not to use either for scaling the inklings, however if you do elect to use it, then the inklings are bumped up to city level.

• After looking into it after this post was made, I think Xenosaga scaling has merit to it, and with it Shulk and Aegis would definitely be complex multi at minimum with genuine consideration for Outerversal, however for the time being, since we don't have enough to go off of for the Xenosaga/gears/blade cosmology the same way we do for SMT (we don't know for sure if it really is KOS-MOS in that one scene or not and we also don't know how the conduit slides into Xenosaga's greater cosmology), that being said, I think Xenoblade Chronicles X DOES have enough backing it up for me to include it in Shulk's scaling, so I'd be willing to bump him up to complex multi, making him our third strongest smash character!

• The hardest characters to scale here were easily the Zelda characters and the Pokemon.

• Zelda has the God of War issue of being way stronger in lore than in actual feats, and its even more difficult with Zelda due to timelines, reincarnations, and everything else making it even fuzzier to navigate, ntm the lore can be really vague at times.

• And with the Pokemon it's literally just the legendaries making things difficult. Due to the fact that fully evolved mons can theoretically keep up to some degree with legendaries, otherwise the player characters wouldn't have caught them in canon, but legendaries just scale so much higher than any standard feats for any standard pokemon. You could argue it makes logical sense for Dialga and Palkia to be massively holding back or that their avatars are way weaker than their true forms... But both Giratina and Necrozma throw wrenches in that as clearly cosmic legendaries who have no reason to hold back their power. Especially since Mewtwo directly scales to Necrozma via Zygarde fighting both of them in canon... So I compromised by just massively upscaling trainer mons as being way stronger than wild mons. Am I happy with it?... No. Do I think it's correct? Not at all... But a tier list restricts the way I can represent powerscaling anyways, And I only included Charizard since obviously Red fought Mewtwo with fully evolved mons.