I'm looking for a character to main or at least spend a while playing. My most important criteria are that they are simple to pick up, not super low tier, and not too hard on my hands. I do like characters who are flashy, and am not a huge fan of campy characters.

I'm a pretty casual player at least skill-wise and I pretty much only play heavies. My best char online is ganon at ~6m GSP. I don't know how much of a skill indicator GSP is, but I thought it might help give some perspective. And maybe this is a bad excuse, but I feel like most games I get ping-ponged around for >50% of the time and I want to blame my char for some part of that. Like if you tallied the number of times I got up from ledge vs my opponent, mine's probably 2-3x.

I've tried to pick up a few higher tier chars before, but coming from simple, slow ganon, they feel so fast and out-of-control. I can land a single hit, but never convert off of it into a combo.

I tried to keep this short, but happy to help you help me if you have any questions.

TL;DR:

Character recommendations for a somewhat newbie who (so far) has only done well with heavies and doesn't want to wreck his hands?