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Tier Lists: Yay or Nay?

Hey guys! I was just wondering about how you all feel about tier lists. It seems to me that every time a tier list comes up, half of TYM is into it and the other half wishes that OP never even bothered. Personally, I don't see how tier lists can help people improve themselves, the community, or even in general. But I find them to be a lot of fun to look at and to make. It just feels nice to me to see it all organized on a chart, I guess. So what do you guys think? Can tier lists be practical? Are they just harmless fun? Or should we just stop?
 

lm Tweakk

#BuffAntiAirs
A tier list is ok every once in a while , but only If the game has changed or evolved in some way , we all have a general con census of where everyone is , just leave it at that.
 

Cossner

King of the Jobbers 2015
Most accurate list was made by SonicBoomBrad and Ducknation, based on the amount of good and bad match ups each character had, similar to what BillStickers did in MK9.

The community response? N4h 1 Ju$t l0$T t8 tH4t cHAarcT3R Th3Rf4r H3S toop T13rR!!!




 

Gesture Required Ahead

Get on that hook
You're right they're not important in learning the game in any way, shape or form. But people love to feel themselves and stroke their egos. That is what Tier Lists are for.

DS bottom 5 I deserve every win I get 'cause I play out of my mind :DOGE
 

SaltShaker

In Zoning We Trust
No one has really been talking about them in a while, and one guy makes a thread and people go crazy.

I seriously have no idea what the big issue is. Many players and watchers of the game enjoy discussing character placements. No one goes into a tier thread saying, "yes this discussion is going to make my main better", that's what the character forum is for, which I'm sure everyone visits. Also, the discussion gets people's points of view across outside of your own on characters levels, how they face up against other characters, etc, and a lot of times if you're open minded you can learn seeing things from a different perspective. I might have felt a certain way about Raven vs Hawkgirl, but a few months ago i had a great discussion on the matchup in a tier thread that i learned from involving facing HG. Unless of course you're one of those people who thinks they're view is the only view, there are plenty of times you can have good debates and conversations in tier threads.

At the end of the day, people are always going to want to talk about the characters of the game they play. Whether it be after tournaments, because it hasn't been done in a while, or just to start conversation, tiers will be talked about until the game is dead. If you're one of those people that think "o talking about tiers is soooo stupid. I'm too Alpha for that. I discuss tiers 3 years in the game's life minimum. I practice 7 hours a day. That 240 seconds you took writing that post you could be leveling up" then there's a simple solution.

Stay out of the tier lists threads to allow people who enjoy the discussion to, well, discuss and enjoy it, and post in the threads that interest you. Simple as that.
 

Protagonist_1

Champion
I don't mind tier list, I just don't bother looking at them. Discussion about them is fine for me, though no matter who makes it (I don't care if you Daigo Umehara), you should always have some doubt or room for it to change, because at the end of the day, it's just theoretical guessing based on your own knowledge, not fact.

Now what I do like to see is matchup and situational discussion, that is something we need to see more of than tier list IMO.
 

@MylesWright_

I'll be back 3ing
I think everyone pretty much knows where each characters stands on the tier list anyway. Anyone putting Killer Frost within Top 15 clearly does not play this game
 

trufenix

bye felicia
Tier list threads are worthless, what little productivity arises within them would be suited better a thousandfold to character forums and matchup threads. Injustice isn't even remotely ready for a tier list yet.