What Today's Pic tells Us About Balancing.

[Artisan]

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAABnUYoLvcKM4A
The usage/KO stats are shown today and since this is from Sakurai's 3DS we can guess Sakurai used it to test the balancing for himself. I do remember in an E3 event someone from the Treehouse said Sakurai thought Samus was too OP (I'm not making this up) so that's why I can assume this was on when testing to give us evidence of what characters we might like the best (usage wise) since he worked longer on them. And Meta Knight has been trouble in SSBB for being too strong and therefore Meta Knight was worked on a long time and shown to the public near the end of his moveset completion. Anyone agree or disagree?

 

[Kyubey]

I like their new movesets. I'm not sure about Samus being OP, but I have seen that Meta Knight seems to be balanced a bit, and goes for more balanced gameplay. I'm curious how the "tiers" of Sm4sh will turn out..... Maybe it will be based on these charts as guidelines

Kudos to Sakurai for letting us figure out who's strong by ourselves XD

 

[Magik]

Kirby if used correctly can be op, but you'd have to be good with him. As for samus? I thought he was ok for1v1 matches and meta knight was good too but hard to use

 

[Ashkil]

Samus seems OP, but not to the extent that she needs to be banned from tournaments. I think she can be beaten by others.
Meta Knight has been balanced out quite a bit and he's no longer the destroying monster he used to be.