User blog comment:Radical M/The Top Ten Wii Games/@comment-1581765-20120815160827/@comment-2186558-20120815163531

Though I do agree about the tier list not being the only thing that decides strength, if two players of equal skill were playing on Final Destination with items turned off, chances are, the one on the higher tier would win, because some characters are stronger then others. That's not to say they're hugely over-powered, but some characters could use a slight nerf (like Meta Knight needs his attacks slowed down a little, that and his good recovery are the main reason he's the only S-tier).

Again, though, High Tier characters don't always beat Low Tiers, I actually use Jigglypuff a lot (though my main is Wolf, who actually is relativly high-tier [16, would be higher but his up-B sucks]), and Jigglypuff is near the bottom (36).