Brawl Ranks (Not A Tier List). This is copypasta from the original thread here. This list is compiled from various tournament results. It is an empirical list that reflects how well particular characters and the various players using them performed. Understand that the popularity of a character and variances in player ability do greatly affect the list.
Characters were awarded points based on tournament performance. +1 for placing top8, +3 for placing top4, +5 for winning a tournament.
S Rank
Snake (26 top8, 24 top4, 16 wins, 178 pts)
Meta Knight (29 top8, 30 top4, 7 wins, 154 pts)
A Rank
King Dedede (7 top8, 14 top4, 6 wins, 79 pts)
Mr. Game & Watch (17 top8, 9 top4, 7 wins, 79 pts)
Wario (5 top8, 8 top4, 9 wins, 74 pts)
Marth (18 top8, 14 top4, 2 wins, 70 pts)
ROB (14 top8, 13 top4, 3 wins, 68 pts)
Pikachu (3 top8, 12 top4, 3 wins, 54 pts)
B Rank
Wolf (11 top8, 11 top4, 1 win, 49 pts)
Falco (6 top8, 8 top4, 3 wins, 45 pts)
Donkey Kong (6 top8, 5 top4, 3 win, 36 pts)
Ike (11 top8, 5 top4, 2 wins, 36 pts)
Fox (7 top8, 7 top4, 1 win, 33 pts)
Toon Link (3 top8, 6 top4, 2 wins, 31 pts)
Kirby (1 top8, 8 top4, 1 win, 30 pts)
Peach (3 top8, 7 top4, 1 win, 29 pts)
Olimar (11 top8, 6 top4, 29 pts)
Ice Climbers (5 top8, 6 top4, 1 win, 28 pts)
Lucario (4 top8, 4 top4, 2 wins, 26 pts)
Pit (6 top8, 3 top4, 2 wins, 25 pts)
Sonic (4 top8, 3 top4, 2 wins, 23 pts)
C Rank
Zero Suit Samus (3 top8, 3 top4, 1 win, 17 pts)
Lucas (4 top8, 4 top4, 16 pts)
Diddy Kong (7 top8, 3 top4, 16 pts)
Sheik (1 top8, 3 top4, 1 win, 15 pts)
Luigi (1 top8, 4 top4, 13 pts)
Bowser (2 top8, 3 top4, 11 pts)
Ness (3 top8, 1 top4, 1 win, 11 pts)
Mario (5 top8, 1 top4, 10 pts)
Jigglypuff (3 top8, 2 top4, 9 pts)
Zelda (1 top 8, 2 top4, 7 pts)
D Rank
Captain Falcon (2 top4, 6 pts)
Ganondorf (3 top8, 1 top4, 6 pts)
Link (2 top8, 1 top4, 5 pts)
Pokémon Trainer (1 top8, 1 top4, 4 pts)
Yoshi (1 top4, 3 pts)
Samus (2 top8, 2 pts)
Edited, May 19th 2008 5:10am by Allegory