Killer Instinct Community Tier List v1, 1-27-17 KI 3.6

Super low confidence values don’t inspire much, well, confidence. If a character has an interval of 20%, then what is that really telling you besides these character specialists have wildly different opinions about a certain fight? There’s clearly a gap in perspective between the two people who are supposed to be evaluating these characters at their theoretical maximum capability, but that’s all it says. It’s interesting as a thought piece perhaps, but it’s also nice when a first glance at the “community” tier list doesn’t elicit a “wtf” from the viewer (i.e. Jago in B or C tier in the first one).

Personally, I think the more useful (to the extent a tier list is ever “useful”) tier lists are either those of a specific player (how does JWong think Karin does across the cast), or more aggregate compilations across the community. As a first pass at KI’s character standings, I’d say this list does a pretty good job. I’m interested to see how it evolves as more contributors are added.

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It’s a good read and nice to see how well balanced KI has become.

And personally as a Kim Wu main it’s nice to see her get some cred finally, a very underestimated character. Although she still needs something to make her resource ender more worthwhile. Either damage or multiple dragons dependent on level.

We can provide a link to the spreadsheets so you can see individual people’s charts, that isn’t a problem.

And if anyone feels qualified to join the project, they need simply ask one of our contributors for an invite. We’d love to double the number of users for version 2.

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Some ppl did one. Others did multiple. For example I think heretic stuck to aria where as I had input on Aganos raam gargos and omen and cupcake did charts for a large portion of people.

MFW I’m looking for a character to use versus Fulgore and he’s not beaten by any characters :frowning:

just wait bro cause others changes for banlancing are coming

Garbage list, here’s a better one:

N/A top tier confirmed? No leaks allowed Kappa

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So I’ve been looking at this chart and it seems match-ups ending in “.3” have “.8” as the opposite. I assume this is because of always rounding “.25” and “.75” to the nearest tenth up because of the “.x5”. You might want to go to hundredths if possible next time to avoid a “.1” difference.

Also, I’ve been trying to figure out how many match-ups there are in total, with no duplicates (Jago vs Fulgore and Fulgore vs Jago), or mirrors. Am I correct by multiplying the number of characters (27) by itself, then subtracting 27 from the product, then dividing the difference in half?

The process: 27 x 27 = 729 | 729 - 27 = 702 | 702 / 2 = 351

Is this correct?

Yes that’s right, though i did it the lazy way and just did 26+25+24+23+22+21+…+1=351

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Yeah, this is how google sheets chooses to do the rounding when using its mean and median functions. Its not a big deal.

Rash and ARIA top 5 in 3.6 apparently but where are they at the KIWC?

As you can see,yes

Aria just made top 8…

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Judging from that 5 - 5 chances between RAAM vs Gargos i’d say i am either completely missing a key strategy with Raam or they never pitched two good players using those characters.

Yeah yeah, Sleep had to spoil my point.

Sees all this math… mind goes blank…

I just mash buttons and make beautiful things happen.

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Well at least now you can make the opposite point. Aganos and Raam are at the bottom of the list yet Letalis made top 8.

Move the discussion to the updated tier list here:

I put that as 5-5. And I’ve played all the top gargos players. People just don’t know how to not let gargos get away with things he shouldn’t. Still. And they get too impatient with the General. Least most others that I play. Until gargos gets at least one minion he has to run like hell. And eventually Raam will catch him.

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