Virtua Fighter series.

This is HUGE in my opinion.

The first time I dueled Shea, we broke even but she used the cape constantly and I didn't use it at all.  It felt like an uphill battle all the way.  These days I'm really playing up the cape and Mario is much easier to use.  I slaughtered iclim4's Toon Link thanks mostly to the cape (Riot might remember that Brawl).

Really? O.o

I laugh at the people that think SSBB is anywhere close to taking the most skill as a fighting game.

1. VF
2. SF (3rd strike)
3. Tekken
4. GG
5. Melty blood

Ironically the bottom listing are these games

Soul Calibur
DOA
SSB (brawl is the worst in terms of depth of the entire franchise)

I find it that the simpler and more user friendly a game is, the more popular it is.

mortal kombat series up to mk trilogy. to get the kombos is hard to do and takes kill to do it. not to mention speed at the execution of the moves. i have played mk 2 alot if u havnt noticed. button mashing is death in mk. ive beaten tekken 2 the first time i played it by button mashing. i have a video of me and a buddy playing mk2 on the snes and it was one of thos matches everyone would be like wow.

I'm fairly sure he is, anyway--he should be.  His side-A does almost 30%, all of his attacks are very high-powered, he has major super-frames for many attacks...and yet he still moves at a decent speed

Basically, he's got the power of a heavy character with the speed of a middleweight.

Mortal Kombat - damn fatalities are like a gang handshake they're so complicated

Ah Mortal Kombat... I remember winning matches by sweeping over and over or jump kicking over and over.

MK2 was just silly.  I liked using everyone (much like SSB) so I used Shang Tsung and memorized everyone's moves.  ^_^

Sink, Ike is actually more around mid tier, with Link at low. At least, based on the community's general consensus and tournament results =p

Killer Instinct was good for skill. Button bashing never got you and ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA!!!