Just saying...but Jigglypuff has one of the best combos on Brawl.

So...

No Dan form Street Fighter?

I don't know, I got smacked around pretty hard by someone using Jiggly Puff in SSBM. Talk about adding insult to injury...

Jigglypuff is my little girl's favorite but Jiggly looks harmful in this game XD. It looks like she's (is Jiggly a he or a she anyway?) the girl version of Eddy in Tekken. If I see a WoW characters for Super Smash Bro, that would be totally interesting.

I think in the right hands Dhalsim was a very capable toon. Back in my street fighter days I had a friend that whooped my ass with him on quite a few occasions. Course, on the other hand, that may have been because I sucked.

I *think* the Glass Joe gag is that he beat Gabby Jay, the first opponent in Super Punch-Out.

The idea of Dhalsim is incredibly silly, which is why I would always make fun of him. When I got older and involved in a gaming club with competent gamers, it was quickly brought to my attention that Dhalsim is top tier or near top tier in most games. Especially with that damned Yoga Teleport...

No way should Jigglypuff be on this list, except maybe because it looks like she doesn't belong in a fighting game. She is one tough cookie in the right hands.

I lost to Glass Joe once while I was drinking heavily. A sad, sad day in my home.

Mike, not that I don't appreciate your attempt at humor, but I totally disagree about Dhalsim. Yeah, his concept is a little corny, but the character can really tear it up when you slip into a rhythm with him. He's got the longest range of the classic Street Fighter characters, and his Yoga Fire wrecks competitors. He may be a bit weird, but he kicks ass if you know how to fight with him.

In the new Punch Out, Glass Joe goes to the doctor and finds out that he has a glass jaw, and proceeds to get special headwear to remove his weaknesses and then becomes an actioal threat.

Yeah, I've wanted to kick Fred Durst's talent-free ass for a long time myself. Moreso than Eminem. I especially wanted to do it after having seen that "Revelations" miniseries he was in a few years ago. True to form, his character played a Satanist who always spoke in rhyme. I kept hoping I'd see him get his comeuppance and die horribly by the end, but he was still alive and last seen with a smug smile on his face. Damn him! (And what's with the more genuinely talented Wes Borland doing rejoining Limp Bizkit anyway?)

What is with that picture of Fred Durst??? I am an artist and have taken several figure illustration classes and I cannot figure out what is going on with that pose! Who in bloody hell came up with that?

Fact: Dhalsim is arguably the best fighter in Street Fighter 2, right up there with Old Sagat. This has been proven tournament after tournament for over 15 years now.

Why didn't anyone from Clay Fighter make it on this list? That entire game is crap.

Yeah, not sure why Jigglypuff is on this. She's one of the few characters with an instant KO move.

She's deadly.

@ Nick Marino (and a couple of others)

It's funny -- I'd spent my entire adult life thinking that Dhalsim was worthless until I started trying to find YouTube clips for this article. That's when I found out that players at major tournaments love Dhalsim, in large part because his moves are so unorthodox. My only defense is that if I were using him, you'd certainly think that he was one of the most pathetic characters that has ever graced a screen.

DUDE!!!! What about Dan From Street fighter Alpha 2???? super taunt anyone!

nice list surprised jiggly puff was not higher on the list and also though dalsamie would be number one given how his power is lame and useless in street fighter games

Oh I used to kick ass with Dhalsim. It's about how you use him.

Hey! Kin Corn Kon Rocked! Dont be dissin' him now!

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Dhalsim was NOT pathetic. He could whoop much ass when used properly.

The best Smash Bros. Melee player in the world mains Jigglypuff. Just saying...

For the record, though the sentiment is already out there:

I pwn with Jigglypuff. Makes my Samus and Link loving friends so mad it's almost broken friendships.

Dan from Streetfighter?!

Glass Joe's whole gimmick is to be pathetic. He's a French stereotype, and since the French are apparently pansies, according to Nintendo, he was made weak on purpose. Which is more humorous than it is pathetic.

Dhalsim is far from pathetic. He can really tear it up if you keep him on the offense. Balrog is a better nominee for the pathetic award.

seriously? Do you know anything about Smash? Jigglypuff is actually quite good (at least in the original and in melee) if you have any idea how to use her.

You know, umm... Dhalsim is top tier in many of the games he appears in. The dude is a beast.

Glass Joe's one win was against Gabby Jay from Super Punch Out. It's canon.

It's blatantly clear that the person that wrote this did all of his or her research on Wikipedia. Dhalsim is one of the hardest to master characters in the Street Fighter lineup, yet he can kick some serious ass when used properly. If you're just going to use the internet and the internet only to do your research for your articles, the least you could do is look up some Dhalsim combo videos on Youtube.

Glass Joe's ineptitude was THE JOKE about his character. He's SUPPOSED to be useless. Jigglypuff is one of the best fighters in the Smash series, but that's already been said about 100 times in these comments. And lastly, Rain wasn't in Mortal Kombat 3 or Ultimate MK3 as anything more than a cameo. Rain only appeared in the Mortal Kombat game which was actually called Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Gotta agree with the Pro-Jigglypuff faction. Even the video shows it being used halfway competently, taking advantage of how he/she flies to try and drop the other player into the water.

Of course, when I just wanna be a shit-disturber, I always pick Summer Hat Jigglypuff and spam the song button... :P

An honorable mention for Dan of Street Fighter should really be thrown in there.

Glass Joe won against Gabby Jay, his counterpart in superpunchout

What about John Cena?

Wow you are totally off on some of these:

1) Dhalsim is more than a capable character in the right hands. Go look up some videos of Street Fighter tournaments and youll see a majority of those players using Dhalsim.

2) Same goes for jigglypuff. Using her combos you could be very lethal.

Hey, my sleeping 4-yr-old daughter beat Glass Joe.

I love this list. Awesome post.

@colin: For the record, Balrog is also top-tier on Street Fighter 2 right near the top with Dhalsim.

@Michael Sullivan: Players don't use Dhalsim because he haz teh crazy, if that was his only benefit, other tournament players would have adapted to his tactics and he's be considered lower-tier. Players use him because his moves are better than other characters, hence the reason he's top-tier. Dhalsim is a good keep-away character, a good up-close character, has a good rush down, and has ways to get out of bad situations that others don't. Just because you don't use him well doesn't mean he should be included on a list of pathetic fighting game characters.

@Dan Marek - Balrog is the guy who literally forgot he has legs. While he may be good in the gameplay sense, the idea of someone entering a world fighting tournament and only using his two arms is hilarious. Especially when compared to the giant polar bear wrestling Russian.

why wasn't pichu on here. that pokemon was much weaker than jiggly.

This was written like flame bait. Dhalsim? Have you not played a street fighter past the original part 2? Rain? Have you not seen the devastating combos that guy can produce?

I've never even been to topless robot but I'm damn sure I won't put any sort of credibility into your writing if you allow bloggers like this to post stuff.

This website gets dumber and fucking dumber with the let-wikipedia-write-my-filler shit. Remember the recent top ten that talked about Morrissey being on a Dr. Who episode,when in actuality it was some actor with the same last name? How hard would that have been to spot?
Now we have this dumbass list. Dhalsim and Jigglypuff are top tier characters,for christsakes. You'd know that if you ever PLAYED THE DAMN VIDEO GAMES. "Haha he look funny i can copy x inturtainmint!"

PROTIP:The people who like things like scifi and video games are pretty adapt at figuring out when a writer is actually a fan,or just bullshitting them. Most TR contributors are sadly the latter.

@jestergoblin Good point, but Street Fighter was never about reality. Still, you'd think they would have given him some sort of special ear bite move or SOMETHING, given that half the roster has ridiculous projectile attacks that don't make sense (i.e. Guile shooting a sonic boom from his arms since ... you know ... he can fly a jet).

Granted fight club was a bad game, but the x-ray effect is actually pretty cool.

Jigglypuff was good, in the first two SSB. But in Brawl Jigglypuff is just freaking horrible. The instant KO move that was feared by many was nerfed and it can take up to 3 hits of it to KO some of the larger characters. If it was stipulated that this was jiggly from Brawl this would be true.

"Balrog is the guy who literally forgot he has legs. While he may be good in the gameplay sense, the idea of someone entering a world fighting tournament and only using his two arms is hilarious."

The idea of a world fighting tournament that takes place entirely on the feet is hilarious in and of itself.

Anyway, as a soundbite in the new UFC game noted, Chuck Liddell was very successful in spite of almost never throwing kicks, because they leave you more vulnerable to a takedown and he prefers to keep his fights on the feet.

I can't help but be slightly disturbed that #8 talks about the boobs of a ten year old robot girl. And I don't mean literally ten, I mean built to resemble one.

That's just... well, I'm not one to judge. I'll just be over here, then.

Jigglypuff is actually what one would call a "lethal joke character." She's not as awesome as say Marth or Meta-Knight, but she has some of the best combos in the game if one actually takes time to practice with her. There's actually a really effective aerial technique you can use with her called the "wall of pain" that is most effective because she can basically fly. The real stinker in the Smash Bros. roster was Pichu. He was just like Pikachu, but he hurt himself after every attack. He hurt himself after every attack. It doesn't get more lame than that.

Mr. Sullivan, you clearly don't know very much about what a fighting game actually is and have obviously not played very many of them. I read about half of the article, then went through the rest of the list without reading the commentary. Please don't write about something authoritatively until you actually know something about the subject.

You, know half of these things aren't even fighting games. They're games that involve fighting.

Which, if that's what we're going for, could include a whole lot of video games. By this definition, Dynasty Warriors is a fighting game.

Fix it. 8|

Oh, I forgot to mention that none (if any) of the games you listed have the formulaic plot you laid out at the start.

For the record, it was right that Dan from Street Fighter wasn't in there.

Dan is a shitty character on purpose, and not to give the player an easy win, but because he's a parody of a bunch of other competitors' characters. Putting a purposefully bad parody on a list of bad characters is like cheating.

While being totally correct, everyone remarking about how good dhalsim is needs to stop tacking on the lines "in the right hands" or "when used correctly" in terms of tier list arguments. Those are completely invalid because of how tiers are formulated. Top players don't use dhalsim because them being good makes him good, they use him because his toolset makes him a viable option for high level play just like Dan Marek said.

Also this video doesn't make the case very well from the perspective of the article. While I'm sure I've seen Eggo as a pretty prominent player for HD REMIX, Haru Tejyo was consistently in the top 10 on XBL for HD REMIX and if I remember correctly was #1 for a few weeks.

Why pick on Rain specifically?

Because he's a palate swap? What about Ken from Street Fighter 2? He was a copy of Ryu.

Was it the Prince/ Purple Rain reference? Did you know "Ken" means "to attack" in japanese?

It couldn't be that he was the first palate swap, Reptile was first, using only moves from Scorpion and Sub-Zero in his first appearance. And Ken was STILL a palate swap before him!

How did you decide that Rain had to be where you draw the line? "Scorpion & Sub-Zero, fine! Reptile, Smoke, Noob, fine! Ermac, Chameleon, and Rain! STOP, I only allow 7 identical looking, but different character! Rain, you're on notice!"

Ermac had the weaker set of moves of the last of MKs "Copy Ninjas" from Trilogy. Chameleon was just a mix of all the ninjas, talk about unoriginal! Plus, the more useless character is Khameleon, an actual copy ninja. She shifted uncontrolably between all the female ninjas, making it almost impossible to get the moves out.

Plus, Rain didn't have the water blast until MK Armageddon. In MK Trilogy, which is where he actually premired, NOT MK3, his moves were so quick, my friend couldn't spam me with Scorpion's dagger.

And, whre are all my fellow MK fans at?

Kin Corn Karn's Mongolian Chop was pretty useless, but the range of his karate kick was better than the kick of every other fighter. You can basically kick your opponent back and forth across the ring two or three times, then hit a couple of piledrivers and it's over. I always played as Kin Corn Karn because of that kick.

dhalsim over dan, jigglypuff over pichu and roll over servebot make this list fail.

yeah, this list is pretty bad... you should check tier lists once and a while. Dhalsim is actually one of the best characters in the game, what with his disgusting throw loop combo, and amazing tick skills.

they are indeed pathetic