Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl has been out for nearly two weeks, and has already amassed a playerbase big enough to organize tournaments. The game always had potential for a strong competitive scene, and people have gotten enough of a experience of the characters to kickoff ranking their viability.

As the game was getting gear up for release, its developers released videos showcasing each character'southward moves in item. This set a lot of expectations for certain characters. Some of them were met, while others were not. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl appears to follow in the footsteps of Super Smash Bros. Brawl with how ridiculous some characters can get.

Banned

Nick All Stars Banned Tier
  • Michelangelo

The nunchaku-wielding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle takes a page from Meta Knight's book and has been banned from the game's offset official tournament at Super Smash Con. Mikey has an assault that can be used infinitely, executed by using a concatenation take hold of, followed by his air neutral. This attack works on every grapheme in the game, including Mikey himself.

South-Tier

Nick All Stars S Tier
  • Leonardo
  • Aang
  • Lucy Loud
  • Oblina

Another Ninja Turtle rep, the titular Last Airbender, the fifth youngest Loud child, and a candy pikestaff-similar monster are all powerful in their ain right. Leonardo'southward maneuvering and spiking specialty is greatly benign, meanwhile Aang is predictably agile in the air and can rack upward combos like a gnaw. Lucy's technical attributes compliment her quick tricks and she has some of the all-time moves in the game, such as "Spring Scare." Oblina boasts amazing speed, an annoying hitbox, and effective projectiles, likewise equally air attacks, such as her downwardly strong air, that are quick and hard to punish.

A-Tier

Nick All Stars A Tier
  • CatDog
  • April O'Neil
  • Spongebob

The conjoined canine-feline brothers' ridiculous hitboxes, fast combos, and aerial moves bear witness the versatility of a duo character befitting A-Tier. April'southward special moves are great at building upward damage to brand upward for her lack of reliable KO moves. Meanwhile, Spongebob is the "beginner's choice" and a solid character accommodating, but mastering his strong moves and aeriform abilities shows how much potential the sponge actually has.

B-Tier

Nick All Stars B Tier
  • Zim
  • Nigel Thornberry
  • Sandy Cheeks
  • Danny Phantom
  • Ren & Stimpy

Zim is a zoner with obnoxious set-upwards potential and complimentary strong attacks, Nigel's unorthodox moveset is useful considering he tin can survive for very long, and Sandy had an infinite assail like Mikey, but lost it in a patch. All the same, she still has annoying combos to bargain with and an constructive recovery. Danny Phantom has a lot of solid punishers and the floaty physics befitting of a half-ghost, while Ren & Stimpy round out B-Tier cheers to their predictably clownish moves with decent KO potential and punishable specials.

C-Tier

Nick All Stars C Tier
  • Lincoln Loud
  • Reptar
  • Helga
  • Powdered Toast Man

Lincoln might be fast, merely most of his attacks are generally weak for doing combos or KO'ing opponents, pregnant cypher likewise crazy has been washed with him as of this writing. Reptar is a archetype heavy, one with strong projectiles and physical moves that may eventually be sidelined due to his limited potential. Helga has a plethora of interesting moves that have trouble connecting, and Powdered Toast Man might look comical and fancy, but his size cripples him considering he can't counter easy attacks that his opponents dish out.

D-Tier

Nick All Stars D Tier
  • Korra

Korra'southward recovery is odd and she might have untapped potential, but she is currently and then underused that no general consensus has really been fabricated. She doesn't take notable flaws like other characters, simply no true strengths like the ones above her.

F-Tier

Nick All Stars F Tier
  • Toph
  • Patrick

Toph may accept artistic earthbending techniques, but her philharmonic game is defective and her moves are too slow to go along upwards with the game's pace. Patrick's poor range, lack of speed, and punishable moves - especially his recovery - might be faithful to his trademark stupidity, just is incompatible with a serious fighting game.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is available at present on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox I, and Xbox Series X/Due south.

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