Well, as I was apparently banned from posting, I have been unable to reply until now. I'm sure no one has any intention of discussing what I'd said before, but I did want to thank the people who wrote information about the japanese players without any flames; I stand corrected in what I'd said before regarding their tendencies. I also didn't mean to offend anyone, but please allow me one last clarification:
Similarly to how some people think it's ridiculous that a player stops using a character because they become top-tier in an updated version of the game, I happen to be of the opinion that it's lame to choose characters due to the top-tier status and not because it's a character they happen to like due to their playstyle, or design, or personal attachment, or whatever other non-statistical reason they may have. I hope if one school of thought isn't a big deal to the people here, then neither is the other. Please understand that this is merely my opinion, and I was not casting some form of "judgement" on the whole community. I apologize if the sole interpretation was my being judgemental, I honestly meant no offense.
And like probably everyone else here, I don't really care about the reason why my opponent picked their character when we sit down for a match.
Finally, my honest apologies to the regular members for this thread being some kind of mess due to my posts. Though it's clear to me that the moderation here is partial and unreasonable, I truly have no intention of being regarded at as some kind of annoyance or a troll. I'm not. I'm a MB fan like the rest of you, and I have been since the first game. That's all.