If you are good with Ike, you can combo your opponent to KO them at lower damage.
Ike is better then you think. I beat up many Meta Knights with him.
you could but with slow smashes which is basically whats requires for Ike to KO someone, its not as easy as you think unless its against the CPU.
I know people on gamebattles complain about Ike more then anyone, but I also think the players on gamebattles are kind of bad anyway.
I look at rankings elsewhere for online and all I see at the top is; King Dedede, Diddy Kong, Snake, ice Climbers, Toon Link and Link, and Rob and maybe Zero Suit Samus and Marth on some occasions.
Why? Because those characters I listed all have broken move sets in the game with Spamming.
Dedede for example can use a broken move set in which you can chain hit you to a point you cant get back on the platform.
Snake is a broken character, but you wont win by spamming with him, hes simply over powered.
Toon link spams projectiles every where without ever having to hit you until its time to KO, Link is a little different, all Links power is involved in his hook shot grab, Link players will spam that every chance they can get and basically the only way Link ever ends up in a top 50 ranking chart.
Rob is like toon link is, but I noticed Rob weakness is big stages, you get Rob on those dinky stages like Battlefield, hes going to rip you to shreds.
Ice Climbers is like a 2 on 1 match, more times then none most damage you put out ends up on Nana which in turn means you are doing nothing basically, but the only way people win is chain grabs and a knock down for a KO off the platform.
Diddy Kong is more ridiculous then the rest, I played against this character and thought................................WHAT THE???????????? He was more over powered then Snake is, Diddy can throw bananas at will and it makes it impossible to dodge them at times, and then when he dodges, its like the longest dodge in Smash Bros history, Diddy would be immune twice as long as any other characters, to top it off, he can easily KO anyone at low percentage.
I know people have problems with Meta Knight, quite frankly I just havent seen the fuss about him, could be because I play Marth and Ike, I am betting Meta Knight against anyone who dont have a sword is probably in for a slaughter.
But this is the reason Smash Bros cant be competitive IMO.
It reminds me of yugioh, where if I wanted to win, I had to do what everyone else was doing which was usually being cheap.