"When you pick Mothra, the game just laughs."
Okay, someone at Squaresoft must have said at a developers' meeting, Final Fantasy II's weakest character was Gordon, and Final Fantasy III's most useless class was the Bard. You know what I think would be a good idea? COMBINING THEM.
— Pat R. on Edward, "Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!"
See, if Blitz is the popular jock all shallow people love, if SwdTech is the bitch without any real qualities who is adored for her looks and if Rage is the scrawny kid with glasses few people like to talk to who'll later make more money that the rest of class '96 combined, Sketch is the poor kid who, besides being lactose-intolerant, suffering from asthma AND having the worst case of acne known to Western science, lacks any kind of charm, quality or potential. Even if you do put on a nose peg — penetrating body odour — and get to talk to him, you'll notice that under all the ugly, you've found a prime example of a generally boring person who sometimes likes to kill caterpillars and sniff his sister's underwear.
"He has no sort of air or ground game, and Brawl punishes slow characters. Which is why he's the worst in the game."
— Heeew on Ganondorf, "Brawl is Broken"
"It Could Be Worse: Axl doesn't have much going in his favor, but at least he's not as bad as Testament or Potemkin."
— Dustloop Wiki on the positives of using Axl Low in Guilty Gear: The Missing Link
Wario, predictably, has the least amount of athleticism, but he makes up for it with raw power...which doesn't really mean anything as the other three can take care of enemies just fine, so I shall now dub Wario the Black Brick Bitch.
— SomecallmeJohnny on Super Mario 64 DS
"Attacking Spy suffers the brunt of it very hard. Attacking Spy, I would dare say, is unwinnable in a lot of circumstances. If you're attacking Spy… again, I hate encouraging surrending, but… you don't really have a shot, dude, just go ahead and surrender. He has zero good matchups, not a single one that has even a microscopic chance of him winning, even defending Spies and Snipers destroy him way more easily than anyone else in the game. You have no ability to push, you are the frailest class in the game, you have no options to make you any more tanky, or provide any team support. (cracks up) So, yeah, you just kinda suck!
—Great Blue on the Spy in Class Wars, a game mode where every character on each team is the same class, The TF2 Class Wars Tier List.
"Look, it's an archetype that's made to kill LIGHT monsters yet it struggles to even do that, so this is the absolute strongest red mark I ever put into these."
Do not ever use this Pokémon with the intent of winning games.
—Smogon on Typhlosion in generation VII
"Cactus can target Balloon Zombies and... That's it. The entire purpose of Cactus is to counter a single type of zombie, and it's not even the best at it. Cattail and Blover are much better for dealing with Balloon Zombies, and all other offensive plants are much better for damage. Cactus is 100% outclassed and should never be used."
—ShyGuyMask, talking about Plants vs. Zombies' Cactus
Pros: Has the best Bug moves in the game.
Cons: You have five mons and your opponent has six.
Cons: You have five mons and your opponent has six.
—Big Yellow, on Beedrill in Pokémon Red and Blue
Literal doodoo water, this unit manages to get outclassed by practically everything.
—Xskull & Dr. Skull on Cat Toaster in The Battle Cats