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[MaskedFalcon]

Well, considering I've been to professional tournaments, with national-level contestants, I would know whether Marth or Roy is better. The pros talk about this type of thing. All the MLG contestants have already been through this discussion, long ago. The unanimous conclusion? Marth.Most people believe that Marth is faster and that Roy is stronger. That, however, is simplistic. Consider Roy's kill moves - does he have anything besides forward smash that can kill consistently before 100%? Not really. So to ensure fast kills he either needs to land a forward smash or get a "gimp kill" by edge-guarding. Let's take each possibility one-by-one.Forward smash. First off, you can't just whip forward smash around, because its laggy and requires a specific spacing - its hard to get pro smashers to sit still right in front of you. So Roy needs a lead-in, an attack or situation that guarantees Roy the fsmash. Unfortunately, Roy's aerial attacks can't stun the opponent long enough, and his ground attacks and throw have too much knockback. His combo options into forward smash are limited. Meanwhile, Marth relies on his tipped forward smash to kill. To hit with the tip, which is even stronger than the center of Roy's blade (though the center of Marth's blade is weaker), requires slightly different spacing: generally, the easiest place to connect is a little above Marth, slightly to the side. There are numerous ways of getting the opponent in that position - via forward aerial, up throw, forward throw, up tilt, down aerial, tech chase off a Battlefield/Yoshi's Story platform. If you watch any of the world's better Marth players on YouTube - Mew2King, Raserucort, Ken - they can often find a way to kill with forward smash at damages as low as 40%. In fact, I seem to remember a video on Battlefield where Marth kills Sheik at 24%, but I can't find it. Actually, he doesn't kill her outright, he merely sets her up for edge-guard.Which brings me to my second point - Roy has almost no recourse to edge-guarding. The best he can do is sit atop the ledge and throw forward smash or charged B, or to edge-hog. Which are rather passive options and leave the opponent with plenty of hope to getting back on-stage. The best characters in the game can usually edge-guard by throwing projectiles (Roy has none) or jumping off-stage (hard for Roy because he falls too fast and jumps too low, and his aerials are so pathetically weak). Marth can't throw projectiles, but his slower falling speed (and especially his lower acceleration - he actually falls pretty fast at top speed) and floaty jumps allow him to wander off-stage to intercept the opponent with back aerial, forward aerial, or the ever-deadly down aerial spike. Marth's also in the unique position of being able to combo enemies off the edge with forward aerial, and setting up an instant kill with down aerial. That's commonly called a "Ken combo," because it's pretty hard to pull off, but the better players can all perform Ken combos with regularity, and Mew2King in particular can spike opponents to death out of the blue (up tilt to spike). Roy has no such spike.

[Demonicor]

Marth is better as a CPU because of his speed, and the computer always seems to know exactly where to hit on the blade.Roy is better as a PC for effective use of the fire attacks.