Meta Knight vs. Yoshi Super Smash Bros. Brawl tiers, match-up votes and discussion

Yoshi, for a character in his area on the tier list (D Tier) probably has the best matchup against Meta Knight. The neutral really isn't that bad for Yoshi because although he gets outspreaded and outranged by Meta Knight, Eggs make Meta Knight's approach hard (like Jigglypuff) and it's a great anti air tool if Meta Knight is air camping with Dair. Egg Lay also out prioritizes Mach Tornado, but Yoshi is still a pretty floaty character, so he can get juggled by Meta Knight's Uair and Mach Tornado, but Yoshi's nair can break the Uair, but not the Mach Tornado. Meta Knight's edgegaurding also doesn't work as well against Yoshi because of his double jump armour at early percents, but at high percent's Meta Knight's edge guarding goes full force as he is able to break through the armour. Yoshi, like a lot of the top tiers (ZSS, Marth, Ice Climbers etc) who get soft countered by Meta Knight have a solid matchup against Meta Knight because they can do a lot of stuff with his slow grab release animation, and Yoshi takes this one step further. He can chain grab Meta Knight by grabbing him, air releasing him and then dashing up and grabbing him again, carrying him all the across the stage and could get a lot of follow up off of that, like an air release into up smash or forward air. Yoshi's pivot grab is also one of the best in the game because it's fast and lagless, and, like Egg Lay, out prioritizes Mach Tornado, so getting a grab shouldn't be to hard if the player knows how to pivot grab (Yoshi's regular grab is pretty bad, and his dash grab is ok, but I'd recommend going for Pivot)

So, overall because of Yoshi's chain grab and air release option and pretty good options to a lot of Meta Knight's greatest strengths, I would call this matchup pretty good for Yoshi compared to other characters (Peach, Ike, King Dedede, ROB, Pit etc) higher tiered than Yoshi, but he still loses pretty drastically to Meta Knight due to the latter's better neutral options, better range, deadly juggling/combos and most importantly, amazing pressure tools (Yoshi loses to a lot of characters who pressure him when he's in shield) curtesy of Meta Knight's great frame data and range. I definitely agree with 7/3