Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33064970-20190418072655/@comment-27921095-20190718025752

Eh. Both at their absolute best scaling would make it close. General scaling and stats also makes it close, but Dedede has nothing that can bypass Wario's regen to my knowledge and Wario has more of an effective arsenal + hax, so I'd personally side with Wario. Only things Wario lacks are possibly speed (not by much tho) and maybe intelligence.

I don't think either are downplayed much beyomd people not wanting to scale them to Mario and Kirby for some arbitrary reasons, albeit Dedede is likely the more wanked of the two because I've seen more "Dedede is Universal" claims than "Wario is universal" claims.