top tiers
Best ranking groups
Top tiers refers to the highest levels or ranks in a hierarchy.
In gaming, top tiers are the most powerful or competitively viable characters, weapons, or strategies: Sheik and Fox are top tiers in Melee.
More broadly, it describes anything considered elite or best-in-class: Only top tiers get invited to the exclusive event.
Often shortened to just "top tier" as an adjective: That restaurant is top tier.
- upper crustSocial elite class
- upper classWealthiest societal stratum
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- leadingGuiding or pacing type
high-ranking · elite · A list · inner circle · moguls · zenith · echelon · stratum · aristocracy · pinnacle · executives · big leagues · paramount · hierarchy · exceptional · preeminent · luminaries · gradation
top tiersbottom of the barrel
Worst of what remains
rock bottom · last place · dregs · minor leagues · bush league
top tiersthird-rate
Of poor quality
bargain bin · bottom feeders · low-grade · scrubs · subpar
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