Welcome to the Anime Walk of Fame, a series of retrospectives on the many characters of the anime world. You'll see all your favorites along with a few that deserve more than their reputations give.

So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

Daichi is the Worst Case of Scrappy Doo

Before I get to Daichi, a history lesson.

For those much younger, Scrappy Doo was a Scooby Doo character introduced in the 80s to try and boost the declining series, he wasn't well received and is outright hated for being extremely irritating and often stealing the spotlight from Scooby and Shaggy.
In the context of the trope, the Scrappy character is annoying by default, wasn't really asked for to begin with and left overall no impact on the show, Daichi became this in less than ten minutes.
He originates from the movie but was given a more prominent role in season 3 as the 5th Bladebreaker and as a partner to Tyson, he's meant to represent the wild untamed part of Beyblading, even more old school than Ray, unfortunately he spends most of his time trying and failing to beat Tyson and barely anyone else really, his win/lose record is dreadful so he fills all the criteria for worst Beyblade character and my main complaint with his inclusion being he took away a slot on the Bladebreakers better suited to a female character especially when matched against Ming Ming.
Traditionally a five character team is made up of four males and a female, Metal Fight Beyblade even remembered to do this, but which female Beyblade character would've suited the role of 5th blader?
I'll leave you guessing as I'll reveal later this week who it should've been.
You get no clues.

No Amount of Data Can Help Emily

Another character type that never gets any love is the data obsessed.

Emily was first introduced in the Allstarz arc of season one, stuck up, snobby and over confident, she quickly put Max in his place with a display of humiliation but afterwards she barely blades only appearing again in season 3 to lose against Max, all other times she's a mechanic who acts as right hand woman to Max's mother Judy.
Granted the Allstarz are all sore losers to begin with but Emily suffers from it the most as she relies on everything she's gathered from other bladers data, yet couldn't do Kai after he flexes on a nameless player to prove a point that data can't win you matches.
He's kinda right, Pokemon did cover this better and I'm pretty sure Yu-Gi-Oh has at least once as well, you can have servers worth of data but if you can't do anything with it, all it'll be is numbers and Emily nor her teammates could do anything to get on the tag team losing to Max and Rick.
How is Kenny any different? He's looking for solutions to win all the time like a good strategist should.
Any wonder Trygator is the worst Beyblade.

Tyson Didn't Need a Brother

I never liked everything about G-Revolution and here's a character that stops it from being top tier.

Hiro is the older brother of Tyson, only mentioned once previously as a throw away line in season 1, Hiro makes his full debut in Season 3 starting as a masked blader named Jin of the Gale watching over Tyson like a hawk to train him in the shadows later emerging and quickly becoming his coach in the championships then switching sides to BEGA to setup a new team to push the Bladebreakers further.
The thing is he wasn't needed, the shock of having his teammates abandon him so they can take Tyson's title and being forced to work with Daichi is enough of a learning experience for anyone especially when you consider how much of a jerk Tyson was about the whole thing to Ray, Max and even Daichi, this is nothing new for Tyson, V-Force started the same way and Tyson needed a rival in Ozuma to snap him out of it, in fact why didn't Ozuma show up in G-Revolution to knock some sense into him? Be a much better experience than big brother Hiro, this is why leads rarely have siblings as it leads to some dumb decisions in the narrative, this is quite prevalent with how the other Bladebreakers react to him, especially Kai who fires a beyblade near him in disgust for not letting Tyson fight.

Kai the Ultimate Gigachad

Not the anti-hero you think he is.

Kai is an absolute Gigachad and there is plenty of evidence to back it up.
Starting right from the beginning he punishes his lieutenant in the Blade Sharks after humiliating Tyson right at the start of Beyblade.
Straight up flexes on his opponent to prove a point to Emily about data.
When he loses to Johnny he straight up beats him later without any need for a growth arc.
Takes a humiliation from Spencer like a pro, doing a much better job than Kai's own teammates of curing him of his emo phase.
In V-Force he comes out of retirement because he enjoyed battling Dunga.
He's the one who hires Hilary as coach for the team seeing sense in her back to basics training regime.
Kai saving his teammates multiple times in V-Force.
Any fight Kai wins in G-Revolution is absolute gold, this includes the satisfying beatdown of Brooklyn.
Probably his most noble action and one that really elevates Kai to legendary status, silencing the crowd who were booing his opponents the Allstarz and demanding they show respect to all competitors, something I wish more sportsman did.
This is why Kai is S tier, his only black mark being the Black Dranzer saga but I blame the writer who clearly came up with that after watching Majin Vegeta episodes of Dragonballz.

Lee is a Lost Kitten

G Revolution really brought out the best in characters.

Lee starts off as Ray's disgruntled friend who hated the fact that Ray seemingly deserted the White Tigers for the Bladebreakers but ends up losing and making up with Ray, in G Revolution, Lee joins Ray for the championship but has a rough time of it at one point having an emotional breakdown forcing Ray to snap him out of it, it's a massive shift from fierce hotheaded Lion to lost kitten, not what I expected from Lee but was welcomed to really show how well he plays off Ray, it all pays off when Lee emerged as winner of the battle royale between White Tigers and All Starz and his emotional reaction to the win really hits the feels.