Super Smash Brother Brawl Character Dissection: Luigi

Luigi, often overshadowed as Mario's younger brother is making his third appearance in Super Smash Bros series as a secret character. So he's a veteran fighter basically, with some unique talents. 
For one, Luigi can jump much higher than his brother, let's get that out of the way. He's one of the best, if not the best, jumper in the game. The trade-off to this is that he has the worst traction in the game, without a doubt. If you run in a direction and then stop, he will sliiiiiiiide for a little while before being able to turn around. This can be helpful sometimes, like, say you're running and you suddenly do a smash attack. Luigi will slide until he's close enough in range for the attack to hit. But it isn't all that helpful against speedy characters like Sonic and Meta Knight. Since they can turn quickly and scamper off, it may be hard for Luigi to play the speed game. Anyway, onward to his moves:

Luigi possesses a few of the move his brother does, like the fireball. But his is different. His doesn't conduct gravity, meaning his floats through the air in a straight line. It's also green! 
His Side "B" attack is similar to Pikachu's Skull Bash, where he launches himself forward like a rocket. The more you charge up, the further you go, but unlike Pikachu, Luigi doesn't automatically release once he reaches his limit. you can just hold it...hold it...hold it and BANG! It also has a 12.5% chance of a misfire, where flies faster and further than he normally does. This move is essentially his recovery move, because his up "B" isn't great for horizontal recovery. Speaking of which, his up "B" sees him doing Mario's coin punch, except it is completely vertical (and no coins sadly) You have to be very close to them, and I mean very close to them for it to work. If you are a little bit off, your uppercut will do about...3% damage. But if you land it, it will turn into a firey uppercut, doing massive damage and it has a huge chance of sending them flying off the stage upwards. His down "B" is a little wimpy. He spins around a bit like a tornado and does a little bit of damage and if you keep tapping "B" then he will start to rise vertically. It's good if you're cornered, but it's not his greatest move.


His final smash is devastating. After doing an...exotic dance, Luigi creates a green sphere around where he is standing. anyone caught in it may end up doing the following: taunting uncontrollably, shield breaking, falling asleep, getting a flower on their head, tripping, slowing down and uncontrollable dodge rolling. All this time, Luigi is free to beat you, or anyone else in the "Negative Zone" with anything he wants (I tend to use the Negative Zone as an opportunity to use the uppercut) If you plan on avoiding it, try and stay in the air because you can't taunt endlessly while you are in the air. 


So here's the question: who is better, Luigi or Mario?