where's the sheik stuff? i can't find it. i guess i is blind
Well, it’s on a different page than Bones0 said, but finding it isn’t all that hard as you make it out to be.
At the top right corner of smashboards, you have the search function. Write »upthrow sheik« in it, check the »limit my search to this thread only« button and in the »only find posts by member:« field, enter »Kadano«.
Doing so currently yields four posts, of which the second newest is the one with all the information.
I will paste all of it in the OP’s Sheik section anyway after I’ve finished writing this post, but using the search method above should prove to be helpful in the future as well if you are looking for very specific knowledge. Integrating
everything I’ve posted that, in some way, relates to Marth, would grow the OP into even more insane lengths and total filesize.
In fact, forums aren’t suited too well for very specific information. A newb Marth who wants to know reliable options from grab against Sheik likely won’t find
this post with a Google search of »Super Smash Bros Melee Marth upthrow against Sheik« or something similar.
Now we can somewhat assume that he knows about smashboards if he is competitively minded. Right now, similar search queries (except without the SSBM) find the post successfully if two of three possible upthrow spellings are used (»upthrow« and »uthrow«; »up throw« does not work), but it’s at the very end of the first page of search results. In one or two years, it will probably be on page 2 or 3, and the searcher likely won’t look beyond the first page.
Also, until now I’ve assumed that he knows to look for up throw, when he could search for »grab options« as well – which won’t find the post.
Being able to specify search tags for posts would help, but it relies on me and other contributors to never forget about it and don’t miss any of the terms people could be looking for. A better way would be to improve the search engine so that it knows that the terms »uthrow«, »up throw« and »upthrow« are the same thing. But that still wouldn’t help when entering »grab options«, which strictly speaking makes more sense for the searcher to use.
If the search engine is told that the term »grab options« and all of its derivations should accept all »throw« derivations, it would probably become too lenient. »Grab options« might also be used as a query for how to grab somebody instead of what to do when he is already grabbed.
Hosting knowledge on SSBWiki might be a better idea altogether, although it’s still far from perfect. The general attitude is less competitive and micro-interaction based and more encyclopedic. With the recent addition of the excellent frame data template by Toomai (most amazing contributor ever), this has seen a bit improvement, but it’s only something “encyclopedic” that happens to be useful for us competitors. The site is still not that apt for hosting matchup-specific micro-interaction analysis. But I will look into it, maybe I can include it in matchup articles as subpages (Marth_(SSBM)/Sheik_matchup_analysis).