Quetzalcoatl
Smash Ace
I find it amusing that the character who was changed for the worst the most jumped ahead of 2 characters when compared to the NTSC tier list. Sheik's matchups against Marth and Peach are undeniably less favourable than in the NTSC version the difference between the uair's KOing power is immense, and of course there is the down throw, sure you can follow up with dash attacks tech chases and the likes, but in NTSC it sets up for sure kills.
The difference in the up b length on fox is very very small, and the weight difference is laughable, i've tested this and its usually a difference of 1-2% in being KO'd at the usual KO percentages. The biggest difference is the upsmash which again, hurts marth and peach a lot less in the PAL version. Sheik of course benefits too, in fact it has probably turned out that sheik's match with fox is more favourable in pal because uair is a better comboer, and she dies from usmash on higher percents. Her dthrow wasnt a factor in the matchup in the first place. But this isn't nearly as much of a difference as sheik's matches with marth/peach
Basically on comparison to ntsc we have:
- marth, peach and falco's matchups between eachother remain the same basically
- marth, peach does better in pal than ntsc against sheik by a noticable amount
- marth, peach, sheik does better against fox in pal than ntsc by a small amount (upsmash)
- fox vs falco is relatively the same
- falco vs sheik is relatively the same
so how does sheik jump over 2 characters when she does worse against marth/peach, the same against falco and very slightly better against fox?
If this is a case of regional play style differences then this should be a European tier list and not a PAL one.
The difference in the up b length on fox is very very small, and the weight difference is laughable, i've tested this and its usually a difference of 1-2% in being KO'd at the usual KO percentages. The biggest difference is the upsmash which again, hurts marth and peach a lot less in the PAL version. Sheik of course benefits too, in fact it has probably turned out that sheik's match with fox is more favourable in pal because uair is a better comboer, and she dies from usmash on higher percents. Her dthrow wasnt a factor in the matchup in the first place. But this isn't nearly as much of a difference as sheik's matches with marth/peach
Basically on comparison to ntsc we have:
- marth, peach and falco's matchups between eachother remain the same basically
- marth, peach does better in pal than ntsc against sheik by a noticable amount
- marth, peach, sheik does better against fox in pal than ntsc by a small amount (upsmash)
- fox vs falco is relatively the same
- falco vs sheik is relatively the same
so how does sheik jump over 2 characters when she does worse against marth/peach, the same against falco and very slightly better against fox?
If this is a case of regional play style differences then this should be a European tier list and not a PAL one.