Wha? Villagers best stage against Sheik FD? Needle spam? You've developed a counter to this?
Upload some recorded videos so we can see your reasoning. Quality doesn't matter.
I find it much easier to fight sheik on BF. I think platforms really help that MU.
Much easier zoning and gimps are 50% easier to do (especially catching jump into bouncing end lag)
The high ceiling also makes it problematic for Sheik to kill with USmash and UAir, while we can punish misplaced move with OoS SH Axe.
Axe can also catch Bouncing Fish and UpB, which are kills on the side blastzone.
Just take care to not be on the platform above Sheik.
Platforms are dressing ease of zoning. SH Nair on opponents above you is free pressure, run off slingshots are much easier, run off jump slingshots to hit other platform, and Full Hop BAirs/FAirs are almost 100% guaranteed to hit players on platforms.
What does this mean?
Controlling the air is much easier for Villager now.
When zoning on FD, I have a maximum of like 5 options.
I can do my Lloid BAirs for a bit, then start reading their jumps? If they take to perfect shielding and getting in, I can bait Nair with empty hop and grab. Or, I can just do a backwards hop NAir and hopefully put more distance. I can also do a SH ground slingshot to interrupt dash, usually a BAir for knock back to continue zoning process, or I can water tree to bait out their shield, and during shield stun break it with Axe.
The thing about platform stages is that I get ALL I listed, and then much more shenanigans to the zone game. Slingshot zoning becomes much easier to do, The opponent is limited to few get in options, and jump reads are much more lenient on how many I need to get in before they get in. NAir becomes much better with platforms, USmash sweetspots on BF, and UTilt becomes much easier to hit. To top it off, dropping projectiles off is a neat added bonus. Dash attack hits at a nice angle, and full hop landing on to platform to read a FAir with fsmash is a death sentence.
Honestly, that's how I think of platforms for Villager.
I'm sure other pros can talk about this for much longer, I just woke not too long ago and not in that much mood to talk about this XD
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should be able to put a word in, he's talked about this before I believe.