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^Seconding AirFair's post. Austin uses Facebook, mostly, to organize our tournaments. If you're in the UT area, Austin Collegiate Smash holds PM tournaments if you ever want to come down. Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UTSmash/ We sometimes hold Melee side-events.

Yeah, I think this might be a slightly losing matchup. The loss of d-throw really hurts Sheik, because it's hard to get kills against Peach on bad DI from the throw mixup (it's hard to get upair/upsmash - usually you get fair/bair/nair). I'm not sure if the larger stages help or hurt Sheik. On...

:sonic: I can say from an edgeguarding perspective that Sheik has a pretty good time. If Sonic ever goes below stage level (unless he's right below edge), he has a hard time evading needles. This is especially problematic since side-b/down-b are defeated by needles. After that, it's a fairly...

:sonic: While Sonic does have the tools to get in and expose Sheik, he does get punished fairly hard if he messes up. His juicy weight, combined with his terrible tech rolls and easily edgeguardable recovery (for Sheik) means that getting hit can be death. Also, Sonic has to take risks in...

Generally speaking, Bowser's neutral game is defeated by DD -> grab. However, Samus' grab isn't very good in neutral due to its high commitment and slowness, so the "Press Z to win" strat isn't as viable. Also, Samus is a character that thrives on trades- something that Bowser does very well as...

I actually have quite a few changes for this chart. Format- Character: Matchup from 's Perspective (+3 has Sheik winning) :-2 :-1 :-1 :+1 :0 :0 :0 :+1 :+1 :0 :-1 :+2 :0 :+1 :+1 :+1 :+3 :+2 :+2 :0 :-1 :0 :0 :0 :+2 :+2 :+1 :+2 :+2 :+1 :+1 :+2 :0 :+2 :+3 :-1 :0 :+2 :+1 :+3 Major changes...

I actually have quite a few changes for this chart. Format- Character: Matchup from 's Perspective (+3 has Sheik winning) :-2 :-1 :-1 :+1 :0 :0 :0 :+1 :+2 :0 :-1 :+2 :0 :+1 :+1 :+1 :+3 :+2 :+2 :0 :-1 :0 :0 :0 :+2 :+2 :+1 :+2 :+2 :+1 :+1 :+2 :0 :+2 :+3 :-1 :0 :+2 :+1 :+3 Major changes...

It really is kind of hard to put Sheik into an archetype, because she does everything. She has a projectile, speed, good frame data, combo... the whole shebang. A good way to describe Sheik is as a space-control character. Sheik accels at holding space thanks to her quick and strong moves in...

Thank you, I was still flubbing it a lot! Also, I've found it to be pretty useful against characters with disjoint. It punishes Luigi's and G&Ws from trying to space your ledgedashes onto stage.

I dunno- I personally think that it would be have a good idea to describe the Sheik neutral in the guide. While PM is constantly developing, Sheik is a more-or-less established character thanks to her Melee development. She has a few neat new tricks, but nothing particularly revolutionary. I...

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Sheik v Metaknight matchup? I used to think that it was kinda bad (-2) for Sheik because of her lack of ways to deal with d-tilt, but now I'm starting to lean towards (-1) because of how badly MK gets punished and the fact that his attacks are transcendent...

I'm actually assuming that Ness is more or less able to get 0-to-deaths off his grabs at low percents. Sheik's punish game is just very comparable thanks to Ness' not-very-good techs, juicy weight, and super easy edgeguard. The thing is that Ness really struggles in neutral versus Sheik. He has...

After having played the Ness matchup more recently, I'm starting to think that this matchup is closer to a 60:40 or a 65:35 in Sheik's favor. Run up -> shield really destroys Ness' neutral game, as he can't safely do anything to your shield. Ness' punish game feels bad (chain grabs and up-air...

My smash circle has a Ness and 2 MKs, so I see this matchup a lot. If you're going out to aggressively to hit Ness before he up-bs, make sure that you can ACTUALLY reach him and hit him. His recovery has invincibility frames on frames 1-7, which means he's going to win the trade and give you a...

Samus doesn't really have combos in PM, outside of dair follow-ups and tech chases. Samus is a character built around trading and poking thanks to her projectiles and strong but high-commitment tilts/aerials