I have been playing Smash 4 since the beginning of high school, but I have just recently begun taking it seriously. At first, I picked up Ganondorf as my first serious main and played him for the first semester of college but I realized after a couple of for glory matches, that when someone camped against him, that was basically "game over" because Ganondorf has mediocre approaches at best.
Now, I have switched over to Sheik in order to potentially win more matches than I had as Ganondorf and eventually compete in tournaments if I decided that I was good enough. After about a week of being a Sheik main, I realized that Sheik is a very stressful character to play. Gameplay with Sheik is a lot more fast paced and so I find myself pressing a lot more buttons than I had with Ganondorf. This leads me to my first issue. Sometimes, when playing Sheik, I find that my inputs do not come out and this usually happens in the most detrimental moments of a game, like going for the foward tilt into up air setup. This happens on and offline. The other thing that I have an issue with is getting kills. Usually I have to wait for my opponent to climb well into the 100 percent range before I can claim a kill with the aforementioned setup. The only other option is to get a good offstage combo and land a bouncing fish, and though I have done it before, I find it inconsistent. The rest of my kills are attributed to hard reads.
The purpose of me starting this thread was to potentially get some advice. I have three things that I am hoping to get responses about. The first thing I want to know is how I can fix my input issue that occurs on occasion. Secondly, does anybody know any kill setups aside from the two that I mentioned earlier and how reliable are they? The last thing I'm wondering about is Sheik techs. Preferably the more obscure ones as I've heard at least a little bit about the common ones (needle cancelling, instant needle cancelling, crawl sliding). If anyone could give me advice in these areas, I would greatly appreciate it!
Now, I have switched over to Sheik in order to potentially win more matches than I had as Ganondorf and eventually compete in tournaments if I decided that I was good enough. After about a week of being a Sheik main, I realized that Sheik is a very stressful character to play. Gameplay with Sheik is a lot more fast paced and so I find myself pressing a lot more buttons than I had with Ganondorf. This leads me to my first issue. Sometimes, when playing Sheik, I find that my inputs do not come out and this usually happens in the most detrimental moments of a game, like going for the foward tilt into up air setup. This happens on and offline. The other thing that I have an issue with is getting kills. Usually I have to wait for my opponent to climb well into the 100 percent range before I can claim a kill with the aforementioned setup. The only other option is to get a good offstage combo and land a bouncing fish, and though I have done it before, I find it inconsistent. The rest of my kills are attributed to hard reads.
The purpose of me starting this thread was to potentially get some advice. I have three things that I am hoping to get responses about. The first thing I want to know is how I can fix my input issue that occurs on occasion. Secondly, does anybody know any kill setups aside from the two that I mentioned earlier and how reliable are they? The last thing I'm wondering about is Sheik techs. Preferably the more obscure ones as I've heard at least a little bit about the common ones (needle cancelling, instant needle cancelling, crawl sliding). If anyone could give me advice in these areas, I would greatly appreciate it!