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I don't know about all Amish people, but a couple years back I saw this Amish-bearded person play Super Smash Bros, and he was scary good. With the power of his samurai prince, he vanquished cybernetically-enhanced humans...I think their names were Samus Aran and Jason Zimmerman.
Yeah you want to make sure you space a Fair or Bair fully so you can't get shield drop punished. Ideally you hit in front of them so the spacing is more lenient. If you're uncertain, just fade away more. This is safer against shield drop and if they go down when you go up.
Pivot SH backward/in place to Fair/Nair it, pivot earlier to set up late Uair are the two main things I'm seeing. You have to dash back if you Fair that close so those two options are best. You could also RC Fsmash if you read it lol.
If you want, you can first hit side B his Nair or pivot grab it if possible to set up for more damaging scenarios. I find Fair, especially tippered, to still put him off balance and close enough to where he can't do much to you but I understand why that isn't as good as a true punish. I generally like discouraging those approaches by pushing in a bit and letting him come to me then countering. When he stops doing those approaches I can push in farther and start getting Dtilts or more reliable Fairs to convert off of. That in between space isn't great for you to swing in though and it's more of a transitional space I'd say.
I'm not sure if you can reliably pivot grab that or not to be honest. I tend to grab the jabs or just Fair the jabs or run in and grab after them since Sheik usually shields or dashes back after. Ideally I'd position to Dtilt or running grab her landing but that's not always possible. The grab is something I should specifically test since I really should know but I don't. Rising Fair they could hold down during it and potentially punish, but I'd take a mid or late Fair either on hit or on shield for great positional advantage at any rate.
Over the last two weeks or so I abandoned practicing in the way we talk about for practicing for FAST. I would still win against the people I normally win in locals, but some of the wins would feel really sketchy to me, like I was just barely able to execute what I wanted to do, because I think I was conditioning myself during that practice to go FAST, which is really difficult to do while making decisions FAST, so I'd feel more exhausted at the end of the tourney.
With little examples or resources of high level players also promoting that type of practice, it's hard to get people on the same page as you. It's also been at times easy for me to lose sight of that against players who can steamroll me appearing to be faster than me at everything.
Waveland back out of SH? That's not so bad, but I'd like to suggest empty land as an alternative before WL back. Removing that lag that Fair could bring opens up punishes on people trying to whiff punish Fair. You can also run forward and then retreating rising Fair, or run forward slightly retreating rising Fair(basically Fair in place) but the second one obviously comes with more risk. If you want safe options go with retreating Fair or staying grounded or empty land with occasional Dtilts I suppose.
Vs people who use cc a lot, You could probably threaten to poke and get them to do something instead of poking them like that where they get a cc punish. If you use run in and pivot grab, you can discourage them from using cc, which can open up your zoning tools again once they adjust to you beating them for trying to cc.
I think it can be okay, but if someone is pushing in on hit or shielding I'd rather use this new spacing advantage to react out of Dtilt and punish with Fair/grab/some other high-return play if possible. Sometimes multi Dtilt is great but usually on hit I'm fine with just one, 2 occasionally if they strongly push in but you aren't sure how else to punish/want to deter them coming in overall or after Dtilt hit.
Defense/acting second is not something I prefer to do either but it's just as useful as offense. I think there are probably two main ways I'd respond to this right now.
Tippering Dtilt beats this since you can still act out of it safely, and I believe late, spaced Fair can be alright vs ASDI down but less sure about crouch(though I do think it could lose to drift in or you'd have to shield then in some cases). The WD Dtilt you did in your last clip would've worked fine if you did it pretty quickly out of WD/reacted more quickly. The RC Dtilt you did in the first clip is something you want to do less of in general since control over that is worse and it's slower. Mixing that with grab should be totally fine. Working more standing Dtilt or walk Dtilt or certain WD Dtilts will beat this in my experience, as well as well placed Fairs. If you're worried about Fair getting beaten you can space a little in front of Sheik so it'll hit Ftilt/walk in and even hit her running in but if she crouches it'll whiff and you'll still be in good position to threaten Fsmash or just control with Dtilt. Let me know if that helps.
Have you practiced just playing with Falco in the corner and you run the situation a lot? What about vice versa? I'm not sure what cues I'd use specifically since I can pretty reliably react to both, but I'd like to remind you of something I saw before in a match of yours where you acted and didn't react to what they did in the middle of it. It may be best to not tunnel vision on options and just poke/watch him more and practice punishing what he can do from that position.
For the last two clips I believe you can run JC grab the landing lag of both of those since they were all or mostly drift in. For the first since it was an Uair you could maybe grab it, but you might have to settle for mixing up dash grab on the crouch vs trying to middle/late Fair mixup or run up Nair(I kind of like this option sometimes as it catches jumps and is fine vs shield and crouch and can combo well at lower percents).
ooookay, well the first thing I'd say is I felt this way a lot about Sheik until Druggedfox went over a couple matches with me. Even as a top player I thought it was really dumb and was afraid of it. But I'll see if I can offer some useful input into these things, even if they may be harder to put into use for you(I think this matchup is pretty dumb for Marth until you become really efficient, like most Marth matchups).
Well let's address the beneficial question first. Is it true that if you motivate yourself by pain you will produce some good, even great results? Yes, and that is a large part of what I used as a rising player, this hatred of losing and of myself, which are obviously deeper issues as you've said. So can you grow and improve using pain? Absolutely. To me though, it seems this strategy will hit a wall eventually whether it's because too much pain is involved or not enough love is, or whatever. I got lucky and only hit a wall after becoming a top player, but many aren't so lucky.
Hm... this makes sense. I often dash back/begin a DD to assess a Neutral situation, but this is a bad habit because I give up control. I'd be punished less for it on DL, however, because I'm far more likely to be outside opponent TR, and giving up some stage isn't as bad. Playing more assertively and cutting out more unnecessary movement is probably what I need to do on smaller stages then. Also getting out of my head more.
