I played a bit more of the Peach MU yesterday. That MU is definitely in her advantage, but it's a lot easier with a non-confrontational mindset, IMO. Whenever I tried to force things, I got punished and put into bad situations for the rest of the stock. When I missile spammed
smartly and just moved away from her intelligently, punishing what I could, it was a lot better. Peach's float is SLOW. As long as we keep WDing backwards, she can't catch us. If she tries to corner us by the ledge, we can force ourselves under her with DA or chase her away with aerials used well. Don't forget that ever-useful Charged Shot.
About missiles though, it's not just as easy as "spam missiles". Because of how floaty we are, it's fairly easy for Peach to dash under us and catch us with DA. Her DA is
really annoying actually. That's when the MC mix-ups come in. If we see she's trying to come in on the ground through the missiles, we need to utilize our mix-ups, such as MC > grab, MC > Charged Shot, and MC > shield pressure. Also, Peach's ledge options kinda suck. Take advantage of that jank!
In other news, I just can't.......beat.......Sheik.
I can deal with good Falcons, both spacees, Marth, and Jiggs perfectly fine, and I even find them very fun, but Sheik just destroys me every time. It's like I'm not allowed to play the game. Every hit I land comes from a hard read or a dumb mistake on Sheik's part. We're not allowed to shoot projectiles a lot of the time, we're not allowed to CC, we're not allowed to come down from the air, despite being put there so easily, and we're not allowed to recover. I don't know; maybe I'm missing something, but I just can't do it. Don't get me wrong. I'm having close games against Sheik and taking some of them, but every time I win, I feel like I had to play ridiculously hard every second just to not get messed up and even that I shouldn't have won.
The two boons we have in this MU is that if the Sheik is stupid, we can CC nearly all of her attacks into dtilt/dsmash, and once we get her offstage, we're practically guaranteed an edgeguard or a LOT of additional damage, but it's sooo hard to get Sheik offstage, and a good Sheik will just needle, grab, and space aerials to avoid the CC.
Lolz, sorry for the rant, but I just came back from a fest where I was fairly successful against every char
except......Sheik, and it's a trend that has even been continually affecting me even in tournament. Can I see some recent vids of good Sami beating good Sheiks? I need to see what's going on here.....