ThreeSided
Smash Ace
I'm a Sheik player with a simple problem: I don't want to play Zelda. So my question is, how important is learning Zelda to my success as Sheik? While I understand that Sheik is a good character by herself, the question of whether she is still going to be fully viable down the road is of issue to me.
Hear me out.
From a casual perspective, it may seem perfectly fine to rate Zelda and Sheik individually as characters. However, from a competitive perspective, this is not possible. They are, essentially, the same character with two different "modes". This adds tons of versatility to the character, and - feel free to dispute my logic in this, because I'd love to be wrong - is something that must be taken into consideration when re-balancing occurs. Right now, PM Zelda is still fresh and relatively unlearned compared to veteran Sheik, and, as a consequence, so is PM Sheilda. But as players get better, Sheilda is naturally going to become an extremely powerful character. Both Sheik and Zelda are often argued to be higher tier on their own in this game. It only makes sense that having the ability to use both in the same game would make them even better. Given time, the PMBR is going to be forced to nerf both Sheik and Zelda just to keep Shielda on par with everyone else, and the result is going to be that, as individual characters, they won't be very good.
This obviously won't be a problem for those who are fine with playing Sheilda, but for those like me who don't want to play Zelda (she's played by every other person in our friend group and I'm sick of her) or those who don't want to play Sheik, it just feels like the low tier issues from the other games all over again. I'd rather not have to pick between playing the character I want and winning! (Oh, the irony!)
So I suppose this comes down to two questions for discussion:
Is playing Sheilda necessary to do well as Sheik or Zelda in the current environment?
If not, then will Sheilda result in the nerfing of Sheik and Zelda down the road in such a way that will make them potentially mediocre/nonviable, or is this a logical fallacy?
Hear me out.
From a casual perspective, it may seem perfectly fine to rate Zelda and Sheik individually as characters. However, from a competitive perspective, this is not possible. They are, essentially, the same character with two different "modes". This adds tons of versatility to the character, and - feel free to dispute my logic in this, because I'd love to be wrong - is something that must be taken into consideration when re-balancing occurs. Right now, PM Zelda is still fresh and relatively unlearned compared to veteran Sheik, and, as a consequence, so is PM Sheilda. But as players get better, Sheilda is naturally going to become an extremely powerful character. Both Sheik and Zelda are often argued to be higher tier on their own in this game. It only makes sense that having the ability to use both in the same game would make them even better. Given time, the PMBR is going to be forced to nerf both Sheik and Zelda just to keep Shielda on par with everyone else, and the result is going to be that, as individual characters, they won't be very good.
This obviously won't be a problem for those who are fine with playing Sheilda, but for those like me who don't want to play Zelda (she's played by every other person in our friend group and I'm sick of her) or those who don't want to play Sheik, it just feels like the low tier issues from the other games all over again. I'd rather not have to pick between playing the character I want and winning! (Oh, the irony!)
So I suppose this comes down to two questions for discussion:
Is playing Sheilda necessary to do well as Sheik or Zelda in the current environment?
If not, then will Sheilda result in the nerfing of Sheik and Zelda down the road in such a way that will make them potentially mediocre/nonviable, or is this a logical fallacy?
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