gallax
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i have a ton of IC experience against a very good ic player and would mind contributing. but i do agree that it is 55-45 snake.
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what about this?ummm.....wario or diddy?
Yume is right Snake v Shiek is 55:45 (Snake's favor). I've a Shiek, a whole buch of timez.sheik snake is def not 60-40, its at best 55-45.
And Link v Snake is 60:40 - 55:45 (Snake's favor). They both camp each other equally.@Yume: Hmmm....
@Gerald: They camp each other equally. Boomerang and arrows are easy to PS. His bombs are the troublesome ones
Whoa son. Way wrong. This match up is easily 60-40 in Snakes favor. He can eliminate all of Sheik's choices. He has the advantage in this one. His camping is superior to both Zelda and Sheik. He out ranges, Out kills, out survives, and out camps both Zelda and Sheik. I play against GOOD Sheiks and Zeldas. The match is clearly in our favor.I personally (in a way) disagree with the snake vs sheik.
For snake vs sheik yeah it would be 60:40 55:45 at best. But what idiot would go all sheik against snake? If a GOOD sheik switched up from sheik & zelda well enough, i think this match would either be 50:50 or 45:55 S&Z's favor. BOTH characters will **** snake once he's off the ground. Sheik with her f-tilt lock, rapid jab, u-tilt, and D-smash will likely get snake to high enough % to where all they would have to do is get snake of the stage and turn into zelda. Once snake is off the stage from appx. 130%-and up, zelda should kill him. Snake is to obvious and dont have much choices? Pull out a nade if zelda goes for up-smash? DEAD. Sheik already % ***** you to like 190. B-air? Up smash, U-tilt, move to the side and D-smash. Side dodge when close to the ground? Idiot.... B-reversal? probably your best option next to pulling out a nade and letting it explode u both. But even then, the chance us you escaping zelda's wrath when we aren't on the ground are very slim.
50:50 if both sheik & zelda are used properly. It's still even because snake won't die FAST, but both sheik and zelda are light.
Now add zelda to all of this n this should be 50:50hahaha. lemme go get a vid of <3 vs snake and ill show you why this MU is 55:45 in favor of snake vs sheik.
EDIT: unfortunately i couldnt find any. lol. ill ask him if he has any and to upload them. ive played agaisnt light and all the time against <3(less than three). i can vouch that if sheik plays the MU right snake will have a hard time beating sheik.
first off, sheik's bair will auto-cross over which means the sheik will always land behind snake with no lag. having a fast character like that behind you is bad bad bad for snake. dont spotdodge for you will get grabbed b/c sheik will wait for it. if you get jabbed it doesnt matter if you shield because they can either contiue the jab or cancel it into a grab. but beware, the jab>grab may not be just a jab>grab. as snake i know that i can spotdodge the grab after getting jabbed. what i cant spotdodge is a jab>run past snake pivot grab(which is super quick but will grab you after you spotdodge). so you are just left up to reflex at this point and how much you know the MU.
and you may argue that you shouldnt get hit by the bair. well heres whats gonna get you hit by the bair: sheik run to the other side of the stage and charges her neddles and stays there chucking them at you. this forces you to come after her. if you jump>pull a nade and land with it the neddles will blow you up and cost you minimum 13% damage. so you come after her. now you get into somewhat of range and now you are left with a few choices; tilts/jab/force a shield grab/you shield/do nothing. now a smart sheik will be hard to grab. an even smarter sheik will force you to shield with a needle and run at you. she jumps. now sheik can do an aerial attack or not. smart sheiks will either bait a tilt wait for you to drop your shield and bair you. if sheik hits you with her leg it will pull her behind you. now you are stuck. if you decided to sheik her aerial(which will happen sometimes) she will again be behind you. you are stuck.
now lets talk about her jabs. she can jab lock(used very loosely the word lock) i recommend every snake learn how to sdi cuz you should NEVER get hit my more than 4 jabs(jabjab>cancel>jabjab is what i mean). sdi out asap and get to the ground. but watch because sheik is fast and can run and grab you b4 you know it. be prepared to jab or grab(cuz the sheik may run up and shield).
now her ftilt. you cant spotdodge more than 2 ftilts, like ever. learn the timing of her ftilts and you can sometimes get a jab in between them. if you cant get that pull a nade and both explode. but i ahte that cuz that means a faster character has the potential to get underneath me and juggle. if you do get hit by a ftilt its pretty much guaranteed that you are going to get 30% damage, minimum. sometimes you die cuz you just cant get back to the stage. her ftilt is really what punishes the most. get behind snake and ftilt and you are in a win situation. snake will either spotdodge eventually, drop his shield and try to attack and fail, or roll away. if he rolls behind sheik hes screwed cuz her ftilt is easy to turn. if he rolls away he will get grabbed. sheiks pivot will take care of any spotdodges, if he even has time to spotdodge.
now i know that im a little biased since i play <3 and light who are arguably in the top 5 sheiks category if not top 3, but that doesnt mean that sheik doesnt have the tools to win. cuz she does. but snake does have the advantage. he is heavy and hard to kill. her best kill moves will be dacus, uair, and dsmash. easy to avoid until you are at high percent cuz than pretty much anything kills. but you shouldnt die ever b4 150%. she shouldnt live past 150%. also because we have utilt, c4s, proximities, ftilts, dtilt, nair, bair, uair, and dair we pretty much have a whole arsenal to kill her. thats why we have the advantage. also because if we grab her you can pretty much assume the sheik will get right up and dsmash or roll away or get up attack. all punishable.
If Sheik is above us she is already in a very bad position. We can continue a juggle with an uptilt, Uair, or a nair. The only ways for Sheik to avoid this is to air dodge. Which gets her grabbed.hahaha. lemme go get a vid of <3 vs snake and ill show you why this MU is 55:45 in favor of snake vs sheik.
EDIT: unfortunately i couldnt find any. lol. ill ask him if he has any and to upload them. ive played agaisnt light and all the time against <3(less than three). i can vouch that if sheik plays the MU right snake will have a hard time beating sheik.
first off, sheik's bair will auto-cross over which means the sheik will always land behind snake with no lag.
The correct answer is that Snake will be SDIing away and will ftilt you in the face.Having a fast character like that behind you is bad bad bad for snake. dont spotdodge for you will get grabbed b/c sheik will wait for it. if you get jabbed it doesnt matter if you shield because they can either contiue the jab or cancel it into a grab. but beware, the jab>grab may not be just a jab>grab. as snake i know that i can spotdodge the grab after getting jabbed. what i cant spotdodge is a jab>run past snake pivot grab(which is super quick but will grab you after you spotdodge). so you are just left up to reflex at this point and how much you know the MU.
This is 100% theory play. Also, you are assuming you are playing against an inexperienced Snake.and you may argue that you shouldnt get hit by the bair. well heres whats gonna get you hit by the bair: sheik run to the other side of the stage and charges her neddles and stays there chucking them at you. this forces you to come after her. if you jump>pull a nade and land with it the neddles will blow you up and cost you minimum 13% damage. so you come after her. now you get into somewhat of range and now you are left with a few choices; tilts/jab/force a shield grab/you shield/do nothing. now a smart sheik will be hard to grab. an even smarter sheik will force you to shield with a needle and run at you. she jumps. now sheik can do an aerial attack or not. smart sheiks will either bait a tilt wait for you to drop your shield and bair you. if sheik hits you with her leg it will pull her behind you. now you are stuck. if you decided to sheik her aerial(which will happen sometimes) she will again be behind you. you are stuck.
Already talked about SDI.now lets talk about her jabs. she can jab lock(used very loosely the word lock) i recommend every snake learn how to sdi cuz you should NEVER get hit my more than 4 jabs(jabjab>cancel>jabjab is what i mean). sdi out asap and get to the ground. but watch because sheik is fast and can run and grab you b4 you know it. be prepared to jab or grab(cuz the sheik may run up and shield).
Now her ftilt, eh? Why is the Snake player in the Ftilt's range? A snake player is more than willing to nade drop to give a light character 13% and give us 20-30%. You die at extremely early percentages.now her ftilt. you cant spotdodge more than 2 ftilts, like ever. learn the timing of her ftilts and you can sometimes get a jab in between them. if you cant get that pull a nade and both explode. but i ahte that cuz that means a faster character has the potential to get underneath me and juggle. if you do get hit by a ftilt its pretty much guaranteed that you are going to get 30% damage, minimum. sometimes you die cuz you just cant get back to the stage. her ftilt is really what punishes the most. get behind snake and ftilt and you are in a win situation. snake will either spotdodge eventually, drop his shield and try to attack and fail, or roll away. if he rolls behind sheik hes screwed cuz her ftilt is easy to turn. if he rolls away he will get grabbed. sheiks pivot will take care of any spotdodges, if he even has time to spotdodge.
Yeah we do have the advantage. But, not by a small margin. Sheik has the tools and have to play absolutely perfect to even try to make this an even match up. But, nobody can play perfect.now i know that im a little biased since i play <3 and light who are arguably in the top 5 sheiks category if not top 3, but that doesnt mean that sheik doesnt have the tools to win. cuz she does. but snake does have the advantage. he is heavy and hard to kill. her best kill moves will be dacus, uair, and dsmash. easy to avoid until you are at high percent cuz than pretty much anything kills. but you shouldnt die ever b4 150%. she shouldnt live past 150%. also because we have utilt, c4s, proximities, ftilts, dtilt, nair, bair, uair, and dair we pretty much have a whole arsenal to kill her. thats why we have the advantage. also because if we grab her you can pretty much assume the sheik will get right up and dsmash or roll away or get up attack. all punishable.
This post has A LOT of errors in it. Snake beats both of these characters but not really because of anything you mentioned lol.I'm sorry i didn't read much of this thread, but i disagree with practically this entire MU thread (to an extent, i'm going off the first page). I feel that snake is being underrated by snake mains and that these MU's are in higher favor for snake than everyone's thinking. He wouldn't be S tier if his matches were all 50:50's and 55:45's
Sheik has very few options against a good snake. Sheik's f-tilt can be countered by snake's so there's no reason unless you space wrong that sheik should be f-tilt locking you. IF you're spacing like that, it will take forever for you to die from sheik without an f-tilt lock. Sheik's pin damage is just a jump + plant c4 away from being dodged, which just puts you at an advantage. Snake is bad in the air, and sheik is great in it, but has no real tools to put you in the air either (once again if played correctly). Making her air game obsolete. Plus backing away and b-airing or n-airing depending on your position will outspace everything except her bair.
(bolding is just my opinion)
Zelda has slow projectiles that doesn't effect snake's ability to camp if he wanted to. Zelda's recovery is even more trash and has more lag than Sheik's gimping is easier, even for snake, recovering on the stage gives ample opportunity for more damage racking, putting you back off the stage, or just killing them with an u-tilt (f-smash if you're faster enough and they're in distance)
It's no way near 50-50.
Remember, these matchups are played if both players are playing their character to the optimal ability. Not in your skill level, with all the options that snake has to stay grounded, i can see sheik's stocks going away extremely quickly, along with zelda's i call it 65:35snake's favor for sheik, 60:40 snake's favor for them together, 55:45 snake's favor zelda (just because she CAN potentially kill.)