"Sheik brought down Zelda in Melee"
I keep seeing this posted around here. What is this supposed to mean?
Sheik happened to be made with a great moveset and Zelda happened to be given a crappy one.
Do you honestly think Zelda would've been any different if Melee if she was a separate character?
The developers OBVIOUSLY weren't concerned with making everyone a good character. That's why characters like Bowser, Mewtwo, and Pichu were also crap.
The characters in Smash are given moves that reflect who they are.
They aren't meant to be balanced.
Even if Zelda and Sheik are separated in Brawl, it has been confirmed in screenshots and Jump Festa clips that she plays quite similar to how she does in Melee. In all likelihood, she will still suck.
The devs definately had some idea of balance in melee, but it wasn't very balanced b/c it was rushed and the devs didnt anticipate advanced techs.
zelda was DEFINATELY nerfed due to sheik, according to her trophy in melee, she was made weaker in certain areas and stronger in others, vice versa with sheik, so that together they make a complete character. Problem was that the areas zelda was weaker in were too large and sheik had very little weaknesses (so little that her moveset alone got her top tier). The game was rushed and the idea to have split character apparantly was done in the last minute since for most of pre SSBM , sheik was considered the only one in, not Zelda
I dont anticipate zelda sucking this time, since the devs wernt rushed and had more time to plan the game out. THe only char that seems too good so far is mario, because apparantly nintendo wanted to make sure that if 1 character had to be the best character, its going to be the face of nintendo.
Bowser was buffed, Fox was nerfed, Ike (if replacement of marth, likely since he is said to now play similar to Roy) nerfed in comparision to marth, mario was buffed, link was slightly buffed, samus now has to movesets and plays like her melee incarnation, Kirby was buffed, Pikachu was slightly buffed. If u see where I'm going, THEY ARE TRYING TO BALANCE THINGS.
and if you didn't play zelda much (you) , and watched the video, you wouldn't notice much different. But those who do note that all her moves come out faster , have larger hitboxes, and are less escapable. Im worried about her B moves since, as u said, jumpfesta goers said her dins fire sucked. Her up b still has amazing recovery though, AND is improved as it looks like it does damage at the destination. If you remember though, Sheik didn't have spectacular b moves other than one of her moves (the needles) too so, zelda can still be a good character. I think they made her b moves less than spectacular because unlike samus, she can transform at any time.
. There are exceptions but, other than in TP where midna took some of Zelda's roles, the games about hyrules story arc and not detours surround Zelda and Link's interaction.
