Quote: somePersonTo be honest Smash 4 sheik isn't as good as Melee Sheik. :/ However she is still a great character because her moves have barely end lag on them leading to new combos that can't be escaped from as easily. To nerf her all they really need to do is put about 2 frames of lag on her Fair and make her up b kill at higher percentages. And 3DS gets a tourney legal stage because that was everybody plays 3DS.
In the context of her game, Smash 4 Sheik is easily better than Melee Sheik. Melee Sheik might be more fun to some because of L-cancelling and wave dashing and all that, but every character in Melee has access to those, and there are characters in Melee that benefit more from Melee's mechanics than Sheik does. In Smash 4 though, Sheik, Rosalina, and Pikachu benefit from the game's mechanics more than anyone.
Quote:Actually, people see one person kick butt with someone, they automatically think it's a good character.
If that was the case, Rosalina wouldn't be agreed as being a top tier, or have people complain about her being broken all of the time. She hasn't been winning tournaments that much and not many people play her.
While the Rosalina player base is mostly very bad and just rides off of Dabuz's early success and copies him and treats him like a god, people agree she's top tier because it's so plain to see that if people just took advantage of her properly, she'd be dominating. It's just that most Rosalina players play overly defensively, so that holds the character's tournament results back.