A vid of my shiek, help please!

[JonaDiaper]

ok its not really my sheik its my cousins, he wants to know how he can improve his sheik,btw im the falcon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4vgQe_qFY

 

[Terywj [태리]]

one thing i see is that your cousin isn't short-hopping his fairs. there were various points where he could've nailed you with his fair but he didn't 'cause he didn't SH. Just thought i'd bring that up.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

a thing i forgot to add. does your cousin dash cancel? i think that could help him too. Pretty nice Falcon btw.

 

[JonaDiaper]

no he doesnt, and he has trouble short hopping his sheik, but ill tell him to practice, and thanks for the compliment

 

[Terywj [태리]]

no problem.

 

[ks0ccergk]

I dont think I saw your cousin grab once thoughout the vid. Shield Grabbing is good.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

ya ks0ccergk is right. he needs no grab more in general but if he could shield grab that would be better.

 

[ye25]

Kind off topic but, if an opponent does an aerial into your shield and your thinking of shield grabbing him/her. How could you tell if he/she l canceled it or not to decide whether to shield grab or not?

 

[JonaDiaper]

Kind off topic but, if an opponent does an aerial into your shield and your thinking of shield grabbing him/her. How could you tell if he/she l canceled it or not to decide whether to shield grab or not?

you cant you have to assume they did, or didnt, theres no absolute way to be sure, unless you see the lagging if the didnt L-cancel

 

[ye25]

yea thats what i thought, so ppl should stay away from shield grabbing..

 

[JonaDiaper]

not really, if you saw that vid i(captain falcon) sheild grabbed my cousin a bunch of times, you just gotta be quick about it.

 

[ye25]

well you only shield grabbed him cause he wasnt good with l canceling, if u play someone with greater skill, chances are they will have gotten shield l canceling down.

 

[Zankoku]

Sheik needs some more mindgames. All I saw was the same approaches over and over. Dash attack > ftilt, Jab > dtilt, fullhop fair.
Too much fsmash, not enough dsmash.
Only one shorthop in the entire game. Granted, Sheik doesn't have nearly as good of a SHFFL game as most of the cast, but it's still useful for following up on tilts.
No fastfalling at all. This isn't hard to do. You just press down on the control stick when you're falling.
Mediocre DI. Got him killed by things that shouldn't a couple times.
No grabs. Sheik grabs + techchases make the match very hard on Falcon.
Almost no combo followups into fair. Most of Sheik's launchers go into the fair, it's not difficult to land. ftilt > fair, dtilt > fair, dash > fair...
Uair is only useful for combo purposes against a character like Falcon; it's far more effort to KO him over the top than it is to simply use a fair and edgehog.
Less rolling. He rolls to change position, he rolls to dodge around in a predictable pattern whenever you respawn.

 

[NinjaRooster]

You play a good falcon.

I think your cousin rolls too much...

 

[JonaDiaper]

yeah we both have a really bad rolling habit, ive been getting told these days jus to stop, but its hard and thanks Ninja and everyone for the help.

 

[whatwhatwhatwhatwhat]

For the sheik, you should do jab to grab combos. They work well on fast fallers. Also, b-air edge guard is good too since shiek can gimp falcon's recovery pretty well.

edit: posted by whatx5's cousin