Free means that they take no skill in order to get easy wins and you can exploit their powerful tools.

Easy to use means they have a low learning curve and that you can pick them up with little to no trouble.

Tails is not really easy to use, people just resort to spamming side special with him because its easy. I will agree he is hard to master.

Kirby is a mixed bagged in that he can be easy to use, but trying to master him depends on how you use him like if you just want to edge guard with him, play keep away or just play deceptive. Although, he has a lot of troubling mus when compared to Sheik and Tails.

I would say that I think Sheik is balanced when talking about characters around her.

I guess that makes sense, because i'm winning more often and I can actually challenge pros, ad i'm thinking it's because I chose a broken character. Then again, I have this experience with a lot of other new characters I try out, so I dunno. I'm just hoping i'm not cheap.

I think because you are able to exploit your opponents rather then Sheik being broken. Good for you.

Same could be said with Naruto. If you frequently use his side-B. you have a higher chance of winning a match. You know, that kind of stuff. I also played ZSS for a bit (even though I hate her) and I have to say, it's incredibly easy to set someone up for up smash, or up-B. Like it's not even funny.
Eh, that's all I have to say right now :/

Kinda, if you are using a character who can punish his side b, then its not really helping him win.

What do you mean set up for up smash and up b? They don't even kill, unless you are trying to gimp with up b.

I know they don't kill, but they do deal damage. She isn't completely disjointed (neutral special) but people spam those two moves + side smash for a reason.

Neutral special is disjointed since it is leaving her body.

I hardly see people spam up smash, but up special yeah to get set ups.

Well, it does leave her open, and it's not handy for aerials.

And yeah, up special brings the character back to the ground, where you can do a number of things to them.

of course it does, its supposed to since it stuns the opponent and its useful for bair to connect if the opponent gets paralyzed.

I just said that.

i hope they nerf fair. i saw a match and sheik kills his oponent only with 45% at the ledge(bad DI?)

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Yep Sheik's fair appears to be weaker, but up air seems to be stronger. As long as her other finishers are stronger, I am fine with fair being weaker.

Yeah, fair's a little ridiculous right now.
I feel like Sheik has the potential to be the best character in the game it's just that she's easy to learn, kinda eh to master, but hard to unleash potential with.
Like turnaround tilts and longer combos, I guess that's what I mean, since most of her aerials last a long time (to get a soft hit you need to wait and that gives reaction time) or too strong to lead into anything (fair).

I find it hard to believe that Sheik of all the characters can be the very best in the game when we have monsters like Zelda, ZSS and MK up there.

Even some of the mid-high characters can be scary for Sheik

Yeah I agree, that's why I think she is the most balanced out of the top tiers.

I think Zelda is more of a monster than the other 3 due to Sheik, MK, ZZS needing to work for their combos. Zelda, despite having the worse mobility of the 4 mentioned, has less D.I.ing moves while also having stronger finishers to lead into.