Name (aka Handle):
Incinerate a.k.a Styles
How old are you?:
15
Which characters do you play in SSF2? Why do you play these characters?
I play Sheik and Zelda in SSF2. I play these characters primarily due to advantages over most of the cast, combo game, and high placings in tournaments
How much experience do you have with official Smash titles? (SSB64, Melee, Brawl. Include in this answer which characters you play/played.):
I don't have as much experience in official smash titles except for Smash4. I have played Mario and Sheik in Smash4.
Have you ever attended any Smash tournaments? If so, give some details about the tournament (number of participants, which games, etc). How well did you place? No I have not entered in any smash tournaments, but I have entered numerous tournaments in SSF2. I enter any tournament careless of how many participants are there, and recently I have been placing either 1st or 2nd against high caliber players.
When did you start playing SSF2?
Late October of 2014
What is your favorite stage in SSF2? Explain.
Smashville because it's almost entirely flat, letting the more zoning based characters control space, but the single platform gives the opponent a place to escape to relieve pressure and force an approach. You can use it to extend combos, to escape edge-guards, to camp, to approach, to score early stocks, to wait out your opponent's respawn invincibility.
Who, in your opinion, should be placed first on the SSF2 tier list? Under competitive settings why would this character perform on a higher level than all others? In my opinion Zelda should be placed first on the SSF2 tier list. Her short combo game allows her to KO early due to her combo sometimes leading into one of her fatal lightning kicks. Her projectile game can burn jumps and extend her combos, and her neutral special allows her to reflect projectiles.Her edgeguarding options are very strong and she herself is hard to edgeguard due to having one of the best recoveries in the game. The only mu she loses to in my opinion is lloyd since she does somewhat trouble against disjointed characters.
Who, in your opinion, should be placed last on the SSF2 tier list? Under competitive settings why would this character perform on a lower level than all others? In my opinion Wario should be placed last on the SSF2 tier list. His lack of range puts him at a disadvantage against disjointed characters, and he doesn't have any reliable KO options except for waft and lets not forgot he can be heavily combe'ed easily due to being above average weight/fast faller.
If you could make only one change to SSF2 as it currently is, what would it be and why?
It would definitely be zelda's lighting kicks. With poor DI she is able to kill any character at around 60%. With just 4 or 3 of her combo's leading to a lighting kick.... your done for.
What is your view on items in competitive play?
They aren't perfectly balanced because of how strong they are for the most part and completely overshadow the actual character choices.
Do you have or can you download Skype? You don't need a mic or webcam.
Yes I do have skype. My skype name is ssf2incinerate
Why do you want to join the Smash Flash Back Room? What will you contribute? Why are you an exceptional applicant? Be as detailed as possible.
Looking back 3 years from today I haven't contributed to this community as much as I wanted to. Having to be part of the br I can show my understanding and contribution to this community. Other then maining sheik and zelda I do also play fox,marth,mk,sonic,captain falcon, and wario which I will be happy to express my thoughts on each in every matchup for each in every character. My thoughts and understanding will make me an exceptional applicant
Additional information (Include in this section anything relevant to your application. This could include links to videos of yourself playing.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRkUbtd8kPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGs5-HZqVBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSBWBZVvTnA
http://challonge.com/BioHazardTourney5
http://tsftournaments.challonge.com/BigFinish2
http://challonge.com/3Fast3Furious

STAGELIST:
Neutral:
Battlefield
Final Destination/Nintendo 3DS
Smashville
Pokemon Stadium 3
Yoshi's Story

Counterpick:
Dreamland
Tower of Salvation
Castle Siege
Dracula's Castle
Sky Sanctuary Zone
WarioWare
Mirror Chamber

Using the following stagelist:
1) Determine both Sheik and Zelda's best stage, giving detail for why you chose these.

2) Would playing both Zelda and Sheik together (as Sheilda) optimally cover both characters matchup spreads? Give reasons for your answer.

1) Determine both Sheik and Zelda's best stage, giving detail for why you chose these.
Sheik's best stages would be in my opinion are Battlefield, Pokemon Stadium, and Smashville
Zelda's best stages would be in my opinion are Battlefield, Dreamland, and Smashville
Bf- Sheilda (Sheik & Zelda) is able to get consistent KO's easily due to closer blastzones, and can play aggressively while edgegaurding her opponents
Sv- Sheilda (Sheik & Zelda) excels very well with her platform, open-air, ground, off stage game on this stage, I would recommend it to any sheilda player
Dl- Zelda will be able to survive much longer from how far the blast zones are, she is able to recover higher onto platforms giving her more options to recover too, and her projectile game will become a well use tool on this stage. One fall back would be her mobility since the stage is pretty big.
PS3- This stage is a to go stage for sheik since she can mixup her recovery, camp with needles, and she can then again aggressively edgegaurd her opponents. This stage is like a balanced stage for bf, without the platform on top some characters will have to go the extra mile to kill off the top. If you were going against a fox or zelda this stage can elimnate early KO's off the top.

2) Would playing both Zelda and Sheik together (as Sheilda) optimally cover both characters matchup spreads? Give reasons for your answer.
From my experiences in SSF2 tournaments yes together as one both characters are able to cover both matchup spreads. If we were to look at "Sheik" her worst mu is metaknight, Zelda with the helping hand is able to KO metaknight vertically, and horizontally with her deadly lighting kicks due to his below average falling speed. Zelda's worst mu is lloyd, from countless practices in sheik vs lloyd, I think sheik is able to beat lloyd if the player focuses on getting lloyd off stage than comboing him on stage. This is because if the sheik were to combo lloyd than lloyd's disjoints are able to stop her combos from linking. Other than that Sheik does have quite a # of 50-50 mu's, and zelda on her side can easily change that from a blink of a down-b.

Here is a video of me playing zelda vs metaknight and sheik vs lloyd against Zair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLid2eGD8rs&t=515s

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