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first off, i appreciate your distinction that tiers are relative, which is totally true. however, i disagree with your assessment on these characters, and i will briefly explain why.
the way PM is, the cast is extremely diverse. i mentioned before that some characters can just roll the same A game and do it forever, but sheik has to adapt. however, my comparison there didn't mention the third group, the characters that need to know the MU and still can't adapt to it. you mentioned several of these flaws characters. zelda and kirby are actually the most obvious, since both have horrible approaches and can't play from behind in any way, i put zelda well into the bottom half of the cast. similarly, ike struggles with non-interactive strategies, particularly low crouches from characters like kirby, GAW, and yes even sheik. wario has many of the same issues as sheik does (because she plays fair and isn't stupid) but wario trades sheik's range, extensive combos, needles, total edge control, crawling, AC aerials, and a slightly better combo weight for more weight, better aerial mobility, and.... that's pretty much it. in terms of playing a fair game of smash, sheik is definitely better at it between the two. the same could be said of pikachu, although i agree that most people underestimate pikachu i think the same of sheik but to a larger extent. lucario is actually much closer, but lucarios combos are actually much easier to DI out of simply by spinning the stick in circles mid-combo. i haven't been that impressed with lucario yet but i admit that my observation here are pretty limited and perhaps i just haven't played a good one yet.
marth roy and CF all fall into a different category since they are all DD based. DD was weakened considerably to the point of being a reasonable tactic and not completely ****busted. however, i firmly believe that marth and CF outright suck. you should me any marth player and i will show you a bye in a bracket. i am less sold on roy because roy is imo over-designed to perform well. i initially started thinking of roy as a mid tier but actually fighting roy can feel monstrous and overwhelming because he was clearly given what i affectionately refer to as "the mario treatment". i dislike that some characters were just given a bunch of good things and called it a day, and i understand why other people dislike link for the same reason. however, i still think that sheik is a more rounded character that is better equipped to deal with the wide range of tactics offered by the larger cast. it is strongly advantageous to have a flexible character, or perhaps it is better said that it is strongly disadvantageous to play a flawed character when you can simply choose another character without those flaws.
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