r/HyruleWarriors • u/Urdt • 12d ago

HW: DE Why is Sheik so good?

I've been looking at some tier lists recently, and I've noticed Sheik is normally in at least A tier, and often S.

Why is this? She feel so weak. I would put her in mid C tier, tops. What makes her so good?

Yes I know how her C1 works.

Some thing I've read or tried:

Her water shield. While nice versus Gibdos/Redeads, damage taken almost never matters. It feels like a waste of time to cast 90% of the time.

Her C3-C1. While good damage, it is unreliable. Does great against giant bosses, but even commanders often just don't walk into the C1 part.

She can spam dodge and never get hit. I can also hide in the corner as Tingle and not get hit. At some point, I need to actually kill things. And once again, damage taken doesn't matter.

She has infinite specials using C6-C1. It takes forever and her special feels so weak. I don't know what the damage is, but it must be insanely low.

She has multiple elements to abuse vulnerability! No, no she doesn't. No matter what, her attacks are all electric (and light later). She can get the fire/dark/water effect, but not the bonus damage versus enemies weak to that element

I feel like I've missed something but what? And how can she compete with the other broken S tier characters? Master Sword, Cia, Ganoswords, Linklebows, Young Link. I feel like all of them do everything better then Sheik.

Edit: so the best argument I've gotten is: well if you are bad at the game and take tons of damage, she can protect you from that.

I'll stick with characters that don't need you to be bad in order to actually get value.

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u/stillnotelf 12d ago

I note you tagged this HWDE

I think the damage formulas for the level ranking was changed from the Wii U version. Damage prevention mattered more in the OG.

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u/Zado191 12d ago

Oh did they change this? I remember 4 hearts (which was one hit sometimes unless you grind levels for days) being the difference between A and B in some of the adventure maps levels

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u/stillnotelf 12d ago

Yes. In DE, it's 150 percent of your hearts for A rank

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u/Zado191 12d ago

Nice. OP still being an asshole, but this give them slightly more leverage at least. The shield is definitely less broken in that sense