Sheik (SSB4)

Sheik in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	The Legend of Zelda
Other playable appearances	in Melee in Brawl
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Light Arrow
Tier	S (1)

“	Sheik Appears on the Scene!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Sheik (シーク, Sheik) returns as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. 4. She was confirmed during the Super Smash Bros. Direct on April 8th, 2014, a day before the Australian releases of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Jun Mizusawa, who is also the voice actress for Zelda, reprises her role as Sheik, albeit via recycled voice clips from Brawl.

Sheik is ranked 1st out of 56 characters on the tier list, as one of three characters in the S tier alongside Zero Suit Samus and Rosalina & Luma, a significant improvement from 25th place out of 38 characters in Brawl and her best tier placement to date. While not as overwhelmingly dominant as Meta Knight in Brawl, Sheik is near-universally considered the best character in Smash 4 due to her extremely fast and safe attacks. In addition to her combo strings, Sheik has gained formidable killing tools in her up aerial and her new down special Bouncing Fish. If played correctly, nearly everything she does is nigh-unpunishable, giving her an unrivaled neutral game. This is supplemented by an excellent projectile in Needle Storm; its speed and transcendent priority allow Sheik to outcamp almost every other character in the game and make her all the more difficult to approach. While most of her moves generally deal very low damage and knockback, this is compensated by her strong combo ability, and even if she fails to pull off a KO setup, her advantages mean that she can afford to KO later than other characters. Sheik has the tournament results to match her reputation, being used by many top players including the undisputed best SSB4 player in the world, ZeRo.

Attributes

Sheik is a character that, as a ninja of sorts, fits the "hit-and-run" character archetype. Sheik's overall mobility is among the best in the game, boasting the 5th fastest walking speed, 7th fastest dashing speed, above average air speed, and the 9th fastest falling speed. Her recovery is also versatile and extendable, as she has two recovery options that can be used in tandem with each other: her down special, Bouncing Fish, covers good horizontal distance, and can be followed up with Vanish, which grants her invincibility and invisibility, making it hard for the opponent to predict. Both these moves are also difficult and risky to intercept, as they both can deal high knockback.

Shiek's greatest strength is her nearly unrivaled frame data. Her moves have generally negligible amounts of start-up and end-lag, making her extremely difficult to punish, and many of her attacks have rather long reach as well. The best example is her forward aerial. It has little start-up and end-lag, autocancels in a shorthop, and has disjointed reach, giving it great versatility, allowing it to be used to approach, pressure, and combo. She has an excellent projectile in Needle Storm, with the needles being fast, long-ranged, transcendent, and causing hitstun. Coupled with her range, her needles give her a strong camping ability.

Sheik's mobility, projectile, and frame data grant her an outstanding neutral game. She can pressure from afar and zone without any trouble. She can choose to play aggressively, with her fast attack speed giving her an unpredictable approach. Sheik can poke and pressure her opponents with her aerials and tilts, all of which are safe options. If they choose to drop shield, they are wide open to these attacks. At the same time, holding shield presents her with an opportunity to grab and use her excellent throw setups.

Sheik's excellent frame data, combined with the low power of many of her moves, gives her among the best combo abilities in the game. Her throws can easily lead into other attacks, with her forward and down throws being particularly effective at starting combos. These can notably set up long chains of forward aerials, with up aerial, neutral aerial, and Bouncing Fish being useful combo finishers. Her combos aren't limited to her air game; all of her tilts can start and extend combos. Up tilt and down tilt send opponents into the air, and can confirm into aerials, or her forward tilt, which can chain into itself at lower percentages. Her forward tilt has reliable follow-ups all the way into KO percents as well. She also boasts an effective jab cancel that leads into her tilts. With proper spacing and timing, she can even carry out pseudo chain-grabs.

Despite being among the best characters in several ways, Sheik still has her flaws. Most notably, though she has a strong damage-racking ability, she struggles to secure her opponent's stock. She has several moves with high knockback, but she has difficulty landing them. Her up smash has a powerful sweetspot, but it is hard to land outside of a read, and is hampered by its large, weak sourspot. Her forward smash is moderately strong, but it is somewhat prone to SDI, and both of the aforementioned attacks have punishable endlag as well. Furthermore, Bouncing Fish has no reliable set-ups at KO percentages, and while her down throw sends highly damaged foes into the air, giving her an opportunity to land either an up aerial or Vanish, this requires a successful read more often than not, and a whiffed Vanish is highly punishable. With all of this working against her, it is not uncommon for her opponents to survive in excess of 150%.

Sheik, despite her good combo game, has a poor damage output overall. Thus, she requires very long strings of attacks to deal the same amount of damage that super-heavyweight characters such as Bowser and Donkey Kong can inflict in noticeably fewer hits. Combined with low knockback on almost all of her attacks, her overall damage output is among the lowest in the game. She also has a high short hop which may make SHFFing less effective, but still limits Sheik to perform only a single aerial attack while doing so. Additionally, the introduction to rage hinders Sheik: without rage, she has trouble KOing outside of the mentioned attacks (and those are difficult to hit with in the first place) and with rage, her comboing ability is hindered, which when combined with her below-par damage output, it can make bringing an opponent to KO percents difficult. In addition to this, despite her status as one of the best characters in the game, Sheik possesses a few moves that have very low utility. These include her down air, for its weak knockback and fast falling, down smash for almost non existent KO power, and Burst Grenade for its slow explosion, helplessness if performed while airborne, and little usage outside occasional spacing.

Despite this, Sheik's strengths significantly overpower her flaws. Due to these advantages, she has the highest tournament representation of any character in SSB4, with some of her mains such as ZeRo, Mr. R, VoiD, and Vinnie being considered to be among the best players in the world. Sheik is widely considered to be the most dominant character in the metagame, particularly after update 1.0.6 heavily nerfed Diddy Kong, who was arguably her most troublesome match-up prior to the update. Despite having been slightly nerfed in the game updates, the changes have not been severe enough to affect Sheik's representation and viability.

Sheik also benefits a good amount from her custom moves. Penetrating Needles only shoots three needles instead of six and has less range, but it deals extra shield damage, granting her a new pressuring option. Gravity Grenade loses the suction effect, but the grenade can be thrown much farther and pulls enemies towards Sheik, allowing multiple follow-up opportunities. Pisces, while having a much more shallow flip, removing her forward throw combo, gains more horizontal distance, is faster, has little lag if the follow-up attack isn't executed, and is significantly stronger, being able to KO 59% earlier than the default Bouncing Fish. Her other custom moves, like Paralyzing Needle and Abyss, have slightly increased amounts of risk and reward for using them over their standard counterparts.

Changes from Brawl

Sheik has been significantly buffed from Brawl, which has allowed her to become a dominant character in competitive play like she was in Melee, only more so. Many of her attacks have been partially reverted or changed, giving Sheik many options back that she lost in Brawl. Few of her moves (Needle Storm, forward aerial, and her new down special, Bouncing Fish) give Sheik a better neutral game. However, she has suffered from a few nerfs in the transition from Brawl to SSB4. Her recovery was noticeably weakened, losing her Chain as a tether recovery. She has also lost the ability to utilize Zelda's superior up special and when combined with her faster falling speed has a harder time getting back on stage. However, the loss of Farore's Wind is somewhat compensated by Sheik's new down special, Bouncing Fish, giving her a recovery mixup options. She also lost her DACUS technique, which she relied on in the previous installment. On top of this, her already weak attacks deal even less damage, which forces players to rely on combos to rack up damage. The lack of many strong finishing moves also means that opponents must be at very high percentages for Sheik to reliably KO. On top of this, the new rage mechanic also hurts her comboing ability while at mid-high percentages. As a result, Sheik has a very high technical learning curve, requiring precisions with using her aerial and tilts correctly, patience, quick reflex, and landing her KO moves efficiently.

Despite these noticeable flaws, she has gained many notable and useful buffs from Brawl such as her ability to combo and the addition of her new down special. Sheik is a dominant force in the metagame with many high-placing tournament results on the national and international level and is regarded by many as the best character in the game. Sheik has also been nerfed in several game patches, but so far, none of these nerfs have significantly affected her viability.

Aesthetics

• Sheik retains the Twilight Princess-inspired design she had in Brawl, but now with a noticeably brighter color scheme due to SSB4's more vibrant aesthetics. However, she appears to be more muscular than her appearance in Brawl. This gives her a physique closer to the one she has Ocarina of Time, which was more masculine in appearance compared to the physique she has in her Twilight Princess concept art.
• Sheik has a new standing idle animation.
• Sheik has two new idle poses.
• The Chain in Sheik's side taunt has been replaced with a smaller string used in her new side special, Burst Grenade.

Attributes

• Sheik's air speed is much faster (0.846 → 1.1).
• Sheik is slightly lighter (85 → 84), decreasing her endurance but making her slightly harder to combo.
• Sheik walks faster (1.3 → 1.4).
• Sheik dashes faster (1.92 → 2.016).
• Sheik falls faster (1.58 → 1.75).
• Sheik can no longer Transform into Zelda, with the latter becoming her own separate character.
• Sheik can no longer do a two-hit forward smash with battering items, nor can she fire two stars at once with the Star Rod.
• Due to being separated from Zelda, Sheik can no longer access Zelda's more potent recovery and KO power.

Ground attacks

• Neutral attack now transitions into a finisher.
• All tilts deal less damage (forward tilt: 5% → 4%, up tilt: 13% → 11%, down tilt: 8% → 5%), though knockback has been compensated on forward and down tilts.
• Dash attack deals less damage (7%/5% → 6.5%, 4.5%).
• Up tilt has less ending lag, allowing more follow-ups.
• Since up tilt deals 2% less damage, this makes it weaker despite its increased knockback growth (122 → 125). However, along with its decreased ending lag, it can combo up to higher percents.
• Down tilt can now more reliably follow into other attacks at lower percentages.
• All smashes deal less damage (forward smash: 14% → 13%, up smash: 17%/12% → 15%/11%, down smash: 13%/10%/10% → 3%/6%).
• The second hit of forward smash is stronger (50 base/100 growth → 60 base/109 growth).
• Up smash's sweetspot has increased knockback growth (82 → 86).
• Due to the removal of DACUS, her up smash is a more situational attack.
• Down smash has shorter reach, more ending lag and deals less knockback. Only the last hit has KO power (knockback mostly compensated however).

Aerial attacks

• All aerials deal less damage (Neutral aerial: 13%/10% → 8%/7%, forward aerial: 9% → 5.0%/4.3%, back aerial: 12%/11% → 8%/7%, up aerial: 11% → 7%, and down aerial: 10% → 8%).
• Forward aerial has a new animation, longer range, and is much faster, giving it excellent combo potential at a wide range of percents.
• Forward aerial has a higher launch angle (35° → 50°). Since it is no longer a semi-spike, it is less effective at edge-guarding. However, its higher angle improves its follow-up potential along with the previous buffs.
• Forward aerial's sourspot now takes priority over the sweetspot.
• Up aerial is now a multi-hit attack that is stronger and can reliably KO under 130% in the air.
• Back aerial has much lower KO potential, making it less effective as an edge-guarding tool.
• Down aerial is now a meteor smash. It also leads into a second hit on grounded opponents.
• Down aerial falls much faster, which gives it less time to act out of it and can cause self destructs.

Throws/other attacks

• Forward throw is faster and sends opponents at a slightly higher trajectory (70°), now reliably setting up a forward aerial at any percentage below around 150%.
• Back throw has less ending lag, allowing more follow-ups.
• Down throw's trajectory has been reverted to how it functioned in Melee (80°). While it has higher knockback growth than in Melee, it is still an excellent combo-starter. Along with the removal of hitstun cancelling, down throw has reliable follow-ups all the way into KO percents.

Special moves

• Needle Storm has increased knockback, making it much more useful as a spacer. It can also be pivoted on the ground. The needles also travel significantly faster, making them harder to react to and punish.
• Needle Storm deals less damage (18%/12% → 11%/7%), has slightly more ending lag, and takes slightly longer to fully charge.
• Sheik has a new side special, Burst Grenade. Sheik throws a small grenade that she can detonate at will, which produces a small vacuum before exploding. This new move is overall significantly better than Chain, dealing more damage and having better utility.
• Due to Burst Grenade's function, and its property of leaving Sheik helpless in the air after usage, Sheik cannot use this move as a tether recovery.
• Vanish's explosion hitbox deals 3% less damage (15% → 12%).
• The explosions produced by Burst Grenade and Vanish are now absorbable.
• Sheik has a new down special: Bouncing Fish, an acrobatic kick attack similar to Zero Suit Samus' Flip Jump, but covers much more horizontal range. It has extremely high base knockback and is a reliable KO move at high percents, and aids greatly in Sheik's previously mediocre recovery by providing a great deal of horizontal distance without leaving her helpless.
• Light Arrow deals overall less damage and has weaker knockback.

Update history

Sheik has been moderately nerfed since update 1.0.4, with many of her moves becoming weaker. Most notably, her forward aerial was given a smaller sweetspot, larger sourspot, and damage reduction on both hitboxes. In 1.0.4, the knockback on Bouncing Fish was decreased and up aerial hits one less time, while in 1.0.6, her back aerial's power was also significantly reduced, no longer KOing outside of edge-guards. However, none of these nerfs have seemed significant as players have learned to overcome them, and Sheik is still regarded as the most dominant character in the game.

1.0.4

• Forward aerial damage reduced (sweetspot: 6.8% → 5.5%, sourspot: 6% → 4.8%).
  • Its decreased damage allows it to combo better.
• Up aerial hits one less time, resulting in 1% less total damage (8% → 7%).
• Up air knockback growth: 155 → 138
• Bouncing Fish knockback growth: 100 → 90
• Bouncing Fish base knockback: 30 → 26
• Needle Storm has slightly more ending lag.

1.0.6

• Back aerial damage and knockback significantly decreased: 11/10% → 8/7%
• Down tilt damage: 7.5% → 5%
  • It's decreased damage allows it to combo better.

1.1.0

• Forward aerial deals less damage (5.5%/4.8% → 5.0%/4.3%), but with knockback compensated on the sweetspot (125 → 132).
  • Forward aerial can combo better on the sourspot as a result.
• Forward aerial sourspot hitbox now takes priority over the sweetspot, effectively making the sweetspot smaller.

1.1.1

• Penetrating Needles deal less shield damage: 9 → 6.

1.1.4

• Sheik is slightly lighter (85 → 84).
• Vanish's disappearing hitbox has slightly less knockback growth (104 → 102) and is smaller (14u→13u).

Moveset

		Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack			2%	Two quick knifehand strikes followed by a barrage of knifehand thrusts followed by a palm thrust. The palm thrust has somewhat weak knockback.
			3%
			0.6% far or 0.8% close (infinite), 3% (last hit)
Forward tilt			4%	Sheik performs a roundhouse kick knocking the opponent into the air with low knockback. Easily combos into itself and other moves.
Up tilt			5% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Sheik performs a modified axe kick. Can hit on the upswing and downswing.
Down tilt			5%	Sheik performs a leg sweep. Can be immediately followed by her neutral air or forward air due to it popping the opponent upward.
Dash attack			6.5% (clean), 4.5% (late)	A slashing knife hand strike. Has decent knockback.
Forward smash			5% (hit 1), 8% (hit 2)	Two crescent kicks that moves her forward as they are executed. The first has low knockback, while the second has significant knockback. Can KO at high percentages.
Up smash			15% (sweetspot); 11% (sourspot)	Sheik raises her arms over her head and quickly brings them down to her sides to perform outward fanning knifehand strikes. The sweetspot is on her fingertips during the beginning of the move while the sourspot in on the the downswing. Sheik's arms and her head have intangibility when the hitboxes are present.
Down smash			3% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Performs a windmill, a breakdancing technique, while kicking the opponent. Can hit twice.
Neutral aerial			8% (clean sweetspot), 7% (clean sourspot), 5% (late sweetspot), 4% (late sourspot)	Sheik performs a flying kick. A typical sex kick, it is her fastest aerial (comes out in frame 3), is capable of breaking combos and functions as a great out of shield option. The strong hit of her neutral air can combo into Bouncing Fish at middle percents. Its lingering hitbox is capable of covering Sheik's landing, catching opponents off-guard, and applying pressure against opponents that are attempting to aim their recovery to the ledge.
Forward aerial			5% (arm), 4.3% (body)	Sheik leans forward and quickly forms a downward knifehand strike. Sheik's primary approach options. It is one of her best moves for edge guarding and a KO options near the side of the stage at 160%. Can be autocanceled easily out of a SHFF. When well spaced with it, it is safe on shield. Has decent knockback and can combo into itself multiple times, neutral air, reverse-aerial-rush back air, and even bouncing fish depending on percent and positioning.
Back aerial			8% (clean sweetspot), 7% (clean sourspot), 5% (late)	Sheik performs a back kick. It has weak knockback, but with large hitboxes. Can be used for a reverse aerial rush and is good for edgeguarding.
Up aerial			1% (loop hits 1-3), 4% (hit 4)	Sheik inverts herself and performs a corkscrewing kick. The first three hits have the autolink angle against aerial opponents, which allows all four hits to connect easily. The final hit has strong knockback and is a solid KO move at moderate damage percentages, depending on rage. It can combo out of down throw.
Down aerial			8% (descent), 2% (landing)	Sheik performs a flying kick downward. A stall-then-fall, it can meteor smash during the beginning, but it is hard to recover from because of the fast descent. Has high ending lag and unsafe on shield. ConsideredSheik's worst aerial and is almost never used in competitive play.
Grab			—	Sheik's grab range is relatively short.
Pummel			3.1%	Hits opponent with her arm. A slow pummel.
Forward throw			5% (hit 1), 2% (throw)	Slams into the opponent with her torso. Can combo into an up aerial, forward aerial, and Bouncing Fish until high percentages against most characters, depending on DI.
Back throw			5% (hit 1), 2% (throw)	Throws opponent behind and back kicks them away. Can potentially follow up with aerials or Bouncing Fish.
Up throw			3% (hit 1), 2% (throw)	Sheik performs a kip-up and kicks the opponent into the air. Due to it having high base knockback and high ending lag, it has no guaranteed follow-ups and is her overall least useful throw.
Down throw			3% (hit 1), 3% (throw)	Throws opponent on the ground, then performs an axe kick knocking the opponent up into the air. Can combo into any aerial (except down aerial) depending on opponent's DI. Upon a successful read, Sheik can KO the opponent with either up aerial or Vanish at high percentages. This is also her strongest throw, but does not KO until 320%.
Forward roll Back roll Spot dodge Air dodge		—	—
Techs		—	—
Floor attack (front) Floor getups (front)			7%	Sheik kneels then punches forwards and backwards.
Floor attack (back) Floor getups (back)			7%	Sheik kicks her feet over her head.
Floor attack (trip) Floor getups (trip)			5%
Edge attack Edge getups			7%	Sheik pulls herself up and kicks both legs forward along the ground.
Neutral special	Default	Needle Storm	1.9% (near) or 1.2% (far) per needle, 6 needles max	Sheik accumulates up to six needles that can be stored and released immediately or later. If thrown in the air, the needles travel at approximately a 45 degree angle. One of Sheik's best options for camping/zoning, as it can nullify approaches and has transcendent priority.
	Custom 1	Penetrating Needles	2.2% (near) or 1.6% (far) per needle, 3 needles max	Needles travel through multiple opponents with electric effect. Travels a shorter distance and can only be charged to three needles. Deals extra damage to shields. Less range than normal.
	Custom 2	Paralyzing Needle	1%	A single needle that can stun an opponent. Has significant ending lag. The higher the opponents damage, the longer they are stunned. Less range than normal.
Side special	Default	Burst Grenade	1% (hit), 1% (pull), 12% (explosion)	Sheik throws a grenade on a string. On detonation, it creates a small area that pulls opponents towards it, then explodes. The detonation can be delayed a second by holding the special attack button. Grenade can be thrown a further distance when Sheik is in the air or when thrown over an edge. If Sheik is attacked before the grenade explodes, it will become an item for anyone to use. Sheik will fall into a helpless state if it is used in the air and uninterrupted.
	Custom 1	Gravity Grenade	3.58%	Upon detonation, the grenade does not pull enemies into it and the explosion has a smaller radius, but the explosion knocks opponents towards Sheik, allowing multiple follow-up options like gimps or an up smash.
	Custom 2	Skimming Grenade	2% (hits 1-3), 4.6% (explosion)	The grenade bounces on the ground with a time delay before exploding. The longer it takes to explode, the less damage it deals.
Up special	Default	Vanish	12% (vanish), 5% (reappear)	After a short delay, Sheik vanishes in a puff of smoke, reappearing nearby in a controlled direction. The vanish hitbox has high knockback, able to KO at high percentages. The reappearance hitbox has much weaker knockback, but can push shielded opponents who are in the location that Sheik reappears in. Sheik is only vulnerable for two frames during its animation and has invincibility frames on the rest.
	Custom 1	Gale	0%	Sheik vanishes and reappears faster while traveling a further distance, with the loss of a vanishing and reappearing hitbox.
	Custom 2	Abyss	5% (vanish), 4% (travel)	There is no longer a short vertical movement before Sheik's vanish and it will meteor smash for the entire duration of the vanish. However, the distance traveled is shorter and her pathway during it is visible.
Down special	Default	Bouncing Fish	12%	Sheik flips forward a moderate distance and kicks the opponent. If her feet connect with an opponent, she will flip back a small distance and land on her feet. She can kick up to three times if the preceding kicks connect. Upon a miss, she lands on her back and stands up. Strong knockback and one of her best KO moves. Also drastically improves her off-stage recovery as her up special can be used immediately afterwards. Can be executed sooner by hitting the button again and gains more distance if the control stick is held in whatever direction Sheik is facing. Has intangibility on startup. KOs Mario 165% at the center of Final Destination.
	Custom 1	Jellyfish	8% (grounded opponents), 10.5% (aerial opponents)	Sheik's flip is more vertical, traveling a shorter horizontal distance. Grounded opponents are launched diagonally upwards with set knockback in order to ensure that the opponent can be hit the second time. She can kick up to two times if the preceding kick connects.
	Custom 2	Pisces	15.5%	Sheik's flip is faster and more shallow, which requires pressing the attack button in order to kick if the attack is used while standing on the ground. If the hit lands, she will flip a short distance forward and will launch opponents backwards while dealing more knockback. It can't be used more than once before landing on the ground. If it hits, she can control her movement. Has little to no lag if the button isn't pressed. KO's Mario at 106% at the center of Final Destination.
Final Smash		Light Arrow	1% (hit 1), 44% (Light Arrow 1st opponent), 33% (2nd opponent), 24% (3rd opponent)	Sheik pulls out a large magical bow and light arrow which she fires in a straight, horizontal line across the stage. It can strike multiple opponents, but the damage decreases for each successive target. Has very high knockback.

On-screen appearance

• Appears from a smoke bomb while striking a pose.

Taunts

• Up taunt: Balances on one hand.
• Side taunt: Pulls out her Chain.
• Down taunt: Performs a ninja pose with her right arm in front of her face.

Up taunt	Side taunt	Down taunt

Idle poses

• Moves her hand in front of her face, then quickly moves it back down.
• Turns around and balances on one leg.

Crowd cheer

	English	Japanese
Cheer
Description	Sheik!	Shei-k!
Pitch	Group chant	Group chant

Victory poses

A flourished remix directly from Brawl. It is a remix of the tune that will play when Link obtained a Triforce Piece in The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

• Crouches, swipes with her hand twice, then stands up, posing.
• Does her side tilt transitioning to her down smash. Replaces her old "thinking" victory animation.
• Two kicks, then a ninja stance.

In competitive play

Official Custom Moveset Project

Character	Custom sets available
Sheik	2211	2111	1211	2311	1311
	1213	3213	2212	2312	2231

Notable players

Active

•  Aki
•  Akiro
•  Anti
•  Cacogen
•  Edge
•  False
• Javi
•  K9
•  Karna
•  Master Raven
•  Mr. R
•  NEO
•  Nietono
•  Nyanko
•  Player 7
•  RAIN
•  Shu
•  Trevonte
•  VoiD
•  Wizzrobe
•  Yoh
•  ZeRo
•  Zex

Inactive

•  Vinnie

Trophies

Sheik

In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Sheik claimed to be a surviving Sheikah. However, this was just a cunning disguise for Princess Zelda so that she could escape Ganondorf. In Smash Bros., she's the complete opposite of Zelda, striking with fast attacks that can keep an opponent off balance.

Sheik is introduced in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as the "survivor of the Sheikah", although it turns out to be Zelda, who took on the disguise to hide from Ganondorf. Sheik's ninja-like speed is a real contrast with Zelda's, and it allows for sneaky, fast-paced attacks that overwhelm opponents before they can even react.

: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (11/1998)

: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (06/2011)

Sheik (Alt.)

Sheik's Burst Grenade side special throws a small grenade that draws in nearby fighters before exploding. Once the button has been released, it'll hop or explode after a time. The down special Bouncing Fish is an attack where Sheik strikes with both heels, falling similarly to the way a fish might flop around.

Sheik's Burst Grenade side special throws a small grenade that draws in nearby fighters, then explodes. Hold the button longer to thrown it further. The down special Bouncing Fish is a fish-like flop forwards that has Sheik attack with both heels on the way down. If the move connects, Sheik will bounce back up into the air.

: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (11/1998)

: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (06/2011)

Light Arrow (Sheik)

Sheik's Final Smash uses a gigantic bow to fire a Light Arrow across the screen. If multiple foes are in its path, it will strike them all, ignoring shields like they're not even there. Sheik's Light Arrow is more damaging than Zelda's and it launches its victims at a lower angle.

Sheik's Final Smash uses a gigantic bow to fire a Light Arrow across the screen. If multiple foes are in its path, it will strike them all, even penetrating straight through their shields. Sheik's Light Arrow is more powerful than Zelda's and it launches its targets at a more shallow angle.

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• SheikAllStarTrophy3DS.png

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  Light Arrow

In Event Matches

Solo Events

• All-Star Battle: Melee: Sheik is one of the opponents fought in this event. All opponents debut in Melee, and reappear in Smash 4.
• Aura Mastery: The player, as Lucario, must defeat an invisible Sheik and Wii Fit Trainer.
• Identity Crisis: Sheik must defeat Samus. After defeating her, the player must defeat Zero Suit Samus. If Sheik gets knocked out, then Zelda will appear.

Co-op Events

• The Ultimate Battle: Two players select a character and must defeat the entire roster.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Sheik's introduction picture.

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  Sheik's amiibo.

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  A pose.

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  In the air.

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  Throwing an attack at Samus.

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  Burst Grenade.

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  Neutral aerial.

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  A face closeup.

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  With Navi.

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  A pose.

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  Back-to-back with Zelda in the 3DS version.

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  Charging up smash.

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  Charging Needle Storm midair.

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  Attacking Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

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  Posing.

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  Attacking Little Mac.

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  Charging up Needle Storm.

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  Bouncing Fish against Mario.

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  Burst Grenade.

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  Back-to-back with Zelda in the Wii U version.

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  Sheik attacking Samus.

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  Sheik and Wii Fit Trainer attacking Mega Man.

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  Sheik attacking Marth.

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  Jumping.

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  Sheik and Greninja.

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  Sheik and Little Mac.

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  Sheik fighting Toon Link.

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  Down taunt.

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  Little Mac attacking Sheik.

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  Sheik slipping on a banana peel.

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  Sheik and Toon Link.

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  Sheik running from Little Mac.

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  Jumping.

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  Side taunt.

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  Sheik and Olimar.

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  Toon Link holding a bomb in front of Sheik.

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  Sheik posing with Wii Fit Trainer.

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  Sheik and Olimar.

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  In the air.

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  On the 3DS Version.

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  Sheik and Yoshi.

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  Sheik and Charizard.

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  Sheik and Lucario.

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  Sheik and Little Mac.

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  Sheik charging Needle Storm.

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  Neutral air attack.

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  Jumping over Mario and Luigi.

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  Sheik on Yoshi's back.

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  Using the Burst Grenade.

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  Jumping in the Prism Tower stage.

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  Above a shark in the Tortimer Island stage.

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  Sheik and Zelda.

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  Sheik about to attack Mario, Samus and Donkey Kong.

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  In the air.

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  Above Olimar.

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  Neutral air attack.

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  Sheik and Pikachu.

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  Sheik and Toon Link.

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  Sheik with Charizard and Pikachu.

Trivia

• In the Portuguese localisation of SSB4, Sheik is referred to as "o Sheik" ("o" is the masculine definite article).
• Although Sheik has a new idle animation, she will revert to her previous one if holding a light item. She shares this trait with Yoshi, Dr. Mario, and Roy.
• Sheik is the only Legend of Zelda character that can crawl.
• Sheik is the only veteran with 2 special attacks being replaced with new ones.
• Sheik is currently the only character in the Smash Bros. series to have been at the very top of the tier list in two different games, with her current position in Smash 4, and on earlier iterations of Melee's tier list.