SSBB with characters: [u'Captain Falcon', u'Pikachu']
One of the 6 hard counters for our fallen racer, and one of the mouse's best 4 matchups. The neutral is bad enough with Pikachu's low hurt box making him difficult for Captain Falcon to attack from the air and Thunder Jolt forcing him into shield or go for tightly timed down tilts. The biggest factor into why Pikachu does so well is that both forward and down throws can chain grab Captain Falcon for ...

SSBB with characters: [u'Link', u'Toon Link']
Toon Link is yet another one of Link's 20 counters. For convenience reasons, I will refer to the former as just Toon here. Toon triumphs in neutral. While they both have pseudo-shields against each other's projectiles, there's generally more Toon can do with his, since Link is generally easier to combo (heavy fastfaller with slow get-off-me options). Although Link is the heavier hitter, Toon wins in damage racking for this same reason. Toon's up tilt ...

SSBM with characters: [u'Ness', u'Sheik']
Sheik is yet another hard counter for Ness. Sheik wins in every important aspect of this matchup. Ness has no options to fight Needles (the first one cancels out PK Fire, and the others will punish him), and his lack of range makes it excruciating for him to try to land grabs or crouch cancel counters. Most horribly of all, Sheik's down throw can chain grab Ness from 0 to roughly 90%, and DI does ...