Which Melee characters will be used to win a major during 2025?
98%
Fox
97%
Marth
69%
Jigglypuff
69%
Falco
69%
Sheik
58%
Ice Climbers
47%
Link
38%
Yoshi
28%
Peach
26%
Captain Falcon
26%
Pikachu
23%
Donkey Kong
22%
Samus
16%
Young Link
14%
Luigi
14%
Dr. Mario
14%
Mario
10%
Zelda
8%
Ganondorf
6%
Ness

IMPORTANT: For an option to resolve YES the winner of a major needs to use that character during Grand Finals, Winner's Finals, Winner's Semifinals, Loser's Finals, Loser's Semifinals, or Loser's Quarterfinals. Also, they must win at least one of the games in which they used that character.

In addition to the rules above, Zelda only counts if at least three of the enemy's stocks are taken entirely by Zelda without transforming into Sheik. So the enemy must go from 0% to death without Sheik's involvement, three times, in a single game.

I will be deferring to Liquipedia on which tournaments count as a 'Major'.

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How exactly does Zelda resolve? What if a Sheik player accidentally transforms into Zelda and lands a single "get-off-me" b-air before transforming back? What if the Sheik player transforms into Zelda solely for the purpose of recovering and then wins the game? What if the transformation + recovery is plausibly non-determinative (e.g. it was done in a 4-to-1-stock situation and the Sheik player almost certainly would have won anyway)?

@NBAP Woops I thought of that case but didn't actually type what I thought of 😝 I'll add it to description now