Vs. Olimar

[PinkPwnageFrenzy]

Tough battle. As you all may well be aware, Olimar is quite good at racking up damage quickly. Here, you can discuss your strategies, and things you shouldn't do. Or just useful tidbits.

At long range, if your opponent starts spamming pikmin at you, spam your food right back. No pikmin will get through, and they'll be forced to come closer. Be wary of a possible aerial attack.

I'll have to play more Olimars to get more, I've only really played two. >_<

[Needle of Juntah]

this matchup is hard :/
try to kepp them in the air as much as possible :/

[matthewdw94*]

this matchup is hard :/
try to kepp them in the air as much as possible :/

key spamming into to a shield grab works occasionaly

[A2ZOMG]

Can you deflect Pikmin with B-airs? That would accomplish two things at once. Damaging the Pikmin, and reducing the projectile spam.

[matthewdw94*]

choose the smallest stage possible. or luigis mansion since they cant spam their pikmin there

[HammerWang]

lol choose small stage?

ok seriously, approach with bair and SPACE
SPACING IS SO IMPORTANT WITH OLIMAR
watch out for dsmash and grabs
bairs n some fairs is good so that u can keep ur space and be aggressive

dairs work great when u get the ground hit on them
and any smash works haha, dsmash n fsmash are good
hes not taht hard, be a **** and edgehog :P

[Roman.]

GaW can work quick with platforms and his aerials benefit that even more. Try to get stages that are really out of the ordinary like moving stages. Otherwise from the neutrals, use battefield and yoshi's island. Personally, I don't trust spamming bairs to do the trick. A good player will be watching you and time the pikmin around your aerials. Run in with your shield and from weird angles. But the biggest thing is to stay on olimar as much as possible. Even if he just spawned, stay very close in the area. You have to play VERY aggressively and take advantage of GaW's broken moves.

p.s. GIMP THAT *****

[A2ZOMG]

I'd juggle Olimar as much as possible (and G&W is very good at juggling btw). It will prevent him from grabbing you or using his long range Smash attacks against you. If you killed some of his Pikmin, it will also prevent him from recovering them.

[omegablackmage]

use the nair to shake off pikmin if you get hit. use spaced back airs to avoid getting sheild grabbed on your approach. you have to play an offensive game or you will lose. learn to use air dodges to get in on olimar w/o taking too much dmg, and yeah, keeping him in the air will work the best because you have the most priority there vs him