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Pretty much. Pikachu's Fair is actually quite disjointed and many back airs are actually not, the main exceptions being Jigglypuff, Marth (obviously) and to a much lesser extent Falcon. Fox, Falco, Peach and Sheik bairs can be beaten with any fairly disjointed move, which Pikachu actually has a...

Thanks for all the work on this, very cool stuff.

Yeah, his tail sticks out which makes a lot of stuff very likely to shieldstab you from behind. There's also a very small bit of his head hurtbox that sticks out the top even at full shield, which makes things like Falco's Dair extremely likely to shieldpoke often. All you can do is get...

I think how much you risk randy Usmash is down to your values as a player more than anything. There's pros and cons. In his most recent set vs Hbox I noticed Axe seemed to just outright refuse to ever throw Usmash out in neutral, and I think it did him more harm than good. The thing is, yeah...

Yeah. Upwards angled Ftilt is just gdlike in general. Actually stuffs like the majority of approaches in the game including many good SHFFLs. Also really good against Falcon. It's just difficult to have the presence of mind and reaction speed to defend yourself with it a lot. Probably something...

I play in PAL and Sheik is still pretty bad. Most Sheiks over here are very good at reaction tech chasing and you'll still take quite a bit of damage off tech chase regrabs and such if you get grabbed, especially with Pika's poor tech rolls. The main benefit of playing against PAL Sheik is that...

Yeah, it's great. I've been thinking much the same things about it. It's definitely underused right now and has some major potential, with just the kind of hard execution being the reason it isn't used much. In addition to what you said, SH Uair allows Pikachu to true 0-death Fox and Falco on...

Really with Infinity on this one. Pikachu is near perfect in PM how he is imo. He is already a character that is fun to play, fun to play against and entertaining to watch. He isn't "Wow Stomp Knee so hype!" flashy, he is flashy in a more subtle "Wow, that was precise/fast" kind of way. In terms...

If you're at %s where you can't get anything off Uthrow on really floaty characters, like Peach and Puff, Fthrow is probably your best bet, especially against Puff. Like Dthrow it won't combo into anything, but it puts them in a really awkward position to avoid a Nair. If they jump out of...

Not played a good Ivysaur so can't comment on that MU. Link I feel a lot of people struggle with as players rather than as their characters. In the neutral, he's still super slow and really has no way to threaten Pika besides throwing bombs and boomerangs and hoping you get hit. Most of his...

Gonna be interesting to see the differences and similarities between our lists. Here's mine: Disadvantage | -2 | 40:60 :roypm::mario2::peach::falco::lucas: Slight Disadvantage | -1 | 45:55 :wario::toonlink::lucario::gw::rob::fox::diddy::wolf::mewtwopm::pit: Even | 0 | 50:50...

Pikachu does well against Marth mainly because Marth just cannot kill him at all. Marth has no reliable setups into Fsmash or Dair on Pikachu and can't edgeguard him reliably either, so Pikachu tends to live until ridiculous %s on a lot of stages. It says a lot that the way I die most often to...

I'm actually a firm believer that this matchup can be Pika favoured with some more figuring out. Jigs basically has Bair against us, and while it's annoying, she doesn't have that much more than that against Pikachu, besides the occasional Rest setup. Pikachu can: Challenge & punish her aerial...

That's partly why it's good against him though, funnily enough. Start poking at Marths with Dtilt, and 9/10 times they will get outraged that you dare try and beat them in the ground poke game, and start using their Dtilt in response. Once you've got them conditioned to Dtilt more to beat yours...

Depends on the opponent's character and where they're positioned. Generally if they're far off stage and you want to go deep, Dair is often the move to use. Do a running jump off and start it up early so that the hitbox is out when you reach them. When they're closer to the stage a run off...