After some experimentation. I am gonna recommend Bowser Jr. as a secondary if you don't like Pacman's game play. He does pretty good against sonic as the mecha koopas prevent Sonic's spindash shenanigans as they beat out the spins. On top of that,, He also has decent recovery capabilities. He shares the kill problem but we are use to that anyway.
I can't say I really agree with that, really wouldn't recommend Junior as a Secondary and I don't think he does that well against Sonic. The Mechakoopas are items, your opponents can just pick them up and use them against you if you are not careful, not to mention it takes too long to even
deploy one in the first place. Its not safe to throw out a mechakoopa in the neutral game and you'll get punished for it if you're under pressure, and when you're Bowser Jr you're kind of always under pressure. His Out of Shield Options are terrible and he has virtually no approach options, he's gonna have a hard time beating characters who can walk all over him with pressure (which Duck Hunt also loses to) or those who can just wall him out all day long.
If you wanna counter Sonic, you're better off with someone like Mega Man, Luigi, or Rosalina.
I CANNOT SETTLE ON A SECONDARY FOR DUCK HUNT.
KIRBY: ****ING LOVE THIS GODDAMN PUFFBALL, BUT IT MESSES WITH MY PROJECT M KIRBY. WENT TO A PM TOURNEY LAST WEEKEND AND SD'D AT LEAST 78,231 TIMES BECAUSE I KEPT TRYING TO PLAY SMASH 4 KIRBY INSTEAD OF PM KIRBY.
VILLAGER: APPARENTLY DOGGY AND VILLAGER HAVE THE SAME WEAKNESSES AND I AGREE. ALTHOUGH I QUITE LIKE THEM BOTH, I THINK I SHOULD KEEP DOGGY SINCE I KNOW HIM BETTER AND HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY TIME WITH HIM. MAYBE I'LL BE A VILLAGER MAIN IN THE FUTURE BUT FOR NOW IT'S DOGGO TIME.
DANK PIT/PIT: I'VE BEEN PLAYING PIT FOR A WHILE NOW AND I QUITE LIKE HIM, THOUGH I THINK I NEED MORE TIME IN THE LAB BECAUSE MY NEUTRAL GAME WITH HIM IS TERRIBAD.
MEWTWO: EHHHHHHHH MAYBE?! I MEAN HE'S KINDA SLOW AND WHAT I WANT IS A CHARACTER FOR SLOW MATCH UPS. FUN AND KILLS EARLY THOUGH.
PAC-MAN: I LOVE HIS COMBO GAME BUT I FEEL LIKE HE MAY NOT BE A GOOD SECONDARY WITH HIM BEING SO FLOATY. PLUS DUCK HUNT ALREADY DOES PROJECTILES BETTER.
PIKACHU AND SHEIK: I LIKE THEM BUT LITERALLY EVERYONE PLAYS THEM.
WII FIT TRAINER: MY PREFERRED SECONDARY NEXT TO THE PITS BUT I FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO PUT IN SO MUCH WORK TO GET HER TO DO GREAT, NOT TO MENTION EVERYONE OUT RANGES HER.
For matchup coverage, I'd personally go with
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the most.
Pac-Man's floatiness isn't too big a deal honesty, he can still protect himself while landing to an extent by dropping hydrants or z-dropping a fruit if he has one in his hand. I also disagree that Duck Hunt does projectiles better than him, his Bonus Fruit is an amazing move with tons of shenanigans and versatility and his Hydrant is his 2nd best move (tied with the Trampoline) that also has versatility, and Pac-Man is better at camping than DH is, I'd say. Can camp all day he wants by kicking Hydrants and poking with fruit, where as Duck Hunt's projectiles are pretty slow and don't really keep anybody out except heavies and those with crappy approach options. Pac-Man is also versatile enough to play aggressively too, and what makes him fun is that there are multiple ways to play him. I'd say Pac-Man's real weaknesses are:
- Slowass grab
- Lack of outstanding mobility
- Mediocre killing moves, though his offstage game is reeeeaaaal good.
- Weak Air-to-Ground game for the most part
- No spectacular normals. While most of Pac's normals are pretty good, he doesn't exactly have any outstanding normals, like say Lil Mac's Ftilt or Kirby 64's Utilt.
And in the case of the last two bullets, those are more shortcomings rather than actual weaknesses. Pac-Man barely has any weaknesses honestly and I think he's well rounded mostly, and most Pac players argue that he can hold his own against Sheik and even beats Diddy, 2 of the worst matchups DH can get. I don't think he has too many poor MUs other tan
,
,
,
,
, or maybe
; and even then only Rosalina is a terror for him, the rest of those guys are hard but managable and I don't really think they're -1 at worst. Pac-Man is awesome.
Pit? He is basically the token all-around fighter of this game, no significant strengths but no significant weaknesses either. He does almost everything well for the most part and is pretty balanced in a lot of areas, and just like with Pac-Man u can play him in multiple ways offensively or defensively (leaning more towards Defense). The only thing he truly has a hard time with is just getting the KO, but other than that there's nothing else in particular he lacks and I think he has a good MU set against most everyone.
Dark Pit is mostly the same character, with literally only 4 differences in their moveset. He's kind of a slightly worse version of his original, and he arguably has even more trouble killing than Pit does since his arrows aren't as effective for edgeguarding and electroshock requires you to be closer to the ledge to take a stock. Pit is mostly better than hi just cause his arrows are more versatile but he can do everything else at least
almost as well, so I guess its a matter of preference of who you like better as a character in general. The gap between them is not nearly as big as
and
, and thank god for that.
Pikachu because we have too many Sheik's already and he just might be a top tier with tons of crazy combos and a great projectile, I guess. Don't know too much about him though, all I know is that he's real good and that I wanna squash that little bunny like the bug that he is... Lol seriously I hate fighting Pikachu, super annoying character. For me, he's Up there with Sonic, Lucario, and Mega Man in terms of annoyingness lol.
Hope it helps to an extent at least.