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Specific Characters Match-up: Pikachu vs ROB

Felth

Smash Apprentice
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I know that there's a Matchup Thread. But I don't like that the information is spread among different pages because the discussion can be changed to different characters and that could be a little messy. To avoid this, I suggest the following idea: one post for each character. Following some general points I'll organize all the post in a very simple way.

I propose to study in this post the R.O.B. If you want to discuss other Matchup and you liked my idea just write a post following this idea. Suggestions of any type are welcome (I'm not an expert of Smash so it's probably that you know more than me about this).



R.O.B:






  • Neutral Game:
  • Stage selection and Ban:
  • Specific Situations:
    • Ground - Ground:
    • Ground - Air:
    • Air - Air:
    • Off Stage:
    • Some situation to punish or to look (Situations that are advantageous to pikachu vs this character)
    • Situations to avoid?
Extra information:

  • I don't want to lose all the information that the community has discovered at this point. Most of this theory it's in the MU Thread.
  • You can read the document made by the User Umbreoff which summarizes the previous post. Click here to see the document. I'm transcribing this document into a pdf version with access to new options. If you want to check the progress of this document I'll invite you to see the PDF Online Version.
  • With respect to the Killing Section: add Good Set-ups to perform the killing (not just the final attack). Set-ups performed in specific Stages are also welcome.
  • With respect to the Stage Selection Section: we should discuss what stages to avoid and what stages are good for Pikachu. The Smash Player Esam made a Depth Analysis on each Stage. Recall that some stages could be good for Pikachu but are even better for other character that's the reason for why we should discuss this kind of things here (one example is Halberd: IMO is good for Pikachu but not against Meta Knight).
  • With respect to the Difficulty Section we should discuss how difficult is this MU for Pikachu. If it's possible it would be good to associate a measure to this difficulty. I think that this section should be completed once we developed a lot of theory in the corresponding MU, otherwise is just speculation.
  • With respect to the Specific Situations Section we should discuss what to do in both scenarios.
 
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Hathaway12

Smash Rookie
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Sep 7, 2015
Messages
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http://smashboards.com/threads/r-o-b-matchup-analysis-13-pikachu.400055/
Here is what has been discussed so far on the R.O.B forum.
This match-up seems firmly be in pikachu's favor based on what is being said over there and one of R.O.B. worst match-ups.
Well not being an expert on anything in smash I will try to give my 2 cents.
-R.O.B. has a limited amount of fuel when using his up b which pikachu can limit by pressuring him off stage.
-Thunder jolt trades with R.O.B.'s projectiles.
-Pikachu has an easier time approaching R.O.B. ie. quick attack.
-R.O.B. is much heavier and therefore dies at higher %
-R.O.B. has an easier time killing.
-Pikachu has an easier time comboing.

Here is a great example of the match up ESAM vs 8Bitman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpH0Nm5mQJ4
 
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