Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!
You are currently viewing our boards as a visitor. Click here to sign up right now and start on your path in the Smash community!
are you really ESAM? you are awesome!Luigi, Yoshi, and Brawler (Customs) are probably pika's hardest MUs. Go to those boards and see who beats those characters. I might pick up an anti-luigi character.
I dunno if ESAM's trying to say the Luigi matchup is bad, per se, but Luigi benefits from many of the situations that Pika inherently puts people in, for example he can stick out a Nair in the middle of our air-to-air strings and start his own offensive, and he actually rather likes to challenge Pika in the air, which most characters have trouble dealing with. There's a lot of reading and prediction that has to go on, where you have to intentionally drop strings and take blind guesses to avoid getting Nair stuffed, and then when you go in it feels like gambling. Maybe it's the risk and inconsistency that ESAM is trying to counter-pick, here.Luigi must be real bad for Pikachu if ESAM is considering picking up a counter character
the struggle is realLuigi, Yoshi, and Brawler (Customs) are probably pika's hardest MUs. Go to those boards and see who beats those characters. I might pick up an anti-luigi character.
I feel you, i went to a tourney a little bit ago and i did quite well save for this one ness who was able to just tear me apart. link is another MU i have a little bit of trouble with but it is manageable.Frankly I find Ness to be a tough matchup. You can't camp against a Ness, he has much better range in the air and his boxing game is decent. If Ness likes to spam PK fire then the matchup is easier but if he is approaching with his safe dash attack and Fair, then the matchup becomes difficult.
@ Mudkip~ here are some answers. There's not REALLY a bad MU, but Villager helps with Luigi and you can look for answers to Mii Brawler and Yoshi on those boards.The title says it all...
Care to expand on what makes the Yoshi MU hard? Don't have a Yoshi in my region so I don't really do the MU all that much.Luigi, Yoshi, and Brawler (Customs) are probably pika's hardest MUs. Go to those boards and see who beats those characters. I might pick up an anti-luigi character.
I used to say the same thing. After discussing with yoshi players in my region they have easily found ways around it, and we have 2 very good yoshi mains in South Florida. One of them even brought ESAM to last game last stock one week. The rapid jab at edge is very good against Yoshi's that are unfamiliar with the matchup, but will not work against yoshi's that know to recover high or to sweet spot.If he's going for the ledge, spamming jab will sometimes interrupt his ledge grab when he's trying to use his double jump or upb to grab it. If he recovers high just thunder him or follow and punish his landing. Yoshi's landing options aren't that great.
Um, reply to THIS profile if you'd like to respond to me, I accidentally just posted that on my old account.Honestly feel it's a better idea to just grit your teeth through Pika's bad MUs, mostly because none of the bad ones are really "un-winnable" like you could end up with in past games. Like, sure, Luigi beats pika, but i wouldn't say it's by enough to have to pick up another character to deal with him.