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Still, considering Pichu is a tiny, lightweight non-fast faller, even a non-invincible Agility could get it out of a lot of scrapes with comparatively little damage. It's certainly a lot faster than in Melee, at any rate.You're right, Im wondering about that too. If at least it had that it would be useful sometimes.
One thing that's really good with it is that you can go deep off stage with pichu, cuz it goes soo far.
So, may be at least good to help gimp
Yeh we'll see. i really want more footage, i want to see pichu played without the screen being tilted too. He's one of the characters i wanna see the most right now. I saw most of the others i wanna play
Pichu may be viable, at least. It's hard to tell for now, it's got things for for it as well as against it :O
It's watered down pikachu there's nothing mid or low tier about that
They gave him more damage because of all the downfalls. Whether it balances it out remains to be seen.
Yes but its even smaller and the range difference isn't actually that much worse, I've seen its up air and fair and they look very much the same as smash 4 pikachu's variants of those moves. The only problem I can see being dtilt since it looks a little worse but that's pretty much it, having worse range than pikachu isn't much of an issue when pikachu has terrible range to begin with and he's bigger than pichu as well, but up tilt, up air, nair, fair, possibly bair, and jab all seem fine. Then there's up smash and fsmash, both of which are exclusive to pichu and these may very well patch up pikachu's main issue in killing. Besides the chu family doesn't really care for out ranging in this game its more or less getting the opponent off stage and thunderspiking them, which both of them can do stupidly well.
Actually, the range is significantly different, only up-air is a decent range kinda. but the rest (besides bair, i guess) is a lot smaller. Pikachu didnt' have great range, but at least it was enough. I'm concerned about it for pichu, but if it can compensate with the other stuff going for it,. it might be alright, I really need to get my hands on it tho
It's fast, has a projectile, a good one at that. Has a beast off stage game, insane recovery options, its combo heavy, small as heck, and its kill power might actually be half competent due to dair, possibly fair, and up smash, and unlike some other characters with similar attributes (ahem META KNIGHT) Pichu's game plan is actually pretty damn varied when it comes to neutral and its attacks in general. All of this imo does more than compensate for the lack of range.
It's not much faster than pikachu. The jump speed is faster, but that's talking about vertical speed, and that can include the fast fall speed too. I dont think it compensates for the lack of range, including for combos.. The projectile is good damage, but other than that it didn't seem as useful as pikachu's (maybe at higher percents, hopefully). Tho i was trying to tell if it was quicker in terms of being able to take action after it, and I think maybe it is faster there, but I'm not sure yet. It'll be cool if so.
I'm not sure about all of that, because pichu is faster, at least vertically, and has less range but more power. So it'll be a different type of playing.
I HAD to test this upon seeing the clip.
Being able to ko under 120% with a quick move like that is actually really great. I dont really get why its knockback would be that high in some cases, but i like it
This pichu is obviously special, bred and trained to be the best pichu.
You mean this Pichu is in THE TOP PERCENT OF PICHUS?This pichu is obviously special, bred and trained to be the best pichu.
And if you really care, then just dont get hit
So cute!
Same. I think pikachu is great in general (like in the neutral), but pichu is much more interesting including with combos
Which tournament did our boi Pichu win?
Splat Bros.
LOL. Besides the classic git gud, Pichu has some blaring weaknesses like being the lightest character in the game, terrible range (besides thunderjolt of course) and obvious setups. As a Pichu player, if my opponent figures out my setups it's hard for me to get in. Some popular setups:
Sounds like you just need more time with Pichu. Learn the BnB's and grind it out!
