How to deal with pikachu?

[Rego71]

I recently picked up a roy and plan to devote my time to him until I can consider him my main. His match up against pikachu isn't in his favor. One example is not being able to sweet spot his jab after landing a knock back move. My other character is Dk but I doubt that's really any better. Am I missing something with my characters or is there a sure fire counter pick to pikachu? I can't seem to find any info on this on the interwebs so any insigt would be greatly appreciated

 

[papertiger]

KILL IT WITH FIRE

 

[RepStar]

Why not donkey kong? He could kill pikachu at 40%

 

[Rego71]

Why not donkey kong? He could kill pikachu at 40%

Idk I assume he'd be combo fodder for the little yellow rat lol.

 

[ｐｓ＿]

Thank your opponent for not picking his broken equivalent, Pichu.

 

[Arrei]

Pikachu is too fast and versatile to really have any sure counterpicks, but his biggest weakness is the short reach on most of his attacks. While his job is to get close to you and keep poking at you in different ways to expose openings, your job as Roy or DK is to keep him out with your long reach and disjoints until he makes a mistake you can capitalize on. Figure out how he likes to approach you and stick hitboxes there, but don't just throw moves out willy-nilly or he'll have the opening he wants.

 

[leejaybird]

Pikach can be a real pain if the player is good. All his aerials auto cancel and come out super quick. As others said, his biggest weakness is his range and also his light weight. Roy is a decent option but is unable to make use of his range advantage due to the sweet spot mechanic. Unless you are extremely quick to punish his whiffs it will be hard to get those strong hits. It would probably be beneficial to just use Chrom for a few specific matchups like this. He plays very similar to Roy since he's an echo so it shouldn't be too hard to adjust. Plus his Nair 1 actually combos into Fsmash unlike Roy :/