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Is there a reason Focus Attack doesn't work on Ganon's Smash Attacks?

Fenriraga

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I've been playing a LOT of Ken lately and having a blast. When I went up against a pretty solid Ganon, I noticed that his Smash attacks were completely ignoring my Focus barrier. I went into Training right after to make sure Ganon's Sword wasn't actually a multi hit, and sure enough it isn't, just one hit. What's the reason for that? Is it just too much damage for Focus to absorb?
 
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There's a damage cap to focus attack, not sure exactly what the % is but strong moves will go right through it.
 

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In Smash 4, level 1 Focus could be broken by attacks that did 22% or more and level 3 could be broken with attacks that did 39% or more. I’m not sure if that’s still the case in Ultimate. How much damage do Ganondorf’s smash attacks do?
 

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FA could withstand big hits like Clubberskull’s attacks in Smash Run, but I guess they’ve made it so that you can crush FA with really strong attacks like in SF4.
 

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Did you all forget that ultimate has a damage increase modifier in 1v1?
 

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Did you all forget that ultimate has a damage increase modifier in 1v1?
Actually forgot to consider this. We must experiment more to see how many more moves can bypass the FA, then.
 
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