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[herbmaster%]

http://youtu.be/9qgh1UrUw7s?t=24sPikachu's thunder comes out regardless of getting hit. pretty cool.

 

[chimpact]

yea l3ff3n made a video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qgh1UrUw7s

 

[DakotaBonez]

Its almost as bad as Megaman's rush cancel

 

[Big_Slim]

I'd say it's worse. Thunder seems a lot safer.

 

[Methacrylate]

This might be able to break/stop your trajectory. Usually when Pikachu is hit by thunder in the air his movement stops. So maybe a well placed thunder will cancel knockback from say an up smash?

 

[herbmaster%]

not sure if thunder would hit picachu if you were experiencing horizontal knockback.

 

[Angiance]

Pikachu just getting gayer and gayer and gayer....

 

[Ganreizu]

This might be able to break/stop your trajectory. Usually when Pikachu is hit by thunder in the air his movement stops. So maybe a well placed thunder will cancel knockback from say an up smash?

Doubtful. This is only going to end up as a pseudo counter/combo breaker. Unless vectoring plays a major role in making this happen, i can't see thunder being able to do this. Do we even know if thunder causes the "burst" animation when pikachu himself is in hitstun?

 

[McX]

So thunder comes out instantly. This combo breaker is probably going to be here to stop close physical approaches.
EDIT: Wait nvm it's not the same as megaman's rush cancel. It's only there to stop imperfect combos. It looks easily punishable.

 

[Methacrylate]

Doubtful. This is only going to end up as a pseudo counter/combo breaker. Unless vectoring plays a major role in making this happen, i can't see thunder being able to do this. Do we even know if thunder causes the "burst" animation when pikachu himself is in hitstun?

This idea of thunder being able to hit Pikachu while in hitstun came to me because of the footage in the video at about 6 seconds in. It looks like Pikachu might still be in hitstun and when the thunder strikes him, he goes into the burst animation. That is how it appears to me which brought about the idea of thunder being able to slow/stop knockback when hitting Pikachu.

 

[Angiance]

I'm pretty sure that Thunder will not hit Pikachu as he's in hitstun

 

[ChikoLad]

This is great.

Except against Rosalina.

https://vine.co/v/OZEVO0BUAlJ

 

[herbmaster%]

after playing around for a few days, i figure this isn't as super broken as i'd initiallly thought it would be. thunder, like many moves in sm4sh, doesn't ko like i'd expect it to. i feel like thunder would stink if it didn't come out as fast as it does. it wouldn't hit ever.