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Yeah, that could work. I mean, if they don't change up Pichu to have some advantages, he would end up on the bottom of the tier list. Actually, maybe he should still be bottom tier so that players could humiliate players who main top tier characters.
Just looking at pichu now, I can tell you he won't be bottom tier he has way too many things
Mewtwo was walking
The damage penalty should definitely be rewarded. I agree that knockback would be a better buff than raw damage, but either way they need to make it so that, compared to Pikachu, you throw out fewer attacks but with greater reward.
Pichu having a slower dash was probably another one of the symptoms of Melee being rushed, like Doctor Mario actually being faster than Mario.
Some people may bring up Melee Roy as a counterargument to ''being a clone of a top tier also makes you at least not bad'', but that
The rage mechanic won't help Pichu if it's light enough to get KO'd before the mechanic starts to kick in. And considering that it's the lightest fighter in Melee, I expect it to continue being the lightest fighter in the whole Smash Bros. series.
there's not much to lose from camping with AC fair and thunder jolt if you're in kill percent anyway, theoretically
what joke character got buffed in melee or brawl?
Pichu was heavily screwed over by chain grabs in melee so that's actually a major buff to its survivability.
I feel like they might nerf the core Pikachu stuff enough to make it bad...
Looking at ultimate pikachu, there's no way he's anything less than top 15, I feel pichu might be a slightly watered down pikachu but with some garbage of his own, I feel he'll be like top 20 or 25
It's good news for Pichu if his nair is just like Melee.
Wait really? How?
Pichu is a little hard to make bad without the mentality of "Joke character" which is something they got rid of after brawl. Like pichu is a fast, small, combo heavy, character with a projectile and a good recovery, there's no way a character with all those can be anything lower than mid tier. But he actually has kill power now too in nair, up smash, thunderspikes, dair, and probably fair now(?? Someone confirm please) He's going to be so damn good even with the self harm thing. I'm sure that if pikachu gets the top 5 treatment, pichu won't be far behind since they're largely the same character but just with little things that make them different. Sure pichu has no range but neither does pikachu and where pikachu has QA combos, pichu has nair chains like in melee, which is just as scary seeing as how fast nair is. and the whole self harm thing isn't as much of a big deal any more since in melee it did like 5 or 6 percent to itself every attack but now it's only like, 1 or 2 percent maybe 3 at max. I doubt it will play that much of a role outside of maybe dropping it a spot or two lower than it could've been if it didn't have the self harm. I honestly can't wait for high tier pichu he looks so good.
People who like high tiers, what the hell kind of question is that
so basically he's like brawl olimar to people. Except not brutally broken.
Zero is an actual piece of garbage in the way he said if you can play pikachu there's no reason to play pichu. As if there isn't people out there who like weak characters like pichu over the literal king of shilling, pikachu.
Dunno how fast thunder is, but will want to try that
