reliable way to grab marth?

[sadweather]

it seems like any chance to go around marth to try and get a grab on him seems extremely difficult to accomplish. Any time I can achieve a grab it seems to be purely out of luck, any help?

 

[Comet7]

raw grabs don't really work vs marth since he can dash damce way better than pichu can. you can only catch him if he does something laggy or is bad at dash dancing (so, bad at using marth). nair leads into grab, which is great, though you still have to get past marth's range.

 

[sadweather]

raw grabs don't really work vs marth since he can dash damce way better than pichu can. you can only catch him if he does something laggy or is bad at dash dancing (so, bad at using marth). nair leads into grab, which is great, though you still have to get past marth's range.

Alright thank you, just making sure i wasnt missing out on anything.

 

[PsychoSoldier]

Wait for marth to use a dash grab or a dash attack. If it's a dash grab you can use a standing grab at the moment marths body/hurtbox starts to move forward for the grab. Pichu should get the grab instead of marth. For dash attack wave dash backward slightly out of the range of the attack (beware of "tippers") then use your dash grab.

 

[sadweather]

Wait for marth to use a dash grab or a dash attack. If it's a dash grab you can use a standing grab at the moment marths body/hurtbox starts to move forward for the grab. Pichu should get the grab instead of marth. For dash attack wave dash backward slightly out of the range of the attack (beware of "tippers") then use your dash grab.

holy necropost, batman!
But hah, its fun to look back on this thread when i didn't know anything about smash and was just getting into it.