Nah. so much wrong
our moves beat Sonic, at worst clash with fully charged spin dash.
Pit's aerials auto-cancel, you'll be surprised with their speed when you fight a good pit.
Pit's running speed is very good, too, no need to travel in the air.
oh and.. we excel at range... and arrows can force sonic to approach without spin dash
Nair Beats Sonic's Neutral B
what more...? Oh you die fast but we don't, and if you didn't die from Fthrow, Sonic's likely getting gimped. Upperdash and USmash Kill sonic fast, too.
What move beats spin dash? I what world is that even possible?
Priority is based on damage; none of our moves do enough damage to beat it. They all clank. Most characters have an usmash/fsmash that do enough damage to beat spin dash outright, but Pit's fsmash/usmash are multi hit, so they just clank.
In order to autocancel any of Pit's aerials, you need to initiate them immediately out of short hop. This means that Pit has a MINIMUM of 25 frames without a hitbox if he wants to autocancel. Pretty sure Sonic can move across an entire stage in that time. Pit's aerial frame data is actually among the worst in the game.
Baiting with tomahawks and landing with fair is usually better, but fair itself still has 20 frames landing lag, and the final hit only does 4% anyway. So even if the Pit perfectly predicts the timing of the spin dash, he hits Sonic with 4% and no potential follow up. That's pretty bad.
Pit's ground speed is 23rd in the game; nothing to write home about, and nowhere near as fast as Sonic. In fact, this is only barely faster than Sonic's air speed lol
Worth mentioning that Pit actually has poor disjoint also, since his swords have hurtboxes. Sonic's fsmash/bair have waaaaay more range than anything that Pit could ever do.
Arrows don't force an approach; spin dash clanks and sonic has frame advantage. So he can spin dash again lol. Arrows follow things up and force airdodges; they NEVER force an approach.
Assuming that Sonic is camping with spin dashes, Pit should never actually get a grab. So getting that kill becomes seriously hard. Upperdash Arm is really terrible; minimum 19 frames startup... Does Sonic even have 19 frames lag on anything? Spin dash also travels too fast and goes through, allowing an fsmash punish. And Usmash is really yolo and predictable, and gets punished super hard on whiff.
Should probably mention that Upperdash arm also only has partial super armour; Pit's head, body and legs don't have any armour. So the opponent just has to know where to aim.
I fail to see how Sonic can ever be edgeguarded; mulitple recovery options and invincibility on upB... Good luck with that one. Sonic can fsmash Pit when he recovers under the stage though lol.
There's no way Sonic beats Pit 7:3 but Sonic still isn't very likely to get gimped... Plus, Sonic and Pit are like nearly identical in weight so both will be dying around the same time. Pit may have an easier time landing the KO moves because Side-B has super armor, but his Smashes aren't safe on block. Our Fsmash is safer, and sure, you have Fthrow, but we still have decent kill throws too. Pit can clank with Sonic's spins really easily though.
I'd say it's probably pretty even. I could see it favouring Sonic slightly.
Pit only has one safe, legitimate KO option in fthrow, which doesn't really happen in this mu. Everything else is super laggy and committal without a setup, meaning Pit needs a god-like read otherwise he'll die for trying. Sonic has legitimate edgeguards and juggle attempts, and his fsmash is only punishable on shield with dash attack (which doesn't do anything).
Spoke about sideB already; if you get hit by this, you're doing something seriously wrong, or getting hard read for spotdodging.
Pit doesn't want to clank with sonic ever, because sonic simply out frame-data's him; all Pit's moves are slower with more lag. Having Sonic inside your spacing should never lead to good things.
Probably should also mention that this MU made Earth pick up a secondary, despite the fact that he played through the entire brawl era without ever using another character. That probably says more than anything else.
