When people told you to punish Martha's jumps with dash attack, I would assume they meant when he's landing. If he's faired or naired and there's not enough room for him to do another before hitting the ground you should be able to punish him with a dash attack if the situation is right. Keep track of his second jumps because you know he has to come down after that, and look to see if you can punish him.
A few things on the pikachu matchup. If the pika likes to QAC then just throw out attacks. The quick attack extends his hurt box so it's really easy to hit him out of it. Throw out a repetitive jab or an utilt (or even grab if you feel you can time it. That's more risky though), I normally wouldn't do an ftilt cause ftilt 1 just hits him away assuming he's airborn.
Also, when recovering, you Know he's going to thunder, don't be stupid and angle your cypher right to where he's going to thunder. Go straight up or even backwards depending on pika's spacing, then drop out of the cypher once thunder is almost done and get back on the stage- air dodging the second thunder if he does one.
If pikachu hits you up with an usmash, dsmash, utilt, whatever, do not immediately air dodge. You will die from thunder. Wait until you see him do it then airdodge right before it would hit you. Also, try to DI it even a little bit to one side so your horizontal movement during your airdodge will carry you out of range. If you're going straight up I'm pretty sure the thunder lasts enough to still hit you once your airdodge is over.
Power shielding thunderjolts is also really important in this matchup. Get the timing down and try to do it every time.
Mu ever, but if it is +1 its certainly not a strong one. And certainly not a +2.
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