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36 damage and it makes fireworks! It has to be better, amirite? The lag is completely negligible.
Okay, sarcasm aside, what tools does Kirby have for handling Pikachus specifically? I went a bunch of matches (no vids, sadly) against my smash-friend's Pikachu and I was finding he was an absolute pain. I know that Pikachu isn't an easy matchup for Kirby and I've gone through the Kirby guides (nitro's and t!mmy's) but I didn't really get much out of them... I kind of already knew what was in there. Pika is light and hard to edgeguard and packs a lot of damage in his smashes, his shffls are quick and he can (on some stages) force an approach.
So... with the whole, "mindgame him to death" stuff aside, what do you do versus Pikachu? I'm not really defensive in the matchup since Pika can force approach and giving him more control over the flow of the match is the last thing I want (it's weird but I'd rather consciously decide to go offensive or apply pressure rather than be forced into it by him spamming jolts despite the fact that both scenarios end up with the same result, which would be me trying to chase him and apply pressure but whatever) so I usually use F-air approaches. I watched a few matches of KK90 and Perfect_Shadow (they were old vids, sadly) and I can kind of get that F-airs and D-tilts (or even F-airs into D-tilts) are fairly decent for getting in on Pika, and I'm finding that spaced F-tilts stop SHFFLed N-airs when done correctly, but what else works? The real issue I'm having is killing him. U-tilt to B-air stops working well at higher percents and unless I predict/follow a roll or something I really have problems getting D-smashes and F-smashes on him.
So... Pika's giving me hell. I've got vague ideas on what to do against him, but I think some input would help.