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is really good at this sort of casual play.
- His grab beats pretty much any grounded approach option.
- Pivot grab would beat a lot of aerial approaches.
- His biggest weakness (recovery) isn't capitalized upon as much in casuals.
- Since casuals don't approach smartly, you can force them to do so (chuck Pikmin at them) and then grab them (or even Fsmash/Usmash) and toss them away, rinse and repeat.
- Dsmash works nicely as a GTFO for people who like to roll.
- He also has nice early kill moves (Purple Pikmin Usmash) that give him advantages similar to characters like
where they have strong kill moves (which are easier to land in casuals).
One of his biggest advantages though, is being underestimated. A lot of casuals think
is sh*t and will be expecting an easy win. What they don't know, is basically every advantage I covered above. He's so obscure in casuals I doubt most people in the tournament will know his moveset well. I think you can honestly take top 10% if you get to use him well, and he's so easy to learn for this type of play.
Another reason to choose him is that
already counters most (if not all) of casual-common characters in competitive.
vs
is IMO one of the most one sided matchups in the game (+4
), and that's just for competitive, it's virtually impossible for casual
if the
knows what to do. And this isn't even going into his other normal +3s and +2s against most casual-common characters.
TL:DR Whenever they try to run at you, grab them. If they stand there and try to shoot lasers at you or something then just toss Pikmin back (white ones are good for this).
Even better players have trouble with him sometimes.
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As for other options...
What really wrecks a casual is when they get counterpicked hard. It's definitely a different story for competitive, but when your casual opponent goes like... Falco then even a semi-competitive player can wreck them with Pikachu provided they know how to CG.
I'd think that
would go +3 against anyone a casual would pick if you can get their CG right. But it's a fairly long road even to master the basics.
Edgehogs usually give you an easy stock. Stand at the edge and hog when ready.
For casuals, the most commonly used characters, I think, would be
and perhaps
If you can exploit the first two, things start looking up (as I think that these two are recognized as "best" in casuals").
If you can take on the next two then you have a damn good chance.
