Utilizing different pikmin effectively

[Soniv]

AKA, range aside, Yellow is butt.

tossing a pikmin and realizing it's yellow as it soars over their heads is so depressing

 

[B.W.]

I tend to land Yellow Pikmin Throw more than any other actually.

 

[Hinichii.ez.™]

I like when I just in the middle of yoshi's and toss yellows onto the platforms

 

[B.W.]

Why aren't you in midair when using Pikmin toss in the first place though? Unless it's to block something real quick.

 

[Hinichii.ez.™]

cause i just smacked them and dont wanna chase'em

 

[KuroganeHammer]

Electric attacks (including electric pikmin) do not have additional hitstun, in any of the games. They have a hitlag multiplier of 1.5x (I think) which both makes them easier to hitconfirm and follow up on, but also easier to DI/SDI.

I'm not even sure if they have that. I've read things like this, but only on things like smash wiki


smash wiki da besss (?)

 

[DrinkingFood]

You could always quintuple check for me/them
Just to be safe
Just be sure to not confuse PM's new light element for electric attacks like I do sometimes

 

[KuroganeHammer]

just want to mention that light element is not new

 

[DrinkingFood]

Guess I never noticed it in brawl since I stopped playing it awhile before I started paying attention to things like that

 

[KuroganeHammer]

what a shame, brawl is fun

also it was only on like, pits arrows so

 

[Ceph]

Reading what others have written, I want to make sure everyone is clear on how Olimar's next lead pikmin is decided. After whistling once, your pikmin are in the 'ordered' state, at which point your lead pikmin is obvious [let's say blue as an example]. The moment you use any attack involving pikmin (or you get the pik knocked outta you, i believe), they're in the 'scrambled' state. The next time you whistle, no matter what order your scrambled pikmin are in, the color following the lead pikmin of your last whistle will lead [in our example, white].

The key to using whistle effectively is to keep in mind what color led your previous whistle.

One more example for good measure:
(after whistle) *orders pikmin*
[OLIMAR][purple-lead][red][blue][white]
...
(after pikmin toss x2) *puts pikmin in scrambled state*
[OLIMAR][blue-lead][white][purple][red]
Even tho these pikmin are nicely ordered, they are still considered 'scrambled'
...
(whistle again) *applies 'ordered' state*
[OLIMAR][red-lead][blue][white][purple]

The 1st whistle had purple lead, so NO MATTER WHAT the next whistle had to have red lead. So you see, the scrambled pikmin lineup has absolutely no effect on which pikmin will lead after a whistle.