ha-HA! i knew it all along. no-one believed me. olimar's tilts ARE in fact GOOD. now use them.
anyways, i think his tilts are the key to this matchup. I've found that most characters that olimar is bad against, have an "olimar tilt" weakness. It catches most players off guard b/c it's very rare they get to sg olimar. he's a camper character. They're not used to the quickness of small, toe-less space men performing karate. It's all in the mind. but seriously...
lololol...precise dodging will help? If Yoshi was going to Egg Roll me I'd head to the edge of the stage (Final Destination I assume) and camp....
Let O be Olimar, Y be Yoshi and ___________________________________________
be Final Destination.
___O_____________Y_________________________
Assume Y does Egg roll. In my opinion, the best choices would either be to dodge, roll (so Yoshi falls off the edge), or to dodge, then F-Smash to the left. (assuming the Yoshi user does not roll off the edge)
-_-"
O________________________________________
Y
Olimar-1
Yoshi-0
The Yoshi user may have just stopped from falling to his/her doom....
Y__O______________________________________
Attack now! F-Smash!
(This also applies to the other side of the stage)
What if you were in the middle of the stage?
_____________O___________Y________________
You have mutliple options at this point:
Offensive: Ok, but it is risky (maybe the egg will out-prioritise Olimar's moves) as it requires precise timing. Brilliant, if successful....horrible, if you get it. A complete failure.
Defensive: Dodge and roll, etc. Not good at all. Horrible if you get hit. Not that great either, if you successfully evade the attack...
________Y____O___________________________
Now the opponent is coming right back for you and tactically you have achieved nothing but evaded the attack.
This is what I think:
_____________O___________Y________________
Run towards Yoshi!
__________________O_____Y________________
Hehe, you missed! (Olimar short-jumps over the egg )
O
___________________Y___________________
This different than any defensive maneuver. Now, you have gained the perfect height for a Pikmin barrage and evaded the attack! A Defensive maneuver into an offensive maneuver!
Unfortunately, this may not work (I do not have the game yet) as the Pikmin might get steamrolled by the egg. But, do not fret...
_________________Y_________________O___
Now, you should have ample time to go the other edge and camp. I'm quite confident that Pikmin>Egg Throws
=>Camping Olimar>Camping Yoshi
So yeah, that's what the lone AUS guys thinks! But remember, this only works in a certain scenario (against those Egg rolling guys
)
BTW
Gaz was right: Yoshi's Aerial Attacks are pretty good. However, I never thought too highly of Yoshi's B-Air so maybe Olimar could exploit that further.