Alright, first thing I saw was that you keep trying to momentum cancel/spotdodge out of fright when you get hit by vertical knockback moves. Pikachus eat that **** up. Wait until you regain some horizontal movement before you airdodge or you're going to eat the thunder every time and die quickly. Another thing is that you spotdodge way too often before moving, probably a WiFi habit because it's more safe on there. You powershielded an upsmash of his and spotdodged, when that would've been a guaranteed whatever for you. Don't let them QAC lock you, you can DI really hard to either side after the footstool to make it almost impossible for them to land it. At least you SDId and got out quickly.
You should learn to powsershield. Pikachu's TJolts are pretty slow, so powershielding them is easy as hell. Just walking approach him while powershielding and he won't really get any good options to punish you while running out of room. You can also bair over TJolt balls because Wario's hurtbox changes shape/becomes more horizontal while he does it. Nair and fair easily beat out TJolts. Jab does too but it's riskier. Ftilt beats them out while possibly beating PIka as well. Random fsmashes (lost your second stock this way) are bad offline, as they are much easier to punish. Save them for landing lag/obvious airdodge or when the opponent is near the edge so it pushes them off. Random bikes are similarly much easier to punish. Use them primarily to punish repeated dodging/rolling, or just lay it on the stage if you're annoyed with TJolts.
You need to be less scared of TJolts on stage. If you have to, take the hit from those isntead of whatever followup the Pikachu is going to do, since they (like many projectiles) can frame trap you, but they're from from being incredibly dangerous. It looked like in this round you were trying to SDI Pika's dsmash to the sides, you want to go up to get out. If you shield Pika's dsmash you can actually both shieldgrab and buffered fsmash him to punish it. Last thing was just don't mash jump/up when being grabbed so that you don't get grab released.
OK, this round ESAM wasn't even abusing Pikachu vs Wario anymore, he was just waiting for your spotdodges and punishing them with his multi hit moves (makes it easier, but good players will always catch on to these patterns and give you the **** for it). This is an issue a lot of Warios have, especially in transition from WiFi to offline (I had it as well). You need to learn to wean it out. You can spotdodge, but when you do it excessively (as you did in this set), you get destroyed for it, as evidenced in this round.
You should learn to powsershield. Pikachu's TJolts are pretty slow, so powershielding them is easy as hell. Just walking approach him while powershielding and he won't really get any good options to punish you while running out of room. You can also bair over TJolt balls because Wario's hurtbox changes shape/becomes more horizontal while he does it. Nair and fair easily beat out TJolts. Jab does too but it's riskier. Ftilt beats them out while possibly beating PIka as well. Random fsmashes (lost your second stock this way) are bad offline, as they are much easier to punish. Save them for landing lag/obvious airdodge or when the opponent is near the edge so it pushes them off. Random bikes are similarly much easier to punish. Use them primarily to punish repeated dodging/rolling, or just lay it on the stage if you're annoyed with TJolts.
You need to be less scared of TJolts on stage. If you have to, take the hit from those isntead of whatever followup the Pikachu is going to do, since they (like many projectiles) can frame trap you, but they're from from being incredibly dangerous. It looked like in this round you were trying to SDI Pika's dsmash to the sides, you want to go up to get out. If you shield Pika's dsmash you can actually both shieldgrab and buffered fsmash him to punish it. Last thing was just don't mash jump/up when being grabbed so that you don't get grab released.
OK, this round ESAM wasn't even abusing Pikachu vs Wario anymore, he was just waiting for your spotdodges and punishing them with his multi hit moves (makes it easier, but good players will always catch on to these patterns and give you the **** for it). This is an issue a lot of Warios have, especially in transition from WiFi to offline (I had it as well). You need to learn to wean it out. You can spotdodge, but when you do it excessively (as you did in this set), you get destroyed for it, as evidenced in this round.
J/K
