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After watching countless matches of Anther vs Needle of Juntah, I can safely say that G&W doesn't wreck Pika at all.G&W wrecks Pika because you can bucket just one thunder and fill the rest with neutral B and you have an instant deadly move.
Anther has beaten Joel, who got either 7th or 9th at FAST 1, practically every time they played. I think Joel beat Anther once in a tournament with about 11 people in it.G&W wrecks Pika because you can bucket just one thunder and fill the rest with neutral B and you have an instant deadly move.
up+b into the ground and it is canceled; you can then jump out of it. Since you can jump out of this, you can also up b again.Also, I hope someone can touch on the up B canceling thing. Hylian played against me in some friendlies with it and it threw me off guard. He obviously isn't a Pikachu main but he was attacking me out of it then instantly teleporting away. I had no idea what he was doing
F-smash is a stronger move, but harder to connect with on a fast and smart opponent. U-smash is easier to use as a punishment move and if it doesn't kill, you can try to techchase with Thunder. So I think these facts make it more reliable, but it doesn't make F-smash a terrible move. F-smash's disjointed hitbox and range is enough to make it good.About G&W........ he is definitly a big threat to pika if you are overly offensive. however, after watching anther, and then trying to emulate his syle, all of a sudden his threat level diminishes greatly. and it actually takes just 3 thundershocks to make an instakill bucket. but yeah Pikachu is definitly top tier material, if only people will look past the OMG DSMASH TSHOCK SPAMMY CAMPY NOOB CHARACTER and actually take the time to pick him up and try to really play with him.
Edit: and dsmash? how scary is it when you can di out and take like 5-6 damage, and are sent out in such a way that pika cant punish you? Usmash is NOT his best kill move. thunder and fsmash are his best killers, which can kill as low as 60, if you are near the edge.
True. i just hear nothing but omg his dsmash is so broken, and in my experience everyone i know online, and now offline DI out of it. I am not saying to not use it. it just isnt broken.Also yes, d-smash isn't that good, but sometimes it can be snuck in to where they don't DI. I agree it should not be used that much though.
Granted but you can land them during punishment for whiffed attacks after you trick them with QAC, f-air has practically no landing lag and I've gotten a lot of people just by jumping forward, f-air, DI backwards and land into a f-smash(however that's not THAT reliable because most people figure it out quickly enough, lulz when they don't. XD) and, I haven't played Pika much lately but, IIRC F-smash is JUST disjointed enough to hit them on ledge recovery before the lame magnet invincibility goes off.F-smash is a stronger move, but harder to connect with on a fast and smart opponent.
You may not need to use skull bash, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. Use it to get a qac in if they're edgeguarding. You can also use it to get farther in after coming from offstage. It's also quite strong (although relatively easy to punish) making opponents think twice about jumping in front of it.You never need to use skull bash to recover... honestly if you were high up you probably dont even need your jump, this is brawl afterall, if your anywhere else quick attack does the job since obviously if your low you are not going to skull bash anyways.
Quoted for the the truth. It's ironic that when me and my mate heard Brawl was coming out, I told him I couldn't wait to screw his Pikachu again with Peach's D Smash*Looks at Pikachu
So that's where Peaches D-smash went.
He's kept just about everything that made him decent (apart from his super cool Uair spike which I heard has gone)
I came across his Pikachu last weekend... he was at level 81 o_O My Pikachu was still at level 47....SamuraiPanda! What does the pokedex say about Anther's Pikachu Level?