Gunslinger
Smash Apprentice
Howdy y'all, I main Link in PM so you can imagine I have a pretty hard time against space animals. Since everybody and their grandma mains them. I was wondering how Pikachu fairs against them, thinking of making him a secondary to handle the spacies. It seems he has good OOS options (up smash if the space animal is in front of you, up air if they're behind). His edgeguard game against them seems really strong with u-air, f-tilt, f-smash, bair, thunderjolt, and thunder. I only see him having difficulty edgeguarding Wolf for his fast up B and his dangerous side B (don't wanna trade with that). However, in neutral it seems the spacies have an edge over Pikachu, he seems like the perfect wait to get combo'd by Falco's pillaring, Wolf's dair-shine tech chases, and Fox's up throw -> up air. I'm not as worried about Fox's combo as I main Fox in Melee and am good at DI'ing away from the throw and SDI'ing the up air. I also feel like there's a certain advantage of playing Pikachu as not many notable people play him (aside from Axe, Anther, and Esam, along with a few others I can't think of) so there's a bit of a surprise factor.
Anyways, just wanted to ask you Pikachu mains how you feel about dealing with spacies and if Pikachu is worth picking up to fight them.
Anyways, just wanted to ask you Pikachu mains how you feel about dealing with spacies and if Pikachu is worth picking up to fight them.