Squirtle doesn't really get bodied by anyone, he definitely has losing mus but icies is prolly relatively even. Squirtle players body themselves sometimes tho as I can personally attest to.
eh, I was gonna say more and elaborate but too much work, it's not like anyone even cares about this stupid character.
Yoshi still does stuff.
Dk is amazing and still sucks and is arguably one of the worst characters but is good?
Pika incorporating dtilt, ftilt, and fair in neutral makes him substantially stronger and helps mitigate his weakness of being choked out by priority. having trouble with fox nair plane or a pesky marth dd'ing all up on you and making you spot dodge or roll like a panicky fool? Ftilt those jerks. Lingers and has decent priority and often puts your opponent at the perfect range to start pikas mixup game.
Pika has this weird fake stage presence thing with him where waiting and micro camping is amazing because of what punishes he can dish out and how well he can start these punishes with his mobility, but at the same he has to somehow threaten the opponent in the first place to draw out panick options, which is hard when your threatening tools are fairly high commitment. His relatively safe options don't set up for a ton, and his options that set up good punishes aren't very safe.
That's why a Pika May throw out dsmashes and usmashes in neutral, he kind of has to to build respect in the opponent. it's not easy getting grabs in neutral and he doesn't have a low lag conversion option like shine or fair walls. And if the opponent doesn't eat a usmash > punish, he has no reason to worry about approaching pika.
A lot of the gameplan is get a couple good neutral reads and tech reads and make the punish count, that way they have the fear of a punish game that's explosive, while maybe overestimating how easy it was for pika to get the punish in the first place. Now they question whether they're safe and open up more mixup room and reaction room for pikachu.
Sometimes people see axe whiff an usmash or dsmash in neutral and question why he even did it, well the answer is he has to to establish the situations where pikachu does win, because it's def not attrition battles that he's winning. Obviously a different game and pikachu doesn't have as limited tools in pm, but same concepts apply.
TL:DR
Pika is good but tricky and requires some reading skills.
Squirtle can always beat people up, but can get cg'd by people like Ganon and link who obviously suck so he sucks but he's still good because this game is neat.
Same with dk but the fat guy version so he's easy to pick on.
Ha yoshis in this game guys.
Work is incredibly exciting today
Edit: too much work I said, I guess I actually just don't like squirtle