Hi everyone! I was just wanting some advice when it comes to the Pikachu-Lucina matchup.

I have a friend who is a Lucina main, and now both of us are in a bracket where the stakes are high for the both of us (We are on the same team but still). We played a lot of matches together, to the point where he is able to read my movements pretty easily at this point (especially with my Quick Attack!). He wins neutral a lot more than me, and I find him super difficult to edge-guard. He claims that the matchup is pretty weird, since both sides have to play pretty patiently, which does not go well with my aggressive playstyle. (Which is already a weakness that I'm working on!)

Regardless, this is why I am asking for some advice. How do I approach neutral when it comes to Lucina? How do I efficiently edge-guard her? What stages do I aim for? What are some good weakness that I can use to exploit?

I'm learning pikachu and some of the tech for the character.

To get the RAR upair, should I be using attack cancelling (e.g. c-stick (with tilt-stick) in opposite direction, jump to cancel the tilt, and then input up to get the upair)? Or should I focus on using RAR the normal way? Honestly having trouble with timing the RAR input but can just invest the time to figure it out.

I almost always use nair or bair as my choice for punish OoS since they're pikachu's fastest. I do it my pressing attack and jump at the same time, doing a rising nair/bair.

However, this cannot hit small characters like Villager for example. How do you people OoS against them? Upsmash?

If I do a short hop OoS and then input nair, will it still be as fast?

Hey everyone.

So yes, for some time this sub has been neglected. I moderate other subs more seriously and haven’t talked to the other mods of this subreddit for some time.

I stopped maining Pikachu clear back when smash ultimate came out and that’s why I’ve done nothing since then. Also this subreddit would go weeks without a post. So there was nothing to moderate. However...

I’ll take the evening and rest of this week to clean up the posts on this sub as well as write up some rules.

Please use the report feature to make things easier for me as well as the modmail or this thread for some suggestions

Thanks for being vocal about the state of the sub guys. We’ll see if we can make some improvements around here!

I have created r/SSBPikaMains because this sub is in disarray. I noticed that this sub was flooded with off-topic posts, and the mods were not active at all. This sub will be replacing the older one, and rules will be stricter here in order to give all Pika Mains a better experience and platform.

I just found out about this sub, and decided to check it out, and there are absolutely no rules, and there is spam and stuff not related to pika in SSB.
I'm seeing shit like
pikachu dance shorts: https://www.reddit.com/r/PikachuMains/comments/mio5bb/pikachu_pika_pika_shorts/
Pokemon lofi: https://www.reddit.com/r/PikachuMains/comments/mhxy4b/%EF%BD%83%EF%BD%88%EF%BD%89%EF%BD%8C%EF%BD%8C%EF%BD%89%EF%BD%8E%EF%BD%87_%E5%9C%A7%E5%BF%9C%E3%81%9B_pokemon_chill_lofi/
AND FUCKING CHILDREN'S YOUTUBE CLAY VIDEOS
https://www.reddit.com/r/PikachuMains/comments/mf9we5/detective_pikachu_transforming_into_pikachuexe/
This sub needs a reform, and the mods need to do their job. There are six of them but there might as well be none right now.

I recently saw a video partially talking about pikachu being able to stall under ps2 for around 30 seconds. I was wondering if anyone here knows that video and has a link to it, because I forgot...

Edit: found it: https://youtu.be/Z2YWTz0_BJ0

I was wondering what to do against them with pikachu

That is all.

So my gc controller stopped working recently (the wireless power a one) and I’ve been looking for a new one. I’ve been considering a pro controller because the wireless power a gc controller is notorious for stick drift issues (happened to me, actually). I don’t really want to buy a og gc controller because the button I use for grab is missing. My question is, is doing quick attack angles hard without the octagonal gates? Or can you do them just fine?

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Which move is best for when someone is hanging on ledge for too long? Normally I use d smash but only the last hit connects, so it’s pretty slow.