Mr. Game & Watch (PM)

Mr. Game & Watch is a playable character in the Brawl mod Project M. Because of his rather low standing on the Melee tier list, he has been significantly buffed for his appearance in Project M. He ranks 6th out of 41 on the official tier list, placing him in the A tier and significantly above his placements in Melee and Brawl, where he ranks 19th out of 26 and 16th out of 38, respectively. He ranks much lower on the official Project + tier list, ranking 24th out of 42, near the top of B tier.

Attributes
Mr. Game & Watch falls under the general lightweight archetype, being nimble and weak, while having few powerful moves (such as his up smash) that possess high KO potential. He has received a lot of buffs from Brawl, and got a slight re-working of his Side-Special, Judge; adding a few small tweaks to the mechanics of the move to make it easier to predict.

Compared to some other characters, Game & Watch is not as easy to combo as them as a result of being light, small, and floaty.

His inability to be combo'd efficiently, however, is exchanged for being heavily susceptible to juggles and KOs as a result of his light weight (tied with as the third lightest) and relatively low falling speed, making him extremely easy to KO both horizontally and vertically.

Changes from Melee to PM
Mr. Game & Watch was significantly buffed from Melee to PM. Various issues he had in Melee such as his inability to L-cancel all of his aerials and his extremely small shield were fixed. Some (but not all) of the improvements he had in Brawl were retained while various moves in his moveset had various adjustments to make them more effective such as an increase in power or speed. His specials also received various improvements. Chef is much faster, Fire no longer leaves Mr. Game & Watch helpless and Judgment received various changes to make it more effective. Dots now appear above Judgment to show whether the next judge will be an odd or even number and judges 2-8 are significantly more effective. Judge also retains the advanced techniques it gained from Brawl.

Mr. Game & Watch only received a small number of minor nerfs from his Melee counterpart. He also lacks some of the improvements he had in Brawl such as the lower landing lag on his aerials and his parachute after using Fire. As well as this, he also maintains the grab release glitch he received in Brawl.

Overall, Mr. Game & Watch is more effective than he was in both games and his tournament results are stronger than they have ever been in other Smash games.

Moveset
Up to date as of version 3.6.

Notable tech
Labbing Discord Tech Post

Notable players

 * - Ranked 11th on PMRank 2019.
 * - Ranked 43rd on PMRank 2018.
 * - Formerly the best Game & Watch player in the world. Placed 3rd at EVO 2015, 1st at Paragon Los Angeles 2015, and 1st at Smash 'N' Splash 2. Formerly ranked 6th on PMRank 2016.
 * - Ranked 35th on PMRank 2019.
 * - Ranked 25th on PMRank 2019.
 * - Formerly best Game & Watch player in the world. Ranked 8th on PMRank 2019 before switching to Ike.
 * - Ranked 47th on PMRank 2017

Project M
Mr. Game & Watch's alternate costumes are brighter than they were in Brawl. Additionally, he now has three new alternate costumes.

Project+


Black (default): Resembles the characters from the games Fire and Parachute. He has the general color of the LCD frames in most of the Game & Watch handhelds.

Red (Red Team #1): Resembles his Red Team color in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and is the reminiscent of characters and objects as depicted on the, though this color palette has become much brighter to match with the original Virtual Boy object-depicted screen colors since Project M.

Yellow

Blue (Blue Team #1): Resembles his Blue Team color in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, though this color palette has become much brighter since Project M.

Green (Green Team #1): Resembles his Green Team color in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, though this color palette has become much brighter since Project M.

Cyan (Blue Team #2): Resembles one of his colors in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and is the reminiscent of the backlit display of the, though the outline has been changed into the Teal color since Project M.

Gray: This color palette is based on one of the console color schemes.

Orange (Red Team #2)

Olive (Green Team #2): Resembles one of his colors in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and is the reminiscent of characters and objects as depicted on the original, though this color palette has been more green-ish and with a darker olive-green outline, to match with the original Game Boy screen color since Project+.

Maroon: Resembles his Red Team color in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and is the reminiscent of characters and objects as depicted on the, though this color palette has become slightly more pink-ish since Super Smash Bros. 4.

Brown

White: Reminiscent of the monochromatic LCD screen of the Game & Watch games, also appeared in Project M and Super Smash Bros. 4.

Pink (Red Team #3)

Lavender (Blue Team #3)

Teal (Green Team #3): Resembles one of his colors in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and is the reminiscent of the backlit display of the, though this color palette has become much darker and more saturated since Super Smash Bros. 4.

Z-Secret Costume: Rainbow Mr. Game & Watch

R-Secret Costume: Color-Inverted Mr. Game & Watch - Meant to be the opposite color palette of Mr. Game & Watch's default colors.