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Little bit of competitive history of Pika's tier placement
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Ikue Ohtani voices Pikachu once again, albeit via recycled voice clips from ''Melee'' and ''Brawl''. | Ikue Ohtani voices Pikachu once again, albeit via recycled voice clips from ''Melee'' and ''Brawl''. | ||
Pikachu is currently ranked 5th on the [[tier list]], placing it in the A tier and thus results in it being the second highest ranking high-tier character. This is a slight improvement from its ranking of 8th out of 38 in ''Brawl'' and continues its trend of being a high-tier character. This is thanks to its high speed, good combo ability, approach, and excellent recovery. [[Quick Attack]] and [[Thunder Jolt]] also helps its [[neutral game]]. However, it has notable weaknesses to balance this out, with its weak KO power and poor survivability with its low [[weight]]. This gives Pikachu a high learning curve and small high-level representation compared to other high-tier characters, but it has nonetheless seen notable tournament results | Pikachu is currently ranked 5th on the [[tier list]], placing it in the A tier and thus results in it being the second highest ranking high-tier character. This is a slight improvement from its ranking of 8th out of 38 in ''Brawl'' and continues its trend of being a high-tier character. This is thanks to its high speed, good combo ability, approach, and excellent recovery. [[Quick Attack]] and [[Thunder Jolt]] also helps its [[neutral game]]. However, it has notable weaknesses to balance this out, with its weak KO power and poor survivability with its low [[weight]]. This gives Pikachu a high learning curve and small high-level representation compared to other high-tier characters, but it has nonetheless seen notable tournament results mostly credited to {{Sm|ESAM}}. The overall competitive community opinion of Pikachu has been volatile since the game's release; he was initially widely seen as an average character, then, mostly following impressive tournament showings by ESAM (including a brief period of retirement by the smasher adding to the "mystery" of Pikachu's potential), was seen as high as a top 3 character by players like [[Smasher:ZeRo|ZeRo]] and ESAM himself, culminating in an extremely close Winners' Finals set at [[Super Smash Con]] between the two. In more recent times however, public opinion has swayed again, with many considering Pikachu's placement on the first official tier list to be far too high and that the character is overrated as a whole, due to metagame development, introduction of new top tier characters, balance updates, ESAM's inconsistent showings at major tournaments, as well as a dearth of results for Pikachu at national, regional, and even local play. With patch [[1.1.5]], some of Pikachu's tougher matchups have seen nerfs, so his placement in the tier list continues to be argued over. | ||
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