Donkey Kong (SSBM): Difference between revisions

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{{cquote|''An ape with overwhelming girth and power.''|cite=''Melee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s instruction Manual}}

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Donkey Kong has an above average matchup spread for his tier. He is countered by 5 characters, soft countered by 5 (including Mewtwo who is ranked lower than DK), has 4 even matchups, counters 6, and soft counters 5. DK does rather well against characters who can be comboed with ease, such as {{SSBM|Bowser}},or {{SSBM|Samus}}, or characters who have poor range/survivability, like {{SSBM|Zelda}} or {{SSBM|Pichu}}. However, DK struggles against characters with powerful comboing tools, edgeguarding options,  and characters who have access to chaingrabs against him({{SSBM|Sheik}} is very notorious in all 3 categories). Pretty much every character in the top/high tier have tools to compete with DK efficiently, which is a problem. Characters like Fox and Falco can easily combo and edgeguard DK into an almost guaranteed death, and others like Sheik and Ganondorf can chaingrab him to very high percents into a KO(sometimes Zero-to-death). In the end, DK has some decent advantages, but also notable disadvantages to mitigate the positives, which results in DK being an overall situational character with low tournament representation and results (despite his above average matchups).

===Notable players===

:''See also: [[:Category:Donkey Kong professionals (SSBM)]]''

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*{{Sm|Chandy|USA}}

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