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I love Pichu to death, but there's one thing I don't fully 100% understand. His down special. It appears to absorb damage without the knock back for Pichu. Is there anything else it does?

DRac0 wrote:

I love Pichu to death, but there's one thing I don't fully 100% understand. His down special. It appears to absorb damage without the knock back for Pichu. Is there anything else it does?

Pichu's down special is Endure, which absorbs damage done by an opponent. Use it in combination with its side special, Flail, and you can do monstrous damage if at a high enough percentage.

Speaking of which, is there a damage cap for Pichu's side special?

All I know for Pichu's side special is that it starts hitting SUPER hard after 100% of damage.

C_Mill24 wrote:

DRac0 wrote:

I love Pichu to death, but there's one thing I don't fully 100% understand. His down special. It appears to absorb damage without the knock back for Pichu. Is there anything else it does?

Pichu's down special is Endure, which absorbs damage done by an opponent. Use it in combination with its side special, Flail, and you can do monstrous damage if at a high enough percentage.

Speaking of which, is there a damage cap for Pichu's side special?

Even though the wiki mislabels endure and flail as nuzzle and skull bash, and it even says endure does nothing.

Do not use the wiki. It is outdated and as comprehensible as a Dingo Pictures animation re-enacted by elementary schoolers.

Then why doesn't someone update it so the information is more useful, or commission/hire a guy to do it?

HypeConduit wrote:

Do not use the wiki. It is outdated and as comprehensible as a Dingo Pictures animation re-enacted by elementary schoolers.

Yee don't like the wiki, don't Yee? :}

Nobody likes the wiki
Afaik nobody significant even has the power to edit it

I think Pichu's side special in less than 100% could be a double hit that could be followed with any tilt and grabs in the ground and any aerial attack in the air.
And Pichu's down special could ''absorb'' the damage taken and heal.

None of the above is true.

Pichu's side special is an attack whose power scales off Pichu's current damage %.

Pichu's down special can "tank" any single hit in the game. You will take the damage but incur no knockback or flinch, allowing you to then counter attack with anything you choose. Side special, for example. I believe over 100% there's actually a built in down b -> side b cancel or something. Over 100% side b starts hitting insanely hard.

Perfect Hell wrote:

None of the above is true.

Pichu's side special is an attack whose power scales off Pichu's current damage %.

Pichu's down special can "tank" any single hit in the game.  You will take the damage but incur no knockback or flinch, allowing you to then counter attack with anything you choose.  Side special, for example.  I believe over 100% there's actually a built in down b -> side b cancel or something.  Over 100% side b starts hitting insanely hard.

Sorry if I confused you, I was doing a suggestion because Pichu's side special is pretty useless at percents lower than 100%

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

Side special being not that useful under 100% is kind of the point. And being able to heal with a counter would be flat-out broken.

Alternatively, Side B could be given it's melee use: distance and non-helpless, for recovery extension. Down B could give a ton of hitlag or some such thing to make it's purpose more obvious and easily taken advantage of.

+1 for extra hitlag on endure.

I didn't know that Pichu's down special was a counter/damage tanking move. Opens up alot of possibilities.