#64: Yoshi (Melee)
Preferred color: Pink
Favorite move: Forward air or neutral air
Until you play Yoshi for a while, you don’t realize what a blessing it is to be able to jump out of your shield. Yoshi is the only character who can’t do this because he’s in an egg instead of a shield and several times when I’ve played Yoshi, I’ve found myself trying to jump out of pressure situations only to eat a lot of damage because all I manage to do is roll around.
Lack of recovery move really hurts too, especially because the most effective way to utilize the dino is double jump cancelling, which means if you get hit out of it, you lose your jump and it’s instant death. His double jump has some good points like some invincibility so playing Yoshi isn’t entirely stupid as hell since Fox can’t shinespike you or something like that.
Side B is terrible and I guess you can use it as a recovery move but only at high distances so it’s still limited. Down B….eh. His B move is pretty useless too since nobody really falls for “go to edge and turn them into an egg” unless you’re playing noobs. You can even control it back on to the stage after turning into an egg so it’s really only viable as a surprise. Even then you’re better off doing almost anything else.
I like Forward air because it hits so hard and like all spikes and meteors, if you hit them with it while they’re on the ground, it makes them bounce and you get an easy follow-up.
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I'm so pretty.