Template:SSB4 to SSBU changelist/Olimar

Aesthetics

• Due to the aesthetic used in Ultimate, Olimar's model features a more vibrant color scheme. His proportions have been adjusted; he has a slightly smaller nose and eyes, and his skin tone is paler. His spacesuit and life-support systems have more subtle detailing, and his helmet has a more glossy sheen. The new detailing is also expressed by Alph.
• Olimar's antenna has less independent physics, allowing it to move more naturally.
• Olimar's helmet cracks after taking a certain amount of damage, but will quickly be repaired. It also appears cracked when he is Screen KO'd.
• Olimar now only jumps twice during his up taunt, shortening its duration.
• Sidestep and ledge-hanging's animations have changed.
• Pikmin now always face the screen regardless of which direction they turn.
• Pikmin now have trails that match their colors when attacking, like in the Pikmin games.

Attributes

• Olimar:
  • Like all characters, Olimar's jumpsquat animation takes three frames to complete (down from 5).
  • Olimar walks slightly faster (0.9 → 0.945).
  • Olimar dashes faster (1.47 → 1.617).
    • Olimar's initial dash is also marginally faster (1.6 → 1.606), although it is much slower relative to the roster.
  • Olimar's air speed is slightly faster (0.82 → 0.861).
  • Forward roll grants less intangibility (frames 4-16 → 4-15).
  • Back roll has more startup with less intangibility (frames 4-16 → 5-16) and more ending lag (FAF 29 → 34).
  • Spot dodge has less ending lag (FAF 26 → 25).
  • Air dodge grants more intangibility (frames 3-27 → 3-29).
  • Air dodge has drastically more ending lag (FAF 32 → 57).
  • Olimar's hurtbox is modeled around his body instead of being a giant orb around him. This effectively gives him a smaller hurtbox around some parts of his body, making him harder to hit.
    • However, Olimar has a larger hurtbox vertically.
• Pikmin:
  • All Pikmin have less HP.
    • Red, Yellow: 8 → 6.
    • Blue: 11 → 8.
    • White: 7 → 5.
    • Purple: 13 → 11.
  • Pikmin can be swallowed.
  • Pikmin can get stuck on platforms if they were plucked beneath them, making it impossible to use them for attacks for a while.
  • Pikmin in Olimar's squad are no longer intangible directly after Olimar gets hit with a move with high power, making it possible to kill the Pikmin and send Olimar offstage without any Pikmin.
  • Pikmin can die from hitboxes that Olimar already shielded or perfect shielded, making it very hard to punish the attack.
  • When a Pikmin dies, it becomes the active Pikmin in Olimar's squad, making it impossible to use Pikmin for attacks for a short while.

Ground attacks

• Neutral attack:
  • Neutral attack's first hit has less ending lag (FAF 30 → 20).
    • Its angles have been altered (361°/80° → 361°/180°) making it a more consistent jab locking tool but hindering its jab canceling potential.
  • The second hit hitboxes have been moved inwards (Z offset: 7/13 → 6/10), reducing its range.
    • Oddly, the animation has not been properly altered, and so suggests the move has more range than it actually does.
  • The second hit's sweetspot is closer to the sourspot, and the sourspot is bigger (2.5u → 2.8u). Due to it out-prioritizing the sweetspot, this makes the sweetspot much harder to land.
• Dash attack:
  • Dash attack has a bigger hitbox (3.5u (clean)/3.5u (late) → 5u/4.5u).
• Up tilt:
  • Up tilt has less ending lag (FAF 45 → 39).
• All smash attacks:
  • The damage multipliers when using smash attacks with red or purple Pikmin have been increased (Red: 1.2× → 1.4×, Purple: 1.4× → 1.6×).
• Forward smash:
  • Forward smash deals more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin.
    • Red: 17.4% (clean)/12% (mid)/7.2% (late) → 20.3%/14%/8.4%
    • Purple: 20.3% (clean)/14% (mid)/8.4% (late) → 23.2%/16%/9.6%
  • Forward smash has more ending lag (FAF 40 → 43).
  • Forward smash's clean hit has a shorter duration, with the mid and late hits having a longer duration instead (frames 11-14 (clean)/15-20 (mid)/21-29 (late) → 11-12/13-19/20-29).
• Up smash:
  • Up smash deals more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin with knockback scaling compensated.
    • Red: 15.6% (clean)/12% (weak)/13.2% (late) → 18.2%/14%/15.4%, knockback scaling: 83/74/78 → 72/64/68
    • Purple: 18.2% (clean)/14% (weak)/15.4% (late) → 20.8%/16%/17.6%, knockback scaling: 81/72/78 → 72/64/68
  • Up smash has significantly less ending lag (FAF 56 → 40), increasing its safety and giving it combo potential.
• Down smash:
  • Down smash deals more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin.
    • Red: 13.2% (clean)/10.8% (late) → 15.4%/12.6%
    • Purple: 15.4% (clean)/12.6% (late) → 17.6%/14.4%

Aerial attacks

• All aerials have less landing lag (15 frames → 13 (neutral), 15 → 9 (forward/back), 30 → 18 (up/down)).
• All aerials involving Pikmin have Transcendent priority.
• All aerials that involve Pikmin have more range.
• The damage multipliers when using aerials with red or purple Pikmin have been increased (Red: 1.2× → 1.4×, Purple: 1.4× → 1.6×).
• Neutral aerial:
  • Neutral aerial's hitboxes are smaller (loop: 3.5u/2.5u/2.5u/3.5u → 3u/2u/2u/3u, last: 5u/4u/4u/5u → 4u/3u/3u/4u).
• Forward aerial:
  • Forward aerial deals more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin.
    • Red: 10.2% → 11.9%
    • Purple: 11.9% → 13.6%
• Back aerial:
  • Back aerial deals more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin.
    • Red: 12.9% → 15.1%
    • Purple: 15.1% → 17.2%
• Up aerial and down aerial:
  • Up aerial and down aerial deal more damage when using Red or Purple Pikmin.
    • Red: 10.8% → 12.6%
    • Purple: 12.6% → 14.4%
  • Up aerial and down aerial auto-cancel one frame later (frame 30 → 31).

Throws and other attacks

• Grabs:
  • All Pikmin in Olimar's squad will be used at once for his grab, significantly improving its potential range. The more Pikmin he has, the greater the range.
  • All grabs have slightly more startup lag (frame 10 → 12).
  • Attempting to grab near a ledge using Pikmin that were plucked just before that will cause the grab to have no hitbox.
  • All grabs' ending lag is changed and depends on the amount of Pikmin in Olimar's squad.
    • Standing: FAF 50 → 42/48/57 (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Dash: FAF 53 → 50/58/69 (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Pivot: FAF 36 → 45/52/61 (1/2/3 Pikmin).
• Pummel:
  • Pummel is a quick knifehand thrust from Olimar himself.
    • Pummel deals much less hitlag (25 (Red, Blue, Purple)/26 (White)/28 (Purple) → 16) and has much less startup (frame 11 → 1) and ending lag (FAF 21 → 7).
    • It deals less damage (4% (White)/2% (others) → 1%).
      • As such, Olimar can no longer benefit from the damaging pummel of White Pikmin.
• Forward throw:
  • Forward throw deals more damage when using Blue Pikmin and when Olimar has multiple Pikmin in his squad.
    • Red: 5.6% → 5.6%/6.1%/6.7% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Yellow, White, Purple: 7% → 7%/7.7%/8.4% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Blue: 11.2% → 11.8%/13%/14.2% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
• Back throw:
  • Back throw deals more damage when using Blue Pikmin and when Olimar has multiple Pikmin in his squad.
    • Red: 7.2% → 7.2%/7.9%/8.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Yellow, White, Purple: 9% → 9%/9.9%/10.8% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Blue: 14.4% → 15.3%/16.8%/18.3% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
  • Back throw deals significantly more knockback when using Blue Pikmin.
• Up throw:
  • Up throw deals more damage when using Blue Pikmin and when Olimar has multiple Pikmin in his squad.
    • Red: 6.4% → 6.4%/7%/7.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Yellow, White, Purple: 8% → 8%/8.8%/9.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Blue: 12.8% → 13.5%/14.8%/16.2% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
  • Up throw deals significantly more knockback when using Blue Pikmin, being the strongest up throw in the game.
  • Up throw has a more exaggerated animation.
• Down throw:
  • Down throw deals more damage when using Blue Pikmin and when Olimar has multiple Pikmin in his squad.
    • Red: 6.6% → 6.6%/7.2%/7.9% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Yellow: 8% → 8%/8.8%/9.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • White: 7.8% → 8%/8.8%/9.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Purple: 8.4% → 8%/8.8%/9.6% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
    • Blue: 12.2% → 12.8%/14.1%/15.4% (1/2/3 Pikmin).
  • Down throw sends opponents at a more horizontal angle (90° → 60°), reducing its combo potential.

Special moves

• Pikmin Throw:
  • Pikmin that latch onto opponents deal more damage (1.1% → 2% (Red, Yellow, Blue), 3.7% → 4.7% (White)).
  • Pikmin take fall damage when thrown and landing on the ground.
  • The removal of multiple player slot glitch and changes to jostle mechanics no longer crashes the game with Pikmin Throw.
  • Opponents make a discomforted facial expression (the same expression used by poisoned fighters) when a Pikmin is latched onto them.
• Winged Pikmin:
  • Winged Pikmin travels a significantly shorter distance with consecutive uses.
  • If Pikmin are in certain animations while using Winged Pikmin, attempting to use them for aerials will cause the attack to have no hitbox.
• Pikmin Order:
  • Olimar orders his Pikmin much sooner (frame 12 → 2).
  • Pikmin Order has less ending lag (FAF 21 → 18).
  • Olimar gains super armor sooner (frame 6 → 2), much like in Brawl. This improves its use as a defensive tool and as a combo breaker.
    • However, it also has a shorter duration (frames 6-12 → 2-7). This effectively increases the move's ending lag despite its reduced total duration.
  • Pikmin Order's whistling animation is less exaggerated. This new animation is shorter (39 frames → 33), decreasing the amount of time Olimar cannot grab the ledge after performing the move in the air.
• End of Day
  • End of Day has been drastically sped up, with the Hocotate Ship crashing onto the stage almost immediately after the move's cutscene.
    • This gives the opponent less time to avoid the explosion, especially those who are buried.
  • The explosion has less knockback scaling (140 (sweetspot)/125 (sourspot) → 120/105).