Ice Climbers (SSBM)

Two expert climbers working together?

Name	Ice Climbers (Popo & Nana)
Tier	Middle (7)
Debut	Ice Climber (1985)

Overview

Ice Climbers are characters in SSBM.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Advanced players can do massive damage
• The best grab combos in the game
• The fact that there are two of them can confuse opponents and allows them to "desynch" and launch attacks at different times
• A variety of edgeguarding options
• Strong ground game
• Fantastic wavedash
• One of the few characters who can literally go from 0%-KO while their opponents are completely helpless.
• Opponents have trouble grabbing the ICs since they can be attacked during the grab
• Decent recovery

A number of mindgames come from playing them.

Cons

• A little slow on the running side
• Nana can be unresponsive at times
• Nana is crucial in the ICs killer chaingrabs, so no Nana = no chaingrabs.
• Bad air game (Bair and maybe Uair are their only good projeciles)
• Easily disrupted by projectiles.
• Requires a lot of skill and timing inorder for players to use them.