Olimar (SSBB)

This article is about the Captain Olimar's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. For other uses, see Captain Olimar and Pikmin (species).

Olimar
Olimar
Universe	Pikmin
Appears in	SSBB
Availability	Starter

Olimar (ピクミン＆オリマー, Pikumin ando Orimā: Pikmin & Olimar) is a playable character from the Pikmin series in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Olimar's fighter design in Brawl is collectively comprised of Captain Olimar himself, the main character of Pikmin, as well as his band of multi-colored Pikmin, coming in red, blue, yellow, purple, and white. Olimar is very weak on his own, and needs Pikmin to do Smash attacks and certain aerial attacks and throws. Each Pikmin has different effects for certain attacks.

Pikmin types and effects

Red Pikmin

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• High attack power.
• Attacks imbued with incendiary properties.
• Immune to fire.
• Has the most damaging aerial attacks.

Yellow Pikmin

• Range of attack slightly larger than usual; easy to hit enemies with.
• Travel in slight arcs when thrown.
• Attacks imbued with electrical properties.
• Immune to electricity.
• When used to throw enemies, enemies fly in an arc as well.

Blue Pikmin

• Extremely strong when used in throws.
• Slightly more durable than average.
• Immune to water.
• Can swim.
• Grab range increases when using them.

Purple Pikmin

• Doesn’t fly far when thrown.
• Slow.
• High attack power.
• Slams into enemies instead of latching on when thrown. This can be used to knock an enemy off the ledge if they are grabbing it at the time.

White Pikmin

• Flies very far when thrown.
• Quick and light.
• Low health.
• Normal attacks do little damage and knockback.
• When latched onto opponent, poison does additional damage.
• Most damaging pikmin (can do up to 30% damage if thrown onto oppenent).

Role in the Subspace Emissary

In Subspace Emissary, a cutscene shows Olimar using his Pikmin to try to destroy a gigantic, sleeping R.O.B. However, the robot wakes up, and performs an Arm Rotor, easily shaking off and devastating most of the Pikmin. Olimar cringes, and a red Pikmin taps his side, pointing out the speeding object approaching them. The speeding object turns out to be the Blue Falcon, which Captain Falcon jumps out, and uses Falcon Punch to destroy the giant R.O.B. On landing, he slides, kills the remaining Pikmin, and poses victoriously, leaving only the red one by Olimar's side alive. Afterwards, he teams up with Olimar and the Pikmin. Later, they team up with Diddy Kong, then Donkey Kong, then Samus and Pikachu, then R.O.B., to fight Meta Ridley. Towards the end, Olimar, his Pikmin, and everyone else glimpse Tabuu. In a single, devastating act, Tabuu turns nearly everyone into trophies. All are brought back to life due to the Dedede Badges and efforts of Kirby, Luigi, Ness, and King Dedede. With the aid of Sonic, Tabuu becomes vulnerable, and a final battle between the characters and Tabuu begins.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Most damaging projectiles in the game (White Pikmin can do up to 30% damage each)
• Pikmin Pluck is very fast
• Tilts and smashes all have long range and decent knockback
• Down Smash has little vertical and much horizontal knockback
• Forward Smash, Pikmin Throw, his grab, and certain other moves have similar animations, making it difficult to tell what he is doing
• Dependence on Pikmin Throw allows Olimar to be an effective B-Sticking character
• Small target
• Quick attacks
• Down B gives Super Armor Frames
• Neutral Grab has the biggest range of all the characters, combine with very quick grab and little lag if missed, making Olimar having the best grab in the game
• Side throw has great knockback, can KO with it.
• Powerful aerial attacks
• Racks up damage really quickly
• Up Smash works similarly to Mewtwo's up smash in that it hits slightly next to you, but all the knockback is vertical
• Non-Pikmin attacks can combo into Pikmin attacks, especially his Dash Attack
• Able to do some damage without Pikmin
• Up smash can be used to limit an opponent's approach, as well as a powerful edgeguarding technique
• Very powerful, decently ranged spike
• With six Pikmin, Olimar has the longest tether recovery

Cons:

• Dependant on Pikmin for all of his smashes, grabs, specials, and 4 out of 5 aerials
• Very steep learning curve via Pikmin organization
• Recovery length entirely dependent on number of Pikmin
• Recovery is entirely tether-based
• Lightweight
• Pikmin are killed rather easily
• If Olimar is fighting on a stage with water such as Jungle Japes and The Summit he will lose all of his Pikmin except the Blue Pikmin when he lands in the water, making him extra vulnerable (although stages with water that's shallow enough to walk in like Rumble Falls will not cause the non-Blue Pikmin to drown).

Standard Moves

Olimar Attacks

• Dash A - Olimar does sort of a tripping cartwheel
• Neutral A - Olimar slaps twice
• Forward Tilt - Olimar kicks both legs forward, falling to the ground
• Down Tilt - Olimar does a headbutt along the ground
• Up Tilt - Olimar jumps a little and spins in place, hitting multiple times. The last hit has significant knockback. Similar to his neutral aerial.
• Neutral Aerial - Olimar spins in place, hitting multiple times. The last hit has significant knockback.

Pikmin Attacks

All of the Following moves use the next Pikmin in the Order to perform the given attack, and the knockback and damage are dependant on the Pikmin type. That Pikmin then goes to the back of the order. Same happens for grabs. A Pikmin runs forward a bit, and if it touches an opponent it grabs him/her and bring him/her to Olimar.

• Foward smash - throws a Pikmin in front of him, has some projectile like properties, it just deals damage and knockback, rather than latching on.
• Up Smash - Tosses a Pikmin a short distance in to the air
• Down Smash - Throws out Pikmin a short distance to either side (uses the next two in order).
• Forward Aerial - Smacks a short range with a Pikmin. Swings in an arc
• Back Aerial - Similar to the forward aerial, only behind Olimar and more of a horizontal arc
• Up Aerial - Throws a Pikmin a short distance over his head. (multi-hit, with the last hit having some knockback.)
• Down Aerial - Holds a Pikmin under himself. Short ranged. The first few frames can spike, but the sweet spot for spiking is diagonally below the Captain.

Grabs and Throws

• Pummel - Pikmin attacks using its element. Red Pikmin burn, white Pikmin do significant poison damage, etc.
• Down Throw - Pikmin slams opponent on ground, then jumps quite high, to jump on top of opponent.
• Up Throw - Pikmin leaps into the air (while holding opponent), turns the opponent upside-down, then slams them into the ground.
• Forward Throw - Pikmin leaps into the air, latches onto the opponent, and then pushes itself off.
• Back Throw - Pikmin latches onto opponent and jumps backwards while slamming them into the ground.

Special Movements

Taunts

Up: Jumps joyfully.

Side: Lays down on the ground as if he were asleep, then rolls over and gets up.

Down: Hula dances.

On-Screen Appearance: Jumps out of the Hocatate Ship and uses Pikmin Pluck three times.

Trivia

• There is a glitch concerning Olimar that, when performed correctly, allows him to completely avoid Kirby's Final Smash. Olimar must have 4-5 Pikmin plucked. A moment after Kirby executes his Final Smash, Olimar must rapidly Pluck Pikmin with the Special button. If performed correctly, there will be a continuous line of Pikmin being sucked into Kirby's cooking pot. If done long enough, the damaging part of Kirby's Final Smash will start, and Olimar will be completely unharmed.

External Links

• Pikmin & Olimar's page at the Smash Bros. DOJO!!