Chef
- Not to be confused with Cook.
| Chef | |
|---|---|
 Chef in Brawl | |
| User | Mr. Game & Watch |
| Universe | Game & Watch |
| “ | In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mr. Game and Watch hurls sausages with his Chef technique. | ” |
| —Mr. Game and Watch's trophy description in Melee | ||
Chef (シェフ, Chef) is Mr. Game & Watch's neutral special move. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mr. Game & Watch pulls out a frying pan and tosses sausages, which fly erratically through the air. The sausages do low amounts of damage, but they can be used to deter angled attacks. Up to five sausages can be tossed in one use of the move. The pan itself is somewhat more powerful and also does fire damage. If the player taps the special button repeatedly, the speed that Mr. Game & Watch tosses the food out will be increased.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. 4, the pan tosses out a total of four foods: sausages, steak, shrimp, and fish. There is no practical difference between the foods.
The foods' trajectories are not truly random, and are instead chosen from five predetermined trajectories. Similar to the mechanics of Mr. Game & Watch’s Judge, a food will not be launched with the same trajectory as either of the two previous foods. This means that at any one time three of the five trajectories are possible. At the start of the match, the previous two trajectories are set to the second shortest and second longest trajectories.
This move is spammable, and is decent for projectile camping, despite its small range. This is because the foods are thrown very close to each other, and at least one will hit opponents that try to approach Mr. Game and Watch and cause hitstun. Even if the opponents do get through, they may be hit by the pan and sent backwards.
Normally, the food from Chef are physical projectiles, which means that they cannot be absorbed. However, if Kirby uses the move after copying Mr. Game & Watch in Brawl, the food can be absorbed.
Customization
Special Move customization was introduced in Super Smash Bros. 4.
- XXL Chef: The food is larger and causes more damage, but moves slower. Can fire up to one piece of food at a time.
- Short-Order Chef (known as Fast-Food Chef in the PAL version): The food moves faster, but causes less damage (1-2%). Only fires up to three pieces of food at once.
Origins
Chef is a Game & Watch game where the player takes on the role of a chef cooking various foods by flipping them with his frying pan. The player has to keep all the food airborne until it is finished, lest it fall on the floor and promptly eaten by an awaiting mouse or be speared on a fork by a perched cat.
