Yoshi (SSBM)

Template:Character Yoshi is a character in both SSB and SSBM.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Heavy, thus hard to KO
• Can double jump cancel
• Has moves for many situations, such as down tilt for edgeguarding
• Can juggle many characters well
• Shield/Roll has strange properties that benefit Yoshi
• Has an infinite ledge stall.

Cons

• Lacks a third jump, and thus is highly vulnerable to being hit out of his second jump while recovering
• Has mediocre combo ability on non-fastfallers
• Grabs have a lot of start-up and lag

Edgeguarding

Yoshi has several effective ways to edgeguard an opponent. A quick list of the most common ones is: down-tilt(dtilt), down-air(dair), forward-air(fair), edge-canceled eggs(ECE) and smash attacks.

Dtilt

Now, the dtilt is known as the gimp kill of Yoshi's edge-game. If it works, which is uncommon, it's usually either against a Falco or the opponent has made a mistake. What you do is you knock your opponent off the stage and await him to try and grab the edge or make it back onto the stage. At this time you use your dtilt(which has a set-knockback) to knockthem back off the stage, hopefully this time without their second jump. This is where timing comes in, you must hit them after they use their up+b to recover but before they are close enough to hit you with it. At this point a cycle will begin(if you are doing it correctly) of you dtilting them off the stage them them hopelessly trying to grab the edge. After you rack-up some damage on them this way, usually you use one of the other edgeguarding techniques to finish them off.

Specialty Techniques

Yoshi has several specialty techniques that no other character can do. One of these is the edge-canceled eggs(ECE). You do this by releasing from the edge, by either pressing down or back, double jumping then start throwing an egg. You need to do this fast enough so that you do no over shoot the edge and land on the stage or too far above the edge, otherwise you are a sitting duck. After you throw the egg you can regrab the edge, cancelling all lag you would have had if you did it on the stage, and renewing your invincibility. If you wish to have more accuracy when aiming at an opponent off the stage, you can do a reverse edge-canceled egg(RECE). This is done the same way except you turn around with your second jump, this is much harder to do because you have to control the distance from the ledge other wise Yoshi will not be able to grab the edge backwards and will fall to his demise.

An easier technique that Yoshi has is egg rolling back onto the stage. You do this by egg rolling away from the stage and immediately smashing the direction of the stage. This is generally used for mind games more than damage.