What does Pikachu need?

I that one time that Pika might have been number one in the tier list after Bayonetta got nerfed. Bit slowly... Pika went down because the one representative for Pikas didn't get good results at tournaments(ESAM).

Anyway... I have been wondering what can be done in order to make Pika great again(unintentional Trump joke lol jk).

Anyway, one flaw about Pika is that he doesn't have the greatest range, therefore, he can't reliability approach. This forces him to shoot thunder jolt a lot and make the opponent approach. Which kind of makes Pika weak to characters with reflectors, Ness, in the other hand, can just absorb t-jolts to heal his damage. So really, Pika should have better range or have a bit better projectile(except it's already pretty good so I guess a good combo game using projectiles, like having better follow-ups after t-jolt).

ESAM had a hard time approaching Diddy since Diddy has better approaching tools sadly.

Anyway, Pika does have good aerials but none of them actually kill unless you gimp/stage spike someone. I guess nair does at at least 170 ish percent without rage but I mean up throw or back throw kills earlier than nair. Pika should maybe get his dair be a spike since he can go deep to get that kill because of his recovery being really great in range. He also should get something like his bair being a kill move too. Speaking of bair, it could be a better approaching tool like Mario's but also keep the same kind of bair that multi hits so you could still go for a stage spike with it. Maybe asking a bit too much though.

Unless you do some crazy ESAM stuff with Pika near the end of the video.

Lastly, I want Pika to have a better 50/50 throw kill combo and have one of his throws kill around 150 or so. Up throw to thunder is hard to get so it is painful to kill the opponent. Pika also doesn't have a great kill throw, which kills at around 170 ish. For his up throw thunder, I wish the amount of DI able range is less for the up throw making the thunder part hit easier.

I want for Pika to have these buffs but I don't think we'll get them anytime soon. But anyway, I hope you liked this and tell me your thoughts in the comments below.