Pichu (Super Smash Flash 2)

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Pichu is a playable veteran character in Super Smash Flash 2 revealed at Day 4 of Super Smash Con 2017. Pichu's sprites are completely custom-made and are based on its appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Pichu's voice clips come from the same game. Like in Melee, it is a clone character of and shares many similar attacks and properties.

Pichu's main gimmick is that for every electrical attack it uses, it damages itself. Combined with it being lighter than the already-light Pikachu, it is very easy to KO.

Trivia

 * Pichu is the only character that was originally implemented as a Poké Ball character to become a playable character.
 * Out of the three characters to ascend from being assist characters to becoming playable (the other two being and ), Pichu is the only one to do so in the same version that it was introduced as an assist character.
 * However, both playable Pichu and the Poké Ball Pichu will be nonetheless appearing at the same time.
 * Pichu is the only character in the game that has ever been left out of a Smash game since their inclusion.
 * Pichu is the only character in SSF2 to get added in a patch of an already-released version, Beta v1.0.3 includes 's new sprites.
 * Despite it's gimmick, Pichu only has two moves that actually damage it in the actual Pokémon games.