PAC-MAN (Super Smash Flash 2)

PAC-MAN is a playable veteran starter character in Super Smash Flash 2. He was initially revealed as a playable character on May 27, 2016, when videos and files from the game were leaked. He was officially confirmed on a special emergency Dev Blog, along with, on May 29, 2016. His appearance, along with his move set, are based on his Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U appearance.

Pac-Man currently places 27th out of 38 in the First Official Backroom Tier List for SSF2 Beta (Version 1.0.2) placing him in Mid-Low tier. Pac-Man has a Unique projectile game with Bonus Fruit which with the Fruit Catching technique (Pressing A right after you release the fruit to catch it) allows for many different combinations in general along with Pac-Man's Trampoline and Hydrant giving a mixture of many combinations along with Bonus Fruit allowing for Pac-Man mains to diversify how they play Pac-Man in general. Z-Dropping a Fruit Caught Galaga in the Air can make it an active hitbox allowing Pac-Man to have great stage control in general. And Pac-Man has one of the best Ledge Traps in the game thanks to the fact that he can use Hydrant and Pac-Jump at the same time near the ledge making his Edge-Guarding game fantastic. Pac-Man also has a fantastic OoS game thanks to his N-Air, Pac-Jump, and the fact that he can Z-Drop his fruits out of shield. Not to mention that Bonus Fruit rarely acts like a projectile near reflectors which can throw off his opponents.

Pac-Man however has very notable flaws. Pac-Man has poor KO options outside of his raw smash attacks, Key, Hydrant, and his Back-Throw. None of these kill options are at all reliable due to Smash Attacks requiring a hard read or a lot of luck, Key taking a lot of time to setup, Hydrant can be thrown back at him, and his Back-Throw does not kill reliably. Pac-Man's grab is ridiculously slow despite it being slightly better than Smash 4 Pac-Man's due to its slightly higher startup. But the Grab itself lacks active frames and it has a ton of endlag making it unreliable and easily punishable. Pac-Man's Pac-Jump can be used against him when recovering which can cause Pac-Man to plummet to his death. And of course, Pac-Man in general has issues when being counterplayed by opponents that know the matchup which makes Pac-Man rather inconsistent at Tournaments. Pac-Man seems to struggle against most of the cast due to a lot of the cast being able to stop a lot of Pac-Man's traps from happening rendering Pac-Man as a less efficient character in quite a bit of matchups. Pac-Man loses to a lot of faster characters and characters with disjoints due to Pac-Man's lack of disjoints and faster characters being able to rushdown Pac-Man with ease making setups extremely hard.

Pac-Man has a very small player-base due to Pac-Man requiring a lot of Tech-Skill and being overall hard to play to play as. However Kyoz has been shown to do very well with Pac-Man along with causing a huge upset back in Gax Saga including taking out Gax himself (Widely Considered one of the Best SSF2 Beta Players as of right now). However outside of this, Kyoz has been mainly inactive. The only other Pac-Man that may be worth mentioning would possibly be Playridise. However it has been pretty debatable among certain players whether or not he deserves the recognition of 2nd Best Pac-Man due to his lack of consistent results that proves this claim despite there lacking any other notable Pac-Man players.

Notable players
Kyoz (By Far the Best Pac-Man Main)

Playridise(?)

Tier placement history
Pac-Man Currently Places 27th out of 38 characters in the current SSF2 Beta Tier list making him a Mid-Low Character in the current metagame.