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     Very few people use Yoshi, probably because he comes across as awkward and unwieldy. However, if you can master his unique rhythm and move trajectories, you will find that he is one of Smash Brothers' deadliest characters. He is well balanced, having medium running speed, armor, and power. His smash attacks have a slight delay, but they more than make up for this in range and sweep. Yoshi has the farthest jump of any character. His aerial physical moves are very useful, but they can be very difficult to time correctly. His down-A aerial attack can deal as much as 25% damage in little more than one second, making him ideal for boss fights. His powerful right / left-A meteor smash attack, when combined with the incredible range of his jump, make Yoshi quite possibly the best character for 1-hit KO meteor smashes. And if you have trouble controlling Yoshi when he is airborne, you can instantly return to the ground with his down-B pound attack.

    Unfortunately, Yoshi has one great weakness: he lacks a true recovery move. His right / left-B rolling move offers some horizontal recovery, but I still recommend that you stay firmly planted in the middle of any given level and avoid the edges unless you have an opportunity to execute a 1-hit KO meteor smash over the edge. Yoshi is extremely versatile, but he is best for a combination of defense and sniping. Focus on his up-B egg toss. It's difficult to aim, but if you master it, you will be able to hit opponents pretty much anywhere in your general area, dealing around 9 damage per egg and knocking your them backward. You can keep your enemies at a safe distance solely by using your egg toss, but should they get too close for comfort, send them flying with a charged smash attack. Or, if you're a coward, use Yoshi's left-right B move, which allows him to roll away from danger at incredible speeds--just don't roll off a cliff. Use Yoshi to dominate in large levels with good sniping posts.

    As a final note, I am fully convinced that Yoshi is the single best character for team battles. My brother and I are invincible as Peach and Yoshi because we keep a constant flow of projectiles bombarding our opponents. If our opponents do reach us, I send them hurtling to the other side of the level with one of Yoshi's formidable smash attacks, or my brother smacks them into the air and I intercept them with a meteor smash. Either way, they're dead the moment they reach us--that is, if they reach us at all.

Yoshi has just one little tiny weakness...  He has no real recovery move. This isn't a real problem unless you have someone like me who preys upon this problem. If you can hit Yoshi in the middle of his jump, you can send him hurtling down to his death with just a couple small blows. Aside from that problem, he's really hard to effectively kill. His eggs have some slight blind spots, and if you find them, you can pummel him with projectiles.

      It's a shame...Yoshi's egg toss has a lot more blind spots in Brawl than it did in Melee. It's still my favorite projectile, though.

 It's so wrong how that dino that's supposed to be the thing Mario rides on can kick everyone's butts. His oversized head and those eggs he gets who knows where make him a huge pain.

I'll be sure to find those little blind spots where Yoshi can't quite hit me with his eggs and exploit that weakness. Mwahahaha. That's the good thing about turnips. They can hit you just about anywhere, sometimes multiple times. And there's no limit to how many of them Peach can pull out of the ground... or solid stone... or clouds... or spaceships... Where does she get those things anyway?