YOSHI Amiibo Guide

YOSHI

AVERAGE TIER

Training Yoshi has been quite a learning experience for me. Yoshi had a problem with using eggs... a lot. It didn't matter if you trained him not to use them at all, we trained him 3 times and watched a lot of videos online of Yoshi's and all of them were egg sniper machines. Luckily it seems the creators have finally patched this and Yoshi doesn't prioritize eggs nearly as much. He goes for combos and grabs much more often which is great! The first few times I trained Yoshi he did nothing but spam eggs but I did find a method that worked even before the egg spam was patched. I trained Yoshi with my self training method of training them to 12, and letting him fight same level amiibo to 50 to ensure he doesn't land the eggs as much. This included multiman smash, item matches and 1v1s and he turned out much better than training him only in 1v1s myself. I'm still a little skeptical of this amiibo though because of how hard it was to get him into a good spot in the past. I'm worried that if you dumpster this amiibo in 1v1s he will become an ultra passive egg sniping machine or just extremely passive in general. But since the patch I'm not sure if this is a problem for trainers anymore. The upsides to Yoshi include his durability playing a huge factor, he is one of the few amiibos I've seen often times hovering at 200% before getting K.Oed. He also is pretty good at punishing defensive amiibos with his egg tossing and long ranged grab, constantly grabbing them out of their shields. I think his biggest strength is his neutral b egg combos. This amiibo will 100% smash attack or combo off of egged targets. That is a strength no other amiibo possesses. You may have to be more careful with this amiibo than others because he has a history of being very easy to mess up. Since my retraining method, my Yoshi scored 15th in a tournament out of 32. I was definitely shocked and happy to see him do so much better. Typically he would hover towards the bottom of the pack. But since the patch, I've seen him take games off top tier amiibos like Little Mac and Mario. I have my eye on him currently to watch his progress, I moved him up to Average Tier but he may be even higher if he continues to show promise.

PROS:

• Heavy for a fast Character
• Pin Point Precision with Eggs
• Great Aerials
• Great in Free For Alls/Team Matches
• Command Grab
• True Combo at low percents
• Durable and Difficult to Finish Off

CONS:

• Struggles to finish stocks
• Slow smash attacks, hard to land
• Can become very spammy to the point of needing a reset
• No Kill Throw

TRAINING MUSTS:

• Use eggs at range but do not spam them, don't get hit by eggs when training. I suggest training him vs amiibos at later stocks so this doesn't happen.
• Utilize all aerials, especially his neutral air and down air. He will use up air when he can but not nearly as much, show him he can kill with these
• Use his neutral B to egg at low percents and up smash for free damage
• Teach him to egg over the ledge at high percents if you can, he will learn to do this
• Utilize all smash attacks and show him he can kill with them
• Once again, avoid using eggs a lot, they will ruin the amiibo
• Do not dumpster him, allow him to land some of the combos you teach on you if you are training him yourself, otherwise prepare to get egged to death
• Try to teach him to shield an attack into up smash for a kill if you can
• If you use his b moves, all of them need to be used sparingly, he can get into a habit of spamming any of them
• Teach him to True Combo Up Tilt into Up Air at lower percents