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YOSHI Yoshi was first featured in a game called Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. Yoshi would appear out of egg blocks and be Mario's trusty servant. Although he was featured in Super Mario World he never got a star role until Super Mario Brothers 2: Yoshi's Island. In Yoshi's Island as Yoshi you had to protect Baby Mario from Baby Bowser. There was also a sequel for the Nintendo 64 called Yoshi's Story. He has also been in Mario Party 1-3, all 3 Mario Karts, Mario Tennis (both versions the N64 one and the Virtual Boy one), Mario Golf (the N64 version and the Gameboy Color version) and of course Super Smash Brothers. In the original it was not only amusing to beat up Mario with him but was also good for juggling and repeated hits. Yoshi is considered by many to be useless, don't believe them. Yoshi can string together incredible combos. For example you start off with his down+B move hitting the enemy into the air then shoot an egg at them and use your up-smash to hit them and your forward smash to finish them off. It's quite a good combo. He also has his awesome egg move which when used in the hands of a master can be the most annoying thing ever. However, the egg move comes at a price since it can't be used as a third jump Yoshi frequently ends up committing suicide. If you know what you're doing then you can easily avoid that. Yoshi has good smash attacks as well. The rest of Yoshi's abilities are decent as well making him a well-rounded fighter. CLASSIFICATION: Close Range Regular Attacks Using this attack Yoshi slams the enemy forward with a headbutt. It's a very powerful attack that you should make a note of using often. It propels the enemy great distances and is a great finishing touch to any combo. After juggling the enemy until their percentage is high then finishing off with this move can be deadly. Once you decided that you want to stop juggling and start knocking off use this move. This attack doesn't do that much damage and barely sends the opponent flying. Yet this is still a useful move. If you want to cheaply rack up percentage you can do multiple hits with it, but that still isn't it's best use. If you do this attack it'll send the opponent the perfect height to be vertically smashed. This move is best used as a juggle starter. This attack doesn't do that much damage and barely sends the opponent flying. Yet this is still a useful move. If you want to cheaply rack up percentage you can do multiple hits with it, but that still isn't it's best use. If you do this attack it'll send the opponent the perfect height to be vertically smashed. This move is best used as a juggle starter. Special Attacks Egg Lay: This is by far Yoshi's most useless move. Using this move Yoshi sticks out his tongue and craps the enemy out as an egg. This would seem like a useful move at first but you'll soon discover it sucks. When you put an enemy into an egg you can only fit 2 attacks in before they break out. Yoshi's attacks are pretty fast and easy to hit them with anyway. Yoshi also doesn't have a super strong move to hit them with either. It can be used to instantly kill an enemy when on the edge of the stage but that still is pretty crappy. When the egg is in the air the enemy can move and most smart enemy will come back unless you did this move on the very edge at which point it becomes totally impractical anyway. Rumble Tumble Egg: This move puts Yoshi into an egg that you can control spinning around like mad (I refer to it as the crazy egg move). This move is very useful in large stages (like Hyrule temple) and can, with some practice, also be useful in small stages. At first you'll probably end up committing suicide a lot. Don't mark this move off as totally useless yet though; with a bit of skill this move can became the crazy egg of DEATH. Start off hitting them. If they go to a higher platform then keep spinning back and forth until they come down. Now skilled opponents will try to attack you. Requiring even more skill whenever they attack you can dodge by quickly turning the other way. Now come right back at them. IT may take skill but this move can be awesome. Egg Throw: The Up+B move was a favorite from the old game and is still kept in all it's glory. Yoshi hurls eggs out that do significant damage when you hit an enemy. You can control where you want the egg to go by tilting the control stick when you throw the egg. This move has a wide variety of uses. The most common one is to go on a lower section and keep chucking eggs at enemies. With the exception of Ness no one can reach you down there allowing you to repeatedly pelt them with eggs. Another use is in a juggle. Since the egg move is quick it's the perfect move to hit enemies in the air with. After you start off a combo keep them up there with the eggs. The final use is the least common and the most difficult to do. If you have an enemy that throws a lot then once they walk up to you fire an eggs so it will hit the ground right in front of you. Once the enemy picks you up he'll be hit with the egg. This requires precise timing but it's not impossible; I use it frequently. Yoshi Bomb: Ahh, the down+B move. Another great Yoshi move. If you use this move from the ground, Yoshi will pound right in front of himself. This isn't too useful except right when you start out. Sometimes an enemy will be close enough at the beginning to hit right then. If you use this from the air you'll slam yourself down. It's extremely useful. The best use is when your coming back from the edge. Slam your edge guarding opponent outta there! Whenever you find yourself in the air smash down on an enemy. A skilled player can hit you while doing this however (it'll still hurt them though) so it's best to do it just before you get in their A attack reach. If anyone ever makes an attempt to juggle you use this move to put them in their place. Strategies for Yoshi Swordsmen -Link -Young Link -Marth -Roy These enemies when played by a human usually seem to be really sure of themselves. Use this to your advantage. Go far away and pelt them with eggs then run up to them and juggle like mad. These guys have some good down+A aerial moves but those can easily be avoided. It's also good to use the crazy egg move accompanied with dodging. Watch out for Marth and Roy's Counter and be sure to pelt the Links with eggs from a lower area. Speedsters -Fox -Falco -Pikachu -Pichu -Captain Falcon Speedsters are a might harder for Yoshi - particularly Captain Falcon. Fox and Falco have good up-smashes so be weary of the down+B move. However they have weak aerial down+A's so be sure to juggle. Pikachu and Pichu are best to just run up to and start smashing. However if you have and edge guarding one then watch out for Thunder. The best strategy is to grab onto the ledge and spin behind him and use your forward-smash. Captain Falcon is one of the hardest opponents for Yoshi. The best strategy is eggs, eggs and more eggs. Never use your Down+B or it could be fatal and never run right up to him. Hit him with an egg and then run up to him and hit him to the side and don't juggle him. Close Range -Dr. Mario -Mario -Luigi -Yoshi -Mr. Game & Watch -Ice Climbers These guys are the easiest to use eggs on. They're also great to combo. For Dr. Mario, Luigi and Mario use your eggs and juggle, they also aren't hard to use the down+B move on. The Ice Climbers are ideal to use the crazy egg move on since it will seperate them quite easily. Then use the classic strategy of killing Nana. Mr. Game and Watch is pretty easy to juggle and is very light so use your smash attacks often. He has very powerful smash attacks though so if you run up to him be sure to dodge. Fighting another Yoshi use these strategies. If he uses the forward+B attack a lot then use your down B to stop him. If he uses the down+B move a lot then use eggs to stop him in the air. If he's an egg master then dodge a lot and smash attack him. Just don't juggle. Long Range -Ness -Samus -Mewtwo They should be too hard. With the exception of Ness's PK Thunder none can hit you on a lower platform. Mewtwo should be juggled a lot since his aerial attacks aren't that great. Ness should be egged a lot and juggle frequently as well. Samus is another story. Try hitting her towards the edge if the platform instead. Lightweights -Kirby -Jigglypuff -Peach -Zelda Yoshi's specialty. They are all masters of juggling so what do we do to jugglers? Down+B! As an added bonus they're light so you should probably smash them to the side instead of wasting time juggling them. Then edge-guard and egg them. Zelda has some awesome finishing moves that you should be weary of. The crazy egg move is good too since they don't have any real stop-in-your-tracks moves. Don't juggle Kirby though. Heavyweights -Donkey Kong -Bowser -Ganondorf They might cause a little trouble but not much. The only on you should think of juggling is DK. The eggs are very useful so use them often. It's best best to smash them and dodge their attacks since they're so slow at the end you can just smash them using your headbutt. Ganondorf is different however. The crazy egg move is probably the best strategy against him.