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I have been compiling results with Pit using his Down B, the Mirror Shield.

The effect of it is that it reflects projectiles, and that if attacks land on it the damage goes back to the attacker. Here are the list of bosses it has good effect on:

Rayquaza

When Rayquaza goes underground and attacks from beneath, you are IMMUNE. You just slip to the side and Ray takes all the damage - AS LONG AS YOU FACE THE DIRECTION IT CAME FROM.

The Lightening Ball is also very easily deflected, but it's just a deflectable projectile.

Tail Whip, you are pushed back with no damage and our friend takes the brunt

Lunge Attack - When Rayquaza lunges to the other side of the screen, you are immune AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT DIRECTLY IN THE MIDDLE. Keep a distance.

Side Attack - When it flies along the screen, it flies over you. You're too low to get hit.

Red Eyes Attack - It creates an explosion near you. You're -immune- to it. It just pushes you back slightly.

Duon - Gun

Lazer - The purple one, NOT blue. The blue ones are undeflectable. The purple lazers are absorbed by the shield and the damage goes to Duon; alternatively Pit's Side B is also a projectile deflecting move, so if you want to send those missiles right back you can use the Angel Ring. It has a far greater area of deflection, and so is a better choice. The Angel Ring is better when you use it right next to Duon's cannon.

Duon - Sword

The sword side is easily reflected. Basically, most of the attacks, except the head-blade attack. That is a massive attack, and if you are on the edge of it, will cause some awesome damage, but it's safer to just stay back and fire arrows against the sword side.

Meta Ridley

Small and Medium fire balls - These are deflectable, easily. The medium ones are fired when he latches onto the ship and pulls it down; the small ones are when he just fires them up and down the ship. A word of warning, however, that the small ones can go over the shield, and it is a better choice to use Pit's Side B directly in front of its mouth.

Ridley

When Ridley backs away and flies across the screen, the shield deflects that too. Surprising, no? Almost as surprising as that it also stops a lot of Ridley's attacks, bearing in mind you are near the edge of the stage when they are ending up. Flying in from the back seems to deflect about half of the time; Ridley will always take damage but sometimes Pit will as well. It's best to dodge that as normal.

Crazy Hand

Poke, Slams, All flying-in-from-behind attacks, you're good to go. Just hold Down B and you'll be fine. As a note, the Lazer is also deflectable, it's just that neither take damage, and you are pushed back quite a bit. Good for escaping if you are stuck in the middle.

Master Hand

Master hand is mostly the same as crazy hand. The walking attack, where he uses the two fingers, will NOT deflect the 2nd hit, so be careful. Fly off the stage when he uses this. The sweeping attack, single-sweep, is deflectable, but the triple-sweep is not. The gun attack is obviously deflectable, and will only deflect one shot unless you use Side B.

Petey Pirhana

You can't deflect ANYTHING on the ground. Your best bet is to get him to the edge of the stage, and attack from the edge. Whenever he uses his jump move, fly under one of the cages and hold the shield in midair, or on the ground. If you're on the ground, you'll be pushed off by knockback (no damage) but in the air, you're perfectly solid. It's possible to go this entire thing with 0% at all, as long as you are constantly off the stage to attack the cage.

Porky

Surprisingly, his jump attack is deflectable, as long as you face the direction he's jumped from, same as a lot of attacks for other bosses. The needle jab, unfortunately, is not deflectable, only a few will be stopped and you will be pulled in by the rest. The robots are also unstoppable, because they explode on you, and not on the shield. However, his charge attack is stoppable to an extent where it threatens to push you off the side, at which point a preferrable strategy is to just avoid it. Porky is very difficult to do, but the mirror shield is offensive at the very start of when you use it, much like Fox's deflector, and is quite decent damage, so throw it in for some quick combos.

Galleom

For Galleom, his single-hop attack is mirror shieldable, the quadruple hop is NOT. A lot of his attacks - his body slam, foot stomp, and ground punch (both sides) are all fine to mirror shield. The only ones that you can't shield is the one where he sends out a massive shockwave, and the missiles in normal form.

The tank form is relatively easy; if it charges, shield it, if it shoots missiles, stand next to it. Piece of cake. You can't deflect any of his missiles, so don't try - I did, with the Side B, and I got blown to shreds. It also helps to know that the mirror shield won't deflect it either, only nullify the damage. Just stand next to the tank when he does this.

The Final Boss

He's a dick and everybody hates him. What we can do, however, is learn his moves beforehand by getting up to him on Easy and just surviving. Learn everything he can do, and learn to dodge his wing attack - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. If you can't dodge the wing attack, it's instant-kill on Intense. It really does help to know how to dodge it (Hold shield underneath him and press Down every time you see a ring coming your way)

Most of his moves are easily avoidable because Pit has EVERY JUMP IN THE WORLD to keep away from them. He can jump 3 times in the air, and fly for 4 seconds with his Up B, bearing in mind that the amount of time decreases the more frequently you use it. It recharges like ROB's Up B, though.

For the love of god, DODGE HIS WING ATTACK! I've gotten up to him twice, and because I'm too stupid to practice dodging beforehand I got killed both times. I just suck at avoiding it, but YOU MIGHT NOT BE.

Information on the Mirror Shield move

1) The effectiveness of the shield relies on your percentage. Take for example Master Hand's attack. He forms a plane shape with his fingers and flies in from the back. Now, normally you can avoid this by aiming the shield to the right of the stage and holding it down; but on percentages higher than around 90, you will take a hit. This really really does count.

2) It only absorbs so many attacks. This really does matter; Against the likes of Porky and his jabbing attack you'll only negate 3 to 4 hits before the rest land.

3) The effectiveness decreases the more you use it. Ah, the nerf. If you use an attack too much, the damage will decrease. The same goes for the Mirror Shield, as what you reflect will reduce in damage. That isn't to say you shouldn't use it, but that is to say that whenever you go to the waiting room, spam some smashes and aerial moves before moving on to recharge the shield.


Please, if you have any information to contribute, DO SO. It is in everybody's best interest that we make it through Boss Battles unscathed!

This will be kept updated with any new information that arises. Please do your best to report any findings! I will personally check any information before I add it to this post.

Thankyou for your time, and I wish everybody luck on this.
(Note that I haven't defeated Boss Battles on intense yet; but I wish to make the ride as easy as possible for those who are struggling)

Or Fox. This is because of my hatred of Pits voice.

Or just destroy them with Charizards Rock Smash and Side-A. Whatever that is.

Charizard is powerful, yes, but he is hard to dodge with and is overall slow. It makes things harder if you're not used to him.

I've been beating it with Toon Link.
GGRRRRAARRRR DUON. Honestly, if you have a tip for Duon except for "try to make his missiles hit him durr durr" then I will have your children.

Yes.

He has several attacks which cause him to swap sides of the arena. Take advantage of his lunging attack, and get in behind him. The only attack you have to be wary for is his spinning attack, and the fact that you'll be slowly pushed off the side if you stand behind him. With toon link I suggest getting above him and Dairing him constantly to pogo jump on the top of his head.

Also, "try to make his missles hit him durr durr" is a massive plus, it's like 4/5ths of his life if you get them all. Achieve this by running to one side of the platform, then jump behind him. They'll plough into him.

With duon, as well, the trick to when the sword side slowly comes at you.. Run towards it, then jump and fall backwards, airdodging. It will swipe the air 3 times while you can just shoot it with arrows, bombs, or boomerang.

Sorry for the late response, by the way~

Heh, intense? I'm having trouble with Boss Battles on fuckin' normal.

Ah well, I'll try out your tips. Thanks.

It helps to work your way through the difficulties. Going from easy to normal makes it a good transition. Also, use your best character

Hm. Good tip.

I've been trying with lucario. That dude's up aerial is powerful. Plus, he gets tougher with more damage, which is neat.

Was one attack's away from beating Tabuu when I got interrupted. Ah well, I'll get it eventually.

Hm, I'm not having anymore trouble with Tabuu than other bosses. Well, besides the easy ones.

Personally, I've been using Mr. Golden Watch. His fishbowl and blowy attack are pretty good, hes pretty fast, has a beastly recovery, and he happens to be my best character. Sure he dies kinda quick; if you let him!

Oh and I'm surprised no ones really complained about Tabuus Red Rings of Death, if anyone does remember the golden rule: dodge it just before it looks like it'll get you.

What, you call them that too? They're actually called Off Waves, but anyways.

Petey Piranha: Just remember when he swings the cages to dodge past them, not away from them, as they will obviously hit you anyway.

Rayquaza: It's actually easier to dodge some of his attacks on higher difficulties as he moves faster. His spiraling-horizontally-across move, for instance. On Easy, you'll get hit no matter what unless you've got a high-flying character. On Intense, he flies by so fast all you need is to jump and press L/R once and you're good.

Porky: When he does his leg-stab, you have about a second to dodge on the other side before you get caught. From there, it's on to beating his booty while he keeps stabbing like an idiot.

Ridley: ...he has a loop-swoop attack that can deal about 50% damage if you get hit by the full sweep. And that's on Easy. And he'll sometimes use it as an opening move, so stay alert.

Galleom: When he fires his missiles standing upright, don't just swoop to his legs and start attacking. Some strange force burns you and causes damage when you get close to him while he's firing. And when you jump over his tank-charge, use midair dodge as an extra precaution, since he can still nick your foot and send you flying way up. That's how I died halfway through Intense. >>

Duon: Not much to say except yes, make him bomb himself with the missiles. And when he uses his head-blade, sidestep instead of roll dodge. Arm-blade, midair dodge. Once for the first two swipes, once more for the last one. And be careful of his double-arm-blade sweep too.

Meta Ridley: It's possible to attack him and knock him off when he's latched onto the back of the Falcon Flyer and dragging it down, but I don't suggest this because of his fireballs. Most of his attacks can be dodged by jumping since he focuses more on the Falcon Flyer and maybe adding midair evasion.

Master Hand: It's easy to read some of his attacks and dodge them, but the one you really should worry about is when he twirls around fast, spikes you to the ground and starts wailing on you with his spinning fingers. You have to dodge roll just as he appears at the top of the screen.

Crazy Hand: His attacks are as easy to read as his brother's, and some of them are even a little slower and leave him open to projectile attacks (maybe when he's dropping bombs).

Tabuu: Three tips: 1) Dodge. 2) Dodge. 3) Dodge. You can't emphasize this enough. Every one of his attacks has the potential to KO you in one swing. Some of them are easy to read, most of them not. Some of them are easy to dodge, some not. But really, stay clear of those Off Waves. Always remember that Off Waves come in groups of three and that he releases each one in time periods of about a second. A lot of his attacks, though, do leave him open (mainly when he turns huge to blast you with the lasers that can be dodged just by jumping over where they meet with the ground).

...yeah, if there's one word that can sum the gist of beating Boss Battles on Intense, it's, of course, dodge.

Hey everyone! Let's just completely ignore the need to spoiler block [spoiler]Tabuu[/spoiler]'s name, shall we?

Some people might be stupid enough to not want spoilers but read this thread anyway.

[spoiler]If you're one of those people, you should stop reading.[/spoiler]

srsly

If people saw his name, and didn't know about him, I doubt they'd know who he was. And, its been a month anyway :l

Well, BrownPup, I promised. I have to have your children now.

The Down-aerial onto his head plan works very well for Porky, but not for Duon. There's too much of a chance he'll go into a spin and you'll get molested.

Oh, and totally attack Meta Ridley if he's on the back of the Falcon Flyer. It only takes one good smash attack, and if you hang around the back of the ship like I do. it takes no time at all to reach him.