

Their limited movement grant them significantly less utility overall, especially in regards to "sniping" offstage opponents and gimping them. The first is Dark Pit's Silver Bow: compared to Pit's Palutena's Bow, Silver Bow's arrows travel in an almost fixed straight trajectory and can be only shifted slightly up and down. The more significant differences lie in Dark Pit's special moves. As Dark Pit shares Pit's inferior KO potential, the lack of this additional KO move weakens Dark Pit's grounded KO ability, but also allows him to start combos at low percentages via locking.

Meanwhile, the latter has significantly lower base knockback, preventing Dark Pit's forward tilt from KOing easily, but allows it to lock floored opponents. The former is inferior to Pit's due to possessing a smaller hitbox and thus makes it easier to escape. The only alterations to his standard moves lie in his neutral infinite's finisher and forward tilt. A Pit player will have no trouble playing Dark Pit because of their mirrored movesets, but the slight differences in their movesets can make Dark Pit a better or worse choice in a matchup. In essence, this makes Dark Pit quite literally a clone character, to the point where he can be considered a custom moveset counterpart of Pit with his own roster slot (even their taunts share the exact same length of time despite looking different). Similarly, Dark Pit's standard attacks are all identical to Pit's, sharing the exact same frame data, damage and knockback, with only five attacks in his entire moveset having different attributes (two standard attacks, two special attacks, and his Final Smash). His mobility is completely identical, sharing the same walking speed, dashing speed, air speed, falling speed and three double jumps. Mario being a "slower, stronger Mario"), Dark Pit is mainly the same as his base character, Pit. Unlike most clones, who have multiple alterations to their physics or moves to differentiate themselves from the original (such as Lucina lacking Marth's tipper and Dr. Complete Classic Mode with three different characters.ĭark Pit must then be defeated on Reset Bomb Forest.ĭark Pit must then be defeated on Palutena's Temple.6.3 Most historically significant players.However, both Pits have unimpressive KO potentials, which forces them to be largely reliant on their forward smashes, forward throws, sweetspotted back aerials, Upperdash/Electroshock Arms and aggressive edge-guarding in order to score KOs.ĭark Pit's tournament representation was previously respectable, particularly due to Nairo having previously mained him, but after Nairo dropped him for Zero Suit Samus, his representation has become noticeably worse than Pit's, who already held below-average representation. Their damage racking and edgeguarding potentials are strong they boast very good neutral games their respective bows grant them disjointed ranges and their recoveries are long-distanced. Outside of these differences, Dark Pit and Pit share the same primary strengths and weaknesses. Conversely, Silver Bow is stronger than Palutena Bow, while Dark Pit's Electroshock Arm is a more reliable KOing option compared to Pit's Upperdash Arm. The number of differences between the Pits is miniscule, yet somewhat noticeable: Dark Pit's forward tilt is weaker than Pit's, while his Silver Bow is significantly less maneuverable than Palutena Bow. Just as in Kid Icarus: Uprising, Dark Pit shares the same voice actors with Pit, with Antony Del Rio voicing him in English and Minami Takayama in Japanese, albeit with completely different voice clips as well as the former still remaining uncredited with his role.ĭark Pit, alongside his base fighter Pit, is ranked 32nd out of 54 on the tier list, placing him in the D tier. In regard to Dark Pit, the reason for this was due to the oddity of him wielding the Three Sacred Treasures and the Electroshock Arm being already modeled. Mario and Lucina, Dark Pit was originally intended to be an alternate costume before being split off into his own character. He is a moveset clone of Pit and, like Dr. website on October 9th, 2014, alongside Dr. After initially being teased before release via Palutena's reveal trailer, Dark Pit was officially revealed by the official Super Smash Bros. Dark Pit ( ブラックピット, Black Pit) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros.
