Positive Pika PR (alliteration makes him happy)

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pika.demo.mp4

Skull Bash (Side Special)

! (!) Move will now bounce off of walls
! (!) Move now is only usable once per airtime. 
- (-) Minimum Damage: 6.2 > 4
+ (+) Maximum Damage: 21.4 > 29

# Currently, Sideb can only grab ledge after the move ends, which takes much longer than similar 
# horizontally-moving moves in the air. To fix this, a 'bonk' effect was added, which allows you to end 
# the move early upon hitting a wall, making it much better for recovery. To compensate for this, the move
# is now only usable once per airtime. The damage range was also changed to match melee, because
# it being his optimal rest punish is objectively what we (collectively) want as a society.

Thunder (Down Special)

+ (+) Thunder Height: 10.5 > 17
+ (+) Thunder Speed: -4 > -6.48

# Thunder height is increased to allow better killing potential off the top due to the thundercloud change 
# last patch. This should allow him to secure stocks without needing platforms to get the height required, 
# which is too slow in most cases. The speed increase is proportional to ensure that it reaches Pikachu at the
# same time it used to at the old height.

Quick Attack (Up Special)

! (!) Edge cancelling added
+ (+) Height on Quick Attack Cancel: 1.5 > 2.5

# There was a change in Smash 4 to remove ledge cancelling from this attack, it has been restored. The 
# additional height is meant to make doing aerials out of QAC more consistent, while not changing the 
# intended interactions from the developers noted in the last PR (namely, the ability to choose between
# weak/strong hit of nair based on fastfalling, being able to waveland, and fair/bair not having time to come out).

Up Air

+ (+) Activity: 4-8 > 4-9
- (-) Damage: 5.0 > 4.0
~ (/) Angle: 100 > 80

# These changes are only to the first (initial) hitbox of Uair, the other 2 later hitboxes are unchanged. 
# This is intended to give stronger followups on most of the cast at lower %s, but will be worse against 
# fastfallers as they will land before Pikachu.

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