How To Play King Dedede In Smash Ultimate

A complete breakdown and guide for how to play King Dedede in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This is a WEEKLY series, so let me know in the comments below which character you want to see next week. Subscribe if you're new!

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[ToxicPea]

Dedede, although the antagonist at first, eventually became one of the 4 main heroes of the Kirby franchise. Most of the time, you fight the King when he gets possessed, cloned, etc.
By the way these breakdowns are great, but you forgot one thing: Analyzing the crouch.

[SolarSocks]

This isn’t complete yet, you didn’t cover his shield break combo
Break shield > Up taunt > Side taunt > Down taunt > Forward smash

[supagb]

Choctopus: You’re a hero to us all!

Dedede: Aw come now, little ol me a hero. Surely you jestin!

[enchilordo]

Thank you. More people need to be informed about the TRUE king of Ultimate

[ryanmackin]

Choctopus, you really NAILED those HAMMER puns. Yeah that's right, I said it.

[BaconBotVbeta]

As a Dedede main, i love to see people picking up my favourite fat penguin boi.
Great vid, Choc. I actually learned a few things.

[beanburrito]

There’s actually 3 Gordo speeds, not 2; by tilting the stick down, it will go at a medium speed. It’s great to use in conjunction with his Dash Attack. Otherwise great guide! Mad props for someone actually making a guide for him

Edit: A few minor things I also noticed - Super Jump is also cancellable by holding up on the movement stick, and Jet Hammer stops inflicting self-damage past 100%

[ChristopherMoom]

Oh, hell yeah! Dedede is my main, so I already love this video.

[thenuggernaut]

Gordo: Exists
A little spring breeze (heh): I'm about to end this man's whole career

[knightghemphus]

If only we lived in the timeline where Ted Lewis (Kirby English Anime Dedede VA) did the voices for Dedede in Smash.

[joshyua]

As a dedede main myself here’s a strategy




G O R D O
S W A L L O W
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[pio]

This is a great guide :) You dedediscussed the character well and dededescribed him with a lot of dededetail. You dededelivered your explanations and dededemonstrations well, making this guide much better than a dededecent one. You have proven the dededestruction and dededeadliness of King Dedede. Great job :)

[BOB-pwvi]

The ultimate spike for dedede: break shield> side b > up b > epic spike

[Tom-vxqh]

"Have you see any top tiers today majesty?"
"They don't scare me none."

[PotatoSoupTheth]

Instructions unclear. My Joy-Cons morphed into pocket knives.

[aidenbar]

Someone *breathes*
Gordo: NANI!?!!!? *REFLECT*

[TheVelociraptor]

Unrelated note:
Why don't we have Masked D's theme already?

[Pokemichael]

Fun fact: dedede has the strongest forward smash and dash attack in the game (under normal circumstances)
Also you forgot to mention that down b has super armor on swing

[-meinjuaco-]

PS: the leitmotiv of king dedede is his down throw that can combo until death confirms with up air (also very usable bair at mid percents) and the use of gordo to ledge trap and edge guard, as a proyectile or putting it at the ledge, and following it up with aerials or hard punishes above the stage, like smashes or a spike.

And now is more viable to use gordo as proyectiles, since you can reflect them with inhale, even if they aren't deflected.

The patch did screw up a bit the gordo so it's easier to throw back instead of exchanging with it.

If you have no option but to superjump into the ledge when there's somebody ready to edge guard, to prevent two frames, you can hold down to go over the ledge without grabing it, and maybe score a sort of dedecide with the spiking hitbox of up-b

The f-tilt is more useful for punishing agression or badly spaced moves, because it's so active (having multiple hitboxes) and the length of the move itself, which makes it a wonder to cover ledge options.

You can also cover the ledge with a rapid jab, that would be problematic for characters with bad jumps or recoveries all together.

My phone is lagin', i'm just gonna stop xd

[SpagEddie]

If you do “How to Use P Plant”, here’s a secret from a P Plant main: Use the purple skin. It’s lucky, I swear