Smash Ultimate How to Play Pit and Dark Pit: Guide, Tips, Tricks, and Combos

Video on how to play Pit and Dark Pit in Smash Ultimate. Goes over their combos and neutral play style. I am by no means a pro pit player; this guide is meant for players new to Pit or who are looking to improve.

Time Stamps:
Basic Attacks: 1:16
Smash Attacks: 3:32
Aerials: 4:34
Grabs: 7:50
Abilities: 9:09
General Tips And Fighting in Neutral: 15:33

[rafamartindominguez]

Dark pit main here C:
The video has a lot of good information, you have worked a lot in the research of the character, so good job!
Some other tips I would like to share is the usage of DownB and SideB offstage. The first one is a really good landing option because it covers the majority of pit's hurtbox, so lots of moves (and proyectiles of course) won't hit them.
SideB on the other hand is a nice edge catcher because it's fast enough to make you reach the ledge and has its hitbox in front of pit, making him hit your foe with super armor (also does a ton of shield damage) and making you jump a bit. The dark pit's version of this move is so much better because it will send your opponent forward instead of upward. (It's important to know that this move is risky if your opponent is on top of you or uses multihit moves).
Forward throw is a reliable kill option at high percents at the edge.
Down throw combos with nair, nair dragdown, upsmash, uptilt (heavies), upair, downair and Reversed bair. I recommend you all to try and be creative, the chase and follow options are infinite I swear.
I would recommend using fair and nair as your main landing tools.

Pit and Dark Pit are super fun and easy to play. It's so sad they have some terrible hitboxes and blindspots, but at the end they're neat and deserve love.

[beratgultekin]

Anyone else thinks pit is underrated I rly like him he looks pretty cool like I like his design and stuff

[squidgyuwu]

Pit main here! And I really love your insight! A lot of people in my locals area judges me for maining him even though he’s amazing to me!! I’ve also been looking to find good videos to study from for locals and other tourneys! Thank you!

[KnotGnate]

WOW! ive been looking for a pit guide seems to be really good in certain match ups, thanks for the in depth guide!

[torterrad]

The best combo ive been able to get from down throw is down throw short hop sour spot diar into double jump nair, gets just over 30 percent and works until around 30

[eman]

Dark pit is better. Idc what people say about his arrows but I personally prefer them. They kill instantly uncharged at sudden death and I get way more arrow kills with dark pit.

Pits guidable arrow only kills if you hit them after they have used there last jump. Dark pits arrows are faster and stronger but have a shorter angle of adjustment, but this helps. With Pits arrows you have to guide it with the joystick but with dark pits it’s more about timing, and it allows you to charge your arrow for longer. Add that with the extra power and speed and it kills easier than you’d expect offstage.

[Radiant_Emerald]

I needed this guide since freaking early 2019, but better late than never. Thank you Glue Man.

[glueman]

Thanks to everyone who has watched, liked, and commented on the video! Great to see others helping people out in the comments and I appreciate all the support!

[Shirozvm]

Heres a few tips of my own:

Pit and Dark Pit’s Reflectors are good landing tools, and you can intentionally break them when a character attacks you in order to land a solid Side Smash.

When you’re in the edge and the opponent is edge guarding you try shooting arrows to stop them and quickly recover on to the ledge

I go rush in and i pressure against Ai opponents pretty well, however i cant play online unfortunately so i cant say that I’m good or not :(

[RiiCoSuv]

This really helped me out a lot thank you !, definitely going to rewatch again and try it in training mode . So far as I been playing while watching and I noticed a huge difference 🙌🏼

[jojojason]

Hey I would just like to say that to everybody who’s watching this video that dark pits Down B isn’t completely useless😂 someone breaks the shield hit them with a side smash because there’s no lag time at that point

[yerielmoya]

Dark Pits arrows can be moved as well, not as drastically as Pits but pretty good to a point where you can catch other players jumping or crouching. Loved the video!

[connorthegreat]

This helped heaps and now i'm a Pit main that's actually good at Pit! Thanks alot Glue Man!

[ace_animations]

Ngl as a Dark Pit main these tips r very helpful 4 anyone looking 2 pick up the character

[ttmabyt]

I noticed at early percents and against a certain weight of characters, up tilt can combo into up air and I’ve had it kill pretty early against certain characters that it can still work with at high percents and since up tilt can hit above platform it kinda makes it good especially on small battlefield since people retreat to platforms a lot at high percents on that stage and since the platform is low enough if you’re swift enough you could land on platform and get in another up air. The 2nds up air usually only connects when the combo is used at lower to mid percents tho

[chumlymartinez]

Yo this guide is perfect I've been trying pit for a while he's so much fun thank you so much for making this guide

[tripedal]

Thank you for this guide, amazingly done, became my main thanks to this video

[KageManTV]

Thank you for this amazing guide! Really learned a lot
As a new smash player

[grrumakemeangry]

Thanks! :-)
Also, I think dark pit/pit are really underrated characters and the best counter to projectiles

[goldenwitherphoenix]

At last, I can learn how to truly play the angels