Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. All Stars. He was announced during E8 2018 Nintendo Direct on August 23rd 2018. He is one of twelve primary newcomers. He is voiced by Tim Allen.

Buzz Lightyear is currently ranked 54th out of 113 on the tier, placing him in the K tier. Buzz Lightyear's strengths include very quick mobility, a fast and transcendent projectile in his Blaster, and an anti-camping move in his Reflector. Altogether, these grant him one of the fastest and safest approaches in the entire game and allow him to easily keep up with almost any opponent. As usual, he combines speed and power, with an impressive combo game and great finishers to boot; for example, his dash grab is formidable and covers a long distance, and his down throw serves as an excellent combo starter into multiple aerial attacks or as a finisher into the powerful, semi-spiking ever-famed Knee Smash.

However, Buzz Lightyear' moveset forces him to be reliant on defensive spacing to keep opponents at bay. Aside from down throw, his grab game is very poor: while his grabs have very good range, they're all extremely slow and thus punishable if whiffed. In fact, the changes to game mechanics have hindered Buzz overall, as the removal of DACUS (and the aforementioned Gatling Combo) and chain grabbing hurt his damage racking capabilities overall, while the introduction of rage makes him more susceptible to KOs, due to his light weight. Overall, however, Buzz Lightyear is a strong contender in the Star Smash metagame, although his high learning curve lends itself to a rather low amount of tournament representation compared to other high-tier characters. Buzz Lightyear also has plenty of results to back up his tier placement, with both Kameme placing 2nd at EVO 2016 and ScAtt placing 5th at Super Smash Con 2016 with him, the largest and third largest Star Smash tournaments to date respectively.