

He can even use Spinning Kong to cancel knockback from an attack that would even KO Bowser, Snake, or King Dedede.

Donkey Kong's weight helps him stay alive longer, though he is a big target and has very poor vertical recovery, but extremely long horizontal recovery. He is one of the fastest heavyweight characters his movement speed is above average: fast running, fast walking, fast air speed, and very high initial jump. Despite these pros, Donkey Kong lacks projectiles and a reliable way to deal with them, which makes his moveset and style of approach unvaried. Overall, Donkey Kong has decidedly poor matchups while being countered by the majority of top and high tier (and is also hard countered by two, but Donkey Kong also hard counters three), and has achieved average tournament results.ĭonkey Kong is a very heavy character with very powerful attacks, great attack range, and high knockback capabilities.

While his rolls and air dodge are about average, his sidestep is the second slowest, after Bowser. Additionally, he has a poor vertical recovery, making him vulnerable to weak spikes.Īdditional problems of Donkey Kong include most of his attacks having heavy ending lag (making it easy to punish most of his attacks if he misses), being very vulnerable to meteor smash gimps due to his recovery gaining much less vertical distance, his shield being too small for a character of his size leaving him heavily vulnerable to shield stabbing, and lacking a projectile, which when combined with his very large size and aforementioned shield issues, gives Donkey Kong severe issues dealing with camping. Melee or being voiced by Takashi Nagasako (who voiced Donkey Kong starting with Mario Power Tennis), Donkey Kong now uses a new set of realistic gorilla grunt and roar sound effects.ĭonkey Kong ranks in the D tier, 21st overall, due to his well rounded attacks, good mobility, good range and incredible finishers (namely a fully charged Giant Punch) however, being a candidate for infinite chain grabs as well as problems dealing with certain projectiles are the reasons for his drop from being a high tier character from the first tier list. Rather than utilizing the recycled clips from Super Smash Bros.

He was first shown very briefly at the E3 2007 press conference, and was officially confirmed on the Smash Bros. None Donkey Kong ( ドンキーコング, Donkey Kong) is a returning character from the Donkey Kong series in Super Smash Bros.
