I would say two of Pikachu's best moves, in my opinion, are his Smash Down (Down A) where he does his electric spin (great way to rack up damage), and a reliable kill move would be your Side Smash (side direction and A) where he does that little thunder bolt out in front of him. Both can be done...
Yeah, I had noticed that Charizard at the least didn't have his shiny coloring, which I was a bit bummed about because it's probably my favorite shiny.
I was hoping they would use the shiny pokemon as alt colors for the characters, but I don't believe they did. Unless Greninja (not sure of his shiny) and Jigglypuff have shinies as color changes.
Those designs look cool, but I'm sure there's gonna be some complaints about them being too revealing and the such.
Cannot wait for the game to finally come out.