Does the yellow stick smash have less impact than a normal joystick smash in Melee?

I am a casual player, and with all my mates with whom I play Smash Melee, we agreed to ban the C yellow joystick smash technique because it was making the smash way faster and we decided to ban this way of winning.

Now that I grew older, I'm still wondering if the yellow joystick on the GameCube controller was only faster but not hitting as strong has left joystick + A would hit.

Is there any difference between the two hits (damage and impact of how much the opponent will get thrown away)?

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Best Answer

Recall that smash attacks can be charged. Thus a fast smash is also a weak smash.

A smash attack using the A button will almost always be more powerful than a C-stick smash; because the human reactions are slower the smash will be charged for at least some frames, while the C-stick smash has no charge at all.

This changes in SSB4, where the C-stick smash can be charged, but also becomes slower (in my hands anyway) than an A-button smash.

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