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| {{disambig2|Captain Falcon's forward aerial attack|the technique which can be performed using Snake's forward tilt|knee lock}}
| | Knee Smash hurts people's nuts. |
| [[File:T3h_Knee.jpg|thumb|Captain Falcon's Knee Smash in ''Melee'']]
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| {{cquote|The Knee Smash, used in midair on foes in front of you, is slow and has a short reach, but if it connects, it'll send foes flying a long way on a low trajectory.|quotecite=[[List of SSBM trophies (F-Zero series)|Captain Falcon's "Smash Blue" Trophy]]|quotesource=''Super Smash Bros. Melee''}}
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| '''Knee Smash''', also known as "the knee" (or a variety of other nicknames involving the term "knee"), is [[Captain Falcon]]'s [[forward aerial]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl|Brawl]]'', as confirmed by one of his trophies. It is an extremely powerful low-trajectory killer often used at the end of Falcon's combos and for edgeguarding. It deals up to 18% [[damage]] in ''Melee'' and 19% in ''Brawl'', under circumstances not influenced by items, stale-move negation, or stage effects
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| ==Overview==
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| ===In ''Super Smash Bros Melee''===
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| In ''Melee'', this move is considered amongst the best in the game, due to its short lag time and powerful knockback ability. Many combos and strategies for Captain Falcon end with a Knee Smash. When the Knee Smash is at full power, it makes an excellent [[wall of pain]], and can be accompanied by Captain Falcon's [[down aerial]] for a pseudo-[[Ken Combo]].
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| The Knee Smash has two main [[hitbox]]es. The initial hitbox, which lasts only a few frames, is Captain Falcon's primary killer and is accompanied by an electrical pulse. This hitbox is considered the attack's [[sweet spot (hitbox)|sweet spot]], but is actually closer to a "[[sex kick]]" (an aerial attack which remains extended for a few moments after the initial thrust). The second hitbox lasts much longer and lacks the damage and knockback of the sweet spot. This is often called a soft knee, or weak knee, which is also a [[semi-spike]].
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| Due to the Knee Smash's low lag, professional smashers can use it as a launcher into another aerial attack, often a sweet-spotted Knee Smash. In addition, if sweet-spotted at 60% or so, professionals sometimes follow it up with an aerial [[Falcon Punch]] in the deadly "[[Sacred combo#In_Melee|Sacred Combo]]".
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| ===In ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
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| In ''Brawl'', the Knee Smash was weakened ("[[nerf]]ed"). The sweet spot became much harder to land, as the back hitbox was just a slightly stronger version of the sourspot, while the sweet spot's hitbox only lasts 1 frame and its [[knockback]] power was decreased slightly. However, its [[freeze frame|hitlag]] lasts about a second, much longer than in ''Melee''. Nonetheless it remains among Falcon's best finishers, sometimes used in an aerial combo in place of his U-air.
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| A non-sweet-spotted Knee Smash can trip a grounded opponent often and the sourspot is still useful for edge guarding poor recoveries like Link's and it can follow up an up aerial or a sweetspotted Knee Smash if the opponent doesn't expect it. He can truly set-up a sweetspot Knee if he uses it after grab releases on Wario and Ness.
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| ==Skull Crusher==
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| [[File:Ganondorf1.jpg|thumb|Landing with the move in ''Brawl''.]]
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| Though [[Ganondorf]] is Captain Falcon's [[clone]], his forward aerial is not a knee but is instead an arcing downward punch resembling a faster version of [[Mario]]'s fair in both ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', nicknamed "Skull Crusher". In ''Melee'', it has the same number of start-up frames as the Knee Smash, but has slightly less knockback, much longer end lag but only has one hitbox in ''Melee''. ''In Brawl'', it has 3 frames slower startup. It has 2 hitboxes (with the sweetspot being much easier to connect with) with less difference in damage and knockback compared to the 3 hitboxes of Captain Falcon's knee (2 of them being much weaker than the sweetspot both in terms of damage and in terms of knockback).
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The Knee Smash is one of only three knee-based attacks that are not [[pummel]]s (the other two being the third hit of Falcon's neutral combo and the first hit of Snake's forward tilt).
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| ==Gallery==
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| <Gallery>
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| File:Knee Smash.png|The knee smash in action in ''Brawl''
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| File:Rapeknee.jpg|A non-sweetspotted KS has no electrical effects.
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| </Gallery>
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| [[Category:Attacks]]
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