Captain Falcon (SSB)/Back aerial

Overview

Hitboxes of Captain Falcon's back aerial.

Captain Falcon throws a backfist behind him, dealing 16% damage and reasonable knockback. Unlike most other back aerials, it does not have a weaker late hit although its hitboxes do decrease in size after the move's first two active frames. A fairly safe move to use, considering its large disjoint. It is useful for edgeguarding and can space well. While it has somewhat high landing lag under normal circumstances, this issue can easily be avoided via Z-cancelling. It is also very useful in combos at low to moderate percentages, being able to lead into another back aerial (a wall of pain variation), a reverse back aerial, or a down aerial (for a variation of the Ken Combo) at low to moderate percentages. A down aerial used on a grounded opponent can also combo into a back aerial at percentages around 140%, which is usually enough to KO. The move can also be used during soft platform landings and drops to mix up Falcon's aerial game on stages such as Dream Land.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean hit
0	0	16%	0		10	100	0	140	8	180	0	0					Punch
1	0	16%	0		10	100	0	120	8	0	0	0					Punch
Late hit
0	0	16%	0		10	100	0	125	8	150	0	0					Punch
1	0	16%	0		10	100	0	100	8	0	0	0					Punch

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-6
Clean hit	7-8
Late hit	9-18
Ending autocancel	28-
Animation length	35

Landing lag

Animation length	30
L-cancelled animation length	4

Normal

L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Captain Falcon's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Forward throw · Back throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back)
Edge attack (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Up special · Down special