Luigi (SSBU)/Back aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Luigi's back aerial.

Overview

Luigi performs a dropkick behind himself. It is Luigi's strongest aerial when sweetspotted, easily being able to K.O. at respectable percentages. Its power is highly useful when finishing a combo, sending far off stage for the potential of an edgeguard. It is most useful at high percent, after a down throw or nair, being a more reliable K.O. move than Luigi Cyclone on stages with high upper blast lines. At low percent, it is even able to start combos into Luigi's other grounded moves.

Its sourspot and late hit also begin to start effective combos when landing at mid percentages. Luigi is able to link into all of his tilts, dash attack, fast aerials such as Nair, and even his grab depending on the percent.

At mid percentages, the sweetspot will begin putting opponents into a tumble state, forcing the character into a difficult to react tech situation where Luigi can potentially jablock and get a K.O. Depending on the DI and the character's fall speed, he can confirm a jablock while rising, but it's more commonly seen when landing. The sourspot and late hit are able to set this up as well at high percentages.

Because of Luigi's high jumps, back aerial isn't very useful when rising in neutral. Its sweetspot is unable to hit the majority of characters when standing and the weak hit does not serve any purpose until it knocks into tumble as it's not safe enough on hit otherwise. As such, it is most useful as a combo finisher when rising, a combo starter when landing and a general kill move off the stage or against opponents that are airborne.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Set weight	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Effect	Type	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Hit part	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Flinchless	No GFX	Heedless
Clean hit
0	0	0	14.0%	0		Backward	12	100	0		4.5	kneer	4.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	8.0%	0		Backward	12	100	0		5.8	legr	1.6	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	8.0%	0		Backward	12	100	0		4.0	kneer	4.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	8.0%	0		Backward	12	100	0		5.0	legr	1.6	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-2
Clean hit	6-7
Late hit	8-13
Ending autocancel	33-
Interruptible	45
Animation length	51

Landing lag

Interruptible	11
Animation length	28

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Luigi's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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 aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash
Down taunt