Sonic (SSBU)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Sonic's down aerial.

Overview

A diagonal flying kick. It is a stall-then-fall, but unlike the majority of other stall-then-falls, it is relatively safe to use off-stage thanks to it having noticeably less ending lag in comparison. Its clean hit also meteor smashes aerial opponents at the beginning of the attack, but not grounded opponents.

It resembles the Stomp Dive from Sonic the Fighters and the Sonic Rocket from Sonic Battle.

Update History

4.0.0

• Down aerial no longer has its downward movement disabled when used out from of hitstun.

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	8.0%	0		Forward	30	90	0		3.6	top	0.0	-0.3	3.1	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	8.0%	0		Forward	80	70	0		6.2	top	0.0	1.5	1.8	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	7.0%	0		Standard	75	80	0		3.2	top	0.0	0.0	2.9	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	5.0%	0		Standard	80	70	0		5.0	top	0.0	3.0	2.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All

Timing

Attack

The move first sets Sonic's vertical momentum to 0.5 on frames 1-15, then sets his horizontal momentum to 0.9 and his vertical momentum to -4 from frame 16 onward. Manual horizontal movement is also disabled during frames 1-60.

Initial autocancel	1-3
Clean hit	17-19
Late hit	20-32
Ending autocancel	41-
Interruptible	46
Animation length	61

Landing lag

Interruptible	22
Animation length	31

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Sonic'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 · 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