Charizard (SSBB)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Charizard's down aerial.

Overview

Charizard performs a stomp with both of its feet which meteor smashes airborne opponents and deals 14% (assuming Charizard has stamina). It has the highest amount of startup lag and landing lag out of all of Charizard's aerials however, it has two strong traits. Down aerial has an extremely large disjointed hitbox below Charizard. The hitbox is so large that Charizard can perform a down aerial at the apex of its full hop and the down aerial will be able to hit even the shortest characters. While the move cannot auto-cancel out of a short hop, Charizard can hit every character with down aerial out of a full hop and still auto-cancel it (although some characters can crouch under it). Down aerial will not meteor smash grounded opponents but instead, it will launch them at a sharp diagonal angle. It is capable of KOing any character on Final Destination under 150% giving it more KO potential against grounded opponents than most other meteor smashes. The grounded version also has a second hitbox which launches opponents at the Sakurai angle although it is smaller and has less priority than the main hitbox making it very difficult to connect.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
0	0	14%	0		20	100	0	8.0	2	0.0	-7.0	2.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
1	0	14%	0		20	100	0	8.0	2	0.0	-7.0	2.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
2	0	14%	0		20	100	0	5.0	2	0.0	3.0	2.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-4
Hit	18-20
Ending autocancel	41-
Animation length	51

Landing lag

Animation length	35

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Gallery

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  Charizard hitting Marth with a down aerial.

Charizard'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 · Glide attack
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 (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash