Ice Climbers (SSBU)/Up aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Popo's up aerial.

Hitbox visualization showing Nana's up aerial.

Overview

Each of the duo swings their mallet outward overhead. It sports high speed, decent activity, and moderate ending and landing lag. Like many sword arc aerials, it provides quick, wide, and disjointed coverage, able to juggle foes effectively and cover entire platforms. It deals high damage and has enough shieldstun to be nearly unpunishable out of shield, which is accentuated further yet by the climbers' landing animation keeping their hurtboxes low to the ground.

The great frame advantage carried by the partner climber's part of the move allow it to chain into itself at low to mid percents, leading to highly damaging ladder combos similar to those of Mario, although the much higher power of the duo's up aerial makes it less viable for kill confirms and moreso for racking up damage or as a raw kill move. Although like Mario, a landing up aerial can lead to a spike with their forward aerial for an early kill. Up air can also be confirmed into with a down throw or up tilt at nearly any realistic percent, causing devastating damage early on and relatively easy KOs later on. However, in desyncs, it has little use save for some very niche zero to death combos.

While its high launch angle prevents it from being useful for edgeguarding, it's a great way to shark unsuspecting enemies because of its speed and size.

Even without a partner to strike with, the Ice Climbers' up aerial still has good range, short startup, and passable KO potential. It is therefore one of a solo climber's best moves and a solid move overall, despite losing much of its damage, safety, and combo potential upon isolation. A clear sign of what an incredible attack it is as a pair.

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
Leader
0	0	0	9.0%	0		Standard	20	129	0		4.6	havel	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
1	0	0	9.0%	0		Standard	20	129	0		3.2	havel	0.0	2.2	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
Partner
0	0	0	6.75%	0		Standard	20	154.8	0		4.6	havel	3.0	7.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
1	0	0	6.75%	0		Standard	20	154.8	0		3.2	havel	3.0	2.2	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-6
Hitboxes	7-11
Ending autocancel	27-
Interruptible	36
Animation length	45

Landing lag

Interruptible	15
Animation length	22

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

trivia

• If both the partner climber and their opponent are launched off stage, the partner will attempt to hit the opponent with an up aerial.
• If the Ice Climbers land during an up aerial and crouch afterwards, their models will rotate 360 degrees before entering their crouching animation.

Ice Climbers's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2) · 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