Edge attack: Difference between revisions

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An '''edge attack''' ({{ja|ガケのぼり攻撃 or 崖登り攻撃|Gake nobori kōgeki}}, ''Cliff climbing attack'') is an attack performed by pressing the attack button while hanging on an edge. This allows the character to get up onto the stage while performing an attack.

In the first three games, once a character has received 100% of damage, they begin to perform a different edge attack than normal. The attacks are usually slower, but do more damage to opponents, although the increase is usually only 3-5%. For example, Yoshi's edge attack involves a quick 6% tail whip, while when at high damage, it becomes a slow 12% headbutt. However, in ''[[Smash 4]]'', this effect is removed and the edge attack is the same regardless of damage percent for all characters.

Edge attacks are generally avoided in competitive play due to their slow speed and limited usefulness. Players will often use other techniques or attacks to return to the stage instead. However, players will often mix in edge attacks to [[mindgames|catch the opponent offguard]], especially if their character's edge attack has great reach (such as [[Donkey Kong]]'s and [[Wolf]]'s), and/or has [[invincibility frames]] (which are safer to punish an opponent caught charging [[smash attack]]s near the edge with than other edge options).

|[[Banjo & Kazooie]]

|''unknown''

|Climbs up and and the duck pecks forward.

|{{GameIcon|SSB}}{{GameIcon|SSBM}}{{GameIcon|SSBB}} Climbs up and does a dropkick at an upward angle.<br>{{GameIcon|SSB4}}{{GameIcon|SSBU}} Climbs up and does a dropkick forward.

|{{GameIcon|SSBM}} Climbs up and does a flipping axe-kick.<br>{{GameIcon|SSBB}}{{GameIcon|SSB4}}{{GameIcon|SSBU}} Flips onto the stage and strikes with its tail.

|{{GameIcon|SSBB}} Flips onto the stage and swings his sword downward.<br>{{GameIcon|SSBU}} Climbs up and does a reverse swipe with his sword.

|Gets up and performs a Side Plank.

==List of edge attacks (Over 100%)==

|Climbs up and and does a low swing with their hammers.

*In ''SSB4'', [[Bowser]] uses his secondary edge attack animation from ''Brawl'' for his edge attack, while Giga Bowser uses his standard edge attack animation from ''Brawl'' for his edge attack.

*{{SSBM|Bowser}}'s under 100% edge attack in ''Melee'' is arguably the best edge attack in the game, having long range, many invincibility frames and very long hitbox duration, hitting his way in and all the way back.